Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Gendered Language: Theological or Sociological Differences?

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In his book, Grammar and Gender, Dennis Baron traces the history of sexual bias in the English language, attributing the divide between men...
Monday, July 5, 2010

Haiti’s (Dis)comorting Legacy: Sexual Abuse and Religious Thought Control In Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory

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In her novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat makes public the silenced history of sexually-traumatized Haitian women, a history of w...

“Angry, Even Unto Death”: Melville’s Implementation of Biblical Lore in Moby-Dick

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Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is a collection of American folklore, Greek myth, primitive ritual, and biblical legend. Its narrator, the ever...

The Evolution of Language: Sacrificing Meaning

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Language has been evolving for thousands of years, and that is precisely the problem modern biblical scholars face when analyzing various so...

Perpetual Transition and Crossing Boundaries in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory

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In the Introduction to her book, Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject, Carole Boyce Davies discusses Black female sp...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Lost Theory

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Recording this today to see how close I am in a few weeks. The only spoilers my brain could be accessing here are the following: 1. That wh...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Benevolent Colonialism in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe's 1719 British travel novel, Robinson Crusoe, is commonly referred to by modern literary critics as the quintessential colo...