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Historical Butches: Lesbian Experience And Masculinity In Bryher's Historical Fiction, Haley M. Fedor
Historical Butches: Lesbian Experience And Masculinity In Bryher's Historical Fiction, Haley M. Fedor
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This project analyzes three of Bryher's historical novels, while also providing background on the shadowy figure of Bryher herself. Looking at Gate to the Sea, Roman Wall, and Ruan, each serves to represent lesbianism in a variety of coded or metaphorical ways. Various geographical locations or landscapes serve to either represent or depict homosexual desire, and also construct queer spaces for characters to traverse. Limited scholarship exists on any of Bryher's works, particularly that which looks at lesbian sexuality. The genre Bryher writes in allows for a cross-writing of lesbian characters, or gendering lesbian characters as male, and displays awareness …
My Mother's Daughter, Monica Vanessa Martinez
My Mother's Daughter, Monica Vanessa Martinez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
In order to address the way the Chicano culture attempts to silence its women, My Mother's Daughter is a collection of short stories narrated by Chicanas. The collection uses the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters to highlight the conflicts that lead to the silencing of Chicanas. The collection attempts to challenge this silencing by utilizing the first person perspective to give a voice to these traditionally silenced women. Another literary technique employed is the use of dramatic irony. With multiple first person narrators in the same story the collection uses dramatic irony as a way of playing up the …
Haunted By Passion: Supernaturalism And Feminism In Jane Eyre And Villette, Laurel Lorber
Haunted By Passion: Supernaturalism And Feminism In Jane Eyre And Villette, Laurel Lorber
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Style And Substance: Isabel Archer As A New Type Of "Lady", Sandra Gulbicki
Style And Substance: Isabel Archer As A New Type Of "Lady", Sandra Gulbicki
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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