Year: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Perkins, Sarah Rachel, Thesis advisor (ths): McGuire, Kelly, Thesis advisor (ths): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Principe, Concetta, Degree committee member (dgc): Bhanji, Nael, Degree committee member (dgc): Nichols, Naomi, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis considers the fanfiction genres of slash-fiction, and Alpha/Beta/Omega fiction through an analysis of fandom's embedded gift economy structures. Previous research on fanfiction and fandom structures have often characterized the gift economy nature of these spaces as countercultural and as separate from the frequent exploitation inherent in economic-based systems. There… more Year: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Pfeiffer, Elisabeth Rose, Thesis advisor (ths): Popham, Elizabeth, Degree committee member (dgc): Baetz, Joel, Degree committee member (dgc): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis examines how co-creators Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro's 2014 graphic work, Bitch Planet, is in all conceivable ways a seminal and prescient example of — to use their term — "non-compliance" in the comics form and industry. From its inception as a feminist dystopia, written by a white woman and illustrated by a Black man, in an industry that is… more Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis explores the work of Black queer authors who write and reproduce cities in their texts. James Baldwin and Dionne Brand create knowable and readable spaces of the cities in which they write. By studying the work of these two authors, this thesis seeks to understand how Black queer people navigate city spaces, and how Black queer authors create a literary imaginary about the… more Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Deshane, Evelyn, Thesis advisor (ths): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): McGuire, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Mitchell, Liam, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis examines what the term "transgender narrative" represents at this particular time and location. I do this by examining various methods of transgender storytelling through different forms of media production, including autobiography, film, novels, and online platforms such as Tumblr and YouTube. In chapter one, I look at the production of novels and the value system… more Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Despite - or perhaps because of - her popularity as a best-selling poet, the work of Mary Oliver has been minimized and marginalized within the academy. Nevertheless, Oliver's readership is an expansive and devout one made up of a wired yet insular North American public in search of reconnecting with the natural world. I propose that through Oliver's poetry readers access the… more
