| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
|---|
| From the Suffering (Black) Jesus to the Sacrilegious Yeezus: Representations of Christ in African-American Art and Religious Thought |
2015 |
7138 |
Broadly definable as an interdisciplinary study of religion, music, literature, and history, this thesis analyzes the music of Kanye West and its evolution from the tradition of African-American art and religious thought. Tracing the roots of West’s ... |
| Reading Lahiri, Trethewey And Díaz Through Gustavo Pérez Firmat’s Hyphenated Lens |
2021 |
524 |
In Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way (1994) Gustavo Pérez Firmat discusses what it means to be Cuban American in the latter half of the twentieth century and the culminating struggles Cuban immigrants encounter living a hyphenated existence ... |
| “I kissed thee ere I killed thee”: Performing Race and Gender in William Shakespeare’s Othello and Richard Wright’s Native Son |
2012 |
6025 |
This thesis elaborates on the existing scholarship connecting William Shakespeare’s Othello and Richard Wright’s Native Son, and consequently addresses Wright’s direct Shakespearean allusions in addition to the common themes and questions the works s... |