Otherworldliness : uncanny literary devices in the liminal spaces created by transnational authors / by Wendy Lemus.
| Author/creator |
Lemus, Wendy author. |
| Other author/creator | Taylor, Richard C., 1956- , degree supervisor. |
| Other author/creator | East Carolina University. Department of English. |
| Format | Theses and dissertations, Electronic, and Book |
| Publication Info | [Greenville, N.C.] : [East Carolina University], 2021. |
| Description | 67 pages |
| Supplemental Content | Access via ScholarShip |
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| Variant title | Otherworldliness uncanny literary devices in the liminal spaces created by transnational authors |
| Summary | This thesis will argue that contemporary transnational authors, by virtue of their often complex, multicultural identities, have a unique ability to create "otherworldly" stories of global significance through their use of literary devices I will describe as uncanny. I define otherworldly as used in this thesis along common definitional guidelines: a place both familiar but at the same time unrecognizable - a reframing of the world the reader knows. In effect, these other worlds resemble ours, but they are not ours whether by a paradigm shift or because the windows into these worlds are different from our own. The otherworldliness in the stories of Mohsin Hamid, Kazuo Ishiguro, Elif Shafak, and Akwaeke Emezi moves beyond the fantastical, so often depicted in the magical realism of transnational literature, to plausible places that have a basis in social, political, scientific, or even spiritual reality. Collectively, these worlds are dreamt up through perceptions influenced by the authors' transnationality, with deep intuition and a foreboding sense of what the world really looks like if readers take time to look through the author's lens. |
| General note | Presented to the faculty of the Department of English. |
| General note | Advisor: Richard Taylor |
| General note | Title from PDF t.p. (viewed November 24, 2021). |
| Dissertation note | M.A. East Carolina University 2021. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | System requirements: Adobe Reader. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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