Wilderness Of Freedom: Slave Narratives, Captivity Narratives, And Genre Transformation In Keckley's Behind The Scenes,
2021
University of Kentucky
Wilderness Of Freedom: Slave Narratives, Captivity Narratives, And Genre Transformation In Keckley's Behind The Scenes, Hannah Gautsch
Theses and Dissertations--English
As a modiste well-versed in the social expectations of the domestic world, Elizabeth Keckley crafted an autobiography that would appeal to this wide variety of audiences. Throughout the 1850s, women across the nation negotiated the terms of True Womanhood and identified activism as a space where women could engage with national concerns. At the same time, literary production in the US was increasing exponentially, creating room for literature to be used as a means of social change. Contemporary scholars have devoted much attention to the ways Keckley’s Behind the Scenes combines elements of multiple genres to assure its long-term survival …
Antiwar Literature In The United States Since 1945,
2021
Wayne State University
Antiwar Literature In The United States Since 1945, Kelly Roy Polasek
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation examines literary resistance to US militarism since 1945. I maintain that a requirement of antiwar literature is a disruption or break from the pro-war narrative that seeks to justify and normalize the wars and militarism that saturate this historical period; literary works about war that do not deviate from this narrative are simply war literature. In chapters on John Hersey’s Hiroshima (1946), poetry and performance protests of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1970-72), Rob Halpern’s Common Place (2015), and works of speculative fiction by Omar El Akkad (American War, 2017) and N.K. Jemisin (The Fifth Season, 2015), …
Singing Solidarity: Class Consciousness, Emotional Pedagogy, And The Songs Of The Industrial Workers Of The World,
2021
Wayne State University
Singing Solidarity: Class Consciousness, Emotional Pedagogy, And The Songs Of The Industrial Workers Of The World, Tara Forbes
Wayne State University Dissertations
Singing Solidarity looks at songs and song culture in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) from its inception to its decline near the start of WWI and examines how IWW songs engaged with, transformed, and directed workers’ feelings to “spur [them] to action” (Gould 47). Songs in the IWW repertoire created a sense of group identity and cohesion, supporting the IWW’s project of class consciousness and working-class solidarity. This solidarity, I argue, was felt rather than theorized. The felt solidarity of the IWW collective was intensified through the act of singing as a group, which was simultaneously an instantiation …
The Black Petromodernism Of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, And Mobility,
2021
University of Mississippi
The Black Petromodernism Of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, And Mobility, Stuart Mullet
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis situates Zora Neale Hurston and the folk communities in her oeuvre within the context of modernity’s dependencies on fossil fuels. Such a disciplinary context provides an energy footing for our understandings of African American migrations in the twentieth century—which radically transformed the nation on multiple levels—and it illuminates the communal values that undergird Black approaches to petromodern forms of mobility. Furthermore, by engaging the Black spaces of the South, my argument begins filling a gap in the energy humanities. Few scholars in this field engage deeply those populations and regions that disproportionately experience the underbelly of petromodernity and …
Henry Adams: An Education In Autobiography,
2021
City College of New York
Henry Adams: An Education In Autobiography, Marcellus Richie
Dissertations and Theses
This essay will begin by breaking down Henry Adams’s starting sentence in his autobiography word by word, piece by piece – pondering its meanings and permutations in the context of subsequent chapters of this iconic memoir. The essay will then consider whether Adams’s Education should still be regarded as a classic of American autobiography or seen merely as an irrelevant and out-of-date artifact. In a nation radically transformed since Adams’s time, does the book still deserve its high flung reputation? In other words, which of the images cited above is most relevant to The Education: an image of optimistic youth …
The Space Between “Seen” And “Unseen:” Queer People And The 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance,
2021
City College of New York
The Space Between “Seen” And “Unseen:” Queer People And The 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance, Claudia R. Campanella
Dissertations and Theses
In November 1926, a group of Black artists, writers, and activists created the first and only edition of Fire!!, edited by novelist Wallace Thurman. Fire!! was created by a younger generation of New Negroes and “devoted to the younger Negro artists” who dissented from the mainstream ideas of the New Negro Movement and used the magazine to spread their own views on the 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance. Fire!! and other texts speaking to this dissent against a Black intellectual middle class image of the movement will be studied in reference to showcasing the multi-faceted elements of the movement touching …
