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The Spirit of Place in the African American Experience
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An 8 page paper examining three novels -- Huckleberry Finn, Love is Medicine, and Beloved -- and treating the issue of what constitutes a good place, a spiritual home, in all three works. Huckleberry Finn and Beloved are dealt with most extensively. No sources except books.
Filename: Belov.wps

Toni Morisson's 'Beloved' and Sherley Ann Williams' 'Dessa Rose' / Motherhood & Maternalism
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A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting the protagonists' ability to assume the responsibilities of motherhood. The paper argues that Because the slave does not have any autonomy of her own, she cannot function in a typical maternal relationship to a dependent child; therefore, she needs to either break out of her cycle of submission, or have someone else to do her mothering for her. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Beldessa.doc

Walker's 'The Color Purple' v. Otto's 'How to Make an American Quilt'
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A 9 page paper that describes how the authors of these two works utilize structures unique to story development to present their ideas on feminism, relationships, sexuality and domesticity. While both authors utilize different structural formats (Walker presents her's as an epistolary novel, while Otto's is set within the context of a quilting instructional manual), each uncommon structure significantly effects the author's presentation of ideas. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Purpquil.wps

Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' Nella Larsen's 'Passing' And Ann Petry's 'The Street': Marriage
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10 pages in length. Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and Ann Petry's 'The Street' all address the issue of marriage in very different ways. While all three stories speak about the bonds of matrimony in one way or another, it is not actually the marriage, in and of itself, upon which the tales focus. Rather, each author carefully yet quite effectively touches upon marriage, its meaning within the social backdrop, as well as the requirements necessary to maintain its existence; however, these stories delve much deeper into the aspect of marriage than what merely resides on the surface. It is through intense character examination that the reader is able to see beyond the marital façade to a more realistic place where the authors' protagonists inevitably dwell. The writer discusses the importance marriage plays in each one. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCmarig.doc

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Quest for Self-Definition
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This 2 page paper considers the role of Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and considers her quest as it defines the action in the story. In particular, this paper outlines Janie's quest for self-definition and her symbolic journey, both of which shape her transformation and regeneration. No additional sources cited.
Filename: MHHurst2.wps

Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' / Analysis
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This 5 page paper talks about the romantic elements in this tragic love story. It explains that the elements of slavery are obscured due to the inordinate attention to the pair of lovers. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Oroonoko.wps

Aprha Behn's 'The Rover'
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A 7 page paper on a seventeenth-century Restoration comedy. The writer argues that against a backdrop of seeming wittiness and lightheartedness, Behn presents the darker condition of libertine ideals in her time. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Behn.wps

Historical Background in Behn’s “Oroonoko”
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A five page paper looking at Aphra Behn’s seventeenth-century novel in terms of the degree to which it portrays the issue of slavery realistically. Through quoting historical material on the slave trade in that era, the paper argues that not only is Behn’s work accurate, but it presents the romance of two black lovers much more sympathetically than was common at that time. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBbehn2.wps

Restoration Literature / Marriage
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A 6 page paper on four seventeenth-century Restoration authors and their works: Wycherley's The Country Wife, Behn's The Rover, Congreve's The Way of the World, and Gay's The Beggar's Opera. The paper shows how, through scenes of love and marriage as well as infidelity and prostitution, these authors juxtapose idealized views of the roles women and men were supposed to occupy in society against a caustic view of the way things really were. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Marrest.wps

“A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812”
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A 5 page review of the reprint of this historic diary and comment by author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. This paper contends that while some may question why the life of this relatively obscure woman is important, the work is actually replete with historical as well as social significance. Ulrich masterfully connects Ballard’s writings with the public record of the time to reveal Ballard’s extensive interaction with the country village of Hallowell Maine and the interconnectivity of that village with the young republic of the United States. Bibliography lists 2 sources. PPmidwif.rtf
Filename: PPmidwif.rtf