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A canonical story is present in Baby of the Family (1989), Ugly Ways (1993), The Hand I Fan With (1996), You Know Better (2002), and Taking After Mudear (2007)--the five novels of contemporary author Tina McElroy Ansa. That narrative...
This thesis documents and analyzes events ignited by complaints to the Florida Elections Commission (FEC) against the fledgling, independent newspaper, The Wakulla Independent Reporter; its publisher, Julia Hanway; and her business, ...
Four Vietnams: Conflicting Versions of the Indochina Conflict from Cold War to the Global War on Terror argues that there is no single historical consensus among Americans on the Vietnam War. There are, instead, four different "Vietnams"...
Evolution of the American performance culture between 1850-1910 was deeply rooted within broad social and cultural changes. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Henry James engage the reflective quality of performance culture to...
This project seeks to interrogate the ways in which race, class, and gender expectations work in concert to seduce the black heroine into believing that marriage will somehow deliver her from the trappings of her current social standing....
Richard Wright's The Long Dream (1958), James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire (1990) attempt to expose the mental and physical scars of trauma through...
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...
"Representation and the Modern Female Subject" examines the socio-cultural work of the fictional woman painter in novels by women authors writing in or about the United States between the years 1870-1930. I focus on representations of...
Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. observes that "fact and fiction have always exerted a reciprocal effect on each other" ("Authenticity" 29). Authors of neo-slave narratives â postmodern renderings of the slave experience â illustrate...
Louis John Witte is a man whose name is lost to time and whose work is overshadowed by flashier modern-day computerized advancements in movie wizardry. Nevertheless, he remains a cornerstone upon which a thriving scientific discipline...
ABSTRACT In this project, I theorize the implications of maternal loss in novels by contemporary African American female novelists. Maternal loss in this project is used to describe a separation of mother and child, specifically daughter...
The four essays in this exam portfolio are representations of my research interests and expertise in Composition and Rhetoric following the exam portfolio structure. The first essay is a revision of two essays I wrote during fall 2001...
This study, using poetry by Carolyn Rodgers, Sarah Webster Fabio, Sonia Sanchez, Sharon Bourke, Ntozake Shange and Jayne Cortez, examines the manifestations of Afrocentric spirituality in women's writing during the Black Arts Movement....
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between the surrealist painters of the twentieth century and the verbal images of Herman Melville in his masterpiece Moby-Dick. The work examines Melville's lifelong affinity for the visual...
This dissertation is about the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) and its role in the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, with a special emphasis on the men and women who manned and operated the civilian aircraft. This is the first time the history of...
Children's literature emerged as a new genre in the eighteenth century. In order to break away from the unrealistic and non-educational fiction available and attractive to children, writers began to create rational tales. John Locke's...
This dissertation examines how selected contemporary American authors have appropriated and revised elements of the biblical Exodus narrative in order to challenge American Exceptionalism, an ideology itself originally constructed and...
This dissertation is a creative non-fiction manuscript following in the combined literary traditions of the American Captivity Narrative (e.g., Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), Hélène Cixous's écriture feminine, ...
In the revolutionary period of the eighteenth century, Britain's transatlantic colonies resisted political, social, and religious control in order to establish a government controlled by the people, which allowed freedom and equality for...
Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s 1905 novel, The Clansman, was an instant bestseller and its subsequent theater version toured the nation for five years. The novel and play later became the basis for the full-length motion picture and box-office...
Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Sherley Anne Williams, and Gayle Jones are contemporary African American women novelists who are keenly aware of and genuinely concerned with Black women and their ability to define themselves. The authors...
"The Education of a 'Learned Wife': Discovering the Reading Practices of Southern Women during the Rise of the United States" will explore the inner thoughts of women living in the South between 1790 and 1860 to better understand how...
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