Medieval Arthurian literature stages perennial problems of intercultural contact and conflict, from ethnic contests between Britons and Saxons to family strife and ideological struggles within the Round Table fellowship itself. These struggles turn on categories of difference th…
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This dissertation examines selected novels written by contemporary Egyptian writers that present the Egyptian society during different historical periods–from antiquity to the present–as fundamentally heterogeneous, consisting of several groups based on differences in ethnicity,…
This dissertation examines the place of difference in black women's writing of the African diaspora. Afrodiasporic women writers since the late 1960s have subverted generic conventions to foreground complex black female identifications. These writers develop what I term a "poeti…
Vers / Mouvements is a cross-cultural exploration of movement in contemporary French-language poetry and theater from the 1970-1982. The study focuses on poets Anne-Marie Albiach (France) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), and playwrights Werewere Liking (Cameroon/Ivory Coast)…
This study examines the works of five non-western writers whose fiction is primarily concerned with the relationship between Islam and the West, and historical and cultural constructions of Muslim and western identities. The works of Tariq Ali, Assia Djebar, Amin Maalouf, Kanan …
