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Literacy, Discourse, And Identity: The Working-Class Appalachian Woman Academic, Sarah Marie Mcconnell

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Drawing on conversations about the politics surrounding literacy acquisition, I take a deeper look into the effects of obtaining membership within an academic discourse community on Appalachian women from the working class. The tensions that develop between the two opposing discourses promotes a sense of loss as they create distance between these women and their home community, alter relationships, and disrupt identity. Working-class Appalachian women occupy the borderlands between discourses: one foot in their Appalachian community; the other in their academic community. They negotiate their fragmented identities in order to play the appropriate role within the appropriate context. Their status …

Front Matter

Corresponding Voices

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Lena Retamoso Folio, Lena Retamoso

Corresponding Voices

A folio of poetry by Lena Retamoso, appearing in the Spanish original and in English translation by the author, James Joseph Shay III, and Bruno Soria.

Con La Pluma Entre Dos Mundos - Vintage Edition - Prologue, Volume 1, Numbers 1 And 2, Damaris Serrano, Fátima Araúz, Megan Mckarns, Michael Daniel Curtis Stanley, María Astudillo

Con la pluma entre dos mundos

It has been said that writing is knowledge. This second season of the student magazine Con la pluma entre dos mundos [With the Pen Between Two Worlds] is a testament to that.

This project was born in 2005, when I arrived at Wright State. It was the result of my wanting to share the amazement and admiration I felt on reading the written works of my students in very different subjects: from Composition I, II and III to seminars on special topics in Spanish, which included culture and literature. From the elementary language to Conversation courses, in which participants had …

Breakfast Haikus, Tyler Taylor

The Oval

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Presence (Cover), Sarah Eisenlohr

The Oval

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Merbywerby, Nancy Rishoff

The Oval

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My O'Keefe, Kristan Apodaca

The Oval

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Toothbrushes, Or Claiming Coffee, Chelsea Elwood

The Oval

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English Air, Amanda Marzoff

The Oval

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Unpublished History, Ellen Kuehl

The Oval

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Preface, Pedro Cuperman

Corresponding Voices

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Inscape 2012, Morehead State University

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The 2012 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Jacob's Daughter, Betsy Johnson

English Faculty Publications

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Death's Brother, Gayle Greene

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

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A Christian Feminist Speaks Out On The Drone War In Pakistan, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "On a warm morning recently, as I was backing the car out of the garage, I saw my eldest son standing on our porch, still in his pajamas and bare feet, looking mournfully at me. I stopped the car and asked what he wanted. “To give you a hug,” he said. I parked the car, got out, and picked up my growing kid, holding him for a moment as I might an infant, his long legs wrapped around me. Right then, nothing felt sweeter."

Please Don't Interrupt Me While I'M Ignoring You, Sherard Harrington

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A collection of short stories and personal essays, Please Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Ignoring You weaves a lamé of humor and private desperation on the page. An actor in one story craves career gratification, while a United Nations coordinator in another finds herself attracted to a nervous NGO. A housewife attempts to convince her husband to commit an infidelity, while an architect finds that his new pet companion isn’t helping him to get over his ex-girlfriend. Having a difficult time relating, these characters often find themselves stuck in a miscommunication loop, and their journey to get what they want …

Evidence Of Lives, John Cummings

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Evidence of Lives is a novel that deals with themes of childhood abuse, mental illness, and alienated families. The book opens with the main character, forty-two-year-old Mark Barr, who has returned home from New York to West Virginia after eleven years for his older brother Steve’s funeral. Steve, having died of a heart attack at forty-six, was mentally ill most of his adult life, though Mark has always questioned what was “mentally ill” and what was the result of their father’s verbal and physical abuse during their childhood. When Mark discovers that there is to be no funeral, but a …

Beginning October, Kelton Enich

The Oval

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Storm Chaser, Samir Ali Abdel-Aziz

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Storm Chaser is a work of fiction that uses strange, almost supernatural occurrences to symbolically represent various meanings and truths for different characters. Works of fiction that influenced Storm Chaser include The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel. Reappearing themes include sacrifice, the desire to live a life of purpose, freewill, and the fear of becoming one’s parents.

Southwinds - Spring 2012

Southwinds: The Literary and Arts Magazine of Missouri S&T

THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SPRING 2012 Southwinds is sponsored by the Department of English & Technical Communication

The Golems Take New York: The Resurgence Of The Golem In The Work Of Cynthia Ozick And Thane Rosenbaum, Peter Schulman

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

The late twentieth and early twenty first centuries have seen a resurgence of the golem in several major American novels. What factors might lead to such a re-imagining of the golem in American fiction? Cynthia Ozick's The Puttermesser Papers (1997) and Thane Rosenbaum's The Golems of Gotham (2002) re-invent golems no longer anchored in vengeance but in healing, as vehicles for the kabbalistic notion of Tikkun Olam ("repairing the world"). Ozick creates the first female golem to help the lonely protagonist become a reformist mayor; in The Golems of Gotham, the golem is transformed into a team of literary …

My Old Man Loves Fried Okra, David Bottoms

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Six Years On, Jasmine V. Bailey

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25

What The Dead Do, Katie Chaple

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 30

March, Bill Christopherson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 33

Life Is Not A Porno, Katie Chaple

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 31-32

Bobs And Dicks, Travis Wayne Denion

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 47

Rubus Fruticosus (Blackberry ), Amy Glynn Greacen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 56-57

First Lines And Last, Robert Wayne Hill

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 70