Browsing by Subject "Gender Studies"
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Agencies of Abjection: Jean Genet and Subaltern Socialities
(2009)This dissertation explores the concept of <italic>agential abjection</italic> through Jean Genet's involvement with and writings about the struggles of disenfranchised and pathologized peoples. Following Julia Kristeva, ... -
Carnival Is Woman!: Gender, Performance, and Visual Culture in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
(2009)While great strides have been made in the study of Trinidad Carnival, there has yet to be a robust inquiry into how women have contributed to its evolution. One major reason for this shortcoming is that the dominant cultural ... -
Corporeal Resurfacings: Faustin Linyekula, Nick Cave and Thornton Dial
(2013)"Corporeal Resurfacings: Faustin Linyekula, Nick Cave and Thornton Dial," examines art and performance works by three contemporary black artists. My dissertation is opened by the analytic of black female flesh provided ... -
Picturing Poetics: Seriality, Comics, and the Cartoon in US Experimental Poetry
(2020)I argue that experimental poets, beginning with Gertrude Stein but proliferating later in the century with such poets as Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Joe Brainard, and Barbara Guest, were drawn to comics for the way they perform, ... -
Spectacles of American Liberalism: Narratives of Racial Im/posture
(2009)This project traces the seemingly improbable intersections between performances of blackness and the development and traces of an American liberalism defined by Gunnar Myrdal's overwhelmingly influential, sociological text, ... -
Uneven Modernities, Uneven Masculinities: Manliness and the Galician Hinterland in the Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1882-1896)
(2010)The late-nineteenth-century realist canon in Spain is filled with male characters who are physically weak, effeminate, ineffectual, infantilized, or impotent, and, thus, decidedly "unmanly," which indicates a collective ... -
Utopian (Post)Colonies: Rewriting Race and Gender after the Haitian Revolution
(2011)"Utopian (Post)Colonies: Rewriting Race and Gender after the Haitian Revolution" examines the works of French women authors writing from just before the first abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1794 to those ...
