Istanbul is for Pamuk what Paris is for Baudelaire: an inexhaustible source of inspiration and spleen. But, if the French poet is more conscious of his states of mind, the most widely read contemporary Turkish novelist seems at first to deliberately disregard the fact that any d…
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This thesis examines a dispute over environmental conservation projects between people living in Kaimana District of West Papua, Indonesia and environmental non-governmental organizations. It investigates social dynamics of environmentalism through analyzing a dispute over a spe…
This dissertation explores the significance of alterity in the works of Albert Camus and Assia Djebar. Using the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas as a theoretical foundation, I argue that both authors seek to establish a paradigm for the relationship with the other which preserves…
This dissertation examines the intersections between marginalized sexualities and other modes of alterity in German culture. Looking at texts from a range of subcultural counternarratives, I investigate the ways in which the invocation of multiple alterities can displace, transf…
The dissertation studies the visual construction of outsider and socially marginalized groups in early modern European art, with an emphasis on prints and book illustrations. It shows that a similar iconography and strategy of representation were used for groups of Others as div…
There is a close relationship between art and philosophy. From time to time, philosophy attempts to make art its theme. Invariably it has to acknowledge the very qualities of art that it seeks to explain - art’s elusiveness and its indeterminateness. On the other hand, it is the…
This dissertation examines both the literary and philosophical concept of Other in Antonio Machado's Proverbios y cantares. By redefining Machado's pithy creations as distinct fragment poems, I insert them in a continuum of late eighteenth- through early twentieth-century poetic…
The German Heimat, so profoundly evocative of serenity and a sense of intimate belonging, could be said to come into its ‘own’ only when it threatens to become ‘other,’ that is, only when it is poised in opposition to the unprecedented threat of alienation and fragmentation brou…
La notion d'altérité circule avec insistance dans la conscience collective contemporaine, mais, à ma connaissance, il n'y a pas d'ouvrage critique qui aborde simultanément la spécificité de différentes sortes d'altérité dans la fiction pour en saisir les formes, la signification…
This dissertation explores Italian colonial cinema of the liberal and fascist eras. The study respects the international and intertextual nature of the films, thus engaging in both a diachronic and synchronic approach to cinematic analysis. I investigate three generally overlook…
This dissertation investigates the relation between collective memories of violence and contemporary sites of injustice. With the emergence of global memory discourses, cultural memory has become a vital new site of conflict, political contestation and potential dialogue between…
The Reason of the Other constitutes primarily a normative survey of conceptualizations of alterity in politico-philosophical texts that have definitional precision above all with respect to freedom and faith. The investigation advances a set of symbols of alterity and the narrat…
In my dissertation, I examine terrorist literature: contemporary American and British writings that incorporate representations of Muslim terrorists and that evoke the events of September 11, 2001. In these texts, the fictional Muslim terrorist arguably occupies a place of belon…
Hayden White argues that to create a narrative is to "moralize." As historicists assert, the moral content of a narrative reflects the social, cultural and political discourses in which it is constructed as well as the ethical value systems that such discourses contain. However,…