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"The Problem Of Locomotion": Infrastructure And Automobility In Three Postcolonial Urban Nigerian Novels, Danica B. Savonick Jan 2015

"The Problem Of Locomotion": Infrastructure And Automobility In Three Postcolonial Urban Nigerian Novels, Danica B. Savonick

Graduate Student Publications and Research

This essay analyzes automobility in three postcolonial urban Nigerian novels: the fantasy of self-propulsion that subtends a colonial modernity materialized through the erection of urban infrastructure. Tracing the disjuncture between automobility and infrastructure—the “problem of locomotion” (Achebe)—reveals the inextricability of mobility, modernity, urbanism, and colonial violence even into Nigeria’s formally postcolonial period. By exploring how characters both invest in and move beyond inherited colonial narratives, these novels challenge top-down images of Lagos, instead depicting it as a city “otherwise fashioned” (Abani) from their characters’ perspectives on what it feels like to dwell and sell on the streets.

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Index Jan 2015

Index

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

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"To Put The Soul In Motion": Connoisseurship As A Religious Discourse In The Writings Of Jonathan Richardson, Clare Haynes Jan 2015

"To Put The Soul In Motion": Connoisseurship As A Religious Discourse In The Writings Of Jonathan Richardson, Clare Haynes

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

It is only relatively recently that the significance of Jonathan Richardson's writings has been properly recognized. Carol Gibson-Wood, in a number of articles and a book, identified two main keys to Richardson's importance: first, Richardson adapted European art theory and "Englished" it for a British audience using a methodology heavily dependent on Locke. In doing so, he developed an approach to art that was distinctive in the European tradition. Second, Richardson, as both a writer and connoisseur, was more influential at home and abroad than was previously recognized. Indeed, Richardson was rightly acclaimed by Gibson-Wood as the "art theorist of …

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A Summer Primer, Michael Shewmaker Jan 2015

A Summer Primer, Michael Shewmaker

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 139

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Suburban Llorona, Christine Swint Jan 2015

Suburban Llorona, Christine Swint

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 150

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Platycotis, Amy Wright Jan 2015

Platycotis, Amy Wright

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 161

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Wave, Luke Jacob Jan 2015

Wave, Luke Jacob

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 186-190

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Disciplinary And Professional Identities Are Constructed Through Writing, Heidi Estrem Jan 2015

Disciplinary And Professional Identities Are Constructed Through Writing, Heidi Estrem

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

While people can negotiate how identities are constructed through writing in a variety of contexts (see 3.1 , "Writing Is Linked to Identity") , many first encounter unfamiliar disciplinary (or professional) discourse in college. In most American colleges and universities in the United States, students complete-general education courses (introductory courses designed to introduce students to both ways of thinking and disciplinary perspectives within the university) before continuing on to specialized courses within their chosen disciplines or fields. This increasingly discipline-specific learning process involves both the simple acquisition of new knowledge and an "expansion and transformation of identity, of a learner's …

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Ua68/6/1 The Flight Of The Phoenix, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku English Jan 2015

Ua68/6/1 The Flight Of The Phoenix, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku English

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU English Department for alumni regarding activities of the department, faculty and alumni.

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Ua68/6/1 Emereti, Vol. Ii, No. I, Wku English Jan 2015

Ua68/6/1 Emereti, Vol. Ii, No. I, Wku English

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU English Department regarding the activities of retired faculty.

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Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, And The Historiography Of Lesbian Sexuality, Melissa J. Homestead Jan 2015

Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, And The Historiography Of Lesbian Sexuality, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Since the publication of Surpassing the Love of Men in 1981 and Sharon O'Brien's biography Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice in 1987, Cather's fiction has been subjected to scores of queer readings. These readings are, in many respects, premised on a very different understanding of gender, sexuality, and identity than Faderman and O'Brien deploy in their biographical identifications of Cather as a lesbian. Nevertheless, these queer readings rest upon a biographical foundation, and in particular upon an understanding of Cather as secretive, private, and afflicted with shame. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, in an influential reading of The Professor's House that inspired …

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“The Gold Snake / Coiled In The Sun”: George Hitchcock And Kayak Magazine, Brooks Lampe Jan 2015

“The Gold Snake / Coiled In The Sun”: George Hitchcock And Kayak Magazine, Brooks Lampe

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Although George Hitchcock is a minor figure in American literary history, he is one of its most genuinely unique characters and played a vital role in shaping American poetic surrealism. Largely because of Hitchcock’s efforts, Kayak, which ran from 1964-1984 under his editorship, became for many poets the prototype of the small press magazine. Joseph Bednarik writes that “[t]aken in its proper historical perspective, kayak was the vanguard of modern independent presses and George Hitchcock a most daring and perceptive editor” (28). It gathered poets, Philip Levine writes, who were “wild enough to be truly American” but were “underground” because …

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Transformational Transcendentalism: Whitman’S Progressive Perspective In “Song Of Myself”, Marykate Malena Jan 2015

Transformational Transcendentalism: Whitman’S Progressive Perspective In “Song Of Myself”, Marykate Malena

