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Empathy Passage: Toward a Presentational Genealogy of the Rhetorics of Antisemitism and Israel/Palestine
This dissertation asserts that only through a slow and benevolent examination of the rhetorical energy of Antisemitism (including the immense period prior to its linguistic dissemination, which he has entitled the “Prenatal ... -
Empire’s Imagination: Race, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in ‘Local’ Hawaiʻi Narratives
My dissertation, “Empire’s Imagination: Race, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in ʻLocal’ Hawaiʻi Narratives,” addresses the history of U.S. empire in Hawaiʻi, arguing that empire persists into the present through the ... -
Encounters With the Modernist Food-Object
This interdisciplinary dissertation seeks to remedy scholarly neglect of the topic of food within literature and art of the early twentieth century, particularly within transatlantic forms of modernism. I argue that the ... -
The End of Innocence: Women of Color Literature, Utopia, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Cold War Racial Liberalism
(2013-07-25)This project studies the centrality of the utopian and dystopian narrative form in U.S. political culture after the protracted racial crisis of the 1960s. This dissertation explores two main lines of inquiry. The first ... -
Exploring Academic Socialization and Identity of Chinese Undergraduate Students in the U.S.
Under the worldwide trend of internationalization of higher education, the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S. has increased dramatically in the past ten years. In some American universities, such as a large ... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's T̲e̲n̲d̲e̲r̲ i̲s̲ t̲h̲e̲ N̲i̲g̲h̲t̲: the idea as morality
(1955)Professor R. P. Blackraur has said that "Fitzgerald made of his morality a screen for his self-love." This may well be true. But I do not think that such a habit was distinct only to Fitzgerald. Indeed, to some degree, I ... -
Family relationships in the novels of Jane Austen
(1980)Jane Austen's concept of the ideal family unit reflects the process of social reform that took place during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The wave of change was led by writers who believed that the ... -
Fantastic Intrusions: The Fantastic as a Concretization of Human Hardship
This essay explores the role of the fantastic in both historical and contemporary works. The essay delves into the questions: What does it mean when the fantastic appears in a work of fiction? What does the fantastic bring ... -
Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake
This dissertation examines contemporary television slash fandom, in which fans write and circulate creative texts that dramatize non-canonical queer relationships between canonically heterosexual male characters. These ... -
Female Exiles in Language: Reading for New Poetic Subjects in Modern and Contemporary Feminist Experimental Poetry
The research aim in this dissertation is to analyze the experimental poetic languages of H. D., Gertrude Stein, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and discuss the ethico-political potential of their languages to ... -
Fictions of Revolution: Empire and Nation in Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, John Wilcox, and Bahaa Taher
This dissertation engages postcolonial theory and historiography in order to illuminate our understanding of the ways in which literary works re-create and interrogate history and, to evoke Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ... -
Folklore, fantasy, and fiction: the function of supernatural folklore in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British prose narratives of the literary fantastic
(2001)This dissertation reveals the important role of folk beliefs and motifs, adapted from traditional legends and fairy tales, in Victorian and Edwardian fantastic prose. Literary fairy tales and legends appropriate and reshape ... -
Forgotten Pueblos: La Alianza Federal de Mercedes and the Cultural Politics of Indo-Hispano
(2013-07-25)As one of the formative organizations of the Chicana/o movement in the 1960s and '70s, La Alianza Federal de Mercedes waged a dynamic and controversial campaign in New Mexico for the recovery of Mexican and Spanish land ... -
Formal Prospects: The Long Poem After Milton
This dissertation examines how long form loco-descriptive poems written between 1660 1800 approach aesthetic experience as kinesthetic and embodied. Aesthetic theory since Addison has typically treated the experience or ... -
Freaks in Public: Reading the Freakish in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
The presence of freaks in American literary texts, particularly as they re-emerge in late 20th century works, articulate a complex set of relationships that define what Elizabeth Grosz calls “acceptable, tolerable, knowable ... -
From the Gunwales to the Waterline
(2012-09-13)A young mean leaves home after his brother's death and finds himself negotiating various circles of hell as he tries to re-discover his will to live and the meaning of love and family. -
From the Philosophical Wanton to the Respectable Lady
(2012-09-13)Despite the proliferation of conduct manuals highlighting the domestic woman`s manifold virtues and the abundant caricatures of the vulgar learned woman`s masculine antics, there remained, perhaps surprisingly, positive ... -
Genealogical Analysis of Discourse on Ethnic Minority Protests and Its Manifestation and Reinforcement in News Media and State-Sponsored Art
This dissertation uses three corpora to explore the official discourse that frames ethnic minority protests in China. It begins by exploring the diachronic changes in characterizing such protests and traces the genealogy ...