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This thesis analyzes the process of women’s mythmaking in the plays written by
female playwrights. Through writing the lives of female writers and rewriting the literary
characters, which have been created by male writers, the women playwrights assume the role
of a mythmaker. A mythmaker possesses the power to use the ‘word,’ thereby possesses the
power to control ‘reality.’ [...]
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This thesis analyzes how Afro-Caribbean poets writing in English appropriate language and use memory as a thematic tool to articulate postcolonial identities. The present study is organized in three parts: the first part provides the necessary theoretical background regarding postcolonial theory, the politics of hybridity and resistance; the second part examines poets’ struggles over language [...]
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Different in worldviews, Europeans and American Indians have opposed each other since their early contacts. Their dealings with each other, which were based on trade at first, have transformed into a relationship in which American Indians are brutalized and exploited. American Indians have been exposed to both internal and external colonization and assimilation methods of [...]
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This study attemts to present to show the variations between the two different versions of “The Old Man and The Sea”. In order to view the variations between the original text and the translated texts that cause defects in meaning, two translations of Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man and The Sea” are analyzed and the [...]
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This paper will address Marxist criticism of postmodern elements in the texts
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M.
Coetzee. Postmodernism theory is based on the idea of the decentralization and
deconstruction of ‘the idea of wholeness’, and for this reason when it is contrasted
with Marxist theory, it is evident that postmodernism [...]
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the philosophy of the French
philosopher, Henri Bergson, has been a matter of widespread discussions. The rise of
Henri Bergsons philosophy and these discussions coincide, in terms of period, with
the European Modernism, which started at the end of the nineteenth century, gaining
force as it developed, and reached its peak during [...]
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During the period of slavery, the black woman was exposed to various oppressions in
the white patriarchal world. The black woman continued the search for her identity
and constructed her selfhood under these conditions. The main reason for this
problem was that the black woman had to face ‘the double oppression’. The black
slave woman chose to construct her [...]
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The aristocratic tradition of the Old South was basically founded upon puritan
uprightness and moral integrity. Because of its unshakeable ethical values, the
Southern community isolated itself from the outer world, and gradually became a
backward-looking society. Consequently, the aristocrats moved towards a process of
moral degeneration. Apart from its conservatism, the South was also troubled with
the system of [...]