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Deaf identity, motherhood and transforming normalcy : an ethnographic challenge to disability studies' treatment of personal experience narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis is a fieldwork-based examination of personal experience narratives told by Deaf and hearing mothers of Deaf children. Using participant ...
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...
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" ...
Digital literacies and WAC/WID
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis defines digital literacies for an audience of educators who want to integrate digital literacies into their existing curriculum. In this discussion, I examine how discipline-based faculty encourage and support ...
Trauma and the fantastic in twentieth century war fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This thesis examines the relationship between trauma and the literary mode of the fantastic. While the fantastic has historically been understood as an escapist mode or a literature of wish fulfillment, it may also play ...
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 ...
Beginning's ends : new senses of ending and the eighteenth-century novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation argues that an examination of innovative endings in both canonized and forgotten eighteenth-century prose fiction contributes to our ...
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)
Ngozi Adichie; Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not: A Sequel to Nervous Conditions (2006) by Tsitsi Dangarembga; The Stone Virgins (2002) by Yvonne Vera; and, finally, Colored Lights (2001,2005), Minaret (2005), and The Translator (1999...
A lacanian reply to Marx : the necessity of topology in the formation of the social
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study addresses Lacan's comments on Marx. While much has been done towards reading Marx with psychoanalysis generally, little had has been done ...
Dee-jay drop that deadbeat : hip-hop's remix of fatherhood narratives
(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 eight leaves
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The creative dissertation The Eight Leaves is a deconstructed memoir, composed in a series of inter-connected lyric essays structured in a ring composition. The manuscript...