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Decentering The Dictator: ‘In The Time Of The Butterflies’ And The Mirabal Sisters’ Outspoken Challenge, Elise Coombs
Decentering The Dictator: ‘In The Time Of The Butterflies’ And The Mirabal Sisters’ Outspoken Challenge, Elise Coombs
English
Julia Alvarez’s portrayal of the Mirabal sisters from In the Time of the Butterflies centers the novel around the sisters’ speech and humanity. This decenters the dictator, a figure who was often central to Latin American dictator novels. The first chapter will provide background on the dictator’s characteristics to demonstrate how the Mirabal sisters’ speech draws attention away from his power. The four times the sisters encounter the dictator Rafael Trujillo in the novel, their speech decenters him because Alvarez emphasizes their experience. In the second chapter, I examine the gaps between each encounter, focusing on Minerva’s speech development towards …
Alchemical Feminism : The Power And Authority Of Women In Shakespeare's Pericles, Kathryn Corah
Alchemical Feminism : The Power And Authority Of Women In Shakespeare's Pericles, Kathryn Corah
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
William Shakespeare and George Wilkin’s romance play, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is an example of a Renaissance narrative that includes alchemical subtext. There have been many academic articles and dissertations written on this subject; I seek to build upon these previous arguments to expand upon their premises to argue that this alchemical diction and iconography of alchemical emblems allows for Marina and Thaisa to promote the power latent in feminine-coded virtue as it resists against patriarchal violence and reforms a masculinist patriarchal system. The lens I utilized to analyze the text in my exploration of this topic, which I named …
This Brain Had A Mouth: : Lucy Gwin And Her Path To Disability Activism, James Michael Odato
This Brain Had A Mouth: : Lucy Gwin And Her Path To Disability Activism, James Michael Odato
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Author, advocacy journalist, disability rights activist, and magazine founder Lucy Gwin
Unbecoming : A Collection Of Short Fiction, Angélica Luisa Valentín Schubert
Unbecoming : A Collection Of Short Fiction, Angélica Luisa Valentín Schubert
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This collection contains nine short stories addressing various concepts and issues relating to contemporary femininity in the United States.