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Martin, Patricia L. "Minority protagonists in the young adult historical fiction novel." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2007. http://165.236.235.140/lib/PMartin2007.pdf.
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Hebbar, Reshmi J. "Modeling minority women : heroines in African and Asian American fiction /." New York : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400508717.
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Erel, Sarper. "From 2001 A Space Odyssey to Minority Report : Reflections of Imagining Future on Science Fiction." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5618.
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My Bachelor’s Thesis is a comparative analysis that identifies a paradigm shift based on how imagining and portraying futuristic technology and human - computer (or machine) interaction within science fiction works and explore how they depict the technology and the future thinking of their own era. I use two very popular and influential works from two different eras: 2001 A Space Odyssey from the late 1960s and Minority Report from the early 2000s. In the first part of this analysis, I analyze the technology and human interaction with technology in 2001: A Space Odyssey and argue what this tells about the technology thinking of the late 1960s, the high time of the Space Race. During the second part, the analysis continues with the other primary source, Minority Report. However, in this part I make direct comparisons with 2001: A Space Odyssey in order to illustrate the paradigm shift with clear examples.
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Jany, Ursula Berit. "Heresy or Ideal Society? A Study of Early Anabaptism as Minority Religion in German Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1370895011.
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Yeh, Grace I.-chun. "Asian fighters in U.S. minority literature iconology, intimacy, and other imagined communities /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481671281&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Tagore, Proma. "The shapes of silence : contemporary women's fiction and the practices of bearing witness." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36793.
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This dissertation examines the complex and multi-faceted ways in which contemporary minority women's fictions may be thought of, both generically and individually, as practices of bearing witness to silence---practices of giving testimony to the presence of lives, experiences, events and historical realities which, otherwise, have been absented from the critical terrain of North American literary studies. For the most pact, the texts included in this study all tell tales of various, and often extreme, forms of sexual, racial, gender, colonial, national and cultural violence. Through readings of select works by Toni Morrison, Shani Mootoo, Arundhati Roy, Louise Erdrich, M. K. Indira, Mahasweta Devi and Leslie Feinberg, I argue for the ways in which these fictions may be understood as situated within the bounds of a genre---a genre that attempts to provide an account of what we might call "the half not told." I examine these fictions, both generically and specifically, as texts which have the ability to make several important critical interventions in the field of literary studies. Firstly, these texts have the potential to negotiate the impasse that feminist and postcolonial literary scholarship finds itself in around debates about the relationship between theory, activism and experience---as well as in debates about the relationship between violence, beauty, culture, subjectivity and desire. Secondly, the fictions under study help to challenge our very definitions of witnessing. Witnessing, in these works, is not simply a matter of "speaking out" against violence, but rather the issue of making space for the affective and emotive dimensions of various kinds of silences and silencings. Finally, in attempting to chart more precise vocabularies with which to assume readings of these narratives, my thesis also helps to think about the ways in which reading, writing and storytelling may, themselves, be seen as profoundly ethical undertakings that seek to give evidence
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Ballentine, Brandon Clarke. "The Narrative Lens: Understanding Eudora Welty's Fiction through Her Photography." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2199.
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Eudora Welty's brief photographic career offers valuable insight into the development of her literary voice. She discovers many of the distinguishing characters of her fiction during the 1930s while traveling through Mississippi writing articles for the Works Progress Administration and taking pictures of the people and places she encountered. Analyzing the connections between her first collection of photographs, One Time, One Place: Mississippi during the Depression: A Snapshot Album, and her first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, and Other Stories, reveals the writer's sympathetic attitude towards her characters, the prominence of place in her fiction, and her use of time in the telling of a story.
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Davis, Mary McPherson. "Feminist Applepieville architecture as social reform in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's fiction /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5071.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 25, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Chern, Joanne. "Restoring, Rewriting, Reimagining: Asian American Science Fiction Writers and the Time Travel Narrative." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/449.
