The thesis examines the historical emergence of modes of perception, interpretation and evaluation within Western European nations of what has been termed Arab Islamic culture. It is argued that the West perceives Arab Islamic East as "Other" or "Them", but that the content of t…
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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…
The Dravidian language family is marked historically by a protracted struggle between Tamil and its aggressively assertive supremacy, and the consequent peripheralizing of other majoritarian languages of the region. This book looks at the development of Telugu - with its unique …
The Dravidian language family is marked historically by a protracted struggle between Tamil and its aggressively assertive supremacy, and the consequent peripheralizing of other majoritarian languages of the region. This book looks at the development of Telugu -- with its unique…
At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an "other" that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the fo…
The dissertation is divided into two parts, each containing two chapters. Part I describes two nineteenth century movements and fields--the German Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism) and the Arab nahd[dotbelow]a (Renaissance)--moving between what these developments a…
Goethe's West-östlicher Divan often elicits contradictory responses - for some, it is a beacon of tolerance and engagement, and for others, an appropriating Orientalist discourse. In this essay I argue that both definitions apply to different portions of the work: the voice of d…
In Orientalism , Edward Said identified how the Westerner "spoke for" and represented the silent Orient. Today with the burgeoning call-center business with India, it seems that the West now wants the Orient to speak for it. But is the voice that Western business requires in Ind…
This dissertation considers the foundation of discourses of Orientalism and Postcolonialism in representations of the Caucasus in the literature of Russians and Muslims of the empire from 1828 through 1920. From the mid-nineteenth century through World War I, the Russian empire …
Within the past few years, the women of the American Renaissance have been written back into history. However, scholarship concerning Eastern sacred texts and female Transcendentalists remains limited and continues to exist on the periphery of the study of American "orientalism,…
L'imagerie de l'Orient dans la littérature occidentale a été bien étudiée dans le monde universitaire anglophone et francophone : comment l'Occident voit-il l'Orient, ou bien « l'Orient vu par l'Occident ». Cependant, les études qui partent dans la direction opposée, c'est-à-dir…
This dissertation analyzes British overtures to Persia in two periods--initial contacts at the start of the seventeenth century, and the re-establishment of diplomatic relations at the beginning of the nineteenth. It argues that the performative nature of British diplomacy in Pe…
Culturally hybrid persons are often caught in the crossfire of prejudices. For Iranians living in the West, the demonization of the Other becomes a daily negation of the Self. How do they find agency between hegemonic representational systems that seek to dichotomize and essenti…
This dissertation examines the political, social, religious and artistic status of rags al-sharqi dancers in Egypt during the twentieth century. It explores the progress and struggles of rags al-sharqi dancers during that time as affected by the factors of politics, religion, cl…