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Kroeger, Brooke. “Hiding in Plain Sight; PASSING: A Novel, By Nella Larsen, The Modern Library: 208 pp. $9.95 paper: [HOME EDITION]” ProQuest, St. John’s University Libraries, Los Angeles Times, 2002, https://search-proquest-com.jerome.stjohns.edu/docview/421737122/84A92EE7BB814442PQ/21?accountid=14068. Larsen’s Passing has only just recently found itself in the midst of resurgence, having only just been recovered in the 1970s, it holds to a particular modern…

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Nella Larsen’s Passing tackles the very idea of identity itself. It calls us not only to question what it means to connect with one’s culture but how said implications may form your ideology of the world around you. It subverts the very idea of identification and reveals the repercussions of one’s deviation from it and how that…

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As we approach the formulation of our final archival discoveries for the semester, I have found myself drawn by multiple topics of early feminism. Such of which include the suffrage movement, activists, and undiscovered representations of once “radical” notions of achieving equality. These women represent multiple viewpoints in order to create a more diverse and…

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Chopin’s novella supports an ending which isn’t peculiar to nineteenth and early twentieth century tales… It is a common thread brought together by the multiple points of untimely devastation. They represented a larger theme of the societal oppression of “deviation” or more acutely, the “deviation” of WOMEN in particular; a mortal consequence of expression. While…

XIII.

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a tale of personal redemption and self-discovery. A visceral portrait of what it means to be a woman, both within the nineteenth century and modern contexts. Despite our many strides toward equality, we still find tired stereotypes of women played out in multiple avenues of media from television and film to literature….

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Spack, Ruth. “Zitkala-Sa, The Song of Hiawatha, and the Carlisle Indian School Band: A Captivity Tale.” ProQuest, St. John’s University Libraries, 2008, search-proquest-com.jerome.stjohns.edu/docview/223827157/A89CE4042ECA4E81PQ/3?accountid=14068. Zitkala-Sa through her writing, as well as her performances, contributed significantly to the retention and the veneration of maintaining Native American cultures. She questioned the legitimacy and the brutality associated with the erasure…

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In creating this rough sketch of cover art, I was given the ability to look at the work from a new angle. Allowing me to speak to Harriet’s narrative, not only through the use of written analysis, but also that of visual representation. To create a copacetic representation of what this retelling meant to Jacobs,…

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As Jacobs gives us a fully disclosed account of not only her experience, but also that of slavery as a whole– revealing the hypocrisy that fully rooted itself at the base of its institution. Whether it be through instances of the inability of trust or the abusive practices of “discipline”– there is a thorough vein…

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Harriet faces an array of threats throughout her life– facing the extreme prejudice that fueled the age of American slavery. Slapping her in chains for no other reason than the color of her skin. Oppressed to such extremities of not only the idea of perceived physical bondage, but also that of the emotional and soul…

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The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition  offers profound perspectives on many aspects surrounding the historical significance of the novel. Serving as one of America’s first bestsellers, it resulted in many new evolutions behind the distribution and reception of popular literature. Bringing about a cultural phenomena, introducing the modern ideology of fan feedback and inclusion. Starting…