“Foundational Futures” is a comparative study of nationhood as conceived by Indigenous nations and Latinx communities. It follows storytelling traditions among Latinx and Indigenous authors …
This thesis explores two distinct literary bodies, Nuyorican and Beur literature, as characterized in four foundational novels in the genre: Down These Mean Streets, Le …
This dissertation brings into focus the interactions of Renaissance English literature with foreign, especially classical, languages and cultures. The incorporation of foreign words into early …
This thesis places literature from the previously divided Germany and the currently divided Korea side-by-side, using the German model as a cautionary tale when speaking …
My dissertation is an exploration of the lives of trailblazing women who travelled across what I call the “plantation zone” and how they produced knowledge …
Abstract of "Indeterminate Reading with Foucault: Performing Critical Distance through Textual Analysis," by Jennifer L. Schmeyer, A.M., Brown University, May 2017. This thesis is an …
This thesis places work by Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Samuel Becket side-by-side. This is done more specifically in relation to texts which exemplify progressions …
This dissertation comprises close readings of poems and prose texts by four poets: Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Aimé Césaire, and Charles Reznikoff, along with several …
Legal personhood – the foundational concept of most current legal systems – is unravelling, particularly in relation to animal life. A new legal regime is …
This thesis focuses on the tensions between fact and fiction—reportage, memoir and creative writing. It provides broad context and reconceptualizes the way that migrant narratives …
This thesis examines the use of spirals and spiraling imagery, especially spiraling milk, in various texts and films. It will argue that the spiral, as …
This dissertation studies a series of encounters between literature and technoscience from 1880 to 1914 in both Britain and China. It examines the rise of …
This dissertation is a study of how literature, intellectual culture, and spirituality scripted the early encounter between English colonists and the Powhatan people of Tidewater …
Jean Terrasson’s 1731 novel “Sethos, Histoire ou Vie tirée des Monumens anecdotes de l’ancienne Egypte,” follows the ancient Egyptian prince Séthos through his education, his …
This thesis explores conceptions of emasculation—physical, literary, and socio-emotional—in three Roaring Twenties novels: José Eustasio Rivera’s La vorágine (1924), Phillippe Soupault’s En joue! (1925), and …
This dissertation examines the discourses and silences around blackness in the ever-shifting frontier territory of the United States, arguing against narratives that figure the West …
This dissertation explores the concept of 'narrative world' within the frame of the relationship between embodiment and writing. The first chapter looks at how Martin …
This dissertation studies how punctuation marks serve as instruments and symbols of modernism's historical self-awareness and produce seams and ruptures between and within literary writing, …
This thesis examines the uncertain ‘humanity’ of Asian female characters in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu (2019) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (1995), queer post-apocalyptic …
This thesis analyzes power relations in the forms of asymmetries and hierarchies of gender and race. The analysis falls on three texts, Sor Juana Inés …