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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
The Colored Girl In The Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers By Brenda Chester Doharris (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance
The Colored Girl In The Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers By Brenda Chester Doharris (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
Brenda Chester DoHarris's The Colored Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers joins the company of some of the most memorable works of Caribbean literature, those classic accounts of coming-of-age, such as George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, Michael Anthony's The Year in San Fernando, Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Zea Edgell's Beka Lamb, Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, and Beryl Gilroy's Sunlight on Sweet Water. Like most of the bildungsromans - and …
Revolutionary Trickster Communities: Re-Presenting Folk Heroes In Contemporary African American Novels, Susan C. Stinson
Revolutionary Trickster Communities: Re-Presenting Folk Heroes In Contemporary African American Novels, Susan C. Stinson
Theses & Honors Papers
In this thesis, the three novelists, as tricksters, manipulate one’s reading process by overlapping the visible with the invisible world. This thesis explores the tricksters communities and will focus on the novelists as trickster. Sherley Anne Williams, Ernest Gaines, and Gloria Naylor parody the rebel or loner trickster tradition in literature and conceptualize a world in which African Americans, white Americans, and Native Americans work communally to deconstruct the stereotypes associated with race, age, and gender. The authors use parody as a humorous narrative technique. The humor enables the modern reader to look into the past at the wrongs imposed …
Giving Her A Voice: The Representation Of The Black Woman In Four Short Stories, Jennifer Sheeler
Giving Her A Voice: The Representation Of The Black Woman In Four Short Stories, Jennifer Sheeler
Theses & Honors Papers
Black women have had to work very hard to pull themselves up the social ladder. Literature reflects society, and the black female experience in the South is a part of American society which has not been overlooked by its literature. This thesis examines short stories by the similarities and tempered differences to develop a closer understanding of the true black female experience. The examination found that the gender and race of each author of the four short stories does not correspond to the amount of power each one gives to his or her black female character the way the reader …
Chronic Love, Shaun Waters
Larynx, Judithe Andre
Words To Live By..."For Isaiah", Shaun Waters
Lost Souls, Bryon Williams
O Lenço Da Minha Mãe...A Reflection, Alicia Veiga
O Lenço Da Minha Mãe...A Reflection, Alicia Veiga
The Griot
A young Cape Verdean woman reflects on the head scarf worn by her mother. The head scarf serves as a symbol of her mother's strength, culture and constant presence in her life despite a move from Cape Verde to the United States.
"They Always Leave Us’: Lord Jim, Colonialist Discourse, And Conrad's Magic Naturalism, Richard Ruppel
"They Always Leave Us’: Lord Jim, Colonialist Discourse, And Conrad's Magic Naturalism, Richard Ruppel
English Faculty Articles and Research
"Today, this information about Jewel's origins and her great fear that Jim will desert her because he is white and she is not must be gleaned rather painstakingly from the novel. But Conrad's contemporary readers would have understood her situation and her fear immediately, for the instability of white/non-white romances is a very common trope of late-nineteenth century colonialist fiction. In colonialist stories, the white man always leaves, and the non-white woman often knows that he will."
My Brother By Jamaica Kincaid (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance
My Brother By Jamaica Kincaid (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
In Jamaica Kincaid's six previous autobiographical novels and essays (At the Bottom of the River, 1984; Annie John, 1985; A Small Place, 1988; Annie, Gwen, Lily, Pam and Julie, 1989; Lucy, 1990; and The Autobiography of My Mother, 1996), her readers have the feeling that she has told all about her troubled life in Antigua and her painful emotional conflicts with her family (especially her mother). We discover with her new memoir, My Brother, however, that some things have been just too painful to tell - until now. Clearly the most obvious …
Double Consciousness, Modernism, And Womanist Themes In Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad", A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd
Double Consciousness, Modernism, And Womanist Themes In Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad", A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd
A Yęmisi Jimoh
Article on "The Anniad," a poem byGwendolyn Brooks
The World Would Do Better To Ask Why Is Frimbo Sherlock Holmes?: Investigating Liminality In Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies, Adrienne Gosselin
The World Would Do Better To Ask Why Is Frimbo Sherlock Holmes?: Investigating Liminality In Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies, Adrienne Gosselin
English Faculty Publications
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[Introduction To] Honey, Hush! An Anthology Of African American Women's Humor, Daryl Cumber Dance
[Introduction To] Honey, Hush! An Anthology Of African American Women's Humor, Daryl Cumber Dance
Bookshelf
The vibrant humor of African American women is celebrated in this bold and unique collection that the Miami Herald describes as "breathtakingly broad and deep."
In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and laughter of African American women are presented here in all their written and spoken manifestations: autobiographies, novels, essays, poems, speeches, comic routines, proverbial sayings, cartoons, mimeographed sheets, and folk tales. The chapters proceed thematically, covering …
[Introduction To] The Lineage Of Abraham: The Biography Of A Free Black Family In Charles City, Va, Daryl Cumber Dance
[Introduction To] The Lineage Of Abraham: The Biography Of A Free Black Family In Charles City, Va, Daryl Cumber Dance
Bookshelf
The history of the descendents of Abraham Brown (1769? - 1840) in Charles City County, Virginia.
Speaking Of The Raj: Kipling, Forster, And Scott On The English Language In British India, Victoria K. Tatko
Speaking Of The Raj: Kipling, Forster, And Scott On The English Language In British India, Victoria K. Tatko
Masters Theses
In my thesis I examine how language, particularly the English language, participated in the Raj, as depicted thematically in Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901), E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924), and Paul Scott'sThe Raj Quartet (1966-1975): The Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971), and A Division of the Spoils (1975). I show that all three authors portray language as central to British colonialism in India; the connection between the English language and the Empire grows increasingly problematic as the linguistic situation becomes a metaphor for the state of …
Recent Polish-American Fiction, John A. Merchant
Recent Polish-American Fiction, John A. Merchant
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article examines the development of a Polish American voice in American literature through an analysis of works by Stuart Dybek, Anthony Bukoski, Susan Strempek Shea, and Denise Dee.