Browsing PhD Dissertations - DO NOT EDIT by Author "Roemer, Kenneth M."
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"A Shot in the Dark": Post-9/11 One-Off Speculative Fiction
Brittain, Michael Lynn; 0000-0001-6964-9076 (2017-08-30)The cultural, political, and historical impact of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, as an event, continues to be questioned. For this project, I will examine six “one-off” or “one-time” works of speculative ... -
"A Condition Of Potentiality": American Women's Utopian And Science Fiction, 1920-1960
Arnold, Bridgitte Barclay (English, 2009-09-16)The 1920-1960 period of women-authored United States utopian and science fiction deserves a reassessment. This study focuses on utopian texts and science fiction texts with strong utopian emphasis and recovers 41 women-authored ... -
Disabling Sex Education: Science, Narrative, and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction, 1874-1916
Tavera, Stephanie P (2017-05-05)This dissertation offers a feminist disability theory approach to women’s medical fiction during the Comstock Law Era. I argue that, in responding to Comstockian censorship, women authors of medical fiction resisted sexed ... -
Indi'n Humor, Tricksters, And Stereotype In Selected Works Of Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, And Sherman Alexie
Baxter, Corby J (English, 2012-07-25)Humor in American Indian literature is a popular and important area of study. Yet, to date few full-length studies have compared the role of humor in Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, and Sherman Alexie. This study offers a ... -
Native Spaces Of Continuation, Preservation, And Belonging: Louise Erdrich's Concepts Of Home
Wilson, Jonathan Max (English, 2008-08-08)In light of continual Native migration, relocation, and hybridization, it is my intention to examine the evolution and diversification of home in a spectrum of Louise Erdrich's writing. My examination of the texts focuses ... -
Reinventing The Self: Native American Women's Autobiographies
Rozzell, Kristin Lynn (English, 2008-04-22)Native American women's autobiographies are complex writings that stretch the very genre itself. As the genre of autobiography is reinvented by both early and contemporary texts, the nature of self expression through that ... -
Speaking Through The Silence: Voice In The Poetry Of Selected Native American Women Poets
Montgomery, D'juana Ann (English, 2009-09-16)The issue of voice in Native American poetry is vital to understanding the culture and traditions of past and present-day Native American people. The voice of Native American women poets/writers has emerged as a strong ... -
Tracking Whiteness: Portrayals Of Whites In American Indian Literature
Ruff, Mary M. (Peggy) (English, 2008-08-08)Although whites have pervaded the lives and literatures of American Indians since contact, their own portrayals of whites have remained, for the most part, unexplored. I examine selected works of nineteenth and twentieth-century ...