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An Anonymous Collection Of Poetry, Anonymous Dec 2008

An Anonymous Collection Of Poetry, Anonymous

Commission for LGBT - Reports, Minutes, Events and Other Documents

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Gretchen's Family, Barbara A. Soard Dec 2008

Gretchen's Family, Barbara A. Soard

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Barbara A. Soard in December of 2008.


Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt Dec 2008

Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt

Dissertations

This collection of poetry and essays explores the nature of marriage, time, and human experience. Many of the pieces center on the author's experience as the wife of a soldier deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Others use scientific and mathematical imagery to illustrate spiritual concepts.


Westview: Vol. 28, Iss. 2 (Fall/Winter 2008) Dec 2008

Westview: Vol. 28, Iss. 2 (Fall/Winter 2008)

Westview

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L’Éthique Et L’Esthétique Chez Ousmane Sembéne, Frederic Ivor Case Dec 2008

L’Éthique Et L’Esthétique Chez Ousmane Sembéne, Frederic Ivor Case

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The ethics and aesthetics of the films and novels of Sembène reflect the axiological principles of his work. Sembène’s impact can be felt throughout as his practice in both cinema and literature helped redefi ne the features of the African novel and film. For him, writing was fed by the experiences, however painful, of workers of diverse origins attempting to survive their difficult conditions. His novels reveal the agony of this world but also various opportunities for self realization among his characters. Such practice, born out of the sweat, resistance and determination of men and women eking out their living, …


Un Autre Monde Est Possible: Création Et Résistance Dans L’Oeuvre D’Ousmane Sembène, David Murphy Dec 2008

Un Autre Monde Est Possible: Création Et Résistance Dans L’Oeuvre D’Ousmane Sembène, David Murphy

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

During an artistic career that spanned half a century, Ousmane Sembène often played a pioneering role. However, although the many awards he received constitute recognition of the artistic quality of his work, his literary and cinematic output is best known for its denunciation of colonial and neo-colonial injustices. This article argues that Sembène’s importance is not solely political, and nor should it be limited to his role as a pioneer of African cinema. Sembène was also a great artist who developed a profound refl ection on his practice both as a writer and as a filmmaker. The article will trace …


Idéal Romantique Et Projet Social Dans C’Est Vole Que Je Vole De Nicole Cage-Florentiny, Hanétha Vété-Congolo Dec 2008

Idéal Romantique Et Projet Social Dans C’Est Vole Que Je Vole De Nicole Cage-Florentiny, Hanétha Vété-Congolo

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In this novel, first published in 1998 and then in 2006, martinican female writer Nicole Cage-Florentiny portrays a young woman, Malaïka, who seeks refuge in madness to escape the turmoil of her life. She is under the yoke of harsh living conditions including societal conformism which, according to Fanon, provokes the « existential deviation » (1953 : 31) of the individual. Despite all, Malaïka advocates a society that would integrate all its members and promote equality. C’est vole que je vole aims at brushing Martinique’s ability to display a sound socialization. The author aims at offering a criticism of her …


De La Fiction Criminelle En Afrique. Relecture Des Films D’Ousmane Sembène, Alexie Tcheuyap Dec 2008

De La Fiction Criminelle En Afrique. Relecture Des Films D’Ousmane Sembène, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

For institutional, ideological and even sociological reasons, the detective genre had difficulty rising to prominence within literatures and especially within the field of African cinema. If one observes today its shy emergence in the works of some West African film directors and within popular Nigerian video films, it is nonetheless possible, thanks to a finer scrutiny of theories developed on the subject, to realize that some films by Ousmane Sembène contain aesthetic strategies that allow for a fresh assessment of the works of a director whose films were often reduced to their ideological aspects. This second reading also unravels the …


Les Stéréotypes, Vecteurs De La Constriction Identitaire Chez Biyaoula, Françoise Cévaër Dec 2008

Les Stéréotypes, Vecteurs De La Constriction Identitaire Chez Biyaoula, Françoise Cévaër

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

From the 1980s, writers in the francophone diaspora have examined the post-colonial African identity and its portrayal, according a special place to stereotyping. Thus, they denounce not only its tyrannical hold, but also the devastating effect of stereotyping on individuals and societies. Paradoxically, they show how stereotyping can offer to the post-colonial subject a means of manipulating identity features, therefore, of avoiding predetermination. In its study of, mainly, Biyaoula’s L’impasse, this article also proposes to show how the stereotypes, going beyond the limits of theory, is reborn within he body, becoming a veritable enclosure for forgery of identity.


