Sparked by the introduction of Janissary percussion into the works of the First Viennese School, composers have been steadily expanding the musical responsibilities and tonal palette of the orchestral percussion section. Most institutions of higher education extensively address …
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Resilience is identified as a protective factor in mitigating the effects of stress. Spirituality is associated with positive outcomes and may be a helpful resource for communities exposed to community violence. This study explored the adverse effects of stress and examined whet…
Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi Levitt created the Theory of the Plantation Economy as an analytical tool for understanding the causes of underdevelopment in the Caribbean region. The theory provides a break from the classical understanding of developing economies as simply pre-indu…
Studying how island biotas evolve and are dynamically shaped by interactions between resident species, their immediate environments and neighboring continental communities have provided basic understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes operating in these ecosystems. H…
My dissertation delves into the interrelations between feminism and nationalism during periods of political, economic and social crisis associated with the influence of the United States over the Caribbean nations. I especially focus on the writings of Cubans Ofelia Rodríguez Ac…
The taxonomic diversity of endosymbiont Symbiodinium species and the physiological contributions they confer to coral host species are challenging to assess. It seems likely the genetic diversity of obligate Symbiodinium species modulates the physiological performance of reef bu…
Definitely, this dissertation's central intellectual and political aims are rooted in a guiding principle of Caribbean womanhood; and, with black women's bodies located at the center, the goal of this study is to provide new alternatives to understanding "writing the body" by lo…
Beginning with a contextual characterization of the concepts of ‘tragedy’ and ‘hero’, this dissertation examines the various ways black filmmakers represent historical and political leaders of Francophone sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean in their narratives. Eight movies are…
The rise of the Western European ‘historical core’ zone and the Caribbean ‘historical peripheral’ zone—both closely intertwined as part of the Atlantic region since the early days of the modern era—were both embedded in the mael-stream of global processes. The emergence of the f…
In this dissertation, I perform disability-studies informed readings of first-person accounts of debilitating illness in novels by Caribbean and African women writers dating from 1968 to 2000. The works I consider—authored by Haitian Marie Chauvet, Guadeloupian-Senegalese Myriam…
This dissertation investigates the creation of identity in Caribbean literature as that creation is shaped by property law principles. The strict legal construction of property is that it is "a bundle of rights" (right to use, possess, dispose, alienate, etc) and I examine how i…
The stereoscopic 3D images of Puerto Rico produced and distributed between 1900-1910 by the Kansas-based photographic company Underwood & Underwood are notable visual documents of the first years of the American occupation of the archipelago. While these images rely on visua…
Hogfish is an important food fish for local Caribbean communities, so managing stocks in such a way that people can continue to utilize this species for food and economic stability is critical. Ecologically, hogfish enhance the biodiversity of reefs and contribute to top-down co…
This dissertation examines Spanish treatment of subject Muslims (Moriscos) as a model for the assimilation and acculturation of Amerindians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It gives particular emphasis to formal, institutional roles of the government and Church in…
For years, critics have used Black writers' interweaving of African-derived oral textual features and European written forms to reject the concept of the Great Divide between orality and writing in literacy studies. These critics primarily see the hybridized texts of writers of …
My dissertation, "Emperors of Invisible Cities: The Sovereignty of the Imagination in Caribbean Literature," explores the ability of the imagination to empower the individual, both as fictional character and reader, to make political and personal changes in her reality. The nove…
The publication of the manifesto Eloge de la Creolite in 1989 riveted our attention back to Francophone Caribbean literature and to issues of race, culture and identity which Francophone intellectuals have been grappling with since the beginning of the twentieth century. This is…
Questions of Apprenticeship in African and Caribbean Narratives: Gender, Journey, and Development examines African and Caribbean narratives that follow the apprenticeships of young protagonists while simultaneously critiquing postcolonial development politics. The novels and fil…
Coral tissue and skeleton contain physical and chemical proxy signatures of the surrounding environment. The purpose of this thesis is to broaden or refine the use of corals as environmental recorders/tracers by examining the fidelity of both new and existing techniques. Corals …