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Graham, Lucy Valerie. "State of peril : Race and rape in South African literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527312.

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Ritscher, Lee Ann. "The semiotics of rape in Renaissance English literature /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Bullard, Angela Denise. "The representation of rape in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2826.

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This thesis examines the complex and conflicting arguments surrounding the crime of rape in early modern England and how the important literary texts, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias, explore the issue of rape. The thesis explores Sidney's attitude toward a system that sanctioned systematic sexual violence towards women as expressed in the text; as part of this it explores the way that the text differentiates rape from seduction.

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Alcantara, Christiane Fontinha de. "A Legacy of Violence and Trauma in the Diasporic Literature from Hispaniola." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1024.

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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro<br>O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar os romances Geographies of Home (1999), da escritora dominicana-americana Loida Martiza Pérez, e Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), da escritora haitiana-americana Edwidge Danticat. Ambos os romances tratam de famílias caribenhas que migram para os Estados Unidos por questões econômicas ou por razões políticas. Nos dois romances, personagens centrais são vítimas de abuso sexual. Em Geographies of Home, Marina é estuprada por um astrólogo negro e acaba por violentar sua irmã Iliana. Em Breath, Eyes, Memory, Martine é violentada por sua mãe através de testes de virgindade que se encerram quando Martine é estuprada por um membro do exército particular do ditador François Duvalier. Entretanto, apesar de ressentir a prática dos testes, Martine os repete quando sua filha Sophie cresce. Como sujeitos diaspóricos, estas personagens são influenciadas tanto pelos seus lugares de origem como pela cultura do país anfitrião. Assim, eu analiso o pano de fundo histórico e político da República Dominicana e do Haiti. Eu também discuto as motivações que levaram aos estupros retratados nos romances e exploro conseqüências físicas e psicológicas das memórias traumáticas causadas pela violência sexual. Eu também exploro a conexão entre a violência dirigida aos corpos das personagens femininas e a violência contra a nação<br>The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the novels Geographies of Home (1999), written by the Dominican-American novelist Loida Maritza Pérez, and Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), by Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American writer. Both novels deal with Caribbean families that migrate to the United States, primarily for economic and political reasons. In both novels, main characters are victims of sexual abuse. In Geographies of Home, Marina is raped by a black astrologer and ends up violating her sister Iliana. In Breath, Eyes, Memory, Martine is violated by her mother through virginity tests that end when Martine is raped by a member of the Dictator François Duvaliers private army. However, despite resenting the testing practice, Martine repeats it when her daughter Sophie grows up. As diasporic subjects, these characters are influenced both by their places of origin and the culture of the host nation. Thus, I analyze the historical and political background of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. I also discuss the motivations that led to the rapes portrayed in the novels, and I explore the physical and psychological consequences of the traumatic memories caused by sexual violence. I also explore the connection between violence directed towards the bodies of female characters and the violence perpetrated against the nation

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Malo-Juvera, Victor. "The Effect of Young Adult Literature on Adolescents' Rape Myth Acceptance." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/564.

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This quasi-experimental study (N = 139) measured the effect of a reader response based instructional unit of the novel Speak on adolescents’ rape myth acceptance. Participants were eighth grade language arts students at a Title I middle school in a major metropolitan school district. Seven classes were randomly assigned to treatment (n = 4) or control (n = 3) condition. Two teachers participated in the study and both taught both treatment and control classes. The study lasted a period of five weeks. Participants were pretested using the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Burt, 1980) and a researcher created scale, the Adolescent Date Rape Scale (ADRMS). Analysis of pretests showed the ADRMS to be a reliable and valid measure of rape myth acceptance in adolescents. Factor analysis revealed it to have two major components: “She Wanted It” and “She Lied.” Pretests supported previous studies which found girls to have significantly lower initial levels of rape myth acceptance than boys (p < .001). A 2 (group) x 2 (instructor) x 2 (sex) ANCOVA using ADRMS pretest as a covariate and ADRMS posttest as a dependent variable found that treatment was effective in reducing rape myth acceptance (p < .001, ή2 = .15). Boys with high rape myth acceptance as demonstrated by pretest scores of 1 standard deviation above the mean on ADRMS did not have a backlash to treatment. Extended analysis revealed that participants had significantly lower scores posttest on Factor 1, “She Wanted It” (p < .001, ή2 = .27), while scores on Factor 2, “She Lied” were not significantly lower (p = .07). This may be because the content of the novel primarily deals with issues questioning whether the main characters assault was a rape rather than a false accusation. Attrition rates were low (N = 15) and attrition analysis showed that drop outs did not significantly alter the treatment or control groups. Implications for reader response instruction of young adult literature, for research on rape myth acceptance in secondary schools, and for statistical analysis of effect size using pretests as filters are discussed.

