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Talking turkey : visual media and the unraveling of Thanksgiving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Standing at the core of American culture, Thanksgiving is an invented tradition celebrated by millions of Americans. This dissertation examines contemporary representations of Thanksgiving in "the media of everyday life" ...
Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
and transparency, authors invite readers into the interpretive process to begin to form ethical judgments. Ed Park's Personal Days and Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End use satire to critique corporatism and the folly of the common office worker...
Love, loss and what I wrote: an ethnographic study of personal writing in a textile and apparel management course
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study reports the results of a semester-long ethnography of a writing-intensive textile and apparel management class that uses personal academic argument. Tracing the changing definition of the personal through the ...
The many faces of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe : examining the Crusoe myth in film and on television
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation focuses on the cinematic versions of the Robinson Crusoe story. Starting from the early 1900s, a significant number of films rewrite, reinvent, and rework the Crusoe myth. Instead of replicating Defoe's ...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Folklore and science, along with the subject of the future which has slowly over time worked its way into the discourses of both, have a long, complicated ...
Philanthropic tourism and artistic authenticity : cultural empathy and the western consumption of Kyrgyz art
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
My dissertation offers a culturally-based examination of the aid-driven western marketplace for Central Asian crafts based on detailed textual and visual analysis of websites, film, online and print catalogues, and comics ...
"This sweet touch" : alienation and physical connection in the works of Michael Ondaatje, Shyam Selvadurai, and Salman Rushdie
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
to alienate and Other. But despite the negative influence of colonialist and neocolonialist discourses, Ondaatje, Selvadurai, and Rushdie illustrate in their fiction the possibility that individuals still retain some agency and avenues for ethic relationships...
Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation looks at contemporary social movements and novels through the lenses of sociology and infrastructuralism. I argue that ...
Feminist Applepieville: architecture as social reform in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman used her fiction to supplement, or "flesh-out," her theories on the necessity for women's economic independence and emancipation from household work. Women's place, she believed, was alongside men ...
Medieval romance, fanfiction, and the erotics of shame
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
My dissertation uses fan studies theories of fanfiction to reframe later medieval romances as works that were not only reread and rewritten, but transformed through affective reading and rewriting strategies, especially ...
Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature: African and African Diaspora Studies scholarly dissertation, & House on a jade sea : creative writing, fiction, dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
discussed include The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo (1999, trans. 2004) by Germano Almeida; The Loves of João Vêncio (1979, trans. 1991) by José Luandino Vieira; Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda...
Social networks of friendship in the writings of early medieval english women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Communities of women is a topic in Early Medieval English Studies that has largely been overlooked unless it's researched and discussed in the context of men, marriage, and religion. One obstacle that has prevented scholarship ...
Spatial politics and genre in the 21st century Arabic novel in English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation is a study of four 21st century Arabic novels translated to English, each of which narrates a regionally specific process of state-sanctioned property theft. I argue that the authors of these novels use ...