Tesi: "National characteristics, American – Drama"

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Ross, Jason. "The Declaration of Independence and the crisis of American identity". Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/453941683/viewonline.

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Zhang, Chuanjie. "National image and foreign policy preferences between the United States and China /". online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2008. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3342712.

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Wirshing, Irene. "National trauma in postdictatorship Latin American literature Chile and Argentina /". Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Goodyear, Frank Henry. "Constructing a national landscape : photography and tourism in nineteenth-century America /". Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Stice, Ralph W. "Towards a strategy for increasing missionary vision, with special relation to Africa". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Peschka-Daskalos, Patricia Jean. "An Intercultural Analysis of Differences in Appropriateness Ratings of Facial Expressions Between Japanese and American Subjects". PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4700.

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In 1971 Paul Ekman posited his Neuro-Cultural Theory of Emotion which stated that expressions of emotion are universal but controlled by cultural display rules. This thesis tests the Neuro-Cultural Theory by having subjects from two cultures, Japan and the United States, judge the perceived appropriateness facial expressions in social situations. Preliminary procedures resulted in a set of scenarios in which socially appropriate responses were deemed to be either "Happy", "Angry" or "Surprised". Data in the experimental phase of the study were collected using a questionnaire format. Through the use of a 5-point Likert scale, each subject rated the appropriateness of happy, anger and surprise expressions in positive, negative and ambiguous social situations. Additionally, the subjects were asked to label each expression in each situation. The responses were analyzed statistically using Analysis of Variance procedures. Label percentages were also calculated for: the second task in the study. No support was found for two of the three research hypotheses, and only partial support was found for a third research hypothesis. These results were discussed in terms of the need for greater theoretical and methodological refinements.

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Munn, Meredith. "Welfare reform and abstinence-only sex education : the discursive production of American ideal citizenship /". Connect to online version, 2009. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2009/377.pdf.

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Johnson, Jeffrey K. "Selling ourselves transnationalistic myths and symbols in Polish-American advertising, 1990-2005 /". Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Basson, Lauren L. "Defining Americans : nation, state, and the politics of racial mixture, 1885-1905 /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10704.

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Hofstetter, Vanessa J. "America's diamond mind :". See restrictions on access, 2002. http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/library/abner/apponly.htm.

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Warner, Vessela Stoeva. "Cultural identity in Balkan drama : self-perceptions and representations in Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian plays from the 1970s through the 1990s /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10238.

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Pettegree, Jane K. "Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611 : metaphor and national identity". Thesis, St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/786.

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Pritchard, Gregory A. "The pursuit of fulfillment the emergence of personal fulfillment as a dominant influence in American culture /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Lundblade, Eric James. ""The fruits of imperialism, be they bitter or sweet ..." "America's mission" and the rhetoric of the imperialism debates (1898-1900) /". Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3724.

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Dahl, Tracy A. "Lake Wobegon nation : imagining a community of Norwegian bachelor farmers /". free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1421129.

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Dennihy, Melissa Ann. "The American grand narrative constructions and consequences /". Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Dorian, Jennifer. "Constructions of Australianness in contemporary Australian drama : Blue heelers & Heartbreak High". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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This thesis will examine how Australianness is constructed in two contemporary Australian television dramas - Heartbreak High and Blue Heelers. Founded on the critical tradition of "Cultural Studies", this work will employ text analysis to deconstruct these dramas and examine the ways in which they manifest Australian cultural identity. However, this thesis recognises that Australianness is not a constant, tangible phenomenon, but rather a series of constructions, each purporting to be "real". Hence I will be acknowledging that there is not one, singular national identity from which to draw representations, but many different, conflicting cultural identities. Each program constructs a very different view of Australian life and culture. Heartbreak High follows the lives of a group of high school students amidst a multicultural, urban environment and is aimed primarily at a teen audience. On the other hand, Blue Heelers appeals to an older, more conservative audience with its focus on a small police station in rural Victoria. Some of the issues to be addressed in the main body of the text include the programs constructions of "Australian" characteristics such as mateship and egalitarianism, and whether these dramas perpetuate the cultural division between rural and urban Australia. Overall this thesis aims to provide a thorough examination of the images of Australia these two programs construct and to question their origin, meaning and relevance tocontemporary Australian society.

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Wang, Xiuli. "Winning American hearts and minds : country characteristics, public relations and mass media". Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Nersesian-McGuire, Dianne Rene. "A comparison of English and U.S. American communication patterns in work settings : an English perspective". Scholarly Commons, 2009. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/734.

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This thesis examines communication patterns between the English and U.S. Americans in a work environment. These two cultural groups engage in significant business, economic, and political relationships, and though they share many similarities, the cultural and communication differences can lead to misunderstandings and conflict. This study investigates the perceptions of 32 English nationals about their interactions with U.S. Americans in order to better understand the differences between their workrelated preferences and processes. The English participants completed a selfadministered written questionnaire that elicited their thoughts about the following: English and U.S. American communication and work behaviors, perceived cultural differences, and skills deemed most effective for successful working relationships between the two cultures. Forty-one percent of the participants also participated in a follow-up telephone interview. The results showed that the majority of the participants felt that national and individual cultural differences contributed to communication challenges at work. Some of the significant areas of difference include: language usage, preferred ways to deliver and receive information, use of humor, and approaches to decision-making and managing conflict. Suggested recommendations based on the findings of this study are intended to help professionals enhance stronger working partnerships between the English and U.S. Americans.

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Bai, Ruixia. "The American self in the shaping : a study of six bildungsromane". HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/889.

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Mays, Sylvia B. "The characteristics, functions, behaviors and effectiveness of development officers in American public community colleges". Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53894.

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This national study developed a descriptive data base for the characteristics, functions, leader behaviors, and effectiveness ratings of development officers who belong to the National Council for Resource Development. These data were examined with respect to their relationship to institutional size, community wealth, size of staff, and age of the foundations. Twelve percent of these development officers were minorities and 43 percent were female. The mean age of the development officers was 44 years and more than 30 percent held doctoral degrees. Their graduate majors clustered in four disciplines, while their graduate degrees were overwhelmingly in education. They reported little previous experience in development work, though most prior work experience had been in the field of education. Nearly 70 percent reported directly to the presidents of their institutions. Almost 92 percent of these institutions were found to have foundations and more than half of these foundations were less than five years old. Development officers indicated that the functional area of greatest importance and the one for which they had the greatest responsibility was that of program planning. Two of the most important program planning functions were those of: (a) identifying funding sources, and (b) cultivating potential funding sources. Yet, the functional area of least importance and the one for which development officers reported the least responsibility, was that of fund raising. This finding was partially explained by the artificial grouping of the functions and by the fact that most development officers reported sharing rather than carrying primary responsibility for the fund raising functions. Development officers rated high on both the task-oriented and on the person-oriented dimensions of the leadership scale. They were rated by their supervisors as high in overall effectiveness. They were also rated as effective in both fund raising and in "friend raising." Younger development officers were perceived as more effective than their older counterparts. No other relationships were found between characteristics, leader behaviors, functions, effectiveness, and situational differences among institutions. lmplications for these findings include pre-service and in-service education as well as use in the selection and the evaluation of development officers.
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Shaiman, Jennifer M. "Building American homes, constructing American identities : performance of identity, domestic space, and modern American literature /". view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147835.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
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Newcomb, Robert Patrick. "Counterposing nossa and nuestra America : Brazil in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century intellectual construction of Latin America". View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319112.

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Thoman, Dixie S. "Deconstructing the myth of the American west McMurtry, violence, ecopsychology and national identity /". Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1939351831&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Ta, Lynn M. "Citizens without borders American identity and the cultural politics of globalization /". Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3259361.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 26, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-181).

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Johnston, Marshall Ron Hankins Barry. "Bombast, blasphemy, and the bastard gospel William Stringfellow and American exceptionalism /". Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5068.

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Moir, Anna. "Prejudice and patriotism Frederick Stock, anti-Germanism, and American music in World War I /". Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3598.

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Michaud, Marilyn. "Republicanism and the American Gothic". Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/110.

