Browsing Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Bölümü by Title
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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
By Women, for Women, about Women: Social Novels of the Progressive Era, 1900–1920
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Between 1900 and 1920, Progressive social activist women wrote novels that depicted female characters who struggled with the cult of domesticity and “New Womanhood,” and who fought for social issues such as conservation, ... -
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 ... -
Designs Of Devices: The Vacuum Aspirator And American Abortion Technology
(Editorial Univ Granada, 2008)In 1965, 71% of legal abortions in the United States were performed using the surgical procedure of dilation and curettage. By 1972, a mere seven years later, approximately the same percentage (72.6%) of legal abortions ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Food, Identity and Black Masculinity in African American Chef Memoirs Written in the Twenty-First Century
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)This dissertation analyzes Jeff Henderson’s Cooked: My Journey from Streets to the Stove (2008), Marcus Samuelsson’s Yes, Chef (2012), Michael Twitty’s The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History ... -
For The Health Of The Sea: In Search Of An Expansive "Land Ethic" In Turkish Maritime Literature
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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 ...