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Schroot, Lisa M. "A Culture of Rape: In Twentieth Century American Literature and Beyond." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/39.

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This project examines rape culture in American literature and society, exploring factors of rape culture through the narratives of literary protagonists and current women alike. Each chapter is grounded in a work of literature, which serves as a lens through which to analyze a factor of rape culture, and is then broadened in scope to incorporate recent court cases that have had significant sociocultural impacts. The introduction includes a critical review of rape in feminist theory, from Susan Brownmiller to Ann J. Cahill. The first chapter treats the rape of Dolores Haze and victim blaming in Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 Lolita, and the 2010 Cleveland, Texas gang rapes of an eleven-year-old girl, who was cast as a “Lolita” by her community and the media. The second chapter discusses the rape of women with disabilities in Elmer Harris’s 1940 Johnny Belinda, and two 2012 cases in California and Connecticut involving the rapes of women with disabilities and the issue of consent, both of which influenced legislation. The third chapter focuses on the use of mass rape as a weapon of war in Lynn Nottage’s 2009 Ruined, and the narratives and testimonies of rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where nearly 2 million women have been raped since 1998. As the literature illustrates, when rape functions as an instrument of power and control certain similarities arise, such as victim blaming, consent, and the use of rape to demoralize and subjugate women, all of which are primary features of rape culture.

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Miller, Nancy Weitz. "Rape and The Rhetoric of Female Chastity in English Renaissance Literature /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487934589975906.

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Sielke, Sabine. "Reading rape : the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 /." Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/2001036274.html.

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McDonnell, Danielle. "'By force and against her will' : rape in law and literature, 1700-1765." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36207/.

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This thesis examines the relationship between fictional depictions of rape and legal and social realities between 1700 and 1765, and argues that these contexts are essential to reconstruct contemporary understandings of rape in this period. Rape was presented differently in legislation, legal texts, trials and literature, reflecting the varied ideas of what constituted a rape. The research begins by asking why the statutory definition of rape was inconsistent with legal practice, and how clear the legal conventions of rape were in contemporary society. This leads to a series of case studies investigating why Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Samuel Richardson were interested in rape, how their depictions of rape relate to legal realities and were informed by their own legal knowledge, and what form of interpretation the authors invite. The geographical focus on London is occasioned by the selection of trials, largely heard at the Old Bailey, and texts published in London, but acknowledges the wider national readership for the texts and trials, which were often reported in the press and/or published. The historical parameters reflect the decline in standardized legal education and increased reliance on legal texts from 1700, and the lack of a significant contemporary legal treatise to guide interpretations of statutory and common law until the publication of William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769). This study contributes to existing scholarship on rape in the eighteenth century. Criticism in this area has begun to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to this subject. This thesis combines legal and non-legal sources to inform its analysis, suggesting that critical approaches need to use a wider range of sources to reconstruct the context in which contemporary portrayals of rape were situated. Part two of this thesis offers new readings of canonical works, showing how Pope, Defoe, Richardson, Smollett and Fielding engaged with wider contextual legal discourse in their works, and explores their reasons for doing so. These case studies assert the importance of legal and social contexts, offer new ways of interpreting rape in literature, and show that literary authors negotiated and presented ideas of rape in a variety of ways in their texts, influencing public perceptions of the nature and illegality of such acts.

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Moss, Deborah D. "A literature research of rape in the United States from 1987 through 1992." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1993. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3663.

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This study covers rape literature and materials from January 1987 to November 1992. The focuses are on the definition of rape, history of rape, incidence of rape, theories of rape, coping mechanisms of rape, and prevention of rape. The central finding of this study indicates that women, for the most part, are not as passive as in yester years. Today women are quick to report a rape incident. Although they are a product of what is called the partriachal society, they are in charge of their own lives.

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Budroodin, Rashida. "On equal terms : a novel." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/931.

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This novel deals with the ‘migrant experience’ as seen through the eyes of a young Indian woman, who has, through choice and circumstance, become the displaced ‘other’ in white Anglo-Saxon Australia. The novel focuses on the construction of an identity for the migrant woman and explores the themes of loss and familial rape within tradition bound societies. In the novel, and in the essay that follows, I hope to highlight my concerns with migrant females, rape within families and within cultures and how these issues are discussed in contemporary Australia. The narrative strategy of the novel is a limited first person point of view, with occasional ‘breaks’ and forays into the minds of other characters. Written in prose, within a postcolonial framework, my novel and essay are attempts to deal with the psychological fragmentation that accompanies both physical displacement and sexual violation.

