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Foote, Stephanie Foote, Stephanie Deck, Alice Somerville, Siobhan B. Nelson, Cary Lynch, Suzanne M. 2010-05-14T20:51:05Z 2010-05-14T20:51:05Z 2012-05-15T10:00:47Z 2010-05-14T20:51:05Z 2010-05 My study, entitled From Exiles to Transcendences focuses on five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer. It examines each author’s effort to represent the mixed-race character as a constant “process of becoming” (Hall, Questions of Identity 4). This study aims to convey the distinctiveness of the American mixed-race character in American literature and to provide a thorough reading of how this distinctiveness is portrayed and sustained throughout the scope of the selected texts. My dissertation identifies the mixed-race voice as experientially distinct from other American raced voices while acknowledging the mixed-race character as one who demonstrates a connectedness to a plurality of racial cultures. The following chapters span a period of approximately 100 years and illustrate a common concern among them, albeit from differing perspectives and influences, regarding how home and family function as fluid spaces of racial subjectivity. My study maintains a position that the above authors questioned the presumed irreversibility of an entrenched understanding of family ties; that they challenged and rescripted the historically defined self with a self that privileges experience and discovery over pre-given identities; and that they depicted their characters as evolving subjects who created themselves with name and identity as they moved toward their “process of becoming.” Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-02-18T20:50:59Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Lynch_Suzanne.pdf: 1070852 bytes, checksum: 47e7e2b928d158a48a11b0474a36a800 (MD5) Lynch_Suzanne complete disseration feb 152010.doc: 457216 bytes, checksum: 92c0f36ef9b1afe0dc20ae32ec38875b (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-05-14T20:51:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Lynch_Suzanne.pdf: 1070852 bytes, checksum: 47e7e2b928d158a48a11b0474a36a800 (MD5) Lynch_Suzanne complete disseration feb 152010.doc: 457216 bytes, checksum: 92c0f36ef9b1afe0dc20ae32ec38875b (MD5) 1_Lynch_Suzanne.pdf: 1070426 bytes, checksum: 0a5753c4ccc2022cea550f3cbca850db (MD5) license.txt: 4058 bytes, checksum: ebafcfa54e739a514c21cbdc5fac264e (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2010-05-14T20:52:47Z Item is restricted until 2012-05-14T20:52:43Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-05-15T10:00:47Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - English (ID: 447) No. of bitstreams: 4 Lynch_Suzanne.pdf: 1070852 bytes, checksum: 47e7e2b928d158a48a11b0474a36a800 (MD5) Lynch_Suzanne complete disseration feb 152010.doc: 457216 bytes, checksum: 92c0f36ef9b1afe0dc20ae32ec38875b (MD5) 1_Lynch_Suzanne.pdf: 1070426 bytes, checksum: 0a5753c4ccc2022cea550f3cbca850db (MD5) license.txt: 4058 bytes, checksum: ebafcfa54e739a514c21cbdc5fac264e (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-05-15T10:00:47Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15576 en Copyright 2010 Suzanne M. Lynch mulatta racial trancendence racial plurality racial subjectivity home and family From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer English 1499 English 0311 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:English -UIUC 10KS0311PHD