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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Haunted and Haunting Heroines within Gothic Settings: Alienation, Madness, and the Uncanny in Shirley Jackson’s Female Gothic
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Known for her short story collection The Lottery and Other Stories (1948), the American author Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been an inspiration for subsequent Gothic-fantastic and horror fiction writers. This dissertation ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Loneliness, Isolation and Sexuality: The Portrayal of Adolescents in Carson McCullers' Short Fiction
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)Southern literature underwent a renaissance between the 1920s and 40s when authors of the era created works in a new literary mode called Southern Gothic and used grotesque elements to dismantle the idols and values of ... -
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 ...
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