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    FormatThesis (15)SubjectAfrican Americans -- Folklore (2)African Americans -- Material culture (1)African Americans -- Religion (1)American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism (1)Butler, Octavia E. Kindred (1)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2018 (13)2007 - 2009 (2)Author/ContributorPrahlad, Anand (15)Adolph, Jessie (1)Adolph, Jessie L. Sr. (1)Atuhura, Dorothy (1)Bailey, Constance (1)... View MoreSubject: PlaceZimbabwe (1)Advisor
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    "If you don't laugh you'll cry": the occupational humor of white American prison workers and social workers 

    Schmidt, Claire (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    Through original fieldwork, this dissertation compares narrative occupational humor of white American social workers to that of white American prison workers, concluding that both occupational groups use humor, both performed ...

    The nature of nervous conditions in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions 

    Hazell, Katerina (2011)
    Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions is, primarily, a novel about nervous conditions. It's about many other things, too. It's about power. It's about women. About men and poverty and riches. It's about education and ...

    Second person ethereal 

    Nieves, John A. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation consists of a critical introduction and a full-length book of poetry. The critical introduction deals with the literary manifestations ...

    "We pay the devil rent for living in hell, 'cause the projects was built on the spot where Lucifer fell": theorizing Richard Wright's Native son and Iceberg Slim's Pimp as urban neo-slave narratives 

    Wilmot, Jennifer M., 1984- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis is devoted to arguing for recognition of the urban neo-slave narrative, and to analyzing two examples of such novels: Richard Wright's ...

    Give me that old time religion: reclaiming slave religion in the future 

    Bailey, Constance R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents tell the story of a young visionary, Lauren Olamina, in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Lauren, the fifteen year old daughter of a black Baptist minister, ...

    Time-binding in African American verbal art as a salve for post-traumatic slave syndrome 

    Adolph, Jessie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In the same vein of their spiritual forbearers, the African griots, African American wordsmiths utilize their time-binding capabilities in oral ...

    And the Wood Doll Arose and Told, I'm a Real 

    Gutierrez, Lianuska (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Sphinx Eyes Antiphon," one of the poems in my collection, And the Wood Doll Arose and Told, I'm a Real, refers to a blank or unreciprocal social gaze. ...

    It takes a village: Twentieth Century black women's fiction and the spiritual apprenticeship narrative 

    Bailey, Constance (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    This dissertation looks at nine works by contemporary black women writers and argues that the relationships between the major characters in the text reflect and emphasize the importance of mentoring bonds in black communities. ...

    The end of Tennessee : a collection of essays 

    Hanson, Rachel Michelle (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation analyzes the complications of existing in a violent world as much as it explores formal and experimental narrative techniques. As ...

    Yunnan reggae : music and politics 

    Ren, Meng (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

    The fetishization of firearms in African-American folklore and culture 

    Summerville, Raymond Melton Javon, 1979- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
    The following work analyzes the fetishization of firearms across a number of different mediums including, the corporeal world, African-American folklore, film, and music. The overarching theme is that firearms are sometimes ...

    Show-me ambiguity: an ethnographic study of Missouri Civil War reenactment 

    Travis, Tracy Anne (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    This thesis examines Civil War reenactment as it is practiced and performed by residents of Missouri. Using fieldwork (interviews and participant observation) conducted by the researcher at reenactment events, the thesis ...

    Dee-jay drop that deadbeat : hip-hop's remix of fatherhood narratives 

    Adolph, Jessie L. Sr. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    This dissertation examines hip-hop fatherhood narratives from 2010-2015 influenced by drug addiction, mass incarceration, underground economies, trauma, and dysfunctional co-parenting. Explicitly, the paper explores how ...

    The imaginary age : poetry 

    Petronella, Leanna (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    My dissertation includes a critical introduction and a manuscript of poetry. The critical introduction, “There was no warm body in what you wrote”: Redefining the Gurlesque via Patricia Lockwood’s Motherland Fatherland ...

    Interrogating transnational media representations of “harmful” bodylore 

    Atuhura, Dorothy (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    The category of "harmful" cultural practices” has become a central and defining concept in global health and development policy. A key target of Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5), as part of its objective of achieving ...

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