My thesis takes up Zarina Bhimji’s untitled series of ten large-format Polaroid photographs taken in 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. While Bhimji is …
This dissertation focuses on contemporary Francophone, French, British, and Canadian novels that portray collectives, crowds, and communities in place of individual subjects. These texts shift …
This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
“Black and Balkan: A Comparison of Caribbean, African, African-American and Balkan History, Theory and Art” is a project on black and Balkan identities and an …
Sociology tends to see modern citizenship as the result of class struggle, or as a liberal ideal, highlighting the promises of civility and integration. Often …
“Economies of the Infinite” is a comparatist reading of Hegel and Borges’ ideas on the presentation of infinity, bringing to bear on these authors questions …
This study charts the affective and performative dimensions of intergenerational rupture between members of Eritrea’s diaspora in Bologna, Italy. This study locates political struggles around …
This dissertation examines the representation of migrant subjects in the United States by a group of contemporary Latin American novelists: Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia, b. …
This dissertation explores how Israelites regarded foreign lands, relates this to the debate about biblical categorizations of pollution and purification, and points to larger questions …
This is a work in political philosophy that considers the metamorphosis of the subject as it seeks alternative modes of being through revolutionary alteration of …
At the dawn of the new millennium, the United States transferred the entirety of the Canal Zone to Panamá, including approximately 5000 buildings with an …
Abstract of Navigating the Postslavery Public/Private Divide: Cordiality in Brazilian and Southern American Literature by Marcos Cerdeira, PhD., Brown University May 2019. This dissertation investigates …
This dissertation aims to analyze, mainly through a performance studies approach, socio-political and cultural issues in three Brazilian contemporary novels, featuring professional writers as narrators. …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
In this dissertation, I examine the local outcomes of increased economic interaction and culture contact in central Italy during the first millennium BCE, a period …
My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as …
In my dissertation, I examine how pre- and post-colonial Tanzania has co-opted “local religious leaders” as an integral feature in broader biopolitical efforts to introduce …
Debates in Postcolonial and South African studies have long centered on the relative value of two different approaches to literature, which Benita Parry has categorized …
This project seeks to revise understandings of nationhood and identity construction by locating a literary affect of movement in Singaporean literary production. Through the frameworks …
