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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Evans Committee Statement On Pioneer, Ramona Beltran, Richard Clemmer-Smith, Tamra Pearson D’Estrée, Alan Gilbert, Adam Rovner, Dean Saitta, Billy J. Stratton, Tink Tinker, Nancy D. Wadsworth, Viki Eagle, Julia Bramante, Amanda Williams, Sara Schwartzkopf
Evans Committee Statement On Pioneer, Ramona Beltran, Richard Clemmer-Smith, Tamra Pearson D’Estrée, Alan Gilbert, Adam Rovner, Dean Saitta, Billy J. Stratton, Tink Tinker, Nancy D. Wadsworth, Viki Eagle, Julia Bramante, Amanda Williams, Sara Schwartzkopf
John Evans Study: Supporting Materials
Letter from University of Denver faculty and alumni on the university's use of the 'Pioneer' moniker.
"Founding Its Empire On Spells Of Pleasure": Brunonian Excitability, The Invigorated English Opium-Eater, And De Quincey's "China Question", Menglu Gao
English and Literary Arts: Faculty Scholarship
What light can De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) shed on its author's later advocacy of the First Opium War? To what degree did De Quincey's and other contemporaneous accounts of opium use in Britain influence metaphorical connections between bodily energy and national power in the 1830s and 1840s? Placing Confessions alongside John Brown's 1780 treatise, Elements of Medicine, this essay argues that De Quincey "nationalized" opium-eating by transforming mental exceptionality in British Romanticism into a medical body's connection with internal energies and external stimuli from China and "the Orient." The essay concludes that opium serves in …
“Don't Forget”: The Life And Role Of Arab American Women In The Early 20th Century, Caitlin Gannam, Jonathan Sciarcon
“Don't Forget”: The Life And Role Of Arab American Women In The Early 20th Century, Caitlin Gannam, Jonathan Sciarcon
DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive
While Arab American women have often been excluded from the narrative of the Arab American community, they have had lasting influence on the nature and development of the American identity. As mothers, teachers, and supporters of the community, Arab American women have been active cultural influences, despite social restrictions and a lack of formal power.
Unsettling The American Old West: Women Of Color Write The Archives, Alison Turner
Unsettling The American Old West: Women Of Color Write The Archives, Alison Turner
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation gathers Louise Erdrich’s Four Souls (2004), Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men (1977), and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) into a literary corpus that I call postwestern histories. Building on scholarship that situates these novels in Native American, Chinese American, and Mexican/American literary traditions, I show how these novels simultaneously cross bounds of ethnic literary genres to unsettle a dominating narrative of the United States West that roots Anglo expansionist experiences as foundational in archives, historiographies, and literary canons. This unsettling occurs in postwestern histories through three shared characteristics: prioritization of communities that are underrepresented in archival holdings, …