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Christianity as a Weapon: The Appropriation of Western Constructs in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”

This is a short paper I wrote for a graduate course in Black Literary Traditions. I was a bit disappointed in realizing that, although we were told to purchase a two-volume anthology of African American authors spanning two… Read More

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Literary Analysis: Marx’s “Crisis Theory,” Freud’s “Tripartite Personality,” and Orwell’s “1984”

The following was a discussion post I put together for a Master’s lit course. The selected passage to be analyzed starts on page 85, from the paragraph beginning “Since about that time, war had been literally continuous” to… Read More

Category: academic, literary analysis, literary criticism, literary theory, philosophy, politicsTags: academia, crisis theory, literary analysis, literary criticism, literary theory, marxism, marxist theory, orwell

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Christianity as a Weapon: The Appropriation of Western Constructs in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”

Literary Analysis: Marx’s “Crisis Theory,” Freud’s “Tripartite Personality,” and Orwell’s “1984”

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