Until recently, historical or theoretical perspectives have dominated discussions of violence in the Algerian context. The aim of this analysis is to build on previously completed studies to offer a new perspective. Specifically, this examination demonstrates how literary texts,…
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Italy's modern empire, a modest collection of colonies and concessions on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, lasted roughly from 1896 to 1949. The empire's character reflected problems Italy faced as a young nation, including high emigration, a weak military, and a disadvantageo…
This study examines Tocqueville's account of national particularity, and of the nation as a political association. I aim to show that Tocqueville's frequent and multifaceted references to the nation coalesce into a systematic conception of nationhood that goes to the heart of hi…
This dissertation examines the struggle of nationalist leaders and intellectuals to create a meaningful and coherent language of political identity in the final years of the Ottoman Empire and the first decades of the Turkish Republic. In so doing, it attempts to demonstrate two…
To read nineteenth-century Arabic, Persian and English literary works has often meant to value these texts in accordance with their assimilation into the trajectories of novelistic writing and nationalist discourse: a predicament here termed the nationalist-novelist paradigm of …
This project redresses the comparative absence of sustained critical attention to two Anglophone African writers and, specifically, the space that Islam occupies in their corpus. The novels of Somali-born Nuruddin Farah and Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah make crucial contribut…
This dissertation is an attempted intervention into the debates surrounding globalization, the nation-state, immigration, multiculturalism and anti-racist struggle that are taking place throughout much of Europe and the United States in the post 9/11 era. In linking the history …
This dissertation project on China's Muslim Yunnan frontier has approached imperial history, national transformation, and the processes of culture in the Chinese ecumene. Ethnography from two Hui villages in Yunnan shows how the population has existed at the edge of the Chinese …
Juxtaposing two early 20th -century Egyptian novels with three late 20th -century novels from the Maghrib, this study interrogates the relationship between nationalism and exile in the North African novel. Chapter One situates the nation and the novel as historically bound moder…
This dissertation, the first anthropological study of television in Pakistan, explores the relationship between the state, media and religion. Based on fieldwork conducted from 1997-1999 in Islamabad, the capital city, and in the rural areas of Harappa, in the central plains of …
This dissertation examines the impact of modernity, in the form of modernization, rapid industrialization and the introduction of Western ideas about nationalism and female emancipation, on gender and gender relations in contemporary Malaysian film and literature. Drawing upon t…
Although Morocco gained its independence from colonial rule in 1956, a persistent colonial legacy, compounded by pressures of economic and cultural globalization, has maintained a literary focus on decolonization and nationbuilding. Most recently, Moroccan women have renewed the…
This dissertation examines the critical issues of gendered citizenship, religious identity and educated status through the lives of young women in Bawadi al Naseem, a city in Jordan, and the day-to-day life of the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls. It argues that schools are …