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1. Thomson, Amy L. Antithetical dialogue| Claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature.

Degree: 2011, University of Central Oklahoma

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1488665

► Canonical Euro-American literary and historical discourses exhibit American Indians in stereotypical terms. The characterization of American Indians in Euro-American discourse creates a silent absence… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American Studies; Literature, American; Native American Studies

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Thomson, A. L. (2011). Antithetical dialogue| Claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature. (Thesis). University of Central Oklahoma. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1488665

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Thomson, Amy L. “Antithetical dialogue| Claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature.” 2011. Thesis, University of Central Oklahoma. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1488665.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Thomson, Amy L. “Antithetical dialogue| Claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature.” 2011. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Thomson AL. Antithetical dialogue| Claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Central Oklahoma; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1488665.

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Thomson AL. Antithetical dialogue| Claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature. [Thesis]. University of Central Oklahoma; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1488665

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2. Smelcer, John E. The complete Ahtna poems.

Degree: 2011, State University of New York at Binghamton

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3461356

► As a tribally and federally enrolled member of the Ahtna tribe of Alaska, and as one of the last speakers of the Ahtna language,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American Studies; Literature, American; Native American Studies

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Smelcer, J. E. (2011). The complete Ahtna poems. (Thesis). State University of New York at Binghamton. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3461356

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Smelcer, John E. “The complete Ahtna poems.” 2011. Thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3461356.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Smelcer, John E. “The complete Ahtna poems.” 2011. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Smelcer JE. The complete Ahtna poems. [Internet] [Thesis]. State University of New York at Binghamton; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3461356.

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Smelcer JE. The complete Ahtna poems. [Thesis]. State University of New York at Binghamton; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3461356

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3. Clingan, Joan. Who is we?| Toward a theory of solidarity; toward a future of sustainability.

Degree: 2008, Union Institute and University

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3314400

► The dissertation "Who is We?: Toward a Theory of Solidarity; Toward a Future of Sustainability" explicates solidarity theory; a critical theory that incorporates methods… (more)

▼ The dissertation "Who is We?: Toward a Theory of Solidarity; Toward a Future of Sustainability" explicates solidarity theory; a critical theory that incorporates methods from both literary and cultural studies in an analysis centered around the following practices: contextualizing story and history; the deconstruction of cultural hegemony that is used to validate oppression and injustice as well as contrasting ideology/counterhegemonic text; and the practice of analyzing text or culture based on the principles and practices of border-crossing solidarity and the social aspects of sustainability. The dissertation frames solidarity theory in existing critical and literary theories and social thought that have influenced the development of solidarity theory as a theoretical perspective: Marxism, feminisms, queer theory, ethnic criticisms, and postcolonial and decolonizing theories. A significant commonality of existing theoretical (and analogous practical) work is the persevering conversation that challenges social and cultural injustices based on specific and constructed aspects of identity (racism, imperialism, sexism, heteronormativity, and so on). I put forward that border-bridging solidarity in both analytical and practical work will confirm that every aspect of identity is ideologically classed or ranked, thereby maintaining identifiable yet fabricated supremacies that privilege a particular and exceptional group. Solidarity theory relies on the following tenets: identity is a social construction; identity is classed by way of cultural hegemony; the concepts of classing, social hierarchy, and a social ladder are hegemonic; discrimination and oppression are based on identity and uphold a social structure that privileges the social exception; and seeking and building solidarity across identity boundaries can provide greater strength and broader context. Solidarity theory uses the following analytical methods: analyzes contextually; examines text through a lens of wide-ranging and border-bridging solidarity of the marginalized majority as a complement to focused identity-specific methods of analysis; seeks, analyzes, and deconstructs hegemonic ideology and counter-hegemonic thought; and considers the potential group, institution, or entity that drives the hegemonic discourse that upholds power differentials by privileging the exception and marginalizing the majority. The dissertation includes the application of the theory on a set of contemporary texts by Spokane/Coeur d'Alene writer, Sherman Alexie. Keywords: Critical literary theory; social theory; multiethnic U.S. literature; solidarity; coalitions; anti-oppression; counter-hegemonic thought; and Indigenous/Native American Literature.

Subjects/Keywords: American Studies; Literature, American; Native American Studies

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Clingan, J. (2008). Who is we?| Toward a theory of solidarity; toward a future of sustainability. (Thesis). Union Institute and University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3314400

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Clingan, Joan. “Who is we?| Toward a theory of solidarity; toward a future of sustainability.” 2008. Thesis, Union Institute and University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3314400.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Clingan, Joan. “Who is we?| Toward a theory of solidarity; toward a future of sustainability.” 2008. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

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Clingan J. Who is we?| Toward a theory of solidarity; toward a future of sustainability. [Internet] [Thesis]. Union Institute and University; 2008. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3314400.

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Clingan J. Who is we?| Toward a theory of solidarity; toward a future of sustainability. [Thesis]. Union Institute and University; 2008. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3314400

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Harvard University

4. Toledo, Noah. The Latino Diaspora Is a Dystopia: U.S. Chicano and Latinx Experiences of Intersectional Oppression in Fiction - an Introductory Essay and an Original Short Story Collection: Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart and Other Stories.

Degree: 2018, Harvard University

URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37945113

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The introductory essay of this thesis looks at U.S. Latino and Chicano writers such as Junot Díaz and Sandra Cisneros, their craft, inspiration on my… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Literature, American; Hispanic American Studies; American Studies

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Toledo, N. (2018). The Latino Diaspora Is a Dystopia: U.S. Chicano and Latinx Experiences of Intersectional Oppression in Fiction - an Introductory Essay and an Original Short Story Collection: Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart and Other Stories. (Thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37945113

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Toledo, Noah. “The Latino Diaspora Is a Dystopia: U.S. Chicano and Latinx Experiences of Intersectional Oppression in Fiction - an Introductory Essay and an Original Short Story Collection: Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart and Other Stories.” 2018. Thesis, Harvard University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37945113.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Toledo, Noah. “The Latino Diaspora Is a Dystopia: U.S. Chicano and Latinx Experiences of Intersectional Oppression in Fiction - an Introductory Essay and an Original Short Story Collection: Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart and Other Stories.” 2018. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Toledo N. The Latino Diaspora Is a Dystopia: U.S. Chicano and Latinx Experiences of Intersectional Oppression in Fiction - an Introductory Essay and an Original Short Story Collection: Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart and Other Stories. [Internet] [Thesis]. Harvard University; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37945113.

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Toledo N. The Latino Diaspora Is a Dystopia: U.S. Chicano and Latinx Experiences of Intersectional Oppression in Fiction - an Introductory Essay and an Original Short Story Collection: Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart and Other Stories. [Thesis]. Harvard University; 2018. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37945113

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Temple University

5. Emery, Jacqueline. Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920.

Degree: PhD, 2011, Temple University

URL: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,139150

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This dissertation seeks to expand our conception of what constitutes Native American letters by examining how the periodical became a prominent form in Native… (more)

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This dissertation seeks to expand our conception of what constitutes Native American letters by examining how the periodical became a prominent form in Native American literary production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its focus on the boarding school, Writing against Erasure provides insight into the context in which students first learned how to make complex and sophisticated choices in print. Within the contested disciplinary space of the boarding school, the periodical press functioned as a site for competing discourses on assimilation. Whereas school authorities used the white-run school newspapers to publicize their programs of cultural erasure, students used the student-run school newspapers to defend and preserve Native American identity and culture in the face of the assimilationist imperatives of the boarding schools and the dominant culture. Writing against Erasure highlights the formative impact of students' experiences with the boarding school press on the periodical practices and rhetorical strategies of two well-known Native American literary figures, Zitkala-Sa and Charles Eastman. By treating the periodical writings of these two prominent boarding school graduates alongside the periodical writings produced by boarding school students while they were still at school, Writing against Erasure provides a literary genealogy that reveals important continuities between these writers' strategic and political uses of the periodical press. Writing against Erasure argues that Native American boarding school students and graduates used the periodical press not to promote the interests of school authorities as some scholars have argued, but rather to preserve their cultural traditions, to speak out on behalf of indigenous interests, and to form a pan-Indian community at the turn of the twentieth century.

Temple University – Theses

Advisors/Committee Members: Orvell, Miles, Lee, Sue-Im, Salazar, James B., Powell, Timothy B..

Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; American Studies; Native American Studies

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Emery, J. (2011). Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920. (Doctoral Dissertation). Temple University. Retrieved from http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,139150

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Emery, Jacqueline. “Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,139150.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Emery, Jacqueline. “Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920.” 2011. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Emery J. Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Temple University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,139150.

