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Practical Magic: Magical Realism and the Possibilities of Representation in Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film
(2016-09-15)
Reflecting the paradoxical nature of its title, magical realism is a complicated term to define and to apply to works of art. Some writers and critics argue that classifying texts as magical realism essentializes and ...
Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West
(2016-05-10)
This project traces the history of the American West and its inhabitants through its literary, cinematic and cultural landscape, exploring the importance of public and private narratives of resistance, in their many ...
Strange and Unstable Bodies: Shifting Materialities in Early American Natural History Correspondence Networks
(2016-04-20)
This dissertation fills a gap in the study of early American natural history literature by investigating the representation of animal bodies within early American natural history writing and attending to the role animal ...
“THE GOD OF THE AGE”: RELIGION AND SERVITUDE IN THE WORKS OF AUGUSTA JANE EVANS
(2016-05-16)
Despite her widespread popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, Augusta Jane Evans and her novels went largely unnoticed for most of the twentieth century. It was not until Nina Baym included a chapter on Evans in her ...
Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer
(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 ...