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1	NOT SLAVES OF ANOTHER IMAGE: BLACK WOMANHOOD REIMAGED IN THE FICTION OF FRANCES E.W. HARPER AND SUTTON E. GRIGGS Geiselman, Betsy 01 September 2020 (has links) In this thesis, I examine depictions of black female characters crafted by black authors writing in the late 19th century, and I consider how they use these depictions as attempts to challenge white supremacist rhetoric and imagery. In particular, I examine how Frances E.W. Harper and Sutton E. Griggs represent black women through their female characters in their respective novels, Iola Leroy and Imperium in Imperio. I situate these novels within the historical moments, Reconstruction and Redemption, with which Harper and Griggs both document and contend. In these two texts, Harper and Griggs trace, through their characters’ struggles, the hopes and gains of Reconstruction, and the frustration and despair of Redemption. In attending so closely to their own political contexts, Harper and Griggs, non-traditional novelists who were more well known for other forms of writing and for their oratorical skills, selected the novel as a political tool to theorize uplift. Throughout this thesis I examine how and why their constructions of black womanhood in Iola Leroy and Imperium in Imperio frequently idealize their female characters, and I focus on both authors’ efforts to reclaim the image of black women, salvaging it from the destructive imagery of plantation literature and introducing a proud and positive model of black feminine virtue, strength, and influence. black womanhood Frances Harper Imperium in Imperio Iola Leroy Sutton Griggs
2	"Stately Temples": Consubstantiality and Consciousness in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy; or Shadows Uplifted Louis-Ray, Deborah 08 1900 (has links) The purpose of this master's thesis is to examine Frances Harper's narrative strategy and moral didacticism in Iola Leroy: or Shadows Uplifted (1892) as she strives to achieve consubstantiality and a "heightened consciousness" within her characters and her audience while adhering to the literary and feminist paradigms of the late nineteenth century. Harper identifies with her African-American male audience's dilemma of "double-consciousness" and their veil of androcentrism. She also identifies with her Euro-American female audience's delicate and matriarchal roles, while also attempting to uplift their position of the "Other" to the "One." Finally, with her African-American female audience, Harper identifies with their complex situatedness of "double-consciousness" and the "Other," while also attempting to uplift them from a historically imposed position of selflessness to one of empowerment. Frances E. W. Harper literature feminism
3	The Imperial Gothic: Contact Tracing Narratives of Disease, Disorder, and Race in Global American Literature Brownstein, Emma 22 September 2022 (has links) No description available. American Literature Epidemiology Literature Gothic American Gothic Empire Imperialism Epidemiology Medical humanities Disease Race Colonialism Capitalism Literature American literature Severance The Andromeda Strain The Martian Chronicles Pale Horse, Pale Rider Iola Leroy Reburn Arthur Mervyn

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