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Catty, Jocelyn. "Unbridled speech : writing rape and female autonomy in early modern England 1560-1630." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320876.

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Hannett, Laura A. "A Certain Threatening Picture: Images of Rape in Eudora Welty's "The Golden Apples"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626109.

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Kendal, Rebekah. ""Not rape, not quite that" : an exploration of the rape narratives in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and in The Heart of the Country within the South African context." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14602.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This dissertation provides a close examination of the rape narratives in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and In the Heart of the Country within the South African context. Initially, I briefly explore the proposition that the problem of rape in South Africa is perpetuated by the myths about rape which essentially obfuscate the reality of the incidence of rape. Having established what these myths are and how they are detrimental to our understanding of rape, I explore Coetzee's treatment of them in his own rape narratives. I debate whether Coetzee has simply reproduced existing myths about rape, thus perpetuating the shroud of silence which surrounds the majority of rapes in South Africa, or whether he has provided some sort of critique of the myths which are generally regarded as credible. I suggest that there is a marked development in Coetzee's consciousness and handling of myths about rape from In the Heart of the Country to Disgrace. The conclusion that I reach is that while it seems that Coetzee is critical of certain myths about rape, his criticism is presented in so subtle a manner that its detection is dependent, for a large part, on the integrity of the reader.

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Mills, Jennie. "Rape and the construction of sexuality in early eighteenth-century texts." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341513.

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Stokes, Katherine. "Sexual violence and the authority to speak: the representation of rape in three contemporary novels." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32521.

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Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace depict periods of intense violence: the Rwandan genocide, the Partition of India, and post-apartheid South Africa. While these authors bring rape to the foreground as they explore massive social change and systemic brutality, Courtemanche, Sidhwa and Coetzee differ significantly in their treatment of sexual violence. Courtemanche decries physical violence but fails to acknowledge more subtle forms of abuse, constraining the voice of the raped female character. Examining Partition from a child's perspective, Sidhwa exposes some of the injustices faced by a survivor of rape, yet this survivor never talks about her experience. Coetzee's protagonist suppresses the voice of the woman he abuses, but insists that his daughter speak up when she is assaulted: her silence complicates the idea that speech about rape is necessarily progressive. An examination of these texts' treatment of speech and silence surrounding rape will test the possibilities for pro-survivor narratives of sexual violence within a rape culture.<br>Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali, de Gil Courtemanche, Cracking India de Bapsi Sidhwa et Disgrâce de J.M. Coetzee illustrent des périodes de violence intense : le génocide rwandais, la partition de l'Inde et l'Afrique du Sud après l'apartheid. Les trois auteurs mettent en scène le viol en explorant le changement social intense et la brutalité généralisée, mais Courtemanche, Sidhwa et Coetzee diffèrent dans leur traitement de la violence sexuelle de manière significative. Courtemanche dénonce la violence physique mais ne reconnaît pas les formes d'abus plus subtiles, astreignant ainsi la voix du personnage féminin violé. En examinant la partition de la perspective d'un enfant, Sidhwa expose les injustices auxquelles fait face une survivante de viol, mais la survivante ne parle jamais de son expérience. Le protagoniste de Coetzee réprime la voix de la femme dont il abuse, mais insiste pour que sa fille parle lorsqu'elle se fait agresser : son silence complique l'idée que le discours sur le viol est nécessairement progressif. Un examen du traitement du discours et du silence autour du viol dans ces textes mettra en question les possibilités de narrations sur la violence sexuelle d'un point de vue pro-survivant dans une culture du viol.

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MacKenzie, Sarah. "Representations of Rape and Gendered Violence in the Drama of Tomson Highway." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28696.

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In The Rez Sisters (1986), Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989), and Rose (1999) renowned Cree dramatist Tomson Highway mounts a dramaturgical critique of colonialism, focusing most prominently upon the disenfranchisement of Native women and the introduction of Western gender roles into First Nations cultures. Within each of the three "Rez Plays," he employs the metaphor of rape to depict cultural, territorial and spiritual dispossession brought about by colonization. However, in hegemonic narratives of colonization, Indigenous women are similarly represented in connection with the land and the metaphor of rape is used to portray colonial takeover; as colonial domination heightened, literary portrayals of Indigenous peoples, particularly women, became increasingly demeaning. This thesis investigates the extent to which Highway's works can serve as truly subversive, liberating texts given that the recurring portrayals of sexual violence in the "Rez Plays" reinvigorate dangerous, misogynistic stereotypes. Situating Highway's plays within a framework of contemporary feminist postcolonial theory, this thesis problematizes the repeated use of gender specific representations of victimization in the "Rez Plays."

