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Full-Text Articles in Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority

Corazones Urbanos: Literary Cartographies And Southwest Cities In The Mexican American Spatial Imaginary, Jorge A. Hernández Jr. May 2026

Corazones Urbanos: Literary Cartographies And Southwest Cities In The Mexican American Spatial Imaginary, Jorge A. Hernández Jr.

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Corazones Urbanos: Literary Cartographies and Southwest Cities in the Mexican American Spatial Imaginary examines how Mexican American writers from Tucson, San Antonio, and Albuquerque narrate, critique, and reimagine urban space across the U.S. Southwest in the twentieth century. Integrating literary studies, cultural geography, urban history, and critical regionalism, the project analyzes responses to racialized development, urban renewal, and gentrification that have displaced Mexican American communities from historic downtowns. Moving beyond borderlands and transnational models, it advances a critically regional approach attentive to local histories, municipal policies, and community pressures shaping urban life. Through close readings of creative and nonfiction texts …


Re-Membering Self, Rewriting Histories, Reclaiming Futures: Chicanafuturist Agency In V. Castro's The Haunting Of Alejandra, Julia Reade Nov 2025

Re-Membering Self, Rewriting Histories, Reclaiming Futures: Chicanafuturist Agency In V. Castro's The Haunting Of Alejandra, Julia Reade

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

Re-membering Self, Rewriting Histories, Reclaiming Futures: Chicanafuturist Agency in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra by Julia Reade.


Negotiating (Im)Migrant Identity In The (Un)Assimilated Nation: American Literature Of The Late Nineteenth Century, Haley M. Steffens May 2025

Negotiating (Im)Migrant Identity In The (Un)Assimilated Nation: American Literature Of The Late Nineteenth Century, Haley M. Steffens

English Language and Literature ETDs

This dissertation examines representations of immigration, assimilation, and multinational cultural identity in late nineteenth-century American literature, autobiography, and print culture. Through a comparative analysis of diverse authors and immigrant communities, the project explores how literary and popular culture narratives framed the expectations and limitations of assimilation for disparate populations. By contextualizing these works within historical immigration policies, labor economies, government instability, and burgeoning nationalism, this study reveals how fiction and media shaped public attitudes toward assimilation and influenced policy. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that late, long-nineteenth-century literature functioned as both a reflection of and response to national debates about immigration, …


The Borders Of Embodiment: Transgression, Transformation, And Corporeality In Chicanx Speculative Fiction, Chrysta Carson Wilson Jul 2024

The Borders Of Embodiment: Transgression, Transformation, And Corporeality In Chicanx Speculative Fiction, Chrysta Carson Wilson

English Language and Literature ETDs

This dissertation develops a clearer vision of Chicanx Speculative Fiction (SF) as its own genre anchored to the experiences and histories of the Chicanx community, with a particular interest in the avenues through which race and gender shape the experience of embodiment. SF resists hegemonic narratives that justify racial hierarchies and reveals both the cultural and concrete pressures exerted on Chicanx bodies in the United States as a minoritized and often exploited community. Furthermore, my analysis illustrates that Chicanx writers utilize elements of SF to defamiliarize traditional notions of race, class, and nationality. Through the use of defamiliarization, Chicanx SF …


Resistance Narratives: Storytelling Of Transnational Insurgencies In 1960-70s Us And Mexico, Tania Libertad Balderas Aug 2023

Resistance Narratives: Storytelling Of Transnational Insurgencies In 1960-70s Us And Mexico, Tania Libertad Balderas

English Language and Literature ETDs

Resistance Narratives: Storytelling of Transnational Insurgencies in 1960-70s US and Mexico emphasizes how the narratives from the Mexican Insurgency, the American Indian Movement (AIM), and the leftist faction of the Chicana/o Movement in the 1960s and 1970s articulate intersecting notions of resistance, liberation, and transnational solidarity. The comparative analysis of the testimonial novel Las mujeres del alba (2019) by Chihuahuan novelist Carlos Montemayor, the autobiographies Lakota Woman (1991) and Ohitika Woman (1993) by Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta writer and AIM militant Mary Brave Bird (formerly Crow Dog), and the memoirs and plays by the San Diego-based group Teatro de las Chicanas, collected …


Cinematic Camouflage, Jared Valdez May 2023

Cinematic Camouflage, Jared Valdez

English Language and Literature ETDs

There is a war for recognition happening on the Hollywood battlefield. Traditionally, in every war there is an enemy and an alley; in this study, the enemy is systemic racism, and the alley is Black culture. That is, this dissertation seeks to detail the past, present, and future implications of this battle for truth, inclusion, and recognition in American pop culture. This discussion examines how various multi-media forms like literature, film, television, and comic books work as tools to combat racism in American society. More importantly, the theories presented in this text are all linked to actual tactics of military …


Disrupted Ambitions And Unmasked Identities: An Analysis Of Doubleness In Sylvia Plath’S The Bell Jar And Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man In Cold War America, Laura Anderson Apr 2023

