This thesis argues that members of the white, elite planter class of Barbados used punitive violence against European servants and African slaves to assert their masculinity—through which they gained their authority. In doing so, they further solidified class differences in Barb…
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In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon suggests "Decolonization is truly the creation of new men" (2). In this project, I am interested in the representation of the emerging "new man" in the novels of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Paule Marshall, as well as Jalal Al-e Ahmad…
With the publication of Henry Louis Gates's The Signifying Monkey (1988), African American literary critics have looked increasingly at the influence of West African mythical traditions upon black American literature. Typically, criticism of this sort privileges Yoruba tradition…
For years, critics have used Black writers' interweaving of African-derived oral textual features and European written forms to reject the concept of the Great Divide between orality and writing in literacy studies. These critics primarily see the hybridized texts of writers of …
Following an introductory chapter, effects of the multifaceted character of the Caribbean on the formation of the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship were examined. In chapter II, a study of the contextual setting included geography, colonial background, economy, culture and religion, …
Today, the effective management of people is assuming prominence as a source of sustained business performance improvement. The rationale for this trend is that other significant aspects of business, such as marketing, new technology, market niche, trademarks and brand image hav…
The West India Royal Commission of 1897 advanced a number of recommendations intended to lift the West Indies out of their depressed condition and to shape their future economic development. This thesis examines the efforts made to implement those recommendations and the extent …
Although much has been written on the benefits of hosting 'mega events' including the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup, smaller but still significant sport events of global significance such as the Golf World Cup have received hardly any attention by researchers. This de…
Following the collapse of Arthur Andersen in the Enron debacle, whistle-blowing within audit firms has taken on greater importance. Given the profession's requirements to be confidential, independent and to act in the public's interest, there is a need for a model that addresses…
Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship on the sense of place, this dissertation examines how the literary landscapes of formerly colonized countries embody colonial and post-colonial history. The project focuses on the ways in which specific material places both preserv…
Wright, Achebe, and Lamming, as foremost novelists from the United States, Nigeria, and the Caribbean, articulate the impact of colonial domination on the psychology, culture and history of their people. Wright observes how racism affects the African-American; Achebe demonstrate…
In the body of this dissertation, I interpret the “style in which,” the African diaspora is “imagined” in the works of post-1950 black women creative writers from different national traditions. I contend that while the black women writers I discuss can be taken up as participati…
Charles Town, North Carolina was an inhabited settlement just to the south of Wilmington, and was occupied from 1664-1667 and has only seen one major excavation, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the 1980’s-90’s. In this thesis I have analyze the loc…
The Evolving Self: Postmodern Coming-of-Age Novels by Women Writing in the United States examines contemporary expressions of the genre of the Bildungsroman. Rather than focusing on one individual's development at the expense of an analysis of wider social issues, the novels dis…