Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Ifeoma Nwankwo"
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Averin, Rosalee Coleen (2013-07-17)Department: EnglishOctavia Butler’s Kindred and Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring are African diasporic texts that trouble the boundaries of nation, home, time, and genre, as they are traditionally defined. This thesis argues that ...
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Spires, Derrick Ramon (2012-07-26)Department: EnglishBlack Theories of Citizenship in the Early United States, 1793-1860, examines early U.S. citizenship through the work of black activists and intellectuals writing between 1793 and 1861, just after the framing of the Federal ...
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DeGuzman, Kathleen Rose (2015-07-16)Department: English“Economies of Entanglement” argues that the Victorian period is an essential context for understanding anglophone Caribbean literature. It frames the ongoing relationship between Britain and the Caribbean in terms of ...
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Bagneris, Jennifer (2018-08-15)Department: EnglishPost Katrina, given the disparate outcomes and dispersal rates for African Americans, residents of the city have questioned to what extent New Orleans is being intentionally reconfigured as a smaller, wealthier, and whiter ...
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Boutelle, Russell Joseph (2012-08-10)Department: EnglishThis thesis maps the conflation of Cuban authors Juan Francisco Manzano and Placido in John Greenleaf Whittier's The Stranger in Lowell. Through an inadvertent synthesis of the lived experiences of the two poets, the ...
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Davidovich, Karin (2014-09-29)Department: SpanishThis dissertation analyzes testimonial accounts by female survivors of the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) in the form of cultural productions that started to appear from the 1990s to the first decade of the ...
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Castro, Anne Margaret (2016-07-26)Department: English“The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature” studies depictions of religious phenomena in multi-genre texts from across the Americas. Literary engagement with the philosophies ...
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Samuel, Petal Kimberly (2016-07-26)Department: EnglishTiming to Descant examines the role of sound in tactics of colonial governance and strategies of Afro-Caribbean anticolonial resistance in the twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean. British colonial authorities in the ...