dc.contributor.author |
Abuatieh, Emily Ann Craighead. |
dc.date.accessioned |
2012-06-13T07:36:04Z |
dc.date.available |
2012-06-13T07:36:04Z |
dc.date.issued |
2012 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/8852 |
dc.description |
Thesis (M.A.)--American University of Beirut, Department of English, 2012.;"Advisor : Dr. Sirène Harb, Associate Professor, Department of English--Members of Committee : Dr. John Pedro Schwartz, Assistant Professor, Department of English Dr. Alexander Ha |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-149) |
dc.description.abstract |
Framed by contemporary trauma theory, this thesis examines configurations of identity in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man by applying the model of a palimpsest to probe the narrator’s experience of trauma and its multiple repercussions on his life. In its ap |
dc.format.extent |
viii, 149 leaves 30 cm. |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Theses, Dissertations, and Projects |
dc.subject.classification |
T:005601 AUBNO |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Psychic trauma in literature. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. |
dc.title |
Towards cadence in chaos : trauma, identity, and palimpsest in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible man - by Emily Ann Craighead Abuatieh. |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
American University of Beirut. Faculty of Arts and sciences. Department of English. |