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Program For The Graduate English Association Of Gsu Eighth Annual New Voices Conference, Maps/Boundaries, Graduate English Association
Program For The Graduate English Association Of Gsu Eighth Annual New Voices Conference, Maps/Boundaries, Graduate English Association
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
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Language As Mediation In Tolkien's Mythology, Katherine Hyon
Language As Mediation In Tolkien's Mythology, Katherine Hyon
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
In his detailed accounts concerning Middle-earth and its inhabitants throughout various Ages of existence, Tolkien made his desire to write a mythology for England a reality. Although his work has delighted readers of all ages for decades, to dismiss Tolkien as a mere writer of children‟s fantasy or escapist science fiction would be to do him a great disservice. Tolkien was, above all, a philologist; his great love and obsession with language is obvious in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and especially The Silmarillion. Tolkien was also a product of his time; he was a lover and a …
Sins Of The Mother(Land): Presence, Absence, And Self In Caribbean Literature, Katie Thomas
Sins Of The Mother(Land): Presence, Absence, And Self In Caribbean Literature, Katie Thomas
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Through an exploration of Caribbean literature, namely Jamaica Kincaid‟s Annie John and Edwidge Danticat‟s The Farming of Bones, with references to Rosario Ferré‟s The House on the Lagoon and Bartolomé De Las Casas‟ A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, I will establish the effects of Western colonization on the Caribbean female during both Western occupation and Western absence. Turning my focus from the Caribbean mother towards her daughter—the progeny of the colonized world—I will then investigate the tenuous binds and boundaries of the mother/daughter relationship, made especially tenuous under the Western gaze. Expanding my view to the …
In 'Rememory': Beloved And Transgenerational Ghosting In Black Female Bodies, Sonya Mccoy-Wilson
In 'Rememory': Beloved And Transgenerational Ghosting In Black Female Bodies, Sonya Mccoy-Wilson
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
While thinking about transgenerational ghosting, even before I had a term to represent my thoughts, my point of reference was my phobia of prisons. Yes, the very idea of prisons frightens me beyond belief; therefore, I don‟t break the law. I have an aversion to federal court buildings, police departments, prison movies, prison scenes within other movies, people confined to chain-gangs, people in handcuffs, I distrust the police, and the list continues. When I realized that others don‟t categorically share my fear, I started to wonder about the source of it. I wondered, “Do prisons frighten me because my ancestors …
Bodily Territories: Lust, Landscape And The Struggle For Female Space In Woolf's The Voyage Out And Atwood's Surfacing, Tealia Deberry
Bodily Territories: Lust, Landscape And The Struggle For Female Space In Woolf's The Voyage Out And Atwood's Surfacing, Tealia Deberry
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
In her lengthy critical essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf inquires into the absence of the female genius in the literary canon. As she mourns this lack of feminine representation on her own bookshelves—“looking about the shelves for books that were not there”—Woolf questions the opposition between what she refers to as the lyrically “suggestive” female sentence, and the dominant, subject driven, “I” of the male sentence (AROO, 45, 98). Woolf carves out a creative space for feminine narrative and focuses primarily on the landscape that is dominated by the “I”. This “I” representing both the masculine epic …
Fostering Assimilation?: Intimate Boundaries Between Natives And Anglos In Foster Families In The Uintah Basin, Lori Coleman
Fostering Assimilation?: Intimate Boundaries Between Natives And Anglos In Foster Families In The Uintah Basin, Lori Coleman
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Since the coming of Europeans to America there has been some type of boundary between Native American and white Euro-American settlers. (At the risk of oversimplifying but in order to conserve time, I will be referring to indigenous people of North America as Native Americans and to white Euro-American settlers as Anglos.) Boundaries between these two communities have been physical, racial, and economic. Individuals have experienced varying degrees of permeability between these borders during different stages of American history. At some stages, Anglos have drawn geographic borders to physically separate the two communities, such as when they created reservations. At …
Remapping And Renaming Ireland: A Postcolonial Look At The Problem Of Language And Identity In Brian Friel's Translations., Maria Laura Barberan Reinares
Remapping And Renaming Ireland: A Postcolonial Look At The Problem Of Language And Identity In Brian Friel's Translations., Maria Laura Barberan Reinares
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Brian Friel‘s acclaimed Translations, suggestively written in English, captures the moment in the history of Ireland when the British, in a clear sign of imperial dominance, initiated the remapping and renaming of the Irish territory, generating a linguistic uncertainty that eventually led to the capitulation of the Gaelic language and placed the colonizing tongue – English -- on central stage. The fact that this contemporary Irish playwright in 1980 wrote Translations in English and not in Gaelic speaks for itself. But Friel‘s choice of English as the vehicle for his play is far from trivial, and to assume that this …
Horses Of Agency, Element, And Godliness In Tolkien And The Germanic Sagas, Dana Miller
