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"Life and Times of Michael K" in the Light of Iqbalian khudi
(2011)
This paper draws a parallel between Allama Mohammad Iqbal's concept of khudi and J. M. Coetzee's novel Life and Times of Michael K. Khudi means the recognition of self, the realization of full potential in an individual. ...
Irish modernism and the problem of metaphor: Interactions between the imagination and the materiality of language in the literature of Beckett, Joyce and Yeats
(2011)
"Irish Modernism and The Problem of Metaphor: Interactions Between the Imagination and the Materiality of Language in the Literature of Beckett, Joyce and Yeats" examines the unconventional role that metaphor plays as an ...
Representations of history in African diasporic literatures and the politics of postmodernism
(2011)
"Representations of History in African Diasporic Literatures and the Politics of Postmodernism" examines four novels published by African American and African authors in late 1970s and early 1980s. Literary criticism set ...
Order, jazz, and chaos in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
(2016)
Throughout his lifetime, Ralph Ellison successfully articulated the issues of his generation. Whether expressing these ideas through book reviews, discussions, lectures, short stories, or novels, he shared his unfiltered ...
Mark Twain's secret writings
(2016)
Mark Twain’s life-long fascination with enciphered literature is a little known aspect of his otherwise exceptionally well-documented literary career. Apart from a handful of articles tangentially touching on the issue of ...
The Control Mechanism, From Foucault to HBO
(2016)
What is power? Where does it come from? What is its relation to knowledge, and how are these concepts used towards the purposes of control? This study investigates these questions, first in a critical essay and then in a ...
Two sides to the story: Multiple versions of stories in twentieth century narrative
(2016)
A number of contemporary writers of literary fiction are attempting to tell mimetic stories in their books. But this raises the question, how can writers tell realistic stories once many modernist and postmodernist writers ...
Excess to access: The force of feminine jouissance in the non-sensical language of experimental fiction by contemporary women writers
(2016)
This dissertation examines the texts of transatlantic contemporary women writers who work with experimental form to consciously present the absences and failures of the narrative as formative rather than instances of ...
The River and the Sea: Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and the Narratives of Capital Flow, 1851-1894
(2016)
“The River and the Sea: Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and the Narratives of Capital Flow, 1851-1894” explores nineteenth-century waters and the politico-economic culture of the U.S. in a global historical context. I stress ...
Black women writers and the spatial limits of the African diaspora
(2016)
My dissertation contends that diaspora, perhaps the most visible spatial paradigm for theorizing black constructions of identity and self, is inherently limited by the historical conditions of its rise as well as the ...