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Beyond Mourning: Afro-Pessimism in Contemporary African American Fiction
… racism. Through a reading of three contemporary African American fiction texts, this thesis considers the implications of reading black life through its relationship to systemic racist violence to consider the possibilities of futures for black life beyond this circumscription of a relationship …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
<p>Responding to African American literary criticism's recent engagements with contemporary U.S. imprisonment, <italic>From Slave Ship to Supermax</italic> traces the development of a heretofore un-theorized tradition in African American literature in which fiction writers bring to light the voice, …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
In this dissertation, I show how 20th century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope …
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Fiction collection centered around an African-American family living in Hanover, Virginia.