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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
Applications for the 2012 Community Partnership Grants Program to assist American Studies collaborative, interdisciplinary community projects due
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Newlyn, Andrea Kelsey. "Righting the Racial Code: Narrative and Race," Departments of English and American Studies, Indiana University, February 1999.
My dissertation brings together two critical discourses—narrative theory and critical race studies—to examine how constructions of “race” coincide with, reinforce, limit, or regulate narrative form. Specifically, I examine texts depicting what I call transracial movement and embodiment. Transracial narratives span antebellum and postbellum cultures, and incorporate the sentimental, realist, modern, and postmodern traditions, as well as the African-American racial uplift tradition. In analyzing the ways in which constructions of race and racial ideologies inform and inflect narrative form, this dissertation stresses the gendered, sexual, and class dynamics of racial crossing and identity, suggesting how dominant racial ideologies interact with patriarchy and capitalist class structures in defining the possibilities and limits of narrative.
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