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In this Dissertation I examine a group of novels by Juan Goytisolo, Magdalena Lasala, Ángeles de Irisarri and Lourdes Ortiz which re-interpret the Moorish presence in the Spanish past. Informed by New Historicism and Post-colonial theory, my Dissertation examines the long histor…

From the fifth to the eighth century A.D., control of North Africa was contested between the Roman (later Byzantine) Empire, the Germanic Vandals, indigenous Moorish kingdoms, and finally the armies of Islam. This thesis examines what became of the idea of Romanness in North Afr…

This dissertation is a comparative study of early modern English and Spanish literature and historical documents. It focuses on representations of blackness, purity of blood and intersections of theories of purity of blood with those of rank, gender and inheritance. Scholars of …

This dissertation examines the strategies of constructing religious and racial difference in early modern drama. The plays examined in this study are by the major and minor playwrights of the period. They include, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Daborne, Philip …

Edward Said's description of Orientalism as a constitutive element of the modern West is one of the enduring concepts of cultural history. The Orientalism thesis begins with the observation that in the 19th century Westerners began describing the "Orient," particularly the Middl…

One of the reasons religious studies is important to the academic process is because it seeks to understand the intricacies of well known human systems of meaning. Also important is research on those religious systems not well known. Herein lies the purpose of this dissertation,…

My dissertation deals with the cultural exchange between England and West Africa during the middle and late 16th century. Morocco's political and military strength was similar to that of England at this time, leading to equal and frequent social, economic, and diplomatic discour…