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An Analysıs Of Cyclıcalıty In The Novels In The Lake Of The Woods By Tım O’brıen, S. By Jeffrey Jacob Abrams And Doug Dorst, And Only Revolutıons By Mark Z. Danıelewskı
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
Postmodern fiction brings forward those qualities that stray from a direct and clear
representation of the world. The qualities that are associated with postmodern fiction
such as metafiction, fragmentation, anti-autho ...
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Concept of Minor Literature in Ariel Dorfman's Heading South Looking North: A Bilingual Journey, Julia Alvarez's Something to Declare: Essays and Reinaldo Arenas's Before Night Falls
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
This study aims to examine Ariel Dorfman's Heading South Looking North: A Bilingual
Journey (1998), Julia Alvarez's Something to Declare: Essays (1998) and Reinaldo
Arenas's Before Night Falls (1993) within the framework ...
From The Slave Ship to the Spaceship: The Afrofuturistic Imagınation in Sun Ra, Ishmael Reed and Octavia E. Butler
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)
Centering on Sun Ra’s foundational role in the philosophy behind Afrofuturism, this thesis analyzes Sun Ra’s Space Is the Place (1974), the movie adaptation of his album Space Is the Place (1973), together with Ishmael ...
Disability and Family in Twenty-First Century American Drama
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-06-03)
This dissertation analyzes John Belluso’s Pyretown (2005), The Rules of Charity (2006), A Nervous Smile (2006), David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People (2011), Stephan Karam’s The Humans (2015), Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living ...
African American Existentialism in Harlem Renaissance Novels
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)
This thesis aims to examine the emergence of African American existential thought during the Harlem Renaissance as manifested in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker The Berry (1929), Langston ...
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 ...
African American Female Subjectivity, Class and Colorism in the Works of Jessie R. Fauset
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-05-23)
Centered around the notions of double consciousness, passing, colorism and social class, this thesis examines Jessie R. Fauset’s There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1929), The Chinaberry Tree: A ...
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 ...
The Great Depression in Twenty-first Century Southern Gothic Novels: Joe Lansdale’s The Bottoms, Ron Rash’s Serena, and Julia Franks’ Over the Plain Houses
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)
As a literary genre, Southern Gothic focuses on the major social, economic, racial and
gender role issues of the South in the twentieth century and the horrifying acts of violent
and perverted characters. Southern ...
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 ...