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Genre Fluidity In Black Speculative Fiction As An Exploration Of Blackness, Jake Upton Jan 2022

Genre Fluidity In Black Speculative Fiction As An Exploration Of Blackness, Jake Upton

English Honors Papers

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Countering Literary Antisemitism: The Figure Of The Jew In The Early Twentieth Century American Novel, Amanda Sanders Jan 2022

Countering Literary Antisemitism: The Figure Of The Jew In The Early Twentieth Century American Novel, Amanda Sanders

English Honors Papers

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Capitalocene Imaginations: Settler Colonialism, Capitalism, And The Environmental Crisis In Twenty-First-Century U.S. Literature, Zoe F. Pellegrino Jan 2022

Capitalocene Imaginations: Settler Colonialism, Capitalism, And The Environmental Crisis In Twenty-First-Century U.S. Literature, Zoe F. Pellegrino

English Honors Papers

This thesis, a study of climate fiction novels and Indigenous knowledge and poetry, argues that these texts use the power of imagination to open up alternative possibilities, otherwise foreclosed by the ideological hegemony of the capitalist climate crisis. I first explore the United States’ settler colonial history, and how the perpetuation of settler ideology over time justified the exploitative values of the capitalist system, resulting in the slow violence of our environmental crisis.

The central texts explored in this thesis are the climate fiction novels Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea and The Ministry for the Future by Kim …