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, …
As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national economies …
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 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 analyzes historical novels written in Spain and the Spanish peripheries (Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia) in the last fifteen years, focusing on how …
This dissertation examines the politics of race and urban space in Boston’s Chinatown from 1943 to 1994. A diverse downtown neighborhood that survived multiple cycles …
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 …
Historically, U.S. mainstream media have either sterilized or fetishized Asian American women. Many social media outlets mirror these one-dimensional, offensive tropes, but with social media …