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Masculinity In Comparative Black Literatures
This project examines the ways in which Black men in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora define themselves as gendered beings in their fiction and drama beginning with Richard Wright's publication of Native Son in 1940 to Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter published 1980. Black men created a …
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Internationalism and Anglophone Literatures, 1900-1950
This thesis examines the literary contours of social relations, space, and community under the global capitalist formations of the first half of the twentieth century. Examining international structures of feeling with particular reference to the literary and social contexts of Aotearoa New Zealand …
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Evidence and Sustenance in Transnational Indigenous Literatures
The thesis compares literatures from two political contexts, the postcolonial Indian nation-state and the settler colonial states, Australia and North America. I examine the ways in which Indigenous sovereignty and transnational solidarity is established in literature. This thesis demonstrates that …
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Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
The enslavement and persecution of African and Native peoples has been occurring in the U.S. since the 1600s. There have been justifications, explanations and excuses offered as to why one race feels superior over another. Slavery, according to the Abolition Project, refers to "a condition in which …
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Annihilation And Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures On Genocide And Capital
<p>The emergence of South-South relations in politics and economics refracts strangely through the literature produced in these postcolonial regions. Two primary worldviews emerge in these texts. The first focuses on the continued presence of imperial powers in the South and their culpability in …
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Fauna in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures
… compare the way Archaic Greek and Kalanga wisdom literatures resort to animal imagery in the dissemination of moral lessons. The study evaluates the way animals are deployed as metaphors to signify and express human actions and human attitudes in oral thought. In a narrow sense, I study the …
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Legible Grief: Discursive Liminality in Twentieth Century Literatures of Trauma
Currently, scholars in the fields of trauma and affect studies are sharply divided on whether “direct” or extra-discursive experience is possible, and moreover about how such a space might function within the fraught contexts of survivor narratives. On the one hand, scholars of trauma in the …
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Detecting colonialism: Detective fiction in Native American and Sardinian literatures
… compares Native American and Sardinian literatures, focussing on literary renditions of detective stories, a recent development which has occurred in both literatures. The study is based on Procedura (1988), and Il terzo suono (1995), by Sardinian author Salvatore Mannuzzu; The Sharpest …
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The Materiality of Memory: Everyday Objects in Post-Socialist Literatures and Cultures
This dissertation argues that material objects—narrated and exhibited—play a crucial role in acts that question and maintain historical divisions. This project showcases numerous adaptations and obfuscations of material objects for coming to terms with divisions, ruptures, and changes after 1989 in …
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Undisciplined bodies: Deviant female sexuality in Russian and Yiddish literatures, 1877-1929
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Digital Text and Physical Experience: French Digital Literatures Between Work and Text
… Text and Physical Experience: French Digital Literatures Between Work and Text Susan Joan Cronin This thesis takes into consideration the presence of computers and electronic equipment in French literary and multimedia discussions, beginning in the first chapter with the foundation of the …
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Detour to Otherness: Cultural Identity Discourse in Contemporary *American, Ukrainian, and Polish Literatures
"The comparison demonstrates that despite the extensive tradition of addressing diversity in the American literature, the horizontal lines of intercultural exchange or the non-hierarchical ""ethnorelativism of representation"" emerges in American writing only recently, in the works produced as …
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Photographic construct and narrative imagination: An approach in contemporary French and American literatures
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"Dance your style!" : towards understanding some of the cultural significances of pow wow references in First Nations' literatures
… of Pow Wow References in First Nations' Literatures References to pow wows, pow wow dancers, and pow wow songs abound in First Nations' literatures. This dissertation proposes attending, observing and listening at pow wows - an aural principal and strategy - in order to learn from First …
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… African American literature and white ethnic literatures can be imaginatively negotiated by examining the construction of space and place in black and white-ethnic writing. I argue that both black and immigrant literature of the time casts the relationship between ethnic/racial subjects and …
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Automatic data interpretation from scientific literatures in the portable document format with information-extraction tools for the advancement of materials discovery
… and chemistry information from scientific literatures that are in PDF (portable document format), a widely used format in academic and scientific communities, to accelerate the data-driven materials discovery. The nature of PDF files presents specific challenges for data extraction. …
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Knowledge synthesis in the biomedical literature: Nordihydroguaiaretic acid and breast cancer.
… bring together two or more non-interactive literatures to create combinatorial research data on a specific topic. In this endeavor the biomedical literature was searched on the anti-neoplastic agent nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) for its potential role as a functional food in the …
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Composite City: Towards A Theory of the Composite Urban In Contemporary Multi-/Ethnic Literature
… contemporary fiction has generated literatures reflective of the complexities of the global city, literary theory has neglected to keep up. This is due to the failure of literary theory to encompass the dynamism of global citizenship, identity, and nation-building inherent in these …
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