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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black

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

"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

"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

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

In and Out of Touch : Fabricated Histories in Nella Larsen's Passing and James VanDerZee's Studio Portraiture

Creator:: Trowbridge, A. Hayley
Abstract:: Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the most canonical figures of Harlem Renaissance studies, whose respective novels and portraits have been explored extensively, if separately, by scholars. Both Larsen's 1929 novel Passing and VanDerZee's studio portraiture of the 1920s and 1930s have been read in terms...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the

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A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

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

Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

"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

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

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

In and Out of Touch : Fabricated Histories in Nella Larsen's Passing and James VanDerZee's Studio Portraiture

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