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William Vollmann’s Burqa, Presentations, Talks, and Seminar Papers -- Department of English (2010)
William Vollmann’s career exemplifies the importance of the historical moment in the life of a...
A Western Man of Color: Richard Wright and the World, Presentations, Talks, and Seminar Papers -- Department of English (2008)
Richard Wright had become by the mid 50s an analyst of what it means to...
Hemingway, Mau Mau and the End of (British) Empire, Presentations, Talks, and Seminar Papers -- Department of English (2008)
In this paper I want to work with some of the key global issues –...
Making Strangers Indelible: Eggers, Ondaatje, and Civil War, Presentations, Talks, and Seminar Papers -- Department of English (2008)
With no-doubt foreseen timeliness, the German social theorist Ulrich Beck argued in 2000 that a...
Willa Cather as Equivocal Icon, Presentations, Talks, and Seminar Papers -- Department of English (2003)
All icons are ultimately equivocal: you can’t think of an icon without thinking about iconoclasm....