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Creator:: De Jesus, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
Abstract:: This research examines the literary and philosophical dimensions of the African American Harlem Renaissance, beginning with the historical milieu of the early twentieth century. A social movement that became known as Uplift and the so-called Cabaret Movement emerged as important, competing literary and social ideologies within the Renaissance. W.E.B. Du...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Community in the African Diaspora: A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo Abstract approved

Creator:: Aragon, Racheal
Abstract:: The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Sounds of the Harlem Renaissance in African American Literature

Creator:: Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
Abstract:: The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Walker sees god within her female protagonist Celie, and Marshall has a belief in a Caribbean/African

Creator:: Carey, Cecelia V.
Abstract:: Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction is a study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Both of these writers implement a newer version of the genre of Bildungsroman to reveal the complexities involved in coming of age for a young woman of color. Both...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: contemporary African-American female heroines in modem Bildungsroman. Redacted for privacy Bildungsroman in

Creator:: Spencer, Megan
Abstract:: This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: given text, suggesting an epistemology that is rooted in the potential of literature to make us feel

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