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"If They Don't Tell You, The Hair Will": Hair Narrative In Contemporary Women's Writing, Darina Pugacheva
"If They Don't Tell You, The Hair Will": Hair Narrative In Contemporary Women's Writing, Darina Pugacheva
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The history of colonial and racial oppression made hair stories and testimonials fundamental to understanding hair as a unifying element particular for women of African descent in the post-slavery era. Seen as such, their hair narrations provide the first-person perspective of their life experiences while at the same time inviting a critical investigation of colonial and racial oppression. Contemporary women writers develop these types of narrations into a special language of hair that helps them tell a story that is not apparent or straightforward. This literary device that uses hair to uncover deeper social and political issues is bound up …
Intimate Fictions: The Rhetorical Strategies Of Obscene Violence In Four Novels, Steven Monk
Intimate Fictions: The Rhetorical Strategies Of Obscene Violence In Four Novels, Steven Monk
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Richard Wright, Marlon James, Cormac McCarthy and Ken Levine are each celebrated in their respective fields but notorious for their obscene depictions of violence. Contrary to trauma theorists’ claims that violence shatters language and cannot be spoken, these writers speak violence in its most disturbing forms: torn eyeballs, dead infants, forced fecal consumption and mechanized rape. I argue that obscene violence, much like obscene language, creates a space of intimacy in which transgressive, subversive and oppositional thoughts may be spoken. By alienating their texts from the larger reading public, these writers entice a smaller group of sympathetic readers to develop …
“A Body Knows:” Time, Affect, And Change In Post-Civil War African American Literature, Charity Ringel
“A Body Knows:” Time, Affect, And Change In Post-Civil War African American Literature, Charity Ringel
Honors Theses
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The Effect Of The Oxford Movement On The Family And Eucharistic Symbolism In Victorian Literature, Elizabeth Vukovics
The Effect Of The Oxford Movement On The Family And Eucharistic Symbolism In Victorian Literature, Elizabeth Vukovics
Honors Theses
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The Criminal Justice Systems And Psychological Disfranchisement, Morgan Johnson
The Criminal Justice Systems And Psychological Disfranchisement, Morgan Johnson
Honors Theses
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