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"Just Breathing Isn't Living": Disability and Constructions of Normalcy in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature
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This study seeks to demonstrate the ways in which disability is negatively and stereotypically presented in classic children’s literature and how it is used to prescribe constructions of normalcy. Although disability studies have become an increasingly popular avenue for critical study, one...
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A Critical Bond: Cultural Transmission and Nation-Building in Métis and Chicana/o Picture Books
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It was not until the later part of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century that Métis and Chicana/o authors began to create picture books as a counter-literary response to the discrimination that they faced as mixed-race peoples. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the...
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Characters with disabilities in contemporary children's novels: Portraits of three authors in a frame of Canadian texts
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This qualitative study explored influences on three Canadian authors who present characters with disabilities in children’s fiction. Portraits of these authors are framed by a discussion of contemporary Canadian children’s novels, offering curriculum ideas within the framework of critical...
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Fall 2017
Everywhere, we are told, we are in crisis. And yet, the concept “crisis” obscures as much as it clarifies. Crisis Culture examines how modern conceptions of crisis structure the ways we experience, narrate, and respond to moments of historical rupture and upheaval. It analyzes how logics of...
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Spring 2015
In this dissertation, I read gender humour through the lens of masculinities studies and critical humour studies to contribute to gender studies and humour studies. I engage two crucial problems and propose solutions and possibilities. The first problem concerns the state of the concept of...
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Spring 2015
My dissertation brings theorists of queer childhood (Bruhm and Hurley 2004; Edelman 2004; Stockton 2009) into conversation with contemporary North American queer young adult fiction (queer YA), a genre that I suggest has come to bear a heavy pedagogical burden in the wake of recent intense media...