This thesis offers a fresh perspective about the benefits of stories on the human experience when they are written, structured, and told effectively. To examine how stories inform us, Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros is deconstructed through the theoretical framework of narratol…
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In daily life, moral judgments are embedded in dynamic, complex, and contextualized environments. As we reason about morally right or wrong behaviors, our personal history shapes how we judge who did what to whom, where, when, and why. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how…
“Buying the blueprints: Investing emotionally and materially in the icy ideologies of Disney’s Frozen” uses a cultural studies framework to examine qualitative data collected from interviews with Norwegian children and families, observations of public engagement with the Frozen …
The entrance of the study of trauma into literary criticism created a common ground between the latter discipline and the discipline of psychiatry. The common ground is yet largely undefined; this dissertation proffers to further define the common areas of inquiry between these …
My dissertation offers an analysis of childhood writing in Moroccan literature. It explores narratives entirely or partially dedicated to childhood written by both male and female writers and published during the second half of the twentieth century. This includes early works su…
This dissertation examines the use of mortuary tropes for the articulation of identities in seven Francophone Black narratives: Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée, Jean-Claude Fignolé's Les possédés de la pleine lune and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove—for the Car…
This dissertation analyzes the coexistence of realist and modernist prose in early and mid-twentieth century Hebrew fictional texts. The first chapter focuses on Y. Ch. Brenner's 1911 novel, Mi-kan u-mi-kan (From Here and There). On the one hand, this novel engages the specific,…
This project takes the author Ken Saro-Wiwa as its focal point in order to explore the archive of narratives, including his own, that revolve around the Ogoni movement for economic, environmental and political rights in Nigeria. The dissertation argues that Saro-Wiwa's image is …
Following the defeat of the Nazi regime, Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, embarked on a new artistic venture: ethnographic photography in the Sudan. On the surface this seems a strange move, from Nuremberg party rallies to the steppes of Africa, but Riefenstahl's f…
This dissertation aims to trace the complex trajectory of the anti acid violence campaign in Bangladesh during the years of 1995–2003. The development of this campaign began with the efforts of a group of Bangladeshi women working under the auspices of the women's advocacy group…
This document will undertake a comparison of the urban spaces and the narrative subjects that inhabit them in Maghrebian autobiographical narratives of childhood of the latter half of the twentieth century. The postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha has suggested that one of the m…
“Mi Anachnu, Mah Yesh Lanu, Mah Hayah Lanu,” “Who We Are, What We Have, What We Had” Narratives of Ethiopian-Israeli Women offers a feminist narrative analysis of the oral stories of Ethiopian Jewish mothers and daughters in Israel. The Ethiopian-Israeli women articulate their e…
This dissertation, “Black Marketers and Other Bad Actors: Narratives of Economic Citizenship in American Film, 1945–1955,” examines “reconversion narratives,” film narratives that came to define the emerging economic, political and cultural sensibilities of postwar culture. Peda…
Background: In recent decades, improvements in medical treatment, public health, technology and education have resulted in people living much longer. This includes people with learning disabilities, the fastest growing sector being the over-70s, and those who are women. There ha…
While a lot of previous work has focused on the Marlovian quartet, on questions of narrative method and of identity in Conrad, there has been no full-length study of the close connection between narration and identity in his fiction. The thesis is informed by Paul Ricoeur's phil…
This research deals with the ways Corporate Social Responsibility is interpreted in a UK Higher Education Institution. It evolved from my initial curiosity about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially the way it is taken up in daily practices. Drawing on the pragmatic…
The study examines the ways in which cyberspace functions as a rhetorical and cultural forum for North African and Arab women to assert their identity as lesbians. More directly, this project focuses on lesbian writing that considers the questions of survival and political chang…
This study is about the struggles, failures and triumphs of a nationalist movement in imagining the nation. All nationalisms are associated with iconic images, persons and narratives which articulate specific stories about the nation's past. I argue that the story of Palestinian…
Pledging Transnational Allegiances: Nationhood, Selfhood, and Belonging in Asian American and Jewish American Narratives, represents a comparative study of immigrant fiction that traces its development over the course of the twentieth century. The use of Jewish American and Asia…