Browsing by Author "Gueye, Marame"
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80 Years of "the Orient": Re-Mapping the Trajectory of American Orientalism in the Wake of COVID-19
Sehnal, Tyler (East Carolina University, 2021-12-02)Months after the unofficial "start" of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the spread of hashtags like #StopAsianHate and #StopAsianViolence perpetuated the ludicrous notion that a subsequent uptick in anti-Asian violence ... -
Beyond Their Control : The Disempowerment of Women in Middle Eastern and African Literature
Sinclair, Tara Jernigan (East Carolina University, 2012)The disempowerment of women involves factors that influence every aspect of their lives, birthing deep oppression, victimization, and sometimes violence. Fadia Faqir's Pillars of Salt explores two Muslim women whose ... -
Breaking the chains of colonial Christianity : origins and purposes of weaponized Chrisitianity in postcolonial literature
McMillion, Jamal Laruba (East Carolina University, 2022-07-20)In this thesis, I examine how weaponized colonial Christianity was the most effective means of Black subordination, and I assert that weaponized colonial Christianity gave license to Europeans to chronologically invade ... -
BREAKING THE CHAINS OF COLONIAL CHRISTIANITY: ORIGINS AND PURPOSES OF WEAPONIZED CHRISITIANITY IN POSTCOLONIAL
McMillion, Jamal L (East Carolina University, 2022-07-20)In this thesis, I examine how weaponized colonial Christianity was the most effective means of Black subordination, and I assert that weaponized colonial Christianity gave license to Europeans to chronologically invade ... -
CHICANA POETRY OF RESISTANCE: GALVÁN RODRÍGUEZ EXTENDING THE MESTIZA CONSCIOUSNESS AND ENCOURAGING POLITICAL ACTIVISM THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
Crevar, Nicole (East Carolina University, 2018-04-24)This thesis presents an analysis of Chicana poetry of resistance by poet and activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez. Specifically, I examine three poems--"Geographic Dreaming or What it Means to be Chicana," "Collecting Thoughts ... -
CONSUMING STORIES: FOOD, MIGRATION, AND IDENTITY IN LATINX LITERATURE
Korrow, Kaysha T (East Carolina University, 2021-07-26)The food we consume says a great deal about who we are. Our culture, beliefs, values, and family history join us every night around the dinner table, guiding our culinary choices. However, food also carries stories that ... -
Imagining the Homeland : Myth, Movement, and Migration in Three Novels by Women from the African Diaspora
Nosalek, Kevin (East Carolina University, 2015)For immigrant authors of African descent, the impact of postnationalism and the continued subjugation of their native cultures through neocolonialism focuses the writers' pens on subjects of dispersal, either forced or ... -
POLITICS OF THE (TEXTUAL) BODY : EMBODIED ISSUES OF GENDER AND POWER IN AIDOO'S CHANGES: A LOVE STORY, FAQIR'S PILLARS OF SALT, AND WINTERSON'S WRITTEN ON THE BODY
Jones, Jessica Lynn (East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis explores the literary manifestation of patriarchal embodiment in several multicultural novels: Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story, Fadia Faqir's Pillars of Salt, and Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body. ... -
Redefining the Postcolonial Identity Through the Deconstruction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels
Martin, Shauna Ferguson (East Carolina University, 2015-12-10)In her 2009 TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains that when one group is defined by one story, they are reduced to one-dimensional caricatures; they are objectified. The danger in a ... -
Women's Rights and Religious Bias in Dystopian Speculative Fiction: A Closer Look at Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God and Christina Dalcher’s Vox
Macomber, Kelli D (East Carolina University, 2022-04-27)Speculative fiction provides a perfect vehicle to examine the state of women's rights. Through the Intersectional Feminist lens, I consider the speculative projections within Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God ...