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Racial Etiquette And The (White) Plot Of Passing:(Re) Inscribing" Place" In John Stahl's Imitation Of Life, Adrienne Gosselin

English Faculty Publications

Examines the machinations of racial etiquette and ways in which John Stahl's 1934 film `Imitation of Life' enforces the politics of the white plot of passing and place. Passing plot as utilized by American white and black writers of the period; Antimiscegenation film.

Martha Stewart Weekdays: A Symbolic Construction Of The Image Of Woman, Holly Lorraine Dent

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Today the American culture makes the claim that “image is everything.” Messages bombard the public with how to think, feel and look via the media. Programs on television that target women vary in topics from fitness, talk shows, movies, and home shopping to an endless array of soap operas. Television has provided a medium that visually and aurally appeals to viewers in a way that no other medium can. The messages of the ideal woman on television are often subtle and couched within the pretense of entertainment. Television has produced many ideal images of women through the years: June Cleaver, …

Thy Will Be Done, My Will Be Done: A Comparative Analysis Of The Diary Of Susanna Gordon Waddell, 1863-1867 And Selected Letters Of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, 1862-1864, Leann Elizabeth Ginther

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

“Renew my will from day to day.

Blend it with thine, and take away

all that new makes it hard to say

Thy will be done.”

December 17, 1863

Susanna Gordon Waddell transcribed the above passage in her diary to reflect her pervading belief and conviction: a resignation to God’s will. She does not indicate the author of the verse, and it so aptly describes the beliefs expressed in her diary she may have written it herself. Interestingly, this particular passage contains an inherent contradiction. The prayer asks God to renew my will while simultaneously asking that it be taken …

In The Fullness Of Time: The Literature Of Denise Giardina, Cathy Pleska

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Appalachia can lay claim to many authors who have written works worthy of critical analysis and scholarly research, as the literature they have produced warrants consideration. This consideration, however, is often not forthcoming, and it is the situation concerning West Virginia author Denise Giardina. To date there has been no definitive, full-length study on her and her literature. As an author of considerable talent, who by any measure has published literature of significant quality, she deserves serious scholarly study, not just as an author of regional literature, but also as a contemporary author of the late twentieth century.

The purpose …

Swenson Center News, 1998, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College

Newsletter: Swenson Center News

No abstract provided.

Community Pride Reporter, 01/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Bert Dutil: Washington D.C. Trip 1998, Bertrand A. Dutil

Scrapbooks

Photographs, postcards, brochures, and other mementos

American Irish Newsletter - January 1998, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Vol. 18, No. 1 (1998), Dean Faulkner Wells, William Pratt, Barry Hannah, Larry Brown

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

mm IWinter 1998 NEWSLETTER Writing or Living? John Muir's Writerly Identity and Ambivalence by Randall Roorda, University of Missouri, Kansas City (Editor's note: As many fans of John Muir realize, Muir was not comfortable with writing for publication. This analysis of that ■'issue is a revision of a paper presented earlier to the Western Literature Association. We wish to thank the State University of lew York Press for permission to print this excerpt from the forthcoming book, Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing, by Randall Roorda.) lite aspect of John Muir's lite I offer is that …

Fall 1998, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

No abstract provided.

Mlgpa News (January 1998), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.2, No.1 (January-February 1998), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.

Mississippi Folklife. Volume 30, Numbers 1-2 (1998), Mississippi Folklore Society, University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Mississippi Folklife

No abstract provided.

Network News, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Winter 1998), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.

Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.19, No.1 (January/February 1998), Northern Lambda Nord, Dick Harrison

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

No abstract provided.

Southern Register. 1998.1 (Winter 1998), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture.

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Southern Register. 1997.1 (Winter/Spring 1997), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture.

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Alberto Ríos, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Caught up in the current cultural ferment involving race, sex, and ethnic identity, people tend to forget. The all-time best-selling novel in the nineteenth-century United States was an antislavery book written by a woman, and in the 1920s black writer W. E. B. Du Bois was widely celebrated by a large number of critics. Periodically over the course of the nation’s history, both as concerns the general culture and our literature specifically, what we today call minorities, and how we perceive them, have exerted huge influences, shaping much of our lives, from what we wear and eat to what we …

The Shanachie Volume 10, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

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Reading Elizabeth Bishop As A Religious Poet, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

Elizabeth Bishop is usually described as a modernist poet with a skeptical mind. This essay contests the critical tendency to dismiss religion as a serious concern in her poetry, by first challenging the widespread dismissal in the United States of all religious approaches to modern poetry and then challenging the tendency to disclaim attempts to read Elizabeth Bishop in religious terms. The essay includes a close reading of “The End of March” as a text which invites intertextual commentary from a Christian perspective.