Disrupted Ambitions And Unmasked Identities: An Analysis Of Doubleness In Sylvia Plath’S The Bell Jar And Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man In Cold War America, Laura Anderson

English Language and Literature ETDs

This thesis conducts a literary analysis on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963) with a primary investigation on the protagonists and their convergence of identity in Cold War America. One of the critical discourses evaluated throughout the project’s literary analysis includes the protagonists’ complications of doubleness. This essay argues that since these two texts sit between W.E.B DuBois’s “Double Consciousness” and Kimberlé Crenshaw’s 1988 theory on intersectionality, these protagonists are forced to contend with an identity crossroads. Secondary to the context of this analysis is the use of “post-war” and “Cold War,”; neither are …


Spirit Of The Mound: An Illustrated Story, Tom Montoya May 2021

Spirit Of The Mound: An Illustrated Story, Tom Montoya

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of New Mexico and the Greater Southwest

This short story depicts the youthful trials and ambitions of rural dwellers and the daily celebratory aspects of life in northern New Mexico. The illustrations by Francisco LeFebre offer a visual panorama of the Wagon Mound, a unique natural formation, in Mora Country.


Re-Thinking The Weird (In The) West: Multi-Ethnic Literatures And The Southwest, Jana M. Koehler Apr 2019

Re-Thinking The Weird (In The) West: Multi-Ethnic Literatures And The Southwest, Jana M. Koehler

English Language and Literature ETDs

My dissertation examines the genre of weird fiction, specifically texts that engage the concept of the Weird West. While authors such as Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft are often seen as the founders of this genre, I argue that ethnic and women writers, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lucha Corpi, and others, explore the hidden histories of the West and Southwest in ways that incite a rethinking of the weird. Most importantly, I seek to demonstrate how the weird is not only a literary genre but a literary aesthetic and methodology that women and …


Literature Review Of The Literary Term “Interpretation”, Lavonne J. Yazzie Jan 2019

Literature Review Of The Literary Term “Interpretation”, Lavonne J. Yazzie

2020 Award Winners

No abstract provided.


Chicana Feminist Acts: Re-Staging Chicano/A Theater From The Early Twentieth Century To The Present, Natalie M. Kubasek Nov 2016

Chicana Feminist Acts: Re-Staging Chicano/A Theater From The Early Twentieth Century To The Present, Natalie M. Kubasek

English Language and Literature ETDs

Chicana Feminist Acts intervenes in the patriarchal forces that negate the historical presence and social agency of Chicanas on the stage of U.S. literature by recovering the transformative power of Chicana drama to enact feminist change. I position early playwrights Josephina Niggli, Estela Portillo Trambley and Teatro Chicana, alongside contemporary feminist playwright Cherríe Moraga, as part of the rich and varied history of feminist cultural production in the U.S. that challenges the systematic sexist oppression of Chicanas. My thesis is that Chicana theater stages a series of feminist “acts” that continuously re-stage Chicana subjectivity to resist fixed patriarchal and nationalist …


From Recovery To Discovery: Ethnic American Science Fiction And (Re)Creating The Future, Daoine S. Bachran Nov 2016

From Recovery To Discovery: Ethnic American Science Fiction And (Re)Creating The Future, Daoine S. Bachran

English Language and Literature ETDs

My project assesses how science fiction by writers of color challenges the scientific racism embedded in genetics, nuclear development, digital technology, and molecular biology, demonstrating how these fields are deployed disproportionately against people of color. By contextualizing current scientific development with its often overlooked history and exposing the full life cycle of scientific practices and technological changes, ethnic science fiction authors challenge science’s purported objectivity and make room for alternative scientific methods steeped in Indigenous epistemologies. The first chapter argues that genetics is deployed disproportionally against black Americans, from the pseudo-scientific racial classifications of the nineteenth century and earlier through …


Manuscript Draft With Edits., Tony Hillerman Jan 2004

Manuscript Draft With Edits., Tony Hillerman

Skeleton Man Manuscripts

This is a copy of the manuscript of The Skeleton Man with edits.


Manuscript Draft., Tony Hillerman Jan 2003

Manuscript Draft., Tony Hillerman

The Sinister Pig Manuscripts

This is a copy of the manuscript of The Sinister Pig with no author's edits.


Manuscript With Publisher's Suggested Edits., Tony Hillerman Jan 1999

Manuscript With Publisher's Suggested Edits., Tony Hillerman

Hunting Badger Manuscripts

This is a copy of the manuscript of Hunting Badger with a Publisher's letter addressing some minor edits.


Edited Manuscript Draft., Tony Hillerman Jan 1998

Edited Manuscript Draft., Tony Hillerman

The First Eagle Manuscripts

This appears to be an edited version of the full manuscript of The First Eagle.


1. Manuscript Draft With Edits, P. 1-167., Tony Hillerman Jan 1996

1. Manuscript Draft With Edits, P. 1-167., Tony Hillerman

The Fallen Man Manuscripts

This is a copy of the manuscript of The Fallen Man, pages 1 - 167 with editing marks.


