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1. Crossing the Americas: Empire, Race, and Translation in the Long Nineteenth Century

: Cádiz Bedini, Daniella
: 2023
: Theses
: Comparative literatureLatin American literatureAmerican literatureMexican War (1846-1848)African AmericansHispanic AmericansPolitical activistsCather, Willa, 1873-1947Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867Martí, José, 1853-1895Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885

2. Narratives and Neighborhood Change: Writing New York and Chicago in the Twentieth Century

: McMillan, Bo
: 2023
: Theses
: American literatureAfrican AmericansNeighborhoodsNeighborhoods in literatureTenement housesSlumsBrownstone buildingsWorld's Columbian Exposition

3. "Oh, Awful Power": Energy and Modernity in African American Literature

: Gordon, Walter
: 2021
: Theses
: African AmericansPower resourcesLiteratureAmerican literature--African American authorsLiterature, ModernDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953Jones, J. McHenryPetry, Ann, 1908-1997Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977Hairy ape (O'Neill, Eugene)

4. Sites of Inscription: Writing In and Against Post-Plantation Geographies

: Kelley, Elleza
: 2021
: Theses
: African AmericansAmerican literature--African American authorsBlack peopleDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895Hurston, Zora NealeBrooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

5. 'Native, Yet Foreign': Spain in the African American Imagination

: Pawel, Rebecca Catherine
: 2020
: Theses
: African AmericansAmerican literatureComparative literatureHistoriography

6. Beyond the Negro Problem: The Engagement between Literature and Sociology in the Age of the New Negro

: Richardson, Erica Nicole
: 2018
: Theses
: African AmericansAmerican literature--African American authorsHistoryAfrican Americans--Social conditionsLiterature and societySociology

7. Signs of Neon: Racial Capitalism, Technology, and African American Aesthetics in the Long 1960s

: Bartell, Brian
: 2018
: Theses
: African AmericansAesthetics, BlackCivil rights movementsTechnology--Social aspectsSocial structure

8. Translated Subjects: Visions of Haiti in 19th-Century Literary Exchange

: Albanese, Mary Grace
: 2017
: Theses
: American literatureAfrican AmericansCaribbean literatureAbstraction in literature

9. Prisoners of Style: Slavery, Ethics, and the Lives of American Literary Characters

: Parra, Jamie Luis
: 2016
: Theses
: Characters and characteristics in literatureSlavery in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican AmericansCrafts, HannahTwain, Mark, 1835-1910Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

10. "The Problem of Amusement": Trouble in the New Negro Narrative

: Rodney, Mariel
: 2016
: Theses
: Blackface entertainersHarlem RenaissanceAfrican AmericansLiteraturePerforming artsHurston, Zora NealeDunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938

11. Mapping the Global Black South: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora

: McInnis, Jarvis Conell
: 2015
: Theses
: American literatureAfrican AmericansCaribbean literature

12. Investing in Stereotypes: Comic Second-Sight in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

: Hunt, Irvin
: 2014
: Theses
: Wit and humorComedyStereotypes (Social psychology) in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican AmericansTheater

13. Social Document Fictions: Race, Visual Culture and Science in African American Literary Culture, 1850-1939

: Womack, Autumn Marie
: 2014
: Theses
: American literature--African American authorsAfrican Americans--Race identityAfrican Americans--Intellectual lifeLiteratureAfrican Americans

14. Anxious Records: Race, Imperial Belonging, and the Black Literary Imagination, 1900 - 1946

: Collis, Victoria J.
: 2013
: Theses
: African AmericansAfricans

15. At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period

: Owens, Imani D.
: 2013
: Theses
: LiteratureAfrican AmericansCaribbean literature