Browsing English by Author "Griffith, Jean Carol"
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Book review: "Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture" (Ed. Gary Totten) and "Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion" (by Katherine Joslin)
Griffith, Jean Carol (University of Illinois Press, 2012)Book review of: (1)Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture. Ed. Gary Totten. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2007. 408 pp. and (2) Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion. By Katherine ... -
Defining spaces: Giovanni's Room and the journey to identity
Celestin, Amber (Wichita State University, 2010-05)James Baldwin argues throughout his work that identity and an honest sense of self can only be attained through a personal journey that involves more than just movement from one point to another; it must also lead to a ... -
The denunciation of patriarchy and capitalism in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ondieki, Benjamin Orina (Wichita State University, 2008-05)The figuration of Janie in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is an undeniable contestation of gender oppression. The contours of previous criticism have mapped out various directions of arguments, some of which make ... -
“The end of the world as we know it”: losing and finding immortality in a post-apocalyptic world
Stokes-Mlotkiewicz, Elizabeth Antoinette (Wichita State University, 2012-05)This paper explores the relationship between man, nature and immortality through the lens of two novels: The Children of Men by P.D. James, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The paper looks at the way these two novels ... -
Fairy tale woman transformed, mythical artist re-born: Recontextualizing the female artist’s narrative in The song of the lark
Bell, Donna Maryjean (Wichita State University, 2008-05)This essay considers Willa Cather’s use of fairy tale, musical, and mythological references within The Song of the Lark to rewrite cultural paradigms of patriarchal oppression and create a female-empowered narrative of an ... -
Prankster narrative in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dryden, Nick (Wichita State University, 2015-05)The opening lines of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel recall the title imagery and central metaphor of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon's 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks: [t]hey're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to ... -
Recreating identity: Acts of transcendence and resistance in Native American literature
Hatt, Graceanne M. (Wichita State University, 2009-05)The Native American novel is inherently a “cross-cultural” device with roots both in the western written tradition and Indigenous oral tradition; a mix that oftentimes makes these novels difficult for readers, especially ... -
Twisted sisters: The progression of white women from home-wreckers to friends in Onoto Watanna's "Miss Nume of Japan" and Sui Sin Far's "The wisdom of the new"
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You better watch out...: White myths and matrices of oppression in Invisible Man
Warren, Xavia (Wichita State University, 2015-05)