The hypothesis underlying this study is that the content and style of the displays in self-designated national museums can afford valuable insights as to the concepts of national identity held by those institutions' authorities. Two related research questions were therefore addr…
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This dissertation examines the "Christ-culture" tension in Java, where societal concepts of power conflict with biblical notions of ministry. The thesis is that Javanese male ministers reflect cultural power myths more than they do christological ministry models. In first-centur…
This thesis offers a reading of feral children in literature and culture from the seventeenth century until the first decades of the twentieth century. "Feral children" are taken to be individuals who have grown up, or spent some part of their childhood, in a condition of solitu…
This thesis explores recent trends in Chinese international relations scholarship from the perspective of post-colonial and critical international relations theory. It begins by interrogating the now widespread view that ‘the discipline’ of international relations is profoundly …
This study proposes a reading of the writing of history by several Algerian novelists working in the 1980s. It focuses on novels--written in French by Kateb Yacine, Malika Mokeddem, Rachid Mimouni, Tahar Djaout and Assia Djebar, and in Arabic by Wasini al-A'raj--that attempt to …
This dissertation addresses the formative power of myth from the standpoint of political philosophy. Although a work in political theory, its approach is empirically oriented. Taking up three distinct kinds of myth arising in three different socio-historical contexts, the disser…
Beginning with a contextual characterization of the concepts of ‘tragedy’ and ‘hero’, this dissertation examines the various ways black filmmakers represent historical and political leaders of Francophone sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean in their narratives. Eight movies are…
I propose that William Faulkner's literary imagination is charged by a Jewish sensibility rooted in reverence for the Bible as a text that is as vital and relevant in his time as in any since its composition. The Hebrew Bible's narrative method of compiling, redacting, doubling,…
In the 1940s José María Arguedas and Francisco Izquierdo Ríos collected oral tradition stories from three separate geographical areas of Peru. The publication of these legends, myths and Peruvian tales (Mitos, leyendas y cuentos peruanos 1947) and its function as an historical r…