Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Author "English"
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Postcolonial African American Female Writers and their Three-Way battle against Imperialism, Canonization, and Sexism : Developing a New Multicultural Feminism
Lewis, Damion O. (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 in Belief: A Folkloric Study of the Female Psychic Community & Access to Power
Mathews, Holly R.M (East Carolina University, 2019-08-14)The ways in which women are denied access to power by societal and religious organizations serves as a significant focal point in academic research. Entities that seem to evade patriarchal influence offer females the best ... -
Practical Pedagogy for the Use of Filmic Adaptations of Canonical Texts
Smith, Virginia Lang (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 ... -
Pragmatic Feminist Empiricism: An Original Analytical Framework for Technical Communication
Baker, Alana F. (East Carolina University, 2017-04-19)Focusing on issues of embodiment and power in technical communication specifically through visual discourses of health and medicine created through data, the research is an introduction to an original methodology called ... -
Queering the Writing Center: Shame, Attraction, and Gay Male Identity
Rose, Rexford (East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)In this thesis, the author presents analysis of interviews with 7 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) writing center consultants presented through the analytical frameworks of queer and affect theory. ... -
Quietus
Hicks, Jimmy (East Carolina University, 2015)Quietus is a collection of three short stories dealing with themes of corruption, death, and loss. There are elements of psychological horror at play with the occasional emergence of humor, whether it is lighthearted or ... -
RACIAL MINORITY LEARNERS: AN EXPLORATION OF PERCEPTIONS AMONG EDUCATORS OF COLOR
Atkinson, LaKela C (East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)Traditionally exclusive to dominant groups (whites/Caucasians), higher education institutions continue to inequitably serve people of color. Therefore, these institutions do not always allow opportunities for racial minority ... -
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
Darden, Jeanette (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 ... -
Reading the Writing of the Wall: The Israeli Security Fence/Palestinian Apartheid Wall as Semiotic Text
Holt, R. Chad (East Carolina University, 2017-05-04)Using theoretical perspectives drawn from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and visual rhetoric, this study examines how the symbolic meaning of two structures, Bethlehem Checkpoint 300 and the Israeli Anti-Terrorism ... -
Reading Through Madness: A Narrative Comparison of Plath and Hornbacher
Knott, Sophronia (East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)This thesis will compare the private journals of Sylvia Plath to the memoirs of Marya Hornbacher, tracing the similarities in rhetorical language between the two narratives. The similarities between the two authors show ... -
REAL PEOPLE WITH HOLLYWOOD STORIES : A COLLECTION OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
Sneed, Brandon (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 ... -
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 ... -
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
Aube, Sean Arthur Alfred (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
Brantley, Michael (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
French, Kellie J. (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 ... -
RENEWING MAORITANGA : ECOLOGICAL HEALING FOR A POSTCOLONIAL WORLD IN KERI HULME'S THE BONE PEOPLE, WITI IHIMAERA'S THE WHALE RIDER, AND PATRICIA GRACE'S POTIKI
Canfield, Michele (East Carolina University, 2011)This project concerns three novels written during the Maori Renaissance--a time of renewal and resurgence for the indigenous people of New Zealand. Keri Hulme's The Bone People (1983), Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider (1987) ... -
RENOVATION
Rogers, Margaret (East Carolina University, 2011)This creative thesis consists of the beginning of a novel and sections that will be used in the creation of a whole narrative. RENOVATION is a story of several characters' experiences in the surrounding areas of the same ... -
REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN CHARACTERS IN STEPHENIE MEYER'S TWILIGHT SAGA
Pearson, Jennifer (East Carolina University, 2011)This thesis looks at Native American portrayals in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. How the Quileute people are portrayed in the series affects readers' perception of the real Quileute tribe. I argue that while ... -
Restorative Erotica : "Let the Friend, and the Lover Be Handsomely Mixed"
Holton-Johnson, Ruth Anne (East Carolina University, 2012)Lady Mary Wortley Montagu expected the people of Imperial Britain to respect her choices and her true identity, but because they didn't she was forced into the arms of another country, and furthermore women of other ... -
The Rhetorical Challenge of Whiteness within Blackboard for African American Bidialectal Students at Elizabeth City State University
Chambers, Mary-Lynn (East Carolina University, 2013)This research will attempt to discover if there is a rhetorical challenge due to whiteness within Elizabeth City State University's (ECSU) Blackboard (Bb) online education system when it is utilized by African American ...