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. …