This dissertation follows the emergence of the first novels to be written by women in Israel after 1948. Largely ignored until now, the corpus of the female interwar novelists [1948-1966] consists of more than twenty novels which offer a diverse and innovative engagement with qu…
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This dissertation, “One Day the Girl Will Return: Feminism, Nation, and Poetry in South Asia,” seeks to embed the poems of four women writers, two from India and two from Pakistan, within the nationalist movements of their respective countries. One crucial question with which th…
Nationalism has been considered one of the greatest threats to the existing global order, where non-dominant groups create movements that reject the official ideology of state uniformity while demanding autonomy. Baloch history and identity formation is unique due to specific co…
This study considers the work of three francophone writers working in the cultural space between France and Algeria. Authors Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar and Feriel Assima each explore what it means to belong to a particular community and how one defines identity in such a group a…
In this thesis I theorize Indian revolutionary V.D. Savarkar's seminal text "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?" (1923), comparing related themes in Carl Schmitt's Weimar writings: national myth (1923) and the friend-enemy distinction (1932). Responding to the first phase of mass-mobiliz…
This project concerns the intellectual production in exile of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, and Max Aub, all of whom were displaced from the nation they considered their homeland in the 1920s and 30s, and whose separation from that homeland lasted to varying degrees u…
This dissertation considers alternative accounts of the Partition in the performative public sphere that complicate our received official histories of Indian independence from British rule. The 1947 Partition of British India into India and Pakistan affords a crucial historic mo…
In March 1942, Japan captured the Dutch East Indies and began a military occupation that lasted until August, 1945. More than in most military occupations, occupier and occupied had strong practical reasons for cooperation: Both shared a common Western enemy. Japan had an acute …
“Culinary Scapes” analyzes culinary cultural production produced and consumed by South Asians in various “national” sites: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Britain, Canada and the United States. It juxtaposes contemporary South Asian cultural production to identify the potentials as …
Cette thèse s'intéresse aux dimensions stratégiques des identifications en diaspora arménienne. Elle cherche à déterminer, à partir du discours sur la nation et sur la diaspora, comment le discours identitaire définit les Arméniens en diaspora, comment il parvient à se mobiliser…
The question of what John is saying about women through his narrative arises within the context of contemporary discussions about women's roles in our society because the subject of women per se was not a Johannine interest. Feminist biblical scholarship should therefore be less…
This study concerns the extensive subcontracting network of apparel assembly and home work that has expanded in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the past thirty years. Of concern is how the power disparities in terms of nation and gender have shaped the spatial organization…
In this dissertation, I examine how different visions of ethnic community and nation have developed and been manipulated politically in one particular Malaysian city, Georgetown, Penang. My main argument, developed in chapter one, is that it is useful to think of ethnicity, like…
Education as a socialization agent is a vehicle used to encourage students to identify with certain cultural traditions, national symbols, economic aims, or political ideology. Steered by a guiding philosophy, the educational mission provides insight into the attitudes of commun…
Indonesian modern theatre and nationalism have developed alongside each other since the 1920s, both attempting to represent Indonesian identity as a hybrid figure mediating between an exogenous modernity and indigenous traditions. The PROBLEM is that the artists and the politici…
1990's Beirut was a space marked by gaping holes where buildings once used to be, mountains of rubble and debris that ended as landfill in the sea, and towering cranes, massive bulldozers, and innumerable construction workers, trying to rebuild what the 1975–1990 Civil War—local…
This thesis investigates the contemporary multicultural Dutch context and how a cultivation of the European self is affirmed in the proliferating discourses around scientific studies, policy papers and mainstream popular feminist arguments on integration and emancipation of the …
When and whether immigrants can become citizens, or gain acceptance as members of the societies in which they settle, is a matter of intensifying political controversy in many countries. Yet, our understanding of citizenship and the theoretical stakes of current controversies is…
This dissertation examines food practices as a cultural manifestation of Jewish nationalism within the Zionist movement and in the state of Israel from the First Aliya (immigration) in 1905 to the Six Day War in 1967. The Zionist movement and later the Israeli state tried to int…