Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Savarese, John"
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Alone Together - Convergence Culture and the Slender Man Phenomenon
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-10)This project engages in a close examination of the Slender Man phenomenon, an online practice in which a community of pseudonymous enthusiasts share scary stories featuring a faceless, long-limbed, humanoid monster in a ... -
South Asian Muslim Americans as Model Minorities: Conflicted Identities in Mohsin Hamid and Ayad Akhtar
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)This thesis argues that Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced portray the struggles of South Asian Muslims in light of the model minority myth. The protagonists’ struggles for assimilation ...