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  • 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 ...
  • Coyotes Sang the Braid Into Her Hair 

    Everett, Olivia, D. (East Carolina University, 2010)
    A chapbook length collection of lyric poetry that explores the myth-making process through the tension of opposites: the nature of the substantive (body) and the ephemeral (mind), the wild vs. the tame self, the rational ...
  • Cross-cultural Online Learning in Technical Communication Courses: Aiming for Intercultural Competence 

    Pennell, Therese Indira (East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
    Teaching online in cross-cultural contexts is still a fairly new phenomenon. My research explores the impact of culture on the learners and instructors in four technical communication online courses. My study uses a ...
  • CULTURAL HAUNTINGS: TRANSCENDING GHOSTS, SPIRITS AND LITERARY GENRES 

    Rudd, Michael (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 ...
  • Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and the Story of the Catawba Nation 

    Fortner, Jefferson Locke (East Carolina University, 2012)
    The Catawba Indians, in order to maintain their own identity as an "other" culture, utilized a course of acceptance and collaboration with the Euro-American majority that came to surround them, while ultimately developing ...
  • CULTURAL TARGETING OF BREASTFEEDING DISCOURSE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN 

    Hisle, Melissa Place (East Carolina University, 2012)
    This dissertation explores cultural factors that may influence African American women's breastfeeding choices and experiences as well as how those developing breastfeeding discourse for African American women target this ...
  • A CYCLE OF CONTROL : WOMEN'S IDENTITY LOSS THROUGH COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA 

    Mercer-Bourne, Laura Maegan (East Carolina University, 2013)
    Through analysis of Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid, and Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell this thesis explores women's loss of identity through colonialism and ways in ...
  • "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 ...
  • Darth Bane : The Monomyth's Dark Liberator 

    Davis, Jenna F. (East Carolina University, 2013)
    Darth Bane: The Monomyth's Dark Liberator is an original thesis based on Joseph Campbell's theory of the monomyth and Drew Karpyshyn's Darth Bane Trilogy. Campbell's theory of the monomyth has most commonly been called the ...
  • Deadly Campaign 

    Bowen, LeeFredrick (East Carolina University, 2010)
    This is a feature length screenplay. A terrible flu like epidemic has broken out in the country. Bryan, a fresh young intern journalist, is on his first assignment with a major Washington newspaper. Bryan is teamed up ...
  • Deadly Reflection 

    Fornes, Brad Mark (East Carolina University, 2023-05-09)
    Deadly Reflection is a fictional horror novel in which a group of young adults are stalked by a mysterious and sinister entity known as the Old Man, who only appears to them in mirrors or other reflective surfaces. The ...
  • The Death of Women in Wordsworth, Byron, and Poe 

    Kang, Gina (East Carolina University, 2010)
    This thesis explores and analyzes the portrayal of women, death, and suffering through the experiences of male speakers in William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe's poetry. These poets create bereaved male ...
  • The Declaration of Independence : A New Genre in Political Discourse or Mixed Genres in an Unlikely Medium? 

    Capansky, Trisha (East Carolina University, 2011)
    The dissertation shows how mismatched content/medium relationships can supersede the responses of traditional pairings when the medium dominates the discursive power of the discourse. The dissertation, in part, looks at a ...
  • Decolonizing Education : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Post-Secondary Humanities Textbooks 

    Harper, Kimberly C. (East Carolina University, 2012)
    This dissertation examines nine post-secondary humanities textbooks published between 2001 and 2011 using an approach that includes both qualitative and quantitative methodology to analyze the written and visual content ...
  • Defining God, Love, and Grammar 

    Johnson, Jamie (East Carolina University, 2014)
    Based on textual research and general discussion in academia, a field-accepted definition of grammar for the purposes of first-year writing does not yet exist. In order to provide a working definition of grammar, forty-six ...
  • Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven: Cultural Marginalization in Appalachia 

    Fitzgerald, Jason (East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
    Using Everett Verner (E.V.) Stonequist's sociological constructs of marginalization and marginal personalities, this study focuses on the extent of marginalization as depicted in Appalachian novelist Denise Giardina's ...
  • Destruction of the Caribbean Landscape Through Colonization in Edgar Mittelholzer's Corentyne Thunder, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, and Wilson Harris' Palace Of The Peacock 

    Williams, Sandra Lewis (East Carolina University, 2010)
    The Caribbean Islands have long been known for their lush, tropical scenery. For this distinctive landscape to continue to be so alluring throughout the centuries, to the natives as well as to others, it must be respected, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Domino Effect and Other Stories 

    Frisby, Brandon C. (East Carolina University, 2012)
    This thesis is a collection of six fictional short stories, all of which focus on strong characters and narrative voice. The stories also involve different narrative perspectives. They include a variety of writing styles, ...
  • Down In The Ghetto 

    Goodman, Christopher T. (East Carolina University, 2013)
    "Down In The Ghetto" is an account of my time living in the largest favela/slum in Brazil, written to fulfill the requirements of the M.A. in English with a concentration in creative nonfiction. I spent three months in ...