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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Zuihitsu: Teaching Aiiieeeee! As Intersectional Ecological Archive, Kenji C. Liu
Zuihitsu: Teaching Aiiieeeee! As Intersectional Ecological Archive, Kenji C. Liu
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
A response to the Aiiieeeee! anthology on its 45th anniversary, using the Japanese zuihitsu form to reflect on its intersectional and ecological complexities and relevance for today.
Aridity In The Literature Of The American West: Water In Stegner's Angle Of Repose And Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, Annie Frodeman
Aridity In The Literature Of The American West: Water In Stegner's Angle Of Repose And Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, Annie Frodeman
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
This thesis examines how Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose and Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang have been molded by water scarcity and in turn have shaped the discourse about water. Angle of Repose offers a reliable history of water in the West, showing how the myth of the garden permeated the lives of people who made the journey West at the end of the nineteenth century. Stegner’s narrative of the building of the West shows what comes of humanity’s desire to change the environment by making the desert bloom. The Monkey Wrench Gang complements Stegner’s Angle of Repose as …
“You Don’T Need People’S Opinions On A Fact!”: Satirical Comedy Corrects Climate Change Disinformation, Shelly A. Galliah
“You Don’T Need People’S Opinions On A Fact!”: Satirical Comedy Corrects Climate Change Disinformation, Shelly A. Galliah
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
Satirical comedy has often been recognized as a corrective to, if not alternative for, commercial news as well as a source of accurate science information (Brewer & McKnight, 2015). In this dissertation, I analyze how satirical comedy debunks climate change myths, delivers accurate information, and promotes scientific expertise. Five interconnected assumptions guide the context and methodology of this interdisciplinary study: 1) that various actors have transformed climate change into a “manufactured scientific controversy” (Ceccarelli, 2011); 2) that satire, as a method, both assails targets and aggregates people (Hutcheon,1994); 3) that celebrity activism is impactful but problematic (Collins, 2007; Boykoff & …