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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Hell on wheels"”.
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Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture
<p>This dissertation uses geocriticism to argue that the American railroad is best understood as a set of discursively constructed railspaces formed through a variety of viewpoints, a polysensorial awareness of space, and stratified social relationships and power struggles. This study takes up four …
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Vanishing Voices: The Impact of Life Behind the Barbed Wire on World War II Prisoners of War
This dissertation is an exploration into the lived experiences and interconnectedness of World War II prisoners of war (POWs). It is driven by the personal accounts of four men who experienced life on the wrong side of the barbed wire: my father, the late William Austin Burgess, formerly of …