This thesis examines the element of nature in postcolonial unnamed African country, South Africa, Trinidad and China in V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River (1979), John Maxwell Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), ...

This dissertation studies cognitive dissonance in Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. The chosen novel is often labeled as a ‘Fascist Utopia’; an oxymoron that sums up the essence of its tone. The aim is to detect ...