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"You got a little bit of everything in you" : narration as resistance in Corregidora and Eva's Man
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Rann, Christina Ann
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2016
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Narrative has the power to construct worlds both fictional and real—to carve out spaces for marginalized voices, to engage in the most intimately human conversations, and to open up new possibilities for expression and resistance. The narrative worlds Gayl Jones constructs in Corregidora and Eva’s Man betray “linearity, logic, and conventional realism,” as Trimiko Melancon states (140), in order to challenge our thinking about racialized gender discourses taken up in the law, the economy, and...
Show moreNarrative has the power to construct worlds both fictional and real—to carve out spaces for marginalized voices, to engage in the most intimately human conversations, and to open up new possibilities for expression and resistance. The narrative worlds Gayl Jones constructs in Corregidora and Eva’s Man betray “linearity, logic, and conventional realism,” as Trimiko Melancon states (140), in order to challenge our thinking about racialized gender discourses taken up in the law, the economy, and in literary representation. Using “unnatural” narratology—a theory that has attempted to grapple with postmodern texts such as Jones’s—as a mooring point, this project intends to explore how Jones uses disruptive narrative practices to write up against the boundaries of stereotype and positivist representations of black subjectivities. By radically shifting how she tells her protagonists’ stories, Jones invites her readers to question the many oppressive forces that shape Corregidora and Eva’s Man while giving her protagonists a way to resist these forces with the power of their own voices, or lack thereof.
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"What one man can invent, another can discover" : music and the transformation of Sherlock Holmes from literary gentleman detective to on-screen romantic genius
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Baumgart, Emily Michelle
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2015
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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ABSTRACT“WHAT ONE MAN CAN INVENT, ANOTHER CAN DISCOVER”MUSIC AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES FROMLITERARY GENTLEMAN DETECTIVE TO ON-SCREEN ROMANTIC GENIUSByEmily Michelle BaumgartArguably one of the most famous literary characters of all time, Sherlock Holmes has appeared in numerous forms of media since his inception in 1887. With the recent growth of on-screen adaptations in both film and serial television forms, there is much new material to be analyzed and discussed. However,...
Show moreABSTRACT“WHAT ONE MAN CAN INVENT, ANOTHER CAN DISCOVER”MUSIC AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES FROMLITERARY GENTLEMAN DETECTIVE TO ON-SCREEN ROMANTIC GENIUSByEmily Michelle BaumgartArguably one of the most famous literary characters of all time, Sherlock Holmes has appeared in numerous forms of media since his inception in 1887. With the recent growth of on-screen adaptations in both film and serial television forms, there is much new material to be analyzed and discussed. However, recent adaptations have begun exploring new reimaginings of Holmes, discarding his beginnings as the Victorian Gentleman Detective to create a much more flawed and multi-faceted character. Using Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original work as a reference point, this study explores how recent adaptors use both Holmes’s diegetic violin performance and extra-diegetic music. Not only does music in these screen adaptations take the role of narrative agent, it moreover serves to place the character of Holmes into the Romantic Genius archetype.
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