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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Don't Worry ; It's Only a White Lie

Trinh, Annie 11 August 2017 (has links)
My thesis will be a collection of short stories about Asian and Asian-American families and the expectations of their children that leads them to certain decisions and actions. The majority of the stories will be focused on Vietnamese-American families, but I will explore the family dynamics within the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese families as well. Through this short story collection, I hope to dramatize the internal conflicts of children of Asian and Asian-American families as they question their identities and aspirations and as they struggle to preserving culture while simultaneously creating their own individual cultures and redefining what it means to be Asian or Asian-American. For my critical introduction, I will examine the immigrant literature of Junot Diaz. Particularly influential to my own writing are Diaz’s focuses on familial relationships, his experiments with point of view, and his use of a native family language (in his case, Spanish) alongside English.
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Taking Issue with History: Empathy and the Ethical Imperatives of Creative Interventions

Vera, Monica A 01 January 2012 (has links)
The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to a dialogue that considers the relationship between history, literature, and empathy as a literary affect. Specifically, I explored sites of literature’s transformative potential as it relates to cultural studies and the ethics of deconstruction. Via a deconstructive, post-colonial reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, I considered how subjects in our current socio-political moment can feel history. Emerging from a post-structurally mediated engagement with history, signification, and feeling, I argued that empathy, as it is contentiously presented in the context of deconstruction, is not necessarily a reductive or essentialist approach towards relating or “being-with” an-other. Instead, I proposed that the act of reading historiographical novels that take constructions of the Atlantic Slave Trade to task might generate an affective empathy, which could in turn engender a more empathetic relationality and way of being-in-the-world.
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Traduire la "dominicanidad" de Junot Diaz dans "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" et "Wildwood"

Parent, Diane 05 April 2013 (has links)
Originaire de la République dominicaine, Junot Díaz est un écrivain dominico-américain, qui a émigré aux États-Unis à l’âge de 7 ans avec sa mère et son frère aîné, venus rejoindre le père qui les avait précédés cinq ans auparavant. Fort du succès de son roman, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, qui lui a mérité le prix Pulitzer en 2008, et de ses deux recueils, Drown (1996) et This How You Loose Her (2012), l’auteur occupe une place importante dans la sphère littéraire américaine, comme le montre la thèse. Deux de ses nouvelles, "The Sun, the Stars, the Moon" et "Wildwood" sont analysées et traduites dans la présente thèse, de même que leur traduction en français est commentée. La thèse montre en outre comment la nouvelle est un genre littéraire qui sert bien le texte diazien, sa poétique et son esthétique. "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" et "Wildwood" sont de bons exemples du style inimitable de l’auteur, dont les principales caractéristiques sont le rythme syncopé de sa phrase et l’usage du spanglish. Le persillage textuel qui résulte de la présence de l’espagnol dans des textes rédigés en anglais perturbe et interrompt le lien narratif. Il représente aussi pour l’auteur une stratégie linguistique au service de son projet politique, qui est d’affirmer sa dominicanité et de s’adresser directement à ses compatriotes dominicano-américains afin d’avoir un dialogue avec eux, mais aussi avec son lectorat blanc pour lui rappeler que l’anglais et l’espagnol s’influencent mutuellement aux États-Unis. La langue de Diaz est sonore, imagée, son ton est oral et informel, le registre est tantôt populaire, voire grossier, tantôt relevé. Vecteur d’identité et de culture, les expressions grossières ou vulgaires ponctuent les propos de Yunior, le narrateur de "The Sun, the Moon the Stars", comme s’il s’agissait d’un tic langagier. Dans "Wildwood", la formule juratoire se retrouve davantage dans la bouche de la mère colérique de Lola, la narratrice, que chez la jeune fille en quête d’une autre vie loin de sa mère, du New Jersey, de Paterson, de l’espagnol. Traduire en français la langue de Diaz qui mêle l’anglais à une sorte d’argot dominicano-américain relève d’une gageure, d’autant plus que le traducteur canadien doit choisir entre une variété de français trop hexagonale et une variété de français trop québécoise. Dominican-born writer Junot Díaz emigrated to the United States at age 7, with his mother and older brother, to join his father, who had emigrated five years earlier. The success of Díaz’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and two short story collections, Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), has made him an important figure in the U.S. literary world, as will be shown in this thesis. This thesis includes an analysis and commented French translation of two of his short stories, namely “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars” and “Wildwood.” It also discusses the ways in which the short story is a literary genre that suits Díaz’s text, poetics and aesthetics. “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars” and “Wildwood” are good examples of the author’s inimitable style, which is characterized by syncopated sentence rhythms and the use of Spanglish. English sentences are peppered with Spanish, which interferes with and breaks up the narration. Díaz uses Spanglish also as a language strategy that serves his political agenda, namely to affirm his Dominican roots and engage his fellow Dominican-Americans in a direct dialogue, and to remind white readers that English and Spanish influence each other in the U.S. Díaz’s language is musical and vivid, his tone, informal and conversational, and his register, sometimes colloquial—or even vulgar—and sometimes literary. Coarse and vulgar expressions are conveyors of identity and culture that punctuate the statements of Yunior, the narrator in “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars,” like a verbal tic. In “Wildwood” the cursing and swearing come more from the mouth of the furious mother of Lola, the narrator, than from the young woman herself, who seeks a life far from her mother, her home town Paterson, New Jersey, and Spanish. Translating Díaz’s language, a combination of English and a kind of Dominican-American slang, into French is challenging, especially since translators in Canada are faced with choosing between varieties of French that are either too Parisian or too Québécois.
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Traduire la "dominicanidad" de Junot Diaz dans "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" et "Wildwood"

