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Haunted and Haunting Heroines within Gothic Settings: Alienation, Madness, and the Uncanny in Shirley Jackson’s Female Gothic
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Known for her short story collection The Lottery and Other Stories (1948), the American author Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been an inspiration for subsequent Gothic-fantastic and horror fiction writers. This dissertation ... -
Healing in Nature: Ecopsychology in Richard Powers' The Overstory (2018) and Bewilderment
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-07)Richard Powers' novels, The Overstory (2018) and Bewilderment (2021), explore the psychological impacts of ecological degradation and restoration. The Overstory interweaves the lives of nine different characters brought ... -
Identities under Construction: Iraq War, Life Writing and American National Identity
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Life narratives, especially war narratives, are part of a nation s cultural history. These works have the potential to reinvigorate or outdate national narratives and the national identity promoted in them. Iraq War ... -
Jewish American Graphic Narratives: Landscapes, Stereotypes and Transformation in Will Eisner, Ben Katchor, Joe Kubert and Harvey Pekar
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Jewish American artists/writers Will Eisner’s The Contract with God Trilogy (A Contract With God 1978, A Life Force 1988, and Dropsie Avenue 1995), Ben Katchor’s The Jew of New York (1999), Joe Kubert’s Jew Gangster (2005), ... -
Kara Walker's Early Installations As Counter-Narratives To Uncle Tom's Cabin And Gone With The Wınd
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851) and Gone with the Wind (1936) still hold a prominant place in the American public memory. The first novel describes the immoral and unacceptable aspects of slavery in great length and is considered ... -
Loneliness, Isolation and Sexuality: The Portrayal of Adolescents in Carson McCullers' Short Fiction
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Southern literature underwent a renaissance between the 1920s and 40s when authors of the era created works in a new literary mode called Southern Gothic and used grotesque elements to dismantle the idols and values of ... -
Manifestations of Realism and Trauma in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Being exposed to centuries of settler colonial practices has had long-term effects on Native Americans. This thesis examines how Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), Reservation Blues ... -
Modern Individual in Search of His Demons: A Jungian Approach to the Selected Stories of H. P Lovecraft
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American science fiction, fantasy and horror writer who lived at a turbulent time, especially in the Western world. Influenced by both his time and writers such as Edgar Allan ... -
Novels of Social Activism: American Women Writers of the Interwar Years
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)In the United States, the interwar decades of the 1920s and 1930s represented the struggle between liberation and conservatism during the “Roaring Twenties” and the turbulent Great Depression. The postwar emphasis on ... -
Posthumanism and Precarity in the Post-2008 Crisis Science Fiction Novels: Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl, Cory Doctorow's Walkaway, and Annalee Newitz's Autonomous
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)This thesis analyzes three science fiction (SF) novels Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009), Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway (2017), and Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous (2017), through the concept of precarity as a shared ... -
Postmemory, Survivance, and Justice in Louise Erdrich's Justice Trilogy
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Native Americans carry along historical traumas as a result of a turbulent history defined by relocation, cultural deracination, and racial extermination. Scholars argue that many of the contemporary challenges such as ... -
Postmodern Space Revisited: Hypertextuality and Materiality in the Selected Novels of Mark Z. Danielewski, Steve Tomasula, and Lance Olsen
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-02-27)This dissertation explores the role of space and spatial practices in contemporary American fiction which are revealed through the use of postmodernist literary characteristics, hypertext, and materiality. In connection ... -
Quest for Identity in the Contemporary American Bildungsroman: Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, Alice Sebold’s the Lovely Bones, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud&Incredibly Close
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This thesis analyzes how the bildungsroman as a genre born in the 18th century in Germany, has evolved and become universalized throughout the historical journey it has undertaken, how partly overlapping but at times ... -
Representatıon of Symbolıc Battles in Amerıcan Football Fıctıon: Don Delıllo S End Zone, John Grısham S Bleachers And Dan Jenkıns Semı-Tough
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)The battle discourse in American football is used in literary works to address the controversies, conflicts and struggles that the American nation neglects or refrains from encountering. Don DeLillo, in End Zone (1972), ... -
Self and Power in the Presidential Life Writing of George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-09)This thesis analyzes of three US Presidents’ understandings of self and power as reflected in their life writing. The scope of this thesis is limited to the period between the years 1989-2009, during which George H. W. ... -
Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature: Richard Powers's Gain, Ann Pancake's Strange As This Weather Has Been and John Grısham's Gray Mountain
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-12-13)Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, published in 2011, has undertaken an important mission in the Environmental Humanities; Nixon coined the term “slow violence” for the hitherto unnamed ... -
Stigmatized Faces And Identities In Cecile Pineda’s Face And Ariel Dorfman’s Mascara
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-03)In this study, the major characters in Cecile Pineda’s Face and Ariel Dorfman’s Mascara who are excluded from their social environment because of their facial disfigurement are analyzed within the framework of Erving ... -
The (Re)Construction of the Image of "the Turk" in America, 1863-1963
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)This study delves into the history of transatlantic relations between the United States and Turkey by foregrounding the function of literary texts in the conduct of diplomacy. It highlights the role that individuals and ... -
The Chinese American and Japanese American Experience in Graphic Novels and Visual Narratives
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)The place of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants in America has always been in flux, ever-changing and always in competition with one another. When one group was sidelined, the other was favored. This thesis argues that ... -
The Conflict in the Middle East and the Concept of Exile as Reflected in Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning, The Beekeeper, and Look: Poems
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022-02-11)The theme of exile has been present in literature from its very beginning. Today, the notions of global migration and refugees are more urgent and relevant than they have ever been. As of the end of 2021, more than 80 ...