Horses Of Agency, Element, And Godliness In Tolkien And The Germanic Sagas, Dana Miller
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Russian princesses were once buried with them. Royalty ride only white ones. They are often regarded as the only panacea for handicapped children. Richard III would have given his entire kingdom for just one of them. Their ownership can radically define one‟s position in the social hierarchy of Saudi Arabia. The road to great human civilization and imagination has always been carved by the hoof prints of a horse. No matter what section of the globe is studied, Japan with its samurai tradition, the Mediterranean with conquerors like Alexander, the Bedouin, the American West, the Crusades, and certainly the sagas …
Surveying Africa: Conrad's Ambiguous Guide To Colonialism, Francesca Sofia Tarant
Surveying Africa: Conrad's Ambiguous Guide To Colonialism, Francesca Sofia Tarant
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Throughout Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad juxtaposes seemingly contradictory terms: light and dark, Europe and Africa, centrality and exteriority, morality and the immorality. In contrasting these various finite images, the author appears to mirror the “direct simplicity” in his word choice which he claims also punctuates the tales of seamen. However, by describing colonial endeavors using words laden with double and sometimes conflicting meanings, infusing the novel with repetition, and presenting characters alongside their doppelgangers, Conrad prompts readers to reconsider concrete standards of good and evil in regards to imperialism. Consequently, the text, refusing to elucidate Marlow‟s journey to the …
Canonicity And National Identity: Let's Put Scotland On The Map, Molly Wright
Canonicity And National Identity: Let's Put Scotland On The Map, Molly Wright
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Where is Scotland on the map of literary studies? This is a timely question for scholars to address. Recently, for example, some Scottish literature scholars have written a petition to the Modern Language Association to expand its current Scottish Literature Discussion Group into a Division on Scottish Literature at the MLA. The petition states that recent Scottish literary scholarship has “(a) recognised the wealth and distinctiveness of the Scottish literary tradition, and (b) sought to redress the anglo-centric bias of earlier treatments of Scottish writing…” (Corbett et al 1). The Discussion Group raises questions of literary scholarship that indirectly affect …
On The Question Of Authorship Of The Niebelungenlied, Annette Anderson
On The Question Of Authorship Of The Niebelungenlied, Annette Anderson
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Sometime around the year 1200 a yet to be identified poet wrote what is often referred to as, “…the most impressive single work of medieval German literature and [it] stands in the small company of great national epics, with the Iliad, the Aeneid, the Roland, and the Cid.” The author of the aforementioned quote, Frank Ryder, goes on to say, “…in the pure art of story, in the creation of epic figures, in vigor and directness of characterization, in monumental scope and power—[this] work can bear comparison with any of the great epics. Like them, it is a true work …
Mapping America, Re-Mapping The World: The Cosmopolitanism Of Agha Shahid Ali's A Nostalgist's Map Of America, Xiwen Mai
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Published in 1991, Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali‘s collection A Nostalgist‘s Map of America is a book about the poet‘s travel in America. From ―"the dead center of Pennsylvania" to Indian reservations in New Mexico, the collection weaves multiple landscapes, texts, and emotions into a map of America, on which the poet‘s traveling routes lead to thinking about language, identity, colonial and neocolonial politics. While critics like Lawrence Needham, Jeannie Chiu, and Rajini Srikanth, in reading the collection, have all focused on his themes of nostalgia, melancholy, and loss as an exile, this paper argues that Ali‘s ―"map of America" …
On And Off The Page: Mapping Space In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Emmeline Gros
On And Off The Page: Mapping Space In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Emmeline Gros
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Edward. T. Hall argues that, “we treat Space (somewhat) as we treat Sex. It is “there” but we don‟t talk about it” (in Felipe 210). Understandably so, talking about space or sex might indeed appear as the first attempt to shatter these borders or boundaries that protect ourselves from the others‟ intrusion onto our individual need for privacy. Borders, it is true, are useful, even necessary. They tell us where one thing ends and another begins. They draw the line between what belongs to whom and what does not. They tell us who claims what and how far these claims …
Flyer For The Graduate English Association Of Gsu Eighth Annual New Voices Conference, Maps/Boundaries, Gsu Graduate English Association
Flyer For The Graduate English Association Of Gsu Eighth Annual New Voices Conference, Maps/Boundaries, Gsu Graduate English Association
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Maps/Boundaries create and govern frontiers, assist or inhibit collaboration and/or creation. They inform visual and intellectual concepts and patterns. Historically and politically, Maps/ Boundaries represent anxieties about identity. Maps/Boundaries encourage the formation of mastery and control, naming, and imaginative communication. These possibilities and limitations continue to function in the contemporary world. Disciplines as wide ranging as theology, philosophy, literature, and history, among others, engage in the production and imagining of Maps/ Boundaries.