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Description:: Inspired by a nineteenth century archival image of an enslaved “woman with iron horns and bells on,” Black Bell advances Alison C. Rollins’s continued exploration …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Rollins, Alison Canada (creator); Shenoda, Matthew (Advisor); Brown University. Department of Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Experimental poetry; American literature--African American authors
Collection:: Literary Arts; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: “Carrying on a Common Cause” examines African American women’s perspectives of Haiti and work in Haiti from the U.S. occupation (1915–1934) to the Duvalier regime …
Year:: 2026
Contributor:: Weygold, Katharina Marita (creator); Blain, Keisha N. (Advisor); Hamlin, Françoise N. (Reader); Bogues, Anthony (Reader); Alexis, Yveline (Reader); Brown University. Department of American Studies (sponsor)
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Subject:: Gender; black freedom struggle; African diaspora; Racism; Anti-racism; American History; American literature--African American authors; Twentieth century; American imperialism; African American culture; African American women; Haiti; Activism; folkloric dance; black internationalism
Collection:: American Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation argues for the interconnection of Black Diasporic and Postcolonial Studies through the frame of comparative diaspora. It does so by situating African American …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Thomas, Anna (creator); Gandhi, Leela (Advisor); Murray, Rolland (Reader); George, Olakunle (Reader); Bogues, Anthony (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Ethics; Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932; Caribbean Studies; American literature--African American authors; House for Mr. Biswas (Naipaul, V. S.); Kincaid, Jamaica; Incidents in the life of a slave girl (Jacobs, Harriet A.); habit
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation examines the prevalence of illness in postnationalist Afro- and Native American novels, and the ways in which such sickly identities offer alternatives to …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Pfaff, Sara L. (creator); Murray, Rolland (Advisor); Kim, Daniel (Reader); Rodriguez, Ralph (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: American literature; Critical Race Studies; Cultural pluralism; American literature--African American authors; American literature--Native American Authors
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Rift II is a collection of poems.
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Jace, Jordan (creator); Hunt, Erica (Advisor); Brown University. Department of Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: American literature--African American authors
Collection:: Literary Arts; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: In this study, I explore listening’s relationship to reading and its inflection through the materiality of the silent page. More specifically, I aim to understand …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Fung, Nicole (creator); Kim, Daniel (Advisor); Gandhi, Leela (Reader); Katz, Tamar (Reader); Smailbegovic, Ada (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Modernism (Literature); American poetry; Music; American literature; Narratology; American literature--African American authors; Listening; Sound; Reading; Postmodernism (Literature)
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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