This dissertation argues that the novels of Toni Morrison, Tahar ben Jelloun and Salman Rushdie are neither realist nor anti-realist, nor can they be accurately defined as magical realist. They are better understood as attempts to reimagine the possibilities for realism in a pos…
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Magic Realism in the context of literature tends to be considered peculiar to Latin America, but that perception is changing. Much more frequently now, magic realism is discussed both as a tendency within postmodern literature, as Well as a mode unfettered by geographical bounda…
In examining the work of three "ethnic" writers (Nakagami Kenji is Japanese burakumin, Leslie Marmon Silko Native American, Salman Rushdie an Indian living in England), this project studies literary depictions of ways in which the body is portrayed and used as a space for cultur…
This dissertation examines the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie and Sara Suleri to show how their writings disturb and reconfigure representations of the nation by positing new fictions of transit, migrancy, and dispersal. In all three writers, hybridity fissures the…
This dissertation argues for the importance of reading literature about the 1947 partition of colonial India in order to begin a truly interdisciplinary reflection on postcolonial and South Asian studies. I shall argue that South Asian literature about the partition of colonial …
This work looks at the different ways women respond to the Islamic headscarf in their respective countries. By studying political policies and sociological texts in conjunction with literary study, this dissertation argues that regardless of differences in veiling policies, wome…
Postcolonial gothic fiction arises in response to certain social, historical, or political conditions. Postcolonial fiction adapts a British narrative form that is highly attuned to the distinction and collapse between home and not home and the familiar and the foreign. The appe…
My dissertation examines moments of Arabic linguistic and formal importation and cultural translation in colonial and postcolonial texts and offers ways of engaging these often misunderstood or overlooked moments. Sparse and seemingly ineffective, importations do indeed play a s…
A significant aspect of Britain's colonial policy in India was to present itself as an improved and consequently desirable alternative to Muslim imperialism. This political strategy was in harmony with the traditional rivalry between Islam and the West, and Anglo-Indian discours…
This study is a comparative analysis of four contemporary authors who have claimed The Thousand and One Nights as their favorite text: Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, John Barth, and Salman Rushdie. These authors also share an interest in the process of narrativity and concern…