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Zhou, Jingqiong. "Black humor in Raymond Carver's short fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45015235.

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Reger, Wibke. "The black body of literature: colorism in American fiction." Paderborn München Wien Zürich Schöningh, 2009. http://d-nb.info/988677261/04.

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McNeil, Nicene Rebecca. "Representations of Black Autonomy in Selected Works of Black Fiction." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1605789333021661.

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Bergsten, James David. "Black Dolphin." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1397832268.

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Testerman, Rebecca Lynn. "Desegregating the Future: A Study of African-American Participation in Science Fiction Conventions." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1332773873.

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Evans, Lamona Nadine. "The administrative styles of presidents of black colleges in the academic novel /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1987.

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Guidry, Cameron J. "Pieces| A Collection of Short Stories and an Essay on Humor as a Source of Engagement in Fiction." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10268796.

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<p> Humor is an ever-present aspect of American Literature, and, in particular, short fiction. While the construction of the comedic has been studied and broken down into its constituent parts, the reasons for its application are less studied and understood. This dissertation examines the application of humor and the comedic in the works of American writers: Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Connor, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson in order to gain understanding about the decision to include humor in a variety of their works. The goal of the critical introduction portion of <i>Pieces</i> is t

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Ross-Stroud, Catherine Trites Roberta Seelinger. "Non-existent existences race, class, gender, and age in adolescent fiction; or Those whispering Black girls /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3106763.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2003.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed October 12, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Roberta Seelinger Trites (chair), Karen Coats, Janice Neuleib. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-236) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Terry, Jill D. "Black and white conjunctions in southern literary oralities." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366607.

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Schiller, Beate. "Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2005/547/.

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This paper focuses on mysteries written by the Afro-American women authors Barbara Neely and Valerie Wilson Wesley. Both authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard to the current discourse about race and class in US-American society.<br><br> This discourse is important because detective novels are considered popular literature and thus a mass product designed to favor commercial instead of literary claims. Thus, the focus is placed on the development of the tw

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Ullrich-Ferguson, Loretta N. "The beauty of her survival : being Black and female in Meridian, The salt eaters, Kindred, and The bluest eye /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464907.pdf.

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Doyle, Darrin Michael. "The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155575561.

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Affolder, Linda Ann. "Representing the truth in black and white, American dust bowl migrants in fiction and photography." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22511.pdf.

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Piper, Gemmicka F. "Black intimacy in the popular imagination: re-examining African American women’s fiction from 1965-2000." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6622.

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Contemporary African American fiction repeatedly explores intimacy. These explorations have been most sustained in black women’s writing. Although female authors share an interest in romantic interactions, their portrayals reveal wide-ranging attitudes about this theme. Some accounts depict intimacy as a barrier to female advancement. In other texts, feminine success hinges on maintaining a committed relationship. These distinct outlooks not only reflect competing gender discourses within late 20th, early 21st century America but also significant developments in black women’s literature. In th

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Chester, Dennis M. "Performance, spectatorship, and the evolution of nationalism in Harlem Renaissance fiction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9314.

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Kamali, Leila Francesca. "Spectres of the shore : the memory of Africa in contemporary African-American and Black British fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4110/.

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This study considers the approach in recent African-American and Black British fiction toward the cultural memory of Africa. Following a brief consideration of the relationship between contemporary conceptions of African-American and Black British cultural identities, I examine the ways in which the imaginative journeys and geographies, evoked by the ideals of Africa and 'Africanness', are employed in the negotiation of historical memory, and in the endeavour to situate black identity in the context of contemporary American and British society. My discussion addresses these questions, initiall

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Keith, Zackary. "The Dreams of Metanoia: The Advent Foreigner: A Creative Thesis Based on a True Narrative of the Forgotten American War of Racist Imperialism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/630.

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This creative project’s ambition is to craft an original novel called The Dreams of Metanoia: The Advent Foreigner. The Dreams of Metanoia is initially influenced by The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a true narrative by Rebecca Skloot. Henrietta and her family were subjected to Jim Crow scientific racism. Henrietta, a black woman with cervical cancer, had her cells removed and cultivated by John Hopkins doctors without any consent. The doctors discovered that Henrietta’s cells continued to divide relentlessly outside her body. They then sold them to other researchers without their knowledg

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Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun Harris Trudier. "The black maternal heterogeneity and resistance in literary representations of black mothers in 20th century African American and Afro-Caribbean women's fiction /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1736.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.

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Calbert, Tonisha Marie. "(Re)Writing Apocalypse: Race, Gender, and Radical Change in Black Apocalyptic Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593596843453299.

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Turner, William Blackmore. "Pulping the Black Atlantic : race, genre and commodification in the detective fiction of Chester Himes." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/pulping-the-black-atlanticrace-genre-and-commodification-in-the-detective-fiction-of-chester-himes(5d2272b6-f9e7-437e-be67-82bebc96abdb).html.

