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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)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature is a study of my broad interests in the peculiar ...
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 public voice of Richard Crashaw : a study in the use of religious tradition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
"It is something of an understatement to say that of all the poets of the seventeenth century, Crashaw has been most subjected to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He has suffered the fate of being labeled the ...
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of ...
Book of apparitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
in the assassination plot. Part coming-of-age narrative, part historical inquiry, a tale of both public retribution and personal redemption, Book of Apparitions attempts to not only offer a penetrating portrait of its narrator but as a multifaceted meditation...