This dissertation aims to show women and feminine characters in Luke’s accounts of the fall of Jerusalem (13:34-35; 19:41-44; 21:20-24; 23:28-31) as haunting from and attesting to multiple ends that need to be treated eschatologically, or more accurately, eschata-logically. Thes…
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The Black female experience in the United States is a colonized existence. This project’s analysis is specific to the North American U.S. geographic space and is not a diasporic project. Black women suffered from the greatest increase in the percentage of inmates incarcerated fo…
This dissertation studies the critical contribution of Haitian social thought and literature to the field of French anthropology. Specifically, it looks at the works of a generation of Haitian intellectuals: Louis Joseph Janvier (1855-1911), Anténor Firmin (1850-1911), and Frédé…
This dissertation explores the ways in which Plautus’s comedies, inherently translated works, negotiate foreign characters and foreignness within their hybrid theatrical and extra-theatrical spaces. This project is part of a larger discourse on the tension between Greek, Roman, …
This thesis aims at analysing comparatively the literary production of three African female authors - the Cape Verdean Dina Salústio (1941), the Mozambican Paulina Chiziane (1955) and the Angolan Rosária da Silva (1959) - so as to observe the authors' cultural construction of th…
This dissertation traces the multi-generational, interregional and transnational experiences of Sunni Punjabi migrants who moved from the Indian subcontinent to East Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and then to Canada after the 1970s. In particular, …
This qualitative study examines ways in which the Indian State and Islamic madrassas interact with each other, and attempts to shed light on the various social, political and economic factors that determine the nature of this interaction. The study is located within the existing…
Over the past 150 years, the European violin has grown from a new import to a fundamental fixture in the Arab music of Egypt. Due to the violin's history, physical attributes, and symbolic importance, violinists regularly work between categories often set in opposition, especial…
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…
The translation of the postcolonial Arabic novel into English and French is an interesting case in which cultural representation can be examined in a way to shed light on its diverse aspects and repercussions as well as explore the role of the translators, among other agents, in…
This dissertation makes a contribution towards social justice. The Epistemic Goddess is a metaphor for a post-colonial approach to Women's Spirituality. She explores how the methods and epistemologies developed by Women's Spirituality scholars can positively, and practically, im…
Classical texts of postcolonial theory rarely address the embodied expression of dance as they examine the colonial body only through the imperial discourses about the Orient (Said), the construction of the Subaltern subject (Spivak), and the ambivalent desire of the colonial ga…
The state of Levantine Marxists today is one of exhaustion on both the political and intellectual fronts. Things have not always been this way. In the 1960's through the 1970's the Leftist scene was a vibrant one in terms of critical intellectual production and political activit…
The thesis explores the political dispositions lurking within the practices of vision, construed here in terms of the visible and invisible. It locates this investigation firstly, in the representational culture of colonial Singapore and secondly, in postcolonial Singaporean per…
This thesis offers an analysis of workplace emotions by interweaving social constructionist and psychoanalytic theoretical frameworks. The introduction highlights the importance of workplace emotion for organisation studies and discusses the significance of drawing on more than …
The thesis addresses controversies within Anglicanism over overlapping identities and whose differences are included or excluded as Anglicans. Overlapping identities have been perceived as challenges to ecclesial identity coherence, but the thesis asks if these might alternative…
This study is an ethnographic exploration of the Pakistani state as it implemented a number of reforms aimed at achieving conditions of good-governance and development. Based on fieldwork conducted from January to December 2006 in Islamabad city and district Kohat of the North W…
Postcolonial theory, while often reserved for analysis of modern political conditions, is often overlooked in biblical studies. The purpose of this thesis is to employ postcolonial analysis to the book of Ezekiel and demonstrate its value in biblical studies. Postcolonialism cri…
The experiences and responses of individuals living in mineral enclaves command a lot of scholarly attention. Such attention is evident in the Niger Delta of Nigeria where neoliberal oil exploration has gone on for the past five decades. Yet missing in the delta narratives is th…