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Crawford, Candace. "A Song of Rape and Infanticide: "Sir John Doth Play"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1962.

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The Middle English lyric, “Sir John Doth Play,” narrated in the female voice clearly depicts rape by a male authority figure and the narrator’s distress over her unplanned pregnancy, yet has been repeatedly interpreted and introduced by critics as a love song portraying the interaction of a seductive village priest and a gullible maiden. As such, the lyric provides a unique perspective on the patriarchal nature of the twentieth century and the value of critically re-examining literature rather than canonizing accepted interpretations of literary work.

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Blum, Daphne. "Picking up the pieces: body parts and female power in Shakespeare's The rape of Lucrece." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1714.

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In The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare anatomizes Lucrece's body-fragments the whole, splits apart the parts. He does so not only to expose the otherwise concealed act of rape-which is hidden within the mysterious and "invisible" female genitalia-but to indicate that Lucrece's parts, through analogy with Pagan and Christian figures and theories, are powerful, even combative, but always pure. In the first section, individual body parts connect Lucrece with so-called "wild women," including the Amazons, Medusa, and Philomela. In the second section, body parts either link Lucrece, or sever Tarquin, from the Divine. In the final section, Classical Mythology and Protestantism conflate in the dis-embodied figure of Helen of Troy. The body-Lucrece's, Tarquin's and the figures on the tapestry-is explored in metaphorical parts, dismembered, or apotheosized/de-corporealized in an attempt to prove that a raped woman may retain her subjectivity along with her innocence.

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Morrison, Leslie Michelle. ""We never part with our money without desire" : marriage economics and attempted rape in the comedies of Behn and Centlivre." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2006/l%5Fmorrison%5F042406.pdf.

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Benitez, Michael Anthony. "The discursive limits of "carnal knowledge"| Re-reading rape in Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Restoration drama." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1598621.

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<p> This thesis, by analyzing how rape is treated in William Shakespeare’s <i> Titus Andronicus</i> (1592-3), Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s <i> The Changeling</i> (1622), and Aphra Behn’s <i>The Rover</i> (1677), details how the early modern English theater frequently dramatizes the period’s problematic understanding of rape. These texts reveal the social and legal illegibility of rape, illuminating just how deeply ambivalent and inconsistent patriarchy is toward female sexuality. Both using and departing from a feminist critical tradition that emphasized rape as patriarchy’s sexual entrapment of women, my readings of the period’s legal treatises and other documents call attention to the ambiguity of how rape is defined in early modern England. As represented in these three plays, male rapists exploit the period’s paradoxical views of female sexual consent, thus complicating how raped women negotiate their social and legal status. The process of disclosing her violation ultimately places a raped woman in an untenable position.</p>

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Swärdh, Anna. "Rape and religion in English Renaissance literature : a topical study of four texts by Shakespeare, Drayton, and Middleton /." Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3600.

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Huckfeldt, Cynthia Rose. "Avoiding "teapot tempests" the politics of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1798480991&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Barker, Bobbie Jo. "(Un)changing views of rape and rapists in the law, sociology and social constructionist literature, a social constructionist approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0027/MQ39802.pdf.

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Eriksson, Michaela. "Let's Speak about the Unspeakable : Using Anderson's Speak in the Swedish Upper Secondary Classroom to discuss Sexism and Sexual Assault." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-71789.

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This essay examines how Anderson’s Speak can be used in the Swedish Upper Secondary classroom to talk about the difficult topics ‘sexism’ and ‘sexual assault’. The paper discusses several examples of where the power structures between the genders affect the main character of Speak. The novel contains a connection to Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, which is also discussed in this essay, focusing on the timelessness of the issues discussed. The conclusion is that the difficult topics in Speak are important to discuss in the classroom, because a functional way of battling sexism is through vocalizing the problem.

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Milutin, Otilia Clara. "Panic attacks violent female displacement in The Tale of Genji /." Connect to this title, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/128/.

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Gaeng, Jenny. "Negotiating Comedy and Rape Culture in Gina Gionfriddo’s After Ashley." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1306343989.

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Barker, Helen Margaret. "Writing about rape : law, criticism, and drama, from Shakespeare's Titus to The Lawes Resolutions." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6337/.

