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1	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. surreal herd mentality Murderous Mary religion True Love Waits photographs pregnancy survivor's guilt oppression guilt betrayal fear Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2	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. Transnational cultural studies sociolinguistics Junot Diaz Gary Shteyngart Aleksandar Henon American Transnationalism in literature. Compositionality (Linguistics) Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- Nowhere man. Shteyngart, Gary, 1972- Absurdistan.

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The Ghosts of Guilt and Betrayal

Transnational Compositionality and Hemon, Shteyngart, Díaz; A No Man's Land, Etc.