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In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon suggests "Decolonization is truly the creation of new men" (2). In this project, I am interested in the representation of the emerging "new man" in the novels of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Paule Marshall, as well as Jalal Al-e Ahmad…

Cathy Caruth's pioneering study of trauma and the posttraumatic forges a connection between the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the literary as such. Since trauma defies linguistic processing, she explains, the language used to describe it will always be figura…

“Narratives of Conflict and the Emergence of Community” explores narratives of communities in conflict and locates alternative configurations of community through difficult but necessary recognition and responsibility. Conflict is sometimes characterized as occurring because of …