The evolution of Classical reception studies in recent decades has encouraged a corresponding growth of interest in assessing instances of Herodotean reception from antiquity to the present era. This thesis joins the conversation by exploring how Herodotus’ Historie s has been u…
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L’objectif de cette mini-thèse est d’étudier la vie de la femme dans Assèze l’Africaine de Calixthe Beyala. Dans ce roman, Beyala présente le tableau africain d’après les indépendances à travers les peines, les illusions et l’espoir de différents personnages féminins. Le lecteur…
This dissertation pursues the literary-historical tracks of the image repertoire of "boy-love" (amradparasti) versified for over two centuries in the Urdu ghazal. It critically engages with key positions in sexuality studies and ghazal criticism that have reduced this theme to v…
In 1966, just six years after gaining independence, Senegal made a bold international statement by hosting a pan-African arts festival of unprecedented proportions. The World Festival of Black Arts (FESMAN) broke new ground by musically performing, rather than merely discussing,…
Scholars of migration, colonization, and cultural interaction in antiquity have increasingly turned towards a variety of concepts (such as hybridity, negotiations, and middle grounds) developed by postcolonial theorists to describe the dynamics of ancient civilizations beyond th…
This dissertation argues that the French political doctrine of integrationism, which acted as a palliative to Algerian nationalist demands for independence in the final years of the colonial war, survived the fall of formal empire in 1962. Just as the policy of integration provi…
Although postcolonial criticism has run its course for thirty years, a fresh look at Edward Said's Orientalism offers insight into how Orientalism functions in the writings of three British dames. Gertrude Bell in The Desert and the Sown, Freya Stark in The Southern Gates of Ara…
Gesher is a theatre founded by a group of Russian immigrants in Tel Aviv in 1990. Gesher is a cultural phenomenon that, like a prism, refracts issues of interethnic relations, cultural and immigration policy, and the status of media discourse in Israel. Therefore, Gesher is a ri…
In his informal writings Durrell makes cryptic comments on his idea of the heraldic universe. It is a universe in which time stops and communication happens in pure symbols, nourishing the primordial teleological harmony between human beings and nature. Durrell sees this as a pa…
As discussions about the hijab circulate in twenty-first century Western Europe, it seems as though few lawmakers are looking to the narratives and experiences of Muslim and South Asian women to give voice to the practice. This thesis looks at the poets Kamala Das, Imtiaz Dharke…
The scope of this dissertation is to examine the representations of Egypt in modern Italian literature. By closely analyzing Egyptian, Italian and French texts related to the colonial moment and the Italian intellectual environment during fascism I revise current views of coloni…
The ethnic category of “peripheral” Chinese Americans encompasses ethnic Chinese who do not come from mainland China but come from other parts of Asia and Southeast Asia such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. In the struggle with their hybrid and diaspori…
This dissertation examines the impact of shifting power relations on the formation of ideology and community in post-Soviet independent Uzbekistan. Drawing on data gathered during 12 months of fieldwork (1994-95) in the city of Kokand, the author demonstrates how the mahalla--a …
This dissertation develops a theory of culture which addresses the role cognition plays in the construction and perpetuation of ideologies and the role ideologies play in the formation of national identities and literatures. Using the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson as a …
This study examines the textual production and narration of “multiple identities” in third world and US third world feminist writings of the last three decades. These feminist writers suggest a tactical articulation of their identities between, across, and through a transnationa…
This thesis explores the textualizing of the South Atlantic island of St Helena (a British Overseas Territory) through an analysis of the relationship between colonizing practices and the changing representations of the island and its inhabitants in a range of colonial 'texts', …
The last three decades have seen the Southern Mexican city of Oaxaca evolve to become an autonomous centre for the creation and promotion of contemporary art on state, national and international levels. The present research's original contribution to knowledge is the analytical …
This thesis investigates the activities of two secondary schools in relation to their duty to promote community cohesion (intercultural understanding and cohesion within communities) and their engagement in global educational partnerships and international activities. In particu…
In recent decades, the emergence of a global indigenous peoples' movement has renewed the significance of indigeneity as a theme of pan-Africanist ethnology. This thesis looks at the semiotics of indigeneity in post-apartheid South African intercultural theatre, focusing on four…