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Indianness and Womanhood: Textualizing the Female American Self 

Rex, Cathy (2008-08-15)
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. ...

'Not so much written as dreamed': Quaker Dream-work in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly 

Reid, Jennifer (2006-05-15)
The religious element of Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker (1799), and, specifically, the novel’s relationship with Quakerism, is often misunderstood, understated, or simply ignored by ...

The Right to Represent: The Transformation of Topsy in Robert Alexander's I Ain't Yo' Uncle 

Allen, Stephanie (2007-08-15)
For my master’s thesis, I intend to examine the reception of “Topsy” in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin from the date of publication as a novel in 1852 through 1892. I will investigate and demonstrate the struggle ...

Surviving the Storm: The Representation of African Americans from Gee's Bend to Hurricane Katrina 

Finch, Heather (2007-05-15)
The representation of African Americans has been a difficult subject to discuss and a difficult problem to solve. Different ways of approaching the representation of African Americans are shown in news feeds, newspapers, ...