Browsing Library by Author "Ingram, Penelope"
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At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy
Wallis, Katherine Elaine (English, 2009-09-16)From a theoretical perspective, the disabled woman can be seen as `doubly othered' within patriarchal culture. Because the disabled woman faces this dual otherness, she is barred from both masculine language and able-bodied ... -
Creating Myself: Friendship As Black Women's Liberation In Toni Morrison's Sula And Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Miles, India ReneeThe talking book trope, begun in the era of and with the authors of slave narratives, firmly establishes a literary tradition for black writers that continues today. Contemporary authors employ this rhetorical device in ... -
The Fecundity Of The Figural: Ethical And Phototextual Di-vision In Postmodern American Fiction
Carroll, Brian ScottThis study contends that sites of the phototextual--that is, narrative works that employ as their chief structural basis any photographic disposition, such as, for example, tangible portraiture and/or a literary styling ... -
In Another Time With (an)other Race: Representations Of Race And National Narratives In Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim And Fallout 3
Simpson, Christopher M.The video games Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3 provide simulations of systems of racial marginalization within the context of competing narratives of nation. By utilizing Ian Bogost’s concept of unit operations in ... -
"More Than Just A Piece In Their Games": Agency And The Docile Body In The Hunger Games And Reality Television
Denison, Kathleen (English, 2014-12)In recent years, with the rise of social media and normalized forms of surveillance there has been an increase in the visibility of how female bodies are policed within Western society. As the fight for women's rights ... -
Moving Beyond This Moment: Employing Deleuze And Guattari's Rhizome In Postcolonialism
LaRue, Robert (English, 2011-10-11)The aim of this project is two-fold: to discuss the limits of Frantz Fanon's postcolonial theories, and to then present a possible model for turning "the `thing' colonized [into] a new man" (Wretched 2) by liberating "him" ... -
Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games in the Obama Era
Reeder, Mark Stephen (2016-12-20)While the representations of women in video games have remained disappointingly negative since the 1980s, America’s political shift from the presidencies of George W. Bush to Barack Obama in 2007 had important cultural ... -
One Foot In The Grave: The Zombie's Consumption Of American Film
Davis, Ronni M. (English, 2012-04-11)American film has chronicled the evolution of the zombie mythos for nearly eight decades. Originally constructed as a projection of the plight of the enslaved population of Haiti, the zombie as introduced to American film ... -
Ontological (Free) Agency: the Erasure, Commodification, and Autonomy of Black Athletes
Salinas, Abraham Yabar (2021-09-03)The National Football League wields a powerful influence on American society and holds an authoritative sway over various sociopolitical discourses, each influencing the degrees of interaction between people of different ... -
Perceptions Of Subversion: The Formation Of A Pop-subculture
Vogel, Kristofor R. (English, 2013-07-22)This project seeks to examine the emerging cultural significance of the modern hipster and determine their contribution to the greater discourse of counter-cultural formations of subversion and identity. Hipsters are ... -
The Performing Mother: Maternal Ethics Beyond Embodiment
Hicks, CharlesThe rich and diverse history of maternal thought is at once a response to the Western philosophical tradition's relegation of the maternal to the material abject, as well as a renegotiation of the maternal body as a site ... -
Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer
LaRue, Robert; 0000-0002-5065-7268 (2016-05-13)“Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer,” argues the necessity for a sustained dialogue between the fields of postcolonial studies and queer studies. The paucity of ... -
RACE AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE: THE REPRESENTATIONS IN CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS, 2016-2020
Boisvert, Brittany; 0000-0002-7321-3264 (2021-05-18)This project is an examination of race and representations of social injustice in children’s picture books from 2016-2020 and is informed by black feminist theory and children’s literary criticism. The objective is to ... -
(RE)FASHIONING GENDER: DRESS AS EMBODIED FEMINIST CRITIQUE IN MODERNIST WOMEN’S WRITING
Sperandio Phelps, Lauren Elizabeth (2022-05-18)In this dissertation I examine early twentieth century women writers’ use of fashion as a mode of critiquing gender, race, and class oppression. Through close reading of the novels of Nella Larsen, Edith Wharton, Anzia ... -
SOCIETY DOES NOT R-E-S-P-E-C-T BLACK MOTHERS: HISTORICALLY RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS AND BLACK WOMEN’S COMPROMISED OBSTETRICAL CARE
Riley, Ashleigh (2018-12-13)This thesis explores the correlation between racialized representations of Black women with the disparities in the level of healthcare they receive and the resulting outcomes. I argue racialized representations of Black ... -
Teaching Elsewhere: Curating↔Calibrating Posthumanist Possibilities
Shelton, Sarah Alice; 0000-0002-0750-8590 (2018-08-28)Following the material and ontological turns and working within the recent conversation applying posthumanist theory to education and educational research, this dissertation argues that professors can materialize immediate, ... -
The Social Cut of Black and Yellow Female Hip Hop
Raven, Erick; 0000-0003-2540-6595 (2020-05-14)Korean female hip hop artists are expanding the definition of femininity in South Korea through hip hop. In doing so, they are following a tradition first established by Black female musical performers in a new context. ... -
WHAT WAS THE MOCKINGBIRD’S SONG? REASSESING TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THROUGH THE LENS OF GO SET A WATCHMAN
Cook, Leslie Erin; 0000-0002-7759-2126 (2016-05-11)The publication of Go Set a Watchman, a companion piece to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, problematizes many of the accepted readings of the canonical text. This ‘new’ novel is actually the initial manuscript of the ...