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This project concerns the politics of cultural translation in three texts by female writers at the diverse sites of the world of postcoloniality—Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Buchi Emecheta's The Family , Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. On the level of narrative actio…

The years of the Napoleonic occupation and Wars of Liberation are generally considered to mark the birth period of the German national movement. The division of Central Europe into numerous multiethnic states discouraged a political or institutional definition of Germanness. The…

My dissertation, Translating the Transatlantic: West African Literary Approaches to African American Identity , takes a literary-historical approach to the question of Anglophone West African conceptions of African American identity, an often overlooked topic. It represents an i…

This dissertation aims to contribute to the burgeoning field of Arab-American feminist critique through an exploration of the work of four contemporary Arab-American women poets: Etel Adnan (1925-), a poet and a visual artist and a writer, Naomi Shihab Nye (1952-), poet, a song …