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Female Coded Artificial Beings In Selected American Science Fiction Films, 1960s-2000s
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-07-18)
This thesis is an analysis of depictions of “female coded” (being assigned gender traits
even in the absence of a biological sex) artificial beings in Norman Taurog’s Dr.
Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), Duncan ...
Echoes of The Harlem Renaissance: Urban Landscape and Jazz Musıc In Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Walter Dean Myers’s Harlem Summer and Persia Walker’s Black Orchid Blues
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
The Great Migration of the 1910s in the US resulted in a concentration of African American population in the North, which gave way to a considerable demographical change that took place especially in Harlem, New York. The ...
American Radical Environmental Fiction: Deep Ecology and Eco-Defense in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, Paul Chadwick's Concrete: Think like a Mountain, and T.C. Boyle's A Friend of The Earth
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
The fictional works of American authors Edward Abbey, Paul Chadwick, and T.C. Boyle present a reaction principally to the depletion of the wilderness, destruction of the land, and other environmental ills. Edward Abbey’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
