This thesis explores the constant negotiation between cultures for Mexican migrant workers in the United States. To examine this negotiation between the American and Mexican cultures, Tomás Rivera’s novel …y no se lo tragó la...
In the first years of the 1970s, Indian Country became paradoxically more interwoven and yet also more divided. Three case studies from Oklahoma’s Indigenous communities illustrate this transformation. Beginning in the...
Farrell, Amy E. '“When I Was Growing Up My Mother Cooked Dinner Every Single Day”: Fat Stigma and the Significance of Motherblame in Contemporary United States." Body Politics – Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte 3, no. 5 (2015):...
Japanese American Incarceration during World War II, often referred to as “internment,” remains a dark part of United States history. This paper explores three memoirs by Nisei, or second-generation Japanese Americans: I Call...
On February 17, 1909, Virginia Stephen (not yet Woolf) accepted a marriage proposal from a panicked Lytton Strachey; it was called off before the end of their conversation. Other prominent queer authors in the early twentieth...
This essay brings the discourse of “weak theory” to bear on Lyn Hejinian’s feminist experimental poem of the 1980s, My Life. It argues that the eating matters of My Life—the poem’s steady references to eating, cooking,...
In order to sustain dictatorship, achieve totalitarian governance, and actualize massive demographic and imperialist goals such as a population increase of twenty million people and the creation of a new Roman Empire,...
The personal relationship between Primo Levi and Philip Roth, two of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century, has been studied in depth, but scholars have devoted less attention to the recurring presence of Levi...