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Every woman wants to be skinny, right? : a critical examination of the fat female body within bigger girl lit / by Jessica Lynn Wyatt.
(2008)
...there are significant differences between the characterizations of Chick Lit and Bigger Girl Lit protagonists. The protagonists of Bigger Girl Lit obsess about their bodies, especially the size of their bodies ...; ...
Writing bodies into history : Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin / by Tamara Arthur.
(2008)
Historical fiction simultaneously can be used to document history while also questioning traditional history and ways of knowing. In particular, Margaret Atwood’s historical fiction questions traditional history and ...
Writing the ascent : narrative and mountaineering accounts / by Justin Allec.
(2009)
Mountaineering is an activity traditionally practiced in remote areas of the world by a select few participants. Upon returning from an expedition, some mountaineers retrospectively publish their account as a testament of ...
(Re)i-magining identity : plural subjectivities in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House and Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven
(2001)
This thesis uses the concepts, definitions, theories, and poetry of black
women, in particular highlighting those of Africaribbean women, to look at the
construction of identity in two novels by two women of the Caribbean ...
"Lord I know I been saved" : religious experience in James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain / by Andrew Connolly.
(2009)
"The world of Go Tell It on the Mountain is a theological world. Not only do the characters themselves follow a theology, but a version of the Christian God arguably appears as a character in the novel. Rather than promote ...
Depictions of race : self and other in Tolkien's and Jackson's Lord of the Rings / by Jonathan Epp.
(2008)
The war between darkness and light depicted in J. R. R. Tolkien’s famous
fantasy. The Lord of the Rings, is the subject of much debate and interpretation. At a first reading, Tolkien’s story can be mistaken as following ...
Reading native literature from a traditional indigenous perspective : contemporary novels in a Windigo society
(2001)
In this thesis I explore three novels by Aboriginal authors, using a perspective that evolves
from traditional Anishnabe teachings about the “Windigo" character. In the Introduction, I
elaborate upon the reasons why a n ...
Alternative music : jazz and the performance resignification of identity in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees and Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley
(2001)
In this thesis, I argue that Jazz, a music which finds its basis in improvisation, not
only functions as music, but as an extremely potent means of political resistance to a
number of systems by and through which identity ...
Applications of chaos theory to history in the novels of Michael Ondaatje : disorder within order in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter and In the Skin of a Lion
(2001)
This is a thesis studying Literary Chaos Theory and its use in explicating
the novels of Michael Ondaatje. The paper concentrates on elements of Chaos
theory, such as ‘strange attractors,’ ‘bifurcation points’ and ...
From ethnic towards transnational : The green library by Janice Kulyk Keefer
(2002)
This thesis argues that The Green Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer can be
read as a Canadian national narrative. In the novel, Keefer sets a task to explore how
ethnic minorities in Canada (Ukrainian Canadians in this case) ...