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The career path of African American novelist Chester Himes is often characterised as a u-turn. Himes grew to recognition in the 1940s as a writer of the Popular Front, and a pioneer of the era's black 'protest' fiction. However, after falling out of domestic favour in the early 1950s, Himes emigrated to Paris, where he would go on to publish eight Harlem-set detective novels (1957-1969) for Gallimard's La Série Noire. Himes's 'black' noir fiction brought him critical and commercial success amongst a white European readership, and would later gain a cult status amongst an African American reade

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Benson, Josef. "Rock, Paper, Scissors." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001976.

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Littlejohn, Amonte. "HOPEFUL HOSTILITY:AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN NATURALISM." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1313609535.

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Jonas-Fowler, Joycelyn. "Is This Black Enough for You? A Comparative Analysis of African-American Families Portrayed in Black Family Television Comedies between 1980 and 2000." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2018. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/134.

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Research shows that black people watch more television than any other race of people, and, given that television is the most influential media tool, the content of what may affect an audience’s behavior and beliefs deserves analysis. This study examines the black family, alleged pathology, strengths that are specifically associated with them, its portrayal on television, and how television is used as a tool for socialization and influence. A content analysis of the top thirty black family shows that appeared on major network television between 1980 and 2000 was conducted to determine if the fa

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Gillespie, Robert Arthur. "Shades of an urban frontier : historical resonances in the cities of Black and Anglophone SF." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1609.

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Cities have a paradoxical relationship with science fiction literature. On the one hand, critics like Brian Aldiss have called sf a `literature of cities', citing them as the dominant context for speculative fiction. On the other, critics like Gary Wolfe have noted how sf has an "anti-urban frontier mentality" and how sf narratives involving cities often tend to view them as a trap from which the protagonist must escape. This relationship is even more complex in sf works by African American authors, as contemporary African American fiction in general takes the city as the dominant context for

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Chachere, Karen A. De Santis Christopher C. "Visually white, legally black miscegenation, the mulatoo, and passing in American literature and culture, 1865-1933 /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3128271.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed Jan. 10, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Christopher C. De Santis (chair), Ronald Strickland, Cynthia A. Huff, Alison Bailey. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-193) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Garcia, Licet. "Cuba i+real: Singularidades de lo Fantástico y la Ciencia Ficción en la Cuba Contemporánea." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3885.

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Ever since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, Cuba has witnessed an unprecedented productive boom in the genres of science fiction and the fantastic. A large number of the literary and cinematic works that have surfaced during the last half-century attempt to replace and ultimately reify motifs and scenarios appropriated from the various science fiction and fantastic narratives in world literature and have generated alternative or imagined settings that challenge extant sociopolitical realities and certainties of the island. My dissertation, “Cuba i+Real: singularidades de lo fantástico y

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Young, Sade Marie. "SOUTHERN-PLAYALISTIC-HIPHOP-SPACESHIP-MUSIC." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305583004.

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Istomina, Julia. "Property, Mobility, and Epistemology in U.S. Women of Color Detective Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429191876.

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Bruce, Rebekah May. "Strides Toward Equality: The Portrayal of Black Female Athletes in Children’s Picturebooks." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu154351163594203.

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Calabre, Roberta Ventura. "Fighting the Strai(gh)tjacket: black women bonding in Loving Her and The Color Purple." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2812.

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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar como as relações lésbicas são retratadas nas obras Loving Her e The Color Purple. Ao analisar as relações entre homens/mulheres e mulheres/mulheres, este estudo também revê e critica o golpe triplo sofrido por lésbicas negras, por serem, ao mesmo tempo, mulheres, afro-americanas e homossexuais. Utilizando fatos históricos para situar as obras em um contexto social, além da teoria do lesbian continuum afim de atestar a riqueza e diversidade do laço afetivo entre mulheres, este trabalho vem por desmistificar as noções simplistas em relação à literatura lésbi

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Jones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.

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Benavente, Gabriel. "Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3186.

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This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for

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Murray, Joshua M. "No Definite Destination: Transnational Liminality in Harlem Renaissance Lives and Writings." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461257721.

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Harwell, Raena Jamila. "This Woman's Work: The Sociopolitical Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/138885.

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African American Studies<br>Ph.D.<br>In November 2006, award-winning novelist, Bebe Moore Campbell died at the age of 56 after a short battle with brain cancer. Although the author was widely-known and acclaimed for her first novel, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine (1992) there had been no serious study of her life, nor her literary and activist work. This dissertation examines Campbell's activism in two periods: as a student at the University of Pittsburgh during the 1960s Black Student Movement, and later as a mental health advocate near the end of her life in 2006. It also analyzes Campbell's fir

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Oforlea, Aaron Ngozi. "Discursive divide (re)covering African American male subjectivity in the works of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1111690389.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.<br>Document formatted into pages. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2010 March 24.

