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Post-Imperial Waters: Oceanic Form and Politics in 21st-Century Global South Novels
(Georgetown University, 2021)This thesis investigates the oceanic imaginaries of three contemporary Global South novels—Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001), Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005), and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea (2019). ... -
Obtaining the Self: Dual Identity as Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale and Know My Name
(Georgetown University, 2021)This thesis addresses dual identity formation in survivors of sexual assault. When living in an unsympathetic environment, this thesis argues that identities imposed by external forces can be utilized as a protective ... -
Little Lies Everywhere: Untangling Truths in Twenty-First Century Maternal Fiction
(Georgetown University, 2021)Lying mothers are having a cultural moment. The past ten years have seen the rise of books and television shows which center mothers who lie and keep secrets from their children, such as the wildly popular Bridgerton and ... -
A Novel Collaboration: The Role of Editing in 20th Century American Literature
(Georgetown University, 2021)Editors’ contributions to literary creation are too often understated or overlooked. Most of the existing conversation in regards to editors is either purely biographical in nature or else discusses editing as a practice ... -
The Psychopathology of the Victorian Man: A Psychoanalytic Study of Masculinity in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction
(Georgetown University, 2021)This thesis explores the structural and psychic limitations of Victorian masculinity, which have been concealed and repressed at the time by dominant phantom ideals of the Victorian man as a stable and coherent subject. ...
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