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This dissertation proposes an interpretive paradigm to explore the Moorish, Arab, Islamic and Algerian presence in Cuban literature and cultural studies, and it offers four case studies in which to do so. The interpretative paradigm involves a dynamic between two coexisting appr…

The formation of the Spanish nation and empire reverberates in its 16 th- and 17th-century literature, as the so-called "Reconquest" of the Iberian Peninsula by the Northern, Christian kingdoms (8th-15 th centuries) served to create both new national territory and also an identi…

This study analyzes the black image as it was portrayed in print and visual culture within the framework of "American Orientalism" in the nineteenth-century. By American Orientalism (a phrase obviously inspired by Edward Said's classic study), I mean the larger framework of raci…