Browsing 2014 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Department "English (MU)"
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Civilization and memoir outside of self
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The space of the south and self-definition in African American return migration novels of the post-civil rights era
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)My dissertation examines the representation of the return migration in African American novels across the last five decades and argues that these return migration novels are distinct from earlier migration narratives and, ... -
We have such a normal, non-accented voice : a sociophonetic study of English in Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)A popular myth of American English is that, due to the influence of national media and increased inter-connectivity, regional dialects are disappearing. In fact, linguistic research has shown that, in many ways, Americans ...