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The caul theme in Tina McElroy Ansa's novels
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This thesis examines Tina McElroy Ansa's cultural validation of the caul and its aesthetic application as literary device in her novels Baby of the Family (1989), The Hand I Fan With (1996), You Know Better (2002) and Ugly ...
The space of the south and self-definition in African American return migration novels of the post-civil rights era
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
My dissertation examines the representation of the return migration in African American novels across the last five decades and argues that these return migration novels are distinct from earlier migration narratives and, ...
Women beyond allegory : public land, private space and political participation in three African novels
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This work explores the intersections of gendered pain, domestic spaces, and political participation in three novels from different African nations in ...
Abjection and order : the grotesque aesthetic in Octavia Butler's Wild Seed and Dawn, and Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Octavia Butler's Wild Seed and Dawn, and Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills are three novels that expose the abjection of their black, maternal protagonists ...
"One foot on the other side" : suicideality in contemporary African diaspora fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
When this dissertation first began to take shape, it was in response to a period of wide reading of African diaspora fiction--my comprehensive exam preparations-- wherein I began noticing the sheer number of suicides I was ...