Feminist theology has become a site of contestation as womanist, mujerista , lesbian, Jewish and other self-named feminist theologies challenge the privilege of white, heterosexual, Christian perspectives. This dissertation argues that postmodern critical tools can assist femini…
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Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960) composed Ayre, a song cycle for soprano and large ensemble, in 2004. On the larger thematic level, it explores the history of the conflicts among Christians, Jews, and Muslims—as well as their similarities—to reflect more broadly on the contemporary rel…
In this dissertation, I develop the notion of the presence and influence of an Iberian Sufi mystical process in the poetry of Clara Janés and Joaquim Pessoa. I also further define these poets' role in the development of postmodernism in the Iberian Peninsula. In Chapter I, I giv…
During the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of young Israelis, after completing their military service, journeyed to South America or Asia. These journeys become a common pattern in Israel, and the travelers are known as backpackers. This study examines the phenomenon in …
In the interests of understanding how English as a Second/Foreign Language instructors struggle for power in their professional development programs offered in English Language Preparatory Schools in Turkish universities, a narrative study of nine instructors' was conducted. The…
This thesis argues that the fictional works of Sarajevan writer Aleksandar Hemon can be viewed as testimonial texts. I examine his novels and collections of short stories in conversation with the literary response to the siege of Sarajevo and as representations of the effects of…
Through her mystically infused, minimalistic sculptures, Iranian-born, London-based artist Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 ) has continued the trend of abstract spiritually in contemporary art. However, the theology that she represents is a mixture of her own creation, taking inspirat…
In the real world, many people suffer as a function of their subordinate position in social hierarchy. Deliberative, relativist, and essentialist political theorists have sketched philosophies of social criticism that alone are inadequate for criticizing some harmful social valu…
The concept of identity became popular among International Studies scholars in the aftermath of the Cold War, an era rife with ethnic confrontations across th world. Post-modern scholars brought the Foucauldian concept of identity making through the relationship with the “Other”…
Recent media attention on the trial and conviction of Andrea Yates, the Texas woman convicted of drowning her five children, as well as on female suicide bombers in Israel, indicates not only “a morbid curiosity in the United States relating to mothers killing their children” (M…
Recent scholarship has attributed the popularity of the Arabian Nights tales in the Arabic-speaking world to the fulfillment of expectations of worldly justice and reward rather than to the presence of magic. In contrast, this study finds that the tales' reception in late-imperi…
This study investigates the role of intertextuality in the metacritical commentary and experimental form of self-reflexive, contemporary novels and postmodern narrative theory. This approach to contemporary literature's interrogation of the idea of representation and its inheren…
This intertextual study explores the interrelationship between some modern and postmodern Hebrew writers and kabbalistic texts. The premise is that some early mystical-theosophical texts have certain fundamental poetic characteristics that became a fertile source for later Hebre…
This dissertation focuses on the development of Mexican Detective Fiction, from its inception in the 1940's to the recent success of the so-called “neopoliciaco” that portrays police corruption and the unlawful activities of criminal organizations. By applying Austin Freeman's t…
This dissertation analyzes the interplay between reality and fiction in four of Javier Marias's novels, Todas las almas, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, Negra espalda del tiempo and Fiebre y lanza, and in selections from his journalistic articles. It focuses on the antirealis…
Today, a growing number of Pakistani artists have embraced the nation's perceived visual languages and political, social, and cultural history to interrogate and unpack Pakistan's contemporary society and identity. The fruits of this shifting and mixing are works of art that tur…
In order to achieve a more comprehensive and inclusive psychology, the experiences of South Asian American Muslim women need to be considered. South Asians and Muslims have not been addressed as participants in the culture of the United States or within the mental health literat…
The demographic changes taking place in American society are having an impact on American higher education. Research on multicultural and minority education by Banks (1997), Grant (1992), Ogbu and Gibson (1991), Welch (1992), and Levey (1998) are examples of the proliferation of…