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Asian American literature has continued to evolve since the emergence of first generation Asian American writers in 1975. Authors have continued to interact not only with Asian American content, but also with different forms to express that content – one of these forms is genre writing. Genre writing allows Asian American writers to interact with genre conventions, using them to inform Asian American tropes and vice versa. This thesis focuses on the genre of science fiction, specifically in the subgenre of time travel. Using three literary case studies – Ken Liu’s “The Man Who Ended History,” Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” – this thesis seeks to explore the ways in which different Asian American writers have interacted with the genre, using it to retell Asian American narratives in new ways. “The Man Who Ended History” explores the use of time travel in restoring lost or silenced historical narratives, and the implications of that usage; How to Live Safely is a clever rewriting of the immigrant narrative, which embeds the story within the conventions of a science fictional universe; “Story of Your Life” presents a reimagining of alterity, and investigates how we might interact with the alien in a globalized world. Ultimately, all three stories, though quite different, express Asian American concerns in new and interesting ways; they may point to ways that Asian American writers can continue to write and rewrite Asian American narratives, branching out into new genres and affecting those genres in turn.
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Birdi, Briony. "'We are here because you were there' : an investigation of the reading of, and engagement with, minority ethnic fiction in UK public libraries." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12093/.
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This thesis aims to investigate the reading of, and engagement with, minority ethnic English language fiction in public libraries, focusing on materials written by Black British and Asian authors. In order to achieve this, a literature review and three empirical studies were conducted, using a mixed methods approach. The literature review showed that previous research in the field of minority ethnic fiction had largely overlooked its readership, and furthermore that academic models of fiction reading had not considered this type of material. The first study was a survey of the reading habits and attitudes of library users, conducted via a quantitative questionnaire and subsequent qualitative interviews. This was cross-sectional at the individual respondent level, but a longitudinal element was also included at the library level, which enabled analysis by community type, local ethnicity and class. The second study was a qualitative exploration of perceptions of reader ‘types’ using personal construct theory and the associated repertory grid technique, in order to generate and explore a series of constructs relating to the characteristics of fiction readers. The third, quantitative study also drew from personal construct theory, adapting the repertory grid to investigate in greater depth a group of readers’ beliefs, attitudes and intentions to read certain fiction genres. A model of genre fiction reading is presented, based on the research findings. This identifies a new fiction reader profile and gives a causal ordering to the characteristics of the fiction reader which had previously not been achieved. The model is also demonstrably flexible to allow different types of factors to be included, and to further explore the interactions between these factors. Finally, the theoretical and professional contributions of the research are summarised, and recommendations are made for future research and the development within libraries and the book trade of minority ethnic fiction collections.
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de, la Garza Valenzuela José A. "IMPOSSIBLY HERE, IMPOSSIBLY QUEER:CITIZENSHIP, SEXUALITY, AND GAY CHICANO FICTION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1460677739.
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Ross-Stroud, Catherine Trites Roberta Seelinger. "Non-existent existences race, class, gender, and age in adolescent fiction; or Those whispering Black girls /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3106763.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2003.Title from title page screen, viewed October 12, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Roberta Seelinger Trites (chair), Karen Coats, Janice Neuleib. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-236) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Fernandes, Nikki D. "Relocations of the 'Outraged Slave': Transatlantic Reform Conversations through Douglass's Periodical Fiction." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4825.
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Through their editorial arrangements of African-American, Euro-American and European poetry, fiction and news, Frederick Douglass’s anti-slavery periodicals (The North Star and Frederick Douglass’ Paper) imagine a cosmopolitan discourse that predates the segregated realities of the antebellum United States. In spite of Southern blockades against the infiltration of Northern texts, Douglass’s material space uniquely capitalized on the limited restrictions of his reprinting culture to relocate the voice of the ‘outraged slave’ onto a global stage. From the poems of Phillis Wheatley and William Cowper to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Douglass’s own novella “The Heroic Slave,” this project considers how Douglass’s literary inclusions—and exclusions—complicate our static considerations of the historicized Douglass and exhibit his savvy insertions of black print into an exclusive, transatlantic nineteenth-century print culture.