La Quête Poétique Dans L’Oeuvre De Fouad Gabriel Naffah, Georges Khoriaty Dec 2008

La Quête Poétique Dans L’Oeuvre De Fouad Gabriel Naffah, Georges Khoriaty

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In his poetic search, Fouad Gabriel Naffah states his conception of a poetic image revealing the absolute and the universal, his verbal adventure which consists of disintegrating the conventional language with sclerotic forms in order to have access to the authenticity and to ensure the everlasting poem. He also sets out the poetry of the imaginary which, through a dialectic and harmonization of contradictories, extends all over the universe to include and reach the study of the eternal return that satisfies his longing for eternity.


The Sins Of Kalamazoo, A Full-Length Play Based On The Works Of Carl Sandburg, Christine Iaderosa Dec 2008

The Sins Of Kalamazoo, A Full-Length Play Based On The Works Of Carl Sandburg, Christine Iaderosa

Dissertations

The Sins of Kalamazoo , is a creative work, a frill-length play adapted from the poem of the same name and other works by Carl Sandburg. This playfollows a nonlinear storyline based on images suggested by Sandburg's poem as well as portions of the city of Kalamazoo's history.

"The Sins of Kalamazoo", poses the question: "I hear America, I hear, what do I hear? America's national narrative is made up of both the shining promise of the future and of the recognition of the decay as its cultural identity becomes fragmented through time. The theatre provides an exceptional cultural space …


Circumnavigation, Vincent Reusch Dec 2008

Circumnavigation, Vincent Reusch

Dissertations

This creative work, a novel, set in the late 1980s, tells the story of twenty-seven-year-old Davison Johnson (Davi), as she sails around the world in a solo race. For Davi, sailing is more than a challenge, however; it is an escape. On her previous year-long sail, she sailed away from the guilt of her non-action as her Cambodian student, Chanthavy, was abducted from a market in Siem Reap, where Davi was working as an English teacher. Now, she is sailing away from the uncomfortable reality of her older brother's slow death to AIDS. Her brother, Peter, does not disappear as …


So Here We Two Are At 50, Bob De Smith Dec 2008

So Here We Two Are At 50, Bob De Smith

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Family Farm, Howard Schaap Dec 2008

Family Farm, Howard Schaap

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First Day Of Summer, Leah A. Zuidema Dec 2008

First Day Of Summer, Leah A. Zuidema

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Crossing Barbwire Fences, Howard Schaap Dec 2008

Crossing Barbwire Fences, Howard Schaap

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Nonrockaboatus, Bill Elgersma Dec 2008

Nonrockaboatus, Bill Elgersma

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West Meets East In Grace Beyond Belief, Mary Dengler Dec 2008

West Meets East In Grace Beyond Belief, Mary Dengler

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Dog Days, Mike Vanden Bosch Dec 2008

Dog Days, Mike Vanden Bosch

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Entomology Of Village Life, Robert Minto Dec 2008

Entomology Of Village Life, Robert Minto

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Amsterdam Diaries, Mike Vanden Bosch Dec 2008

Amsterdam Diaries, Mike Vanden Bosch

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Previously published in Lyrical Iowa, 2008


Go Ahead, Take My Freedom - I'M Not A Terrorist, Luke Dekoster Dec 2008

Go Ahead, Take My Freedom - I'M Not A Terrorist, Luke Dekoster

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This article was published in the Sioux County Index-Reporter, April 9, 2008, in Luke DeKoster’s series "Not Yet Home."


Earth Blood, Howard Schaap Dec 2008

Earth Blood, Howard Schaap

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Me And My Tribe, James C. Schaap Dec 2008

Me And My Tribe, James C. Schaap

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This paper was presented at The Dutch-American Experience in Wisconsin: 1840-present, September 25-27, 2008, sponsored by the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.


Finding Mother In Busan, Mary Dengler Dec 2008

Finding Mother In Busan, Mary Dengler

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Guard, Bob De Smith Dec 2008

Guard, Bob De Smith

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Mother's Day, Mike Vanden Bosch Dec 2008

Mother's Day, Mike Vanden Bosch

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November Rock, Bill Elgersma Dec 2008

November Rock, Bill Elgersma

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Hearing Things, Bob De Smith Dec 2008

Hearing Things, Bob De Smith

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Simple Breath, Howard Schaap Dec 2008

Simple Breath, Howard Schaap

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