This dissertation examines the rhetorical articulation of home in the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. In their attempt to reconstitute the trope of home differently from its inherited configurations, the two writers recall moments of interruption in their literary heri…
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This dissertation examines the multiple place narratives in modern Jewish literature from Israel and the United States, showing that the standard tropes of exile and home insufficiently express the Jewish perception of place. Recently, some scholars have overturned the conventio…
This dissertation investigates several paradigmatic relationships between the concepts “home” and “the frontier.” It focuses on four writers of the twentieth century from divergent cultural and literary contexts. Each writer depicts the psychic paradox of feeling homeless in one…
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…
There are many problems that exist specifically for women, as they grow older. Because of changing circumstances, many older women realize that they must relocate to alternative forms of housing. For some this may be a choice; for others it may be a necessity due to changes in h…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
In this dissertation, I explore diasporic subjectivity in various postcolonial novels using the figures of the exile, immigrant and hybrid to articulate how the experience of displacement complicates the definitions of "home" in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Hanif Kureis…
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 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…
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 study relies on family systems theory and examines the influence of three dimensions of family life (home, work, and academic competence) on the three different groups of families, dual-career families (e.g., husbands and independent wives) and single-career families (e.g.,…
The acculturation of Arab-American women who work outside the home in gainful employment vs. those who do not was examined. Ninety-four participants in 6 states (TX, CA, MI, OH, KY, & PA) completed a modified version of the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican-Americans (Cuell…
More than half of the children in early childhood education settings (ECES) in Toronto come from immigrant families with diverse languages, cultures and racial backgrounds. Yet, little is known about their experiences in their homes and in their ECES. The major purpose of this s…