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Elmi Bodari and the Construction of the Modern Somali Subject in a Colonial and Sufi Context
(2014-04-30)Elmi Bodari was the first Somali poet to compose poems exclusively about the theme of love. Many Somalis believe that it was his unrequited love that caused his early death. His personal tragedy and poems have earned him ... -
Expose and Punish: Trial by Moving Images in Revolutionary China
My dissertation traces a history of how class struggle was made of and through moving images in China. Whereas many existing studies concerning socialism and leftist cultural politics treat class struggle as a given fact, ... -
Feminine Plural: Representations of Vulnerabilities and Vulnerabilities of Representations - Narratives of Women in Contemporary Egyptian Cinema
Huda Shaarawi’s purposeful unveiling in 1919 and the violent undressing of the girl in the blue bra in 2011 trace a narrative arc that begins with the birth of the Egyptian nation and end with the collapse of the state. ... -
Figures of degeneration in fin-de-siècle French literature
(2013-07-23)This dissertation explores how authors used the biological metaphor of degeneration to explain and condemn the decline of France in the first decades of the Third Republic. Degeneration was originally a medical coinage ... -
Fnip1 Regulates Skeletal Muscle Fiber Type Specification, Fatigue Resistance, and Susceptibility to Muscular Dystrophy
Skeletal muscle is characterized by the presence of two distinct categories of muscle fibers called Type I "red" slow twitch and Type II "white" fast twitch, which display marked differences in contraction strength, metabolic ... -
Fragmentation and wholeness in the novels of Luisa Josefina Hernandez and Gerlind Reinshagen
(1999)Themes of fragmentation and wholeness are the twentieth-century version of the eternal questions of disconnection and the search for unity inherent in the human condition. Where the literature of earlier ages has posited ... -
Fragmenting History: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of Empire
By exploring various figures of gendered and sexualized female workers, such as street prostitutes, hostesses, comfort women, teachers, idols, and actresses, this dissertation reveals that women's bodies were highly contested ... -
From Romantic Aesthetics to Environmental Ethics: Rethinking the Role of Natural Aesthetics in Ecocritical Discourse
This dissertation questions the growing tendency in contemporary ecocriticism to regard the Romantic concept of nature as antithetical to a modern system of environmental ethics. By emphasizing the inherent interconnectedness ... -
Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925
This dissertation examines the discursive strategies through which French intellectual critics exploited gender, nationalism and class as tools in the production of French high-brow and avant-garde film culture. To date, ... -
Genealogical Modernism: Family Structures, Identity, History, and Narrative in the 20th-Century “Long” Novel
“Genealogy” is a term which, in literary studies, is frequently associated with its philosophical context—a concept articulated by Nietzsche and Foucault—rather than with its more common usage, to describe the pursuit of ... -
Hölderlin's skeptical horizon: negation and the renunciation of dialectical production in Hyperion
(1996)The dissertation interprets Holderlin's novel as a response to questions about subjectivity and "Grundsatze" raised within the philosophical circle at Jena. The failure of Reinhold's "Elementarphilosophie," the initial ... -
The imperfect librarians: myth and resistance in Marcel Proust, Johannes V. Jensen, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges
(1999)In Jorge Luis Borges's "The Library of Babel," a library containing all possible combinations of letters in 410-page books, man is the "imperfect librarian." In this parable of the failed human quest for meaning, the ... -
Impure Memory, Imperfect Justice: A Comparison of Post-Repression Fiction Across the South Atlantic
This dissertation examines literary representations of—and interventions in—the conflicts between memory, justice, and national reconciliation after authoritarian regimes. I compare fiction written during the democratic ... -
In Defense of the Imagination: The Historical Reciprocity of Shahrazad and Modern Storytelling in Arabic Literature
By reference to The Thousand and One Nights, this dissertation limns a genealogy on the imagination, in Orientalism, as a site of struggle over meanings of change and transformation. This genealogy emerges with the translation ... -
Indelible Practices of Hope: Worldbuilding 1990s Los Angeles
Indelible Practices of Hope: Worldbuilding 1990s Los Angeles explores the ontological implications of one generation’s cultural practice for communities of color in a diverse, multilingual urban hub. Defining hope as the ... -
Mass Media, Mass Culture and Contemporary Italian Fiction
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines the pulp literary trend that developed in Italy from mid 1990s. By analyzing the historical, socio-economical and cultural changes that Italy went through after World War II, I clarify the process ... -
Medieval Persian Texts and Modern Contexts: Mohammad Qazvini and the Modern Reception of Chahār Maqāle (The Four Discourses)
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Migrant Mothering in Spanish and US Fiction, 1990-2020
This dissertation examines the intersection of migration and maternity in recent Spanish and US literature. Using intersectionality, matricentric feminism, feminist mothering, empathy, and Alcoff’s “the problem of speaking ... -
Mind's world: imagination and the modern subject
(2003)This dissertation discusses the imagination as a highly contested discursive construct that is situated at the juncture of philosophy and literature. It aims to provide a deeper understanding of the concept's conflictual ... -
Modernity and identity in Azeri poetry: Mo'juz of Shabustar and the Iranian constitutional era
(1997)This dissertation focuses on a poet who has remained virtually unknown in his homeland, let alone anywhere outside it. Mirza Ali Mo'juz of Shabustar (1874-1934) was an Iranian Azeri poet of the early twentieth century who ...