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Antiseptic Humor : Using Comedy To Confront Realities And Refute Stereotypes In The Works Of Sherman Alexie
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Sherman Alexie, a Native American author of poems, novels, plays, and film uses humor to expose and to explore lingering cultural stereotypes affecting people of Native American ancestry. These stereotypes often conflict ...
Bury Your Horses and Other Stories
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Bury Your Horses and Other Stories is a book-length collection of original short stories. The work is intended to be understood as a complete book as well as its individual stories. The work presents variations on the ...
A Blurry Outline and Other Stories
(East Carolina University, 2015)
A Blurry Outline and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories and three flash pieces. Family, friends and loss, primarily a daughter's loss of her mother, are the themes that bind these stories together. The ...
From Exclusion to Inclusion : -- A Shift in the Perception of Native and Asian Americans through Graphic Stories: A Comparison of Political Cartoons from the 1800s to Trickster, American Born Chinese, and Level Up
(East Carolina University, 2015)
By comparing political cartoons from the late 1800s to graphic novels published in the 21st century, one can trace the changes in social acceptance of Native and Asian Americans and examine the role tricksters hold in ...
GOTHIC REVOLUTIONS : Wilde's Ekphrastic Inheritance
(East Carolina University, 2015)
During the nineteenth century, scholars and writers in England developed a keen interest in the relationship between art and society, due in large part to growing social unrest in the working class. While Matthew Arnold, ...
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 ...
Imagining the Homeland : Myth, Movement, and Migration in Three Novels by Women from the African Diaspora
(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 ...
The Journal
(East Carolina University, 2015)
The Journal is the first of a two-part feature length screenplay about best friends, Raven and Isaac, and their journey to discover and understand their magical heritage while fighting to save the world from an ancient ...
The Things We Hear in the Nighttime & Other Stories
(East Carolina University, 2015)
THE THINGS WE HEAR IN THE NIGHTTIME & OTHER STORIES is a collection of five short stories and five pieces of flash fiction. The writing in the collection focuses on the ever-changing American identity of the 20th and 21st ...
"The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This thesis is a critical intervention in contemporary Thoreau scholarship. It argues against Ashton Nichols's application of his concept of "urbanature" to the writings and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's ...