This dissertation, within the field of Postcolonial Studies, focuses on the journey of immigration as reconstructed though diasporic contemporary film narrative in France. Xe analyze the works of Yamina Benguigui: Inch' Allah Dimanche (2001), Medhi Charef Fille de Keltoum (2001)…
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Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship on the sense of place, this dissertation examines how the literary landscapes of formerly colonized countries embody colonial and post-colonial history. The project focuses on the ways in which specific material places both preserv…
This thesis investigates the differences between news stories pertaining to Saudi Arabs in western and Saudi Arab print and electronic media and literary texts. Drawing on Kenneth Burke's framework of "dramatism," which explains act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose, and on Cli…
This dissertation analyzes the paradoxes of Turkey's role model status and how it offers an orientalist representation of this Muslim country influencing its membership application to the European Union. Through a postcolonial analysis of the various internal and external power …
This dissertation explores the relation between gender and crisis in the late modern phase of Arabic literature—specifically, from the late 1960s to the present. Working with a regional Arab context, I define crisis as an endemic situation of political paralysis and cultural sta…
Sociolinguists often research the development of language attitudes and the state of language within speech communities. Individual speakers reflect the status of their L1 language in both speaking and writing (Wa Thiong'o 1986, Showalter 2001), and the idea that writing can be …
Balochistan, the largest Province in Pakistan, where more than ninety percent of births are attended by traditional midwives—outside of hospitals—functions as a site whose geography and population are racialized across multiple scales in colonial and postcolonial Pakistani state…
This dissertation examines the life and poetry of Mustafa Zaidi, whom the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz once called, “the greatest Urdu poet of the future.” It looks at his childhood, at how he made himself into a poet, at what he wrote, and at how he is remembered today. Born in 1930 in…
This dissertation examines the socio-cultural and historical contours of musical expression and identity formation in postcolonial Bamako, Mali, a sprawling West African metropolis on the upper Niger River. Specifically, this work engages with a particular community of urban art…
The Edible Complex: Postcolonial Narrative and the Politics of Eating analyzes literary texts from Ghana, India, Pakistan, and South Africa to argue that recurring scenes of eating across a wide body of postcolonial literature function as a fierce and specifically corporeal crit…
My dissertation explores civil violence in the postcolony and its representation in contemporary literature. Whether in the form of civil war in Algeria, genocide in Rwanda or religious riots in India, these events are a direct result of the political, legal and intellectual fou…
My dissertation, Sacred Subjects: Gender and Nation in South Asian Literature , intervenes in the ongoing debates in postcolonial and feminist studies about the mapping of woman onto nation. There has been a tendency to read the land as female in both colonial and postcolonial d…
This dissertation is a study of the works of the late Egyptian novelist Albert Cossery. The goals of the dissertation are four-fold. The first part of the dissertation is a historical study of Egyptian franco-philia. The aim is to show the deep impact of the cultural and linguis…
My dissertation, Translating the Transatlantic: West African Literary Approaches to African American Identity , takes a literary-historical approach to the question of Anglophone West African conceptions of African American identity, an often overlooked topic. It represents an i…
This dissertation focuses on the political career of Enoch Powell. It follows Powell's trajectory from a young army officer in the British Raj to the center of British politics in the 1960s through to his return to the periphery in Ulster Unionism. It argues that Powell's notori…
At the end of the nineteenth century, Spanish language and literary tradition were still a form of intellectual colonization for the inhabitants of the newly formed Hispanic American republics. This dissertation proposes a theoretical approach to examine the modernista movement.…
This dissertation examines the ways in which the notion of the postcolonial correlates to Judith Halberstam's idea of queer space and time where, in "[detaching] queerness from sexuality" (1), chronologies represent a "diminishing future [which] creates a new emphasis on the her…
This study examines the historiography of International Refugee Law; specifically, the defining moment, 1951, when the Refugee Convention was drafted. The field of Refugee Studies, much like International Relations and International Law has been dominated by the 'classic' Westph…