"The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other …
"The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other …
Introduction: Manilaism as an Orientalism -- Chapter 1. 'A seething cauldron of evil': hispanophobia, Third World blues and Manila-as-hell -- Chapter 2. 'Known to all students of history': adventure, imperial mythology and orientalist rhetoric in manilaism of the US conquest of …
"The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other …
"The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other …
The present document examines the different ways in which European and American composers incorporated their impression or knowledge of Chinese musical style into their piano compositions between 1890 and 1950. Chapter one explores the phenomenon of chinoiserie in music, where W…
Exoticism literally means the infatuation with any foreign culture. One can extend that definition to the trend, style or aesthetics that dictate a synthesis of elements outside of one's culture with those of his own. In many cases, this term is actually synonymous with "Orienta…
The Pulitzer Prize (2011, Zhou Long’s Madame White Snake), a Metropolitan opera commission (Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, premiered 2006), and the Ives Living Award (Chen Yi, 2001) are just some of the high-profile awards and commission bestowed upon Chinese émigré composers who …
Contemporary Buddhisms in the United States are informed by a complicated legacy of Orientalism. Most strikingly, this legacy manifests through Asian erasure in US Buddhist discourses, representations, and institutions. I build on Edward Said’s category of Orientalism—a European…
This dissertation examines the life and works of a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Tamil yogi named Sri Sabhapati Swami (Śrī Sabhāpati Svāmī, Capāpati Cuvāmikaḷ, ca. 1828–1923/4), specifically the “translocalization” of his unique vernacular literature on a system of yoga…
During much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the “Orient” was perceived by Europeans as a land full of exotic and barely understood mysteries. From this imaginary state, the Middle East and Western Africa came to represent foreign lands, where the accepted norms of ci…
Building on work in European history on culture and identity, as well as recent trends in diplomatic history, I explore questions of imperialism, nationalism, identity, and Orientalism and examine how the British press and other forms of public discourse, such as theater and ser…
The Middle East is at the heart of political debate today. This study analyzes the representation of Middle Eastern politics in contemporary American and Egyptian films produced between 1980 and 2000. The study aims at complicating theories on the East/West divide, namely Edward…
This thesis examines how medieval Byzantium is represented in French epics, romances, and chronicles of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries within a discursive triangle formed by Exoticism/Orientalism/Otherness. Despite their geographical proximity with the Muslim world, …
There is a wealth of existing literature on the importance of student organizations both at the secondary and post-secondary level; however, very little is known about Muslim female youth and their experiences in Muslim student groups in secondary schools. This study focuses on …
The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing resulted in the arrest of 19-year-old Dzhokhar (“Jahar”) Tsarnaev, a Muslim immigrant from Chechnya. Two years later, he was convicted in federal court and sentenced to death. Even before his arrest, he was publicly declared a radicalized “jihadi…
This ethnographic case study explores the relationships cultivated between the Japanese American and Muslim-American grassroots activist communities that took place after the Muslim ban was enacted on January 27th, 2017. In the summer of 2018, over the course of three months, I …
Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702–1789), a successful portraitist famous throughout Europe during his lifetime, has only recently been awarded a place in the canon of eighteenth-century art. Born in Geneva, trained in Paris, and profoundly altered by his experiences during a five–year …