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African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper 2020 Bridgewater State University

African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Justina Ireland’s young adult novels Dread Nation (2017) and Deathless Divide (2020) tell the story of a Black girl by the name of Jane living in the aftermath of the Civil War, around 1880.


Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso 2020 University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso

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Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)


The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers, Michael P. Moreno 2020 University of California, Riverside

The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers, Michael P. Moreno

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Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Adam Lifshey 2020 State University of New York, Albany

Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Adam Lifshey

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This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition, Timothy Sedore 2020 Bronx Community College, City University of New York

This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition, Timothy Sedore

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The "Wash'd-Up Drift"Of Poetic Ideals: Disunion As Poetic Failure In Walt Whitman's "As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life", Paul R. Cappucci 2020 Georgian Court College

The "Wash'd-Up Drift"Of Poetic Ideals: Disunion As Poetic Failure In Walt Whitman's "As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life", Paul R. Cappucci

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The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West, Timothy Gray 2020 College of Staten Island, City University of New York

The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West, Timothy Gray

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Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom, Allan Hepburn 2020 McGill University

Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom, Allan Hepburn

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Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)


Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women, Wilfried Raussert 2020 Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin

Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women, Wilfried Raussert

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Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land, Simon Hay 2020 Duke University

Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land, Simon Hay

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Intertextual And Inter-Ethnic Relations In William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie": A Poetics Of Contact, José María Rodríguez García 2020 Cornell University

Intertextual And Inter-Ethnic Relations In William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie": A Poetics Of Contact, José María Rodríguez García

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Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian 2020 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian

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Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass 2020 Towson University

Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass

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The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon 2020 University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon

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Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins 2020 Cornell University

Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins

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"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson 2020 Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson

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Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter 2020 University of Vermont

Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter

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The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell 2020 University of Delaware

The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell

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Notes From Underground, Kevin Kopelson 2020 University of Iowa

Notes From Underground, Kevin Kopelson

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Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm 2020 University of San Francisco

Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm

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