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Precarity and the Historicity of the Present: American Literature and Culture from Long Boom to Long Downturn
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Precarity and the Historicity of the Present provides a cultural history of rising precarity in the postwar US. I define precarity as a concept of the interregnumâprecarity names the stretched-out moment of generalized decline currently unfolding as a crisis of social reproduction writ...
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Professional Anxiety: African American Female Journalists Writing Their Way to Legitimacy, 1880-1914
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Situated at the juncture of black periodical studies, periodical studies more broadly, the history of American journalism, and black women’s historiography, Professional Anxiety contributes to a growing trend in scholarship that explores black female journalists’ writing. This study considers the...
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Spring 2019
This thesis examines a selection of print materials from the radical and Communist-affiliated Left in the 1930s, a group and time period that are often passed over in assessments of Canadian literature. While similar texts have been studied in the context of legal evidence or political...
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Fall 2023
This thesis considers how time is described and experienced in a small selection of popular picturebooks. Ecocriticism argues the importance of considering temporal modes of life which operate outside human scales of movement, progress, and capital. As such, this thesis begins by considering...
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Queer TransCanadian Women's Writing in the 21st Century: Assembling a New Cross-Border Ethic
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This dissertation proposes an alternative theorization of borders through the lenses of contemporary queer transCanadian women's writing. Focusing on the first decade of the 21st century, this study examines how the work of Dionne Brand, Emma Donoghue and Hiromi Goto, primarily, dismantles and...
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Spring 2021
This thesis examines the cultural memory of sexual assault in the United States. It examines the relationship between selected published texts about sexual assault and the cultural memory of anti-rape activism, focusing on the ways in which the books about rape that were published during the...
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Fall 2021
This dissertation examines how characters construct and contest masculinities in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows, and Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees. It explores how Nigerian novelists redefine what it...