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

Signs, Symbols, And Slave Culture: Representations In Black Thunder, Sandra M. Grayson Jun 1996

Signs, Symbols, And Slave Culture: Representations In Black Thunder, Sandra M. Grayson

Trotter Review

Black Thunder (1936), by Arna Bontemps, is a historical novel that recreates Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt. This novel is useful in reviewing some of the historical and cultural linkages between Black slaves in the U.S. and African cultures. Thematically, Black Thunder does more than represent Black people's self-assertion through revolt, it also shows their assertion of identity through practicing Atlantic (or western) African traditions, especially those of the Kongo. This is a topic that continues to be significant in light of greater contemporary political and economic linkages between U.S. Blacks and Africans, as well as increasing African immigration into …


Characteristics Associated With Resilience In Battered Women, Mei-I Chang May 1996

Characteristics Associated With Resilience In Battered Women, Mei-I Chang

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Higgins (1994) offered resilience as an alternative conceptual approach to the traditional focus on psychopathology for battered women. In this study, resilience was defined as a woman's state of psychological growth despite an abusive relationship. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between staff ratings of resilience, individual psychological resources, and situational abuse factors. A sample of 105 battered women, served by San Diego domestic violence agencies, was administered a battery of five questionnaires assessing constructive thinking, social support appraisal, optimism, psychological distress, and abuse experiences. Agency staff members recruited participants and provided clinical ratings of resilience. …


A Primary Homework Handbook That Promotes Literacy, Jill Lynn Puich Jan 1996

A Primary Homework Handbook That Promotes Literacy, Jill Lynn Puich

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Georgia Douglas Johnson: The Voice Of Oppression, Stephanie Marie Martin-Liggins Jan 1996

Georgia Douglas Johnson: The Voice Of Oppression, Stephanie Marie Martin-Liggins

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


The Relationship Between Character And Setting: A Narrative Strategy In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon, Sally-Anne Josephson Jan 1996

The Relationship Between Character And Setting: A Narrative Strategy In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon, Sally-Anne Josephson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Notice The Mistletoe, Daryl Cumber Dance Jan 1996

Notice The Mistletoe, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Selection of African-American folklore on the winter holidays.


Pecan Grove Review Volume 1, St. Mary's University Jan 1996

Pecan Grove Review Volume 1, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.


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.


Chief Seattle's Speech(Es): Ambivalent Idealizations And Emplacing The Uprooted 'Origin', Paul J. O'Malley Jan 1996

Chief Seattle's Speech(Es): Ambivalent Idealizations And Emplacing The Uprooted 'Origin', Paul J. O'Malley

Theses : Honours

This thesis traces the narcissistic dynamics behind mounting idealizations of a Native American Indian, Chief Seattle, and his renowned speech of 1854. In my work I draw from psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, 'post-colonial', and translation theories, as well as from contemporary Indian scholarship. I develop my own provisional model of what I term "Narcissistic Drift", providing a means of charting the intertextual dynamics driving colonial representations of otherness to converge progressively with stereotypical norms. Where previous Seattle studies have tended to concern themselves with issues of textual 'authenticity', I build on such work to consider how an indigenous speech 'uprooted' from its …


James Welch's Winter In The Blood: Thawing The Fragments Of Misconception In Native American Fiction, Mario A. Leto Ii Jan 1996

James Welch's Winter In The Blood: Thawing The Fragments Of Misconception In Native American Fiction, Mario A. Leto Ii

Masters Theses

The conventional scholarly view of Native American literature asserts that Native authors often portray their characters as alienated and despairing individuals that are incapable of attaining the means for dispelling those negative feelings. As a result, the characters are presumably destined to forever wander the barren reservation, unable to grasp their fleeting cultural traditions or the modern Euroamerican way of life. James Welch, with his novel Winter in the Blood, challenges that stereotypical scenario by allowing his nameless protagonist to discover a previously unknown link to his traditional Blackfeet heritage. Through the knowledge of his ancestors and the unconscious …