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Republicanism and the American Gothic is a comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s. As the title indicates, this thesis explores the republican tradition of the British Enlightenment and the effect of its translation and migration to the American colonies. Specifically, it examines in detail the transatlantic influence of seventeenth and eighteenth century libertarian and anti-authoritarian thought on British and American Revolutionary culture. It argues that whether radical or orthodox, Whig or Tory, the quarrel surrounding the movement from subject to citizen nourishes Gothic aesthetics on both sides of the Atlantic. In America, particularly, the discourse of republicanism articulates not only the nation’s revolutionary goals, but defines national consciousness. This thesis further argues that republicanism is also a panic-ridden ideology, animated by fears of corruption, degeneration, and tyranny, and therefore supplies fertile ground for the development of a Gothic tradition in America. This dissertation then examines the continuing relevance of republican values and discourse in Cold War America. It suggests that the aesthetic, moral, and political imperatives that characterized republicanism in the late eighteenth century re-emerge in the post-war era as an antidote to the contemporary crisis in liberal subjectivity. In the Cold War, Gothic tales featuring doubles, vampires, and conspirators, not only dramatize contemporary fears of communism, conformity, and the rise of mass culture, but also engage with the nation’s historical fears of deception, corruption, degeneration, and tyranny. While grounded in the Gothic novel, this thesis is informed by the theory of republicanism that arose in the post-war years and which came to challenge many of the long held views of American revolutionary history. This thesis attempts to explore the influence of this historical approach on Cold War discourse generally, and on Gothic fiction specifically.

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Budin, Howard Roger. "Engines of democracy : technology, society and American common schools before the Civil War /". Access Digital Full Text version, 1996. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11974461.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1996.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Robert McClintock. Dissertation Committee: Robert Taylor. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-179).

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May, Chad T. "Trauma and the historical imagination in British and American fiction, 1814-1986 /". view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3181110.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.
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Zietsma, David. "IMAGINING HEAVEN AND HELL: RELIGION, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1930-1953". Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1185381373.

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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of History, 2007.
"August, 2007." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 04/24/2008) Advisor, Walter L. Hixson; Committee members, T. J. Boisseau, Mary Ann Heiss, Brant T. Lee, Elizabeth Mancke; Department Chair, Walter L. Hixson; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Lopez, Alana D. "The relationship between continuing professional development and demographic characteristics, professional practices, and employment conditions of school psychologists". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001933.

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Wiencek, Henry. ""An alien or a Frenchman or an Irishman" William Duane, the Federalists and conflicting definitions of national identity in early American politics /". Diss., Connect to the thesis (Haverford College Users Only), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1464.

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Dearth, Davin. "Rage against the machine critical perceptions of American democracy through man vs. the institution /". Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1939207311&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Miller, Troy Michael. "Reassessing the "American dream house"". Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1129634.

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This study presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the context and domination of the "American Dream House" in the United States of the past one hundred years. Additionally, It investigates the present day status and effects of this dependence. This inquiry uses an alternative method of investigation that involves the use of the popular media and extensive research of the past presentation of the "American Dream House" in it. It also involves research into the effects of promotional campaigns on the public perception of the "American Dream House." The research suggests that there exists a crisis in this country in the form of a severe attachment to the mythological and historical nature of this limited housing form. The investigation further suggests that the characteristics and elements of the "American Dream House" have not substantially changed in the past fifty years. This severe attachment to the characteristics of the past both threatens and confines a search and pursuit for a cure to this country's housing problems of the late 20th and early 2131 century.
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Sinutko, Natasha Marie. "Passing on the melting pot : resistance to Americanization in the work of Gertrude Stein, Alice Corbin Henderson and William Carlos Williams /". Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3035979.

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Thapa, Anirudra. "The Indic Orient, nation, and transnationalism exploring the imperial outposts of nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture, 1840-1900 /". [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2008. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-12052008-162349/unrestricted/Thapa.pdf.

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Baker, Deena Michelle. ""What now?": Willa Cather's successful male professionals at middle age". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3167.

