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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Colson"”.
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America’s Enabler: How Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad Contributes to Racial Inertia
<p>Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> was met with near universal acclaim and enjoys regard as an important work which illustrates the difficulty and horror that was black life under chattel slavery. This essay argues that despite the work’s stated purpose, its ultimate, if …
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
… – Suzan-Lori Parks, Natasha Trethewey, and Colson Whitehead – within the African American Literary Tradition explore relationships to history in light of a dominant rhetoric that represents African American history through a white, hegemonic lens. In Parks’ The America Play, Trethewey’s …
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Daniel: A Novel With Accompanying Critical Dissertation Exploring Child Abuse in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave.
… that handle similar themes: The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead), and A Kestrel for a Knave (Barry Hines). The portrayal of masculinity, agency, adult/child power dynamics, resilience, victimhood and culpability within literary fiction is considered in both the novel and the accompanying …
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… of the hardboiled detective novel, and Colson Whitehead's Zone One, a literary take on the zombie apocalypse subgenre of horror fiction. Each novel breaks, bends, or ignores the rules of the genre they are working within as a vehicle for their social commentary, and yet go unrecognized …
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The Politics of Victimhood and Representation in Crime Literature
… contemporary authors, namely Louise Erdrich and Colson Whitehead, challenge these limitations of victimhood. I hope that such a study not only critiques the framework that allows certain identities a space of visibility while denying that access to others, but that it also highlights the ways in …
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FROM RIVER ROAD PLANTATIONS TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: BRINGING THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT RACIAL DIVIDE
… using a visit to five historical plantations and Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> to illustrate the persistence of injustice beyond slavery to Jim Crow laws, color-blind rhetoric, and mass incarceration. At each plantation, I encounter a varied history of slavery and find that …
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Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
… and movement of resources, before looking to how Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Mohsin Hamid use fantastic transportation structures to show migration delinked from the need or demand for labor and resources. Each chapter features a social movement that emphasizes infrastructure …
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Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950
… chapter, James Baldwin’s Another Country and Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days are placed in contrast to consider the historical differences that produce Baldwin’s pessimism and Whitehead’s utopianism in consideration of the role of negative masculinity for different histories of black …
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"The fullest possible account": Knowledge and Exceptionalism in Post-9/11 Literature
… of ethical witnessing. Chapter Four traces Colson Whitehead's tortured relationship with the city he both loves and fears in The Colossus of New York. Colossus specifically addresses challenges to the technological arm of exceptionalist discourse by exploring how the nation never has the …
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Landscape patterns and patch dynamics in Hamilton county over a forty year period: applicability to the conservation of the eastern box turtle
Exurban development is the fastest growing form of land use in the southeastern US and the primary driver of habitat and biodiversity loss. Species with long generation times such as the eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) can persist in an urbanizing environment but have higher …
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PMN/PT and rutile LAC voltage breakdown dependency with respect to backfill gas, voltage rates of rise, and pressure
Previous work on the breakdown behavior of PMN-PT and TiO2 Lightning Arrester Connectors (LAC) has limited the focus to only a few gasses, pressures and rates of rise of the applied voltage. Through this thesis a more comprehensive look into the breakdown behavior of these LACs and how they respond …
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La naissance du livre de cuisine : Etude discursive des ouvrages culinaires d'Ancien Régime (1651-1799)
Entre 1651 et 1799, l'édition culinaire de langue française connaît une efflorescence sans précédent ; conjointement, au coeur du 18e s., naît la Nouvelle Cuisine, mode culinaire qui se veut être l'adaptation bourgeoise des moeurs aristocratiques. Partant de ces deux prérequis, cette étude cherche …
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Auditing Outside the "GAAP": The Association Between Non-GAAP Reporting and Audit Quality
<p>Publicly traded firms commonly supplement their audited GAAP-based financial statements with non-GAAP measures of firm performance. These measures are used by various stakeholders, including investors, analysts, lenders, and firms’ compensation committees. The permissive nature of non-GAAP …
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Writing against democracy: anarchist literature and the aporia of representation, 1880-1940
This dissertation proposes “anarchist literature” as both a generic classification and a methodological orientation toward the overlapping fields of American literature and democratic politics. By expanding the boundaries of both literature and anarchism, it offers an important supplement to …
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“The Sunlit Prison of the American Dream”: Representing Carcerality in Contemporary American Fiction
… through selected works by Jesmyn Ward and Colson Whitehead, exploring how the genre of the slave narrative was shaped by its historical context and how it has influenced contemporary writing about prisons. I then discuss the impact of incarceration on family units, as seen in Tayari Jones’s …
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Developing in situ instrumentation to monitor anthropogenic change
To predict and mitigate anthropogenic impacts on the ocean, we must understand the underlying systems that govern the ocean’s response to inputs (e.g. carbon dioxide, pollutants). Analytical models can be used to generate predictions and simulate intervention strategies, but they must be grounded …
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Coating Parameters of Zirconium Carbide On Advanced Triso Fuels
<p>The feasibility of using very high temperature reactors (VHTR) as part of the next generation of nuclear reactors greatly depends on the tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel particles reliability to retain both gaseous and metallic fission products created in irradiated UO2. Most research …
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Elementary Teacher Mentoring in a Rural Georgia School System: The Impact on Teacher Retention and the Implication for Elementary School Principals
The purpose of this study was to explore beginning teachers' beliefs on their mentoring programs and to explain their perspectives. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with three beginning teacher participants and three principal participants in a rural Georgia school system. Constant …
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Teacher Training on Teaching Students with Dyslexia
<p>Dyslexia is a central educational issue that teachers are facing today; it is important that teachers receive specific training on how to meet the educational needs of students with dyslexia in their classrooms. The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of training that teachers have …
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