This dissertation brings together a range of manifestos, novels, memoirs, and artworks from the first half of the 20th century to trace the emergence of …
This dissertation reevaluates the history and legacies of the twentieth-century avant-gardes. Focusing on postwar cinema, I reconsider one of the avant-garde’s central preoccupations – the …
Alain Locke, the “Dean” of the Harlem Renaissance, is widely remembered today as a cultural figure rather than a political thinker. This dissertation aims to …
This dissertation constructs a critical theory of language, translation, and self-translation from the resources to be found in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Theodor …
