Sökning: "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
1. The Postmodern Aesthetic of Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaSammanfattning : This thesis examines The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Díaz as an example of postmodern fiction. The thesis begins with a background chapter that outlines the central characteristics of postmodern fiction, followed by three chapters that tackle one main postmodern aspect of the novel each: fragmentation, metafiction and intertextuality. LÄS MER
2. Approaching the Ideal Self through Love: Lacan’s objet petit a and Representations of Love in The Color Purple, Poor Things, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaSammanfattning : Using Jacques Lacan’s theories of subjectivity, this dissertation analyses the relationships between the ideal selves and the romantic desires of characters in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondous Life of Oscar Wao. Lacan argues that there is an inherent lack in all human beings, stemming from incompleteness and early helplessness, and employs the notion of the objet petit a, the cause for desire, to represent a subject’s desire to redress their lack. LÄS MER
3. “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World”: the Decolonized Chronotope, Liminality, and Dialogics in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaSammanfattning : Narratives focusing on People of Color often suffer from neocolonial treatment with narrow focus on race at the expense of character development, working with stereotypical monoliths rather than complex individuals. These types of narratives tend to use Whiteness as a “neutral” reference point. LÄS MER
4. Across Borders: Migrancy, Bilingualism, and the Reconfiguration of Postcolonialism in Junot Díaz’s Fiction
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/LitteraturvetenskapSammanfattning : Equipped with Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and his collections of short stories Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), this thesis interprets the fundamentals of migrant literature, studies Díaz’s tools of migrant depiction, and examines contemporary postcolonial and migrant discourse. This is performed in three integral segments of study. LÄS MER
5. ”Blatte, kom igen …” Slangöversättning utifrån den svenska översättningen av Junot Díaz "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : I denna uppsats undersöks den svenska översättningen av slanginslagen i The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), en roman av Junot Díaz. Att översätta slang kräver djupgående kunskap om såväl vokabulär som käll- och målspråkets respektive kulturer. LÄS MER
