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Toward A Theory Of Work: Personal Responsibility, Self-Regulation, And Identity In The Age Of America’S Work Crisis, Katrina Newsom
Toward A Theory Of Work: Personal Responsibility, Self-Regulation, And Identity In The Age Of America’S Work Crisis, Katrina Newsom
Wayne State University Dissertations
ABSTRACT
TOWARD A THEORY OF WORK: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-REGULATION, AND IDENTITY IN THE AGE OF AMERICA’S WORK CRISIS
by
KATRINA NEWSOM
May 2018
Advisor: Dr. Sarika Chandra
Major: English
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Toward a Theory of Work: Personal Responsibility, Self-Regulation, and Identity in the Age of America’s Work Crisis examines how American culture grapples with work in the Postfordist era of production, particularly in the areas of ethnic, working-class, cultural, and literary studies. Specific to these areas are ideas of (personal) responsibility that take shape in concepts of self-regulation invented to function as both a direct and indirect redress …
Border Ends: Anti-Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, And The Mexican Revolution In U.S. Modernism, Bradley Flis
Border Ends: Anti-Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, And The Mexican Revolution In U.S. Modernism, Bradley Flis
Wayne State University Dissertations
From 1910-1920, the Mexican Revolution became a source of anxiety, interest, and inspiration to those who paid attention to its political turmoil as reported in the popular press. It would lead to the reinvigorating of a debate about U.S. intervention in the political affairs of Mexico, indeed, for some, the question was one of annexation. Responding to a growing imperialist culture in the U.S., William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, John Reed and Max Eastman of The Masses were among those who looked to modernist aesthetic practice to critique military and economic expansionism in Mexico.
This dissertation explores that discursive interplay …