Title
Exploring Literary Themes: Re-envisioning the Past and Literary Representations of Racial Tensions
Presentation Type
Panel
Academic Level
2-year school
Location
Conference Room E
Abstract
Presenters:
Scarlett Brou, Texas Woman’s University, “Reductive Metaphor as Violation in the Poetry of Louise Glück”
Sarah Smith, Texas Woman’s University, “Monsters in the Woods, Monsters under the Floorboards: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village as American Gothic Literature”
Abigail Beard, Texas Woman’s University, “Medieval to Modern: Intertextuality in Beowulf and Tolkien’s The Hobbit”
Tatyana Bryant, Texas Woman’s University, “Interpreting ‘Juxtaposing of the Black Boy and the Bullet’ through Adaptation”
Plamedie Ifasso, Texas Woman’s University, “Exploring the White Voice in ‘Night, Death, Mississippi’ and ‘Middle Passage’ by Robert Hayden”
Ch’nell Amos, Texas Woman’s University, “I Am Not My Hair…or Am I?: Racism and Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti”
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Exploring Literary Themes: Re-envisioning the Past and Literary Representations of Racial Tensions
Conference Room E
Presenters:
Scarlett Brou, Texas Woman’s University, “Reductive Metaphor as Violation in the Poetry of Louise Glück”
Sarah Smith, Texas Woman’s University, “Monsters in the Woods, Monsters under the Floorboards: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village as American Gothic Literature”
Abigail Beard, Texas Woman’s University, “Medieval to Modern: Intertextuality in Beowulf and Tolkien’s The Hobbit”
Tatyana Bryant, Texas Woman’s University, “Interpreting ‘Juxtaposing of the Black Boy and the Bullet’ through Adaptation”
Plamedie Ifasso, Texas Woman’s University, “Exploring the White Voice in ‘Night, Death, Mississippi’ and ‘Middle Passage’ by Robert Hayden”
Ch’nell Amos, Texas Woman’s University, “I Am Not My Hair…or Am I?: Racism and Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti”