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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 ... -
Postmemory, Survivance, and Justice in Louise Erdrich's Justice Trilogy
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Native Americans carry along historical traumas as a result of a turbulent history defined by relocation, cultural deracination, and racial extermination. Scholars argue that many of the contemporary challenges such as ... -
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. ... -
Healing in Nature: Ecopsychology in Richard Powers' The Overstory (2018) and Bewilderment
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-07)Richard Powers' novels, The Overstory (2018) and Bewilderment (2021), explore the psychological impacts of ecological degradation and restoration. The Overstory interweaves the lives of nine different characters brought ... -
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 ... -
Manifestations of Realism and Trauma in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Being exposed to centuries of settler colonial practices has had long-term effects on Native Americans. This thesis examines how Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), Reservation Blues ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Kara Walker's Early Installations As Counter-Narratives To Uncle Tom's Cabin And Gone With The Wınd
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851) and Gone with the Wind (1936) still hold a prominant place in the American public memory. The first novel describes the immoral and unacceptable aspects of slavery in great length and is considered ... -
Posthumanism and Precarity in the Post-2008 Crisis Science Fiction Novels: Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl, Cory Doctorow's Walkaway, and Annalee Newitz's Autonomous
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)This thesis analyzes three science fiction (SF) novels Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009), Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway (2017), and Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous (2017), through the concept of precarity as a shared ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ...
