Browsing by Author "Giovanni, Nikki"

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    Digging in the Crates Vol. 3: Gender & Hip Hop with Nikki Giovanni
    Giovanni, Nikki; Williams, Kimberly; Miles, Corey J. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2017-04-20)
    An evening with poet, activist, educator, and University Distinguished Professor Nikki Giovanni, hosted by Kimberly Williams (Assistant Director, Black Cultural Center) and Corey Miles (Ph.D. Student, Sociology/Africana Studies). After the discussion and a reading by Professor Giovanni, Virginia Tech's Breakdancing Club (also known as the Flowmigos) will perform. Exclusive beat courtesy of DayTripper, https://soundcloud.com/dtcland.
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    Dorothy West's Re-imagining of the Migration Narrative
    Harper, Alexis V. (Virginia Tech, 2016-11-15)
    This thesis explores Dorothy West's interpretation of the migration experience through her novel The Living is Easy. Dorothy West breaks new ground by documenting a Black female migrant's sojourn from South to North in an era in which such narratives were virtually non-existent. West seemingly rejects both a separation between North and South as well any sentiment of condemning the North or South in totality. Instead, West chooses to settle her novel in a gray area. Moreover, in refusing to condemn the South, Dorothy West redeems the South from oversimplified negative assumptions of the region. My interpretation of Dorothy West's The Living is Easy as well as Cleo Judson both highlights West's contributions to the genre by complicating the assumptions of what a migration narrative contains by centering the migrating Black female body.
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    Fall Line: a work in progress
    Dorsett, Margaret H. (Virginia Tech, 1989-05-05)
    An experimental novel, based on the critical theories of Jacques Lacan and Helena Cixous, which explores the exclusion of women from the cultural ideal, and their redefinition as cultural "others" in Western American Society. The novel incorporates three separate narratives: two first person narratives (Paula Tjunic and Kate Hargrove) and one third person narrative. The two first person narratives examine entire lifetimes. The third person narrative recounts one night in a bar. The first person narratives are written in opposing columns, and are designed in blocks and gaps so that each character can be heard separately, and the reader can interact with the text as a third cultural "other." A short examination of the theories of cultural "other" in relation to women in the American West, is included in the preface of the novel.
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    Hull
    Phillips, Alexandria Marie (Virginia Tech, 2016-12-21)
    HULL is a manuscript driven by bodily and imagined notions of witness that marry and complicate the historical and public with the personal and private. HULL is the buoyancy of a paradox; the un-shakable hyper corporeality of a body both Black and woman, and the social and spiritual liminality of Black womanhood. This collection is centered around a contemporary Black, queer, femme voice, and moves beyond the deeply familiar, beyond any implied monolith of definitive Blackness. These poems navigate memory, both experienced and inherited to chart moments of tenderness and brutality that people within the African Diaspora have experienced.