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71	No Definite Destination: Transnational Liminality in Harlem Renaissance Lives and Writings Murray, Joshua M. 27 April 2016 (has links) No description available. African American Studies American Literature Black Studies Ethnic Studies Literature transnationalism liminality Harlem Renaissance African Diaspora African American literature fiction autobiography life writing
72	VIBRATIONAL REPRIEVES: BLACK WOMEN’S SOUL FOOD NARRATIVES AS AESTHETIC SITES OF EROTIC AND SEXUAL AGENCY Megan M Williams (13173846) 29 July 2022 (has links) <p>My dissertation is a Black feminist inquiry into how Black women writers employ soul food imagery to equally assert their characters’ Blackness and sexual agency in post-Black Arts texts. These include Gayl Jones’ <em>Eva’s Man </em>(1976), Ntozake Shange’s <em>Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo</em> (1982), Gloria Naylor’s <em>Bailey’s Café</em> (1992), and TT Bridgeman’s <em>Pound Cake for Sweet Pea </em>(2004). These novelists tell complex stories of Black women’s grappling with respectability, trauma, and erotic and sexual agency. In each novel, these Black women share a common reliance upon soul food that is often underexamined in critical scholarship. I argue that soul food is essential to how Black women cope with the duality of pleasure and pain by helping them assert liberated senses-of-self amidst sexism and its attendant emotional and physical violence. I also conceptualize this coping as a vibrational reprieve. </p> Feminist methodologies Sexualities Women's studies (incl. girls' studies) Culture, representation and identity Soul Food Black Feminist Criticism African American Literature Black women's sexuality Agency Autonomy
73	Some kind of glorious Langley, J. F. 01 January 2010 (has links) Herman's father warned him of what would follow in the wake of the Faraday Bridge's construction. Like so many others cut short of pay after the bridge was completed, Herman finds himself confined to a plummeting slum during the high American years following World War II. Haunted by his inability to fulfill his dead father's expectations and the fear of losing his girlfriend, Herman confides in a shadowy underground figure who claims to know how the people of the borough can take back everything they have lost. Some Kind of Glorious is an account of one man's struggle to revive life within himself while being urged to tear the world apart for the sacrifice of his endeavor. It explores the minds of common men to understand how far they are willing to stretch morality in order to save themselves from tragedy. The lines separating the mad and the moral begin to fade as Herman and others follow an enigmatic figure into a clandestine battle with the world, and his middle-aged search for manhood blurs as he struggles to understand what he must become to satisfy his love, and his torment. English Language and Literature
74	Tobacco and Tar Babies: The Trickster as a Cultural Hero in Winnebago and African American Myth Squibb, Catherine 01 December 2015 (has links) This thesis explores the trickster character through the lens of his role as a cultural hero. The two characters that I chose to examine are from North American myth, specifically Winnebago Hare and Brer Rabbit. These two characters represent the duality of the trickster while simultaneously embodying the lauded abilities of the hero. Through their actions these two characters shape culture through the very action of disrupting societal norms. trickster culture hero Brer Rabbit Winnebago Hare mythology African American Literature Native American Literature African American Studies Indigenous Studies Literature in English, North America
75	Black Lives Examined: Black Nonfiction and the Praxis of Survival in the Post-Civil Rights Era Lawrence, Ariel D 01 January 2018 (has links) The subject of my thesis project is black nonfiction, namely the essay, memoir, and autobiography, written by black authors about and during the Post-Civil Rights Era. The central goals of this work are to briefly investigate the role of genre analysis within the various subsets of nonfiction and also to exemplify the ways that black writers have taken key genre models and evolved them. Secondly, I aim to understand the historical, political, and cultural contributions of the Post-Civil Rights Era, which I mark as hitting its stride in 1968. It is not my desire to create a definitive historical framework for the Post-Civil Rights Era, but instead to understand it as a period of transition, revolt, and transformation which asked many important questions that have remained unanswered. I apply multiple theoretical frameworks to my research — like queer theory, Afro-pessimism, fugitivity, and more — to offer insights into the nonfiction works of writers such as James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Larry Neale, and Toni Cade Bambara. It is my hope to continue the work of such scholars as Hortense Spillers, Angela Ards, and Margo V. Perkins, by illustrating not only how these authors offered literary and aesthetic innovations, but also, through the archiving of their life experiences in print, create theories and practices for survival, forged in the past, which impact our current moment, and inspire us as scholars and activists to do the same. Black African-American Literature Nonfiction Genre Studies Queer Theory Womanist Theory Black Feminist Theory Afro-Pessimist Theory Post-Civil Rights Black Power Black Arts African American Studies American Literature Nonfiction
