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Galton To Himmler: An Archeology Of Eugenics Discourse, Jeffery Logan Clark
Galton To Himmler: An Archeology Of Eugenics Discourse, Jeffery Logan Clark
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project is to trace interdiscursive and intertextual relations between ancient and modern social discourses that allow and constitute Francis Galton's eugenics discourse, and how Francis Galton's eugenics discourse effects change in other social discourses of the twentieth century.
Hybrid Identities In Radio Discourse, Francisco Javier Aguirre
Hybrid Identities In Radio Discourse, Francisco Javier Aguirre
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this thesis was to conduct a discourse analysis of conversational data from a radio station program in Southern California to see if the speakers' language displays hybridity theory. The radio program in question is unique because all speakers including the deejays and call in listeners do not exclusively speak English or Spanish but codemix or alternate between English and Spanish (Spanglish hereafter) during on-air conversations.
The Cultural Self: The Novel As Griot In African American Fiction, Eric Christian Atkinson
The Cultural Self: The Novel As Griot In African American Fiction, Eric Christian Atkinson
Theses Digitization Project
This paper addresses the Western African oral concept of griot, as it utilizes nommo, the Bantu term which denotes the magical power of words to cause change, as a critical African American lexical lens. It will foreground the fiction of Octavia E. Butler and John Edgar Wideman through the critical lens of griot as a means to construct African American community and culture through narrative by utilizing nommo. Nommo is an "African concept in which the word is a life force; the word is creator rather than created" even after it has been spoken or written. Traditionally the griot is …
The Other Within The Other: Chicana/O Literature, Composition Theory, And The New Mestizaje, Charles Ray Murillo
The Other Within The Other: Chicana/O Literature, Composition Theory, And The New Mestizaje, Charles Ray Murillo
Theses Digitization Project
In this thesis the author explores the notion that American Chicana/o literature serves as an interactive pedagogical site that nurtures a blend of academic and street discourse, proposing the writing of those who exist on the "downside" of the border of non-standard English and academic discourse-basic writers be acknowledged.