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Paris Burn, Iliana Rocha Apr 2016

Paris Burn, Iliana Rocha

Dissertations

First and foremost, Paris Burn- interrogates language as a rebel heteroglot in its relation to power and to identity, focusing on liminality and marginality. The speakers in these poems constantly (re)enact, generate, disassemble, and revise their lyric selves, either reaffirming or challenging dominant discourses and ideologies. Drag queens figure prominently throughout the manuscript because they are the physical embodiment of constructs that challenge an essential identity—race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. The title, an abbreviated form of Paris is Burning, an influential 1980s documentary profiling drag culture in New York City, invokes a physical body that figures in metaphorical relation to …


Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species [Short Stories], Leslie Samuels Entsminger Apr 2016

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species [Short Stories], Leslie Samuels Entsminger

English Theses & Dissertations

The stories in this compilation, some in a realistic vein and others set in alternate realities, explore themes of loss by examining various “world gone wrong” scenarios where the main characters lose some form of control. By classifying the stories according to Taxonomic nomenclature (Kingdom, Phylum, etc.,) the stories slot into categories that both hint at the content of the story and imply a universality of human experience. Throughout the compilation, protagonists, attempting to understand their loss, must work out how to proceed—either in concert with or against—the ethical framework created within the story.


Well This Was Unexpected: Stories From My Life, Barbara Middlebrook Apr 2016

Well This Was Unexpected: Stories From My Life, Barbara Middlebrook

English Theses & Dissertations

A creative nonfiction thesis consisting of essays or stories drawn from my life.


The Secret Society Of Fish-Gazers, Hannah Woodlan Apr 2016

The Secret Society Of Fish-Gazers, Hannah Woodlan

English Theses & Dissertations

This collection of stories focuses on characters who are lost in the sense that they know themselves only in terms of what has happened to them and who subconsciously see their lives in terms of fairy-tales. They wait for destiny to knock on their door, or think they have been forced into a destiny not of their choosing. Only when they free themselves of the notion than an outside force dictates their choices can they recast themselves as heroes of their own quests and enter the world.


Versus Los Angeles, Thomas Vincent Kelly Apr 2016

Versus Los Angeles, Thomas Vincent Kelly

English Theses & Dissertations

The poems included in this manuscript construct, explore, and interrogate hyper reality and how it affects the twenty-first century. Simultaneously creating and destroying representations of a world made in the image of electronic entertainment, Versus Los Angeles inhabits various pop-culture personas in order to illustrate loss of identity, fame as commodity, the erosion of language, and the politics these various icons or platforms promote.


She Spoke For Those Without A Voice, John M. Rudy Mar 2016

She Spoke For Those Without A Voice, John M. Rudy

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

Statistically, about 50% of Adams County’s history has been women’s history since the dawn of time. But it can sometimes be painfully difficult to find out about the women of our county and their experiences. And as with most history, it is the troublemakers who stand out in the records. Luckily one of Adams County’s greatest troublemakers, Elsie Singmaster Lewars, is easy to find in the files of the Adams County Historical Society. Mrs. Lewars had the courage to speak for those without a voice. [excerpt]


Scholarly Ecotones In The Information Landscape, Drew Hubbell, John Ryan Mar 2016

Scholarly Ecotones In The Information Landscape, Drew Hubbell, John Ryan

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

For this issue of Landscapes, we invited contributors to reflect on the concept of ecotone as a method of interrogating intersections between literature, culture, art and landscapes. We wanted to encourage the ecocritical and creative arts communities (including poets, writers, photographers, painters and graphic artists) to engage with this term in the hopes that ecotone would do for the environmental humanities what Mary Louise Pratt’s contact zone did for cultural and post-colonialist studies (see, for example, Pickles and Rutherdale). Taking our cue from Donna Haraway’s provocative study of interspecies contact zones in When Species Meet, we proposed the …


Sex, Gender, And Femininity: Crucial Aspects In Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, Marley Coody Mar 2016

Sex, Gender, And Femininity: Crucial Aspects In Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, Marley Coody

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


A True Exhibition Of The Southern Gothic Genre, Alejandra Muneton-Carrera Mar 2016

A True Exhibition Of The Southern Gothic Genre, Alejandra Muneton-Carrera

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Two Translations Of The Poet Guadalupe Ángela Ramírez, Kirk Alvaro Lua Mar 2016

Two Translations Of The Poet Guadalupe Ángela Ramírez, Kirk Alvaro Lua

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Fresca Brisa, Grecia Romero Sabillon Mar 2016

Fresca Brisa, Grecia Romero Sabillon

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Ode To A Himalayan Blackberry, Marcos Hernandez Mar 2016

Ode To A Himalayan Blackberry, Marcos Hernandez

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Fate Tends To Drift, Joseph C. Mayer Mar 2016

Fate Tends To Drift, Joseph C. Mayer

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Wingless, Michael Riedel Mar 2016

Wingless, Michael Riedel

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


To Find Life, Sierra Howard Mar 2016

To Find Life, Sierra Howard

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


My Favorite Things, Adam Samara Mar 2016

My Favorite Things, Adam Samara

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Poetry, Ember Griffith Mar 2016

Poetry, Ember Griffith

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


An Afternoon At Samoa Beach, Ca, Kirk Alvaro Lua Mar 2016

An Afternoon At Samoa Beach, Ca, Kirk Alvaro Lua

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Spitting Embers, Janet Calderon Mar 2016

Spitting Embers, Janet Calderon

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Christmas Scotch, Jeffrey Hassman Mar 2016

Christmas Scotch, Jeffrey Hassman

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


A Nice, Cold Glassa Lemonade, Paul Swietek Mar 2016

A Nice, Cold Glassa Lemonade, Paul Swietek

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Chicomecoatl, I Welcome You, Paradise Martínez Graff Mar 2016

Chicomecoatl, I Welcome You, Paradise Martínez Graff

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Kitchen Theater, Katherine Robinson Mar 2016

Kitchen Theater, Katherine Robinson

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


A Common Occurrence, Michael Masinter Mar 2016

A Common Occurrence, Michael Masinter

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Bridge, Robert Papadopoulos Mar 2016

The Bridge, Robert Papadopoulos

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Big Story, Raymond Collins Mar 2016

The Big Story, Raymond Collins

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


It's Just A State Of Mind, Zack Anderson Mar 2016

It's Just A State Of Mind, Zack Anderson

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Fog, Stephen Sottong Mar 2016

Fog, Stephen Sottong

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.


Prefatory Note: Ecotones As Contact Zones, Glen Phillips Mar 2016

Prefatory Note: Ecotones As Contact Zones, Glen Phillips

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Prefatory Note: Ecotones as Contact Zones


Issue Editors' Acknowledgments, Drew Hubbell, John Ryan Mar 2016

Issue Editors' Acknowledgments, Drew Hubbell, John Ryan

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Issue Editors' Acknowledgments for "Ecotones as Contact Zones."