Indian women -- Civil rights -- North America; Brave Bird, Mary; Mankiller, Wilma Pearl, -- 1945-
Beginning in the late 1960's and continuing through the 1970's, the American public saw an increased activism within the Native American community. This activism followed in the path of the civil rights movement and was marked by the creation of...
The purpose of this thesis is to prove that Kate Chopin's earlier heroines are, although not fully developed, precursors to Edna Pontellier, a character Chopin created at the end of her career in The Awakening. All of Chopin's fiction takes place...
This thesis explores the idea of the "artist" as a figure of self-creation in the
development of identity (both in and through literature) using a number of Shakespeare's
protagonists to exemplify the different stages of evolution, especially...