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Sandra Cisneros As Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories In Caramelo, Sally Marie Giles

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis discusses the ways in which Sandra Cisneros makes historical claims from a Chicana perspective by telling fictional family stories in Caramelo. Not only have Chicanas traditionally been marginalized ethnically by the Anglo mainstream, they have also suffered disenfranchisement as women in their own male-dominated cultural community. Both elements have contributed to the cultural silencing of Chicanas outside of domestic spaces, and particularly in historical discourse. Cisneros introduces storytelling as a means of empowering Chicanas through language that allows them to speak historically and still signify culturally. By telling stories from the site of the family, she ingeniously utilizes …

Two From The Underworld: Short Fiction., Stephen Glass

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The following thesis contains two works of short fiction. The first, “Afterlife,” is narrated by Jeff Carlton, whose unenthusiastic passage into fatherhood is complicated by his girlfriend Charlene’s obsession with mummification. The second, “Jolly,” is the story of Calvin Edwards, a young bus station attendant haunted by his father’s ghost and visited by a cadaverous stranger, Jolly, who also sees the dead. The stories are preceded by an introduction in which the author discusses his views on implied motivation in character development.

The Econometric Value Of Silence And Noise As Seen By A Non-Practicing Marxist, Stephen Whelpley

Senior Scholar Papers

A Collection of Poetry and Fiction

Merely A Pictorial Subject: The Turn Of The Screw, Adam Sonstegard

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

In The Village Of Mourning, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

Outside the Purulhá market, where the bus had left her, Olivia stared at the mountains to the north of town.

Squeeze The Putty, Mrs. Martin, Mike Onofrey

Bryant Literary Review

"Do you have a minute?" she said to Dwayne as he was coming out of his mother's hospital room at four in the afternoon.

Outside Leadville, Emily Morganti

Bryant Literary Review

I thought we would die on that mountain. Not in my heart but in my head.

Baby And House, Catherine Austin Alexander

Bryant Literary Review

Imagine a yoga studio with pale yellow walls. Corduroy pillows piled under windows

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2004), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!

The spring 2004 issue of You’ve Gotta Read This! expanded to include recommendations from Gettysburg College staff and administrators in addition to faculty. Popular titles for this year were A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

America's Most Wanted, Erica Olsen

Bryant Literary Review

I'm coming home from City Market when I spot the other vehicle in my drive.

"Look," I say. "Visitors."

St. Viggo, Karina Fuentes

Bryant Literary Review

Helen nearly suffocates me the night before the exhibit. She's walking

around on her heels, big cotton puffs between her calloused toes,

when she stumbles and falls on my head, which is stuffed beneath a

pillow. "I'll never sleep again," I groan.

The Hills Of Laura, Billy Lombardo

Bryant Literary Review

It is true that I hated Hucker Norton. But I did not mean to crush his thumb.

He wasn't one of us, really. Even his name told you he was from some other place. We were Petey and Tommy and Davy and Matty, and he was Hucker.

The Snow Moon, Rebecca Lilly

Bryant Literary Review

A full moon sheared the tip of a pine. Lying in bed, a woodsman and

his wife saw it one December night. "Something must be done," said

his wife. "I know it's a sign."

Southern Star., Shanda Schrae Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Southern Star” follows protagonist Sally Gayle through the cycle of maturation. Complex family relationships and secrets hinder Sally as she searches for her identity in this bidungsroman set in a small, rural area of Southern Appalachia. Taking a minimalist, cinematic approach, “Southern Star” experiments with form and technique in an attempt to convey pure story to the reader. The work particularly focuses on character development, authentic dialogue, and a sense of place.

Arabia, Jeffrey David Peckham

Bryant Literary Review

Although he feels just fine, Neil still takes the morning off and keeps his appointment.

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

Bryant Literary Review

"What?" I asked again, and the Indian doctor repeated it."

An Innocent Heart, Catherine Harris

Bryant Literary Review

I lived in a share house then, with embossed gold paisley wallpaper in the living room and rising damp in the hall.

Still Life, Brian Arundel

Bryant Literary Review

We live a few hundred yards from a drive-in theater at the end of a dead end street on the edge of a small Virginia town called Spotsylvania that people only pass through on their way to someplace else.

Rope Dancers, Jessica Newton

Bryant Literary Review

When you walk a tightrope you have to think of it as getting across the first third, then the second third, which makes it the last third a piece of cake

Getting Married In Vegas, Natalia Cortes Chaffin

Bryant Literary Review

Maggie woke up to the stop and start of a car outside her bedroom window.

Chosin Reservoir, Robert Wallace

Bryant Literary Review

SNOW

First the snow: lots of it. Heavy and wet and blinding to the naked eye on a sunny day.

Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2003), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!

This first issue of You’ve Gotta Read This was published in May 2003 and featured fabulous clip-art for the cover and recommendations from 37 faculty members. The most popular title for this year? The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

Short Science-Fiction Fantasy Stories, Aurora Clark

Honors Capstones

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

The Detrimental Effects Of Organized Religion On Women In Lee Smith's Fiction., Jennifer Renee Collins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the detrimental effects of religion on characters in Smith's fiction, with special attention to three general areas of religious influence on women. It considers Smith's illumination of the social, psychological, and artistic harm that organized religion can inflict on the lives of women.

This study includes library research of religion and Lee Smith's fiction. The study also concludes that Smith's seemingly casual fiction raises unsettling questions about the negative effects that religion often has on individuals.

Locating Postmodern Epistemology, Organizational Structure And Postcolonial Workers In The Knowledge Rhizome, Viren Mascarenhas

Honors Theses

The three excerpts from Amitav Ghosh's novels find the main characters speculating about the relationship between organizational structures, epistemology and knowledge production. In the first excerpt, Arjun tells Dinu that he does not believe that the colonial bureaucracy known as the British Anny will continue to exist if the policy of separating Indian and British officers persists. Anticipating the problems created from Indians holding leadership positions, he doubts that the British Anny "can go on." Murugan explains how the counter-scientists operate in the second excerpt, noting that members were revising epistemology by distorting knowledge through mutation. They were not following …

Fat, Jeffrey David Peckham

Bryant Literary Review

Arlene and Pappy spill out at the usual booth.

Look What Happened To Me, Bayard

Bryant Literary Review

Twilight in the window is all I remember.

Alterations And Repairs, Sue Repko

Bryant Literary Review

The sign at the entrance to the municipal building said, "Wipe mud from shoes before entering."