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This thesis examines three male characters from Willa Cather's writing that epitomize the American Dream of professional and material success but they find no contentment once they achieve it. This disillusionment is particularly so with Cather's driven male professionals, Bartley Alexander (an architectural scholar), and Clement Sebastian (a critically acclaimed, international opera singer). Cather situates these characters at middle age and at the peak of their professional careers, which makes the examination of them an interesting study as to the effects of the encroaching modern age on successful men. This thesis begins with a brief overview of Cather's work, including scholarly criticism of each novel, progresses to the examination of her successful male characters, and concludes with the investigation of Cather as a Modernist writer.

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Hatfield, Katherine L. "A culture of terror rises out of the dust : a rhetorical analysis of iconic imagery in the aftermath of 9/11 /". View abstract, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3203332.

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Kaiser, John William. "Paz's theory of self /". view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1335359551&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.
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Antonietti, Iris A. "Enforcing fragments : a critical analysis of the mythological messages in Frank Capra's Why we fight series". Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1397368.

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This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of Frank Capra's World War II information film series, Why We Fight, produced from 1942-1945. The series' mythological messages are examined using the four national parables as defined by Robert Reich (1987), namely The Mob at the Gates, The Triumphant Individual, The Benevolent Community, and The Rot at the Top. The values conveyed through the national parables are analyzed using a delineation of 17 core American values provided by Steele and Redding (1962). The analysis reveals the basic narrative structure of the series constituted by the myths, The Battle of Good and Evil and The Foundation Myth of America. Particularly, these two myths are crucial for America's shift from an isolationist to interventionist paradigm in foreign policy. This change in the mythical system initiated America's emergence as a world power after World War II.
Department of Telecommunications

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Morris, Dustin. "Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A. /". Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/MorrisD2009.pdf.

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Rittenberg, Adam. "The study of national character in the post war era : the work of Erich Fromm, David Riesman, and David Potter". PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3851.

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This thesis examines the study of national character through the work of the psychologist Erich Fromm, the sociologist David Riesman, and the historian David Potter. Above all Intend to provide a critical exegesis of the three thinkers will relate them to one another by discussing the Interconnections In their thought, beginning with Fromm's social psychological theory of character, turning to Riesman's theory of sociology and, finally, Potter's theory of American history. Each, I argue, must be studied in the context his time--above all the climate of horror and uncertainty at mid-century.

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Khoury, Nicole Michelle. "Hybrid identity and Arab/American feminism in Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2862.

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In her novel Arabian Jazz, Diana Abu-Jaber attempts to explore the Arab American identity as something new; as an identity that exists related to, but ultimately separate from, the Arab and American identities from which it was originally created. This thesis discusses the emergence of the depiction of the Arab American female identity in the novel, examining how the characters explore issues of race, class, imperialism, and sex within both the Arab and the American cultures as those issues shape female identity. The thesis also presents a rhetorical analysis of the speeches that allow the characters a voice with respect to how identity is shaped and reshaped throughout the novel.

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Gano, Geneva Marie. "Continent's end literary regionalism in the modern West /". Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467886391&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Zamora, Maria C. "Nation, race & history in Asian American literature re-membering the body". New York, NY Washington, DC Baltimore, Md. Bern Frankfurt, M. Berlin Brussels Vienna Oxford Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990413780/04.

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Endicott, David. "Spectacular fictions : the Cold War and the making of historical knowledge". Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1117103.

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The Cold War can be considered the final grand narrative of modernity because of its deterministic influence on the making of knowledge in twentieth-century America. Likewise, Cold War events and the power of their individual narratives and images (their petits recits) created the needed condition for the advent of the age of spectacle. The Cold War existed in this state of contradiction: the final grand narrative and the first postmodern spectacle. Examples of the literature of the Cold War period, what I have labelled the literature of spectacle, serve to both elucidate the social conditions of the age of spectacle and their relationship to our media society. Spectacular fictions also provide a means of examining the postmodern concept of historiographic fictionalization. Don DeLillo's Libra' presents a Lee Harvey Oswald who manipulates the traces of his life to blur the image that he knows must enter the historical record. The Richard Nixon of Robert Coover's The Public Burning evolves to an intense consciousness of the contradictions of historiography that is realized only after he is brutally molested by Uncle Sam for the entire nation to witness, a rape that both strips Nixon of any remaining masculinity and thrusts him forward into America's Cold War history as the dark shadow of his future presidency looms throughout the novel. In The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow's Daniel Isaacson attempts to counteract historiography (and the narrative of his infamous parents, the Rosenbergesque Paul and Rochelle) by writing his own story, telling his history as he feels it relates to the American experience of the Cold War. Daniel's self-history differs from Oswald's selfnarratization because Oswald's text is intentionally fabricated, while Daniel realizes that his narrative is a fabrication of the nation's history. Likewise, the characterization of Nixon differs from that of Oswald, though both are inspired by their actual historical counterparts. While the Nixon of the 1970s greatly shapes the Nixon of the novel, the historical Lee Harvey Oswald remains an enigma of America's recent past, perpetually residing in the margins of unknowability. From this space of marginalization, DeLillo's Oswald emerges.
Department of English

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Hilliker, Robert. "Customary practice : the colonial transformation of European concepts of collective identity, 1580-1724". View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318328.

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Santos, Gabriel A. "Oh, when the state comes marching in the theopolitics of disaster in sociological perspective /". Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 1.70 Mb., 342 p, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1176554841&Fmt=7&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Walker, Jessica Lorraine. "Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors : Thomas Jefferson and the role of English history in the building of the American nation". University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0209.

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This thesis contends that Anglo-Saxon studies made a powerful contribution to Thomas Jefferson's development of public concepts of American identity and nationalism in ways that have been elided by scholars preoccupied with Jefferson's classicism. Jefferson's comprehensive survey of Anglo-Saxon grammar, language, law and emigration provided him with a precedent for revolution and helped him develop a model of American nationhood. Jefferson's detailed study of the Anglo-Saxon era set him apart from writers on both sides of the Atlantic in the period 1750-1860, and this thesis will argue that to generalize his interest as 'whig history' or a subscription to a theory of Teutonic superiority is unjustified. Chapter One considers Jefferson's educational background, his exposure to Anglo-Saxon history and the degree to which he might have been encouraged to pursue it. Previous studies of Jefferson's Anglo-Saxonism have presumed that there was a 'Gothic font' from which American Founding Fathers could drink; the detailed study of Anglo-Saxon historiography in this chapter will show otherwise. Chapter Two is concerned with a detailed examination of the collections of books relating to Anglo-Saxon history and language that Jefferson collected throughout his lifetime. If Jefferson was concerned with whig dialogues, or interested in the Saxons as a product of a passion for Tacitus we should find evidence of it here. In fact, the study of Jefferson's library in Chapter Two demonstrates that Jefferson was genuinely an expert Anglo-Saxon scholar and regarded that knowledge base as a political tool. Chapters Three and Four constitute detailed examinations of the nationalist use to which Jefferson put his understanding of early English history. Chapter Three considers the problem of shared heritage with Britain confronting the American statesman in the 1760s and 1770s and his employment of pre-Norman history in resolving this conflict. Chapter Four enlarges upon the study of American national identity, with specific reference to the linguistic debates following on the Revolution. This chapter revolves around a reconsideration of Jefferson's Anglo-Saxon Essay and his attempts to introduce this language into the education of future American statesmen. Jefferson's examination of Anglo-Saxon history, when considered in this light, seems oddly discordant with the simplistic notion of Jefferson as a founder of Teutonic superiority. Chapter Five is interested in Jefferson's impact on historical rhetoric in the nineteenth century. Thomas Jefferson used English history as an aid to separating an American nation from the British Empire and he believed that Americans could look to their Anglo-Saxon ancestors for a precedent that would justify their independence from Britain. He saw in Anglo-Saxon studies a means for appropriating those parts of English history that could underpin a national identity defined by freedom, initiative, and perhaps a racial predilection for democracy, while simultaneously rejecting Britain's authority in his present.

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