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Item AAP Interview: Ka Vang(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Worra, Bryan ThaoItem Memory, monarchy and identity on the `Scepter'd Isle': constructing identity through historical fiction in Renaissance England and France.(2009-05) Ketner, ElizabethThis dissertation examines the ways in which early modern English and French fiction writers revise history by writing new, imaginative texts that allow them to recover events and figures that are at times poorly documented in historical record. These writers use fiction's forms and conventions to present rivaling images of nationhood to those of the historical sources they are drawn from. By moving away from historical sources, such as chronicle histories, these fictional texts also move away from the moralizing purposes of Renaissance histories, which are supposed to offer ideal, patriotic models, usually in the great kings and queens of the past. Instead these texts destabilize historical kings and queens as didactic models, figuratively dethroning them. For they elevate different heroes and different voices, often individuals of little or dubious importance, men and women from all ranks who would be forgotten or denied in historical genres. In so doing, they allow new voices and figures to emerge to play a role in constructing national identity through literature. This project contrasts the aristocratic images of French identity proposed by the sixteenth-century French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre, and the seventeenth-century French aristocrat, Mme de Lafayette, to the bourgeois models of English identity depicted in late Elizabethan literature by Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, and Thomas Deloney. In analyzing these fictions, this dissertation reveals fiction's important role in revising and challenging written history as well as the possibilities and constraints that fiction writers imagine for themselves and their countrywomen and countrymen in shaping themselves and their emerging nations, past, present, and future.Item Review of Arrival of the Snake Woman by Olive Senior(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Edwards, AnnaItem Review of Baby Mother and the King of Swords by Lorna Goodison(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Hubbard, JasonItem Review of Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Horan, KatieItem Review of Bird at My Window By Rosa Guy(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Kelsch, AmyItem Review of Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Haugan, RobynItem Review of Bronze: A Book of Verse by Georgia Douglas Johnson(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Atkins, AlyssaItem Review of Bruised Hibiscus by Elizabeth Nunez(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Opad, JessicaItem Review of Deals With the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot by Pearl Cleage(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Nordmark, ChrisItem Review of Designs of the Night Sky by Diane Glancy(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Everest, AdrienItem Review of English Lessons and Other Stories by Shauna Singh Baldwin(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Taylor, MariaItem Review of Erased Faces by Graciela Limón(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) O'Neil, JenniferItem Review of Exile According to Julia By Gisele Pineau(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Adamson, AprilItem Review of Faces in the Moon by Betty Louise Bell(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Ott, Heather CroninItem Review of Father of the Four Passages by Lois-Ann Yamanaka(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Wettstaedt, MeganItem Review of Frida: A Novel Based on the Life of Frida Kahlo by Barbara Mujica(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Stephens, MeganItem Review of Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Perez(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Allen, DanielleItem Review of Getting to the Good Part by Lolita Files(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Olson, JessicaItem Review of Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to be American edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillian(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Thomas, Christopher