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Moreira, Cíntia Brunetta. "A geração do humor no conto "No Kaddish for Weinstein" de Woody Allen : scripts semânticos e construção identitária." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2014. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/919.

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Esta dissertação trata dos mecanismos de geração do humor no conto “No Kaddish for Weinstein” (ALLEN, 1975). É possível identificar nessa narrativa a forte e frequente presença do humor étnico, mais especificamente do humor judaico-americano. Porém acredita-se que este não seja o único tipo de humor de que o autor faz uso, considerando-se também que o humor possui diversos mecanismos e pode emergir de diversas situações. Por essa razão, há a necessidade de não só identificar o humor característico de Woody Allen, mas também analisar o tipo de narrativa que esse escritor constrói em seus contos

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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.

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Smith, Roslyn Nicole. "Medias Res, Temporal Double-Consciousness and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11242007-230409/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Elizabeth West, committee chair; Layli Phillips, Kameelah Martin Samuel, committee members. Electronic text (52 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 30, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).

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Jones, Cassandra L. "FutureBodies: Octavia Butler as a Post-Colonial Cyborg Theorist." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368927282.

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Ghosh, Arundhati. "From Holmes to Sherlock: Confession, Surveillance, and the Detective." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1376495997.

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Munoz, Cabrera Patricia. "Journeying: narratives of female empowerment in Gayl Jones's and Toni Morrison's ficton." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210259.

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This dissertation discusses Gayl Jones’s and Toni Morrison’s characterisation of black women’s journeying towards empowered subjectivity and agency. <p><p>Through comparative analysis of eight fictional works, I explore the writers’ idea of female freedom and emancipation, the structures of power affecting the transition from oppressed towards liberated subject positions, and the literary techniques through which the authors facilitate these seminal trajectories.<p><p>My research addresses a corpus comprised of three novels and one book-long poem by Gayl Jones, as well as four novels by Toni M

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Lorts, Justin T. "Black laughter/Black protest civil rights, respectability, and the cultural politics of African American comedy, 1934-1968." 2008. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.17523.

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Nayak, Kishori K. "Black-white encounter in American fiction- A study in attitudes." Thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/1731.

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LeBow, Diane. "Selfhood in free fall novels by black and white American women /." 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/13115050.html.

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Walsh, Ryan Winegardner Mark. "The secret lives of adults stories /." 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11132003-011411.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2003.<br>Advisor: Mark Winegardner, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Feb. 25, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

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Carey, Cecelia V. "Bildungsroman in contemporary black women's fiction." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/33313.

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Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction is a study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Both of these writers implement a newer version of the genre of Bildungsroman to reveal the complexities involved in coming of age for a young woman of color. Both novels have protagonists that struggle with racism, sexism, and classism as barriers to their identity formation. This study aims to reveal the ways in which multiple layers of oppression inhibit the progress of contemporary African-American female heroines in modem Bildungsroman.<br>Graduation date:

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Duvivier, Sandra Caona. "Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women's fiction." 2006. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3215912.

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Transnational black American women writers' literary renderings of "home" evidence an intersectional relationship among black American literature and cultures. This dissertation analyzes, through the trope of home, these authors' portrayals of the multiplicity of experiences informing black American women's lives and identities both domestically and transnationally. Embracing the transnationalism of black American female subjects, as well as a paradigm of intersectionality, this dissertation creates a framework that challenges not only canon formation with regards to black women's literature i

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Prater, Tzarina Tavielle. "Sharp bones (re)imaging the heroic in 20th century Black fiction /." 2009. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051939.

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Nishikawa, Kinohi. "Reading the Street: Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, and the Rise of Black Pulp Fiction." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/2451.

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<p>"Reading the Street" chronicles the rise of black pulp fiction in the post-civil rights era from the perspective of its urban readership. Black pulp fiction was originally published in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it consisted of paperback novels about tough male characters navigating the pitfalls of urban life. These novels appealed mainly to inner-city readers who felt left out of civil rights' and Black Power's promises of social equality. Despite the historic achievements of the civil rights movement, entrenched structural inequalities led to America's ghettos becoming sites of conce

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Melancon, Trimiko C. "Disrupting dissemblance: Transgressive black women as politics of counter-representation in African American women's fiction." 2005. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3179902.

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My dissertation examines post-civil rights novels by Toni Morrison, Ann Allen Shockley, and Alice Walker, and investigates their subversion of myopic representations of black women in the American literary and cultural imagination. More precisely, this study examines these writers' characterizations of black women who not only diverge from stereotypical images imposed by ideologies of “whiteness,” but who also rebel unapologetically against constructions of female identity imposed by nationalist discourse generally and black nationalism particularly. Drawing upon black feminist theoretical fra

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