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李慧敏. "《狼圖騰》、《塵埃落定》英譯研究: 從互文性角度分析兩部以中國少數民族邊地為背景的中文小說英譯= A study of wolf totem and red poppies: an intertextual analysis of English translations of two Chinese novels set in China's ethnic minority regions." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2016. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/257.
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本論文從互文性視角研究《狼圖騰》和《塵埃落定》的英譯，通過建立文本內部的話語與文本外部的話語之間的互文聯繫，分析源文內部的話語與源語系統中相關話語的互文性，及英譯內部的話語與目標語系統中相關話語的互文性，進而闡釋源文的文本意義和英譯的文本意義。 全文共分四章。第一章為緒論，介紹本文的選題背景、研究範圍與研究問題、研究方法、文獻綜述、理論框架和章節佈局。第二章是對《狼圖騰》及其英譯Wolf Totem作文本分析。本章通過分析在源文和英譯中圍繞蒙古族草原生態觀而展開對話的四類話語，建立每一類話語在源語系統和目標語系統中的互文聯繫，發現《狼圖騰》的文本意義是強調借蒙古文化的元素使中國變強大的話語，而其英譯Wolf Totem則重在彰顯內蒙古的蒙古文化，弱化了中國崛起的話語。第三章是對《塵埃落定》及其英譯Red Poppies作文本分析。本章通過分析在源文和英譯中圍繞嘉絨族群身份認同而展開對話的五類話語，建立每一類話語在源語系統和目標語系統中的互文聯繫，進而發現《塵埃落定》的文本意義是借追尋族群身份來彰顯嘉絨藏族的主體性。其英譯Red Poppies文本產生的意義則不在於尋找嘉絨族群身份，而是更突出了這一文本與英語世界裡西藏觀的既有話語的互動。第四章為結語部分，總結本論文的研究成果，對本論文運用的理論和方法進行批判性反思，最後是對後續研究的方向作出展望。 This thesis provides an analysis from an intertextual perspective of English translations of Lang Tuteng and Chen Ai Luo Ding, two Chinese novels set in China’s ethnic minority regions published since the 1990s. It is argued that these Chinese novels derive their meaning from a dialogue with various discourses circulating around them, and that English translations of these novels derive their meaning from a dialogue with various discourses circulating around the translations and their source texts. This thesis is organized into four chapters. Chapter One details the research background, delineates the scope of study, sets out the research questions, specifies methodology and theoretical framework for analysis, and provides a review of the literature. Chapter Two provides a detailed analysis from an intertextual perspective of Lang Tuteng and its English translation Wolf Totem. Four discourses concerning the characters’ attitudes towards the Mongolian ecology are identified in Lang Tuteng. A comparative analysis of the source and target texts shows that, whereas the source text privileges the discourse of ‘strengthening China through learning from the Mongolian culture’, the target text puts the emphasis on the Mongolian culture itself, and that the concern with China’s nation building is much less pronounced in the target text than in the source text. Chapter Three provides a detailed analysis of Chen Ai Luo Ding and its English translation Red Poppies. Five discourses concerning the identity of the Jiarong people in relation to China and the Tibetan region are identified in Chen Ai Luo Ding. A comparative analysis of the source and target texts shows that, whereas the source text highlights the issues of identity concerning the Jiarong people, the target text engages effectively in dialogue with existing discourses concerning the Tibetan region in the target language culture. The Chinese novel and its English translation acquire additional layers of meaning when their intertextual relations are teased out and read in their respective cultural contexts. Chapter Four provides a summary of the findings of the thesis, paying special attention to the connections and differences between the two case studies. Both novels are set in ethnic minority regions in mainland China, depict cultures of ethnic minority groups, and discuss the relationship between the ethnic minorities and the majority Han people in mainland China. Lang Tuteng adopts the perspective of the Han Chinese, positions the Mongolian culture as the other, and emphasizes the importance of learning from the other; however, Wolf Totem stresses the marginalization of the Mongolian culture, rather than issuing an appeal for the Han Chinese to enrich their culture and contribute to the rise of the Chinese nation. Chen Ai Luo Ding adopts the perspective of the Jiarong people, positions foreign cultures as the other, and highlights the narrator’s quest for an identity of the Jiarong people. A comparative analysis of the Chinese novel and its English translation shows the ways in which Red Poppies adheres to the discourses in the source text and enters into dialogue with dominant discourses on the Tibetan region in the target language culture. Chapter Four also includes theoretical reflection on the methodology and theoretical framework of this thesis, and suggests possible avenues for future research.
