The dissertation examines forms of cultural production that assimilated capture as an epistemological model in the modern period. The project looks to canonical works in …
In this dissertation I examine the relationship between nature and city as it manifests in Brazilian short stories from the 1950s to the 1990s, particularly …
Already at the tail end of the twentieth century, scholars of globalization were interrogating what it means to be a global citizen. International events, global …
The growing interest in genealogy for African Americans is one expression of a longstanding desire to find answers to questions about ancestors, family, and heritage …
Against readings of certain World Literature writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Vladimir Nabokov that too quickly aestheticize them in order to privilege a universality of …
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 …
The dissertation analyzes the destabilization of the human-animal divide in literary and theoretical discourse after the Holocaust. It demonstrates how the works of Theodor W. …
In “A Critical Romance: Modernism Rewriting Literary History,” I examine the formative role of the romance in literary modernism’s work to think critically about itself …
This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers, …
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 dissertation engages in the debate about ethics within the humanities, specifically, in literature that comes out of periods of political violence. In contexts of …
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 analyses the political thought of three Portuguese writers, Fernando Namora, Jose Cardoso Pires, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, in their fictional work and in …
The purpose of this dissertation is to reevaluate the relationship between the aesthetics we call Romantic and the abstracting scientific procedures that have been underappreciated …
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
