My thesis focuses on the issue of problematic faith in the works of Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, and Edmond Jabès. I suggest that these three authors are primarily concerned with finding, and promoting through the medium of literature, a viable means of faith in light of the spiritu…
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This thesis aims to shed light on the cultural and aesthetic implications of the relationship between Italy and India on and off the screens of Italy, following the expansion of Bollywood in Europe during the 90s. Bollywood's propagation abroad affected the identity of the South…
This dissertation proposes a new way of understanding Cynthia Ozick's aesthetic project. I argue that her short stories and novels are engaged in untangling her self-styled contradiction between the creative impulse and Jewish observance. That is, while her non-fiction essays ar…
The aesthetic ideal in Kemet was rooted and grounded in maat, that is truth and justice and nefer, which translated means beauty, perfection, and goodness. Maat and nefer were conceptions in Kemet. The conception of beauty in all forms of existence was united with their worldvie…
This dissertation proposes a reading of postcolonial African literature in light of the continent's continued status as a "remnant" of globalization--a waste product, trash heap, disposable raw material, and degraded offcut of the processes that have so greatly enriched, dignifi…
For my culminating project for my Master of Fine Arts in Television, Film and Theatre I will offer accounts of the aesthetic experience of the California State University, Los Angeles production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner presented in the Fall of…
A two part project, one half film and the other an analytical essay. A Maine in Progression is a candid documentary following Detroit music artist Illy Maine in his journey and discoveries throughout life and music. The film explores identity, challenges through troubled times a…