“Reparative Forms: Poetry and Psychology from the Fin de Siècle to WWI” identifies an as yet-unrecognized body of poetry written by women and colonial subjects that shows those authors’ engagements with early psychological writing. The years between the fin de siècle and the Fir…
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This dissertation argues that the defeat of the Second Republic in the Civil War (1939) and the subsequent dictatorship (1939–1975) disrupted a nation-building process in Spain due to the hegemonic power of National Catholicism, but the repressed identities —centralists and peri…
The main argument of this dissertation is that physical culture served as a powerful means to build the nation by molding Brazilian bodies and played a key role across many decades in multiple nationalist discourses. By exploring the policies on this matter and ideas at the loca…
This dissertation traces the discursive development of the term música popular, as it was attached to Ecuadorian singer Julio Jaramillo’s life, work and reception history, to show how it functions as a vehicle for racialization in multiple national contexts and along long-standi…
The prevailing scholarly consensus holds that national ideas are exclusively modern phenomena which had no role in a pre-modern age of dynastic monarchy. And yet, during the Wars of Louis XIV (1667-1714), French and German political pamphleteers regularly mobilized national rhet…
This dissertation is concerned with the question of whether nations grieve, whether the behaviour they exhibit in the wake of loss can be said to constitute grief. Initially exploring the concepts of both grief and nation in order to establish the feasibility of national grief a…
Picking up on current research about settler colonialism, this study uses a modified version of a model explaining modern-state formation to explain settler-colonial formation. Charles Tilly identified two simultaneous processes at work – war-making and state-making which produc…
This study draws on current approaches in Francophone literary and cultural studies in order to argue for the need for a historical and political understanding of the emergence of narratives of pluralism to the detriment of collectivism on the threshold of the XXI st century, to…
The present study is an interrogation of theories of culture and nation in the context of spectacular sports. It proposes a view of nationalism as discourses that articulate and produce nations through narrative acts. A wide array of concepts and tools are drawn from the work of…
Cornwall is a peripheral rural location in the South West of the UK, and has experienced almost continual socio-economic decline for more than a century. It has a nationalist heritage and is a popular tourist resort. It is also one of the poorest parts of the UK. Academic work h…
This thesis examines Democratic and Republican party platforms over the 1980–2016 period in a content analysis to test claims of partisanship increasing on identity lines in American politics. As a key issue facing democracies in recent years, polarization has coincided with cha…
In this dissertation, I explore the texts of several writers from Haiti and Algeria to better understand how people live out their revolutions. I argue that in these two countries, revolution has been a cultural raison d'être since the fight for independence. This research perta…
AlterNations: Performing Indonesian Communicability argues that the heterogeneous plurality of the term "nation" is revealed through the certain ways a singular national language comes to be performed. By utilizing the term "alter-nations" this thesis demonstrates that performan…
Arab immigrants in Brazil established a thriving Arabic and Portuguese-language literary culture in cities such as São Paulo at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Their writing ponders issues such as identity, cultural heritage and belonging to m…
This paper is a study of the prose and poetry of the Iranian author and political activist Muhammad Taqī Bahār (1886-1951) with the aim of shedding light on the part he played in shaping nationalist thought in early twentieth century Iran. His model of Iranian linguistic and lit…
Since 1947, the relationship between India and Pakistan has been filled with tension, rooted in a series of land partitions, religious and ethnic violence, racial-based caste and tribal segregation, and repetitive wars over nuclear weapons. The narratives of both nations, the wa…
This study focuses on the foundational texts of Pakistan. Most theories of anticolonial nationalism have a strictly culturalist emphasis, of which the works of Partha Chatterjee and Benedict Anderson are two good examples. I suggest that politics and not culture was the main sig…
In "The Heteroglossic Narratives of National History: Mythified Histories and the Postcolonial Condition," I examine the function of myth in the making of a nation and in the writing of national history. I use the term "myth" in two ways. First, I use it to refer to the fantasti…