This dissertation develops a theoretical framework for the study of a resurgent realism in the context of contemporary global anglophone literature. By demonstrating the continuing relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukács, and by expanding their theories of realism and the …
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It is customary for postcolonial biblical critics to dismiss the book of Exodus as the tale of a tyrannical and genocidal deity. The following dissertation attempts to correct this impulse by redeploying the postcolonial approach in a way that seeks to more authentically realize…
This study is an ethnographic exploration of the Pakistani state as it implemented a number of reforms aimed at achieving conditions of good-governance and development. Based on fieldwork conducted from January to December 2006 in Islamabad city and district Kohat of the North W…
The experiences and responses of individuals living in mineral enclaves command a lot of scholarly attention. Such attention is evident in the Niger Delta of Nigeria where neoliberal oil exploration has gone on for the past five decades. Yet missing in the delta narratives is th…
Postcolonial theory, while often reserved for analysis of modern political conditions, is often overlooked in biblical studies. The purpose of this thesis is to employ postcolonial analysis to the book of Ezekiel and demonstrate its value in biblical studies. Postcolonialism cri…
In the face of the tremendous onslaught of global imperialism, it is crucial for the third world city to assert its existence beyond the designation as a mere node in the 'World Wide Web'. This thesis breaks away from the general positivist, reductionist gaze to appropriate Hele…
This dissertation is concerned with literary and postcolonial (re)configurations of resistance and negotiation as concepts through which to approach representations of postcolonial conflict in contemporary African literatures. These concepts operate at various levels of the narr…
In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn who challenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative wh…
The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale agricultural projects required a workforce that Malaya did not have. South Indian peasants from the untouchable Madrasi caste were tak…
This study explored the lived identity experiences of Muslim immigrant students in a small college town in the Midwest. The research considers the perceptions of Muslim students as they negotiate their multiple identities, namely their Muslim and/or ethnic identities, within the…
The aim of this study is to examine key texts in the discourse on Arab male homosexuality--works that have helped shape contemporary Arab thoughts and attitudes towards male "homosexuality." The exploration of an Arab "homosexual identity" will not only be examined through the a…
After reading Rushdie's major works, it may be stated that he is a post-colonial writer in the sense that his impulse is to always deconstruct the colonizer/colonized binary. In doing so, he attempts to clear a new space, "the third principle," where as Albert Memmi states one c…
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…
The goal of this thesis is twofold: (1) to analyze the ontology, function, and purpose of literary theory through a close reading of traditional aesthetics and the phenomenon known as post-coloniality in their African and diasporan dimensions; and (2) to propose a new theory. Th…
A new perspective on the sociology of globalization is evaluated. It considers increasing inequality across the world to be a consequence of emerging globalized economy rather than an outcome of underdevelopment. The sample included 126 countries classified as low-income to low-…
This dissertation is concerned with Enlightenment in a colonial and postcolonial setting. Its premise is that minority is a fundamental category of experience in post-Enlightenment liberal societies. It attempts a genealogy of secularism in colonial and postcolonial South Asia b…
This dissertation makes three related theoretical points. First, transitology—the theory that all former Soviet states are now constructing new institutions based upon Western models of market economies and democracies—is theoretically and empirically flawed. Instead, a post-col…
What's My Name? Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals is a study of the different processes through which four figures, C. L. R. James, Stuart Hall, Muhammad Ali and Bob Marley, construct themselves as postcolonial intellectuals. I am concerned here with the ways in in which thes…
As post-colonial theory notes, women's lived-experiences, particularly women of the “third world,” have not been present in the narratives of nation-states. By listening to and reading stories of decolonization, narratives of legitimacy, and narratives of the inheritance of cult…