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The distinctiveness of this study lies in its being the first attempt to thoroughly examine the entire oeuvre of Dalia Ravikovitch--the 1998 Israel Prize laureate--by offering a reading that combines psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and trauma studies. The dissertation contains …

Becoming Stranger: Identity and Estrangement in Contemporary Turkish Visual Culture is an analysis of the visuality of cultural politics concerning Turkey since the 1990s to present and the emergent effect of estrangement as a social and political critique. The period marks the …

Mass suburbanization efforts in the United States after 1945 fundamentally changed the spaces in which Americans lived, as well as the popular genre novels they read. In order to manage the anxieties created by suburbia’s emergent regimes of space, genre fiction imagined worlds …