The Transcorporeal South: Bodies And Ecologies In Twentieth-Century Southern Literature,
2021
Northern Illinois University
The Transcorporeal South: Bodies And Ecologies In Twentieth-Century Southern Literature, Tiffany Morgan Messick
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation proposes that transcorporeality offers an alternative to Cartesian dualistic modes of embodiment in Walker Percy’s, The Moviegoer, Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Richard Wright’s, Native Son, and Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Opposing the division between mind and body as theorized by René Descartes, transcorporeality advances the body’s porosity, maintaining that the individual is enmeshed within the material world and that this entanglement consubstantiates consciousness. Examining the works of Descartes, focusing especially on the ways that Cartesian ideas have been applied in Southern culture, I contend that a Cartesian definition of subjectivity, …
Andrea Revised: Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist As Revolutionary By Martin Duberman,
2021
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Andrea Revised: Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist As Revolutionary By Martin Duberman, Phyllis Chesler
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
No abstract provided.
"To Work Without Stopping": Masculinity And The Midwestern Farm Novel,
2021
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
"To Work Without Stopping": Masculinity And The Midwestern Farm Novel, Andy Oler
Publications
Ruth Suckow's Country People (1924) and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991) feature hard-working young farmers who develop their land and gain the esteem of their community. As they age, however, their abilities decline and their reputation erodes, not only revealing their personal flaws but also exemplifying the harms of American masculinity on farmers and their families. By incorporating scholarship on aging farmers and farm economics, this chapter shows how, when August Kaetterhenry and Larry Cook attempt to hand over the farm to the next generation, they miss the sense of ownership and control they had as working farmers. The …
Railspace: A Geocritical Study Of The Railroad Through American Literature And Culture,
2020
Duquesne University
Railspace: A Geocritical Study Of The Railroad Through American Literature And Culture, Michael A. Smith
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation uses geocriticism to argue that the American railroad is best understood as a set of discursively constructed railspaces formed through a variety of viewpoints, a polysensorial awareness of space, and stratified social relationships and power struggles. This study takes up four railspaces, the constituent texts of which demonstrate how intertextual discourse shapes and is shaped by the railroad. The observation car, charted through California Zephyr advertisements and Muriel Rukeyser’s “Campaign,” is an apparatus that produces perpetual spectacle. Three novels—Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, and Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith—and …
African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide,
2020
Bridgewater State University
African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper
Honors Program Theses and Projects
Justina Ireland’s young adult novels Dread Nation (2017) and Deathless Divide (2020) tell the story of a Black girl by the name of Jane living in the aftermath of the Civil War, around 1880.
Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County,
2020
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso
Journal X
Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)
The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers,
2020
University of California, Riverside
The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers, Michael P. Moreno
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon,
2020
State University of New York, Albany
Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Adam Lifshey
Journal X
No abstract provided.
This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition,
2020
Bronx Community College, City University of New York
This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition, Timothy Sedore
Journal X
No abstract provided.
The "Wash'd-Up Drift"Of Poetic Ideals: Disunion As Poetic Failure In Walt Whitman's "As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life",
2020
Georgian Court College
The "Wash'd-Up Drift"Of Poetic Ideals: Disunion As Poetic Failure In Walt Whitman's "As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life", Paul R. Cappucci
Journal X
No abstract provided.
The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West,
2020
College of Staten Island, City University of New York
The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West, Timothy Gray
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom,
2020
McGill University
Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom, Allan Hepburn
Journal X
Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)
Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women,
2020
Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin
Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women, Wilfried Raussert
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land,
2020
Duke University
Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land, Simon Hay
Journal X
No abstract provided.
