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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Women's Literature"”.
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Storied Memories: Memory as Resistance in Contemporary Women's Literature
… memory theory to eight contemporary women's novels, Carole Maso's The Art Lover; Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina; Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory; Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible; Arundhati Roy's The God of Small …
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Representations of post-2000 displacement in Zimbabwean women's literature
This study examines literature by Zimbabwean women that explores evictions and migrations of people from 2000 to 2009 when the crisis subsided with the enactment of the Global Political Agreement (GPA).
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Raping the raced body: Trauma in Asian North American women's literature
… in short fiction and novels by Asian American women writing post-WWII to the present. The central focus of this project is on Asian American literary representations of the lingering effects of physical, racial, and sexual traumas to Asian American women, specifically the nuances of narrating …
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The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women's Literature
… in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women’s Literature” explores renderings of the Middle Passage in literature by African American and Caribbean writers. Departing from the premise that the term “Middle Passage” is insufficient where it concerns describing the massive forced …
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… Pathology and Sympathy in American Women’s Literature, 1866-1900</em> examines the work of four American women novelists writing between 1866 and 1900 as responses to a dominant medical discourse that pathologized women’s emotions. The popular fiction of Metta Fuller Victor, …
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Listening to "Silence": Alternative Modes of Communication in Korean and Korean American Women's Literature
… three cases of South Korean and Korean American women’s fictions used in this dissertation, I unpack these alternative modes of communications used by the female protagonists through a two-fold approach: I first locate and analyze these alternative communications, and second, I read the text …
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The poetics of hysterics: Feminine madness in Victorian English and modern Chinese women's literature
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:02:33Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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"You Are Safe": Black Maternal Politics Of Resistance And The Question Of Community Consensus In African American Women's Literature
… study focuses on a number of African American women's literary texts that employ the figure of the black mother and the motif of infanticide to engage in critical statements about system arrangements, repressive practices, and theory designs with direct effect upon black people's choices for …
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Diane Wakoski: an annotated bibliography of secondary materials
… poet. With her publication of <i>Virtuoso Literature For Two And Four Hands</i> in March 1975, Wakoski was acclaimed to be one of the most intellectually daring poets in America. However, some of Wakoski's later work lacks the energy of her first publication; nevertheless, her style has …
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Envisioning Women Writers: Female Authorship and the Cultures of Publishing and Translation in Early 20th Century Japan
… dissertation examines the discourses surrounding women and writing in the rapidly commercialized publishing industry and media in early 20th-century Japan. While Japan has a rich history of women's writing from the 10th century onwards, it was in the 1910s that the journalistic category of …
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Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction
… and the Making of the Middle-Class in Modern Women's Fiction," I analyze the social anxieties surrounding domestic servants that permeated both popular and canonical archives in the United States during the early half of the twentieth century. I contend that a feminized and racialized brand of …
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Alternative Emanzipationsvorstellungen in der DDR unter Honecker (1971-1990):ein Diskussionsbeitrag zur Rollen der Frau
Over the last twenty years the situation of women in the German Democratic Republic has been the subject of a considerable number of studies. The approach has generally been of a sociological or socio-political nature. In this thesis I propose to go one step further by examining the information …
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‘The Power of Three Will Set Us Free': Witchy Womanist Readings of Toni Morrison’s Sula, Opal Palmer Adisa’s It Begins With Tears, and Migdalia Cruz’s The Have-Little and Miriam’s Flowers
… for reading, teaching, and writing about literature in order to generate emancipatory knowledge, activate Queer, Black, and Indigenous consciousnesses, contribute to 21<sup>st</sup> century women’s, Black, and Indigenous liberation movements, and foster (re)connections to ancestral rituals …
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"Myn owene woman, wel at ese" : feminist facts in the fiction of Mary McCarthy
… works need not be reviewed in a survey essay on "Women's Literature" because they are "essentially masculine even if not conventionally so" (345). The thesis is that McCarthy's fiction receives a pattern of criticism faulting its lack of imagination and its inability to create "living" characters …
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Melancholic epistolarity : letters and traumatic exile in the novels of three Francophone women
In her 1982 groundbreaking work on the epistolary form in novels, Janet Gurkin Altman gives a working definition of epistolarity which will be a guiding concept for this project; she defines it simply as: “the use of the letter’s formal properties to create meaning…” (Altman 4). Of course, to …
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Modern Homes? An Analysis of Irish and British Women's Literary Constructions of Domestic Space 1929-1946
… notably absent in the works of Irish and British women authors from 1929-1946. On the contrary, in these texts, domestic space has multiple functions, not least of which is its usefulness in exploring concepts of modernity, including the consequences of industrial scale warfare on civilian life. …
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Maria Messina : her works
… their contribution to the understanding of both women's literature and the position of the woman in a patriarchal society during the period of Fascist control of Italy. Although there is growing interest in Messina's works, no full-length study exists which combines a general overview of her …
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