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KAYLA WILLIAMS' LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU AND THE NEGOTIATION OF THE FEMALE SOLDIER

Whitney, Janelle L
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143429148

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, English/Literature.
This project discusses the effect of postmodern war on women’s wartime writing through Kayla Williams’ Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army. This thesis examines how Williams’ text negotiates itself among normative restraints that deem female war writing as marginal and the female soldier as “unreal.” I argue that Williams’ text presents a subject that is as able to “speak” about the masculine experience of war without forfeiting a female identity by exhibiting an awareness of the limits of its genre and inability to present absolute truth and by presenting a liminal subject that avoids the oppression of binary categories. Ultimately, I argue that Williams’ text portrays a subject who does not conform to the category of soldier in order to gain acceptance. Instead, her text performs a liminal, fluid subjectivity that allows it to stretch normative restrictions that attempt to render it “illegible.”
William Albertini (Advisor)
66 p.
Literature, American
women's war writing; war literature; identity

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  • Whitney, J. L. (2006). KAYLA WILLIAMS' LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU AND THE NEGOTIATION OF THE FEMALE SOLDIER [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143429148

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Whitney, Janelle. KAYLA WILLIAMS' LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU AND THE NEGOTIATION OF THE FEMALE SOLDIER. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143429148.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Whitney, Janelle. "KAYLA WILLIAMS' LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU AND THE NEGOTIATION OF THE FEMALE SOLDIER." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143429148

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