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Welcome to the Fun Box
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)Welcome to the Fun Box by Kelly P. Miller Graduation December, 2020 Director of Thesis: Luke Whisnant Major Department: English As my focus in English is creative writing, my intent for my thesis is fiction work. To be ... -
Sexual Violence Against the Outsiders of Society in The Round House, Bitter in the Mouth, and The Color Purple
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)This thesis will examine why the outsiders to society are more susceptible to violence, particularly sexual violence. America has been led predominantly by white males, white males who have oppressed individuals who do not ... -
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 ... -
Superhero Influences: Connotations and Cultural Codes in Comic Book Culture
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)This thesis examines the role and representation of the superhero in establishing socio-political ideology through connotations and cultural codes. Beginning with an analysis of some of the earliest images of Superman and ... -
GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)My dissertation proffers genre fluidity as a term to describe the rhetorical acts of shifting across and moving among genre conventions by blending and/or transgressing genre boundaries. Genre fluidity is defined as two ... -
LOVE IN POSTCOLONIAL TIMES: EXPLORING ECHOES OF C.S. LEWIS’ FOUR LOVES IN SELECTED WORKS BY DEREK WALCOTT, V.S. NAIPAUL, TONI MORRISON, AND PABLO NERUDA
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)This thesis explores the universal theme of love, as analyzed by C.S. Lewis in his classical essay The Four Loves. In the course of this literary quest, selected literary works of four laureates of Nobel Prize in literature ... -
WITHIN THE RESTLESS WAKE OF TRAUMA: ORIGINS AND PURPOSES OF HAUNTINGS IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)In this thesis, I have delved more deeply into a research paper I wrote for Dr. Seodial Frank H. Deena's graduate course in Caribbean Literature. I have extended my research by providing deeper historical background of the ... -
“IMAGINARY LINES”: CROSSING BORDERS IN LESLIE MARMON SILKO’S ALMANAC OF THE DEAD AND GARDENS IN THE DUNES
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Applying Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands Theory to Leslie Marmon Silko's novels Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes shows how Silko's inclusion of borders and border crossings in her writing highlights the history ... -
Glass Kingdom
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)Glass Kingdom is a collection of short stories, running the gamut of literary to speculative fiction. An overarching theme is inherent fragility, whether it is in a human life or a tyrannical government. These fragile ... -
RURALITY
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)Rurality is a collection of short fiction that seeks to explore the unique lives of characters in rural areas. The stories display the ways in which characters engage moral codes and challenges, while remaining in pursuit ... -
QUEERING WITCHES: A QUEER FEMINIST EXPLORATION OF WITCHES IN MEDIA
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)This thesis is an exploration of witches, as depicted in entertainment media. "Queering Witches: A Queer Feminist Exploration of Witches in Media" analyzes the way history has contributed to the reinforcement of stereotypes ... -
Ghost Whispers: Physical Memory and the Self in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex director Kenji Kamiyama tells the story of Motoko Kusanagi, a young woman who has inhabited a prosthetic body from the age of six. Through her life and the lives of her team, ... -
SUPPORTING TEACHER-WRITERS ENGAGEMENT WITH TROUBLESOME KNOWLEDGE: EVIDENCE OF TRANSFER IN WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)Writing Across the Curriculum has typically been discussed in terms of curricular or pedagogical transformation. While it helped to transform teaching from lecture-centered classrooms into more student-centered pedagogies, ... -
Recreating Spenser: The Irish Castle of an English Poet
(2020-06-23)This iBook showcases illustrations and subject matter taken directly from the website Centering Spenser: a digital resource for Kilcolman Castle, an ongoing open-access digital humanities project based at East Carolina ... -
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Debate Between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany
(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 ... -
Anything is Possible
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)Love is like an Ironman Triathlon - filled with highs and lows, way longer and tougher than a marathon and a hundred and fourteen times more worth it. Henry and Allison clicked from the moment they met in the TV newsroom ... -
The Transformation of the South as Presented in the Literature of Southern African American Women: Harriet Jacobs, Octavia Rogers, and Zora Neale Hurston
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-23)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, The House of Bondage (1890) by Octavia Rogers Albert, and Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston provide accounts of historical time ... -
"You Have Herpes. Now What?": Stigma in Healthcare Systems and Disclosure Rhetorics
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-12)Cultural beliefs about sexually transmitted infections, and herpes specifically, are rhetorically constructed and, crucially, the medical realities of such conditions do not often align with the socially constructed ones. ... -
Power in Belief: A Folkloric Study of the Female Psychic Community & Access to Power
(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 ... -
“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 ...