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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American literature and film"”.
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Moving Rhizomatically: Deleuze's Child in 21st Century American Literature and Film
… critiques Western culture’s vertical command of “growing up” to adult completion (rational, heterosexual, married, wealthy, professionally successful) as a reductionist itinerary of human movement leading to subjective sedimentations. Rather, my project proposes ways of “moving …
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Between the Mob and the Noose: The Lynching Intercessor in American Literature and Film
… is a trope for racial reconciliation in American literature and film. The intercessor works to mediate between loyalty to an ideal democracy and recognition of a past and present that is inextricable from violent, racist oppression. While the lynching intercessor often negotiates the …
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A More Virtuous Empire: The Ideology of Manifest Destiny in American Literature and Film
… origins of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and the effects of its transmission into American literature and film. I argue that though eruptions of Manifest Destiny repeat the idea of American exceptionalism, the semi-autonomous nature of the work of art works against the grain of these …
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Society's Biological Entrapment: Maternity, Eugenics, and Violence in 1920's American Literature and Film
This dissertation examines how American writers in the 1920s demonstrated the eugenic influence on motherhood through fictional representations of violent resistance. My project charts the ways in which fictional, dramatic, and cinematic texts displayed negative visualizations of maternity as a …
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EVIDENCE OF ANXIETY: WOMEN'S AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT LAW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM, 1880-1935
… married life for women, but in most historical and critical discussions of this era, breach of promise, also nicknamed Heartbalm, has been overlooked, and the purpose of this dissertation is to examine canonical and non-canonical literature from this period and recontextualize these works in …
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Representations of Trauma in Contemporary American Literature and Film: Moving from Erasure to Creative Transformation
… repeated erasure of trauma from public knowledge and social consciousness by examining how a variety of crisis events have been represented in contemporary American literature and film. Intersecting archival, trauma, literary and film studies, this project highlights connections across politics of …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
ABSTRACT Motorcars and Magic Highways examines the nexus between transportation and communication in the development of the automobile across the twentieth century. While early responses to the automobile emphasized its democratizing and liberating potential, the gradual integration of the …
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Shaman as Saviour? The Trope of the Amazonian Shaman in Recent Latin American Literature and Film
… trope of the Amazonian shaman in recent Latin American literature and film. References to shamanism have become increasingly popular in recent years. Shamans have gained importance in environmentalism and struggles for Indigenous rights, as well as academic writing interested in radical social …
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A True War Story: Reality and Simulation in the American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
<p>The Vietnam War has become an important symbol and signifier in contemporary American culture and politics. The word "Vietnam" contains many meanings and narratives, including both the real events of the American War in Vietnam and the fictional representations of that war. Because we live in a …
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Solitary Souls: Awakening Responses in American Literature
To develop their inner lives, American fictional characters like Melville's Ishmael, Twain's Huck Finn, and Chopin's Edna Pontellier strive to see themselves accurately in relation to others and to American society in general. During this process of self-definition, these characters frequently …