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A Journey into the Depths: the New Mestiza Consciousness in the Life Writings of Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)Chicana authors Cherríe Moraga s and Gloria Anzaldúa s works entitled Loving in theWar Years and Borderlands La Frontera can be studied under the umbrella term lifewriting, since both works articulate third-wave feminist ... -
Acting Out Black “Mask-ulinity”: Male Struggles for Identity in Three Plays by August Wilson
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)In the framework of the relevant theories or concepts related to the performativity of black masculinity, this thesis analyzes the performance crisis observed among black males in Wilson s canon. As a collection of roles ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An Affective Ecocritical Approach to Carl Safina’s Marine Narratives: Song for the Blue Ocean, Voyage of the Turtle, and A Sea in Flames
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Since its inception, the study of literature and the environment has focused on the key connection between nature, emotions, and narratives, particularly how environmental narratives evoke feelings about the natural world. ... -
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 ... -
Clımate Change And Ecologıcal Economıcs In Kım Stanley Robınson’s Forty Sıgns Of Raın, New York 2140, And The Mınıstry For The Future
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022-06)American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson depicts the devastating impact of neoliberal capitalism on climate change in his novels Forty Signs of Rain (2004), New York 2140 (2017), and The Ministry for the Future ... -
Community Building in Toni Morrison's Novels: Love, A Mercy, Home and God Help the Child
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-07-18)This thesis will focus on building and maintaining communities in Toni Morrison's works published after 2000, which are Love (2003), A Mercy (2008), Home (2012), and God Help the Child (2015). These novels explore the ... -
Desiring Machines/Bodies without Organs: The Concept of Body in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Choke
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This thesis analyzes the concept of body and its relation to "desire" in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (1996), Invisible Monsters (1999) and Choke (2001). The three characters, the Narrator, Shannon and Victor respectively ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Feminist Activist Politics And Sisterhood In The Life Narratives Of Audre Lorde And June Jordan
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)İlimen, Ezgi. Feminist Activist Politics and Sisterhood in the Life Narratives of Audre Lorde and June Jordan, Master’s Thesis. Ankara, 2017. African American feminist writers Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name ... -
Forward to the Past: Narratives of Violence and Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer's Novels
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Each of Jonathan Safran Foer’s three novels, discussed in this thesis, depicts the aftermath of a massive violent event and its effect on the life of an individual. In many respects, Foer creates a collage of historical ... -
From Superiority to Equality?: Men'S Voices in Wendy Wasserstein'S Plays
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)This thesis will focus on Wasserstein’s social commentary through drama and will explore the role of men in terms of their relationships with women through six Wasserstein plays. Moreover, this thesis will examine how ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...