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Entry Nr. 324 Adriano Gangá, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 324 Adriano Gangá, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 322 Manuel Gangá, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 322 Manuel Gangá, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 326 Mariano Gangá, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 326 Mariano Gangá, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 453 Canuto Houssin, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 453 Canuto Houssin, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 454 Pedro Real Congo, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 454 Pedro Real Congo, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 458 Ikubaje, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 458 Ikubaje, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 457 Carolina Conga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 457 Carolina Conga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 460 Manuela De La Guardia, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 460 Manuela De La Guardia, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 463 Manuel Valero, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 463 Manuel Valero, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 461 Manuel Congo, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 461 Manuel Congo, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 465 Román Lucumí, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 465 Román Lucumí, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 466 Telésforo Lucumí, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 466 Telésforo Lucumí, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 464 Emilio Piñeiro, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 464 Emilio Piñeiro, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 467 Cristobal Gangá, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 467 Cristobal Gangá, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 462 José Mina, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 462 José Mina, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 468 Francisco Mina, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 468 Francisco Mina, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 469 Dolores Roca, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 469 Dolores Roca, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 470 Antonio Quesada, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 470 Antonio Quesada, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 472 Poli, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 472 Poli, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 153 Ibrahim, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 153 Ibrahim, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 132 Antson Zizer, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 132 Antson Zizer, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 172 Richard Pierpoint, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 172 Richard Pierpoint, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


In Search Of A Homeland: Jewish-American Women Writers And Their Struggle With Cultural Alienation, Alisa K. Burris Jan 2022

In Search Of A Homeland: Jewish-American Women Writers And Their Struggle With Cultural Alienation, Alisa K. Burris

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the lives and fictional works of five Jewish-American women writers of the twentieth century within the complex context of cultural alienation. Authors Anzia Yezierska, Dorothy Parker, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, and Marge Piercy are each featured in separate chapters that examine how personal experiences of estrangement weave through and influence their texts. As a result of this dissertation’s scrutiny, meaningful connections emerge between these diverse Jewish women authors and the transformation of painful struggles into profound journeys to seek belonging. Through their works’ literal and figurative pilgrimages to reach an ultimate homeland, all five writers creatively illustrate …


Reconstructing Queer Outsiders: Intersecting Identities Of Contemporary Gay Ethnic American Poets, Anthony Salazar Jan 2022

Reconstructing Queer Outsiders: Intersecting Identities Of Contemporary Gay Ethnic American Poets, Anthony Salazar

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation explores poetry and memoirs written by recent poets who identify as gay, ethnic, and American. As a result of the complex process of both integrating their intersecting identities and confronting various forms of oppression, the work of gay ethnic American poets has become necessarily more layered than that of their white heteronormative counterparts. They have also transformed a genre traditionally defined by the limited and limiting category “gay” into a multivalent “queer” medium that embraces a futurity of vast and unapologetically ambiguous possibilities. Their very act of emphasizing ethnicity and sexuality in relation to other intersecting identities ultimately …


Baby Boomer Female Identity In The Literature Of White Women Writers, Ashley Diedrich Jan 2021

Baby Boomer Female Identity In The Literature Of White Women Writers, Ashley Diedrich

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation contributes to the critical conversation on American women's fiction by examining the works of American female Boomer authors and their representations of white female identity in Boomer literature. The texts included in this study range from 2004 to 2018, offering several recent years of perspective on Boomer women. Because these books are current, few, if any, scholarly articles focus on them and their contribution to American literature, allowing this dissertation to create new theories and connect to pre-existing ideas, such as ageism. In addition, this dissertation uses some of the themes prevalent in the work of scholars who …


The Transcorporeal South: Bodies And Ecologies In Twentieth-Century Southern Literature, Tiffany Morgan Messick Jan 2021

The Transcorporeal South: Bodies And Ecologies In Twentieth-Century Southern Literature, Tiffany Morgan Messick

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation proposes that transcorporeality offers an alternative to Cartesian dualistic modes of embodiment in Walker Percy’s, The Moviegoer, Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Richard Wright’s, Native Son, and Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Opposing the division between mind and body as theorized by René Descartes, transcorporeality advances the body’s porosity, maintaining that the individual is enmeshed within the material world and that this entanglement consubstantiates consciousness. Examining the works of Descartes, focusing especially on the ways that Cartesian ideas have been applied in Southern culture, I contend that a Cartesian definition of subjectivity, …


Vulnerability, Trauma, And Testimony In American Women’S Literature: A Long History, Jennifer L. Fife Jan 2020

Vulnerability, Trauma, And Testimony In American Women’S Literature: A Long History, Jennifer L. Fife

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the effects of vulnerability and trauma in American women’s literature across the intersections of genre, race, and time. In this dissertation I have applied a feminist long history approach to examine women’s literature from the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries together inspired by Mary Beard’s theory that compartmentalizing women’s history ignores long-range patterns and contributions. I have assembled the beginnings of a canon of women’s trauma literature that allows women writers to form a multi-century discourse community wherein trauma and recovery may occur. This analysis applies twentieth century medical research about trauma and recovery, particularly that of Judith …


Social Change Leadership Development Associated With Black Greek Letter Organizations (Bglo): Determining How The Divine Nine Bglos Develop Social Change Leaders, Jason Reco Goode Jan 2020

Social Change Leadership Development Associated With Black Greek Letter Organizations (Bglo): Determining How The Divine Nine Bglos Develop Social Change Leaders, Jason Reco Goode

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This study sought to add literature to the topic of Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs) that were part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) by exploring the benefits of BGLO membership related to social change leadership development. There were no studies that explained how BGLOs developed social change leaders. This qualitative study of BGLOs used two 90-minute interviews to gather data about BGLO member’s perceptions regarding their social change leadership development. The literature review provided history on the inception of Greek organizations, founding of BGLOs, the NPHC, non-NPHC Black Greek organizations, Masonic influence, student development, student leadership theories, activism, social …


Issues Of Modernity In Russian And U.S. Southern Discourse: Literary And Cinematic Crosscurrents, Zachary John Killebrew Jan 2020

Issues Of Modernity In Russian And U.S. Southern Discourse: Literary And Cinematic Crosscurrents, Zachary John Killebrew

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation traces formulations of modernity, national and regional identity, and economy in the literature and film of Russia and the U.S. South from serfdom to the Second World War. Studying serf and slave narratives, Russian Realist and Southern Renaissance novels such as The Brothers Karamazov (1879), Demons (1872), The Sound and the Fury (1929), Tobacco Road (1932), and Wise Blood (1952), and American and Soviet films such as Volga, Volga (1938) and Cabin in the Sky (1943), this examination locates within Russo-Southern discourses a shared interest in striking out against Western or Northern epistemologies to assert a “peripheral” modernity …


Telling Stories, Healing Cultures: Feminist Healing Narratives By Contemporary American Women Of Color, Lindsay Marie Vreeland Jan 2020

Telling Stories, Healing Cultures: Feminist Healing Narratives By Contemporary American Women Of Color, Lindsay Marie Vreeland

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Due to their experiences of oppression as a result of intersecting identities, women of Color are the most disenfranchised by Eurocentric patriarchal accounts and typically most in need of healing. As I explore in my research, works by women writers of Color—such as Louise Erdrich’s Four Souls, Sandra Cisneros’s Have You Seen Marie?, jia qing wilson-yang’s Small Beauty, and Toni Morrison’s Home and Paradise—gathered in this dissertation intentionally question and revise white settler versions of history that devalue people of Color; however, they also revise familiar stories and cultural traditions in their own communities. Doing so both empowers and enables …