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The Impacts Of Dune And The Lord Of The Rings On American Culture, Nick Collins Jan 2022

The Impacts Of Dune And The Lord Of The Rings On American Culture, Nick Collins

4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien

The middle third of the 20th century was a time of hyper-aggressive industry, invention, and progressivism. This portion of the 1900s was instrumental toward shaping modern popular culture. Two of the predominant works were J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings and Frank Herbert’s political science fiction novel Dune. Both works inspired massive cult followings upon their release and grew in popularity largely due to the anti-war movement of the 1960s and ‘70s. They have each inspired countless works of inspiration that include some of the most popular movies and games from the 1970’s through the modern …


Fashioning The Flapper: Clothing As A Catalyst For Social Change In 1920s America, Julia Wolffe Jan 2022

Fashioning The Flapper: Clothing As A Catalyst For Social Change In 1920s America, Julia Wolffe

Honors Program Theses

Fashion has been a catalyst for social change throughout human history. Fashion in 1920s America in particular reflects society's rapidly evolving attitudes towards gender and race. Beginning with how corsetry heavily restricted women for nearly four hundred years up until the twentieth century, this thesis explores how clothing has acted as a tool for societal progression following World War I and Women's Suffrage and during the Jazz Age and The Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, this thesis examines how the influence of jazz music and dance that originated from Black American communities led to the creation of the flapper evening dress. The …


Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism And The University, Andy Hines Jan 2022

Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism And The University, Andy Hines

Staff Scholarship

This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding of the institutionalization of literary studies in America. Andy Hines uncovers a vibrant history of interpretive resistance to university-based New Criticism by Black writers of the American left. These include well-known figures such as Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry as well as still underappreciated writers like Melvin B. Tolson and Doxey Wilkerson. In their critical practice, these and other Black writers levied their critique from “outside” venues: behind the closed doors of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in …


Contesting Imagined Communities: Minor Feelings, Opacity, And Spectrality In Ling Ma’S Severance, Christine Marks Jan 2022

Contesting Imagined Communities: Minor Feelings, Opacity, And Spectrality In Ling Ma’S Severance, Christine Marks

Publications and Research

This article foregrounds pandemic fiction’s subversive and visionary potential through the example of Ling Ma’s dystopian pandemic novel Severance (2018). Emphasizing fiction’s capacity for symbolic intervention in a pandemic era, I argue that the text undermines tropes of nation-building through strategic employment of minor feelings, opacity, and spectral liminality. My analysis focuses on the Chinese American protagonist’s conflicted relationship with imagined communities forged in the conventional “outbreak narrative” (Wald) as her unhomely positionality places her at odds with unifying ideological responses to the catastrophic upheaval of the pandemic. At the intersection of pandemic and diasporic literature, Ma’s novel constitutes a …


Joanne Kyger And “The Kook Strain” In Olson: A Reading, Patrick James Dunagan Jan 2022

Joanne Kyger And “The Kook Strain” In Olson: A Reading, Patrick James Dunagan

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

Jerome Rothenberg's "that dada strain" at once hilarious grandiose epic lyric historical and ever adventurous charts the highs discovered in his reading of the dada era. In like occurrence this writing seeks to poke around in the occult cupboards of Olson's mystical leanings. Looking not only at his work and assorted readings/engagements but delving also into the works of various others (Joanne Kyger, Jack Hirschman, Paul Blackburn, Gerrit Lansing, David Meltzer, Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima, Robin Blaser et al) who fell in alongside as well as after his work's star-eyed haul. Loquaciously gifted as a talker, how much (if …


Entry Nr. 025 Marguerite, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 025 Marguerite, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 019 Magdalene Beulah Brockden, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 019 Magdalene Beulah Brockden, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 180 Tomás Mandinga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 180 Tomás Mandinga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 240 Vicente Bibí, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 240 Vicente Bibí, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 125 Francisco Alves De Souza, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 125 Francisco Alves De Souza, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 308 Malade, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 308 Malade, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog Of Published Accounts By Africans Enslaved In The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog Of Published Accounts By Africans Enslaved In The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

The importance of published accounts by African slave ship survivors is well-known but not their existence in large numbers. Fogleman and Hanserd catalog nearly five hundred discrete accounts and more than 2,500 printings of them over four centuries in numerous Atlantic languages. Short biographies of each African, print histories of the complete or partial life story. Five Hundred African Voices an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, students, and others wishing to study transatlantic slavery using African Voices.


Entry Nr. 002 Jaun Roque, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 002 Jaun Roque, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 003 Anchico, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 003 Anchico, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 004 Francisco Angola, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 004 Francisco Angola, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 005 Francisco Biáfara, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 005 Francisco Biáfara, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 006 Juan Biáfara, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 006 Juan Biáfara, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 007 María De Huancavelica, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 007 María De Huancavelica, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 009 Ana De La Calle, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 009 Ana De La Calle, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 010 Louis Congo, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 010 Louis Congo, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 014 Domingos Alvares, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 014 Domingos Alvares, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 017 Chicaba, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 017 Chicaba, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 020 Medor, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 020 Medor, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 021 Vénus, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 021 Vénus, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 022 Apongo, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 022 Apongo, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 023 Rosa Egipcíaca, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 023 Rosa Egipcíaca, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 024 Comba, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 024 Comba, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 026 Jean, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 026 Jean, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 027 Louis, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 027 Louis, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 028 Essom, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2022

Entry Nr. 028 Essom, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.