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 …
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 …
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. …