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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Race in literature"”.
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CONSIDERING CONNECTIONS: RACE, IDENTITY AND LEADERSHIP IN PAUL BEATTY’S THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE
Challenging those who have mistakenly reduced racial identities to an unchanging, fixed category, Paul Beatty encourages his audience to grasp the intersectional process of identity formation in his novel The White Boy Shuffle. Beatty’s creative imagination and high-academic vocabulary illustrate …
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CONSIDERING CONNECTIONS: RACE, IDENTITY AND LEADERSHIP IN PAUL BEATTY’S THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE
Challenging those who have mistakenly reduced racial identities to an unchanging, fixed category, Paul Beatty encourages his audience to grasp the intersectional process of identity formation in his novel The White Boy Shuffle. Beatty’s creative imagination and high-academic vocabulary illustrate …
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Reading "The uncanny X-Men" : gender, race, and the mutant metaphor in a popular narrative
The first superhero comic book was published in 1938 and since that time the genre has become a staple of American popular culture. While superhero stories have been adapted into every popular storytelling medium, the genre is most closely associated with the comic book industry. This dissertation …
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Paydazed and a Song for Shenandoah
… of poetry and two non-fiction essays written during my enrollment in the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts program at the University of New Mexico. The manuscript begins with an essay detailing the moment in my life when I started to write again, after a writer\u201fs block that lasted fifteen …
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Archives of facade
Fantasy is a genre that seldom includes black characters. When black characters are present, they often lack the same narrative significance, reliability and character growth that is given to white characters. This can lead to poorly written black characters that lack purpose or fall victim to …
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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
<p>This dissertation examines key moments in fictional and autobiographical texts when gender construction and colonization intersect and create the possibility for reciprocal visual exchange between disparate people. In a visual exchange, the participants actively and meaningfully look at one …