Council of Science Editors:

Emery J. Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Temple University; 2011. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,139150

Duke University

6. Wasserman, Casey. Disruption and DisFunktion: Locating a Funk Sensorium in Twentieth Century African American Literature .

Degree: 2011, Duke University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3925

► This dissertation examines the way in which funk music, in the context of twentieth century African American literature, operates as a means of stimulating… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the way in which funk music, in the context of twentieth century African American literature, operates as a means of stimulating the sensorium. Funk, narrowly defined as a musical form, once carried negative connotations. Whether understood as depression, a genre of popular music, an odor, or as a euphemism for sex, the genre is concerned with attitude and visible emotions. Much work has been done in the field of African American literature regarding jazz and blues, and studies of hip-hop are gaining traction. Funk, however, has not fulfilled its potential for investigating its affect of musical performance or its connection to narratives. This project is an examination of the aesthetics of this musical form, which will generate more nuanced readings of musical and literary narratives of the 1960s and 1970s through an analysis of sound and its sensorial variants. I examine the function of music in a literary text as opposed to how it is described. Funk operates as a link between the jazz- and blues-inspired poetry and novels of the early twentieth century on the one hand and the emergence of "urban," "street," or "hip-hop" narratives on the other. Its artistic intervention in social relationships brings the aesthetic and political into conversation. I argue against the binary differentiating "serious" and "popular" musical forms; funk bridges the gap between these two designations in an important context, which creates a sonic and social space to examine the idea of difference both in terms of the general and the specific. A misconception of "sameness" is the site of theoretical and ontological difference or disruption. Funk's ability to disrupt resides in its paradoxical nature. Rhythmically, the musical genre departs from soul of the 1960s and is fundamental to the development of hip-hop in the late-1970s and early 1980s. Though rooted in distinct rhythmic patterns, Funk seeks to dismantle conceptions of rhythmic expectation and production common in popular music by pushing back against previously popular forms. Prior to Funk's popularity, most musical forms ranging from jazz to rock and roll emphasized the second and fourth beats in a measure. Funk compositions typically emphasize the first and third beats, which changes the momentum of the music. Though it is a genre geared towards dance and therefore rooted in the body and movement, Funk gravitates towards transcending the physical limits of the body by addressing discourses of sensorial perception. Funk (both as a musical genre and an aesthetic) is something of sensory ensemble – each sense a part of the whole, complex experience. The five senses are brought together in an all-out attack on what hegemony comes to represent. Each chapter presents a different mode of assault on the body's ability to process the sensorium. I demonstrate the way Funk disrupts through a fusion of ethnomusicology, socio-cultural analysis, and literary criticism in the act of reading, hearing, watching, smelling, and tasting… Advisors/Committee Members: Holloway, Karla (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; American Studies; African American Studies

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Wasserman, C. (2011). Disruption and DisFunktion: Locating a Funk Sensorium in Twentieth Century African American Literature . (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3925

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wasserman, Casey. “Disruption and DisFunktion: Locating a Funk Sensorium in Twentieth Century African American Literature .” 2011. Thesis, Duke University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3925.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wasserman, Casey. “Disruption and DisFunktion: Locating a Funk Sensorium in Twentieth Century African American Literature .” 2011. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Wasserman C. Disruption and DisFunktion: Locating a Funk Sensorium in Twentieth Century African American Literature . [Internet] [Thesis]. Duke University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3925.

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Council of Science Editors:

Wasserman C. Disruption and DisFunktion: Locating a Funk Sensorium in Twentieth Century African American Literature . [Thesis]. Duke University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3925

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7. Ferguson, Josh-Wade. Rambling blues: mapping contemporary North American blues literature.

Degree: PhD, English, 2019, University of Mississippi

URL: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1752

► “Rambling Blues: Mapping Contemporary North American Blues Literature” revises the methodological assumptions that have underwritten our understanding of blues literature and the politics of race… (more)

▼ “Rambling Blues: Mapping Contemporary North American Blues Literature” revises the methodological assumptions that have underwritten our understanding of blues literature and the politics of race and region that surround it. Where previous commentators have defined blues literature primarily through its formal and thematic connections with blues music and with the sociohistorical contours of black southern life more generally this dissertation expands the boundaries of how we conceive blues literature by examining Langston Hughes’ poems “The Weary Blues” (1925) and “Po Boy Blues” (1926) August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984) Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011) James Hannaham’s Delicious Foods (2015) Kiese Laymon’s Long Division (2013) Joy Harjo’s “Everybody Has a Heartache: A Blues” (2014) Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues (1995) Richard Wagamese’s Keeper’n Me (1994) Drew Hayden Taylor’s The Bootlegger Blues (1991) The Baby Blues (1999) The Buz’Gem Blues (2002) The Berlin Blues (2007) and Cerulean Blue (2015) and George Elliott Clarke’s Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues (1983) and Whylah Falls (1990). In contemporary African American literature the blues through representations of music musicians and aesthetics enables a cross-generational connection that focuses on how precarity in the wake of slavery and its afterlives continue to plague black working-class communities; the blues in contemporary African American literature animates a cultural memory. Understanding the development of the blues as a form of cultural remembering as well as an idiom of resistance and self-expression provides an important critical framework to articulate the allure of the blues for Indigenous and African-Canadian writers. What develops across these multiple voices are representations of the blues as a musical form a way of reckoning with personal and collective pain an expressive mode of resistance and a means of articulating socio-economic precarity in the wake of slavery and settler colonialism. Ranging from the US Deep South and Indigenous reservations to black Nova Scotia Canada this dissertation provides a remapped understanding of blues writing outlines the debt English North American literature owes to African American culture and articulates the blues as a contemporary and global form of expression that resists cultural and social elision. Advisors/Committee Members: Adam Gussow, Anthony Bolden.

Subjects/Keywords: African American studies; American literature; American studies; African American Studies; American Literature; American Studies

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Ferguson, J. (2019). Rambling blues: mapping contemporary North American blues literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Mississippi. Retrieved from https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1752

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ferguson, Josh-Wade. “Rambling blues: mapping contemporary North American blues literature.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Mississippi. Accessed April 17, 2021. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1752.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ferguson, Josh-Wade. “Rambling blues: mapping contemporary North American blues literature.” 2019. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Ferguson J. Rambling blues: mapping contemporary North American blues literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Mississippi; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1752.

Council of Science Editors:

Ferguson J. Rambling blues: mapping contemporary North American blues literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Mississippi; 2019. Available from: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1752

8. Hardman, James Brian. "Plucking roses from a cabbage patch"| Class dynamics in progressive era Louisville as understood through the contested relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice.

Degree: 2017, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10247404

► In 1901, Alice Hegan Rice, a wealthy socialite reformer, published the novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch which dealt her experiences working with… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American history; American literature

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Hardman, J. B. (2017). "Plucking roses from a cabbage patch"| Class dynamics in progressive era Louisville as understood through the contested relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice. (Thesis). The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10247404

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hardman, James Brian. “"Plucking roses from a cabbage patch"| Class dynamics in progressive era Louisville as understood through the contested relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice.” 2017. Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10247404.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hardman, James Brian. “"Plucking roses from a cabbage patch"| Class dynamics in progressive era Louisville as understood through the contested relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice.” 2017. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Hardman JB. "Plucking roses from a cabbage patch"| Class dynamics in progressive era Louisville as understood through the contested relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10247404.

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Hardman JB. "Plucking roses from a cabbage patch"| Class dynamics in progressive era Louisville as understood through the contested relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice. [Thesis]. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10247404

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9. Peterson, Marianne. "Somewhere between and among them"| Faulkner's historical application of alienation in "Light in August".

Degree: 2010, California State University, Dominguez Hills

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1481428

► This research examines the overwhelmingly present theme of alienation in the Faulkner novel Light in August (1932). First, the broader context of the alienated… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American Studies; Philosophy; Literature, American

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Peterson, M. (2010). "Somewhere between and among them"| Faulkner's historical application of alienation in "Light in August". (Thesis). California State University, Dominguez Hills. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1481428

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Peterson, Marianne. “"Somewhere between and among them"| Faulkner's historical application of alienation in "Light in August".” 2010. Thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1481428.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Peterson, Marianne. “"Somewhere between and among them"| Faulkner's historical application of alienation in "Light in August".” 2010. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Peterson M. "Somewhere between and among them"| Faulkner's historical application of alienation in "Light in August". [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University, Dominguez Hills; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1481428.

