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Mantos, Unmasked 曼托, Russell C. Leong Jul 2020

Mantos, Unmasked 曼托, Russell C. Leong

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

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"For The Voices": The Letters Of John Wieners, Michael Seth Stewart Jun 2014

"For The Voices": The Letters Of John Wieners, Michael Seth Stewart

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

American poet John Wieners is thoroughly disenfranchised from the modern poetic establishments because he is, to those institutions, practically illegible. He was a queer self-styled poete maudit in the fifties; a protege of political-historical poet Charles Olson who wrote audaciously personal verse; a lyric poet who eschewed the egoism of the confessional mode in order to pursue the Olsonian project of Projective (outward-looking) poetics; a Boston poet who was institutionalized at state hospitals. Wieners lived on the "other side" of Beacon Hill, not the Brahmin south slope, but the north side with its working-class apartments and underground gay bars. Though …


Cold War Pulp: Gender And Fiction In The Age Of Liberation, James Lewis Hood Jan 2014

Cold War Pulp: Gender And Fiction In The Age Of Liberation, James Lewis Hood

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The early decades of the twentieth century saw incredible changes in both literacy and general publishing. Once literature had been the domain of the elite, but now it was the daily pleasure of compeople. The changes in American culture in the middle of the century, combined with this revolution in publishing and literacy, combined to produce texts frequently referred to as pulp-fiction, works easily and cheaply produced for a mass-market. This market actively catered to diverse interests, perhaps most significantly the sexually alienated. Works of gay and feminist pulp fiction served to show alienated gay men and women, as well …


Love In Action: Noting Similarities Between Lynching Then & Anti-Lgbt Violence Now, Koritha Mitchell Sep 2013

Love In Action: Noting Similarities Between Lynching Then & Anti-Lgbt Violence Now, Koritha Mitchell

Koritha Mitchell

The more I learn about the violence currently plaguing LGBT communities, the more it reminds me of the brutal practice of lynching, which has been the focus my research for the past 15 years. Ultimately, both forms of violence are designed to deny targeted groups recognition as citizens. Relying on my expertise regarding racial violence as well as the data on anti-LGBT attacks collected by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), this essay notes similarities between lynching at the last turn of the century and anti-LGBT violence today. The piece identifies five parallels: 1) the mundane quality of the …


The Man In The Text: Desire, Masculinity, And The Development Of Poe's Detective Fiction, Peter J. Goodwin Dec 2010

The Man In The Text: Desire, Masculinity, And The Development Of Poe's Detective Fiction, Peter J. Goodwin

Peter J Goodwin

This article finds the kernel of Poe's detective fiction in his investigations into the construction of "gentlemanliness" that he began at Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. As precursors to Poe's tales of ratiocination, "The Man That Was Used Up" and "The Man of the Crowd" train the reader not to expect a satisfying conclusion to the mystery surrounding masculinity that the author has woven. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the homoerotic desire to apprehend an integral masculine subject ends in frustration bordering on the absurd. In thus undermining the American ideal of masculinity as unified, integral, impenetrable, and fraternal, Poe …


Community Pride Reporter, 08/1999, Community Pride Reporter Aug 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 08/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1999, Community Pride Reporter Jun 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1999, Community Pride Reporter Jun 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 05/1999, Community Pride Reporter May 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 05/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 04/1999, Community Pride Reporter Apr 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 04/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 02/1999, Community Pride Reporter Feb 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 02/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 11/1998, Community Pride Reporter Nov 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 11/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 09/1998, Community Pride Reporter Sep 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 09/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 08/1998, Community Pride Reporter Aug 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 08/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 07/1998, Community Pride Reporter Jul 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 07/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 05/1998, Community Pride Reporter May 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 05/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1998, Community Pride Reporter May 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 04/1998, Community Pride Reporter Apr 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 04/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 03/1998, Community Pride Reporter Mar 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 03/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 03/1998b, Community Pride Reporter Mar 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 03/1998b, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 01/1998, Community Pride Reporter Jan 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 01/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 11/1997, Community Pride Reporter Nov 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 11/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 10/1997, Community Pride Reporter Oct 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 10/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 09/1997, Community Pride Reporter Sep 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 09/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 07/1997 (Summer), Community Pride Reporter Jul 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 07/1997 (Summer), Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1997, Community Pride Reporter Jun 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 05/1997, Community Pride Reporter May 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 05/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 04/1997, Community Pride Reporter Apr 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 04/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 03/1997, Community Pride Reporter Mar 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 03/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 02/1997, Community Pride Reporter Feb 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 02/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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