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  • A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

    Creator:
    Bhogra, Siddharth
    Abstract:
    The ongoing “method war” in literary criticism that has manifested as the impasse between Critique and Postcritique, which are identified respectively with paranoid and reparative modes of reading, raises existential questions about criticism in the face of its declining social value under neoliberalism. This thesis enters that impasse to suggest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan The ongoing “method war” in literary criticism that has manifested as the

  • Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

    Creator:
    Flenory, Emalydia
    Abstract:
    My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black masculinity in the United States. The introduction invokes the work of Mireille Miller-Young, Hortense Spillers, Vincent Woodard and Hiram Pérez as a foundation to ground my discussion of agency, consumption, desire, homoeroticism and the characteristics of the Mandingo,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black