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The end of Cape Town : neoliberal deception in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Centuries ago, white settlers arrived at the area that would become modern day Cape Town, making their first contact with Southern Africa. Today, the city emulates its past role by continuing to host foreigners. Cape Town ...
Depressed and disconnected : the symptoms of a digital age in America
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
"I saw the symptoms first. It was the way music had become about hopelessness, drugs, sex, and disturbing emptiness. It was how platonic in-person conversation felt. It was in every addicted person around me. It was in the ...
Roseanne re-boot : the complexity and complicity of depicting the white working class
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
Roseanne Barr created her hallmark television show, Roseanne, to foreground the experiences of the white working class people who had been feeling forgotten and abandoned in recent history. Barr's humor and her unique blend ...
Time, prolepsis, & narrative voice in the construction of linked short fiction : an examination of Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Prolepsis is a writing technique that reveals future events in the context of the present narrative. On its most basic level, it allows the reader a glimpse into the future without causing significant disruption to the ...
Theatrical flattery : Macbeth and King James I of England
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
The world has come to regard William Shakespeare as a literary genius who used the stage as a tool for not only the performance of his masterfully constructed plays, but often as a platform for commentary on what occurred ...
Romantic friendships in Shirley and Wives and daughters
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. -- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. The opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice is an often quoted phrase ...
Write my way out : the power of words against erasure in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
Since the days of the conquistadors, erasure has been an inherent facet of Dominican identities. Similarly, the pressures of immigrants to blend into United States culture and stifle their "otherness" only added to the ...
In my own mode : intersections of identity in Frankenstein
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
The outer narrative frame of Frankenstein consists of Robert Walton's letters sent from Russia to his sister who lives in his native England. He laments his friendlessness and confesses his apprehensions for his future: ...
From Humayun Khan to Kamala Khan : ambivalence towards the Muslim super hero
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
The 2016 Democratic National Convention saw the emergence of an unlikely national hero: Humayun Khan. Khan had passed away long before the Democratic National Convention while on duty as an American soldier in Iraq, but ...
The framework of fantastical heroes
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
Unraveling the Femme Fatale : Auteur Theory and Christopher Nolan's work
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
"Auteur Theory, a term coined in the 1940s to recognize a filmmakers or directors unique thematic style has remained prevalent and has helped distinguish Auteur artists such as Christopher Nolan from his contemporary ...
After the final page : food transformation narratives and the call to individual action
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
In this paper I examine and define the concept of transformation literature through three different books engaging in a conversation with food politics, and the intersection of ethics and morality. The first of the three ...