2. Manuscript Draft With Edits, P. 168-312., Tony Hillerman Jan 1996

2. Manuscript Draft With Edits, P. 168-312., Tony Hillerman

The Fallen Man Manuscripts

This is a copy of the manuscript of The Fallen Man, pages 168 - 312 with editing marks.


3. Edited Manuscript Draft., Tony Hillerman Jan 1996

3. Edited Manuscript Draft., Tony Hillerman

The Fallen Man Manuscripts

This is an edited version of the full manuscript of The Fallen Man.


Finding Moon, Audio Transcription., Tony Hillerman Jan 1995

Finding Moon, Audio Transcription., Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Audiobooks

This document is an abridged edition of Finding Moon that was created by Bill Boedecker for HarperAudio. It appears to have been sent to Tony Hillerman for his approval prior to the production of an abridged audiobook version of the novel. This document has not been cleared for online access, but it can be viewed by those wishing to visit the Center for Southwest Research in person.


2. Finding Moon, Manuscript Copy Editor Queries., Tony Hillerman Jan 1995

2. Finding Moon, Manuscript Copy Editor Queries., Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Manuscripts

This set of documents includes proof-reading queries by Hillerman's copy editor, some brief notes and correspondence between Hillerman and the editor(s) of Finding Moon, and a partial edited manuscript of the novel.


1. Finding Moon, Manuscript Draft Chapters 1-8., Tony Hillerman Jan 1995

1. Finding Moon, Manuscript Draft Chapters 1-8., Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Manuscripts

This manuscript is a partial draft of Finding Moon that covers only the first eight chapters of the book, and totals 82 pages. It appears to be a print-out from an electronic word processed document.


2. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (Ii), Tony Hillerman Jan 1995

2. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (Ii), Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Research Materials

This file contains articles, papers and notes that Tony Hillerman compiled in preparation for writing Finding Moon. There are 8 articles in this file, totaling 132 pages.


1. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (I), Tony Hillerman Jan 1995

1. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (I), Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Research Materials

This file contains articles, papers and notes that Tony Hillerman compiled in preparation for writing Finding Moon. There are 11 articles in this file, totaling 76 pages.


Kilroy Was There: A Gi's War In Photographs: Book Galley With Handwritten Edits., Tony Hillerman Jan 1994

Kilroy Was There: A Gi's War In Photographs: Book Galley With Handwritten Edits., Tony Hillerman

Kilroy Was There: A GI’s War in Photographs Book Galleys

This is a galley proof of the novel Kilroy Was There with some handwritten edits by the publisher.


05. Sacred Clowns: Manuscript Revisions- J,K., Tony Hillerman Jan 1993

05. Sacred Clowns: Manuscript Revisions- J,K., Tony Hillerman

Sacred Clowns Manuscripts

This manuscript appears to be the revised versions of chapters J and K from the second draft of Sacred Clowns. This draft appears to be very lightly eddied and this editing could have been by Hillerman.


07. Sacred Clowns: First Complete, Edited Draft (Titled: "The Death Of Valuable Men)., Tony Hillerman Jan 1993

07. Sacred Clowns: First Complete, Edited Draft (Titled: "The Death Of Valuable Men)., Tony Hillerman

Sacred Clowns Manuscripts

This is the first complete and edited draft of Sacred Clowns. At the time of this draft the title for this novel was "The Death of Valuable Men", which foreshadows the plot of the novel. This edition is lightly edited by Hillerman and, in some cases, he includes notes to remind himself of information he wishes to add for plot for consistency. Additionally, the names of secondary characters appear to not have not been finalized in this draft.


06. Sacred Clowns: Manuscript- Chapter 27, Early Version., Tony Hillerman Jan 1993

06. Sacred Clowns: Manuscript- Chapter 27, Early Version., Tony Hillerman

Sacred Clowns Manuscripts

This is an early typed draft of only Chapter 27 of Sacred Clowns. This chapter was lightly edited by Hillerman on a word processor.


09. Sacred Clowns: Photocopy Of 1st Edited Manuscript With Additional Revisions., Tony Hillerman Jan 1993

09. Sacred Clowns: Photocopy Of 1st Edited Manuscript With Additional Revisions., Tony Hillerman

Sacred Clowns Manuscripts

This is a photocopy of the first edited manuscript of Sacred Clowns with additional revisions by the book's editor. This manuscript was moderately edited and additional comments have been added for plot consistency.


08. Sacred Clowns: Original Of 1st Manuscript With Revisions., Tony Hillerman Jan 1993

08. Sacred Clowns: Original Of 1st Manuscript With Revisions., Tony Hillerman

Sacred Clowns Manuscripts

This is the first manuscript of Sacred Clowns with revisions. The revisions are by either Hillerman or a third party. This draft has been lightly edited for plot consistency and contains front matter.