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Brown University Theses and Dissertations

Brown University Library archives dissertations in accordance with the Brown Graduate School policy.

For dissertations published prior to 2008, please consult the following Dissertation LibGuide

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The Shadow of Barbosa: Reexamining Historical Memory of Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico

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Description:: The long political struggle to define Puerto Rico’s relationship to the US has not been an equal one and remains so to this day. Autonomism …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Rodriguez, Miguel J. (creator); Lambe, Jennifer (thesis advisor); Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Racism; Nation-building; Nationalism; Liberalism; Puerto Rico; Barbosa, José Celso, 1857-1921; Statehood (American politics); Collective memory; Postcolonialism; World politics; Citizenship; Working class; Cooperative societies; Americanization; Republicanism; Historiography; Progressivism (United States politics); University of Michigan; Latin America; Creoles
Collection:: History; Theses and Dissertations

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The Untimely Image: On Feminist Inactivism and Postcolonial Ethics

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Description:: We are often told that we live in an age of protest, given the rise of political movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Women’s …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Padmanabhan, Lakshmi (creator); Gandhi, Leela (Advisor); Rooney, Ellen (Advisor); Azoulay, Ariella (Reader); Schneider, Rebecca (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Ethics; Photography; Postcolonialism; Aesthetics; South Asia; temporality; Critical Race Studies; Feminist theory; Experimental films; Postcolonialism in motion pictures; Women's rights; Anti-imperialist movements; Neoliberalism
Collection:: Modern Culture and Media; Theses and Dissertations

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Translation, the Hoax, and the Postcolonial Novel in a Global Age.

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Description:: In my dissertation I argue that the trope of translation helps us understand how diasporic and transnational writers dissolve the opposition between postcolonial localism, on …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Holmes, Christopher (creator); George, Olakunle (Director); Chow, Rey (Reader); Armstrong, Paul (Reader); Reichman, Ravit (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Translation; Postcolonial; World Literature; Literary Hoaxes; Postcolonialism; Literature
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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ÓRFÃOS DO IMPÉRIO COLONIAL: Reflexo de Perdas e Legados na Literatura Portuguesa Recente

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Description:: This dissertation analyzes the representation of the orphan in the contemporary Portuguese literature that constitutes a critical revisiting of the end of Portuguese colonialism in …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Martinho Ferreira, Patrícia (creator); Simas-Almeida, Leonor (Advisor); Almeida, Onésimo (Reader); Ferreira, Roquinaldo (Reader); Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Trauma; Postcolonialism; Migration; Empire; cultural identity; Colonialism; Portugal; Africa, Portuguese-speaking; Orphans; Portuguese literature; Nostalgia; Decolonization; Decolonization in literature; orphanhood; Estado Novo; Portuguese-speaking countries
Collection:: Portuguese and Brazilian Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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