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    AuthorGamero, Rafael (1)Kelly, Ivory (1)Mercer-Bourne, Laura Maegan (1)Schindler, Kristen (1)Topliff, Maria (1)Uzun, Esra (1)Weaver, Melanie Boyter (1)Subject
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    Literature (4)Autobiography of my mother, The (2)Belize--Fiction (2)Caribbean (2)Caribbean literature--Colonial influence (2)Dreaming in Cuban (2)García, Cristina, 1958- . Dreaming in Cuban (2)Identity (2)Kincaid, Jamaica. Autobiography of my mother (2)... View MoreDate Issued2011 (2)2013 (2)2012 (1)2014 (1)2015 (1)Has File(s)Yes (7)

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    Multiculturalism as an Alternative to Nihilism in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners 

    Topliff, Maria (East Carolina University, 2013)
    This thesis analyzes how internal oppression, or nihilism, has emerged amongst many of the Caricom community. It focuses on the history of colonialism and the psychological destruction it has left across the Caribbean. ...
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    Brackish Water : Stories 

    Kelly, Ivory (East Carolina University, 2011)
    Each of the five short stories in this collection depicts the struggle of a Belizean character and takes place in a locale that recalls the history or culture of a specific region of Belize. There are both male and female ...
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    Meeting the Madwomen : Mental Illness in Women in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Hijuelos's Our House in the Last World, and Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban 

    Weaver, Melanie Boyter (East Carolina University, 2012)
    This study seeks to examine the character of the madwoman in Caribbean literature in three novels: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Oscar Hijuelos's Our House in the Last World, and Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban. Four ...
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    The Exile in Literature : Remembering What Has Been Lost and Finding the Courage to Move Forward 

    Schindler, Kristen (East Carolina University, 2014)
    Cultural displacement and exile are major topics that are portrayed in Caribbean literature and in this Master's thesis, I analyze the exilic experience as depicted in texts written by Julia Alvarez, Cristina García, and ...
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    Blankets in the River with Oranges and Other Stories 

    Gamero, Rafael (East Carolina University, 2015)
    This thesis is a collection of five short stories, four flash fiction pieces, and one creative nonfiction piece. They all have strong character perspectives and are unified by a distinctive Caribbean/Central American ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...

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