The Unarticulated Unseen: Britt Bennett’S “The Vanishing Half” And Her Intent On Revealing The Unseen In The Tradition Of Racial Passing,
2022
Clemson University
The Unarticulated Unseen: Britt Bennett’S “The Vanishing Half” And Her Intent On Revealing The Unseen In The Tradition Of Racial Passing, Caroline Maas Rue
All Theses
Throughout the trajectory of passing literature, there have been varying projections of racial identity as it is intertwined with choice and power. Despite the many commonalities between the archetypal passing novel, the differences in the way that passing is demarcated in various novels is indicative of the racial climate out of which it came. This paper considers Britt Bennett’s 2020 novel, The Vanishing Half, as a socio-political artifact of an allegedly post-racial era. In considering Bennett’s novel as a reflection of post-raciality, a comparative study incorporating Nella Larsen’s Passing, Douglas Sirk’s Adaptation of Imitation of Life, and Danzy …
Sacred Earth: The Role Of The Natural Divine Within Wendell Berry's "Manifesto",
2022
Utah State University
Sacred Earth: The Role Of The Natural Divine Within Wendell Berry's "Manifesto", T. Greyson Gurley Ma
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Kentuckian writer and poet, Wendell Berry, is often associated with environmental literature and advocacy. However, often overlooked, much of Berry’s work is inherently religious in nature, specifically Christian. Berry’s poetry expresses many of his personal beliefs regarding life, spirituality, religion, interconnection, stewardship, and agriculture. In particular, Berry often uses characters to communicate these aforementioned personal ideas. This practice can be seen through his utilization of the character of the Mad Farmer within a great deal of his poetry, including poetry dedicated to the Mad Farmer himself. Although this character expresses many of the same beliefs as Berry, he is not …
135th Street Branch: Librarianship And The Passing Fictions Of Regina Anderson Andrews And Nella Larsen,
2022
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
135th Street Branch: Librarianship And The Passing Fictions Of Regina Anderson Andrews And Nella Larsen, Caitlin Matheis
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
In this thesis, I examine how two writer-librarians that worked in the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library in the 1920's, Regina Anderson Andrews and Nella Larsen, grappled in their fiction writing with questions of classification, information, and knowledge that encompassed their daily work in the library. I begin by contextualizing the branch within the Harlem Renaissance and Arturo A. Schomburg's call for the preservation of Black history and literature at a time when the field of librarianship was being professionalized by implementing library schools and classification standards. I then provide readings of Andrews's one-act play …
She Speaks Her Truth: Black Female Self-Empowerment In African-American Centric Texts,
2022
Bowling Green State University
She Speaks Her Truth: Black Female Self-Empowerment In African-American Centric Texts, Britt N. Seese
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
A Master's Portfolio that looks into African-American Women in African-American literature and theatrical works.
Little Women, Little Houses: Authorship And Authority In Louisa May Alcott And Laura Ingalls Wilder,
2022
University of Mary Washington
Little Women, Little Houses: Authorship And Authority In Louisa May Alcott And Laura Ingalls Wilder, Katia Savelyeva
Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House novels, share a place in the canon of American children’s literature as novels centered on female protagonists coming of age within an emblematic period in American history, respectively the duration and aftermath of the Civil War and the post-Homestead Act settlement of the Western frontier. Each text portrays the intertwined processes of girlhood and nationhood through the eyes of rebellious, gender-nonconforming protagonists, Jo and Laura, who each undergo an arc towards starting a traditional family and immersing themselves in normative national projects (respectively a philanthropic school for the poor, …
Where Epistemology And Metaphysics Touch In Lois Lowry's The Giver,
2022
Morgan State University
Where Epistemology And Metaphysics Touch In Lois Lowry's The Giver, Seth Vannatta
Far West Popular Culture Association Annual Conference
In Lois Lowry’s dystopian young adult novel, The Giver, the veil of perception— the gap between appearance and reality— is woven into the community as a policy measure meant to establish Sameness—the effort to insure a world without conflict, inequality, difference, pain, or freedom of choice. But a question lingers in the premise of the novel’s community. Given that our options for bridging the gap amount to building a bridge of experience across it or digging a tunnel of existence under it, has the bridge been sabotaged to render perception spurious, or has the tunnel been blocked to alter reality …
Reading The Traumatic Moment: The Role Of Socioeconomic Systems In The Color Purple And The Bluest Eye,
2022
Bellarmine University
Reading The Traumatic Moment: The Role Of Socioeconomic Systems In The Color Purple And The Bluest Eye, Andrea Doll
Undergraduate Theses
There are many points of sameness between Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Both novels occur in the mid-20th century and focus on protagonists within the same race, gender, and relative class. Of all the similarities between the texts, the most influential is the trauma, sexual and otherwise, shared between Pecola Breedlove and Celie. Most notably, both characters experience incestuous rape resulting in pregnancy shortly after their first menstruation. Despite their numerous shared events and attributes, what occurs after their sexual trauma differs drastically for each character. At the end of The Color Purple …
Six-Bullets Faith,
2022
Cleveland State University
Six-Bullets Faith, Justin R. Lazor
ETD Archive
At a religious school of unspecified denomination—but definitely NOT Catholic—two women fall in love. One of them has a chainsaw, the other a gun. There’s also a horny parrot, a horny pastor and a senile mother, not to mention Lucifer, who is a bit of a teenage girl and a HUGE Billie Eilish fan. And the end of the Universe is coming, FYI, via the Big Rip, so there’s that too. And this play is also about addiction and withdrawal and recovery and the capacity or incapacity for love to overcome forces that can overwhelm the self.
