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Reprinting Russia: Anti-Imperial Discourse in Elias Boudinot’s Cherokee Phoenix
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
While much work has explored American Indian print resistance to the encroaching United States, little scholarship has explored reprinting as a method of resistance. Building on Meredith McGill’s argument that reprinting ...
"Who Are You and I...?": The Rhetoric of Identity in the Aloha Eagles Letters
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
In 1969, four years before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, Aloha Eagles, a Republican legislator in the North Dakota House of Representatives, proposed a House Bill 319 to legalize abortion in North Dakota. ...
Corvids and Canines in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The series, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin has become increasingly popular among readers even during a time when fantasy novels have decreased in popularity. This rise in readership and viewership (with the ...
Bilingual Rabbits, Bilingual Readers: Watership Down as a Case for Animal Texts in Translation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Richard Adams’ Watership Down provides readers a unique view of a world that is and isn’t their own, a familiar space from the unfamiliar perspective of an animal. Animal narratives like these are at the core of Animal ...
Time to Play the Religion Card: Messiah Complexes in Battlestar Galactica
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
In 2003, Battlestar Galactica (BSG) was re-invented from its 1978 roots to a post-apocalyptic narrative steeped in religious rhetoric and Machiavellian politics. This combination of political and religious rhetoric is ...
Literacy Narratives of Pre-Literate and Non-Literate Adult Refugee Women
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This study focuses on the Literacy Narratives of Pre-Literate and Non-Literate Adult Refugee Women in the Fargo-Moorhead community. Personal interviews were conducted to gather data. The recorded interviews were then ...
“Your Legacy Is Yours to Build”: Defining Leadership in Beowulf and Its Adaptations
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This paper analyzes how narrative choice and media affect the depiction of leadership in Beowulf by studying three texts: the medieval Beowulf, the 2007 Hollywood film of the same name, and Beowulf: The Game. While the ...
"Where Everything Goes to Hell": Stephen King as Literary Naturalist
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
In his bestselling nonfiction book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, author Stephen King lists among his idols "the great naturalist writer Frank Norris" (336). While King primarily writes horror fiction, he has often ...
Facing Death in The Book Thief: Confronting the Real of the Holocaust and Mortality
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
This paper examines the personification of Death in The Book Thief and its impact on young adult readers using Slavoj Žižek’s analysis of the Real and Hayden White’s discussion of how history and its representations in ...
The Last Breath is Hers: Reassessing Feminist Film Approaches to the Slasher Genre in the #MeToo Era
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
You’re Next (2011) and Hush (2016), feature women who at first glance resemble stereotypical final girls. However, throughout their respective films, Erin (You’re Next) and Maddie (Hush) break the expected binary outcome ...