Collective identity, as is now well established, is a subjectively understood and socially constructed phenomenon that is subject to change; a single individual has multiple …
My dissertation investigates the role of aesthetic experimentation in the creation of a Caribbean idiom. This comparative study draws on contemporary narrative texts from Martinique, …
This dissertation looks at different forms of historical practice to argue that the 1970s saw a significant transformation in the ways that individuals, groups, and …
Latin American historiographic metafiction is presently enjoying prominence as the object of unprecedented market success and renewed critical attention. Much has been made in recent …
Focusing on craft workshops of the indigenous Austronesian-speaking peoples of Taiwan, this dissertation investigates how communities are formed, boundaries of inclusion negotiated, and competing perceptions …
The dissertation explores how the disaster and its representations are closely linked to figures of madness and deviant sexuality in contemporary Chilean texts. I argue …
This dissertation explores the ways in which 19th-century Irish residents of the American Mining West created and maintained community by embracing the saloon as a …
This dissertation examines how South Asian racial identity in the United States and England is entwined with the sartorial. It demonstrates the ways in which …
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 thesis will serves to analyze the significance of Marielle Franco’s death and its impact on political consciousness within Rio de Janeiro’s comunidades. It will …
Abstract of "Remembering the Persian War Differently" by David Yates, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011. The Persian War, culminating in Xerxes' invasion of Greece in …
Socioeconomic disparities between social groups constitute a challenge in many countries around the world. While overt discrimination practices have diminished over the last decades, the …
Most banners, flags, and other types of portable images, once prestigious signs of identity for the groups that carried them in processions, have disappeared through …
This dissertation explores the interactions between the experience of travel and the creation of narrated selves, as posited by Paul Ricoeur, in the fictional and …
Whether and how does white habitus change when actors make a concerted effort to counteract color-blind racist ideologies and the toxicity of whiteness in their …
