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Mid-Atlantic Humanities Review, Volume 2 (2024)

Editor

Andrew B. Leiter

Managing Editor

Mackenzie Holmes

Spanish Language Editor

Rubén Varona

Associate Editors

Anna McKeta

Amelia Thompson

Katryn Yocum

Table of Contents

Myth and History in William Kennedy’s “Improbable City” of Albany, New York — Aaron Puerzer

Parlance and Personhood: The Absurd Use of Language in Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man — Dominick Philip

Healthcare Standard for Federal Prisoners: Examining the Eighth Amendment and Principle of Equivalence of Care — Francesca Jereis

Smashing the Borders of the Tawaghit: Islamic State (IS) Utilization of Apocalyptic Narratives to Subvert the Modern Nation-State — Katherine LaFond

Deified AI: The Relationship between Gods and Artificial Intelligence — Rachel Doherty

German Is (Not) Under Attack!: An Assessment of Gendersprache and Denglisch’s “Threat” to the German Language through a Historical Analysis of Linguistic Influences — Sidney Berger

Exilio: un desplazamiento forzado en El año que viene estamos en Cuba — Megan Gagnier

Heaven Outside the Church Walls: Depicting Heaven in Popular Culture through Contemporary Christian Album Covers — Anastasia Garvey

Chavela Vargas: Challenging Beyond the Music — Victoria Stracci

Exploitation Unveiled: The Sexual Exploitation of Enslaved African American Women in the Upper South in Nineteenth-Century America — Alexandra McNee

“Your Mother’s Gone Away to Join the Army”: The Militarization of the Women’s Suffrage Movement — Mackenzie Holmes

Finding Fairyland and the Isle of Man: Layered Cartographies in The Turke and Sir Gawain — Piper Farmer

Between Pretending and Reality: An Existential Exploration of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night — Cameron Antoniotti

Enslaved to the Cause: The Poor White Southerner’s Support for Slavery and Secession — Chris Bolland

Monstrous Children and the Society That Makes Them: Village of the Damned in Context — Becky Wisdom