WR: Journal of the CAS Writing Program
Issue 9, 2016–2017
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Jason Tandon
WR 098 Essay
Identity Crisis
Sofia Konstantinidou
WR 100 Essays
Reflections of Butler’s Female Gender and Sexual Performativity in Vonnegut
Prize Essay Award
Lauren Higgins
An Exploration of Chekhov’s Tangible World
Sandya Kola
Redefining Womanhood: Behind a Mask and “A Warrior’s Daughter”
Prize Essay Award
Ai Hue Nguyen
Minstrelsy and Brechtian Epic Theater: An Analysis of Satire
James Robson
WR 150 Essays
Hwa-Byung: The ‘Han’ Blessed Illness
Prize Essay Award
Wooyoung Cho
Sylvia Plath: The Dialogue Between Poetry and Painting
Molly Doomchin
Japanese Ninhonjinron and 1890s American Social Darwinism: Looking to the Past for a Solution to Japan’s Vicious Cycle of Homogeneity
Prize Essay Award
David (Ta-Wei) Huang
Meditations in N Dimensions: The Waste Land, The Four Quartets, and Eliot’s Inquiry into the Restrictive Nature of Time
Sheila Sagear
The Grim Reality Hidden Beneath Freshkills Park’s Bright Facade
Katherine Thompson
All Hammed Up: How Hamilton: An American Musical Addresses Post-Racial Beliefs
Kylie Umehira