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Calbert, Tonisha Marie. "(Re)Writing Apocalypse: Race, Gender, and Radical Change in Black Apocalyptic Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593596843453299.
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Honea, Benjamin D. "Comanche Boys." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/44.
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Comanche Boys is a novel that was written and revised during Benjamin Honea’s time at the University of Kentucky. The novel focuses on Brandon, who lives in rural southwest Oklahoma, and how the arrival of two people in his life, one old and one new, changes his future irrevocably. Taking place at the intersections of modern American and Native American life, the narrative explores history, culture, mythology, faith, despair, racism, poverty, vengeance, and justice. The struggles of the past and present, the lost and reclaimed, propel and pervade the lives of the characters.
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Aydogdu, Zeynep. "Modernity, Multiculturalism, and Racialization in Transnational America: Autobiography and Fiction by Immigrant Muslim Women Before and After 9/11." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557191593344128.
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Kim, Christine. "Munui (문의): Modern Adaptations of Korean Folk and Fairy Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1911.
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Murphy, Jill Marie. "Translingual literature: The bone people and Borderlands." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2755.
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This thesis proposes that by producing and existing within a translingual text, the ethnofeminist has found a way to subvert others' construction of her and redefine her identity. In particular, the ethnofeminist uses code switching to select and reinvent meaning from the language system of the dominant culture while maintaining the language system of the "marginal" group. In combining two (or more) language systems within a literature she has created her own language.
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Alrayes, Samer. "Party on a Roof." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2020. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/creative_writing_theses/18.
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Holmes, Janel L. "The Color of Memory: Reimagining the Antebellum South in Works by James McBride Through the use of Free Indirect Discourse." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4220.
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This thesis examines the use of interior narrative techniques such as free indirect discourse and internal monologue in two of James McBride’s neo-slave narratives, Song Yet Sung (2008) and The Good Lord Bird (2013). Very limited critical attention has been given to these neo-slave narratives that illustrate McBrides attention to characterization and focalized narration. In these narratives McBride builds upon the revelations he explores in his bestselling memoir, The Color of Water (1996, 2006), where he learns to disassociate race and character. What he discovers about not only his mother, but also himself, inspires his re-imagination of the people who lived during the antebellum period. His use of interior narrative techniques deviates from his peers’ conventional approach to the neo-slave narrative. His exploration of the psyche demonstrates a focalized attention to the individual, rather than a characterization of the community, which is typically portrayed in neo-slave narratives. In conclusion, this thesis argues that James McBride’s neo-slave narratives reveal his interest in deconstructing the hierarchal positioning of whites and blacks during the antebellum period in order to communicate that although African Americans were the intended victims, slave masters and mistresses were oppressed by the ideologies of slavery as well.
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Drieu, Cloé. "Du muet au parlant : cinéma et sociétés en Ouzbékistan (1919-1937= : la fiction nationale." Paris, INALCO, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008INAL0009.
