The goal of this study was to discover the actual changes in Tunisian women's perception of their role in the family and society through an examination of literary works, in Arabic, of contemporary Tunisian women writers. The study traced the development of the expression of Tun…
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Anthropologists, sociologists and students of culture study food, eating and cuisine because they can provide insight into gender, power and even economic relations that structure a society. The way that people react to, think about and write about this most basic form of consum…
Since 1947, the relationship between India and Pakistan has been filled with tension, rooted in a series of land partitions, religious and ethnic violence, racial-based caste and tribal segregation, and repetitive wars over nuclear weapons. The narratives of both nations, the wa…
El propósito principal de este estudio es explicar tres trilogías de las escritoras Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, y Ana María Matute. La primera, Trilogía de memoria, de Josefina R. Aldecoa, Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994), La fuerza del destino (…
Professor and Playwright Dr. Tess Onwueme is a powerful literary voice focusing on the issues affecting women and families in Africa and its diaspora. With the publication of her first play, A Hen Too Soon (1983), a fresh voice was added to challenge traditional beliefs that end…
This dissertation, Careering Through the Village: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura Riding, and the Greenwich Village Poetry Market, investigates the professional strategies of two women who sought careers as American poetesses during the early 20th century. It analyzes their earli…
The last thirty years have been a time of considerable change in both Canadian religious life and in Canadian women's lives, as well as in the interrelationships between the two. While Canadian society has undergone a process of increasing secularization, Canadian women have bee…
The central assumption of this study is that the awareness of a historically constructed, culturally sanctioned condition of subalternity is at the heart of the fictional production of Francophone African women writers. Subalternity here is viewed as a narrative and spatial cont…
Reading poetry in Yiddish, Hebrew and English from across the twentieth century, this dissertation examines how literary lineage is constructed and challenged by Jewish women in Eastern Europe, America and Mandatory Palestine. Between Jewish women's limited access to the past an…
This dissertation examines the migratory experiences of the protagonists from four African diasporic novels: Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy (1999), Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta (1994), Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994), and The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982). …
This paper discusses the politics of inclusion and exclusion of literary works by Arab women writers for translation into English. How are these literary works selected for translation? Why have these works become a representation of Arab women? And what is the role of the trans…
This study examines texts by British women who traveled in, lived in, and wrote about the Middle East. It examines and critiques these women's representations of self, nation and several "others" in the Middle Eastern countries where they lived and traveled: Turkey, Syria, Egypt…
My dissertation focuses on the two best-known works by Clara Reeve, the novel The Old English Baron (1777) and the critical treatise The Progress of Romance (1785), reading The Progress of Romance as Reeve's effort to outline a feminine, Christianized narrative tradition to serv…
Au Québec comme en Afrique subsaharienne francophone, la prise d'écriture tardive des femmes a constitué un événement subversif dans leurs champs littéraires, jusque-là dominés par les hommes. Du statut d'objet, ces femmes sont passées à celui de sujet. Mais comment appréhender …
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…
My dissertation explores the socio-political effect of minority literature on the Western concept of culture and its subsequent recasting of cultural boundaries. In my examination of philosophical and literary texts, my focus is on moments of literary inter- or transculturation …
The partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the `two nation solution,' however, was accompanied by an unprecedented occurrence of mass migration to and from areas that would become…
The thesis defines Lady Mary's evolving “I am” statement from its first appearance in juvenilia to its last, novel-based. Using feminist and new historicist methods, the study penetrates a multi-voiced epistolary self to her imaginary works' personae. The early chapters are arra…
The dissertation examines the transmission of cultural values in a selection of African women's texts, written in English and published between 1966 and 1986. Focusing on a range of works by Kenyan, Nigerian and South African women, the study explores modes of memory and examine…