Browsing Master's Theses by Author "Taylor, Richard C., 1956-"
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ACTING "WHITE": THE UNSPOKEN, UNDERSTOOD HIERARCHY OF BLACKNESS
Bishop, Courtnee Nicole (East Carolina University, 2020-01-09)This thesis will examine how a variety of extenuating factors serve to complicate a black person's self-identity, as well as determine acceptance or exclusion from the black community in the United States. The introductory ... -
Alienation and Ethnic Identities in "Growing Up Ethnic in America," "Borderlands/La Frontera," and "The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing"
Long, Brittany Ann (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 ... -
An Appetite for Metaphor : Food Imagery and Cultural Identity in Indian Fiction
Whitt, Jennifer Burcham (East Carolina University, 2011)Postmodern culture has been greatly influenced by food images and the usage of food as metaphor. Recent interest in food studies has opened doors in literary studies to examine how the use of food imagery and metaphor ... -
Building Cultural Competence Through Multicultural Fiction
Luckhardt, Jessica Keally (East Carolina University, 2010)Cultural competence is a set of skills which is gaining recent attention as a tool for navigating a diverse American society. This study examines the purposeful instruction of select multicultural literature which can aid ... -
The Causes of the Gordon Riots of 1780 : A Close Reading of Contemporary Accounts and Dickens's Barnaby Rudge
Faron, Katharine Marie (East Carolina University, 2010)Contemporary accounts of the Gordon Riots of 1780 are studied closely in order to ultimately determine how Dickens's use of these accounts in Barnaby Rudge reveals his view of the cause of the riots. Newspapers, political ... -
Changing the Game : A 21st-Century Perspective on the Use of the Supernatural in Multicultural Literatures
Williams, Jewel (East Carolina University, 2013)In this thesis, I attempt to present a new more modern perspective on the purpose of the literary supernatural. The use of the supernatural in literature has always been construed as a means of emphasizing forces outside ... -
Cotton, Rum, and Reason : Anti-Imperialist Poetry from 19th Century U.S. Newspapers and Post-Colonial Discourse
James, Joshua Nicholas (East Carolina University, 2013)Though American post-colonial criticism is by no means a field in need of literary material, one particular corpus is missing from the discussion. This thesis situates 19th century anti-imperialist poetry within the larger ... -
THE COUNTER-COLONIAL TRAVEL WRITING OF FANNY PARKES AND E.M. FORSTER
Snook, Amy Lynn (East Carolina University, 2010)During the colonial period in India, British travelers wrote various forms of travel writing texts, such as letters, diaries, travelogues, scientific or geographical exposés, and novels. Usually those texts reflected an ... -
"DARKNESS, DIRT, DEVIANCE"--AND DADDY : PATRILINEAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THE NEGOTIATION OF WOMANHOOD IN THE LITERATURE OF MIDDLE EASTERN AND ARAB-AMERICAN WOMEN
Benenhaley, Anne Z. (East Carolina University, 2015)This thesis explores both works of fiction and non-fiction through which several Middle Eastern and Arab-American women writers have rebelled against traditional religious and ethical standards of their cultures in order ... -
Dismantling the Center from the Margins : Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Women
Conwell, Joan (East Carolina University, 2011)This thesis explores the idea that transnational women writers are liminal figures: marginal as women, marginal as writers, and marginal as transnational personae "betwixt and between" nations. Authorial liminality provides ... -
Familial and Cultural Conflicts as Related to Identity: the 1.5 and Second Generation's Imperfect Records
Han, Joy (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 ... -
Finding Displacement through Incest in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath her Feet and Fury
Sinor, Katie (East Carolina University, 2014)Incest is a widespread theme in literature that continues to grow in frequency (Barnes 3). It is rarely addressed amongst scholars due to being a taboo topic, but in this thesis I aim to address it and analyze it thoroughly ... -
A Folkloric Study On Wide Sargasso Sea
Uzun, Esra (East Carolina University, 2011)This study aims to offer an alternative approach to analyze and understand literary texts through folklore. I focused on Jean Rhys's famous novel Wide Sargasso Sea, which has often been examined through a postcolonial ... -
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Debate Between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany
Holt, Melissa (East Carolina University, 2020-01-06)Martin Delany had different ideas about Uncle Tom's Cabin than did Frederick Douglass. Delany wrote his concerns in a series of letters that were published in Douglass' newspaper. Delany stated that Harriet Beecher Stowe ... -
Hungarian Identity : Constancy and Change in the Father Land, Mother Tongue, and Family Lines
Hardy, Paula (East Carolina University, 2014)The unique history and language of the Hungarian people have created a distinct cultural identity. Although this unusual identity can be a source of great pride, it also can lead to a sense of isolation and otherness. ... -
THE IMPACT OF BAL TASCHIT IN THE WRITINGS OF ANNE FRANK, PRIMO LEVI, AND ELIE WIESEL
Childres, Matthew Glenn (East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis focuses on how the Jewish tradition of Bal Taschit influenced the behavior and thoughts of prisoners during the Holocaust. The interaction with nature in Holocaust works indicates an adherence to this tradition ... -
JEWISH WOMEN AND THE SPECTER OF THE OLD WORLD IN JEWISH IMMIGRANT FICTION
Greer, Lena Basham (East Carolina University, 2015)This thesis examines three Jewish-American authors and how they portray the main female character in relation to the main male character to expand the research of gender discourse in literary analysis. There was a wave ... -
“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
Harvey, Olivia (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 ... -
MOHSIN HAMID AND THE NOVEL OF GLOBALIZATION
Scott, Bryant (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 ... -
Mohsin Hamid, Precarity, and the (Re)Education of Western Audiences in Post-9/11 West Asian Literature
Raggio, Ami Rogalski (East Carolina University, 2016-07-25)This thesis explores the idea that the theory of precarity, as found throughout Judith Butler's post-9/11 essays, makes a useful tool and criticism in analyzing Mohsin Hamid's post-9/11 work to discover that one of the ...