
dr Ewelina Bańka
Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut LiteraturoznawstwaKatedra Literatury i Kultury Amerykańskiej
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Wypromowane prace dyplomowe
2024
Prace licencjackie
- Contesting the 'White Man’s Indian' in Sherman Alexie’s “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian”
- The Legacy of Indian Boarding School Experiences in Richard Wagamese's "Indian Horse"
Prace magisterskie
- To Be a Yeoja: Defining the Korean-American Female Experience in Steph Cha’s Writing
- Female Struggle against Patriarchy in Selected Latino-American Literary Works
- War Trauma in Selected American Literary Works
- Negotiating Cultural Identity in Selected Narratives about Women Captivity
- Identity Crisis in Selected Works by Mexican-American Writers
- Social Perspectives on Disease in Selected Works by American Writers
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