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1970s and 1980s feminist writing about rape in relation to early modern legal practice and to its representation in literary works established a paradigm of misogyny and female victimhood that has remained largely unchallenged. Two works in particular have become almost ubiquitous in modern criticism: a 1983 paper by Nazife Bashar, and the 1632 treatise, \(The\) \(Lawes\) \(Resolutions\) \(of\) \(Womens\) \(Rights\). But a scrutiny of source material revealed factual error and misreading of early modern law and commentary in Bashar’s piece. Additionally, \(The\) \(Lawes\) \(Resolutions\) is unreliable in its account of statute law, while its legal credentials are unclear. Mistaken assumptions arising from both sources have been perpetuated and compounded in modern criticism, and established as commonplace. The resulting critical paradigm constrains the scope for further investigation. The thesis attempts to set the undeniably subordinate status of women in a fuller context than that of oppositional gender politics. It reviews early modern statute law, the background to \(The\) \(Lawes\) \(Resolutions\), Bashar’s essay and its influence on subsequent criticism, the cultural context that established women’s secondary status and reinforced their vulnerability to rape, and the part of neoclassicism in the dynamic. Later chapters turn to early modern – particularly Jacobean – drama. The thesis suggests that in a fuller context of complexity and contradiction there is potential for wider and more interesting approaches to rape in literature than ideological assumptions prevalent in criticism over the past thirty years have allowed.

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Dickman-Burnett, Victoria L. "Writing and Differance, Violence in Language: Finding the Roots of Oppression and Violence in Derrida's Of Grammatology." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366030274.

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Clayton-Dippolito, Colleen J. "Erasing Sid Murphy." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1322340358.

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Muche, Kristen N. "Sanctuary| A content analysis of literature on trauma informed psychiatric inpatient treatment for female survivors of rape and sexual assault under involuntary hold." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1523324.

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<p> A majority of inpatients in acute psychiatric settings have histories of trauma, especially sexual violence. The purpose of this content analysis review of the periodical literature was to gain a better understanding of the issues faced by involuntarily held female survivors of rape and sexual assault within acute inpatient psychiatric settings and explore what existing inpatient trauma-informed training was in place. Often times, the external coping mechanisms for these individuals appear in the form of self-injurious behaviors, which are then responded to by professionals with the mindset of impending suicide. As the content analysis of the 30 reviewed studies demonstrated, the lack of education and training regarding the connections between sexual assault and coping mechanisms continues to be reflected in the modern interventions utilized within psychiatric settings. For this reason, a paradigm shift is warranted, so as to reduce the risk of re-traumatization for rape and sexual assault survivors under involuntary hold, within these institutions.</p>

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Gross, Shurice L. "Under Silver Ash." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1312397649.

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Harris, Bernice. "Sexual engendering constructions of chastity and power in Marlowe and Shakespeare /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1993. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9318173.

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Albin, Jennifer L. "A subject so shocking the female sex offender in Richardson's Clarissa /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4514.

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Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 21, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Bruhner, Christian. "RAPE, MEDIA & MEN A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF MYTHS IN WRITTEN MEDIA’S DEPICTION OF SEXUALLY ABUSED MEN." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24172.

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Män som utsatts för sexuellt våld är ett ämne som erhåller lite uppmärksamhet både inom forskning och i vardagligt tal. Att analysera skriven medias framställning av sexuellt våldsutsatta män har så vitt jag vet inte utförts i en svensk vetenskaplig kontext innan, vilket gör denna studie unik i sitt slag. Studiens primära syfte var att undersöka hur män som utsatts för sexuellt våld framställs i skriven media. Jag ville se huruvida media bekräftar eller förkastar de sociala myterna kring ämnet. Vidare så var målet med studien att ytterligare belysa ämnet för att lyfta upp det för diskussionen och fördjupa förståelsen och kunskapen för ämnet. Fyrtio journalistiska artiklar samlades in genom en systematisk litteratursökning och har utgjort det empiriska materialet i studien som sedan bearbetades genom en form av diskursanalys. De myter som testades var; Män som utsatts för sexuellt våld är extremt ovanligt – framställs som sensationellt och med skepticism, Definitioner om det sexuella våldet mot män – präglas av grovt fysiskt våld, hot, ofta med vapen och droger, Det sexuella våldets könstypiska uppdelning – händelsen framställs som en kontrast mellan femininiteter och maskuliniteter, De efterföljande konsekvenserna – dessa förminskas eller negligeras och offer bemöts negativt av omgivningen. Resultatet visade att myterna till väldigt stor del bekräftades i den mediala framställningen, i synnerlighet ämnets ovanlighet, det fysiska våldet, offerbeskyllningen och det skeptiska bemötandet/rapporteringen. Varför ämnet framställs på ett visst sätt analyseras och presenteras med tidigare forskning som teoretisk bakgrund.<br>Men who suffered from sexual violence are an issue that receives little attention, both within research and colloquially. Analysing the depiction of sexually abused men in written media has not, as far as I know, been done in a Swedish scientific context before, which makes this study unique in its kind. The primarily aim of this study has been to examine how sexually abused men are depicted in written media. I wanted to see whether the media confirms or rejects the social myths that surround the subject. Furthermore has the ambition with the study been to enlighten the issue to make it a subject for discussion so the knowledge and the understanding can be deepened. The empirical material of forty journalistic articles was gathered in through a systematic literature search and processed via a type of discourse analysis. The tested myths were; Men who suffered from sexual violence are extremely unusual – portrayed as sensational and with scepticism, Definitions of the sexual violence against men – characterized by severe violence, threats, often with weapons and drugs, The stereotypical sex segregation of sexual violence – The event is portrayed as a contrast between masculinity and femininity, The subsequent consequences – are diminished or neglected, the victim is met with negativity by its surrounding. The result showed that de myths were widely confirmed in the depiction of media, especially the phenomenon’s unusualness, the physical violence, the victim blaming and the sceptical approach/reporting. Why the subject is portrayed in a special way has been analysed and presented with the precious research as a theoretical background

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Johnson, Toria Anne. "'Piteous overthrows' : pity and identity in early modern English literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4197.

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This thesis traces the use of pity in early modern English literature, highlighting in particular the ways in which the emotion prompted personal anxieties and threatened Burckhardtian notions of the self-contained, autonomous individual, even as it acted as a central, crucial component of personal identity. The first chapter considers pity in medieval drama, and ultimately argues that the institutional changes that took place during the Reformation ushered in a new era, in which people felt themselves to be subjected to interpersonal emotions – pity especially – in new, overwhelming, and difficult ways. The remaining three chapters examine how pity complicates questions of personal identity in Renaissance literature. Chapter Two discusses the masculine bid for pity in courtly lyric poetry, including Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Barnabe Barnes's Parthenophil and Parthenophe, and considers the undercurrents of vulnerability and violation that emerge in the wake of unanswered emotional appeals. This chapter also examines these themes in Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Sidney's Arcadia. Chapter Three also picks up the element of violation, extending it to the pitiable presentation of sexual aggression in Lucrece narratives. Chapter Four explores the recognition of suffering and vulnerability across species boundaries, highlighting the use of pity to define humanity against the rest of the animal kingdom, and focusing in particular on how these questions are handled by Shakespeare in The Tempest and Ben Jonson, in Bartholomew Fair. This work represents the first extended study of pity in early modern English literature, and suggests that the emotion had a constitutive role in personal subjectivity, in addition to structuring various forms of social relation. Ultimately, the thesis contends that the early modern English interest in pity indicates a central worry about vulnerability, but also, crucially, a belief in the necessity of recognising shared, human weakness.

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Llewellyn, Jana Diemer. "Rape in feminist utopian and dystopian fiction Joanna Russ's The female man, Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale, and Octavia Butler's The parable of the sower and The parable of the talents /." Click here for download, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/villanova/fullcit?p1432523.

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Mårsell, Maria. ""I go to Elland Road sometimes. Would you bomb me?" : en genealogisk närläsning av villkoren för överlevnad och subjektivitet i Sarah Kanes Blasted." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1761.

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<p>Sarah Kane’s first play Blasted (1995) has often been read in a normative and biographical way by critics, authors and previous researchers. This essay makes a supplementary close reading of Blasted from gender and genealogical perspectives and utilizes theoretical works by Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault. My study makes clear that the characters different positions in language and talk create and maintain a power imbalance between them. Efforts to change and develop one’s individual position in language and talk are being made throughout the play since it is the only way to bring about a change in the social power structure. A fact that in turn also subsequently punishes those efforts. By analyzing the tools of representation, Kane points out a direct link between a violent power imbalance in a couples relationship and the violence of a war zone. In Blasted, it is revealed how violence in a private situation is mirrored in a situation of public violence and how the public violence, in turn, crawls back to the private zone and there repeats itself. By forcing one of the main characters to regress back to the infancy of language and from there alter the ability to act within the framework of human interrelations, Kane demonstrates how a change in social structures can be made, and as is shown in this essay, this indicates that a knowledge of how the social structures are being maintained and how they in turn can be disarranged, is what is required to create an opportunity for change.</p>

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Basso, Ann McCauley. "Bel-Imperia: The (Early) Modern Woman in Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy." Scholar Commons, 2006. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3776.

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At the heart of Thomas Kyd's revenge tragedy The Spanish Tragedy lies an arranged marriage around which all of the other action revolves. Bel-Imperia of Spain has been betrothed against her will to Prince Balthazar of Portugal, but she is no ordinary woman, and she has plans of her own. Bel-Imperia's unwillingness to participate in the arranged marriage is indicative of the rise of the companionate marriage; it represents a rejection of the arranged marriage that dominated upper class society in earlier years. This study seeks to throw light upon early modern attitudes towards marriage, focusing particularly on the arranged marriage, the companionate marriage, and the state marriage. Additionally, it examines the role of woman as peace-weaver, a practice that dates back as far as the Beowulf manuscript. Using historical as well as literary sources to delineate these forms, I apply this information to a study of the play itself, with an emphasis on its performative value. Since the proposed marriage dictates all of the action of the play, an analysis of the bartered bride, Bel-Imperia, is of particular importance. This essay examines her character in depth as well as her relationships with Andrea and Horatio, who love her; with Lorenzo, the King, and her father, who seek to exploit her; and with Hieronimo, who becomes her partner in revenge. Additionally, I contrast her with Isabella, one of only two other female characters in the play and conclude by delineating how my analysis would affect a performance of the play and by "directing" a hypothetical interpretation of The Spanish Tragedy.

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Berthiaume, Alyssa Y. "Hold." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1289604382.

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Koivunen, Johanna. "A Clinging Embrace : A Study of the Female Rapist in Ovid’s Metamorphoses." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157139.

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Gunnarsson, Louise. "Focalising trauma narrative : An analysis of Konigsberg’s The Music of What Happens and its pedagogical use." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100536.

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This essay argues that Bill Konigsberg depicts the traumatic experience of being raped and the inner conflict of being a male rape survivor with harsh immediacy by implementing internal focalisation in his young adult novel The Music of What Happens (2019). Additionally, the essay argues that the novel is a useful teaching resource in the Swedish EFL classroom by discussing the pedagogical implementations. This essay conducts an analysis from a trauma theory perspective, allowing a closer scrutiny of how the protagonist is affected by trauma. Lastly, it is concluded that although broaching sexualized trauma in the EFL classroom can be triggering, the novel can in fact vicariously represent students who have undergone traumatic events and therefore validate their feelings.

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Cullhed, Christina. "Grappling with Patriarchies : Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Miriam Tlali's Writings." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Uppsala universitetsbibliotek [distributör], 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6762.

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Schrader, Villegas Julie. "The racial shadow in 20th century American literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9525.

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Jackson, Joseph Horgan. "Devolving black British theory : race and contemporary Scottish literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/47746/.

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The ‘black British movement’ is a consolidation of a diverse range of political, social and cultural priorities into a collective. Some of the more salient priorities include the opposition to British racism and imperialism, a challenge to hegemonic power and the invisibility of white ethnicity, and the eventual annihilation of the race concept itself. To ‘devolve’ this movement is to acknowledge some vital shortcomings in its critical practice. Firstly, an interrogation is needed of the assumptions that underpin the term ‘British’, specifically within a critique of racism and its derivatives. Secondly, the movement currently fails to thoroughly spatialise black British critique beyond the urban ‘metropole’ of London, and to a lesser extent, Birmingham; for instance, to the ‘margins’ of Scotland’s political, cultural and social milieu. Here, Scottish devolution provokes questions of how black Britishness might have become co-opted into a broader legitimation of ‘British’ culture. Literature has been a key site of contestation for black British cultural theory. Contemporary Scottish literature ‘writes back’ to the British management of difference through state-led multiculturalism and nationalism. Equally, the ‘Scottish Myth’ of egalitarianism, racelessness and a laissez-faire expectation of civic nationalism in Scotland are challenged by texts which foreground Scottish racism, whiteness and ethnocultural nationalism. In short, the texts featured herein expose and renegotiate the political practices of race, racism and culturalism in the context of two discourses of nation: Britain and Scotland.

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Cobb, Michael L. "Racial blasphemies : religious irreverence and race in American literature /." New York : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39232188k.

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Carrijo, Fabrizia de Souza. "Questões raciais e políticas presentes no romance A Mulata, de Carlos Malheiro Dias." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8150/tde-21112016-150023/.

