Ewelina Bańka

dr Ewelina Bańka

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut Literaturoznawstwa
Katedra Literatury i Kultury Amerykańskiej

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2022

Prace magisterskie
  • The Role of Family in the Process of Identity Formation in Selected Mexican-American Literary Works
  • The Search for Identity in Modern Women's Writing
  • Resisting Discrimination against Women of Color in Selected Female Writing
  • Generational Responses to the Holocaust in the Selected Works by American Writers
  • Home and Identity: Greek Diaspora and American Homeland in the Works of Harry M. Petrakis
  • In Search of Justice: The Issue of Racial Discrimination in Contemporary American Literature
  • The Celebration of Black Womanhood in the Selected Works by Maya Angelou
  • The Problem of Racial Borders in African-American Experience Addressed in American Literature
  • The Art of Misrepresentation: Stereotypical Depictions of Native Americans in Literature and Film

2021

Prace magisterskie
  • The Role of Cinematography in the Formation of National American Identity

2020

Prace magisterskie
  • The Role of the Gothic Genre in the Selected Novels by Cormac McCarthy
  • Post-Apocalyptic Visions of America in the 21st Century Literature and Culture
  • Challenging the Myth of the American West
  • The Question of Identity in the Selected Works of Willa Cather
  • Identity and Place in the Contemporary Southwestern American Literature
  • Indigenous Perspectives on the History of Colonization in the Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Simon J. Ortiz
  • The Critique of Colonialism in the Selected Works of Louise Erdrich
  • The Role of Storytelling in Contemporary Native American Literature

2016

Prace magisterskie
  • Exploring the Myth of the American West in Zane Grey's Fiction

2015

Prace magisterskie
  • Identity Quest in The Selected Works by Native American Writers
  • Strong Children and Weak Adults in Stephen King's Horror Fiction.
  • Mediating Between Cultures: Identity Formation in the Works of Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong and Kim Ronyoung.
  • Challenging the Popular Image of the West in the Works of Edgar Laurence Doctorow, Cormac McCarthy and Ishmael Reed.
  • The Construction of The Western Hero in Literature and Film
  • Trauma and Identity Crisis in Contemporary Native American Literature
  • Criminal Manhattan as a Reflection on the Condition of Modern Society.
  • The Motif of Isolation in the Selected Works by Stephen King and Jonathan Demme
  • Coming-of-Age: In Search of the Self in Contemporary Chinese American Fiction
  • Investigation and Court Case As Manifestations of Racism in the American South.
  • Forensic Imagination in Investigative Journalism
  • The Fight for Human Rights in Contemporary Mexican-American Literature
  • The Changing Figure of the Detective in Contemporary American Literature and Fiction.
  • Place in Native American Culture And Literature: Simon J. Ortiz's Woven Stone, Joy Harjo's How We Became Humans, N. Scott Momaday's In the Presence of the Sun.
  • Obsession as the Primary Motif in the Life and Work of Patricia Highsmith
  • The Motif of the Road in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
  • The Aesthetics of Serial Killing and Serial Killers in American Literature
  • The Role of Place in the American Southwestern Women's Literature
  • Investigation as a Struggle of Reason and Emotions in Detective Fiction of American Romanticism.
  • Documenting Chicano Borderland Experience in the Works of Louis Alberto Urrea
  • Psychological Thriller and Its Film Adaptations

2014

Prace magisterskie
  • Madness in America of the 1950s and 1960s in the Works of Ken Kesey, Sylvia Plath and Susanna Kaysen

2013

Prace magisterskie
  • The Death of the Myth of the Old West on the Basis of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.
  • The Construction of Identity in Contemporary Caribbean-American Fiction
  • Representations of the Black Female Body in the Works of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gayl Jones.
  • In Search of America: The Journey Motif in John Steinbeck’s Fiction
  • The Socio-cultural Landscape of America in the Post-World War I American Fiction.
  • Challenging the Borders: Towards the Construction of a Postbellum Mindset in the Works of Harper Lee, William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor