Modernism is not typically thought of as a genre that engages with the gothic, in any mode other than dismissal. And yet the gothic abounds in modernist literature, and in particular, modernist literature is filled with ghosts. In this dissertation, I offer readings of James Joy…
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The career path of African American novelist Chester Himes is often characterised as a u-turn. Himes grew to recognition in the 1940s as a writer of the Popular Front, and a pioneer of the era's black 'protest' fiction. However, after falling out of domestic favour in the early …
The question I pursue, both within the terms of J. G. A. Pocock's analysis of Atlantic-republican tradition and upon the geographical insights of Yi-Fu Tuan, is this: is it possible that imagining Islamic civilization actually helped an extraordinary mind like Washington Irving'…
My dissertation argues that past examinations of West African slave systems have over-emphasized the importance of social, linguistic and cultural marginalization, highlighted by a lack of access to the enslaving society's kinship networks, as the defining factors of slavery in …
Hazardous Crossings: The Transatlantic Figure in American Print, 1784-1855 examines how transatlantic African and Jewish bodies in print provoked anxieties over the instability of the republic's rhetorical, racial and territorial borders. By focusing on the figure of the Atlanti…
This dissertation undertakes a comparative analysis of the musical, written, and spoken production of Sun Ra and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with respect to the larger African Atlantic intellectual environment, situating the two artists as both shapers of an Atlantic intellectual cultur…
The Atlantic World as a source of historical inquiry has generated a great deal of scholarly research. Historians have changed how they look at empires, immigration, and networks of exchange. By making the ocean, and not a land mass or political entity the source of study, schol…
The Moroccan port of Salé-Rabat in the seventeenth century has historically been known as one of the main lairs for Muslim corsairs in the early modern Atlantic, the famous "Sallee Rovers." Beneath this romanticized facade, this port was a complex amalgam of multiple Iberian, Mo…