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Spring 2021
Abstract This tome is both a “solar” dissertation and a “lunar” grimoire that performs its own argument. Adepts of Modernism argues that the infamous “little magazines” of modernism conjured their own enlightened, reading “counter-publics” by exploiting the same strategies and tactics of...
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Spring 2012
This project favours transgender narratives and affects inspired by exteriority, folds, queer décor, assemblage, and the archive. These spatial models help the project displace models of gender that are grounded in the concepts of enclosure, privacy, and property. As a response to the enforced...
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Black Internationalism in Trial: The Specter of Marcus Garvey, Legal Modernity, and the Foreclosed Futures of Modern Justice
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In America, the rise and fall of the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation has been regularly associated with an intransigent boom and bust narrative. Why is it, then, that the Bureau of Investigation was so intent on bringing the company’s founder to trial if the black financial venture was...
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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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W.B. Yeats’s A Vision: Magical and Poetic Symbols for Personal, Social, and Historical Contexts
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W.B. Yeats saw himself as Ireland’s poet of historical record, even titling key poems to convey the centrality of Irish history to those poems and, eventually, to Irish historical self-understanding. Several of Yeats’s polemical, socially oriented poems have an internal logic that derives from,...