Parent, Diane 05 April 2013 (has links)
Originaire de la République dominicaine, Junot Díaz est un écrivain dominico-américain, qui a émigré aux États-Unis à l’âge de 7 ans avec sa mère et son frère aîné, venus rejoindre le père qui les avait précédés cinq ans auparavant. Fort du succès de son roman, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, qui lui a mérité le prix Pulitzer en 2008, et de ses deux recueils, Drown (1996) et This How You Loose Her (2012), l’auteur occupe une place importante dans la sphère littéraire américaine, comme le montre la thèse. Deux de ses nouvelles, "The Sun, the Stars, the Moon" et "Wildwood" sont analysées et traduites dans la présente thèse, de même que leur traduction en français est commentée. La thèse montre en outre comment la nouvelle est un genre littéraire qui sert bien le texte diazien, sa poétique et son esthétique. "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" et "Wildwood" sont de bons exemples du style inimitable de l’auteur, dont les principales caractéristiques sont le rythme syncopé de sa phrase et l’usage du spanglish. Le persillage textuel qui résulte de la présence de l’espagnol dans des textes rédigés en anglais perturbe et interrompt le lien narratif. Il représente aussi pour l’auteur une stratégie linguistique au service de son projet politique, qui est d’affirmer sa dominicanité et de s’adresser directement à ses compatriotes dominicano-américains afin d’avoir un dialogue avec eux, mais aussi avec son lectorat blanc pour lui rappeler que l’anglais et l’espagnol s’influencent mutuellement aux États-Unis. La langue de Diaz est sonore, imagée, son ton est oral et informel, le registre est tantôt populaire, voire grossier, tantôt relevé. Vecteur d’identité et de culture, les expressions grossières ou vulgaires ponctuent les propos de Yunior, le narrateur de "The Sun, the Moon the Stars", comme s’il s’agissait d’un tic langagier. Dans "Wildwood", la formule juratoire se retrouve davantage dans la bouche de la mère colérique de Lola, la narratrice, que chez la jeune fille en quête d’une autre vie loin de sa mère, du New Jersey, de Paterson, de l’espagnol. Traduire en français la langue de Diaz qui mêle l’anglais à une sorte d’argot dominicano-américain relève d’une gageure, d’autant plus que le traducteur canadien doit choisir entre une variété de français trop hexagonale et une variété de français trop québécoise. Dominican-born writer Junot Díaz emigrated to the United States at age 7, with his mother and older brother, to join his father, who had emigrated five years earlier. The success of Díaz’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and two short story collections, Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), has made him an important figure in the U.S. literary world, as will be shown in this thesis. This thesis includes an analysis and commented French translation of two of his short stories, namely “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars” and “Wildwood.” It also discusses the ways in which the short story is a literary genre that suits Díaz’s text, poetics and aesthetics. “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars” and “Wildwood” are good examples of the author’s inimitable style, which is characterized by syncopated sentence rhythms and the use of Spanglish. English sentences are peppered with Spanish, which interferes with and breaks up the narration. Díaz uses Spanglish also as a language strategy that serves his political agenda, namely to affirm his Dominican roots and engage his fellow Dominican-Americans in a direct dialogue, and to remind white readers that English and Spanish influence each other in the U.S. Díaz’s language is musical and vivid, his tone, informal and conversational, and his register, sometimes colloquial—or even vulgar—and sometimes literary. Coarse and vulgar expressions are conveyors of identity and culture that punctuate the statements of Yunior, the narrator in “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars,” like a verbal tic. In “Wildwood” the cursing and swearing come more from the mouth of the furious mother of Lola, the narrator, than from the young woman herself, who seeks a life far from her mother, her home town Paterson, New Jersey, and Spanish. Translating Díaz’s language, a combination of English and a kind of Dominican-American slang, into French is challenging, especially since translators in Canada are faced with choosing between varieties of French that are either too Parisian or too Québécois.
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Traduire la "dominicanidad" de Junot Diaz dans "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" et "Wildwood"

