Jessamyn West Collection,
2020
Whittier College
Jessamyn West Collection, Whittier College
Finding Aids
The Jessamyn West Collection contains materials relating to author Jessamyn West (1902-1984). The collection includes West's manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, diaries, reviews, publications, and personal library.
Collection period: 1920-1990
"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity In Postcolonial Adaptation,
2020
Claremont Graduate University
"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity In Postcolonial Adaptation, Teah Goldberg
CGU Theses & Dissertations
My dissertation is entitled: “The Island has two sides: Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation.” In it I will argue that many postcolonial narratives either consciously or unconsciously adapt Shakespeare’s The Tempest in an effort to resurrect repressed female narratives of resistance. Through an examination of Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter (2006), J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1988), and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), this dissertation will contribute to the fields of feminist and postcolonial studies by arguing that the kinds of female critical voices that we find embedded within these postcolonial texts, either …
Vignettes Of America,
2020
Bridgewater State University
Examining Jack Kerouac's Role In The Beat Generation: Exploring Place In On The Road And The Dharma Bums,
2020
Louisiana Tech University
Examining Jack Kerouac's Role In The Beat Generation: Exploring Place In On The Road And The Dharma Bums, Kimberly Ann Tucker
Master's Theses
This examination of two of Jack Kerouac’s roman-á-clefs, On the Road (1957) and The Dharma Bums (1958), illuminates characteristics of Kerouac’s personality and writing that are often ignored by current criticism. I will attempt to enhance current Kerouac scholarship by further analyzing the physical and spiritual journeys that Kerouac’s personas experience in these novels, contrasting Kerouac’s personas’ development with that of his Beat Generation companions. Despite his admiration for Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady) and Japhy Ryder (Gary Snyder), Kerouac does not present these individuals as American heroes. Indeed, Kerouac’s cynical narration suggests that these Beat characters cannot offer him the …
Of This World,
2020
Indiana State University
We're Sixteen And We're Stupid, But You're My Salvation,
2020
Indiana State University
We're Sixteen And We're Stupid, But You're My Salvation, Juliet Grey
Allusions
No abstract provided.
Drugs,
2020
Indiana State University
The Mania Sonnets: Mania Four,
2020
Indiana State University
The Mania Sonnets: Mania One,
2020
Indiana State University
The Mania Sonnets: Mania Five,
2020
Indiana State University
Hemlock Cove Series, "Hemlock Cove Cemetery",
2020
Indiana State University
Hemlock Cove Series, "Hemlock Cove Cemetery", Lanie Amelia R. Evans
Allusions
No abstract provided.
Psychological Love,
2020
Indiana State University
Black Ice,
2020
Indiana State University
Find Me In Virginia,
2020
Indiana State University
Me To Me,
2020
Indiana State University
Turning Point,
2020
Indiana State University
Byproduct Of Bitterness,
2020
Indiana State University
A Sonnet For My Sister,
2020
Indiana State University
The Kingsbed,
2020
Indiana State University
Here Be Dragons,
2020
Indiana State University