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Deas, Tiphane S. "The Perception of Threat in Fictional Workplaces by African-American College Students: A Look Into How Mass Media Affect Social Identity Expectations in Novel Contexts." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250738299.
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Pillainayagam, Priyanthan A. "The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era: Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1337874544.
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Benavente, Gabriel. "Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3186.
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This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples.
In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for a movement that does not romanticize the environment as heteronormative, but a space where queers can flourish.
Just as queer and environmental justice movements are codependent on one another, feminist movements cannot be separate from black and transgender liberation. This thesis will demonstrate how writers, such as Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, and Janet Mock, help establish a feminism that resists the erasure of black and transgender people.
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Butcher, Erica. "An Audience Reception Analysis Field Study: Exploring Second and Later Generation Latino Viewers’ Perceived Realism Appraisals of Latino Fictional Television Characters in English Language Television Programs." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1249586967.
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Ledru, Juliette. "Dialectique de l'américanité et de l'ethnicité dans les représentations littéraires des personnages féminins : l'assimilation à l'épreuve de la fiction sino-américaine féminine (1965-2010)." Thesis, Le Havre, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LEHA0025/document.
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Entre la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle et le début du XXIème siècle, les minorités Sino-américaines ont vécu le passage du statut d’étrangers inassimilables à celui de minorités modèles. Au cœur d’enjeux politiques, économiques, culturels et sociaux, les Chinois et les Sino-américains ont souffert de mesures discriminatoires telles que le Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) et de représentations culturelles orientalistes (le péril jaune) qui ont appuyé le discours assimilationniste exclusionniste, fondé dans le refus d’intégrer les minorités raciales dans la définition de l’américanité. Lorsque les mouvements sociaux des années 1960 ont permis de faire entendre la cause des minorités ethniques, sexuelles et sociales, les Sino-américains sont devenus au regard de la société dominante emblématiques d’une intégration sociale réussie et les représentants d’une assimilation supposément inclusive. Ce travail de recherche propose d’explorer l’évolution et les tensions au cœur du processus d’assimilation aux États-Unis et en particulier celui de personnages féminins de seconde génération dans la littérature produite par des auteures sino-américaines entre 1965 et 2010. Nous proposons d’analyser la façon dont l’assimilation et l’américanité sont représentées, contestées et reconfigurées dans un corpus de quarante-et-une œuvresBetween the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st, Chinese American minorities experienced the evolution of their social status from unassimilable aliens to model minorities. At the intersection of political, economic, cultural and social stakes, the Chinese and Chinese Americans were subjected to discriminatory measures such as the Chinese exclusion act (1882) and orientalist cultural representations (the yellow peril) which defended an exclusionary definition of assimilation, based on the refusal to integrate racial minorities in the definition of what it meant to be “American.” When the social movements of the 1960s allowed social, sexual and ethnic minorities to have their voices heard, the American mainstream society turned Chinese Americans into the embodiment of the American success story of integration and of the inclusiveness of American assimilation. This Ph.D. dissertation will explore the evolution and the tensions at the core of the assimilation process in the United States through the prism of the Chinese experience, and more specifically that of second generation female characters in works of fiction by Chinese American female authors (published between 1965 and 2010). We will focus on the way in which assimilation and Americanness are represented, contested and redefined in a syllabus of forty-one works of fiction
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Laffont, Julie. "Représentations de la diversité dans les séries télévisées : analyse comparative France – Grande-Bretagne." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BOR30006/document.
