An Empire of Facts integrates the history of North Africa with the intellectual, cultural, and political history of the French Third Republic. In metropole and colony alike, the cultural politics of late nineteenth and early twentieth century France revolved around attempts to c…
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This dissertation examines the play of representations of religious and secularist discourses in a series of novels written from 1870 to the present moment, in Victorian England, colonial Ireland and India, and postcolonial India. I argue that the novels in question critique "re…
This dissertation reevaluates the literary history of modernism in Urdu poetry through a study of the controversial poet N. M. Rashed (1910-75). Best known as the first poet of free verse in Urdu, Rashed's position in the formal history of Urdu modernism is assured. Yet critics,…
The history of human condition in post-colonial Africa emerges as a chronicle of human rights violations stimulated by local dictatorship, obsolete traditional customs, institutional tribalism, and the exploitative grip of global market and world politics. At the same time, it i…
This dissertation examines the trajectory of the Urdu lyric (the ghazal) in its enfoldment with the"Indo-Muslim" through a series of historical and literary-critical constellations. It begins with the critique of the ghazal in the wake of the Great Rebellion of 1857 by colonial …
My initial translation of the novel, La Baroudeuse , into English raised several questions for which this project seeks to provide answers through an analytical case study. Chapter One describes the translation experience. It includes an analysis of the effects of the novel's po…
Constitutions have a history of authorizing their own undoing. Nearly every modern democratic constitution contains within it the power to suspend the normal constitutional order in the event of a security crisis defined as a 'State of Emergency.' This dissertation focuses on th…
This qualitative inquiry attempts to understand and interpret the characteristics of English as a school discipline in post-independence India. Three separate but interrelated strands--pedagogic materials, classroom methods and teachers' beliefs and perceptions--are investigated…
This thesis is an exploration of the representations in contemporary writing of cultural identity in a country which is at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, colonial legacy, neocolonial ventures, and postcolonial ambitions. By analyzing the works of three of Morocco's m…
Struggles over modernity, while often about political and economic power, rely on a process of othering to justify violence and relations of domination. My aim in this study is to show how representations of Moroccan women and control over their bodies are central to these strug…
North African women's writings project not compliance with contemporary Islamic and patriarchal regimes but reveal agency for Arab women in cultural and political systems. Moroccan professor Fatima Mernissi, Ph.D., writes autobiography, oral history in interviews, and Islamic po…
Since 1957, state ideology has explicitly proclaimed Indonesia a nation organized by the conceptual metaphor of the archipelago (wawasan nusantara ), an archipelago of ethnicities, religions, local communities and families. Gay and lesbi Indonesians co-opt the archipelago concep…
My dissertation "The Postcolonial Migrant Intellectual: The Novel as Public Intervention" studies four literary intellectuals from former British colonies, Salman Rushdie, Bapsi Sidhwa, Buchi Emecheta and Ngugi wa' Thiong'o. By examining contemporary migrant novelists from natio…
This dissertation traces representations of the "extreme" landscapes of jungle and desert in twentieth-century African and European literary works, and explores how such representations both reflected and influenced identity formation during colonialism and after. Polar opposite…
This work addresses the folkloristic topic of identity through a conventional narrative history exploring Egypt's recent identity crisis in its historical development rather than its static mode in a specific time and space. This work, therefore, suggests a fresh look at the fun…