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Council of Science Editors:

Peterson M. "Somewhere between and among them"| Faulkner's historical application of alienation in "Light in August". [Thesis]. California State University, Dominguez Hills; 2010. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1481428

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Indiana University

10. Blandford, Jon W. Known criminals Nineteenth-century U.S. crime literature and the epistemology of notoriety.

Degree: 2011, Indiana University

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3466316

► “Known Criminals” investigates early national and antebellum notoriety, a cultural formation ambiguously situated between criminality and celebrity and historically situated between the execution sermons… (more)

▼ “Known Criminals” investigates early national and antebellum notoriety, a cultural formation ambiguously situated between criminality and celebrity and historically situated between the execution sermons of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the detective novels and courtroom fiction of the late nineteenth century. In contrast to the more formulaic representations of crime that bookend this period, an epistemologically messy literature of notoriety flourished during the tumultuous early years of the new republic, registering its social and cultural upheavals. Crime, I argue, exerted a deformative pressure on this era's dominant types of generic management, pulling apart existing forms and reassembling them into often fugitive new configurations that, instead of rendering judgment, render judgment problematic. Focusing on criminal memoir, my first chapter analyzes how the incoherent presentation of self in the bestselling memoirs of late eighteenth-century confidence man Stephen Burroughs at once evokes and deconstructs an imagined national unity. My second chapter turns from the crisis of foundation to the conflict over slavery that jeopardized a tenuous national unity, spotlighting how Harriet Beecher Stowe's intertextual interrogation of the Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) in her antislavery novel Dred (1856) utilizes the instability of the confessional mode as a way to spread responsibility for the crime of slavery. Chapter three traces the origins of true crime to Catharine Williams's Fall River: An Authentic Narrative (1833), a published rejoinder to a sensational murder trial that draws on notoriety's generic hybridity as a critical alternative both to the gendered judgments of the courtroom and to the sentimental discourse of which this text is often mistakenly classed as a representative example. Finally, chapter four tracks the emergence of a second new form, the courtroom novel. This genre, I propose, first gets codified in James Fenimore Cooper's seldom-read final novel The Ways of the Hour (1850), a remarkable fusion of the legal and the literary that Cooper imagines might regulate notoriety's messy profusion of knowledge and judgment by making it subject to the language of the law.

Subjects/Keywords: American Studies; Literature, American

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Blandford, J. W. (2011). Known criminals Nineteenth-century U.S. crime literature and the epistemology of notoriety. (Thesis). Indiana University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3466316

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Blandford, Jon W. “Known criminals Nineteenth-century U.S. crime literature and the epistemology of notoriety.” 2011. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3466316.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Blandford, Jon W. “Known criminals Nineteenth-century U.S. crime literature and the epistemology of notoriety.” 2011. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Blandford JW. Known criminals Nineteenth-century U.S. crime literature and the epistemology of notoriety. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3466316.

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Blandford JW. Known criminals Nineteenth-century U.S. crime literature and the epistemology of notoriety. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3466316

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Carnegie Mellon University

11. Castagnaro, Mario. Embellishment, fabrication, and scandal| Hoaxing and the American press.

Degree: 2009, Carnegie Mellon University

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► My dissertation looks at journalistic hoaxes in American culture from the eighteenth century to the present. While many scholars understand hoaxes as practical jokes,… (more)

▼ My dissertation looks at journalistic hoaxes in American culture from the eighteenth century to the present. While many scholars understand hoaxes as practical jokes, I make the case that hoaxes have had a significant impact on the development of American journalism. Beginning with Benjamin Franklin's satirical “news stories” in the eighteenth century and ending with James Frey's A Million Little Pieces debacle on the Oprah Winfrey Show in the twenty-first, my dissertation charts an alternative cultural history of American journalism and its audience. I argue that hoaxes are events consisting of both text and textual effect; hoaxes tend to begin as textual objects and attain the status of hoax only when they are disseminated and generate secondary and tertiary accounts. In these metadiscursive moments, hoaxes come to offer some critique of their field, authorities, or audiences; such critiques are often made independent of any initial authorial intent. I show that hoaxes initially played a significant role in helping American news institutions establish themselves and increase their circulations by providing sensational and compelling stories to their readers. Yet, by the late nineteenth century, American journalism was actively recasting itself as a professional institution. This meant that newspaper professionals began to gravitate toward an “information” model, which viewed news as a series of verifiable events which could be reported objectively. With this drive toward professionalism, came a mounting need to expunge hoaxes and to visibly punish writers who fabricated news stories. Once cast as playful, satirical ruses, hoaxes came to be recast as more serious transgressions with potentially dangerous consequences. I argue that the emergent concept of news has been shaped just as much by negative examples as by positive, definitional constructions, and hoaxes have played a key role in this process. Newspapers have continually been faced with crisis points in their history, whether in the form of the redefinition of news that the Penny Press brought about in the 1830s, the rise of Yellow Journalism in the 1890s, or the incursion of radio in the 1930s. American journalism has continually benefitted from hoaxes, and newspapers have repeatedly used them as opportunities to redefine themselves in the face of changing media economies.

Subjects/Keywords: American Studies; Journalism; Literature, American

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Castagnaro, M. (2009). Embellishment, fabrication, and scandal| Hoaxing and the American press. (Thesis). Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3357585

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Castagnaro, Mario. “Embellishment, fabrication, and scandal| Hoaxing and the American press.” 2009. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3357585.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Castagnaro, Mario. “Embellishment, fabrication, and scandal| Hoaxing and the American press.” 2009. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Castagnaro M. Embellishment, fabrication, and scandal| Hoaxing and the American press. [Internet] [Thesis]. Carnegie Mellon University; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3357585.

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Castagnaro M. Embellishment, fabrication, and scandal| Hoaxing and the American press. [Thesis]. Carnegie Mellon University; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3357585

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12. Marshall, Richard D. "The Grapes of Wrath"| John Steinbeck's cognitive landscapes as commentary on 1930s industrialization.

Degree: 2009, Saint Louis University

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► John Steinbeck was a writer who created memorable stories and deeply cared about people, particularly the dispossessed and the persecuted. These people were the… (more)

▼ John Steinbeck was a writer who created memorable stories and deeply cared about people, particularly the dispossessed and the persecuted. These people were the subject of his greatest novels. Steinbeck's critics in the 1930s viewed him as an anti-capitalist and anti-industrialist because of his desire to document the horrid living conditions in the agricultural fields of California's Central Valley, but, in reality, Steinbeck's beliefs and attitudes were ambivalent when writing about the complex relationships that drove the social and economic life in the 1930s. Steinbeck created landscapes in The Grapes of Wrath to illustrate the effects of rapid industrialization within the American society of the 1930s, supporting a complex economic system that provided both benefits and liabilities to those living in this period of change. Cultural landscapes derive meaning through the hard work and effort of those who modify their physical surroundings. In much the same way, Steinbeck mentally crafted landscapes full of meaning as the setting for the characters of The Grapes of Wrath to act upon. This study has termed the landscape, crafted in the author's mind and used as the background setting for the novel, the "cognitive landscape." This cognitive landscape created for The Grapes of Wrath served as Steinbeck's unwitting autobiography, documenting his tastes, values, aspirations, and fears, all in a visible form. This study analyzes Steinbeck's three most prevalent cognitive landscapes; the highway, automobile, and migrant camp. Steinbeck created the highway landscape to illustrate the struggle between opportunity and oppression. He crafted the automobile landscape to describe the tension between the need to be mobile and the need to remain focused on the values that exist at home. He formed the migrant camp landscape to symbolize the tension of living between the worlds centered on both dislocation and community. This dissertation analyzes John Steinbeck's cognitive landscapes to argue that although he cared deeply for the story of the migrant workers, he wasn't an anti-capitalist or anti-industrialist, but he offered a complex and ambivalent viewpoint in this story and documented those feelings through the cognitive landscapes he created for The Grapes of Wrath.

Subjects/Keywords: American Studies; Geography; Literature, American

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Marshall, R. D. (2009). "The Grapes of Wrath"| John Steinbeck's cognitive landscapes as commentary on 1930s industrialization. (Thesis). Saint Louis University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3383306

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Marshall, Richard D. “"The Grapes of Wrath"| John Steinbeck's cognitive landscapes as commentary on 1930s industrialization.” 2009. Thesis, Saint Louis University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3383306.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Marshall, Richard D. “"The Grapes of Wrath"| John Steinbeck's cognitive landscapes as commentary on 1930s industrialization.” 2009. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Marshall RD. "The Grapes of Wrath"| John Steinbeck's cognitive landscapes as commentary on 1930s industrialization. [Internet] [Thesis]. Saint Louis University; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3383306.

