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Normalcy and Pathology: Biology, Social Reform, and American Domestic Handbooks, c. 1840-1910
(2016-05)
This article examines the relationships between the biological and social content of the domestic handbooks Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1868-1935) wrote during the mid-nineteenth and ...
Flannery O’Connor's “Displaced Person”: Americans’ Ambivalence Towards Refugees Post-WWII
(2019-05)
This thesis examines how Flannery O’Connor’s novella, “The Displaced Person,” is a response to the problem of statelessness in the aftermath of World War II. During the postwar period, statelessness became a major issue. ...
Autofiction's Interrogation of Neoliberal Subjectivity
(2021-05-14)
Recent scholarship has highlighted the affinity between autofiction—a development in the contemporary novel that incorporates a fictionalized version of the author in the work—and the neoliberal economy. Through readings ...
IN(CORPS)ORATING MARINE IDENTITY: EMBODIED RHETORICS IN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING
(2018)
The United States Marine Corps exists within American popular consciousness as a famed fighting force renowned for its unapologetic and well-earned reputation. Its recruit training process, colloquially known as "boot ...
Tenderhearted
(2023-05-12)
This is a collection of non-fiction essays and one fictional short story that began with the idea of the psychological phenomenon of undermothering but eventually took shape around ways in which my coming of age was impacted ...
Selections from The Milwaukee Tavern
(2021-05-14)
Set in Oklahoma beginning in late 1969, Elaine Russell is a young, Black closeted lesbian woman recently hired on as a reporter for a Tulsa area broadcast news station, and Wendy Webster is a young white woman who has been ...