Winter Lambs,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Serengeti,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Why I Am Not A Painter,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Overwinter,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Little Offer,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Six Camps,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Ugliest Woman Sitting At The Bar,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Troubled Lawns,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Watercolor Painting Class,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
What's Weft,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sanguinaria,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Am I A Thief?,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rose Red, Rose White,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Colonial Llorona,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mountain Redemption / The Red Wolf: A Dream Of Flannery O'Connor,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mountain Redemption / The Red Wolf: A Dream Of Flannery O'Connor, John Saad
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 199-206
Birmingham Poetry Review 42 (End Matter),
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham Poetry Review 42 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 215-229
Teaching/Writing Workshop: A Critical Memoir Of Training Teacher Candidates In Developmental Composition,
2015
University of Texas at Arlington
Teaching/Writing Workshop: A Critical Memoir Of Training Teacher Candidates In Developmental Composition, Chere Harden Blair
English Dissertations - Archive
I began by attempting to fill a gap I observed in the preparation of the novice teachers whom I supervised. I created a teaching apprenticeship program in order to give preservice teachers opportunities to enact the theories and methods of writing instruction that I had taught them. The more I read and researched, the more I uncovered important gaps in those theories and methods.Through narrative and critical self-study, I explore my own teaching life, my work with both struggling college writers and teachers-in-training, and my attempts to navigate the complex institutional forces that can frustrate innovation. Ultimately, I suggest that …
Constructing Mothering Performances: The Motherhood Ideal In Caldecott And Newbery Winners, 1980-2014,
2015
University of Texas at Arlington
Constructing Mothering Performances: The Motherhood Ideal In Caldecott And Newbery Winners, 1980-2014, Dana Mccullough Brewer
English Dissertations - Archive
This project examines representations of motherhood in Caldecott and Newbery winners from 1980-2014 and is informed by feminist literary theory, juvenile literary theory, and motherhood studies. While motherhood studies are evolving to consider egalitarian ideas of motherhood and multiple definitions of motherhood, many Caldecott and Newbery Medal winners present a traditional (and antiquated) motherhood ideal in which maternal figures tend to domestic duties and provide selfless nurturing of children. This objectification depersonalizes, essentializes, and stereotypes motherhood. Diverse mothering characters and practices do materialize in some texts but are often regulated by the motherhood ideal. In Chapter 2, I define the …
The Performing Mother: Maternal Ethics Beyond Embodiment,
2015
University of Texas at Arlington
The Performing Mother: Maternal Ethics Beyond Embodiment, Charles Hicks
English Dissertations - Archive
The rich and diverse history of maternal thought is at once a response to the Western philosophical tradition's relegation of the maternal to the material abject, as well as a renegotiation of the maternal body as a site of empowerment capable of destabilizing the foundations of the symbolic economy. Understanding the material and historical conditions that subject these bodies and work to construct maternity, as well as their mediating position to authentic ethical activity, reveals that maternity offers a salient schemata for, not only viewing the fundamental operations of power, but the possibilities of ethical interaction. This study focuses on, …
Creating Myself: Friendship As Black Women's Liberation In Toni Morrison's Sula And Alice Walker's The Color Purple,
2015
University of Texas at Arlington
Creating Myself: Friendship As Black Women's Liberation In Toni Morrison's Sula And Alice Walker's The Color Purple, India Renee Miles
English Theses - Archive
The talking book trope, begun in the era of and with the authors of slave narratives, firmly establishes a literary tradition for black writers that continues today. Contemporary authors employ this rhetorical device in order to prove the humanity of those of African descent, express a lack of familiarity with the dominant power structure that seeks to disenfranchise the Other, and to illustrate one method of entry into a hegemonic social structure. Toni Morrison's Sula and Alice Walker's The Color Purple fit into this trope, with varying degrees of success. In both texts, the relational mode of friendship between the …