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Council of Science Editors:

Marshall RD. "The Grapes of Wrath"| John Steinbeck's cognitive landscapes as commentary on 1930s industrialization. [Thesis]. Saint Louis University; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3383306

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Georgia State University

13. Iredell, James. Our Lady of Refuge.

Degree: 2010, Georgia State University

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► This story cycle focuses on the members of the Ordoñez family of Castroville, California from the time of the first generation's migration from Mexico… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Literature, American; Hispanic American Studies

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Iredell, J. (2010). Our Lady of Refuge. (Thesis). Georgia State University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3406055

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Iredell, James. “Our Lady of Refuge.” 2010. Thesis, Georgia State University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3406055.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Iredell, James. “Our Lady of Refuge.” 2010. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

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Iredell J. Our Lady of Refuge. [Internet] [Thesis]. Georgia State University; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3406055.

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Council of Science Editors:

Iredell J. Our Lady of Refuge. [Thesis]. Georgia State University; 2010. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3406055

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14. Monaco, Peter. "Last scientists of the Whole"| The poetics and politics of deep image.

Degree: 2013, State University of New York at Albany

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► his dissertation focuses on how poetic vision, as it is considered in experimental and investigative American poetry, functions as a mode of critical discourse… (more)

▼ his dissertation focuses on how poetic vision, as it is considered in experimental and investigative American poetry, functions as a mode of critical discourse aimed at illuminating and reconsidering the role of the poet and the nature of her work in relation to the post-World War Two milieu and what I deem the "long 20^th Century." As U.S. Cold War and contemporary ideology blurs the distinction between the public, private, and academic spheres, I argue that investigative and experimental poetics, specifically the work of the deep image poets, for whom the nature of language and its relation to and active participation in the formation of individual and collective identities, is engaged with material political struggles that emerge in the postmodern era. By simultaneously exploring new modes of critical discourse on the function of language that develop out of the historical avant garde, I argue that the deep image poets recognize a need for a new "world picture" in the wake of totalitarian and fascistic world visions. The poetic vision associated with deep image engages in a poetics of heterogeneity, contingency, experimentation with form and content, as well as forays into previously debased discourses of knowledge ranging from Renaissance era occult sciences to Jerome Rothenberg's insistence on an "ethnopoetics" which resuscitates and re-visions primordial, pre-modern, and global indigenous poetic forms. Previous studies on American poetry after the Second World War have focused on the rise of New Criticism and the development of academic modernism and "official verse culture," as well as the shift in governing assumptions in contemporary poetic practice. These studies also address the political and aesthetic impact of contemporary criticism on poetry readings, publishing, and the rise of accredited creative writing programs in colleges and universities. "Last Scientists of the Whole" contributes to this body of scholarship by offering an approach to theorizing poetic vision and the poetic as critical discourse with "political" agency, in opposition to the space that poetry is relegated to in popular and academic culture.

Subjects/Keywords: American Studies; Literature, American

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Monaco, P. (2013). "Last scientists of the Whole"| The poetics and politics of deep image. (Thesis). State University of New York at Albany. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3551095

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Monaco, Peter. “"Last scientists of the Whole"| The poetics and politics of deep image.” 2013. Thesis, State University of New York at Albany. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3551095.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Monaco, Peter. “"Last scientists of the Whole"| The poetics and politics of deep image.” 2013. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Monaco P. "Last scientists of the Whole"| The poetics and politics of deep image. [Internet] [Thesis]. State University of New York at Albany; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3551095.

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Council of Science Editors:

Monaco P. "Last scientists of the Whole"| The poetics and politics of deep image. [Thesis]. State University of New York at Albany; 2013. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3551095

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University of Helsinki

15. Klein, Ottilie. Lethal Performances? : Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama.

Degree: Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, Faculty of Arts; Binational doctoral degree as part of the international doctoral program 'European PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies"', Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany) and University of Helsinki, 2015, University of Helsinki

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/158085

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The doctoral thesis investigates the cultural function of dramatic narratives of female murder. For this purpose, the study offers textual analyses of plays that feature… (more)

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The doctoral thesis investigates the cultural function of dramatic narratives of female murder. For this purpose, the study offers textual analyses of plays that feature female murder as a central event. Paying close attention to each play s plot, form, and dramaturgy, the study seeks to attach meaning to the dramatic function of women s homicidal action. The survey of women who kill in modern American drama that is at the heart of the study covers a seventy-year span (1910s - 1980s) that allows a mapping out of continuities and transitions in dramatizations of female murder. Given the politically charged nature of the figure of the female murderer, the study argues that there are two types of narratives of female murder in modern American drama (and beyond): one that uses women s homicidal action as a mechanism to create disorder at the level of plot to ultimately contain women s lethal threat by re-establishing order and thereby reinforcing dominant ideology, so-called narratives of containment; and one that exploits the ideologically disruptive potential of the female murderer to comment on social ills or to dismantle ideological contradictions, so-called lethal performances. The study concludes that the cultural function of narratives of female murder is intricately connected with the cultural and historical moment from which they emerge and the type of narrative they respond to.

Väitöskirjassa tarkastellaan amerikkalaisia näytelmiä, jotka käsittelevät naismurhaajia ja heidän tekemiään murhia sekä niiden kulttuurisia tehtäviä. Kiinnittämällä huomio näytelmien juoneen, muotokieleen ja dramaturgiaan väitöskirjassa eritellään naisten murhaan johtavan toiminnan draamallista merkitystä. Tutkimuksen aineisto kattaa modernin amerikkalaisen teatterin keskeisiä teoksia seitsemän vuosikymmenen ajalta (1910-luvulta 1980-luvulle). Pitkä aikaväli mahdollistaa sen, että tutkimuksessa kyetään hahmottamaan aiheen käsittelyn jatkuvuuksia sekä siinä tapahtuneita muutoksia. Naismurhaajan hahmon kulttuurisesti ja poliittisesti latautuneen luonteen vuoksi väitöskirjassa esitetään, että amerikkalaisessa modernissa draamassa hahmoa käsitellään kahden erilaisen kerrontaskeeman avulla: yksi käyttää naisten tekemiä murhia mekanismina, jonka avulla juoneen luodaan epätasapainon tila; lopussa naismurhaajan hahmon uhkaavuus ja transgressiivisuus puretaan palauttamalla yhteisöön tasapaino. Tämä kerrontamalli tähtää hallitsevan ideologian vahvistamiseen ja siitä käytetään käsitettä narrative of containment. Toinen kertomuskaava hyödyntää rajoja rikkovan naismurhaajan hahmoa nostaakseen esiin yhteiskunnallisia epäkohtia tai ideologisia ristiriitaisuuksia. Tästä kaavasta käytetään ilmaisua lethal performances . Väitöskirjassa päätellään, että naismurhaajia käsittelevät näytelmät ovat tiiviisti yhteydessä siihen kulttuuriseen ja historialliseen hetkeen, jolloin ne kirjoitettiin ja esitettiin sekä siihen, kumpaa kertomusmallia niissä leimallisesti hyödynnetään.

Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; American Literature

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Klein, O. (2015). Lethal Performances? : Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Helsinki. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10138/158085

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Klein, Ottilie. “Lethal Performances? : Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Helsinki. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/158085.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Klein, Ottilie. “Lethal Performances? : Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama.” 2015. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Klein O. Lethal Performances? : Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Helsinki; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/158085.

Council of Science Editors:

Klein O. Lethal Performances? : Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Helsinki; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/158085

University of California – Irvine

16. Fonken, Brian. Gothic Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Degree: English, 2015, University of California – Irvine

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7n47338w

► My dissertation takes a new approach to the study of the American gothic, focusing on the rhetorical strategies by which authors chose to deploy the… (more)

▼ My dissertation takes a new approach to the study of the American gothic, focusing on the rhetorical strategies by which authors chose to deploy the conventions of gothic writing. While many investigations into the American gothic presuppose a national subject, whose fears and desires can be located and diagnosed, I argue that such a subject is incoherent, and that the psychic cartography of fear in nineteenth-century America varied widely from North to South, master to slave, carpetbagger to scalawag, white supremacist to freedperson. That being the case, it makes sense to read the gothic not as an essential feature of the writing this dissertation examines, but as a set of tropes and conventions which circulated through a variety of texts depicting spectacles of horror or reaching out to readers’ sense of fear. I call gothic episodes all chapters, scenes, and charged moments from literary works and broader print culture whose tropic or affective schema trace back to Gothic Revival texts. Significantly, these texts were well-known to nineteenth-century American readers, whose literate response to the appearance of gothic conventions was frequently expected by the writers deploying them. To supplement the critical narrative about the gothic that explains its power as originating in the psychologically repressed, I want to emphasize how writers rationally employed the mode to create calculated effects. I read these episodes as primarily persuasive rather than mimetic and thereby recover the rhetorical import of the gothic as understood by the authors who deployed its conventions. The following chapters examine how gothic episodes were put to work by abolitionists, proslavery advocates, freedmen, Klansmen, carpetbaggers, and advocates of African American civil rights, and I show how gothic effects were calculated to play upon diverse fears, prejudices, and desires for a variety of strategic purposes, from energizing supporters of political causes to manipulating the historical record of Reconstruction. Gothic episodes appear early on in a variety of American literary traditions, putting the so-called “literature of fear” to work in shaping the history and culture of the American nineteenth century.

