Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of r…
This dissertation is composed of two sections, a critical paper and a collection of fiction. The critical section discusses how metafictional techniques in three works of Asian American fiction, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, The Sympathizer, and Insurrecto, contribute to ethi…
This thesis aims to demonstrate the interrelatedness of the rebellious form and content of Pilar MirO's first six films - La petición (1976), El crimen de Cuenca (1979), Gary Cooper gue estás en los cielos (1980), Hablamos esta noche (1982), Werther (1986) and Beltenebros (1991)…
The genre of the historical novel is a combination of fiction and history, two supposedly contradicting genres. Fiction, however, has realistic elements while history is always an interpretation or a narrative about the past, thus a story that is not entirely factual. The intern…
This thesis argues that the fictional works of Sarajevan writer Aleksandar Hemon can be viewed as testimonial texts. I examine his novels and collections of short stories in conversation with the literary response to the siege of Sarajevo and as representations of the effects of…