Misticismo Y Arcadismo En El Villancico Novohispano. Manuel De Sumaya Y Sus Contemporáneos,
2022
Florida International University
Misticismo Y Arcadismo En El Villancico Novohispano. Manuel De Sumaya Y Sus Contemporáneos, Luciana Kube Tamayo
Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture
El siglo XVIII trajo consigo una evolución estilística vertiginosa en todas las artes. La plástica, la literatura y la música confluyen y sirven de soporte a un arte nuevo, el Rococó. La floración churrigueresca está intensamente presente, además de en lienzos y biombos, en el vocabulario de la lírica de la Nueva España; a la vez que se afianzan los modelos religiosos, por un lado, se asientan los modelos pastoriles por otro. En cuanto a la espiritualidad, los modelos se encuentran encajados en la miniatura poética y el ingenio dieciochesco, desbordante de naturaleza y fantasía. En el presente trabajo me …
‘The Female Marine’ And ‘Clotel’: An Analysis Of Female Crossdressing To Escape Coercive Labor Situations In 19th Century American Literature,
2022
Kennesaw State University
‘The Female Marine’ And ‘Clotel’: An Analysis Of Female Crossdressing To Escape Coercive Labor Situations In 19th Century American Literature, Kaelyn Ireland
Symposium of Student Scholars
Although illegal in many U.S. cities, crossdressing was a point of fascination for Americans of the nineteenth century. Stories of real women passing as men to serve in the military—for example, Revolutionary War veteran Deborah Sampson—enchanted readers and inspired writers, such as that of The Female Marine. Ostensibly written by its heroine, but most likely written by Nathaniel Hill Wright, The Female Marine was a popular story about a young woman who was forced to become a sex worker and cross-dressed to escape her situation, then enlisted in the Navy where she served abroad the U.S.S. Constitution. At …
Eudora Welty’S “Clytie”, The Mirror Stage, And The Grotesque,
2022
Pepperdine University
Eudora Welty’S “Clytie”, The Mirror Stage, And The Grotesque, Samantha Miller
Global Tides
At first glance, Eudora Welty’s short stories seem to exist in paradox with the writer’s own intentions. Welty is well known for co-opting the “plots, settings, characters, image patterns, and vocabulary” of Gothic literature, yet upon being asked if she was a Gothic writer, she responded vehemently: “They better not call me that!”. What is a reader then to make of Welty’s short story “Clytie” which is saturated with homages to the imagery of the Gothic— the display of psychological breakdown of an isolated family trapped in a crumbling, memory-haunted mansion, centering on a trapped, unmarried woman who slowly realizes …
Triggered Emasculation In Southern Literature: Applying The Masculine Overcompensation Thesis,
2022
Western Kentucky University
Triggered Emasculation In Southern Literature: Applying The Masculine Overcompensation Thesis, Delaney Holt
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Coined by Stanford University sociologists Dr. Rob Willer and Dr. Christabel L. Rogalin in 2005, the masculine overcompensation thesis asserts that a man will reciprocate challenges to his masculinity with his own intense display(s) of masculinity. This new thesis combined the preliminary research completed by Adler and Freud, offering a new perspective on masculinity. Alongside societal and psychological applications, the masculine overcompensation thesis can also be applied to fictional literary relationships, especially within the pages of three southern novels: Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle, Ron Rash’s One Foot in Eden, and Lewis Nordan’s The Sharpshooter Blues. A common thread of overcompensatory …
De Haven Street Irregulars,
2022
University of North Florida
De Haven Street Irregulars, Sydney Shomer
Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business
No abstract provided.
The Land Has Eyes,
2022
University of North Florida
The Land Has Eyes, Mckenna Shea
Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business
No abstract provided.
Research Paper Evaluations,
2022
University of North Florida
Research Paper Evaluations, Daniele Colyar
Praxis: Composition Theory, Pedagogy, and Social Action
Research poster prepared for ENC 6700 Studies in Composition Theory (Spring 2022) taught by Dr. James Beasley
The Search For Frank Butler,
2022
University of North Florida
The Search For Frank Butler, Elizabeth Marion
Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business
No abstract provided.
Can I Use The Restroom?,
2022
University of North Florida
Can I Use The Restroom?, Brenida Thompson
Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business
No abstract provided.
83 Bridge St, Saint Augustine, Fl 32084,
2022
University of North Florida
83 Bridge St, Saint Augustine, Fl 32084, Erin Kelbaugh
Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business
No abstract provided.
Frank Butler And Central Avenue,
2022
University of North Florida
Frank Butler And Central Avenue, Natalie Medina
Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business
No abstract provided.
The Castle Of Lincolnville,
2022
University of North Florida
The Castle Of Lincolnville, Joshua Smith
Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business
No abstract provided.
