LITR 5731: Seminar in American Minority Literature

Index to Student Research Projects, fall 2004

Jennie Branch (undergraduate), journal: "Mexican-American Women as Double Minority"

Danny Corrigan, essay: "Folklore and the Quest for Identity in Song of Solomon"

Susan Cummings, journal: "Controversy & Freedom in the Native American Literary Canon: Sherman Alexie, Chrystos, Joy Harjo"

Brendan Foley, essay: "Seeing Red: Survival, Resistance and Other Tricks from Down on the Reservation; A Postindian Reading of Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"

James Hood, essay: "Loss and Survival: Exploring the Minority Narrative of Resistance and Assimilation"

Nicole Jackson, essay: "Locating the African Fugitive: Economies of Suffering, Mythologies, and Escapism in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon "

Kristy Pawlak, journal: "African-American Literature for Children and Adolescents"

Michael Russo, essay: "Axiology of Existence: Oppression & Resistance in Minority Texts"