Subjects/Keywords: American literature; American studies

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Fonken, B. (2015). Gothic Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. (Thesis). University of California – Irvine. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7n47338w

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Fonken, Brian. “Gothic Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” 2015. Thesis, University of California – Irvine. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7n47338w.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Fonken, Brian. “Gothic Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” 2015. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Fonken B. Gothic Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7n47338w.

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Council of Science Editors:

Fonken B. Gothic Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7n47338w

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University of California – Riverside

17. Hollingsworth, Lauren Colleen. Reading the (In)visible Race: African-American Subject Representation and Formation in American Literature.

Degree: English, 2010, University of California – Riverside

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5dh411p3

► This project began with the intention to examine the connection between the aesthetic and the political in American literature's construction of African-American subjectivity, or the… (more)

▼ This project began with the intention to examine the connection between the aesthetic and the political in American literature's construction of African-American subjectivity, or the relationship between resistance and representation in literary portrayals of the African-American subject. I was specifically interested in the moments in American literature where the convergence between aesthetic form and political practice creates a particular crisis in representation for African-American subjectivity,many times rendering scholarly discussion of these problematic texts dismissive of their purported politics, or even non-existent. Some of the questions I wanted to grapple with included how one accounts for texts that have "good politics" in mind when written, yet still possess racist or "bad political" aspects through the manner in which they are presented, and the manner in which the subject position of the author affects ourperception of the text.I chose to discuss American fictional texts whose readers and critics have experienced difficulty reconciling the text's aesthetic properties with the political moves they seemed to be making in their representation of African-American subjectivity. Through close analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Frances Harper's abolitionist and post-Civil War poetry, and her novel Iola Leroy, Mark Twain's Puddn'head Wilson, Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and research of the criticism surrounding these texts, I found that we should not necessarily reject the notion that aesthetic representation always implies a political stance. However, if ideology and form are so closely connected, than closely examining the aesthetics of a text becomes crucial to understanding its political repercussions and the cultural work it is performing. Ultimately, I end with a plea that we acknowledge the complexity of resistance for the African-American subject and expand the ways in which we as readersand critics tend to define it. It is our continuing exploration of the complexity of racial representation in literature and cultural subject formation/construction that aids us in understanding and overcoming racism.

Subjects/Keywords: Literature, American; African American Studies

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Hollingsworth, L. C. (2010). Reading the (In)visible Race: African-American Subject Representation and Formation in American Literature. (Thesis). University of California – Riverside. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5dh411p3

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hollingsworth, Lauren Colleen. “Reading the (In)visible Race: African-American Subject Representation and Formation in American Literature.” 2010. Thesis, University of California – Riverside. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5dh411p3.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hollingsworth, Lauren Colleen. “Reading the (In)visible Race: African-American Subject Representation and Formation in American Literature.” 2010. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Hollingsworth LC. Reading the (In)visible Race: African-American Subject Representation and Formation in American Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5dh411p3.

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Hollingsworth LC. Reading the (In)visible Race: African-American Subject Representation and Formation in American Literature. [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2010. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5dh411p3

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18. Smith, Maegan A. A Public History Meditation| Collaboration's Role in Public History with Two of Louisiana's American Indian Tribes.

Degree: 2016, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163324

► The projects in this meditation focus on the importance of collaboration in public history. Using two different tools, both projects show a new way… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American history; Native American studies

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Smith, M. A. (2016). A Public History Meditation| Collaboration's Role in Public History with Two of Louisiana's American Indian Tribes. (Thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163324

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Smith, Maegan A. “A Public History Meditation| Collaboration's Role in Public History with Two of Louisiana's American Indian Tribes.” 2016. Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163324.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Smith, Maegan A. “A Public History Meditation| Collaboration's Role in Public History with Two of Louisiana's American Indian Tribes.” 2016. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Smith MA. A Public History Meditation| Collaboration's Role in Public History with Two of Louisiana's American Indian Tribes. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163324.

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Smith MA. A Public History Meditation| Collaboration's Role in Public History with Two of Louisiana's American Indian Tribes. [Thesis]. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163324

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19. Keadle, Elizabeth Ann. Fragmented Identities| Explorations of the Unhomely in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives.

Degree: 2016, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163331

► This dissertation explores the unhomely nature of the slave system as experienced by fugitive and captive slaves within slave and neo-slave narratives. The purpose… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: African American studies; American literature

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Keadle, E. A. (2016). Fragmented Identities| Explorations of the Unhomely in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives. (Thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163331

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Keadle, Elizabeth Ann. “Fragmented Identities| Explorations of the Unhomely in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives.” 2016. Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163331.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Keadle, Elizabeth Ann. “Fragmented Identities| Explorations of the Unhomely in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives.” 2016. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Keadle EA. Fragmented Identities| Explorations of the Unhomely in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163331.

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Council of Science Editors:

Keadle EA. Fragmented Identities| Explorations of the Unhomely in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives. [Thesis]. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163331

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20. Giang, Nancy. Overgrow the system| Dysphagia of plastic food and ecological fiction as environmental action in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest.

Degree: 2015, California State University, Long Beach

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1596973

► Writing about food and eating food are both environmental acts. The ways in which humans conceive of edible material—by speaking about it and growing… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Asian American studies; American literature

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Giang, N. (2015). Overgrow the system| Dysphagia of plastic food and ecological fiction as environmental action in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. (Thesis). California State University, Long Beach. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1596973

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Giang, Nancy. “Overgrow the system| Dysphagia of plastic food and ecological fiction as environmental action in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest.” 2015. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1596973.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Giang, Nancy. “Overgrow the system| Dysphagia of plastic food and ecological fiction as environmental action in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest.” 2015. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Giang N. Overgrow the system| Dysphagia of plastic food and ecological fiction as environmental action in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1596973.

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Giang N. Overgrow the system| Dysphagia of plastic food and ecological fiction as environmental action in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2015. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1596973

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21. Arellano, Jose Antonio. Life in Search of Form| Mexican American Literature and American Literary History, 1959-1999.

Degree: 2018, The University of Chicago

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840787

► Searching for Form: Mexican American Literature and American Literary History,1959-1990 explores how Mexican American writers advanced notions of literary art to explore the conditions… (more)

▼ Searching for Form: Mexican American Literature and American Literary History,1959-1990 explores how Mexican American writers advanced notions of literary art to explore the conditions of their self-determination. Rather than stipulating a relatively continuous story of Mexican American “culture,” however, I show how the very terms “self-determination” and “literary art” changed radically from 1959 to 1999—a change that responded to shifts in the American political and economic scene. I start in 1959, with the publication of what was then considered to be the first novel published by a Mexican American, José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho. I show how Pocho is situated at the intersection between two competing accounts of “traditional culture” that started to clash at the end of the 1950’s: on the one hand, the liberal and sociological critiques of the supposed pathology and anti-individualism of traditional culture, and on the other hand a celebration of longstanding communal resilience found only within tradition. I argue that midcentury American novelists including Villarreal posited the novel as the genre uniquely equipped to explore the possibility of individual freedom in relation to both accounts via a self-determination seemingly made possible through the achievement of the novel as art. Pocho simultaneously dramatizes the tragic conclusion of the type of callow idealism that animates facile understandings of freedom (as freedom from social expectations) while also enacting what a more enduring ground of freedom could be: a disposition toward social engagement—one of aesthetic distance—that allows for recognition without distortion, and social participation without loss of individuality, an aesthetic sensibility that enables the exploration of the limits of freedom while imagining, by enacting, its possibility. After the Chicano intervention of the mid-1960s, however, such an exploration would have to be understood in communal terms (the “I” seeking freedom becomes the “we” of Chicano liberation) and be seen as operating within a Mexican American cultural tradition. Ethnicity was not something to be “transcended” in art but the very ground of communal self-determination as such. This intervention was in part meant to register the reality of an economy whose treatment of Mexican American laborers amounted to their complete objectification, rendering human life into fodder for agrarian commerce. Villarreal, like his liberal contemporaries, seemed to take for granted the luxury of a relatively stable economy in which one was free to explore his or her “individualism.” Works including Tomás Rivera’s …y no se lo trago la tierra (1971), instead dramatize the historical emergence of a group consciousness that called itself “Chicano,” a self-awareness that entailed the recognition of one’s place in history as part of a people…

Subjects/Keywords: American literature; Hispanic American studies

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Arellano, J. A. (2018). Life in Search of Form| Mexican American Literature and American Literary History, 1959-1999. (Thesis). The University of Chicago. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840787

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Arellano, Jose Antonio. “Life in Search of Form| Mexican American Literature and American Literary History, 1959-1999.” 2018. Thesis, The University of Chicago. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840787.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Arellano, Jose Antonio. “Life in Search of Form| Mexican American Literature and American Literary History, 1959-1999.” 2018. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Arellano JA. Life in Search of Form| Mexican American Literature and American Literary History, 1959-1999. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840787.

