This dissertation offers a new analysis of the trans-Atlantic political culture of the English Empire in North America in the four decades following the creation of Virginia. Previous studies have shown that the English state took great interest in initial colonial efforts and e…
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Mandarin drama series produced by Mediacorp – a commercial outfit-cum-government-owned corporation – serve two roles: as a state propaganda instrument and as commercial products. The national broadcaster began producing Mandarin drama series in the 1980s to fulfil nationalist go…
It is the premise of this study that in the Tudor period there developed a new sense of being/feeling ‘cosmopolitan’ – i.e. a citizen of the world - that was distinct from the original, political, meaning of this term and was instead defined by cross cultural engagement, interna…
This dissertation critically interprets the international dimension of the Ukrainian crisis in 2013, crisis that intensified in the 2014 and resulted in an armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia in eastern part of Ukraine and occupation of Crimea. It argues this crisis to be …
Identity—national and cultural—forms the thematic backbone of the Puerto Rican essay canon. When reading this canon it seems that this island "nation" suffers from insularism and docility, to cite its most famous essayists. Yet a new zeitgeist arrives on the essay scene in the 1…
In the wake of urban riots and terror attacks in the United Kingdom, British public debate and policy have focused on the nation's immigrant communities. These debates have commonly called into question whether immigrant communities in Britain are sufficiently integrated into "m…
Increased immigration finds children in a quandary to develop an identity consolidating their multiple locales and cultures. Additionally, the internet is highly integrated into children's lives and plays a consequential role in their identity formation processes. "Local culture…
Critics have systematically overlooked contributions to the realms of fantasy and imagination by Spanish artists and writers. When studying the fantastic, even the most attentive studies have been biased by predetermined expectations. While theoreticians such as Tzvetan Todorov …
This dissertation explores the historical representation of the Italian nation in regard to the narration of the Libyan War and its causes and implications in the consolidation of both state and society. The texts I examine were all published in contemporary newspapers and magaz…
The nature of American identity is highly contested in the twenty-first century. This dissertation seeks to understand how this state of uncertainty produces a rhetorical opening for new and unimagined rhetorical possibilities. As citizens lose faith in the narratives that have …
The present research utilizes a cultural psychological perspective and considers the extent to which representations of history reflect and promote identity-relevant concerns (i.e., national identification, perceptions of present-day injustice in Indian society). Across four stu…
Representing the Unpresentable attempts to show that late Qajar Iran was a furiously turbulent era, with the introduction of modern technology, and new ways of imagining the state and religion. Iran's sense of its national identity was also in turmoil. This turbulence articulate…
Building on the existing literature of nationalism, this study examines the roles colonial and post-colonial state institutions play in the production of national identity. The case studied is the nation-state of Jordan from 1921 to the present. The two key institutions that are…
In recent decades, literary studies has experienced a global turn, often understood as a move beyond national paradigms of analysis, which are deemed to be narrow and particularistic. Although wary of the tacit universalizing tendencies of global frames, scholars of race and pos…
France, like its European neighbors, is struggling to integrate a diverse set of immigrants and their descendants. From public debates over national identity to bans on Muslim headscarves, immigration is at the forefront of public discourse on what it means to be French today. A…
One aspect of children's and adolescents' sense of self is their awareness of their collective (ethnic, national, and religious) identity. Western stage models for racial and ethnic identity development in American youth of color do not account for the development of Palestinian…
This dissertation narrates an important episode in the transition of Christian peasants of Macedonia into nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century. I attempt to explain how a peasant society in the Ottoman Empire was co-opted into a war that was subsequently christened an…
The dissertation is an analysis of the Russian relationship to Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. As a methodological approach, it uses the concepts of irredentism, Orientalism, and multi…
This dissertation studies the modern migration of Spaniards to the United States and the process of identity formation among the Spanish immigrant communities in America from the U.S.-Mexican War to the aftermath of World War II. The starting point underscores one of its main ar…