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Fact, Fiction, Fact-in-Fiction: Gore Vidal’s Historiographic Metafictions in the Narratives of Empire
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)
The conceptualization of history has influenced historical novels and historiographie metafiction, which focus on history as their subject matters. Although these two literary forms seem similar, they are radically different ...
American Prime-Time Monsters: An Analysis of the Gothic Other in True Detective, American Horror Story: Coven and True Blood
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)
Throughout the history of their nation, Americans have always been preoccupied with defining what it means to be an American. The contemporary socio-political scene in America is still informed by this question whose urgency ...
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 ...
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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Search for Identity and Individuation Process: The Female Hero’s Questin Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuanand Tehanu
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
This thesis analyzes the concept of quest and individuation process with regards to the female hero in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan and Tehanu. The female hero and her quest is examined under the light of Campbell’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
