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“STORIES CAN SAVE US”: WRITING AS THERAPY IN WAR LITERATURE, POETRY, AND MEMOIR
(Georgetown University, 2017)This thesis seeks to explore the contemporary studies of “moral injury” through the modes of war fiction, poetry, and memoir. Using the works of poet Carolyn Forché regarding the concept of poetry as witness, moral philosopher ... -
I - IS THE TOTAL BLACK: AUDRE LORDE AND RADICALIZING THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT
(Georgetown University, 2017)The Black Arts Movement is part of a rich African American literary tradition that attempts to use art as a tool to advocate for black liberation. This thesis explores the ideology and methodology of some of the Black Arts ... -
“The Magic Mirror”: Uncanny Suicides, From Sylvia Plath to Chantal Akerman
(Georgetown University, 2017)Artists such as Chantal Akerman and Sylvia Plath, both of whom came of age in mid-twentieth century America, have a tendency to show concern with doubles in their work—Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Maya Deren’s Meshes of the ... -
No Respecter of ‘Place, Persons, Or Time’: Festivity as Coercive Power in Twelfth Night and The Puritan Widow
(Georgetown University, 2017)Scholars of early modern England have recently renewed their interest in festivity—the religious and social concept and practice of feasts, fasts, processions, celebrations, gatherings, and other rituals associated with ... -
Resistance and/in Diaspora: The Caribbean Presence in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby
(Georgetown University, 2017)This thesis analyses the elements of the Caribbean in Toni Morrison’s novel Tar Baby. Those elements are found and studied in the novel’s setting and in the characters of Afro Caribbean origin and their relationships with ...
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