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Symbols of trauma: A mythological view on Toni Morrison's Beloved

Creator:

Tollbom, Camille J.

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The purpose of this paper is to engage in a mythological discussion which enriches current scholarship regarding the title character of Toni Morrison’s Beloved. While major scholars suggest that Beloved as a character is either a solid ghost or—as Zora Neale Hurston suggests based on the quote “people who die...

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Research Paper
Jay Gatsby: Epitome of the American Dream?

Creator:

Engle, Adrienne L.

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Presented at the Citizenship & Crisis Student Research Conference as part of the American Conversations Lecture Series.

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Research Paper
A Performance of Instinct: Bechdel’s Experience as Criticism of Butler’s Gender Trouble

Creator:

Haverman, Megan

Abstract:

Judith Butler’s 1990 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity shaped our current understandings of queer theory not only in the academic world, but all over America as the constitutional and social rights of the LGBT+ community are hotly debated. Butler’s theory claims that gender is performed through imitation...

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Nation, and individual: the effects of capitalism on identity in Jimmy Corrigan

Creator:

Killeen, Shanna

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Jimmy Corrigan is a work steeped in what it means to live in the United States as a capitalist nation. Within the novel, the United States presents itself as a grand world power through events such as the Chicago World Exposition. In direct contrast, individuals in the work are anything...

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Research Paper and Presentation