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Council of Science Editors:

Arellano JA. Life in Search of Form| Mexican American Literature and American Literary History, 1959-1999. [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840787

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The George Washington University

22. Fox, Elizabeth. Like Clockwork| The Mechanical Ingenuity and Craftsmanship of Isaiah Lukens (1779-1846).

Degree: 2018, The George Washington University

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928411

► Isaiah Lukens of Horsham, Pennsylvania was a renowned mechanic of his age. Having apprenticed to his father Seneca Lukens, he set out from his… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American studies; American history; Design

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Fox, E. (2018). Like Clockwork| The Mechanical Ingenuity and Craftsmanship of Isaiah Lukens (1779-1846). (Thesis). The George Washington University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928411

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Fox, Elizabeth. “Like Clockwork| The Mechanical Ingenuity and Craftsmanship of Isaiah Lukens (1779-1846).” 2018. Thesis, The George Washington University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928411.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Fox, Elizabeth. “Like Clockwork| The Mechanical Ingenuity and Craftsmanship of Isaiah Lukens (1779-1846).” 2018. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Fox E. Like Clockwork| The Mechanical Ingenuity and Craftsmanship of Isaiah Lukens (1779-1846). [Internet] [Thesis]. The George Washington University; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928411.

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Fox E. Like Clockwork| The Mechanical Ingenuity and Craftsmanship of Isaiah Lukens (1779-1846). [Thesis]. The George Washington University; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928411

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West Virginia University

23. Cowsert, Zachery Christian. Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory.

Degree: MA, History, 2014, West Virginia University

URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.108 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/108

► This thesis explores the American Civil War in Indian Territory, focusing on how clashing visions of sovereignty within the Five Tribes – Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek,… (more)

▼ This thesis explores the American Civil War in Indian Territory, focusing on how clashing visions of sovereignty within the Five Tribes – Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole – led to the one the most violent and relatively unknown chapters of the Civil War. Particular attention is paid to the first two years of the war, highlighting why the Five Tribes allied with Confederacy, and why those alliances failed over time. Chapter One examines Indian Territory as a borderland, unveiling how various actors within that borderland, including missionaries, Indian agents, white neighbors in Arkansas and Texas, and Indians themselves shaped Native American decision-making and convinced acculturated tribal elites to forge alliances with the Confederacy. These alliances, however, did not represent the sentiments of many traditionalist Indians, and anti-Confederate Creeks, Seminoles, and African-Americans gathered under the leadership of dissident Creek chief Opothleyahola. Cultural divisions within the Five Tribes, and differing visions of sovereignty in the future, threatened to undermine Indian-Confederate alliances. Chapter Two investigates the Confederacy's 1861 winter campaign designed to quell Opothleyahola's resistance to Confederate authority. This campaign targeted enemy soldiers and civilians alike, and following a series of three engagements Opothleyahola's forces were decisively defeated in December. During this campaign, however, schisms with the Confederate Cherokees became apparent. In the weeks that followed, Confederate forces pursued the men, women, and children of Opothelyahola's party as they fled north across the frozen landscape for the relative safety of Kansas. The military campaign waged in 1861, and the untold suffering heaped upon thousands of civilians that winter, exposes how a hard, violent war rapidly emerged within the Confederate borderland, complicating historians' depiction of a war that instead grew hard over time.;Chapter Three documents the return of Federal forces to the borderland via the First Indian Expedition of 1862. Although the expedition was a military failure, the sudden presence of Union forces in the region permanently split the Cherokee tribe into warring factions. The Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole tribes spent the next three years fighting their own intra-tribal civil wars. Moreover, the appearance and retreat of Federal forces from Indian Territory created a geopolitical vacuum, which would be filled by guerrilla violence and banditry. The failure of either Confederate or Union forces to permanently secure Indian Territory left Indian homelands ripe for violence and lawlessness. The thesis concludes by evaluating the cost of the conflict. One-third of the Cherokee Nation perished during the war; nearly one-quarter of the Creek population died in the conflict. By war's end, two-thirds of Indian Territory's 1860 population had become refugees. Urged to war by outsiders and riven with their own intra-tribal strife, Native Americans of the Five Tribes suffered… Advisors/Committee Members: Brian Luskey, Tyler Boulware, Aaron Sheehan-Dean.

Subjects/Keywords: American history; Native American studies

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Cowsert, Z. C. (2014). Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory. (Thesis). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.108 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/108

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Cowsert, Zachery Christian. “Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory.” 2014. Thesis, West Virginia University. Accessed April 17, 2021. https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.108 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/108.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Cowsert, Zachery Christian. “Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory.” 2014. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Cowsert ZC. Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory. [Internet] [Thesis]. West Virginia University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.108 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/108.

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Council of Science Editors:

Cowsert ZC. Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory. [Thesis]. West Virginia University; 2014. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.108 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/108

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West Virginia University

24. Brackett, Katherine. Rewriting Domesticity, War, and Confederate Defeat: Julia LeGrand, Sensibility, and Literary Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South.

Degree: MA, History, 2012, West Virginia University

URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4836 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4836

► This thesis explores Julia LeGrand's diary-keeping, readings of texts such as newspapers, novels and religious texts, and her postwar attempts at fiction writing to reveal… (more)

▼ This thesis explores Julia LeGrand's diary-keeping, readings of texts such as newspapers, novels and religious texts, and her postwar attempts at fiction writing to reveal the ways in which the sensibilities LeGrand acquired through reading and writing provided her with multiple cultural narratives to respond to the challenges posed by her tumultuous antebellum courtship, the military occupation of her adopted city during the Civil War, and her frustration with men and patriarchy during Reconstruction. This study examines the ways in which LeGrand's relationship with reading material and her own writing changed over time due to circumstances in her life, especially the long-term effects of domestic instability and financial hardship, living in an occupied city in times of war, and Confederate military defeat. In using texts to critique and comprehend the deceit that surrounded her, Julia both invoked and rejected ideas of fictional truth commonly claimed by nineteenth-century writers. Throughout her life, LeGrand turned to reading and writing to deal with disappointment, much of which stemmed from economic struggles. Over time, LeGrand modified the ways in which she interacted with, comprehended, and implemented the texts that she read.;This study focuses on three time periods in Julia LeGrand's life and her distinct sensibilities that correspond with them: first, the late antebellum period and her ill-fated engagement to Charles Harlan; second, the Civil War as experienced in occupied New Orleans; and lastly, the postwar period in Texas. Nineteenth-century Americans turned to familiar stories and tropes within their culture and in their fiction reading and writing when trying to understand their world. My study of Julia LeGrand shows, moreover, that sensibilities could be developed through the literary practices of reading and writing in ways that encouraged readers to think beyond their region and nation, even to the point of challenging the prevailing cultural narratives that shaped their time and place. LeGrand's efforts to use new, extralocal narratives to navigate her world often proved disappointing, since she found herself stuck within the confines of a culture that privileged existing narratives of white patriarchy that limited peers' acceptance of extralocal ideas and forms of creative expression.;Although my focus on one southern woman prevents me from making general claims about how these broader literary sensibilities functioned collectively, LeGrand's case suggest that sensibilities were not based solely within regions and nations and that southern literary culture was at once expansive and insular, offering readers a multitude of cultural narratives and opportunities to engage with literary sensibilities beyond the region's boundaries even as many writers and readers in the region continued to support the social and cultural status quo. Advisors/Committee Members: Brian Luskey.

