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Stark Young At The Southern Literary Festival, John Pilkington Sep 2020

Stark Young At The Southern Literary Festival, John Pilkington

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Vol. 4 (1963): Full Issue, Journal Editors Sep 2020

Vol. 4 (1963): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Irwin Russell’S Position In Southern Literature, James W. Webb Sep 2020

Irwin Russell’S Position In Southern Literature, James W. Webb

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Cooper’S Prairie As Wasteland, Evans Harrington Sep 2020

Cooper’S Prairie As Wasteland, Evans Harrington

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


A Crawford Bibliography, John Pilkington Jr. Sep 2020

A Crawford Bibliography, John Pilkington Jr.

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


A Novelist And His Public, John Pilkington Jr. Sep 2020

A Novelist And His Public, John Pilkington Jr.

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Irving And His “Favorite Author”, James W. Webb Sep 2020

Irving And His “Favorite Author”, James W. Webb

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Vol. 2 (1961): Full Issue, Journal Editors Sep 2020

Vol. 2 (1961): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Simms As Biographer, James W. Webb Sep 2020

Simms As Biographer, James W. Webb

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


The Genesis Of Mr. Isaacs, John Pilkington Sep 2020

The Genesis Of Mr. Isaacs, John Pilkington

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


F. Marion Crawford’S Lecture Tour, 1897-1898, John Pilkington Sep 2020

F. Marion Crawford’S Lecture Tour, 1897-1898, John Pilkington

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents, Journal Editors Sep 2020

Table Of Contents, Journal Editors

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


Dedication To David Horace Bishop, Journal Editors Sep 2020

Dedication To David Horace Bishop, Journal Editors

Studies in English

Professor Emeritus of English, Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School.


Cover Pages, Journal Editors Sep 2020

Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Studies in English

No abstract provided.


“We Got More Yesterday Than Anybody”: Child Ghosts And The National Trauma Of Anti-Black Racism In American Literature, Megan Swartzfager May 2020

“We Got More Yesterday Than Anybody”: Child Ghosts And The National Trauma Of Anti-Black Racism In American Literature, Megan Swartzfager

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the roles of haunting in the context of racial violence in three texts: Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, and Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan. In each of these texts, a parent is responsible for the death of a child. In the former two texts, both by Black authors, a Black parent kills a Black child in what they believe to be a protective act in the face of violence by white people. Wolf Whistle, however, written by a white author, is animated by the ghost of a character based on Emmett Till. …