The informal sector plays a very important role in developing countries. It acts as a stabilizer, and within this the urban poor find the necessary strategies for their survival. Home based commercial activities are a part of these strategies. They provide households with an add…
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This thesis examines narrative constructions of motherhood in popular children’s novels published in the U.K. between 1945 and 1960. The interrogation considers family fictions intended for readers of nine years onwards, alongside narratives of development aimed at a female teen…
Central to the rise in popularity of fantasy film franchises since 2001 is the cinematic depiction of fantasy worlds, in which music's role is often both narrative and constructive. Music and sound build bridges between filmic episodes and between films and audiences using recog…
This thesis examines the concept of 'home' and 'sense of belonging' according to the experiences of Iraqi-Kurdish diasporic communities in the United Kingdom. It aims to explore the extent to which those in the Kurdish diaspora constructed their 'identity' in relation to their e…
Home has often been understood as a stable point of origin or a location of belonging, where one understands and is understood. However, the existence of multinational and multilingual homes prompts a reimagining of home as a concept. It cannot be considered a stable location th…
This study examines the unheimlich themes Freud defines in his essay "The 'Uncanny'" and asks if an unconscious presence of home links the tales in the Arabian Nights to the frame-story. If so, how is this curative? Previous scholarship tends to emphasize the spectacular and adv…
This dissertation is a critical study of contemporary U.S. writer Marilynne Robinson with a focus on her three novels Housekeeping (1981), Gilead (2004), and Home (2009). The purpose of my study is to provide the first comprehensive interpretation and analysis of her literary ou…
Children with autism are known to have severe atypical language use and communication impairments. It is also assumed that they are unable to appropriately participate in everyday family and social life activities. This dissertation examines the language socialization of three m…
This dissertation investigates domesticity as a site for the production of modernity in late Ottoman Beirut. It focuses specifically on the material aspects of the home in trying to understand its formation in relation to urban management, intellectual discourses, and changing t…
Describes what the American home was like in the 1800s, discussing how developments in taste, fashion, technology, and social change influenced home and family life and exploring the leisure activities, values, consumer goods, traditions, and events that defined nineteenth-centu…
Postcolonial gothic fiction arises in response to certain social, historical, or political conditions. Postcolonial fiction adapts a British narrative form that is highly attuned to the distinction and collapse between home and not home and the familiar and the foreign. The appe…
At Home is a work of creative nonfiction in which each chapter is a self-supporting narrative about one period of my experiences in Franklin, North Carolina, before, during, or after the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War. This work illustrates the two-fold front during war-on th…
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and…
My dissertation, "A Collision of the Epic with the Banal: British Asian Constructions of Home," examines constructions of home and diaspora in a selection of contemporary British Asian texts. These popular cultural texts, including novels by Hanif Kureishi, Atima Srivastava and …
This dissertation explores the kinds of homes that exist in the Middle Eastern diasporic imagination in light of the conflicting demands from both the host and original communities. I offer close textual analyses of Middle Eastern American women's writing across the genres of sh…
