Browsing Department of English Literature Graduate Theses by Author "Bongie, Chris"
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The Hybrid Child Soldier Life Narrative: Testimony, Witnessing, and the Limits of Humanitarian Sentiment in Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Roberts, JessicaTestimonial literature bears witness to collective experiences of injustice and human rights violations, and it emphasizes the relationship between context and collective suffering. The trauma memoir, in contrast, focuses ... -
“A (Re)turn to the Archive: Reading the Lives and Works of Yvonne Vera and Dambudzo Marechera”
Kastner, SarahIn this dissertation, I read the life and work of the Zimbabwean authors, Yvonne Vera (1964 – 2005) and Dambudzo Marechera (1952 – 1987), against a set of assumptions about the work of African life storytelling in late ... -
Writing the Other, Writing the Self: British Travelogues and Iranian Women’s Life Writing, 1890s-1920s
Ghazimoradi, ShadiThis dissertation examines the ways that Iranian women’s writing deployed and reshaped the life narrative form to suit the social milieu of early twentieth-century Iran. In terms of scope, this project examines British ...