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Cette thèse interroge les représentations de la diversité et des identités collectives au sein de séries télévisées françaises et britanniques. Les problématiques de la construction identitaire, des imaginaires nationaux et médiatiques, ainsi que les différents imaginaires du métissage et de la communauté arabo-musulmane dans l’espace public européen, retiennent particulièrement l’attention ici. La pluridisciplinarité inhérente à l’approche choisie s’appuie sur la richesse des paradigmes et méthodologies propres aux Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, ainsi qu’aux études médiatiques dans leur ensemble. Sont ainsi pris en compte les contextes de production (professionnels, techniques, législatifs, esthétiques et socio-politiques), mais aussi les pratiques et usages de réception. Toutefois, c’est bien l’analyse de contenu (aux niveaux figuratif, narratif et thématique) qui se trouve au centre de cette étude. Ce travail s’appuie principalement sur l’étude du personnage de fiction et une typologie des stéréotypes. Les réflexions menées empruntent également aux théories de l’imaginaire, aux études de réception et à la sémiotique du récit. L’hypothèse de départ est que les imaginaires nationaux britannique et français, l’un de tradition multiculturaliste, l’autre régit par l’idéal universaliste républicain, influencent les imaginaires collectifs et les constructions identitaires parmi les différentes communautés de citoyens. Les imaginaires médiatiques, en tant que transmetteurs et en tant qu’arènes des discours et opinions, participent de ce phénomène. Ces imaginaires nationaux laissent des indices parmi les représentations médiatiques, notamment au sein des fictions télévisées, qu’il est possible de repérer et d’analyser. Il ne s’agit pas ici d’opposer les deux modèles. Les cas français et britannique, s’ils diffèrent sur certains points, connaissent des questionnements et difficultés similaires. Les étudier simultanément permet de brosser un plus large tableau des possibles et de chercher d’éventuelles solutions en s’appuyant sur les expériences menées dans ces deux paysThis thesis examines representations of diversity and collective identities in French and British television series. The issues of identity construction, national and media imaginary, as also the various imaginary of interbreeding - or melting pot - and Arab-Muslim communities in the European public space, particularly hold attention. The pluridisciplinarity, related to our approach, benefit from the paradigmatic and methodological wealth of Information and Communication Sciences, as well as all of Media Studies. We thus take into account production contexts (professional, technical, legal, aesthetic and socio-political) but also reception uses and practices. However, it is the content analysis (at figurative, narrative and thematic levels) that is central to this study. We primarily rely on the study of fictional character and a stereotypes typology. We refer also to imaginary theories, reception studies and narrative semiotics. Our assumption is that the British and French national imaginary, one of multiculturalist tradition, the other governed by the ideal of Republican universalism, influence collective imaginary and identity construction, among the different communities of citizens. The media imaginary, as transmitters and arenas, for speeches and public opinions, participate of this phenomenon. These national imaginary leave clues within media representations, especially inside television dramas, that is possible to identify and analyze. It doesn’t matter of opposing these two models. French and British cases, if they differ on some issues, experience and survey similar difficulties. This simultaneous review helps to paint a wider landscape of possibilities, and to seek possible solutions, based on experiments in these two countries
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LAI, YEN-WEN, and 賴彥文. "A Study on the Sexual Minority Children Through the Young Adult Fiction Luna." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jgqf5k.
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When it comes to sexual minority whose gender characteristic do not agree with society, people concentrate their attention on adults but children. For example, fighting for gay marriage or being entitled to get transsexual surgery. Sexual minority children are ignored. This social atmosphere leads to a difficult situation, especially for sexual minority children who are transgender. According to Dr. Hu’s research in 1989. There are three thousand people had known that their gendered identities different from sexuality since they were children in Taiwan. Unfortunately, most of they did not come out because of many reasons. Thus, sexual minority children are existent but people reject to recognize them, as well as children's literature. Bravely, Luna is one of pioneering young adult fiction which talks about transgender child. In this research, In order to understand the characters how to refer to sexual minority children, I focus on the analysis of main characters of Luna. Finally, through theme analysis, I would like to interpret the plight of sexual minority children. Throughout this research, the image of main characters and interaction of Luna construct what would be the differences and identity of sexual minority children. It offers reader a way to understand sexual minority children. In addition, it is not a possibility to step forward for sexual minority children and people who may concern , but also break the gender limitation by taking gender issue as main topic.