Parent, Diane January 2013 (has links)
Originaire de la République dominicaine, Junot Díaz est un écrivain dominico-américain, qui a émigré aux États-Unis à l’âge de 7 ans avec sa mère et son frère aîné, venus rejoindre le père qui les avait précédés cinq ans auparavant. Fort du succès de son roman, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, qui lui a mérité le prix Pulitzer en 2008, et de ses deux recueils, Drown (1996) et This How You Loose Her (2012), l’auteur occupe une place importante dans la sphère littéraire américaine, comme le montre la thèse. Deux de ses nouvelles, "The Sun, the Stars, the Moon" et "Wildwood" sont analysées et traduites dans la présente thèse, de même que leur traduction en français est commentée. La thèse montre en outre comment la nouvelle est un genre littéraire qui sert bien le texte diazien, sa poétique et son esthétique. "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" et "Wildwood" sont de bons exemples du style inimitable de l’auteur, dont les principales caractéristiques sont le rythme syncopé de sa phrase et l’usage du spanglish. Le persillage textuel qui résulte de la présence de l’espagnol dans des textes rédigés en anglais perturbe et interrompt le lien narratif. Il représente aussi pour l’auteur une stratégie linguistique au service de son projet politique, qui est d’affirmer sa dominicanité et de s’adresser directement à ses compatriotes dominicano-américains afin d’avoir un dialogue avec eux, mais aussi avec son lectorat blanc pour lui rappeler que l’anglais et l’espagnol s’influencent mutuellement aux États-Unis. La langue de Diaz est sonore, imagée, son ton est oral et informel, le registre est tantôt populaire, voire grossier, tantôt relevé. Vecteur d’identité et de culture, les expressions grossières ou vulgaires ponctuent les propos de Yunior, le narrateur de "The Sun, the Moon the Stars", comme s’il s’agissait d’un tic langagier. Dans "Wildwood", la formule juratoire se retrouve davantage dans la bouche de la mère colérique de Lola, la narratrice, que chez la jeune fille en quête d’une autre vie loin de sa mère, du New Jersey, de Paterson, de l’espagnol. Traduire en français la langue de Diaz qui mêle l’anglais à une sorte d’argot dominicano-américain relève d’une gageure, d’autant plus que le traducteur canadien doit choisir entre une variété de français trop hexagonale et une variété de français trop québécoise. Dominican-born writer Junot Díaz emigrated to the United States at age 7, with his mother and older brother, to join his father, who had emigrated five years earlier. The success of Díaz’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and two short story collections, Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), has made him an important figure in the U.S. literary world, as will be shown in this thesis. This thesis includes an analysis and commented French translation of two of his short stories, namely “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars” and “Wildwood.” It also discusses the ways in which the short story is a literary genre that suits Díaz’s text, poetics and aesthetics. “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars” and “Wildwood” are good examples of the author’s inimitable style, which is characterized by syncopated sentence rhythms and the use of Spanglish. English sentences are peppered with Spanish, which interferes with and breaks up the narration. Díaz uses Spanglish also as a language strategy that serves his political agenda, namely to affirm his Dominican roots and engage his fellow Dominican-Americans in a direct dialogue, and to remind white readers that English and Spanish influence each other in the U.S. Díaz’s language is musical and vivid, his tone, informal and conversational, and his register, sometimes colloquial—or even vulgar—and sometimes literary. Coarse and vulgar expressions are conveyors of identity and culture that punctuate the statements of Yunior, the narrator in “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars,” like a verbal tic. In “Wildwood” the cursing and swearing come more from the mouth of the furious mother of Lola, the narrator, than from the young woman herself, who seeks a life far from her mother, her home town Paterson, New Jersey, and Spanish. Translating Díaz’s language, a combination of English and a kind of Dominican-American slang, into French is challenging, especially since translators in Canada are faced with choosing between varieties of French that are either too Parisian or too Québécois.
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The Ghosts of Guilt and Betrayal

Voller, Leslie Abigail 11 December 2009 (has links)
This creative thesis is comprised of stories that present characters who deal with guilt and betrayal and explores various points of view. My work is informed by Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which contains these themes and investigates narration. “Surviving Fog” centers around survivor’s guilt, while “Coming Full Circle, No Detour in Sight” demonstrates how a person can exert expectations on herself due to a religious background and personal values. Perhaps my most provocative story, “Beyond the Apple Orchard” delves into the emotional and physical betrayal of a father and the daughter’s struggles to overcome it. “Photographic Memories” embraces the surreal with a woman who can “read” photographs, whose story blends past transgressions that bleed into current ones, while “Send in the Clowns, Send in the Mob” explores herd mentality that stems from fear. Ultimately, each story contains kernels of truth that readers can grasp.
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Transnational Compositionality and Hemon, Shteyngart, Díaz; A No Man's Land, Etc.

Miner, Joshua D. 08 1900 (has links)
Contemporary transnational literature presents a unique interpretive problem, due to new methods of language and culture negotiation in the information age. The resulting condition, transnational compositionality, is evidenced by specific linguistic artifacts; to illustrate this I use three American novels as a case study: Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon, Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. By extension, many conventional literary elements are changed in the transnational since modernity: satire is no longer a lampooning of cultures but a questioning of the methods by which humans blend cultures together; similarly, complex symbolic constructions may no longer be taken at face value, for they now communicate more about cultural identity processes than static ideologies. If scholars are to achieve adequate interpretations of these elements, we must consider the global framework that has so intimately shaped them in the twenty-first century.
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Hospitable Imaginations: Contemporary Latino/a Literature and the Pursuit of a Readership

Gonzalez, Christopher Thomas 28 August 2012 (has links)
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