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" “Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run” "
McGinnis, Ethan Philip
Jackson, Jesse C.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1107071
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TLpq2428576675
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Jackson, Jesse C.
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McGinnis, Ethan Philip
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“Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run”\ McGinnis, Ethan PhilipJackson, Jesse C.
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University of California, Irvine
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2020
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2020
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M.F.A.
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49
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This essay is comprised of three separate but interconnected sections, each working through at a different level the history of how Southern Illinois came to be called Egypt, and the implications of such a regional nicknaming. In the first, I consider the history of the moniker along with histories of the region through critical discussions of religion, race, and nineteenth century American Egyptomania. In the second, I retrace two cataclysmic events which occurred in Cairo, Illinois, and suggestively implicate by proximity Southern Illinois’ overidentification with Egypt. Finally, I recount and reconsider my own relation to the region and to its history and folklore, and describe my thesis exhibition, which has not yet been mounted due to COVID-19.
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American studies
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COVID-19
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Fine arts
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Folklore
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