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Meeting the Madwomen : Mental Illness in Women in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Hijuelos's Our House in the Last World, and Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban
(East Carolina University, 2012)This study seeks to examine the character of the madwoman in Caribbean literature in three novels: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Oscar Hijuelos's Our House in the Last World, and Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban. Four ... -
The Melancholic Subject : Exploring Loss and Relationships in African American and Asian American Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2014)The goal of this thesis is to closely examine the psychological effects of oppression for both African Americans and Asian Americans. The fiction created by writers of these ethnic groups and the characters they create ... -
The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature
(East Carolina University, 2012)The authors Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Randall Kenan create a authentic listener experience through the use of literary features that mimic oral tradition in African American culture. The "authentic listener ... -
MOHSIN HAMID AND THE NOVEL OF GLOBALIZATION
(East Carolina University, 2014)With the rise of globalization, people and cultures are interconnected economically, culturally, and socially like never before. Where nationalism defined much of the modern period, defining how people formed social bonds ... -
The "Most Accurate, Least Factual" Writer : Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
(East Carolina University, 2010)New Journalism, as practiced by Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and other writers, loosened the accepted bounds of journalism in the 1960s. Embracing these unrestricted journalism practices, Hunter S. Thompson adapted the New ... -
Moving a Lighthouse : Cape Hatteras
(East Carolina University, 2010)Moving a Lighthouse is a collection of poems that focuses on the evolution of coastal fishing villages. This collection discusses the changing way of life on Hatteras Island. -
Multiculturalism as an Alternative to Nihilism in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners
(East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis analyzes how internal oppression, or nihilism, has emerged amongst many of the Caricom community. It focuses on the history of colonialism and the psychological destruction it has left across the Caribbean. ... -
Narrative, Identity, and Sense of Place Discourse : Woman's Club of Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1906-1912
(East Carolina University, 2012)This dissertation analyzes the discourse (the narratives) used by members of the Woman's Club of Fayetteville in Fayetteville, North Carolina, from 1906 through 1912, as they (1) saved the Market House from destruction and ... -
New Gnostic Gospels
(East Carolina University, 2013)Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick's quest for God becomes a binding theme in many of his works, including VALIS and The Divine Invasion, two of his final three novels. Together, these two novels, combined with his ... -
One Day Your Ship Will Come In
(East Carolina University, 2012)My thesis is called One Day Your Ship Will Come In and consists of several pieces of fiction. The setting of most of these pieces is deliberately vague for aesthetic reasons, but any reader inclined to investigate can ... -
One Love : Collective Consciousness in Rap and Poetry of the Hip-Hop Generation
(East Carolina University, 2012)This study aims to offer an understanding of hip-hop culture through which three concepts are elucidated: (1) the existence and dimensions of a collective consciousness within rap and poetry of the hip-hop generation ... -
Persons of Interest : Mentoring Relationships in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Maria: Or, The Wrongs of Woman and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
(East Carolina University, 2014)My thesis sets a focus on mentorship and the effects it has on literary characters, mainly female characters. Mentorship does not receive much focus from literary critics, despite its power and ability to help a mentee ... -
Postcolonial African American Female Writers and their Three-Way battle against Imperialism, Canonization, and Sexism : Developing a New Multicultural Feminism
(East Carolina University, 2010)Female writers continue to remind us of the differences between themselves and males and the separate struggles they face. For a woman, the task of liberation through writing must include also a thrash against the ... -
Power and Place : A Case Study Approach to Rethinking Crisis Communication
(East Carolina University, 2010)This dissertation examines a 2003 explosion at a pharmaceutical plant in Kinston, North Carolina against the framework of both crisis communication theory and critical discourse analysis theory. In the wake of the explosion, ... -
Practical Pedagogy for the Use of Filmic Adaptations of Canonical Texts
(East Carolina University, 2010)The following study is dedicated to the practical usage of filmic adaptations in the academic setting; more specifically, I explore the usage of adaptations based on The Scarlet Letter and how they can be integrated into ... -
A Rationale for the African American Man's Destruction in Alice Walker's Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
(East Carolina University, 2012)The African American man is destroyed physically or psychologically in many literary works because he is disliked and/or because of choices he makes. What is intriguing is that African American women writers Zora Neale ... -
REAL PEOPLE WITH HOLLYWOOD STORIES : A COLLECTION OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
(East Carolina University, 2012)"Real People With Hollywood Stories" is a collection of creative journalism stories I've written to fulfill the requirements of the M.A. in English with a concentration in creative nonfiction. These are stories I discovered ... -
Reimagining Hank Morgan and Billy Pilgrim as American Anti-Heroes : The Dystopian Satire of Mark Twain's A Connecticit Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
(East Carolina University, 2011)Many critics have noticed the ties linking the satirical novels of Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut. This is not surprising as Twain's influence on Vonnegut's work is virtually inescapable. However, thus far critics have not ... -
Remembering Corporal J.Y. Joyner : An Historical Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2012)This is a creative nonfiction narrative about the farm life and military service of a Nash County resident, J.Y. Joyner. This narrative will be a combination of real-life facts, reality-based situations and settings derived ... -
Remembering, Eating, Cooking, and Sharing : Identity Constructing Activities in Ethnic American First-Person Food Writings
(East Carolina University, 2014)During the past couple of decades, the topic of food and identity has become the subject of increased academic inquiry and scholarly pursuit. However, despite this increased attention, it is still more common to find ...