My dissertation proposes a new queer transcultural perspective of "Frenchness" as it is conceived in Latin America and North Africa. This concept plays a noteworthy role in the formation of queer identities from both of these so-called "marginal" geographic areas, whether it is …
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This dissertation proposes an interpretive paradigm to explore the Moorish, Arab, Islamic and Algerian presence in Cuban literature and cultural studies, and it offers four case studies in which to do so. The interpretative paradigm involves a dynamic between two coexisting appr…
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…
This dissertation examines the early publication history of Les Temps Modernes (Paris, 1945), Presence Africaine (Paris-Dakar, 1947), and Origenes (Havana, 1944). By surveying the history of each journal and then focusing on specific moments in their respective histories, I docu…
This manuscript explored the movement and creation of Diasporas. The long historical engagement of language, religion, and material cultures between Africa and the Americas fostered the emergence of groups of Afrolatinos that identify with many coasts along the African Diaspora.…
An analysis of the role of rent-seeking in the formation of clienteles and the relationship of clientage to changes in the political structure of a society. The principal argument is that elites extract resources from society to underwrite the costs of maintaining power through …
This work is an attempt to look at the problems of the nation and of nationalism in the context of Atlantic America, among peoples who conceive of themselves as thoroughly and fundamentally hybrid, both in race as well as in their cultural practices. In a world where body and id…
The birth of the detective genre in the early nineteenth century was propitiated by the modern discourses of classification, empiricism and order; the new sciences of sociology, psychology and forensic medicine; and industrial capitalism. The defining element of the Hispanic det…
This thesis examines Lydia Cabrera's novel-essay Yemaya y Ochun. Cabrera belongs to a list of Cuban writers, poets and women writers who have utilized the "magic realism" genre: Alejo Carpentier and Nicolas Guillen wrote about the social realities and religious systems of the Ca…
In addition to providing a theoretical and historical overview of the concept of utopia from antiquity through postmodernity, this work discusses the diverse manners in which “good places” and “no places” are registered in Latin American poetry in the nineteenth and twentieth ce…
It is in the tension between hegemonic and subaltern cultures that creative responses originate. These responses allow the reader to recognize the degrees of influence the subaltern cultures are willing to accept, the way they appropriate and change the instruments of this hegem…
This study examines the causes and consequences of repression and accommodation in post-internal war states. Elites' perceptions of their own vulnerability and subsequent war involvement in the aftermath of an internal war affect the choice between and among repressive and accom…
This thesis analyses the emergence of Cuba as a sovereign nation, and the political corruption that plagued the republic. It investigates in detail, not only the independence movement that established this republic in its various wars against the Spanish empire, and its fracture…
This dissertation examined the use of anti-realist aesthetics in the representation of history in postcolonial fiction produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, South India and Africa. More specifically, it focused on how postcolonial writers engage the issue of history, outside…
The story of Rahab in Joshua 2 has traditionally been interpreted as the account of a foreign woman and low-status prostitute who changes the course of her life when she converts to Yahweh, the God of Moses. In return for her faithful act of saving the spies sent by Joshua to se…
This dissertation seeks to provide the tools necessary to theoretically address and empirically investigate the role of emotional behavior at the interstate level. For this purpose, I develop a theory of emotional idioms, which I define as shared, implicit understandings of emot…
This dissertation argues that the context in which a coercive relationship occurs has a profound impact on the process itself. Specifically, that polarity will structure a state's ability to interpret key variables necessary for success. The most relevant of these is the ability…
Officials from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, identified Cuba as a fertile missionary field shortly after the island's liberation from Spain in 1898. This work will argue that Methodist missionaries working in Cuba did not view the saving of souls or the extension of Ame…