The journal América (Mexico City, 1940-1960) was founded as a leftist monthly focused on politically uniting Latin American and exiled Spanish youth and, by the end of its print life, was a semifrequent literary anthology sponsored by the Mexican government’s Secretaria de Educa…
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This dissertation analyzes how images of suffering bodies—violated women's bodies in India and starving bodies in Ireland—have been mobilized within competing narratives to define and redefine the British empire, its ideological investments, and modes of anti-colonial resistance…
Overpopulation caught the attention of scientists, popular science authors, and science fiction creators alike in the second half of the twentieth century. Overpopulation embodied the disaster that would finally bring about the end of the world as they knew it. Concerns varied b…
The Hebrew Bible, early Christian asceticism, Quakerism, and the Kantian sublime present contrasting and sometimes paradoxical perceptions of silence. The Hebrew Bible offers silence in a variety of forms, introducing notions and associations that reappear in numerous texts. Asp…
This dissertation examines how the conflicts of revolutionary Mexico provided Arab immigrants the opportunity to prosper and create their own unique community in the post-revolutionary nation. Arab immigrants successfully negotiated their role in Mexican society by exploiting so…
While the prohibition movement of the 1880s gained limited success, the Progressive Era variant of the movement achieved a remarkable accomplishment in American politics: the Eighteenth Amendment. How can such divergent outcomes be explained? This dissertation argues that choice…
In opera, the accepted convention is that singing represents speech, that music functions not as music, but as audible representation of the drama. There are many occasions, however, in which music must function as music within the drama, such as in a serenade, lullaby, folk son…
This is a study about community, politics, creativity and the spaces in which they meet in an increasingly globalized West African city. As a point of departure, I take a sociohistorical approach to cultural policy in Dakar, Senegal, where art and cultural exhibitions have promo…
This dissertation explores comparative representations of displacement, exile, and diaspora in twentieth-century writing by women. While numerous studies have addressed the particularities of modernist exile for male writers from Europe and the United States, far less has work h…
We have become particularly adept at killing people in the twentieth century. Weapons have become ever more destructive, and we seem to have an increased willingness to use them. From World War I until the more recent conflict in Kuwait, it seems as though warfare has become one…
This dissertation provides an introduction to the Turkish genre of instrumental improvisation known as taksim, a mostly untaught and unnotated element within a larger tradition that has both theory and literature. The exposition focusses on the lessons and improvised models of t…
This study examines the music, lives, works, and culture of Contemporary Egyptian Music and its composers. The music, sometimes referred to as Egyptian Western-influenced art music or Twentieth Century Egyptian music, constitutes a small yet important branch of the overall Egypt…
According to most scholarly inquiries in Ethiopian studies, forceful incorporation and submission were the main mechanisms by which empire was built and sustained. Power is often associated with an “elite ethnic” group identified as Amhara whose particular characteristics are de…
A devotion to an open and progressive interpretation of human rights and the law secured Judge Ronald N. Davies’ legacy as an unintended, yet influential activist for advancing civil rights and of the twentieth century. His views helped change the definition and meaning of judic…
All history is media history, and all politics are media politics. This dissertation provides an analytical frame for seeing and studying the people, ideas, political movements, and social arrangements that populate history as both solid forms and fluid processes; that is, as be…
For American and British women, the definition of being healthy changed in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Previously, there had been a resigned acceptance of the fact that a woman’s reproductive capacity often relegated her to a lifetime of suffering and ill hea…
This dissertation examines English musical modernism through the lens of Benjamin Britten’s engagement with the sacred, focussing on his affinity for sacred and liturgical imagery both on and off the stage, and inside and outside of the church. Although Britten’s oeuvre is shot …
H.D. and Denise Levertov, two visionary poets of the twentieth century, represent both female poets’ awakening of political and historical consciousness and their engagement with the poetics of vulnerability and survival. H.D. and Levertov offer lyrical visions that dismantle th…
The Exodus is most commonly associated with the black experience in America because its narratives of freedom and movement resonate with both Emancipation and the Great Migration. The use of the Exodus narrative to understand historical and political changes reverses Noah’s curs…