Kill Your Darlings: The Afterlives of Pepe The Frog, Sherlock Holmes, and Jim Crow
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- 2018-01-01
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This thesis works to establish a literary theory and cultural studies as a theoretical lens with which we can view harmful emerging pop culture phenomena like the so-called alt right. The premise is supposed in three parts, with the first being a simple introduction to the Pepe character and how he is grounded in literary studies through a comparison of Sherlock Holmes and his early fandom. The second part is a survey of the legacy of Jim Crow and I present the evidence that Pepe is very much Crow’s spiritual successor in their shared preoccupation with white anxiety. The third is a discussion of language in which I bridge the use of memes as language with how that language effectively communicates. Ultimately, Pepe the Frog is able to tap into the pop culture collective through a democratizing of language facilitated by digital spaces on the internet, and his proliferation is made readily viral by the racist language he speaks through ala Jim Crow era anxieties.
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Sardinas, Allison E
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- Florida International University Libraries
- Subjects
- Critical Race Theory
Pepe the Frog
Jim Crow
Memes
Cultural Studies
African American Studies
American Popular Culture
American Studies
Arts and Humanities
English Language and Literature
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Visual Studies
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- Sardinas, Allison E. Kill Your Darlings: The Afterlives of Pepe The Frog, Sherlock Holmes, and Jim Crow. 2018-01-01. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3660. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- Sardinas, Allison E, (2018-01-01) Kill Your Darlings: The Afterlives of Pepe The Frog, Sherlock Holmes, and Jim Crow. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3660
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- Sardinas, Allison E. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3660>.