Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature"
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Alienation and Ethnic Identities in "Growing Up Ethnic in America," "Borderlands/La Frontera," and "The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing"
(East Carolina University, 2015)This thesis examines the concept of alienation during adolescence as an influential factor in ethnic identity development. The negative effects of alienation are frequently explored, but I argue experiences concerning ... -
Between the Reservation and Me: Race Identity in the Works of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sherman Alexie
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)I will be analyzing the works of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sherman Alexie, primarily as these works relate to how both authors tackle the issue of racial identity, as well its affect on their writing. In order to accommodate ... -
Between Two Worlds: Mixed-Race Ostracism by the Minority Group in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Matt De La Peña’s Mexican Whiteboy, and Heidi Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
(East Carolina University, 2018-11-27)In the three texts that will be discussed, the authors chose young protagonists who come to terms with the contradictions their background creates. In some ways, each of the novels presents the idea of mixed-race as being ... -
CONSUMING STORIES: FOOD, MIGRATION, AND IDENTITY IN LATINX LITERATURE
(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 ... -
CULTURAL HAUNTINGS: TRANSCENDING GHOSTS, SPIRITS AND LITERARY GENRES
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-11)This thesis explores the cultural haunting genre by examining works by LeAnne Howe, Li-Young Lee, and Monique Truong. This project looks to further define and expand the cultural haunting genre to include all of the cultural ... -
Familial and Cultural Conflicts as Related to Identity: the 1.5 and Second Generation's Imperfect Records
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-24)The bicultural struggles of the 1.5 and second generation characters in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban, Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and David Wong Louie's The Barbarians Are Coming are ... -
Interracial/intergender versus Intra-racial/intragender Antagonism in Postcolonial Literature
(East Carolina University, 2021-06-22)Though postcolonial literature affirms what the oppressed have endured, not much scholarship, past or present, has addressed the infighting that people of the same kind have historically and continuously engaged in. Kind, ... -
“LIFE HUNG ON A WORD”: SHIBBOLETHS AND GENOCIDE IN DANTICAT’S THE FARMING OF BONES, WIESEL’S NIGHT, AND COURTEMANCHE’S A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-14)This thesis explores how shibboleths, or cultural passwords, function as markers to signify identity and group membership status among coexisting ethnic groups. Specifically, shibboleths are critical for identity detection ... -
Necessary Absence: Familial Distance and the Adult Immigrant Child in Korean American Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-25)In the novels Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee, The Interpreter by Suki Kim, and Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, adult immigrant children feature as protagonists and experience moments of life-defining difficulty ... -
Overcoming Marginalization and Discovering Identity through Literacy in Representative Works of Multi-Ethnic Literature
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-14)In a study of multicultural literature, the dominance of ignorance and prejudice in propagating and perpetuating oppression and marginalization of others is all too common, as is the denial or suppression of the identity ... -
Searching for the Black Woman’s Identity in Alice Walker’s Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-19)This thesis explores the role literature written by African American women has in identity development and the dispelling of society--driven stereotypes. This includes the examination of the way the passing of knowledge ... -
The Sum of Our Parts: Race, Blood, and Genetics in Three Dystopian Young Adult Novels
(East Carolina University, 2016-06-23)In the last decade, the young adult genre subset of speculative fiction has experienced growth in both publication and popularity. As the breadth of the genre has increased, more multicultural authors and characters have ... -
There’s No Place like Aztlán: The Quest for Queer Homeland through Re-visionism in Chicana Feminist Autohistorias
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-02)In this thesis, I explore how authors Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Helena María Viramontes, Ana Castillo, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Sandra Cisneros, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Carla Trujillo and Felicia Luna Lemus represent ...