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Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

Creator:: Mago, Bhisma
Abstract:: In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism may be articulated without ethnic or identarian determinisms but through a critical engagement with the categories of ethics and truth in a global frame. I build upon the work of Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to accomplish a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism

Neocolonialism in Disney's Renaissance: Analyzing Portrayals of Race and Gender in Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Creator:: Johnson, Breanne K.
Abstract:: The Walt Disney Company is one of the most recognizable and pervasive sources of children’s entertainment worldwide and has carefully crafted an image of childhood innocence. This wholesome image is contradicted by Disney’s consistent use of racist and sexist tropes, as well as its record of covertly using political themes...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Elizabeth Sheehan The Walt Disney Company is one of the most recognizable and pervasive sources of

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

Creator:: Becker, Jade M.
Abstract:: Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics

Abstract Aesthetics and Liberation Theology : Figurations and Invocations of Black Jesus in Early Twentieth Century American Literature

Creator:: Dahl, Peter C.
Abstract:: This thesis invokes Black Jesus as an abstract figure in two seemingly disparate early twentieth century American novels and, in doing so, intervenes in ongoing debates about the ethical capacities of literature as means of grappling with difference. The Christ figure is a literary trope of waning importance in contemporary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thoughtful feedback. Thank you to my adviser, Professor Elizabeth Sheehan, for everything – for all the

Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Nipper, Sarah
Abstract:: This thesis examines alternative modes and forms of production in texts by Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Applying queer methodologies drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, and Elizabeth Freeman, I show how Cather’s The Professor’s House and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse demonstrate and interrogate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan

The Prince is a Woman: The Third Sex in Nightwood

Creator:: Palatin, Danielle
Abstract:: In her novel, Nightwood (1936), Djuna Barnes examines the relationships and identities of diverse characters during the early 20th century. My paper investigates the depiction of inversion and how it challenges heteronormative structures. However, I argue that the depiction of queer relations is only available between feminized queer subjects. The...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

"Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

Creator:: Barkley, Charles K.
Abstract:: This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem

Consumer Culture and the Performance of Identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night.

Creator:: Schaake, Emma-Kate
Abstract:: The 1920’s was a period of immense growth of consumer and celebrity culture, that brought changes in film, art and the creation and presentation of identity. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night reflects these changes, particularly with respect to how cultural shifts challenge prevailing views about individual autonomy and...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Dr. Elizabeth Sheehan The 1920’s was a period of immense growth of consumer and

You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

Creator:: Conway, Clare
Abstract:: Over the past decade, the explosion of social media has secured the Internet as a venue for political discussions of all sorts; as well as a realm of consumption and commodification. One population of women that has utilized social media in this way is the plus-sized fashion ("fatshion") community on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan

Scripts and Minoritarian Subjectivity: Examining Ambivalence and Asian Diasporas in Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy, and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s

Creator:: Son, Rachana C.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the roles of scripts in shaping minoritarian subjectivity through Kim Jee-woon’s film The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008), Kim Fu’s novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014), and R. Zamora Linmark’s novel Rolling the R’s (1995). In all three works, diasporic characters of Asian descent...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan Mila Zuo This thesis explores the roles of

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Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

Neocolonialism in Disney's Renaissance: Analyzing Portrayals of Race and Gender in Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

Abstract Aesthetics and Liberation Theology : Figurations and Invocations of Black Jesus in Early Twentieth Century American Literature

Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

The Prince is a Woman: The Third Sex in Nightwood

"Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

Consumer Culture and the Performance of Identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night.

You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

Scripts and Minoritarian Subjectivity: Examining Ambivalence and Asian Diasporas in Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy, and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s

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