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Hicks, Kimberly Anne. "Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction." 1997. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9737538.
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This dissertation examines the process of miscegenation in the work of four authors who occupy pivotal positions in American writing about race. It is concerned with a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts produced by William Wells Brown, George Washington Cable, Pauline Hopkins, and Thomas Dixon between the years 1846 and 1915. This study will examine how miscegenation provided these authors with a way of narrativizing American race relations in a period which encompasses slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction and Redemption, as well as the creation of a segregated South and an imperial America. Individual chapters engage in cultural as well as literary analyses by reading mixed-race characters as literary signs which gave rise to a wide range of narrative possibilities, as political instruments which allowed each author to intervene in contemporary debates about the construction of American history, the nature of race, and laws designed to regulate interracial contact. While remaining aware of the personal and political differences which separate the writers under consideration, this study notes similarities in the ways in which each makes use of mixed-race characters and miscegenation plots. Attention to gender likewise unites the individual chapters. The fact of mixed parentage signifies differently for male and female characters, no matter what plot these authors chose. For each, the figure of the quadroon woman presented special problems, as indicated by the sheer number of pages each devoted to telling child re-telling her story. This study traces the permutations of plots centered around quadroon women by reading a number of fictional works by each of the primary authors. It also examines the ways in which constructions of gender are overdetermined by methods of race representation which appear in the works of African-American writers, as well as in that of their white counterparts. By focusing on a works which illustrate the interconnectedness between black and white Americans from slavery through segregation--works created by authors who themselves represent, in their persons as well as their politics, a variety of subject positions--this dissertation seeks to locate itself in the context of current efforts to produce a new canon of American literature, one more truly reflective of the varied nature of American life. It examines a literature not of race, but of race relations; one which repeatedly describes positions on a racial continuum too complicated to be characterized in terms of black and white.
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Trautman, Andrea Dominique. "The voice of the many in the one : modernism’s unveiled listening to minority presence in the fiction of William Faulkner and Patrick White." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14815.
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By comparing the novels of William Faulkner and Patrick White, this thesis
reconsiders modernism's elitism and solipsism by revealing within them a critical interest in
liberating minority perspective. Theoretical debates which continue to insist on modernism's
inherent distance from the identity politics which front the postmodernist movement are
overlooking modernism's deeply embedded evaluative mechanisms which work to expose
and criticize the activity of psychic and social co-optation.
Faulkner and White are both engaged in fictionally tracing the complexities of a
failing patriarchy which can no longer substantiate its primary subjects — the white, upper
class male. As representatives of modernism we can see that Faulkner and White, perhaps
unwittingly, initiate the awareness that the 'failure' of their chosen subjects is in large
measure due to processes of marginalization which both created the authoritative power
structures within which they are constructed and helped serve to collapse them. The classic
isolation of the modernist subject can be looked at not simply as an isolation predicated on
endless self-referentiality, but rather on a desperate social outreaching for which he or she is
not psychically equipped. By following the trajectory and perspective of specific novels and
characters it becomes clear that it is precisely this handicap which clears the textual space for
diversity of representation, just as it overturns the notion of modernism's functioning
separatism.
Chapter one concentrates on the double-edged representation of the female subject
constructed as always-already 'guilty' within the psychologically, emotionally and physically
repressive terms of the dominant male power structures within the context of Faulkner's
Requiem for a Nun and White's A Fringe of Leaves. Chapter two investigates the
psychological parameters of the morally disenfranchised modern subject whose
disillusionment results from prejudicial social practices promoted by virulent racial anxiety
as exemplified in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and White's Voss. The third and final
chapter discusses Light in August and Riders in the Chariot with attention to modernism's
own investigation of the exclusion of minority voices from collective social imagining.
