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Exploring African American Identity In Harlem: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven, Michelle Lynn Simone Aug 1997

Exploring African American Identity In Harlem: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven, Michelle Lynn Simone

Theses & Honors Papers

Carl Van Vechten became a predominant figure within Harlem Renaissance literary circles because of his patronage of black artists and his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. The novel depicts scenes of cabarets and Harlem night life, emphasizing themes of racial prejudice and the struggle for identity in the black culture. Van Vechten's fictional portrayal of Harlem received mixed reviews--to say the least. Many black authors and critics aligned themselves with W.E.B. Du Bois and lambasted the bawdy scenes and racially derogatory title. Others, including James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes, defended Van Vechten' s astute observations of Harlem and his skillful …

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 2, St. Mary's University Jan 1997

Pecan Grove Review Volume 2, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

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

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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 …

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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. …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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Armand Schwerner: An Interview By Willard Gingerich, Willard Gingerich Sep 1995

Armand Schwerner: An Interview By Willard Gingerich, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In an interview, writer and educator Armand Schwerner discusses his recent and earlier Tablets, the creation of the icons in them, and his Scholar/Translator. Schwerner projects another 21 Tablets.

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"Being A Half-Breed" Discourses Of Race And Cultural Syncreticity In The Works Of Three Metis Women Writers, Jodi Lundgren Apr 1995

"Being A Half-Breed" Discourses Of Race And Cultural Syncreticity In The Works Of Three Metis Women Writers, Jodi Lundgren

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Treatment Of Voice In Some Of The Works Of Some Women Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance, Patrick Steven Bernard Jan 1995

The Treatment Of Voice In Some Of The Works Of Some Women Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance, Patrick Steven Bernard

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study examines the relation between the quest for identity-formation that characterized the Harlem Renaissance and the treatment of Voice by the women writers of the period to define their feminine identity. The concept of voice as used in this study refers to the method of self-expression and self-articulation to define the feminine subject by the women writers of the period. The importance of the Harlem Renaissance as a period of black self-determination is the main principle that is used here to particularize the feminine quest. The study looks at the Harlem Renaissance mainly from the perspective of the women …

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The Zea Mexican Dairy: 7 Sept 1926 - 7 Sept 1986. By Kamau Brathwaite (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance Oct 1994

The Zea Mexican Dairy: 7 Sept 1926 - 7 Sept 1986. By Kamau Brathwaite (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

I may be hard put to classify the latest work of noted poet, historian, literary critic, linguist, and Africanist Kamau (Eddie) Brathwaite, but I have no problem describing it - compelling, riveting, unforgettable! Begun when Brathwaite received the devastating news that his wife Doris (his Zea Mexican) was dying of cancer, it is a paean to her, a record of his efforts to deal with her dying, death, and absence, an account of their relationship, and an autobiographical confessional. The Zea Mexican Diary includes diary entries, letters, memorates, an epigraph, expressions of sympathy, confessions, autobiographical narrative, poems - but whatever …

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Mirrors, Pluggers, And Flashlights: The Women Of Lee Smith's Fiction, Elizabeth Guthrie Talley Sep 1994

Mirrors, Pluggers, And Flashlights: The Women Of Lee Smith's Fiction, Elizabeth Guthrie Talley

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

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Various Black Virginians As Told To Daryl Cumber Dance, Daryl Cumber Dance Jan 1994

Various Black Virginians As Told To Daryl Cumber Dance, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans, published in 1978, derived from fieldwork done far a doctoral dissertation at Virginia Commonwealth University by Daryl Cumber Dance (the only woman named Daryl I have heard of aside from Daryl Hannah). She gathered stories and verses from black Virginians in colleges, senior citizens' centers, and a penitentiary. Though she doesn't bring to the party an editorial touch as enlivening as Zora Neale Hurston's, she has an ear and-unlike far, far too many assiduous collectors of folktales - knows how to capture vocal rhythms on a page.

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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.

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Lion Of Judah; Or, Son Of The Morning Nat Turner As Christ Imposter In William Styron's The Confessions Of Nat Turner, Daniel D. Clark Dec 1993

Lion Of Judah; Or, Son Of The Morning Nat Turner As Christ Imposter In William Styron's The Confessions Of Nat Turner, Daniel D. Clark

Honors Theses

William Styron's interest in the 1831 Nat Turner rebellion began during Styron's childhood and increased in importance as he Styron recalled reading a brief account of the uprising in a Virginia history textbook while in grammar school. This initial discovery gave birth to Styron's curiosity about Nat Turner. By the late forties Styron had read Thomas Gray's original Confessions of Nat Turner and had begun collecting historical documentation of the Turner revolt.

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Matriarchs, Doves, And Nymphos: Prevalent Images Of Black, Indian, And White Women In Caribbean Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance Oct 1993

Matriarchs, Doves, And Nymphos: Prevalent Images Of Black, Indian, And White Women In Caribbean Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Universally, male writers have tended to create images of women which reveal the familiar male tendency to view women merely as functionaries whose role basically is determined by male needs, male motivations, male fears, and male fantasies. When woman is submissive, docile and pure, she is to be protected and revered; then, she is the virgin/goddess. When she is assertive and strong, she is to be avoided and despised; then, she is the bitch/shrew. When she is passionate and active, she is to be resisted and feared; she is the whore/temptress. While this genera] categorizing of women characters carries over …

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Meet Me In The Semiotic Glen: The Evolution Of Gender Communication In The Early Novels Of Robert Penn Warren, Lisa Day May 1993

Meet Me In The Semiotic Glen: The Evolution Of Gender Communication In The Early Novels Of Robert Penn Warren, Lisa Day

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Sexuality in the early novels of Robert Penn Warren is generally not appealing, intimate, or indicative of love between partners, in part due to the seeming coldness of the female characters and the near-asexuality of the males. However, when both social and personal interactions between the characters are analyzed semiotically according to the theories of Julia Kristeva, a pattern emerges which explains the harshness of the bond between men and women.

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Lee Smith's Use Of Point Of View In Oral History And Black Mountain Breakdown, Debbie Ames May 1993

Lee Smith's Use Of Point Of View In Oral History And Black Mountain Breakdown, Debbie Ames

Honors Theses

As a literary device, choice of point of view is one of the most important technical decisions an author must make when writing a novel because of the effects emerging from this choice. If an author chooses first person point of view over third person point of view, the overall effect of the novel will differ. Lee Smith is keenly aware of the importance of point of view and manipulates it in both Black Mountain Breakdown and Oral History to create the overall effects which she desires for each novel.

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