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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority"”.
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Visionaries of the American West : Mari Sandoz and Her Four Plains Protagonists
<p>The authorial reputation of Mari Sandoz has long rested in the shadow of other writers of her era. First of all, Sandoz wrote from and about a relatively remote region of the United States. In addition, she firmly refused to produce popular works at the expense of sacrificing the truth she …
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An Exploration of Dual Identity in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
<p>Having a dual identity is something that comes across in Sandra Cisneros’s <em>The House on Mango Street</em>. In this novella, the protagonist, Esperanza Cordero, tries to discover, create, and accept the complexity of her dual identity that is influence by her experiences with poverty, …
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Lessons from Hybridity: A Look into the Coupling of Image and Text in Karen Tei Yamashita’s <em>Letters to Memory</em>, Claudia Rankine’s <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em>, and Ilya Kaminsky’s <em>Deaf Republic</em>
<p>The spoken and written word has always been a platform for voices to be heard, but being heard is not always enough. This thesis focuses on the use of hybrid forms in recent publications that address this issue, placing images alongside the written word, letting readers also personally visualize …
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Interior Chinatown: Chinatown as a Performative Space
<p>This thesis focuses on Charles Yu’s <em>Interior Chinatown: A Novel</em> (2020), exploring the function of Chinatown in Los Angeles within the novel as a space of creation, that of “Asia” for Hollywood and home for Taiwanese immigrants. I argue that <em>Interior Chinatown</em> offers a unique …
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Banned Books and Educational Censorship: The Necessity of Keeping Queer Books in Schools
<p>Despite most parents and students fundamentally disagreeing with the censorship of books, book banning has spiraled out of control in the United States. The number of new book bans rises almost exponentially every school year, and books with queer themes are targeted far more frequently. Pro-ban …
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Personhood and Objecthood: Examining the Speaker’s Interiority and Double Consciousness in <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em>
<p>The interpersonal use of the “you” (the second person) in <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em> commands the reader to not look away and bear witness to the interiority Black Americans’ consciousness. The essay examines the transformation of Rankine’s works that expands how double consciousness, …
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Illustrations of Nepantleras: Bridge Making Potential in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and The Guardians
Chicana literature to date has extensively illustrated the process of identity construction—the development of mestiza consciousness—as the means through which Mexican American females may thwart the agents of oppressive patriarchal authority in their lives. While this highly theoretical and …
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Human As We All Are: Posthuman Subjectivity in The Paper Menagerie and The Three-Body Problem
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to examine the formulation of posthuman subjectivity in contemporary science fiction through stories that collapse the distinction between humans and machines. I draw upon contemporary research on the sociological implications of such technologies as artificial …
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"Too Big to Swallow All at Once": Consumption and Posthuman Healing in Ceremony and House Made of Dawn
<p>This project examines the roles of animals and animal figures in the Native American novels <em>House Made of Dawn </em>(1968)<em></em>by N. Scott Momaday and <em>Ceremony </em>(1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko. Both novelists consistently evoke animal imagery within their respective texts often …
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"Compulsion": The Fictionalization of the Leopold-Loeb Case and the Struggle for Creative Control of "The Crime of the Century"
<p>When an artist releases a project into the global marketplace, it is difficult to say that it is “their” project from that point onward. Once an artistic work is made accessible to the public, it all but becomes public property as it is reinterpreted and re-released in different forms. In the …
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"Undone by Murmurs of Love": Traumatic Legacies and the Struggle for Personal and Communal Identity Formation in Toni Morrison's Trilogy
<p>Implications of racial oppression on personal and collective African American identity formation in Toni Morrison’s trilogy are explored in this thesis. Morrison reconstructs African American history in her trilogy, but she also enacts a cultural healing through content and form. Impossible …
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Critical Exploration of the Neo-Slave Narrative in Selected Walker and Morrison Novels
<p>This study examines Alice Walker’s <em>The Colored Purple</em> and Toni Morrison’s <em>Beloved</em> as Neo-Slave Narratives.<em> </em>These extraordinary authors reveal slave history in their novels. Although these novels deal with neo-slave narratives, they closely identify with history of …
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Traumatic and Healing Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
… analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, with a focus on individual as well as collective memory work in historically marginalized indigenous and African-American communities, respectively. This represents a critical study of how the novels invoke …
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CHAMELEON BOY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERARY CRITIQUE OF BIRACIAL SUBJECTS IN A RACIALIZED SOCIETY
<p>In American society, race is a determining factor when realizing a salient identity. Social engagements, relationships, and the perception has of one’s self are all effected and choreographed by race. Deeply ingrained within our social structure race aims to categorize humanity into easily …
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"Pieces in a Pattern": Virginia Woolf and Family Memory
<p>By examining two memoirs written by Virginia Woolf and one memoir written by her father, Leslie Stephen, along with Woolf's novel, <em>To the Lighthouse</em>, I will investigate the memoir genre, particularly in the context of understanding a shared history. These four texts provide a means of …
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