The object of study in this dissertation is the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension to heaven, commonly known as the mi` raj , as it circulated in Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) amongst the Moriscos of sixteenth-century Spain. The origins and development of the…
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This dissertation explores literary and visual representations of shame with a particular focus on the 14th to 16th centuries. Through a survey of prose literary works and Early Modern visual culture, this project argues for an understanding of shame as a social construction of …
This dissertation examines the early interactions between the Portuguese and the Chinese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with special emphasis on the central roles respective ideas of time and space played in the creation and development of the perception of the othe…
This thesis examines the social impact of horses on French elites between 1150 and 1300. Using courtly literature, a veterinary treatise, manuscript illuminations, archeological studies, material artefacts, and account books, it explores the place of horses in elite society—prac…
Rather than being a pure product of Metropolitan France, as most of Camus's critics generally maintain, Camus is the product of his native colonial Algeria, a European-Algerian culture which has distinctive features significantly different from that of Metropolitan France. The p…
This dissertation argues that Lope de Vega (1562-1635) used self-fashioning in order to attract royal, aristocratic, and municipal patrons in the newly emerging court of Philip III and his favorite, the Duke of Lerma. In order to retrace the author's efforts to create a unique p…
This dissertation proposes the analysis of the Russian memoirist tradition and its key trends. It includes a creative component representing memories of life during the late Soviet and post-Soviet period and explores how this creative work fits into the tradition of Russian life…
I examine the political function of short narratives during the period of nation formation in Latin America (1830-1920). I focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba as case studies to show that the genre was a prominent platform for counter-hegemonic discourse. I define counter-hegem…
Francisco Delicado and Juan and Alfonso de Valdés, Spanish humanists who departed from their country of birth and experienced the dark days prior to the sack of Rome in 1527 and its aftermath, engaged and instructed their readers through the dialogue form. This dissertation expl…
This dissertation maps a history of Cuban comic production, analyzes hero characters in comics, and uses comics as a lens to discern both the reconstructing of memory and new imaginings of the future. Iconography and visual culture have played a formative role in negotiations ov…
The short stories of Spanish author Lourdes Ortíz present the experiences of marginalized individuals upon whom outside observers have imposed a narrative. In these three stories, the only way for the character to escape this oppressive imposition of a narrative is through a sac…
This public history capstone is a research paper that also examines the use of research within the public history field. Within the project, Shannon LeRoy argues that cultural and social factors such as gender and social standing contributed to Roman literary censorship to the p…
This thesis will demonstrate that the literature of Wales and Catalonia, two small stateless nations that are dominated by larger states with a different majority culture (the United Kingdom and Spain), can be read as resistance literature. However, crucially, it will focus on a…
The purpose of the present dissertation is to investigate the nature of the historical works composed in Visigothic Spain from the Chronica of the Gallaecian bishop Hydatius written c. 468 to the Arab Invasion of Spain in 711. The limited amount of concrete evidence to have surv…
Collective identity and verbal commemoration were central elements of the legend of Roland at the battle of Roncevaux, which is best known today as it appears in La Chanson de Roland. This study examines these elements, which serve as representations of verbacular literature its…
Le printemps 1962 marque un tournant pour les Français d'Algérie—les Pieds-Noirs—qui doivent faire face, au terme de sept ans de guerre, à une situation tragique. Démunis de leurs biens, ils sont forcés à s'expatrier en France sans espoir de retour. Arrivés sur l'autre rive, ils…
The twentieth century has known many writers and artists who have experienced exile in one or more of its dimensions--psychological, political, existential. The writings of Edmond Jabes (Cairo, 1912-Paris, 1991) illustrate the observation of Theodor Adorno that "For a man who no…
This thesis examines three miracle tales with anti-Jewish leitmotivs from Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria, Escorial, Biblioteca Real, MS T.I.1. In each one, a Jewish male is confronted by an image of the Virgin and Child which provokes a strong reaction from him. The Jewish …
This dissertation analyzes three types of texts (essays, religious studies, fiction) to illustrate Pardo Bazán's original construction of a Christian feminist model. The first chapters examine her initial efforts to combat the “ángel del hogar” bourgeois stereotype in her essays…