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Blazing Trails: Reclamation and Re-Appropriation of Native Culture, Identity, and Voice in Post-Colonial Literature

Ward, Miya (2012)

"The Story of Girls Everywhere": Narrating the Gendered Life in Carmen Boullosa's Treinta años and Kathryn Davis's Duplex

Scott, Charlotte (2021)

This thesis explores the use of narration in fictional accounts of women's lives through two novels: Carmen Boullosa's Treinta años and Kathryn Davis's Duplex. I conduct my analysis using Judith Butler's theory of gender ...

"Don't Excommunicate the Messenger": Humor, Authorial Responsibility, and Religious Commentary in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Tales of Canterbury and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote de La Mancha

Martinez Penn, Vanessa (2020)

This thesis explores the utilization of humor to address religious tensions in the medieval texts Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes and The Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer. Are authors using humor to ...

Women's Voices and Imperfect Communities in Sandra Cisneros and Maryse Condé

Li, Anran (2020)

My thesis explores the representations of gendered voices in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street (1984) and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove (Crossing the Mangrove, 1989). I incorporate literary theories in ...

Picking the Lock: Historical Documentary Methods in Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi and Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno

Kurtz, Peter (2019)

This thesis is concerned with the use of historical documentary narration in the Italian novel "I promessi sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni and the American novella "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville. Using a critical lens ...

Enforcing Utopia: Intersections of the Idée Fixe and Camusian Philosophy in Jorge Luis Borges’s “El Zahir” and Hassan Blasim’s “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes”

Konradova, Katerina (2019)

My thesis aims to tie together two short stories, Hassan Blasim’s “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” and Jorge Luis Borges’s “El Zahir,” by means of examining their shared themed of the idée fixe. The “persistent idea” ...

The Addict within Divine Space: A Deconstruction of Opium Life Narratives

Javier, Jhoneidy (2019)

My thesis is a comparative analysis of two life narratives written by opium addicts in the nineteenth century: one from England and one from China. The goal of this thesis is to assess to what extent can writing capture ...

LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES: EXPLORING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND HISTORY THROUGH THE POETRY OF LUIS PALÉS MATOS AND DEREK WALCOTT

Lomba Guzmán, Gabriela (2018)

Derek Walcott famously writes in his poem “A Cry from Africa” that he is “divided to the vein”—in itself a succinct exploration of what it means to be born into a colonized (or once-colonized) country. Luis Palés Matos ...

The Rooster and Murrieta: The Outlaw-Figure(s) in I am Joaquín and Gallo de Sinaloa

Jauregui-Volpe, Marcelo (2018)

This thesis centers on the hero-bandits in Rodolfo Gonzales’s epic poem I am Joaquín (1967) and a handful of corridos from Chalino Sánchez’s album Gallo de Sinaloa (release date of this posthumous album is 1995, but many ...

REIMAGINING RETURNS: the Preservation of Caribbean Identity and Generational Trauma of Exiles Through Cultural Memory

Mundo, Maria (2018)

Edwidge Danticat’s Haitian-American novel, The Dew Breaker, and René Marqués’s Puerto Rican play, Un niño azul para esta sombra, present the struggle and internal conflicts associated with offering a perspective of a ...

Equivalence, Paratext and Elephants’ Feet: The Translation of Humor in Die Harzreise

Adorney, Adam (2018)

In my thesis, I examine the treatment of humor in the English translations of Die Harzreise from Heinrich Heine’s Reisebilder. Six translations come into the discussion, including the first English translation (Charles ...

Surveying the Psychological Evolution of the Detective in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Purloined Letter”, “La muerte y la brújula”, and City of Glass by way of Soshana Felman’s “The Case of Poe: Applications/Implications of Psychoanalysis"

Alden, Zacharia Mou'waffaq Jamal (2017)

In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin writes about Edgar Allan Poe’s “sense of his detective Dupin as a kind of Platonic embodiment, a sedentary mastermind whose very lack of physical exertion emphasizes the mastery of ...

Locating Belonging in Postcolonial Space Homeland Narratives in René Philoctète’s Le Peuple des terres mêlées and Kim Lefèvre’s Retour à la saison des pluies

Hwang-Carlos, Miriam Soo Young (2017)

This thesis explores the construction of homelands through space, movement, and time in Kim Lefèvre’s Retour à la saison des pluies (1990) and René Philoctète’s Le Peuple des terres mêlées (1989). Retour à la saison des ...

Just Play Along: Exploring Metafictional Games in Works of Cervantes, Borges, and Auster

Lorenz, Amber (2017)

In 1605, Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, a playful metafictional novel that engaged the reader with questions of authorship and the relationship between reality and fiction. Over three hundred years later, Jorge ...

Conquest Forever? Mexico and the Circularity of Destruction in Contemporary Mexican and Borderlands Texts

Delgado-Gonzalez, Itzel (2016)

Narrative, Identity, Authorship: Reading and Watching Joan of Arc’s Martyrdom

Gant, Sophia (2016)

“Ce Lieu de Déséquilibre Occulte:” The Postcolonial Fantastic in La Vie et Demie and Midnight’s Children

Givertz, Samuel Wolfe (2016)

The Narrativity of the Medium: The Architecture of Book Space in Picture Books

Huang, Honglan (2016)

Illustrating Trauma: Repression and Expression in Cruddy and Dear Patagonia

Davies, Rachel (2016)

One and Three Texts: Writing and Re-writing the Politics of Al-Khubz al-Hafi in Translation

Fries, Daniel (2015)

In 1973, a British publisher asked American novelist Paul Bowles, then in Tangier, to ask Moroccan Amazigh writer Mohamed Choukri for an autobiography. Bowles had some experience translating oral narratives, but since he ...

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