Subjects/Keywords: American history; American literature

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Brackett, K. (2012). Rewriting Domesticity, War, and Confederate Defeat: Julia LeGrand, Sensibility, and Literary Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South. (Thesis). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4836 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4836

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Brackett, Katherine. “Rewriting Domesticity, War, and Confederate Defeat: Julia LeGrand, Sensibility, and Literary Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South.” 2012. Thesis, West Virginia University. Accessed April 17, 2021. https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4836 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4836.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Brackett, Katherine. “Rewriting Domesticity, War, and Confederate Defeat: Julia LeGrand, Sensibility, and Literary Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South.” 2012. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Brackett K. Rewriting Domesticity, War, and Confederate Defeat: Julia LeGrand, Sensibility, and Literary Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South. [Internet] [Thesis]. West Virginia University; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4836 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4836.

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Council of Science Editors:

Brackett K. Rewriting Domesticity, War, and Confederate Defeat: Julia LeGrand, Sensibility, and Literary Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South. [Thesis]. West Virginia University; 2012. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.4836 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4836

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West Virginia University

25. Turman, Jinny A. Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970 – 2000.

Degree: PhD, History, 2013, West Virginia University

URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.254 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/254

► Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1970s, thousands of people migrated from America's cities to the countryside to establish communes and independent… (more)

▼ Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1970s, thousands of people migrated from America's cities to the countryside to establish communes and independent homesteads on small plots of land. By working the land they hoped to achieve autonomy, self-sufficiency, and closeness with nature. Cheap land, mild climate, beautiful scenery, and folk culture drew many of these predominately young, white, well educated, and affluent migrants to Appalachia. During the earliest years of the back-to-the-land migration suspicion and occasionally conflict surfaced as natives and newcomers navigated different lifestyle preferences and worldviews, for many of the back-to-the-landers, or "alter-natives," had identified with 1960s social movements or the counterculture. Reactions to differences softened somewhat as the in-migrants engaged in mutually supportive relationships with their native neighbors. The alter-natives also formed countercultural sub-communities in the mountains that provided emotional and physical support for what could, at times, be a trying lifestyle.;Many alter-natives eventually became involved with broader community initiatives that addressed economic, educational, and environmental problems. Through various campaigns they forged bonds with like-minded natives, although disputes sometimes occurred as their "cosmopolitan" visions for local development and environmental sensibilities clashed with local procommodity interests. Different notions of the meaning of community and perceptions of sense of place shaped these contests. Both parties wanted to nurture community, but to many natives that meant preserving the traditional social structures and kinship networks that existed prior to the back-to-the-land migration. To many alter-natives community meant preserving the environment in which those exchanges occurred. Sometimes the clashes resulted in "outsider/insider" distinctions but they also brought diverse groups of individuals together.;Scholars who study the back-to-the-land movement have generally overlooked the impulse for community that existed alongside the desire for autonomy. Using Floyd County, Virginia, and Lincoln County, West Virginia, as case studies, this dissertation analyzes the in-migrants' integration into Appalachia and the broad effects they had on the region's social, political, and economic landscape. So the story of Appalachian alter-natives is the story of the search for community, of the push to reclaim – or preserve – interpersonal connections that provided support, grounding, and identity for multigenerational and new residents in rural Appalachia. Advisors/Committee Members: Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Melissa Bingmann, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf.

Subjects/Keywords: American history; American studies

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Turman, J. A. (2013). Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970 – 2000. (Doctoral Dissertation). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.254 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/254

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Turman, Jinny A. “Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970 – 2000.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, West Virginia University. Accessed April 17, 2021. https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.254 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/254.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Turman, Jinny A. “Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970 – 2000.” 2013. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Turman JA. Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970 – 2000. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.254 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/254.

Council of Science Editors:

Turman JA. Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970 – 2000. [Doctoral Dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.254 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/254

West Virginia University

26. Smoot, Stephen A. Iron and the Bloody Shirt: Leadership in the West Virginia Republican Party 1872 – 1896.

Degree: PhD, History, 2011, West Virginia University

URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.3463 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3463

► The electoral upheavals of 1894 and 1896 resulting in Republican Party dominance within West Virginia and around the nation were not just a sudden occurrence.… (more)

▼ The electoral upheavals of 1894 and 1896 resulting in Republican Party dominance within West Virginia and around the nation were not just a sudden occurrence. They resulted, in part, because voters in key border states shifted their votes from the Democratic to the Republican Party. West Virginia's Republican Party had the greatest success in maintaining its long term influence after 1896 despite the fact that since 1872 it enjoyed little success. To build up to triumph in 1896 took a quarter century of painstaking work that started after electoral disaster in 1870. That election, the first since West Virginia removed restrictions on former Confederates, brought Democrats into a position of dominance. This dissertation tells the story of how West Virginia's Republicans rebuilt their party between 1872 and 1896.;Nathan Goff, a Union Army major during the Civil War, used the same methods as other party authorities around the country. He used his talent for public speaking and access to federal patronage to mobilize and reward the faithful as much as possible. State Republican newspapers battled their Democratic counterparts in conflicts over not only issues of the day, but also anger over measures taken during the Civil War. Goff's work helped to restore a working party organization in the 1870s, but did not put West Virginia Republicans into a position to return to competitiveness, much less power. Money, manpower, and organization do not ensure success without a relevant message.;The Republican Party across the country started to fashion a more appealing vision after the difficult Grant and Hayes Administrations. They advocated sound money and a protective tariff as cornerstones of national prosperity more often during the 1880s. Goff emerged as a national spokesman for protectionism at the same time as the Second Industrial Revolution started strongly transforming West Virginia's economy. However, national economic conditions in this decade did not result in massive movement towards the Republican cause. Instead, the country experienced partisan deadlock. West Virginia Republicans made gains during this decade. In 1888, Goff came very close to capturing the office of governor. The Democratic legislature successfully counted out enough votes to seat the Democratic nominee, but the results demonstrated a shift in party power.;Goff would not be able to take West Virginia Republicans to their eventual triumph. The year 1888 also saw Goff unseated as party chief by the nationally known Stephen Benton Elkins. Elkins built up a fortune in land speculation, railroads, and other ventures. Along the way, he married the daughter of former Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, a prominent West Virginia Democrat and industrialist. Elkins brought a new kind of leadership style to West Virginia Republican politics. He concentrated on building a stronger and more effective party organization more than relying on personal appeal in speeches and debates. Elkins was exceptionally good at keeping divisive issues and potentially conflicting… Advisors/Committee Members: Kenneth Fones-Wolf..

Subjects/Keywords: American studies; American history

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Smoot, S. A. (2011). Iron and the Bloody Shirt: Leadership in the West Virginia Republican Party 1872 – 1896. (Doctoral Dissertation). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.3463 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3463

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Smoot, Stephen A. “Iron and the Bloody Shirt: Leadership in the West Virginia Republican Party 1872 – 1896.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, West Virginia University. Accessed April 17, 2021. https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.3463 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3463.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Smoot, Stephen A. “Iron and the Bloody Shirt: Leadership in the West Virginia Republican Party 1872 – 1896.” 2011. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Smoot SA. Iron and the Bloody Shirt: Leadership in the West Virginia Republican Party 1872 – 1896. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.3463 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3463.

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Smoot SA. Iron and the Bloody Shirt: Leadership in the West Virginia Republican Party 1872 – 1896. [Doctoral Dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2011. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.3463 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3463

UCLA

27. Solt, Susan. The Biography of Othello: A Signifying Life.

Degree: History, 2018, UCLA

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1vt5901d

► In 1604, during an age when poetry wielded power in the public sphere as political critique and social commentary, Shakespeare introduced onto the London stage… (more)

▼ In 1604, during an age when poetry wielded power in the public sphere as political critique and social commentary, Shakespeare introduced onto the London stage his “noble Moor” as the hero of a tragedy. A heretofore demonized and lampooned creature of English Renaissance drama – “the blackamoor” – was suddenly rendered as a sympathetic and suffering, sentient human being: an honorable man cruelly victimized for nothing more than racist spite. That moment of empathy when the Englishman could weep openly for a black African as if for he himself was the birth of a modern Western consciousness of a shared human condition that could transcend race. It was a moment of unprecedented commensurability when the Western gaze saw itself reflected in the other – and his name was Othello.In The Biography of Othello, Susan Solt demonstrates that in a gesture of extraordinary affinity during a rare window of cultural tolerance, Shakespeare used his play about an interracial marriage to make a case for racial understanding. From that moment forward, Othello, the African prince captured into slavery who rose as a free man to command the military forces of sixteenth-century Venice, would forever be enshrined as the signifying counterpoint to the prevailing Western construct of the brute African slave.Providing the reader with a massively researched study of Othello’s life imagined in its historical context, Solt achieves nothing less than a re-write of the master narrative that reframes the underreported African presence in world history – especially in Shakespeare’s London. She critically examines what occurred when black people and white people first interacted in the intersection of cultures in the early modern world, and uncovers overlooked antecedents to America’s historical struggle with race and racism and the stain of slavery on our national character. In Susan Solt’s reading of the play, the figure of Othello is a vector for the transformative role the construction of race plays in the forces of history, which explains why a work of literature written so long ago still speaks to us today.Although crafted on a matrix of scholarship, The Biography of Othello is not a typical history book, it is not just another book about Shakespeare – it is about us; it is about our shared cultural identity across the spectrum of human difference. Watching or reading Othello today is to live 400 years of race in Western civilization. Through transforming Othello’s fictional story into a historically-based cultural biography, Susan Solt gives face, voice, and agency to the racial other. The intimate other. The man inside Shakespeare’s storied construct. For it is through the intimacy of this encounter with Othello that we can also seek to know ourselves – our own otherness – and our own privilege.

