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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"American women writers"”.
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American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism
<p><italic>American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism<italic> reads American literary regionalism through its visual vocabularies--such as sketches, photographs and portraits. Though critics often deemed this genre inferior or unfinished, using visual …
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Beyond mourning and melancholia: depression in the work of five contemporary North American women writers.
… and Kathryn Harrison. The thesis addresses women's historic exclusion from the discourse of melancholia from a feminist perspective. It will consider the political and theoretical implications of women's absence from this discursive field by focusing on the cultural legacy of their …
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The identification and bibliographic control of publications by African-American women writers in New Jersey
… and evaluates a process for identifying African American women writers in New Jersey who published books between 1836 and 1990. It analyzes the importance of published and oral sources in the identification process. The published sources included bibliographies, biographies, bio-bibliographies, …
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Say That We Saw Spain Die: British and American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War
All of the writers who went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War had to cope with the differentness of Spain, with the fact that it was a foreign experience. How they handled that foreign experience, whether or not they found an entry point where they could cross the border between being an …
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The representation of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women as heroines in the novels of four Jewish-American women writers
… will focus on four popular novels by Jewish-American women writers and the relatively neglected area of the imaginative representation of women’s experiences within post-holocaust Ultra-Orthodoxy. It will explore the notion of what an Ultra-Orthodox heroine is and examine whether a coherent …
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A Web of Connections: How Early Twentieth-Century American Women Writers and Photographers Situated a New Way of Seeing
… of the relationships and influences between American male photographers and writers, this study examines the lesser known and understudied collaborations and connections between early, twentieth-century American women photographers and writers, beginning around the end of the nineteenth …
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The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker
… short stories, as well as to texts by black male writers and other Afro-American women writers.
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
… 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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Cartographies of undomesticated ground: Nature and feminism in American women's fiction and theory
"My dissertation examines how American women writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have rearticulated the gendered ideologies of nature. Insights from feminist theory, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary postmodern theories of nature enable me to reveal how women's texts …
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"To liberate ourselves and each other" : reading the female community in the fiction of Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison.
… of female community within the fiction of three American women writers: Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. I am specifically concerned with comparing the depiction of female community within white and Black female writers' works. The introduction to this project establishes a …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
For many women friendship is, alongside the romantic and familial, one of the social pillars upon which their life is built. Women writers, culturally encouraged to promote the love plot and the domestic sphere, still integrate women's friendship into fiction throughout space and time. Due to its …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
For many women friendship is, alongside the romantic and familial, one of the social pillars upon which their life is built. Women writers, culturally encouraged to promote the love plot and the domestic sphere, still integrate women's friendship into fiction throughout space and time. Due to its …
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Growing Cold: Postwar Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960
Growing Cold: Postwar American Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960, examines how women writers developed, negotiated, and struggled with representing adolescent girl selfhood in the novel of development – also termed the Bildungsroman – during the early postwar era. By examining …
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Three women and an unmarked map: a literary journey through Argentina and Chile
… interweaves the lives and works of three Latin American women writers – Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni and Gabriela Mistral – into a travel narrative undertaken as part of a research project. The journey begins in Glasgow, Scotland and takes the reader as far as Buenos Aires, Montevideo and …
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Faith positions: Re -reading gender, race, and Christianity in nineteenth -century American women's writing
… are intertwined with the strained threads of an "American" national narrative. Specifically, I focus on the texts of four nineteenth-century American women---Jarena Lee, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Frances Harper---to consider the ways in which religious belief, and the …
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"In a shattered language": a feminist poetics of trauma.
… mental illness as portrayed in poetry by North American women writers in the twentieth century. The dissertation opens with a brief Prologue, which views the 2010 Korean film Poetry as a text through which the major concerns of this project are refracted. The first chapter, "Difficult Word: The …
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This Woman's Work: The Sociopolitical Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
… and connect popular audiences with African American historical memory and current sociopolitical issues. Drawing from social movement theories, I contend that Campbell's activism, writing, and intellectual development reflect the process of frame alignment. That is, through writing and other …
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"You Are Safe": Black Maternal Politics Of Resistance And The Question Of Community Consensus In African American Women's Literature
<p>The study focuses on a number of African American women's literary texts that employ the figure of the black mother and the motif of infanticide to engage in critical statements about system arrangements, repressive practices, and theory designs with direct effect upon black people's choices for …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… modernist paradigms. Though it appears that writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to reinforce the qualities of abstraction, objectivity, and detachment typically associated with modernist writing, I argue instead that mathematics offers …
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