Cry Of The Famishing: Ireland, Connecticut And The Potato Famine, Neil Hogan, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Monographs (CTIAHS)

Cry of the Famishing focuses on the relationship between the Famine in Ireland and the state of Connecticut. Includes why and where Irish emigrants settled in Connecticut, the jobs they held, conflicts that arose between the Yankees and the Irish newcomers, and individual stories of some of the Famine Irish in Connecticut. Illustrated with Famine drawings from newspapers and periodicals of the 1840s and 1850s.

Joy Harjo, Rhonda Pettit

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Who is Joy Harjo? To anyone familiar with Native American writing and/or contemporary poetry, the obvious answer to this question might be: a Native American poet. Readers familiar with her work might also consider her a Western U. S. writer, since she lives in the Southwest and uses Western landscapes and locales as settings, as vehicles for psychological probing, and as subjects endowed with transcendent power. If these labels seem reductive, other cultural and literary locations Harjo occupies complicate the issue of her identity.

Reading Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing In America, Joseph Mills

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Last summer, I hiked along the Tomales Point trail in Point Reyes, a National Seashore, north of San Francisco. On my left was the Pacific Ocean, and on my right were fields that were once dairylands but are now a Tule elk preserve.

White County Heritage 1998, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Stories From Ina & Others: Our president dedicates this issue to Ina Leach & exhorts us by Eddie Best
C.W. Riggins Family of Kensett
New White County War Memorial Is Dedicated: The old bell tolls for 172 on "A Day To Remember"
Those We Remember
The Day We Saluted "The Beer Barrel Polka" by Leister Presley
Wilbur D. Mills, Young Populist Leader by Kay Goss (Introduction by Darrell Hickman)
Reflections on a Long-Gone Railroad: Legend of "The Great Atterberry" by Eddie Best
The Little Train to Des Arc: Memories from a man searching for an orphans home …

Pains And Contradictions In The Catcher In The Rye And Franny And Zooey, B. Daniel Rösch

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Holden Caulfield and Franny Glass struggle with the phoniness and egotism that pervades society. They long to escape their problems and decide to run away -- he by becoming a hermit and she by retreating into spirituality through the Jesus Prayer. They soon realize the folly of their solution and through their pains and contradictions, they learn how to cope with social squalor. Holden realizes that he needs to love and accept people unconditionally, and Franny learns that she needs to shed her egotism and act altruistically. I believe J. D. Salinger outlines a spiritual coping strategy through Holden and …

Planning The Twentieth-Century American City, By Mary Corbin Sies And Christopher Silver. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore And London, 1996, And Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning The Twentieth-Century Metropolis, By Greg Hise. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore And London, 1997 (Book Reviews), Robert Wojtowicz

Art Faculty Publications

(First Paragraph) Planning has been a part of the American landscape since the establishment of the first colonial outposts, but it was not until the early twentieth century that the field's protagonists organized and professionalized. Also a relatively recent phenomenon is the field of American planning history, which for many years was the neglected stepchild of urban history and the distant cousin of architectural history. Over the past decade, however, a steady outpouring of interdisciplinary research has garnered for the field well-deserved recognition within the academy. At a time when more established disciplines are increasingly torn by ideological differences and …

An Activist's Guide To Lesbian History: A Companion To The Video Not Just Passing Through, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

This guide, designed to accompany the video Not Just Passing Through, contains guidelines for conducting oral history, forms for donating material to mainstream and community based archives, and lessons for engaging lesbian history with activism.

The Kingdom, The Power, & The Glory: The Millennial Impulse In Early American Literature: General Introduction, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

This anthology, The Kingdom, The Power, & The Glory: The Millennial Impulse in Early American Literature, seeks to redress some of the problems of access to texts of early American literature by providing a thematic approach to one of colonial America’s most trenchant ideologies: the rising glory of America. The selections included represent a wide spread of authors and texts that discuss America’s place in the millenarian cosmologies from the colonial to the Federalist period (c. 1600-1800). The texts address such issues as the great migration, the transformation of the howling wilderness into an agricultural Eden, the jeremiad, King Philip’s …

The Kingdom, The Power, & The Glory: The Millennial Impulse In Early American Literature -- Questions For Discussions, Research, And Writing, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The following questions are designed to help each student focus on crucial issues in each text during the initial reading process, stimulate class discussion, and suggest essay topics for term papers. For the most part, the answers to these questions require no other reading than the General Introduction and close analysis of the selections themselves. Nevertheless, each set of question is followed by a brief list of secondary sources taken from the Selected Bibliography to accommodate the documentation of research papers. The blank spaces below each question allow for brief written responses and brainstorming exercises to outline research papers.