This dissertation asks how comics allow us to rethink the imagination and representation of the world and its inhabitants. I argue that by making questions of translation visible, comics provide tools to rethink world literacies. Rather than utilize comics to create a more unive…
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This dissertation examines late 19th- and early 20th-century Arabic literary texts on China to challenge the Eurocentric scholarly assumption that writers in the Nahda period drew their models of modernity solely from Europe. Surviving only in fragmented and unexplored archives,…
This study focused on incoming college students' participation in a multicultural book club in which they read Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart . Sub-questions addressed the following: individual participants' responses to the novel, how participants' involvement in the group d…
The Limits of Secular Criticism: World Literature at the Crossroads of Empires offers a colonial history of literature at the intersections of the French and British empires, nineteenth-century moral education and reforms in Qur'anic instruction. My argument is that literature, …
This dissertation argues that the category of the literary emerged in colonial Senegal through the exclusion of some indigenous textual cultures and the translation of others. In readings of Mariama Bâ, Ousmane Sembène, Cheikh Aliou Ndao, Maam Yunus Dieng and others, I examine h…
This dissertation discusses the importance of Alem, Alsanea, and al-Sharif in the elevation of Saudi Arabian national literature to the level of world literature: can these three Saudi Arabian female writers be labeled as world writers? By discussing Alem’s My Thousand and One N…
This dissertation explores points of literary contact between Arabic and English novels in order to write a transnational history of the genre. Focusing on early novels that think beyond the nation--English novels of the eighteenth century that imagine the East and Arabic novels…
This dissertation examines contemporary Mayan literature in Chiapas, Mexico (1983-2010) and Palestinian literature in Israel (1976-2010). It performs an understudied comparison between the literary traditions of two indigenous minorities emerging from the Global South and the Fo…
This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transna…
Focusing specifically on the Bildungsroman and international human rights law, Slaughter analyzes the "legibility" of human rights, the literary, political, and juridical effect of transcribing into international law conventions the ancient Greeks felt were so pervasive they cou…
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civil…
A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy. Focusing on UNESCO's use of books, Sarah Brouillette identi…
A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy. Focusing on UNESCO's use of books, Sarah Brouillette identi…
Focusing on its literary programming in particular, this study of UNESCO shines a light on the close relationship between state-backed economic development and the global postwar cultural policy establishment.