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(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 ...
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 ...