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Creator:: Aragon, Racheal
Abstract:: The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: mentorship from those in the School of Writing, Literature and Film at Oregon State University. I extend my

Creator:: Carey, Cecelia V.
Abstract:: Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction is a study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Both of these writers implement a newer version of the genre of Bildungsroman to reveal the complexities involved in coming of age for a young woman of color. Both...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and the world" (13). The Bildungsroman surfaced in German literature as a secular ideal with the

Creator:: Spencer, Megan
Abstract:: This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: given text, suggesting an epistemology that is rooted in the potential of literature to make us feel

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