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When The Metamorphosis Turns White: Kafka Reimagined In Igoni Barrett’S Blackass, Bisola J. Ajibade Apr 2026

When The Metamorphosis Turns White: Kafka Reimagined In Igoni Barrett’S Blackass, Bisola J. Ajibade

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

Igoni Barrett’s Blackass (2015) has frequently been described as a “race-rewrite” of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915). This framing has shaped much of the critical conversation surrounding the two texts. While these approaches productively illuminate questions of identity and biopolitics, less attention has been paid to situating both texts across the intersecting contexts of German modernism and Nigerian postcolonial literature. This article provides a close comparative reading of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Igoni Barrett’s Blackass in order to examine how Kafkaesque elements are reconfigured within a contemporary postcolonial Nigerian context. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of minor literature, alongside …


Puppy Love: Intimacy In Omegaverse Fanfiction, Emma Shober '26 Apr 2026

Puppy Love: Intimacy In Omegaverse Fanfiction, Emma Shober '26

Honor Scholar Theses

This thesis tackles intimacy in omegaverse fanfiction. In an effort to describe the omegaverse, I published a survey, held interviews, and read five select works of omegaverse fanfiction. The themes that emerged from those qualitative survey responses and interviews were wolf packs, freedom to procreate, animal instincts, societal rigidity, and exploration of gender and power dynamics. Survey respondents were quick to note that the omegaverse is more than just erotica or smut; it is worldbuilding at its core that draws many of them to this genre. The five works of fanfiction I read support this idea, many using sex as …


Are You There Judy?: A Critical Content Analysis Of Judy Blume's Representation Of Female Puberty, Audrey E. Gilbert Apr 2026

Are You There Judy?: A Critical Content Analysis Of Judy Blume's Representation Of Female Puberty, Audrey E. Gilbert

Undergraduate Theses

This study uses a critical content analysis methodology to examine four Judy Blume novels (Johnson et al). Using a lens of gynocriticsm (Showalter) and mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors (Bishop), power and representation of female puberty are analyzed in Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Deenie, Forever, and Just As Long As We’re Together to understand how Judy Blume pushes the bounds of content in young adult literature through depictions of thelarche, menarche, and sexarche. Through the critical content analysis, the role of group interactions and individual experiences are shown as the conductors for power, …


Get Busy Living: Leaping Out Of Confinement With Kierkegaard In The Shawshank Redemption, Christian Wilken Apr 2026

Get Busy Living: Leaping Out Of Confinement With Kierkegaard In The Shawshank Redemption, Christian Wilken

Journal of Religion & Film

This article offers a Kierkegaardian reading of The Shawshank Redemption (1994), arguing that the film functions not as a miracle narrative but as a cinematic enactment of existential theology. While existing scholarship frequently interprets Shawshank through biblical typology or Foucauldian notions of incarceration, few consider how the film dramatizes Kierkegaard’s categories of anxiety, despair, and the leap of faith. Shawshank presents prison as more than a space of punishment—it becomes a refuge from the “dizziness of freedom,” a structured escape from the terrifying burden of possibility. Brooks’s suicide tragically embodies what Kierkegaard calls the “despair of weakness,” the inability to …


Under The Bridge - Vol. 5 (Spring 2026), Trinity Christian College Apr 2026

Under The Bridge - Vol. 5 (Spring 2026), Trinity Christian College

Under the Bridge

This Home - Wasco - 1 / Do You Want A Tree? - Honey - 5 / The Heart of a Troll - Majewski - 8 / Memory Map - Cohen - 11 / Am I True To My Words? - Post - 18 / Lukewarm - Enriquez - 22 / Bottled Memories - Hoffman - 23 / Darkness to Dependance -  Santostefano - 25 / Amor Eterno - Zuno - 30 / Growth - Suchorabski - 31 / I bruise easily - Heyboer - 33 / Solo Christo - Jamrozik - 35 / Banished - Clausing and Parsley - …


Modernity And Transcendence: Gendered Subjectivity In Miss Lonelyhearts And A Spy In The House Of Love, Rachel Loging Apr 2026

Modernity And Transcendence: Gendered Subjectivity In Miss Lonelyhearts And A Spy In The House Of Love, Rachel Loging

Senior Theses

This thesis examines how Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and Anaïs Nin’s A Spy in the House of Love (1954) represent gendered subjectivity under the conditions of modernity. Drawing on Ben Singer’s account of modern experience and Rita Felski’s analysis of modernity as a masculine structure organized around autonomy and production, it argues that both texts stage encounters between masculinity and femininity as sites of interpretive conflict. In Miss Lonelyhearts, masculinity remains tied to coherence, authority, and the paradigm of Christ, and repeatedly attempts to impose order through perception, relationships, and religion. These efforts ultimately collapse, exposing the futility and …


Storytelling, Henry D. Juarez Mar 2026

Storytelling, Henry D. Juarez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Heternormativity, Erandi Hernández Aguilar Mar 2026

Heternormativity, Erandi Hernández Aguilar

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Sin Título, Daisy Camacho Mar 2026

Sin Título, Daisy Camacho

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Journal Entry #1, Erandi Hernández Aguilar Mar 2026

Journal Entry #1, Erandi Hernández Aguilar

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Pain Into Anger!, Davion Holman Mar 2026

Pain Into Anger!, Davion Holman

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Amá Always Said. Apá Only Knew., Venus Elizalde Mar 2026

Amá Always Said. Apá Only Knew., Venus Elizalde

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


A Letter To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal Mar 2026

A Letter To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Memories Are Like Clues: A Message To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal Mar 2026

Memories Are Like Clues: A Message To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Mi Deseo, William Hopeau Mar 2026

Mi Deseo, William Hopeau

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Living Vicariously Through The Fading Childhood Memories Of Home, Gina Muñoz Mar 2026

Living Vicariously Through The Fading Childhood Memories Of Home, Gina Muñoz

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


More Than A Brown Girl, Mia Rose Rios Mar 2026

More Than A Brown Girl, Mia Rose Rios

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Mamadas, Erandi Hernández Aguilar Mar 2026

Mamadas, Erandi Hernández Aguilar

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Namesake, Adrian Garcia Mar 2026

Namesake, Adrian Garcia

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Tik Tok, Francisco Vallejo Mar 2026

Tik Tok, Francisco Vallejo

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Xonecuilli (Blue Worm), Benjamin Perez Mar 2026

Xonecuilli (Blue Worm), Benjamin Perez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Ethan Pena Mar 2026

Untitled, Ethan Pena

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Paul Zargosa Mar 2026

Untitled, Paul Zargosa

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Slavery Is Not Our History !!, Dana Offley Mar 2026

Slavery Is Not Our History !!, Dana Offley

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Recordar Es Resistir, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey Mar 2026

Recordar Es Resistir, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


No Forget, Brah!, Samuel Nault Mar 2026

No Forget, Brah!, Samuel Nault

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Jerry Mendoza Mar 2026

Untitled, Jerry Mendoza

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Beaners, Maria - Mar 2026

Beaners, Maria -

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Melissa Ferreira Mar 2026

Untitled, Melissa Ferreira

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


The Smithsonian Has Erased Bisexuality From Its Database, Ash Freeman Mar 2026

The Smithsonian Has Erased Bisexuality From Its Database, Ash Freeman

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.