Theses (Institute of English and American Studies)

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Theses (Institute of English and American Studies) Szerző szerinti böngészés "Ábel, Anita"

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    Native American Spirituality in James Cameron's Avatar: The Web of Life
    (2013-02-14T07:39:51Z) Ábel, Anita; Bíróné Nagy, Katalin; DE--TEK--Bölcsészettudományi Kar
    In my thesis, I investigate the possible interpretations of the avatar in James Cameron’s 2010 film entitled Avatar by means of following the various stages in the protagonist’s rite of passage among the indigenous people until he becomes physically, mentally, and spiritually alive through his several transformations on the way towards the center of the Native American web of life. Owing to the director’s environmentalist agenda he emphasizes in relation to Avatar, the question unavoidably arises, how the American Indian concept of the world and the natives in the US can be connected to the imagined world on Pandora, a moon in the Alpha Centauri system, and its inhabitants, the Na’vi. To answer the query precisely, each chapter is built upon the viable parallels between the two indigenous cultures, starting with the uncanny resemblance prevalent in their concept of the world.
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    The Native American Trickster
    (2013-06-04T14:00:18Z) Ábel, Anita; Bíróné Nagy, Katalin; DE--TEK--Bölcsészettudományi Kar
    In my thesis I would like to examine the significant role played by the Native American trickster as a culture hero in the world of urban Indians through two alternative trickster attitudes, namely that of the arrogant challenger in N. Scott Momaday’s novel House Made of Dawn and the supportive one in Gerald Vizenor’s short story collection entitled Wordarrows. The Dictionary of Native American Literature argues that the trickster is “the most popular, problematic, and powerful figure in Native American literature” (99). The question necessarily comes up what makes him such an important, questionable and vigorous figure at the same time, not only in the eyes of the Indian authors, who often invoke his aid in their works, but also for all the other Native Americans who either live on reservations or in the great cities of the United States.