The Corinthian

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself ” examines the spiritual indivisibility of life through the narration of an all-seeing poet character. The speaker, who calls himself “Walt Whitman” (Whitman 499), exposes himself to the perspectives of the living world in order to present his listener with the gift of unadulterated, empathetic consciousness. Throughout the free-verse poem, Whitman consistently employs direct address and the cataloguing of living personas in short vignettes. His use of these devices establishes a sense of transcendental unity for his audience and is intended to help his audience grow to be conscious in the way that the speaker …

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Blow Out (1981), Douglas Keesey Jan 2015

Blow Out (1981), Douglas Keesey

English

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Basement, Robert Mclane Daniels Jan 2015

Basement, Robert Mclane Daniels

ETD Archive

Basement is a play in two acts. I began writing this play at a time that I was contemplating a great deal on the idea of individual, human nature, and the consequences of routine, generational suppression of said nature. At the time that this play was written, stories surrounding human subjugation, rape, torture, and murder were very prominent in the news and while the events of Basement have in no way been taken from any of these actual stories, the major themes of Basement were very heavily influenced by these stories of human bondage. As a writer, I consider my …

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Grid, Laura Goldstein Jan 2015

Grid, Laura Goldstein

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Bones Of The Soup An Exploration Of J.R.R. Tolkien's Methodology, Devan Bierbrauer Jan 2015

Bones Of The Soup An Exploration Of J.R.R. Tolkien's Methodology, Devan Bierbrauer

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

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American Novelist Catharine Sedgwick Negotiates British Copyright, 1822–57, Melissa J. Homestead Jan 2015

American Novelist Catharine Sedgwick Negotiates British Copyright, 1822–57, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

American novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick had an unusually long career and her books were reprinted in Britain in a variety of circumstances and formats. Both her first novel, A New-England Tale (1822), and her last, Married or Single? (1857), appeared in London editions arranged by her or her American publishers, as did many of her books in between (including travel, children’s and conduct books). However, her works also appeared in unauthorized reprints. Sedgwick thus makes an interesting case study of how law and custom regulated the reprinting of American literary texts in Great Britain after 1820. Focusing on the British …

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Specters Of Nature; Or, From Metaphor To Murder: The Nonhuman-Animal In Rash's Serena, Pat Siebel Jan 2015

Specters Of Nature; Or, From Metaphor To Murder: The Nonhuman-Animal In Rash's Serena, Pat Siebel

Bridges: A Journal of Student Research

This paper explores the marginalized roles of the non-human animal throughout Ron Rash's 2008 novel, Serena, by classifying various types of animal occurrences into three categories: "The Metaphorical," "The Authentic," and "The Murderous," to investigate their role(s), significance, and signification in the text.

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Trainsong, Geri Doran Jan 2015

Trainsong, Geri Doran

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 61-62

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Stairmaster, Parneshia Jones Jan 2015

Stairmaster, Parneshia Jones

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 81

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Sex Dreams With Two Boxes, Terri Witek Jan 2015

Sex Dreams With Two Boxes, Terri Witek

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 159

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Split / Small Porcelain Head / The Tulip Flame, Michelle Chan Brown Jan 2015

Split / Small Porcelain Head / The Tulip Flame, Michelle Chan Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 166-170

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"Proof Of The Loop": Patterns Of Habitual Denial In Tim O'Brien's In The Lake Of The Woods And Don Delillo's Libra, Tim Engles Jan 2015

"Proof Of The Loop": Patterns Of Habitual Denial In Tim O'Brien's In The Lake Of The Woods And Don Delillo's Libra, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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"Not I!": Strategies Of Post-Millennial Confessionalistic Poetry, Charlotte Pence Jan 2015

"Not I!": Strategies Of Post-Millennial Confessionalistic Poetry, Charlotte Pence

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

With the technological ability and pop-cultural fascination to record private moments and distribute them, poetry that reveals personal details and conflates the identity between speaker and author must feel the effects of what could be viewed as an over-saturation of the confessional—which was during the 1950s and 1960s with Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath a political, rebellious act. It is far from that now. In this Kim Kardashian era, revealing sex tapes are used as marketing tools to launch careers whereas once they destroyed careers. Considering the hyper-confessional climate of our era and that “Confessional” is something of …

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“Rude Uncivill Blood”: The Pastoral Challenge To Hereditary Race In Fletcher And Milton, Jean Feerick Jan 2015

“Rude Uncivill Blood”: The Pastoral Challenge To Hereditary Race In Fletcher And Milton, Jean Feerick

English

The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.

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A Few Lines From The Library, Joel Brouwer Jan 2015

A Few Lines From The Library, Joel Brouwer

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 41-42

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Augustine Chanting, Daniel Corrie Jan 2015

Augustine Chanting, Daniel Corrie

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 57

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Splitting The Lark, Lesley Jenike Jan 2015

Splitting The Lark, Lesley Jenike

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 79-80

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Split, Michelle Chan Brown Jan 2015

Split, Michelle Chan Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 171-172

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