Research paper
Cannibals and survivors : narrative strategies in third culture literature : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Creative Writing at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
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- Cannibals and survivors : narrative strategies in third culture literature : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Creative Writing at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
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- Massey University
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In this thesis I look at the narrative strategies at work in my own fiction, The Glass House, and also those at work in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, and examine both in light of the context of third culture literature. Sociologically, the term “third culture” describes those people who are raised outside their passport nations as children, in multiple countries, as expats rather than immigrants. Antje M. Rauwerda takes this term from a sociological context and applies it to a literary one and, i...
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- Thesis
- Thesis level
- Masters
- Date created
- 2013
- Creator
- Ehterington, Bonnie Joy / Etherington, Bonnie Joy
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10179/4848
- Related subjects
- Third culture literature / Children of expatriates / Yann Martel / Life of Pi / Transnational literature / Children of missionaries / Creative writing / Identity
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