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Using the texts Beloved and Behind the Scenes, this thesis examines the cultural dynamics of purity and separation relative to what ‘blackness’ means to slavery in our nation’s discursive imagination. Toni Morrison, writing about the quotidian of black lives after slavery in Bel…

Going back at least as far as the Judeo-Christian creation story, the idea of men giving birth has appeared across a wide range of literary genres and forms. Only in the last forty years, however, has this figure moved from the realms of fable and science fiction to representati…

In 2015 the first book of a young Tatar writer Guzel' Iakhina Zuleikha otkryvaet glaza received two main Russian literary awards: “Bol'shaia kniga” and “Iasnaia poliana.” Her novel depicts the process of dekulakization, mass deportations and life in a labor camp under Stalin. Su…

In exploring the connections between the literary arts and the history of society, Stevens Orozco points to the existence of a prophetic element within the works of writers such as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Octavia E. Butler. By tracing the history of society through a li…