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dc.contributor.advisor | Goellnicht, Donald | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Nguyen, Karen | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:47:34Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:47:34Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-06-10 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2008-08 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/4652 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 5672 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2054988 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9538 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>This thesis investigates the first and second diasporic generations' approaches to "home" as represented in Dionne Brand's <em>What We All Long For</em> and Madeleine Thien's <em>Certainty</em>. Brand and Thien offer nuanced and counter-intuitive conceptualizations of "home" that emerge in the house, city, and world at large. The authors demonstrate how one's achievement of "home" does not only entail a negotiation of these spaces, but also of familial relations. This thesis argues that the first generation's "diaspora consciousness" is a trait that the second generation inherits and transforms. This second generation exhibits more of a "transnational consciousness," a term that this thesis offers to describe the nomadic lifestyle of the second-generation characters.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
dc.title | Diasporic Approaches to "Home" and Family in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Madeleine Thien's Certainty | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | English | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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