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A Study of Magical Realism in Steven Millhauser’s, Aimee Bender’s, Kelly Link’s, and Kevin Brockmeıer’s Short Stories
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021-08-18)
This dissertation analyzes Steven Millhauser’s, Aimee Bender’s, Kelly Link’s, and Kevin Brockmeier’s short stories in the light of magical realism. The short stories use magical realist and postmodern elements to create ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
