Browsing Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Bölümü by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The Local Food Movement in the Works of Three American Nature Writers: Wendell Berry, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Barbara Kingsolver
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)This thesis focuses on the importance of the local food movement that is an alternative solution against the destructive effects of industrial agriculture both for the environment and human beings. The main target of this ... -
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 ... -
“Where’s The All-Amerıcan Cowboy?”: The Demythologızatıon of Amerıcan Masculınıty in Cormac Mccarthy’s Western Novels
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)This dissertation analyzes Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (1985), All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998), and scrutinizes his portraits of ...