This dissertation examines Caribbean women writers’ representations of Caribbean women’s growing consciousness of the potential for solidarity, as well as existing antagonisms, between African- and …
This dissertation explores the poetics of the nation that emerge in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It demonstrates how some of …
In “A Critical Romance: Modernism Rewriting Literary History,” I examine the formative role of the romance in literary modernism’s work to think critically about itself …
This dissertation examines works by Richard Wright, Chang-rae Lee and Junot Diaz, as well as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather films, and how they theorize …