| The dissertation studies the work of three authors writing in English, although that is not their first language. Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, and Salman Rushdie provide useful jumping off points for an exploration into how language, amongst other sociological matrices, works to filter perceptions of reality and provides the basis for individual identity building. The works, "Heart of Darkness," Lolita, and Midnight's Children , provide models of this filtration and identity building, as well as examining, in their fictional episodes and through created characters, the consequences and strategies of using language, law, and religion to mold our experience into understandable stories and consumable elements. |
