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CSWS Research Matters: 2017: (Spring)

Bohls, Elizabeth (University of Oregon, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2017)

Writings of colonial women shed light on the gendered and politicized construction of home in the context of British slavery.
Making Status Legible: Self-Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century

Morrison, Leslie (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

This project analyzes discourses of social legibility in eighteenth-century self-writing to argue that status-based conceptions of identity continued to influence perceptions of the self in society. Studies of the eighteenth ...
RECLAIMING THROUGH RETELLING: THEORIZING CARIBBEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH TWENTIETH-CENTURY CARIBBEAN RETELLINGS OF WESTERN LITERARY CLASSICS

Smith, Jacob (University of Oregon, 2023)

Throughout the 20th century, many of the territories colonized by once expansive European empires began to resist their colonial powers. Military resistance, peaceful diplomacy, non-violent civil disobedience, cultural ...
Rhetoric of Resistance: Social Justice in the Work of Wollstonecraft, Cugoano, and Godwin

Crane, Jessica (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

This dissertation examines the rhetoric employed by Wollstonecraft, Cugoano, and Godwin who devise a top-down/bottom-up dialectic of social-justice writing which can be read as grassroots advocacy. The authors write with ...