Immigrant youth living in new immigration countries such as Spain stand at the intersection of competing discourses and policies, their unexpected presence in schools and society opening up dilemmas and debates related to questions of difference, belonging, and identity. This di…
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This thesis applies trauma theory to three boxing genres: autobiography, fiction, and film, respectively. I examine boxing, a sport that puts the male body on display, as being constitutionally split between sadism and masochism, masculinity and femininity. I argue that boxing c…
This dissertation explores the nature of narratives that construct the crime of rape. My controlling question is: If we create meaning in language as I believe we do, why have recent revisions in the linguistic constructions of the crime, such as reforms in rape laws and in inte…
While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music, or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation examines the human reality and experience of …
Contemporary human rights discourse has produced a rather triumphant vision of the role of rights talk in securing progressive and transformative social change. Human rights have become the dominant language for public good around the globe and a language of choice for making an…
My dissertation, "Staging Resistances: Discourses of Power and Metatheatricality in Soyinka, Jonson, and Euripides," argues that metatheatricality, or theatre's self-referential mode, is resistant by virtue of a homology between theatrical structures and social, philosophical, a…
The right of return is a central theme in the collective ethos and identities of Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. Discussions on the Palestinian right of return have constituted one of the main hurdles in reaching an agreement in the context of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotia…
At the end of the nineteenth century, Spanish language and literary tradition were still a form of intellectual colonization for the inhabitants of the newly formed Hispanic American republics. This dissertation proposes a theoretical approach to examine the modernista movement.…
Communities are powerful, not just as physical or social gathering places, but as idiographs and rhetorical creations; they can bring together many diverse populations. Historically, communities were physically defined; today they can be designated as sites where local rhetoric,…
Enacting Discourses of Tutorship: An Autoethnographic Journey May 2021Nicolasa Barbosa de Garcia, M.Ed., Texas A & M University-KingsvilleChair of Dissertation Committee: Ari Sherris, Ph.D.Throughout history, universities have searched for ways to guide students through their st…