Author: Richard J Tilley
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Hysteria in the Late Nineteenth-Century
The National Institute of Health clearly ascribes hysteria as the “first mental disorder attributable to women, accurately described in the second millennium BC, and until Freud considered an exclusively female...
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Folk Aesthetics and the Spirituals in Southern Road
Sterling Brown’s scholarship in folk culture and African American history is unparalleled when considering the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Brown’s first collection of poems, Southern Road, was published in...
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Expressions of African American Feminisms in Jazz
From abolition to womanism, there is a very rich history of feminist expression among African American women and in jazz that is no different. It could be argued that the...
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Examination of Martyrology in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
The textual and oral components of martyrology in both the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation offer an illuminating study on both religious practices as well as methods of rhetoric...
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Disentangling “Mammy”: Negating Identity in Kindred, Dessa Rose, and Family
There is a common thread between the protagonist’s in Kindred, Dessa Rose, and Family that demonstrates how African American female agency negotiates the antebellum role of “mammy.” In all three...
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Kevin as a Postmodern Literary Captive in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Continuity May it be so: Let the great vessel be lifted from the ground And the warm lips drink from it Until the tongue begins to speak, And spread its...
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Exercising Memory as Narrative Technique in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
In Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, exercising memory encapsulates the central narrative technique of the story. Storytelling itself parallels the novels focus point which seeks to memorialize the unacknowledged families of...
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Vyry’s Song: Remembering as an Uncontested Place
Memory, like imagination, is a place of elucidative trepidations, symmetry compressed to myrrh from bifocal consciousness, sediment and stoicism forgetting all but grace through the rushing richness of the flooding...
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Langston Hughes’ Bebop and Postwar Harlem
Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You’ll hear their feet Beating out and beat out a – You think It’s a...