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Description:: My dissertation, Geographies of Memory, Trauma, and Pleasure in African American and Caribbean-American Literature examines the geographies of the cane fields, bodies of water, and the back porch to illustrate the speculative ways anti-black violence, intergenerational trauma, pleasure and Black memory co-exist in Black literature. Examining the aforementioned geographies as...
Keyword:: Black Memory, Geography, Pleasure, and Trauma
Subject:: African American studies, Caribbean literature, and English literature
Creator:: Fetus, Mohwanah Garyne
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15263 and etdadmin_upload_764269

Description:: During the antebellum and post-Reconstruction periods, Black authors were concerned with white antipathy towards the political aspirations of African Americans. For many of these authors, sonic figures of resonance, vibration, and musicality served as the key sensory modalities through which the nexus of American anti-Blackness and civil politics could be...
Keyword:: Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, sound studies, and Harriet Jacobs
Subject:: African American studies and English literature
Creator:: Papanikolas, Antonio
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_775582 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15361

Description:: “Repurposing Queens: Excavating a Black Feminist Eco-ethic in a Time of Ecological Peril,” articulates how Black feminist theories of race, gender, and science critique both conservative and liberal trends in environmentalism and environmental studies. The project is transnational in scope in that it analyzes figures/objects from the United States and...
Keyword:: Black feminist theory, Science and Technology Studies, Afrofuturism, African literature, Visual Culture, and Environmental Humanities
Subject:: African American studies, Women's studies, and English literature
Creator:: Frazier, Chelsea Mikael
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14775 and etdadmin_upload_680650

Description:: This dissertation argues that black women’s literature on black-white multiraciality critiques public debates that celebrate the racially ambiguous multiracial child as the solution to racial conflict. Under this framework, this project investigates the popularization of multiracial identity in late 20th and 21st century United States, United Kingdom, and Jamaica, and...
Keyword:: Black British literature, Queer theory, Mixed-race literature, Black feminism, African diaspora literature, and Critical race theory
Subject:: African American studies, Gender studies, and English literature
Creator:: Collins, Corrine Esther
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14807 and etdadmin_upload_685236

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