My thesis is an excerpt from a historical fiction and magical realism novel. Ran, a young Korean girl, grows up in Japan-occupied Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s. When she comes of age at thirteen, she discovers she can transform into a gumiho, or nine-tailed fox, a …
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This dissertation develops a theoretical framework for the study of a resurgent realism in the context of contemporary global anglophone literature. By demonstrating the continuing relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukács, and by expanding their theories of realism and the …
This dissertation examines the representation of space in the fiction of seven members of the sixties generation in Egypt. Focusing upon the novels of Jamāl al-Ghītānī, Muhammad al-Bisāt ̇ī, ‘Abd al-Hakīm Qāsim, Bahā’ Tāhir, Yahya Tāhir ‘Abdallah, Ibrāhīm Aslān, and Sun‘allah Ibr…
In this short novel, Ryan Moloney comes of age surrounded by mysteries, natural and supernatural. They include the identity of the priest he confesses to, the angels he hears singing in his classroom, his mother’s weeping in a fallout shelter, the fossil-hunting girl who discove…
Blasting at the Big Ugly is a first-person, non-linear novel with two major thru-lines. The first is the story of narrator Ethan and his comrades Jake and Brett as they run around an active mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia shooting off flares and evading capture to…
This dissertation presents a novel that focuses on an immigrant family that struggles to understand the tragic death of one of their own. Thirty years ago, ten-year-old Mina Zand, the youngest child of Iranian immigrant, died, presumably while attempting to climb a tall rock in …
Todas las muertes de Lázaro es una novela negra que habla de corrupción, ansias de poder, ambición y decepción. En este libro, el tema de la muerte es una excusa para hablar de todo un país, El Salvador, y sus contradicciones a través del cinismo, el humor y el escepticismo. Su …
This dissertation provides the first in-depth study of the Lebanese-American immigrant writer, journalist, and translator ‘Afīfa Karam (1883-1924), an important contributor to the nahda, the Arabic cultural renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Karam published t…
The project demonstrating excellence is a combined adolescent novel and contextual thesis. The novel is titled, The Eyes of Bast and is accompanied by a contextual essay on the novel itself. This essay discusses new-pagan understanding of communication as an interrelationship of…
In the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the reemergence of a specifically Palestinian nationalist movement coincided with an explosion in the popularity of the Arabic novel. The writers highlighted within these pages were deeply involved, from varying positions, in the struggl…
Josè Rizal, a nineteenth century Philippine propagandist, lived as he died: dedicated to creating a national identity through anti friar propaganda, he would be executed by a firing squad at the age of 29 for sedition against Spain's colonial empire. In his short life, he earned…
The birth of the detective genre in the early nineteenth century was propitiated by the modern discourses of classification, empiricism and order; the new sciences of sociology, psychology and forensic medicine; and industrial capitalism. The defining element of the Hispanic det…
The land of ancient Egypt, as with most ancient cultures, was described in terms of its fertility, flooding, and available fresh water. The fertile flood plains of the Nile and the Delta that begins at Giza and Cairo was called Kemet, meaning the black land. The harsh landscape …
Five chapters of a novel-in-progress (titled "What Is Known"); one essay (titled "And Yet"); and one short story (titled "A Satisfying View").
Occupied Territories, wrestles with issues of war and occupation, control and rebellion—among races, nations and genders—and asks us not to shut down to one another, despite the spoilers on both sides. Together, and individually, the three principal women of this novel recognize…
My Banishment is the story of Vega Nassad, the daughter of Syrian-Lebanese immigrants, who on the day of her husband Elias's death in 1956, is banished from her family and hometown on suspicion of poisoning Elias to be with her lover. Vega has fallen in love with Orlando, the fi…
This dissertation is an analysis of the nature of so-called ‘polygamy’ in Africa. By identifying the specific markers of it evident in selected African novels, and comparing these findings with the socio-historical record, this study attempts to map the attitudes, as expressed b…
This thesis first posits a theoretical distinction between two major historical waves of South Asian migration: the dispersal of South Asian peoples as “indentured labourers” or “passenger Indians” during the greater part of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to the colo…
This thesis is a novel set in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the spring and summer of 1987. Having lost his job, his girlfriend, and his rock band, twenty-six-year old Sam Whittier has reluctantly returned home from Silicon Valley to rest and caretake the family home, built in 1890s by…