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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Dave Eggers"”.
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Narrating Literary Transnationalism in Zake Smith and Dave Eggers
… Zadie Smith's novel <em>White Teeth</em> and Dave Eggers' novel <em>What Is the What</em>. Smith's work focuses intently upon the friction people experience in the face of transnationalism when they refuse to let go of their colonial mindset. Eggers' text centers on a Lost Boy from Sudan and, …
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Straddling the Line
… writing of Maya Angelou, Augusten Burroughs, and Dave Eggers. The concept of reader’s “belief” as they relate to a given creative non-fiction piece and the reality of perspective as a means to position and understand this type of writing is also explored. The reminder of the project includes …
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Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction
… past and problematic current circumstances. Dave Eggers' nonfiction book Zeitoun, which follows the travails of a Syrian-American unjustly imprisoned in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, exposes some of the reasons behind the occurrence of human rights violations in contemporary America, …
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States of displacement: voice and narration in refugee stories
… between narration and refugee voices. In Dave Eggers’ text What is the What (2008), the words ‘novel’ and ‘autobiography’ on the title page set a framework for an exploration of the displacement of both genres. As Achak Deng, the Sudanese refugee-exile claims to have “gone out in search of …
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Surveillance: The Digital Dark Side
… sphere of our world. By closely examining Dave Eggers’ novel <em>The Circle, s</em>pecifically by tracing the character arc of the main character Mae, this dystopian novel will track how Mae’s evolving relationship with the digital sphere is much like society’s newfound relationship with …