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Blake, Nancy Carollo, Kevin Anthony 2015-09-28T15:51:24Z 2015-09-28T15:51:24Z 10000-01-01 1999 1999 "This dissertation investigates several paradigmatic relationships between the concepts ""home"" and ""the frontier."" It focuses on four writers of the twentieth century from divergent cultural and literary contexts. Each writer depicts the psychic paradox of feeling homeless in one's home. The writers include: Giuseppe Ungaretti, an Italian modernist poet who was born in Egypt and did not visit Italy until his twenties; Aminata Sow Fall, a contemporary Senegalese novelist; Louise Erdrich, a contemporary writer of Native American and European heritage; and James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), a science fiction writer believed to be a man for the first eight years of her publishing career. Specific conceptual frontiers are read as crucial to understanding the scope of each writer's work, as they determine the boundaries within which ""home"" can be envisioned. The thesis focuses on three abstract frontiers: the African colonial frontier, the frontier of the American West, and science fiction's ""final frontier."" It argues that twentieth century literary articulations of home respond to various discursive imperatives delimited by nineteenth century thought and expansion. Home is read as a fleeting phenomenon rather than a stable location." Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:51:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9952982.pdf: 13977038 bytes, checksum: 5991f740a8ae946feb918fe039d55e4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1999 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88594 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 293 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87313 (MiAaPQ)AAI9952982 eng Literature, Romance Frontier Legacies: The Search for Home in the Twentieth Century text Comparative Literature Comparative Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.