76	Modern Charity: Morality, Politics, and Mid-Twentieth Century US Writing Bryant Cheney, Matt 01 January 2019 (has links) Scholars over the past two decades (Denning, Szalay, Edmunds, Robbins) have theorized the different ways literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century reflects the dawn of the liberal US welfare state. While these studies elaborate on the effect rapidly expanding public aid had on literary production of the period, many have tended to undervalue the lingering influence on midcentury storytelling of private charity and philanthropy, those traditional aid institutions fundamentally challenged by the Great Depression and historically championed by conservatives. If the welfare state had an indelible impact on US literatures, so did the moral complexity of the systems of charity and philanthropy it purportedly replaced. In my dissertation, I theorize modern charity as a cultural narrative that found expression in a number of different writers from the start of the Great Depression and into the early 1960s, including Harold Gray, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois, Flannery O'Connor, and Dorothy Day. US Literature African American Literature Southern Literature Comics Studies Charity and Philanthropy Literature and Philosophy African American Studies American Literature English Language and Literature Ethics and Political Philosophy Literature in English, North America United States History
77	Touching History to Find “a Kind of Truth”: Black Women’s Queer Desires in Post-Civil Rights Literature, Film, and Music Shaw, John Brendan 20 December 2016 (has links) No description available. African American Studies Film Studies Literature Womens Studies Black feminist thought Queer Theory African American Literature African American Film Queer of Color Critique Black Music Black cultural studies Queer historiography Music Videos Black Cultural Studies
78	Re(Making) the Folk: The Folk in Early African American Folklore Studies and Postbellum, Pre-Harlem Literature Bailey , Ebony Lynne 07 October 2020 (has links) No description available. African American Studies African Americans American Literature Black History Black Studies Comparative Literature Folklore History Literature folk African American literature Postbellum, Pre-Harlem folklorists folklore studies
79	<p> Formal Affective Strategies in Contemporary African Diasporic Feminist Texts </p> Koziatek, Zuzanna Ewelina 02 June 2021 (has links) No description available. Literature African American Studies African Literature Black Studies American Literature Caribbean Literature Womens Studies Gender Modern Literature Rhetoric Danticat Adichie Rankine African diaspora African-American literature contemporary transnational experimental Black feminism intersectionality affect empathy rhetoric immigration American Dream multimodality aesthetics form point of view
80	Narativní strategie a traumatická zkušenost v trilogii Toni Morrison / Narrative Strategies and Traumatic Experience in Toni Morrison's Trilogy Müllerová, Magdalena January 2021 (has links) This thesis examines narrative strategies and the representation of trauma in Toni Morrison's trilogy consisting of Beloved, Jazz and Paradise. Morrison's novels illustrate the black experience in the US throughout history; the trilogy begins in the 1870's with Beloved and continues through 1920's in Jazz to 1970's in Paradise. The main focus of this thesis is the exploration of the narrative strategies in the connection to trauma in order to showcase how Morrison manipulates the narrative to draw attention to the unheard traumatic experiences of black people, and consequently criticises the racist master narrative. Beloved depicts the immediate impact of slavery, and the following two novels expose how the underlining traumatic effects of slavery are reproduced long after its abolishment. Selected theoretical approaches to narrative and trauma are introduced in the first chapter. Mieke Bal's approach to narrative, combined with Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s African- American literary theory described in The Signifying Monkey, provides the basis for the analysis of the use of voice, narrative structure, retroversion, and repetition in the trilogy. The postcolonial view of trauma, informed mostly by Judith L. Herman's Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Abuse to Political Terror, is...

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