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This dissertation explores how Arab media, cinema and fiction especially after the election of President Barack Obama, assert the value of America as a potential source of ‘change’ while attempting to renegotiate the Arab and Muslim worlds' positions in the international system.…

This dissertation examines the 9/11 novel for evidence of the continuities of Orientalism, for an intensified resistance to Orientalism, and for a new discourse of conciliation. The analysis primarily employs Said's Orientalism as the theoretical framework to study the selected …

This thesis aims to establish a model for understanding the intricate motivations and significances of Shakespearean adaptations in the twenty-first-century China and Taiwan. While the term Chinese Shakespeare usually includes the Taiwanese adaptations of the Bard's work, it fai…

This is an ethnography of postcoloniality in Nigeria and Senegal, with focus on how cognitions and subjectivities crystallized from colonial history have enabled constructions of the West among African peoples, and how these constructions catalyze migration to Western countries.…

It is very common to defend laiklik by invoking laïtcité. This dissertation puts the constitutions of laiklik and laïcité in their respective historical contexts, in order to locate the reasons behind the changes in the meanings of the concepts and behind the changes in the conc…

Since the initial staging of Che zhan ( Bus Stop ), and its brief run in Beijing in 1983, Gao Xingjian's play has been the subject of controversy, identified on one hand as a wholesale adaptation of a Western theatrical model, and on the other as an utter betrayal of modern Chin…