Grâce à une réflexion sur ma création poétique, cette thèse exploite « la poétique négro-africaine de l’exil » à travers cinq recueils de Césaire, Kayóya, Senghor et Tshitungu Kongolo. D’une part, mon recueil extériorise les joies et les peines du Burundi précolonial, colonial, …
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This study explores the colonial-based historical fiction of Melville (Israel Potter), Sedgwick (Hope Leslie), and Hawthorne (The House of the Seven Gables), and uses references to American textiles and apparel to analyze what John McWilliams calls "the problem of cultural memor…
This dissertation is intended as an ethnomusicological contribution to the history of music and media in Indonesia. It deals with topics and resources that have never been systematically examined for this region: gramophone records and radio broadcasting from the years before Wo…
The thematic organization and volume of data in this thesis set it methodologically apart from existing treatments of the colonial encounter in nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Data from South Asian archives illuminates the interaction between three ranges of variables within Ang…
This dissertation examines connections between material culture and colonial society as evidenced in a range of written works and architectural projects that together shaped the social and urban histories of Lahore, the capital city of Punjab Province in British India (1849–1947…
The travel narratives of Daniel Defoe are filled with images of heroic English travelers and the natives they encounter. I argue that those natives are portrayed in the texts in terms of the relationship between their agency (as either potential aid or hindrance) and the travele…
Following the defeat of the Nazi regime, Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, embarked on a new artistic venture: ethnographic photography in the Sudan. On the surface this seems a strange move, from Nuremberg party rallies to the steppes of Africa, but Riefenstahl's f…
This dissertation explores the transformation of property rights in Sabah, Malaysia from 1881 to present day. I untangle the complex ways in which property rights are transformed by closely analyzing the history of colonial codification of native customary law, the intricacies o…
This dissertation explores the performative manifestations of two familiar tropes, queer colonials and nativized boys, on the colonial and global-scapes of Singapore, Bali and the Asian diaspora. I focus on selected, representative theater and performance that are produced by or…
This project centers on the city of Patna in northeastern India, today the capitol of the state of Bihar. Because of its status as a provincial center for British colonialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Patna does not represent a major facet of the stu…
In Nigeria, the rhetoric surrounding football focuses on how important the game is to national unity and how the rare moment when Nigerians feel a unity of purpose is when their national team is playing. How did football, a completely foreign cultural practice, come to become so…
Although much research exists regarding the performance practice of European sacred music in the colonial era, little research has been available regarding the performance practice of sacred polyphony in colonial Mexico. Music of this colonial era is often ignored or redefined t…
This dissertation examines the legal institutions established under French colonial rule in the town of Kayes in the upper Senegal River valley (present-day Mali), between 1880 and 1913. It traces out the process by which these institutions were established and changed over time…
This dissertation examines the politics of Christian conversion among youth in the context of missions in Kano emirate during British colonial rule. Studies of colonial-era Christian missions in Muslim Northern Nigeria have focused on governmental efforts to limit, segregate, se…
This project examines the process of return from the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium for British colonial officials and their families. Through an analysis of their correspondence with family and friends in Britain, the symbolic process of returning to their ‘home’ country is apparen…
During the nineteenth century, the Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang and Melaka were established as free ports for British trade in Southeast Asia. As settlement colonies rather than colonial conquests they proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. The Stra…
This thesis is a reconstruction of the Somalia's encounter with the colonial discourse of development and its impact on indigenous farmers. It is an analysis of several narratives of Somali experts who worked for development projects in Somalia during the early 1970s and late 19…
From 1900, and especially during the inter-war period, French colonial governments in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia experimented with initiatives aimed at “renovating” or reviving the production of North African arts and crafts. This dissertation charts the history of this “nativ…
Recent scholarship has suggested that French artist Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), born in Santo Domingo to a French diplomat and a Creole woman, was in fact a sang-mélé, whose racial identity is reflected in his pictures. Unsettling notions of a direct correlation between bio…