Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Jackson, Shona"
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Crossing Borders and Building Alliances: Border Discourse within Literatures and Rhetorics of Color Enriquez-Loya, Ayde (2012-10-19)Building on Victor Villanueva and Malea Powell's research in rhetoric and writing, in my dissertation I assert that the hierarchical construction of knowledges within literatures and rhetorics has traditionally been utilized ...
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Cobos, Casie (2012-10-19)This dissertation privileges Chican@ rhetorics in order to challenge a single History of Rhetoric, as well as to challenge Chican@s to formulate our rhetorical practices through our own epistemologies. Chapter One works ...
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Del Hierro, Marcos Julian (2014-02-28)The field of Rhetoric and Composition traditionally centers the Greco-Roman tradition, specifically rhetorics and theories attached to privileged, white males, as the most important voices, while marginalizing rhetorics ...
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Yokell IV, Marshall A (2018-11-26)From the formation of the German nation in 1871 until the eve of World War I, Germany’s emergence on the world stage as a global power was never a simple endeavor nor one where there was a clear path forward for policymakers ...
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Rico, Amanda Renee (2018-07-27)The goal of this study stems from one primary question: how are black women’s futures currently being imagined in works of cultural production? In this dissertation, I make the case that speculative and science fiction is ...
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Ríos, Gabriela Raquel (2012-10-19)Theories of writing are one of the fundamental ways by which Indigenous peoples have been labeled as "uncivilized." In these discussions, writing becomes synonymous with history, literacy, and often times Truth. As such, ...
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Lameborshi, Eralda L (2017-05-08)This dissertation is a study that engages with four major fields of study, as they are currently constituted: World Literature, Eastern European Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and World Cinema. More specifically, it is ...
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Winston, Dennis 1979- (2012-12-10)This dissertation examines the various ways in which pop-cultural illustrations of the “bad nigger” figure beginning in the late 1960s helped to shape the kinds of defiant and oppositional practices that define the lives ...