The thesis posits that literary modernism is interested less with reconciling its literary
subjects within a self-contained totalizing project than it is with invoking new social and
psychological paradigms that stress the necessity of external, not internal, represented
multiplicity, and that what has been (mis)recognized as modernism's self-closure is, in fact,
the key not only to its own continuing relevance, but to the contemporaneous literary
injunction to let all voices be heard.
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Kilgore, Christopher David. "Ambiguous Recognition: Recursion, Cognitive Blending, and the Problem of Interpretation in Twenty-First-Century Fiction." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/891.
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This dissertation uses theories of cognitive conceptual integration (as outlined by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner) to propose a model of narrative reading that mediates between narratology and theories of reception. I use this model to demonstrate how new experimental narratives achieve a potent balance between a determinate and open story-form. Where the high postmodernists of the 1970s and 80s created ironic, undecidable story-worlds, the novels considered here allow readers to embrace seemingly opposite propositions without retreating into ironic suspension, trading the postmodernist “neither/nor” for a new “both/and.” This technique demands significant revision of both descriptions of radical experimentation in twenty-first-century novels, and of earlier narratological accounts of the distinction between story and discourse.
Each novel considered in this dissertation encourages its reader to recognize combined concepts in the course of the reading process. Shelley Jackson’s Half Life combines singular and plural identity, reimagining individualist subjectivity and the literary treatment of (dis)ability. Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions combines objective and subjective temporality, offering a new perspective on American myth-making in the popular post-Kerouac road-novel tradition. Percival Everett’s Erasure combines reliable and unreliable narration to create a complex critique of the idea of an African American novel tradition. M.D. Coverley’s hypertext novel Califia involves the reader in all three of these discursive dimensions at once, updating the marginalized art of hypertext fiction by inviting the reader to see his or her role in navigating the text as both creative and determined—the epitome of open-and-closed form.
My analysis demonstrates how cognitive blending is a precise method for describing how a reader interprets complex narrative structures. I propose this blending-model as a new approach to contemporary experimental fiction from the perspective of the reader’s cognitive work, and show how it offers new readings of important contemporary fiction. I argue that twenty-first-century authors attempt simultaneously to construct “open” forms, and to address real socio-cultural concerns in the world; I also argue that a narratology founded on theories of cognitive processes is best-equipped to describe the operations of reading and understanding these complex narrative forms.
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Luders, Manuel Shannon D. ""i am on the Coloured Side": The Roles of the White Suitor and the Black Mother in the Tragic Mulatta Narrative." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1134.
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What I propose to add to the already established dialogue regarding the tragic mulatta narrative is an investigation into the commonalities of the genre’s endings, as well as to assert that the tragic mulatta genre is present even at the turn of the 21st century with such works as Danzy Senna’s Caucasia. While my investigation by no means covers an exhaustive list of tragic mulatta narratives, the readings provide an overview of the ways in which the narrative has both evolved over time and stayed consistent during the antebellum, post-bellum, Harlem Renaissance, and the present day. I present each author as both building from previous authors’ works and as limited to the time period in which he or she pens the novel(s). The tragic mulatta of the post-bellum rejected white male suitors as a larger and more crucial rejection of sexual slavery and depravity, as well as attempting to shield the suitors from experiencing rejection from their own white contemporaries, as Angela does at the end of Plum Bun: “But I want you to know that from now on, so far as sides are concerned, I am on the coloured side. And I don’t want you to come over on that side” (373). However, the tragic mulattas continue to reject white male suitors even into the 21st century, and I assert that this repetition is limiting both to the characters themselves and to the narrative lives of contemporary mulatta readers. I further assert that the genre continues to pair rejection of the white male suitor with a reappropriation of true “blackness” and maternal domesticity. Through observing the tragic mulatta’s need to gain identity and sense of place through her darker mother or sister and the rejection of a white male suitor, tragic mulatta scholars—as well as critical race theorists in general—become more aware of the unique position the genre holds in identity formation as seen through what I believe are critical fictional texts for an interracial nation.