writers

Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poetry, Life on Mars , has been celebrated and analyzed as an elegy to Smith's father by many reviewers and scholars. And while this reading is valid and has been openly endorsed by Smith herself, our understanding of this co…

Tin mining on the Jos Plateau was the major income earner in Nigeria before petroleum was discovered in the Niger Delta region in 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its land filled with gullies and po…

This thesis, through an examination of literary texts, defines the political views and ideas of nearly a dozen francophone Algerian intellectuals and writers from the mid-1950's—during the early years of Algeria's war of independence against France—to the present. It gives an ac…

The history of twentieth-century immigration by the African and Caribbean Diasporas to Britain is a history of mental distress. This thesis focusses on the social elements—conditioned by racism, gender inequities, and colonialism—that cause mental distress in the protagonists of…

This dissertation responds to Syrian nationals' stories of displacement and settlement. Within these accounts, people contend with forced migration through language, personal networks, and technology. A sociomaterial theory of literacy recognizes the way in which these interview…

This study examines nationalism and the figure of the nomad in the works of three Francophone writers from Djibouti: William J. F. Syad, Daher Ahmed Farah, and Abdourahman A. Waberi. Through close readings, this study examines the ways in which each writer refers to the mythical…

I conducted a case study of how a senior university professor presented course content and assessed 2 sets of essays and 2 sets of in-class tests in an undergraduate Sinology course. The study involved the participating professor and 12 students who allowed me to photocopy their…

This dissertation examines the Native American response to Christianity as a central aspect of cultural contact resulting from the European conquest of North America. From the earliest literary responses Native writers utilized the European Christian paradigm as the ground from …

This dissertation explores the extent and the ways Omani Muslim women's identity is affected when writing in English as a second language. This study seeks to gain insight into the relationship between these women's current lives and views and writing in ESL. The participants we…