Browsing University of Missouri-Columbia by Thesis Advisor "Harrison, Sheri-Marie"
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The borderlands : living between archetypes in young adult Chicana literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This thesis focuses on two models for Chicana womanhood, which are the La Virgen de Guadalupe archetype and the La Malinche archetype. They are both mythic figures in Mexican culture that are diametrically opposed to one ... -
The Monstrous Ordinary : the erasure of the women of Weird Tales and the implications for monster theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] My dissertation offers a new approach to monstrosity, called the Monstrous Ordinary, which articulates monstrosity not as something new, different, or aberrant, but originating from the normal, ... -
Racist elevator inspectors, consumer-driven zombies, and the sardonicism that mocks them both in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Zone One
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)Concluding paragraph: "In finality, addressing The Intuitionist and Zone One's ultimate goals rely on one motivating factor: progressive justice. Incorporating genre elements into sardonic dialogue about the current racial ... -
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 ...