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

    Creator:
    Dahl, Peter C.
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    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...
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    Liberation Theology: Figurations and Invocations of Black Jesus in Early Twentieth Century American

  • "If You're Not Outraged...": White Feminist Feelings, Rhetoric, and the Enthymematic Circulation of White Supremacy

    Creator:
    Landberg, Brooke
    Abstract:
    While a number of scholars in the field of Rhetoric and Composition continue to reassert the importance of whiteness as an object of study, a sense of anxiety about the effectiveness of extant antiracist rhetorical practices permeate recent scholarship. This thesis engages with thinking from black studies, afropessimism, and transnational...
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    rhetorical practices permeates recent scholarship. This thesis engages with thinking from black studies

  • Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

    Creator:
    Littke, Amanda L.
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    Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
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    Reality …...…….…….. 38 Redefining Black Femininity and Motherhood ……...………...…...….… 43 Magical

  • Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

    Creator:
    Killeen, Shanna
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    This thesis examines the bilingual poetry of indigenous, Mexican poet Irma Pineda Santiago. In her work, she composes mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and Spanish into contact with one another, demanding that readers acknowledge narratives of erasure that...
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    Spanish, or who access her work in English. Translator Wendy Call, who has translated two of Pineda

  • The infinite margin : living in reading

    Creator:
    Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
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    This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory dimensions of reading. Part two discusses the author's work as a student and teacher and the contradictions...
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    Masters Thesis
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    black felt-tip pen: "May your first year be as successful as your student teaching." There's no other

  • Things I Thought I Knew : An Exploration and Experimentation in Autobiography as Literature

    Creator:
    Sundberg, Brittany Kay
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    Autobiography is usually categorized with essays and other technical writings, and rarely considered creative or artistic literature in the public eye. This project explores the elements of autobiography and two authors who break the barriers of conventional practices to create works that also function as creative and artistic literature. Maya...
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    the Southern Black girl, [and] being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that

  • On the Rhetorical Disability of Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

    Creator:
    McDowell, Amanda J.
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    Composition scholars who have written about trauma have typically focused on creating classrooms that are conducive to healing and learning. In doing this work, however, they have considered neither how PTSD nor other people’s responses to it can impact one’s perceived rhetoricity in the college classroom. In other words, they...
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    country is swept up in discussions about the trauma that black people and people of color undergo. The

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    clutching an umbrella, shiny black shoes slick on the gravel as we hurried to my house, our dresses already

  • Houses along fourth street

    Creator:
    Yee, Ann L.
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    This thesis consists of four short stories and Chapter 1 of a novel in progress. Each of the four stories are thematically linked through a common protagonist, Nancy, and through a relatively chronological following of events in her life. I chose to tell Nancy's stories in an attempt to gain...
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    heading to work in Gresham, Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Raleigh Hills. I saw one black woman several times

  • Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

    Creator:
    Rowland, Olivia A.
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    Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
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    systems manifest in responding to student writing. Drawing from Black and Latinx feminist theories of