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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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De Santis, Christopher C. "Reconstruction and the American Literary Imagination," Department of English, University of Kansas, August 1997.
This dissertation explores how the controversial issues of the post-Civil War era engendered a literary colloquy that was inclusive of black and white, southern and northern writers of both sexes. Guided by the thesis that literary representations of social transformations often take mythic form, in which ideologies of race, class, and gender are narrativized and given the authority of historical and/or personal storytelling, this study demonstrates that writers including Rebecca Harding Davis, Albion W. Tourgée, Thomas Dixon, Jr., Charles W. Chestnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Margaret Mitchell, William Faulkner, Howard Fast, and Ralph Ellison were not simply chronicling the historical facts of an era in addressing Reconstruction in their writings; they were creating and refreshing images and ideas that would play a role in the development of an American national consciousness.
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