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Racial And Cultural Anxieties In Poe's The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym, Alyssa M. Amaral
Racial And Cultural Anxieties In Poe's The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym, Alyssa M. Amaral
Undergraduate Review
This essay considers the cultural fears and anxieties that are portrayed in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Drawing upon Tsalal’s natural hesitancy for nature to intermingle with itself, in addition to the tragically brutal clashing of white and black cultures, Poe highlights 19th-century United States’ desire for segregation between North and South, while also depicting southern slave owners’ looming fear of slave uprisings.
Mary Rowlandson: The Captive Voice, Elizabeth Scarbrough
Mary Rowlandson: The Captive Voice, Elizabeth Scarbrough
Undergraduate Review
The arrival of the Puritans in Massachusetts, the ensuing relationship they developed with the Native Americans and its deterioration over the following years are historical facts that are commonly known, but the reality that numerous women and children were kidnapped for ransom in the years referred to as “King Philip’s War” might surprise many Americans. In fact, on February 20, 1676, in the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, along with several of her neighbors, Mary Rowlandson and her young daughter were violently ambushed, torn from their homes, and taken hostage by a multi-tribal band of Indians. She was ransomed and released …
God Bless America, Land Of The Consumer: Fitzgerald’S Critique Of The American Dream, Kimberly Pumphrey
God Bless America, Land Of The Consumer: Fitzgerald’S Critique Of The American Dream, Kimberly Pumphrey
Undergraduate Review
In James Truslow Adams’ book, The Epic of America, he defines the American dream as “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” (404). In the middle of the roaring 1920’s, author F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, examining the fight for the American dream in the lives of his characters in New York. Fitzgerald illustrates for the reader a picture of Gatsby’s struggle to obtain the approval and acceptance of high society and to earn the same status. …
Le Mélange Of Francophone Culture In William Wells Brown’S Clotel, Sandra Andrade
Le Mélange Of Francophone Culture In William Wells Brown’S Clotel, Sandra Andrade
Undergraduate Review
In Clotel; Or, The President’s Daughter, William Wells Brown argues that for fugitive African American slaves France represented freedom. This connection between African Americans and France that is familiar to many Americans in the twentieth century was existent at the time of Brown’s own escape. The Francophone culture became a major motivator in the author’s personal life and also in his writings. This project covers many themes, including the “tragic mulatta”, American identity, American freedom and slavery, and explores readings from Anna Brickhouse’s Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere, and Eve A. Raimon’s The Tragic Mulatta …
Reality, Skewed, Kathleen Camerlin
Reality, Skewed, Kathleen Camerlin
Undergraduate Review
Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise explores basic human connections and illustrates how they shift when viewed through the lens of post-modernity. The protagonist, Jack Gladney, tries to validate and substantiate his own existence through the connections he forges not only with his job and studies but also with his family, attempting to find meaning in the way his relatives interact with each other and their post modern world, where it is “no longer possible to distinguish meaningfully between a generality embedded in life and a generality represented in representations of life” (Frow 420). In this fracturing, consumer-driven, postmodern world, what …
Early American Literature In The Elementary School Classroom, Amanda Sullivan
Early American Literature In The Elementary School Classroom, Amanda Sullivan
Undergraduate Review
The goal of the American educational system should be to teach an individual to become an independent thinker who can form his or her own view. This goal is very hard to obtain, because textbooks often provide a skewed view, but if educators make creative use of literature, students can learn to become independent thinkers. Students need to acquire this deeper understanding in order to learn critical literacy or the ability to “question, examine or […] dispute” texts (McLaughin 14). One important tool educators can use to help develop this critical capacity is literature, in particular literature about slavery. Grade …
Fashion Statement Or Political Statement: The Use Of Fashion To Express Black Pride During The Civil Rights And Black Power Movements Of The 1960’S, Mary Vargas
Undergraduate Review
The Civil Rights Movement brought the plight of African Americans to the forefront of American political and intellectual thought. The ideological foundation of this movement was a feeling of black pride coupled with a strong sense of urgency for equality. Black activists and supporters, to express their solidarity and support of this movement, adorned symbolic clothing, accessories and hairstyles. Politics and fashion were fused during this time and the use of these symbolic fashion statements sent a clear message to America and the rest of the world that African Americans were proud of their heritage, that Black was indeed beautiful …
Progression And Cycles: Historical And Societal Change In James Fenimore Cooper’S The Pioneer, Jessica Martinho
Progression And Cycles: Historical And Societal Change In James Fenimore Cooper’S The Pioneer, Jessica Martinho
Undergraduate Review
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The Sovereignty Of The Individual: Thoreau’S Call For Reformation In Walden, Bradford Vezina
The Sovereignty Of The Individual: Thoreau’S Call For Reformation In Walden, Bradford Vezina
Undergraduate Review
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Ethnicity And Accountability: Recent American Fiction, Stephanie Lawrence
Ethnicity And Accountability: Recent American Fiction, Stephanie Lawrence
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Mother Jones: A Dichotomy Of Feminity, Amanda Viana
Mother Jones: A Dichotomy Of Feminity, Amanda Viana
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Preacher Or Actor: The Dramatic Role Of Puritan Sermons In America, Beth Robbins
Preacher Or Actor: The Dramatic Role Of Puritan Sermons In America, Beth Robbins
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Olaudah Equiano's Views Of Slavery In His "Narrative Of The Life", Corie Dias
Olaudah Equiano's Views Of Slavery In His "Narrative Of The Life", Corie Dias
Undergraduate Review
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