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Esta pesquisa propõe um estudo do romance A mulata (1896) de Carlos Malheiro Dias, focalizando a representação que a obra faz da questão racial no Brasil no final do século XIX, dentro de uma estética de cunho naturalista. A essa abordagem será conjugado o diálogo crítico-literário que o livro realizou com a intelectualidade brasileira e portuguesa daquele momento, o que gerou forte polêmica. Também será mantida no horizonte da análise a perspectiva antirrepublicana do autor. A mulata referendou um conjunto de preconceitos sobre a identidade nacional brasileira que fizeram escola em alguns setores de nossa intelectualidade e que se perpetuaram de forma explícita ou dissimulada por todo o século XX, preconceitos que elucidam muitos aspectos da maneira como os brasileiros se conceberam enquanto nação e como literariamente se autorrepresentaram. Apesar dessa conexão, a obra foi rejeitada pela intelectualidade brasileira, e é em busca dos motivos dessa rejeição que este trabalho se debruça.<br>My research deals with the novel A Mulata by Carlos Malheiros Dias, focusing on its use of naturalist aesthetics to represent the racial question in late-nineteenth-century Brazil. I also examine the controversial literary-critical dialogue Dias established with the Brazilian and Portuguese intellectual currents of his time. Taking the author\'s antirepublican ideals into account throughout, I argue that A Mulata features a set of preconceptions regarding Brazilian national identity that would gain followers in some sectors of Brazil\'s intelligentsia and which persisted explicitly or in more covert form into the twentieth century. These preconceptions explain many aspects of the way in wich Brazil conceived of itself as a nation and how it represented itself through literature. Despite this connection, A Mulata was rejected by the intellectual class of Brazil.

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Silva, Edna Alencar da. "O rap ecoa na literatura infantil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-03102012-124340/.

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Em nossa pesquisa intitulada O Rap Ecoa na Literatura Infantil, buscamos investigar diálogos que a literatura infantil e juvenil estabelece com outras formas de comunicação e outras artes, movimento que vem ocorrendo com intensidade e que concorre para modificações nesse universo literário, bem como, na imagem de seu interlocutor. Elaboramos um breve estudo por alguns caminhos percorridos historicamente pelos textos infantis, passamos por uma contextualização sobre a música, e os elementos que compõem a Cultura Hip-Hop e um de seus pilares o rap, posto que, selecionamos para objeto de estudo a obra Um Garoto Chamado Rorbeto, do rapper Gabriel Contino O Pensador. Buscamos evidenciar códigos literários e manifestações da cultura hip-hop compartilhados, as negociações entre os discursos sociais, o de denúncia característico do rap e o do poder instituído fortemente representado na obra; a partir disso, buscamos tangenciar possíveis imagens de criança e de infância que se fazem presentes em nossa contemporaneidade.<br>In our survey entitled The Rap Echoes in Children\'s Literature, we show the children\'s as well as youth\'s literature dialogues - in whose genesis there is a child picture- with other forms of communication and arts, movement that is happening with intensity and that contributes to changes in this literary universe, as well as the image of the speaker. We prepared a brief study through paths followed by some historical texts for children, we passed through a contextualization of the music, and the elements that make up the Hip-Hop Culture and one of its pillars - the rap in which the object of study selected for the work was A Boy Called Rorbeto, from the rapper Gabriel Contino - O Pensador (The Thinker). We show literary codes and shared literary manifestations of hip-hop culture, negotiations between the social discourse, the complaint - characteristic of rap - and the institutional power strongly represented in the work; from that point, we seek possible tangent child and childhood images that are present in the present.

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Dickens, Lyn Sue. "Intervening in the racial imaginary: ‘mixed race’ and resistance in contemporary Australian Literature." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11589.

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This thesis examines the extent to which three contemporary Australian novels can be regarded as interventions in “the modern racial imaginary” (Mignolo 2011a, p. 277). In order to analyse the novels as interventions, this thesis looks in particular at depictions and conceptualisations of mixed race subjectivity and experience in the texts. The novels, The World Waiting to be Made by Simone Lazaroo (1994), Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro (2003) and The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (2007) all explore mixed subjectivities and experiences in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout this thesis I examine the complexity and disruptive potential of the concept of ‘mixed race’. I argue that through the depiction of people of mixed race and their traumatic experiences of racialisation, the novels critique, resist and disrupt concepts of race and colonial worldviews. I further explore the ways in which the novels both promote and exemplify alternative ways of perceiving and interacting with other human beings that do not rely on racial categories or the humanitas/anthropos divide (Mignolo 2011b, p. 90). In order to do this I draw on Walter Mignolo’s concepts of border thinking/sensing and delinking, and Édouard Glissant’s work in The Poetics of Relation. I argue that critical examination of mixed race subjectivity and representation, in conjunction with transcultural concepts such as Relation and border thinking, provide a means of both challenging traditional concepts of race and essentialised cultures, and thinking beyond their boundaries. Furthermore, the novels themselves open up a transcultural space with transformative potential, which encourages the imagination of alternative, more equal worlds of Relation.

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Hughes, Rowland Wyn. "Race, politics and the Frontier in American literature 1783-1837." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396414.

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