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Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

Creator:

Duncan, James Bryan

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In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...

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Masters Thesis

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in the abstract, isolated from the world around it. Jazz is part of the social history of the United
Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

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...

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Masters Thesis

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Representation of Identity Through Sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz AN ABSTRACT