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The Non-National Subject: Ambivalent "Americans" In Contemporary Narratives By Women Writers In The Us, Dalia Gomaa

Theses and Dissertations

This study argues that the notion of Americanness is constructed nationally within the U.S. geographic space, as well as transnationally outside that space. The transnational perception of the U.S. nation-space and Americanness makes possible ambivalent positionings which I call non-national and through its lens I examine migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. I explain in my study that the non-national subject does not merely occupy a liminal space between home-country and host-country but rather reconfigures the implications of the "foreign" and the "domestic"; "home" and "abroad" within that interstitial space. I also argue that the …

The Relief Of The Unreal Life: Poems, Colleen Robertson Abel

Theses and Dissertations

This collection of poems takes as its subject desire in its various guises. Religious desire--the human need to find faith and to hope for an afterlife, and the doubt and skepticism in those very needs--is braided together with more earthly desires, as well as with ruminations on artistic ambition. These poems situate themselves within the rich tradition of the postconfessional, transmuting autobiographical elements to form a narrative of marriage, pregnancy, loss and birth that anchors the book. This narrative is juxtaposed with other lyric voices to explore the connections between hunger of all kinds.

Yuxtaposición Entre La Sumisión Y La Liberación Sexual En Las Edades De Lulú Como Reflejo De La Realidad Española Durante La Transición, Elena María Garcia Oliveros

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Esta tesis analiza el contexto histórico en el que la novela de Almudena Grandes, Las edades de Lulú (1989), es escrita y cómo influye en el desarrollo del personaje protagonista. De esta manera se establece una relación entre los aspectos socioculturales más representativos de los años de la transición española y la relación entre los dos personajes principales, Lulú y Pablo.

Cinderella’S Lessons On Footbinding: How Tiny Feet Found Their Way Into The Chinese Cinderella Story, Tyler Scott Smith

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Shoes, slippers, feet and sandals play one of the most pivotal roles in the prominent Cinderella stories through the tale’s history. Tracing versions of the tale geographically as it spread throughout Central Asia and then throughout the globe can exemplify the different traditions and mores a society entrusts to the story. However, feet and their coverings survive all of these retellings after a certain point. Footbinding and the spread of early versions of the Cinderella tale share the same time periods in the ninth-century, and the tradition of footbinding makes a lasting impact on the story once it begins moving …

Painting The Dead, Cherri Conley

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In the small town of Juan, Texas, eight residents struggle with tradition versus progress over the course of a story that begins and ends with murder. A few of them are Corine and Lola Espinosa--sisters who are abandon in Juan while their mother pursues love; Daniel Wilton--nearly an orphan, he resists the constricting traditions of Juan; Felipe Chavez, son of Mike Chavez, the sheriff, struggles with loving a woman who wants nothing more than to live somewhere else than Juan; Mike Chavez is a complicated man who carries the love of two women; and Grace, along with a few other …

Incremental Storytelling And Calypsis: A Hypertext Fiction A Critical Introduction, William Trent Hergenrader

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This critical introduction to Calypsis: A Hypertext Fiction argues that university creative writing programs should make full use of the institutional space, time, and resources available to them by introducing students to different types of writing projects and engage students in critical discussions about creative production, activities that they are unlikely to find outside the university's walls. These activities includes experimenting with digital tools, creating multimedia compositions, and producing collaborative work, as well as situating creative writing as an embodied act within specific historical, political, and material conditions. Herein I forward my theory of incremental storytelling, which is informed by …

La Figura Del Hombre Lobo En La Literatura Moderna Peninsular, Miguel Rojo Polo

Theses and Dissertations

En la trilogía Hombre lobo, Pedro Riera nos presenta una novela juvenil en la que el protagonista, Eduardo, se ve enfrentado a su herencia de hombre lobo. A través de esta colección Pedro Riera pasa a formar parte de un tipo de literatura popular que ha visto un resurgimiento masivo en los últimos 10 años. Con esta tesis vamos a introducirnos en la trilogía, usándola para estudiar la figura tradicional del hombro lobo que se presenta en los tres libros El furtivo (2011), Los Bersekir (2012) y La furia (2012). Realizaremos un análisis de la figura del hombre lobo a …

Strange Land, Nicole Rae Hall

Theses and Dissertations

My dissertation, Strange Land, is about the transition from youth to adulthood as it follows a young woman that travels to India to seek change. There she finds challenges and comforts that she did not expect, as well as a new sense of normality that she didn't know she craved. My work is concerned with how a young woman copes with being simultaneously pushed into adulthood and held back in childhood.

The crossover fiction between young adult and adult literature influenced me heavily in the writing of this novel. In particular, Kristin Cashore's novel, Graceling, explores the ideas of identity …

Genocide Genres: Reading Atrocity Testimonies, Katherine Wilson

Theses and Dissertations

"Genocide Genres" investigates the transnational circulation of atrocity testimony, writing which describes the most spectacularly failed of human encounters. In particular, my project compares the production and reception of atrocity narratives across three distinct, post-WWII discourses: 1) Holocaust studies, 2) the modern human rights movement, and 3) international criminal law. Each discourse, I argue, sets formal limits on individual testimonies in order to regulate their function institutionally, directing not only which testimonies are read but how those accounts should be read. As a result, testimonies become generic. We see this demonstrated by the emergence of identifiable genres such as Holocaust …