Date of Award
Summer 8-9-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Chong Chon-Smith
Second Advisor
Jeremy M. Glick
Academic Program Adviser
Janet Neary
Abstract
In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1610-1611) and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) the character negotiate contradictions of freedom: the entitlements that justify violence as well as oppression on the one hand and rights that grant access to emancipation from violence and imposition on the other.
Recommended Citation
Serres, Menaka, "Contradictions of Freedom in The Tempest and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/519
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