Banding together to weather the lonely nihilistic storms in Never Let Me Go and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. by Lum, Shu Wei.

“…As existentialism is a “person-centred philosophy”, the essay’s structure mirrors the progression of finding meaning in one’s life from various relationships, as meaning is often first attained from the more private type of relationships to the more public type of relationships. …”
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“I am not joking” : a reconsideration on Frederic Henry and the lovely critics who laugh at him. by Ismath Banu.

“…By exploring the similarities in the male and female protagonists' scholarships, this essay takes up the question of critical determinism in Frederic Henry’s scholarship. …”
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"In-between" Jews in Philip Roth's twentieth century America. by Liao, Sharon Ying Tong.

“…In the process of assimilation, they isolate themselves from the traditional Jewish community, and instead subscribe to the aims set up by the white Americans. In this essay, I will look into race issues which are still largely prevalent in contemporary America. …”
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Postmodern identity and philosophy in Toni Morrison's Sula. by Teo, Rachel Zhen Li.

“…The notion of ‘multiple perspectives’ is central the postmodern philosophy of lightness and this essay attempts to show how Sula’s perception of the world corresponds to her lightness of being. …”
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Quilting history : imaginative reconstitution of historical subjectivity in beloved. by Yee, Amanda Yan Fen.

“…Toni Morrison's Beloved is a novel that has been widely acclaimed for its contention with contemporary themes in a historical backdrop. This essay discusses the move towards a reconstituted history, essential to black subjectivity, that Morrison espouses in her novel. …”
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Community outlaw : surviving persecution in Sula and Jazz. by Wong, Jia Ru.

“…This essay explores how Toni Morrison’s “Sula” and “Jazz” present the black community and its pariahs. …”
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The quest for true freedom : psychological emancipation through the human connection in Wright’s native son and Morrison’s beloved by Sutherson, Sunil Ebenezer

“…His claim can be supported by the many works throughout the Twentieth Century that discuss the after effects of slavery. Specifically this essay will focus on Native Son by Richard Wright and the neo-slave narrative entitled Beloved by Toni Morrison, which was written in the late twentieth century. …”
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The significance of time and consciousness in the Sound and the Fury. by Lim, Michelle Bao Ling.

“…In the first part of the essay, we will look at how Faulkner uses internal time as a tool to dramatize the inner destruction of Benjy and Quentin. …”
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Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire. by Kwok, Michelle Jia Yu.

“…This essay will explore the treatment of loss and grief in Vladimir Nabokov's novels Pale Fire and Lolita. …”
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Ezra pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain’s tower : Bob Dylan and the symbolist movement. by Rodrigues, Crispin Cyril-Wardley.

“…Dylan himself, on the other hand, has refuted any interpretation of his songs. In this essay, through close readings of his songs, autobiography and documentaries about him, as well as comparisons with the French symbolist poets of the late 19th century, modernist poets of the early twentieth century and his contemporaries in other art forms, I will resolve the views of Dylan and his interpreters by showing how the divergence of Dylan’s engagement with the symbolist tradition creates a tension between interpretation and non-interpretation of his songs which is resolved through the integration of performance.…”
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Emerging narratives : video games on the rise. by Soo, Cho Wei.

“…With the depleting popularity of books and other traditional narrative mediums, alongside the meteoric rise of a digital lifestyle and the empowerment it brings to people, perhaps, video games are becoming an emerging literary art. This essay will visit several important examples of how video games have that potential to be major literary medium and crucial debates to the narrative evolution of video games.…”
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Mythical heroines : the appropriation of myth in reconstructing female identities in ethnic American literature by Goh, I-Mei

“…David Adams Leeming, in Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero, asserts that “the journey of life is the search for the self—for the personal myth which is veiled in the local and the immediate but which, on a deeper level, is but an expression of the world myth” (6). This essay will explore the ways in which female characters in ethnic American feminist literature appropriate myths in negotiating the reconstruction of their individual identities, and by extension their own personal search for the self. …”
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The impact of oppression on motherhood in Morrison’s novels by Elvi

“…I would like to focus my essay on three of her novels by Morrison to figure out the motifs behind her fictions.…”
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Representing black females on screen : a defence of Spike Lee against indictments of misogyny by Visvalingam, Nithiya

“…Critics assert that Spike Lee is out to denigrate the Black female race. However, this essay will argue that such a view is a fallacious and is borne out of two fundamental, related, misunderstandings. …”
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