Sökning: "Serra Hughes"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Serra Hughes.

1. 1. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Serra Hughes; [2022]
   Nyckelord :novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

   Sammanfattning : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. LÄS MER

3. 2. Cosmopolitanism as an Antidote to American Nationalism in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Serra Hughes; [2019]
   Nyckelord :cosmopolitanism; American nationalism; Mohsin Hamid; 9 11; AK Appiah;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores how The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid offers a potential cosmopolitan antidote to the myths of American nationalism which allow the United States to pursue self-interested policies abroad that consequently deny the humanity of those who are seen as commodities or collateral damage. Using Richard T. LÄS MER