Subjects/Keywords: American history; African American studies

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Solt, S. (2018). The Biography of Othello: A Signifying Life. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1vt5901d

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Solt, Susan. “The Biography of Othello: A Signifying Life.” 2018. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1vt5901d.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Solt, Susan. “The Biography of Othello: A Signifying Life.” 2018. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Solt S. The Biography of Othello: A Signifying Life. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1vt5901d.

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Council of Science Editors:

Solt S. The Biography of Othello: A Signifying Life. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2018. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1vt5901d

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University of California, Riverside

28. Curley, George. Indian Working Arrangements on the California Ranchos, 1821-1875.

Degree: 2019, University of California, Riverside

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10979449

► While much of colonial California historiography includes detailed narratives of the mission Indian workers, very little is known regarding those Indians who moved from… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American history; Native American studies

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Curley, G. (2019). Indian Working Arrangements on the California Ranchos, 1821-1875. (Thesis). University of California, Riverside. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10979449

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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Curley, George. “Indian Working Arrangements on the California Ranchos, 1821-1875.” 2019. Thesis, University of California, Riverside. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10979449.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Curley, George. “Indian Working Arrangements on the California Ranchos, 1821-1875.” 2019. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

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Curley G. Indian Working Arrangements on the California Ranchos, 1821-1875. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California, Riverside; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10979449.

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Curley G. Indian Working Arrangements on the California Ranchos, 1821-1875. [Thesis]. University of California, Riverside; 2019. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10979449

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University of California – Berkeley

29. Henry, Alvin. Through the Second Looking Glass: Inventing the Minority Bildungsroman.

Degree: English, 2012, University of California – Berkeley

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/020614nk

► My dissertation argues for the importance of what I term the minority Bildungsroman, a genre that twentieth-century writers adopted in order to represent racial anxiety… (more)

▼ My dissertation argues for the importance of what I term the minority Bildungsroman, a genre that twentieth-century writers adopted in order to represent racial anxiety as well as to imagine a way for the minority subject to move beyond it. By looking at the minority Bildungsroman as a literary form that exposes the process of Bildung not as self-formation but as self-dissolution, I aim to offer an important new perspective into how minority literature uses genre and literary history: only close attention to plot, character, and narrative reveals how these texts create a new genre to depict the minority subject's escape from the complex of socially-imposed identities originating from the dead mother complex. Unlike the subject of the traditional Bildungsroman, who achieves social integration and a stable ego, the minority subject in this new genre fails to successfully internalize the social roles that he is assigned. The instability and suffering imposed by double consciousness and racial anxiety cause him to throw off his prescribed identities. The narrator of Invisible Man, for instance, pursues experiences aimed at achieving social integration. Yet these paths result only in failure. He excels at college and glimpses a future of affluence and prominence, for instance, but only to be summarily expelled. Such experiences fail to produce what they promise, eventually thwarting his desire for normality and success. Seeking to be more than the poor, rural blacks that haunt his memory, yet unable to assimilate, Invisible Man progressively casts off elements of his social identity, and, in the novel's climax, reaches a state of social formlessness, or invisibility. The structures of white society, Ellison implies, cannot but deform those minorities who attempt to live in accordance with them. This movement towards self-disintegration, however, opens the space for the radical conclusion of the minority Bildungsroman. As a subject without subjectivities he begins what I call a "second mirror stage." By combining Lacan's notion of subject formation with Du Bois's conception of the end of double consciousness as a "longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self," I argue that the second mirror stage allows the subject to reconstitute his ego and identity. This process terminates racial anxiety and the double consciousness that engenders it. Reworking the form of the traditional Bildungsroman, these authors use formal innovation as the means of reimagining the self and, I argue, show that literary analysis is capable of recovering otherwise hard-to-access originary psychic traumas.

Subjects/Keywords: African American studies; American literature

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Henry, A. (2012). Through the Second Looking Glass: Inventing the Minority Bildungsroman. (Thesis). University of California – Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/020614nk

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Henry, Alvin. “Through the Second Looking Glass: Inventing the Minority Bildungsroman.” 2012. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/020614nk.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Henry, Alvin. “Through the Second Looking Glass: Inventing the Minority Bildungsroman.” 2012. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Henry A. Through the Second Looking Glass: Inventing the Minority Bildungsroman. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/020614nk.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Henry A. Through the Second Looking Glass: Inventing the Minority Bildungsroman. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2012. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/020614nk

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Florida State University

30. Hensley, Christal. The Cult of Personality: Gertrude Stein and the Development of the Object Portrait in American Visual Art.

Degree: PhD, Art History, 2011, Florida State University

URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-4110 ;

► In August 1912, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz published Gertrude Stein's word portraits of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse in a special issue of Camera Work.… (more)

▼ In August 1912, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz published Gertrude Stein's word portraits of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse in a special issue of Camera Work. Most scholars agree that these word portraits inspired the invention of the object portrait in the American visual arts. Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Marsden Hartley, Man Ray, Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Arthur Dove, Charles Demuth, and Georgia O'Keeffe explored the genre as members of American artistic circles from 1912 through the 1930s. As the genre developed, these artists drew simultaneously upon the semantic and syntactic play of cubist collage, photomontage, Dada language experiments, assemblage, and traditional fine art practices. The identification of Stein's word portraits of Picasso and Matisse as the source of inspiration for object portraiture is secure in scholarly literature. Yet, the theoretical relationship between the two over time remains unexplored. Moreover, scholars have failed to consider other literary experiments by Stein, such as Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (1914) and the word portraits produced after 1911, as contributing factors in the genre's development. Steinian scholarship primarily attributes her portrait theory to the application of the American psychologist William James' system of characterology, which addresses the mental phenomena of simultaneity, stream of consciousness, and a continuous present. As Stein created a linguistic correspondence to Jamesian perception, she employed an alternative language system that made use of repetition, fragmentation, metaphor and metonymy, word play, punning, word heap (or a conscious, volitional emptying of words), nonsense, and sound associations. In so doing, Stein questioned and attacked traditional modes of identity construction in her experimental writing. Her primary objective was to capture modern character and personality as revealed through modern experiences. I argue that the development of the object portrait genre as practiced by the artists listed above must be considered in light of the profound impact of Gertrude Stein's portrait theory, embedded in the cultural interest in personality and psychology, as demonstrated progressively over the course of her literary career. Like Stein, the artists believed that traditional visual language systems based on mimesis were incapable of describing modern personality and alternative lifestyles. Instead, they employed an alternative visual language of objects associated with their subjects to replace portraiture's traditional reliance on physical resemblance as an indicator of character. Thus, they invented a new means of conveying essential personality traits. I argue further that Stein's development of an alternative language system based on Jamesian psychology, to question traditional modes of identity construction in her experimental writing, contributed to the overall structure and meaning of object portraiture. Art historians have addressed aspects of this argument but they have not attributed this to the… Advisors/Committee Members: Karen A. Bearor (professor directing dissertation), John J. Fenstermaker (university representative), Adam D. Jolles (committee member), Roald Nasgaard (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Art, American; Architecture, American

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Hensley, C. (2011). The Cult of Personality: Gertrude Stein and the Development of the Object Portrait in American Visual Art. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-4110 ;

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hensley, Christal. “The Cult of Personality: Gertrude Stein and the Development of the Object Portrait in American Visual Art.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-4110 ;.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hensley, Christal. “The Cult of Personality: Gertrude Stein and the Development of the Object Portrait in American Visual Art.” 2011. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Hensley C. The Cult of Personality: Gertrude Stein and the Development of the Object Portrait in American Visual Art. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 17]. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-4110 ;.

Council of Science Editors:

Hensley C. The Cult of Personality: Gertrude Stein and the Development of the Object Portrait in American Visual Art. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2011. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-4110 ;

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