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Reflections Of A Pious Margery In The Book Of Margery Kempe, Melodie J. Rodgers Georgia State University

Reflections Of A Pious Margery In The Book Of Margery Kempe, Melodie J. Rodgers

Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference

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Enduring Nature: Everyday Environmentalisms In Postcolonial Literature, Dana C. Mount McMaster University

Enduring Nature: Everyday Environmentalisms In Postcolonial Literature, Dana C. Mount

Open Access Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation draws on a broad range of postcolonial literature in order to explore literary representations of environmentalism in the global South. Although this project draws heavily on the particular environmental histories of different nations and geographic regions, I am also interested in areas of overlap. In this study I do two interrlated and simultaneous things that I hope will refine postcolonial ecocriticism. The first involves a broadening of the definition of 'environment,' informed by the environmental justice movment, in ways that make it more applicable and accountable to people's lived lives. This expanded definition of the environment includes ...


Angel Island Poetry: Reading And Writing Cultures, Adam Kotlarczyk Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Angel Island Poetry: Reading And Writing Cultures, Adam Kotlarczyk

Understanding Poetry

Object of a darker chapter in American history, the Angel Island Poems (as they have become known) are a recently discovered body of over 135 poems, written primarily in Chinese. These were literally carved into the walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station, where Chinese immigrants were detained, sometimes indefinitely, between approximately 1910-1940.

This lesson demonstrates how history and culture can be integral to our understanding of poetry, even poetry that is deeply reflective and personal in nature; by requiring students to model and produce their own poetry, it also makes evident that writing poetry is a creative instinct and ...