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1997

American Studies

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Certain Threatening Picture: Images Of Rape In Eudora Welty's "The Golden Apples", Laura A. Hannett Jan 1997

A Certain Threatening Picture: Images Of Rape In Eudora Welty's "The Golden Apples", Laura A. Hannett

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"Recurring In This Body": James Dickey And The Quest For Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins Jan 1997

"Recurring In This Body": James Dickey And The Quest For Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins

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Between "Word-Play And Evasion": Reading And Writing Lily Bart In "The House Of Mirth", Atisaya Vimuktanon Jan 1997

Between "Word-Play And Evasion": Reading And Writing Lily Bart In "The House Of Mirth", Atisaya Vimuktanon

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Going Nowhere Fast: The Car, The Highway And American Identity In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" And Robert Frank's "The Americans", Scott Patrick Moyers Jan 1997

Going Nowhere Fast: The Car, The Highway And American Identity In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" And Robert Frank's "The Americans", Scott Patrick Moyers

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Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst Jan 1997

Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst

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Tar Baby And The Black Feminist Literary Tradition, Priti Chitnis Gress Jan 1997

Tar Baby And The Black Feminist Literary Tradition, Priti Chitnis Gress

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Flannery O'Connor And The Reader, Kelly Lynne Haggard Beaty Jan 1997

Flannery O'Connor And The Reader, Kelly Lynne Haggard Beaty

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Authenticity And Blackness: Defining The Conflict In "Tar Baby", Kathy Nicole Meadows Jan 1997

Authenticity And Blackness: Defining The Conflict In "Tar Baby", Kathy Nicole Meadows

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The Reception Of David Mamet's "Oleanna": The Politics Of Interpretation And Received Opinion, Emily Kathleen White Jan 1997

The Reception Of David Mamet's "Oleanna": The Politics Of Interpretation And Received Opinion, Emily Kathleen White

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"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, And Enslavement By Language, John Andrew Lyman Jan 1997

"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, And Enslavement By Language, John Andrew Lyman

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Sites Of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies Of Katharine Dupre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, And Pauli Murray, Darlene O'Dell Jan 1997

Sites Of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies Of Katharine Dupre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, And Pauli Murray, Darlene O'Dell

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This study argues that Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray used sites of regional memory in their autobiographies, particularly Confederate burial sites, to discuss how segregation divided not only the southern landscape and the southern people, but southern minds and bodies as well. In the southern graveyard, memory of the Confederate South was stored in tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags driven into grass plots, and in Memorial Day speeches and rituals associated with the burial of the dead. Cemeteries housed the language of southern memory. Here, identity was spoken in ritualistic form--inscribed on tombs, in texts, and …


The "War Between The Mind And Sky": The Poet, The Soldier, And The Centrality Of The Epilogue To "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction", James Craig Yard Jan 1997

The "War Between The Mind And Sky": The Poet, The Soldier, And The Centrality Of The Epilogue To "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction", James Craig Yard

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Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind The Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit Of The Truth, Michelle Dawn Cude Jan 1997

Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind The Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit Of The Truth, Michelle Dawn Cude

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Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey, Renee M. Sentilles Jan 1997

Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey, Renee M. Sentilles

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This dissertation explores notions of self-invention and performance in mid-nineteenth century America by examining the life and writings of actress and poet, Adah Isaacs Menken, from roughly 1835 to 1868. During America's Civil War years, Menken became an international star in the controversial title role of Mazeppa, an equestrian play. at the climax, soldiers forcibly stripped Mazeppa (Menken) to reveal her body in a costume suggestive of nudity. The soldiers tied her to a horse and sent her careening up a steep mountain into the theatre rafters. This provocative "breeches part" allowed Menken to pursue unusual freedoms for a woman …


Born Into Slavery: The American Slave Child Experience, Melissa Ann Mullins Jan 1997

Born Into Slavery: The American Slave Child Experience, Melissa Ann Mullins

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The Mistakes Of Yesterday, The Hopes Of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, And The Prisonaires, John M. Dougan Jan 1997

The Mistakes Of Yesterday, The Hopes Of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, And The Prisonaires, John M. Dougan

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No abstract provided.