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'An Art of Speaking': A Study of Anzaldua’s Borderlands as a 'Tactical Discourse'
(2009-04-17)
The purpose of the present thesis has been to create a “de Certeauian” framework for studying resistance. The author situates Michel de Certeau’s work alongside other theorists, including Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin ...
Ambassadors of Community: The History and Complicity of the Family Community in Midnight’s Children and the God of Small Things
(2009-04-27)
This thesis seeks to explore the usefulness of the family as a theoretical construct that serves to provide stability to characters in postcolonial literature in the absence of a stable national community. Benedict Anderson‟s ...
Sundays
(2009-05-01)
This thesis is comprised of eight short stories that explore loss, whether literal or symbolic, and the consequences upon the stories’ protagonists. In “Blue Dreams,” “September,” and “Fathers and Sons,” a loved one has ...
Indianness and Womanhood: Textualizing the Female American Self
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation focuses on the intricate relationship between Indianness and the formation of a uniquely new identity in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—that of the American woman writer. ...
Performative Rhetoric and the Early American Female Criminal
(2015-07-28)
Female criminals, in a variety of ways, entered into public discourse and utilized forms of performance in order to leave their mark upon a culture that often severely limited the ways or extent to which women could engage ...
Hedge Days-- 1981-1994
(2008-09-09)
This thesis is a collection of thirty-two poems preceded by an introduction. The introduction explores my use of myth to craft a dynamic, evocative style; it also analyzes my ""mythmaking"" as a way of creating distance ...
Discourses of Race and Disease in British and American Travel Writing about the South Seas 1870-1915
(2009-12-15)
The nineteenth century saw the islands of the South Pacific colonized by the Western powers, including the United States. Because of this relatively late date compared to other colonized regions of the world, the imperializing ...
'From Darwin to the Death Camps': A Collage of Holocaust Representation Focusing on Perpetrator Atrocity Discourse in Literature, Drama, and Film
(2008-09-09)
In this dissertation my plan is to take a collage of representational forms that deal with the subject of the Holocaust and to point at the discourse of the perpetrator as possibly a more postmodern form of representing ...
Fat Bob
(2008-09-09)
This is a fiction writing thesis consisting of four short stories. Each short story was originally conceived of by the author during the graduate fiction writing classes taken at Auburn University during the spring and ...
The Polyphonic “Voice of Society”: A Stylistic Analysis of Our Mutual Friend
(2008-09-09)
My study of Our Mutual Friend is restricted to seven chapters, each with the same short list of characters, which introduce or conclude the four books of the novel. Society is the label under which these chapters come, ...