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This study is an attempt to provide a new alternative to understanding the way that motherhood and the mother-daughter relationship is drawn and conceptualized in Caribbean Women's Writing in relationship to propertied relationships that...
This dissertation resists the tendency to focus on metropolitan patterns of consumption of major export goods like sugar and tea in order to account for the laboring bodies producing these colonial commodities, which scholars such as...
Seeing Is Believing: Exploring the Intertextuality of Aural and Written Blues in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Café, Gayl Jones' Corregidora and Toni Morrison's Jazz
Scholar Houston A. Baker, Jr. writes that "…the blues song erupts creating a veritable playful festival of meaning. Rather than a rigidly personalized form, the blues offer a phylogenetic recapitulation—a nonlinear, freely associative...
There is nothing new under the sun in human experiences of inevitable disappointment, suffering, and pain derived from imperfect human nature and the reality of human life. This dissertation analyzes female characters that suffer from...
Blood We Did Not Spill, a historical political novel, begins in June 1997 when a young Indian Police Services officer stops at a small town to visit a retired police officer—delusional and very sick—on behalf of her boss. She sees him...
This thesis examines male characters in five primary texts: The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills, Mama Day, Bailey's Café, and The Men of Brewster Place, engaging theorists like bell hooks, James King, and Lawrence Hogue in a...
Jamaica Kincaid's semi-autobiographical novels give voice to the women of the British West Indies. Through her principal female characters within Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of my Mother, Kincaid explores the long-lasting...
The stories in this collection are an exploration of the diasporic Puerto Rican identity, and span both Puerto Rico and the U.S. American south to make sense of the overlapping fascination with death, the grotesque, and the fabulous....
Chinua Achebe has remarked "that the English language will be able to carry the weight of [his] African experience" (103). However, he warns that "it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but...
This thesis examines both historical and fictional representations of interracial relationships in the 18th century. My argument in this project is two-fold. First, I argue that some black women used sexual relationships with white men...
During the summer of 1964, Samuel Jennings, a young newspaper reporter travels from Atlanta to a small southern town in Florida to complete a series of features on the oldest living person in the U.S.--a 116-year old former slave named...
Voices along the Road is a collection of poems that explores the immigrant experience, detailing three worlds that forge a Caribbean-American voice. All three sections of the manuscript examine an identity that comes directly, almost...
In Hard Facts, Amiri Baraka's first volume of Marxist poetry, the poem "When We'll Worship Jesus" catalogues the poet's disillusionment and ambivalence about accepting religion as a possible weapon to combat racial and economic injustice...
This dissertation explores feminist strategies in three American women's writings from the twentieth Century. Specifically, the language of dance and the movement of women's bodies will be examined as the site of feminist resistance...
This dissertation is a collection of sixty-four pages of original poetry. The poems in this collection reflect the poet's interest in playing with language, invention, and a variety of approaches and forms. They are predominantly a...
A story about two people in love pulled in different directions by their personal and aesthetic beliefs, their loyalties to adopted nationalities. They deal with the complications of love in the age of Trump.
Swamp Gravy, an oral history/community performance project in Colquitt, Georgia, has been named Georgia's "Official Folk Life Play, received critical acclaim, earned grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Georgia Arts Council,...
Black feminist scholars such as Lisa Anderson describe the most common stereotypes as that of the mammy, the mulatta, and the mistress. My research analyzes how each of these negative stereotypes are articulated or challenged in...
In the United States authors whose work concerns ethnicity face a host of problems, of which the most obvious remains the preconceived notion that ethnicthemed literature is subordinate to Eurocentric literary work. Despite continued...
ABSTRACT Dan P. McAdams has noted that “over the past three decades, a growing number of philosophers, social scientists, and empirical psychologists have developed theories and research paradigms around the fundamental proposition that...
Taking Flight: Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad closely examines Caribbean women's prose fiction published from 1959 to 2011. This project illustrates the power of the diasporic voice. This study explores how flight serves as a...
This study examines publications of students' writing in first-year composition programs. Based on a survey of such publications in 1999, I review how program anthologies and classbooks are produced and used and analyze selected examples...
Blood Vinyls investigates the definition of 'Memory in the blood, ' or 'blood memory, ' which is defined as one's ancestral or genetic connection to their language, songs, spirituality, and teachings" (Huang 6), as well as Toni Morrison's...
This thesis discusses Derrida's theory of Hauntology, establishes a theoretical framework for an analysis of the hauntological aesthetic in recorded music, and explores the hauntological aesthetic in reference to Victorian spirit...
Since its inception, the genre of hip-hop has been celebrated for addressing the socioeconomic status of African Americans and encouraging critical thought surrounding American society and its corruption. Throughout the late twentieth...
At the nexus of Black feminist theory, geography, and literature this multidisciplinary project investigates the politics of space and the problem of dwelling in Toni Morrison’s socio-spatial quartette. Collectively, A Mercy, Beloved, ...
This dissertation project, “Museums of the Mind: The Ekphrastic Imagination in the African American Literary Tradition, ” at its core is a project of redress and reclamation that seeks to uncover the connection between the non-inclusive...
The critical analysis of race often has been considered the domain of fields like history, sociology, and ethnic studies, yet African American literature has always been fertile ground for the examination of race and whiteness, defined...
This dissertation examines new interventions into the historiography of chattel slavery. In reading several texts by Black women authors and artists—including Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling (2005), Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017...
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