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Paramashivan - A Treasure Trove of a Forgotten Theater Tradition Life, Music and Search for an Identity
DownloadSpring 2019
Modern Kannada theater refers to a very rich tradition of theater that evolved in the princely state of Mysore, British India. It was founded, supported and nurtured under the royal patronage of the erstwhile kings of Mysore, Mummadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar, Chamaraja Wodeyar, Krishna Raja Wodeyar...
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Resistance and Encroachment in Everyday Life: A Feminist Epistemological Study of Qajar Era Iranian Women’s Travel Journals
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Mohaghegh Neyshabouri, Safaneh
This dissertation is a study of Iranian women’s everyday resistances in Qajar-era Iran, the period prior to the Constitutional Revolution (1906). Mobilizing feminist epistemology, and specifically feminist standpoint theory, which calls for the uncovering of women’s hidden knowledge, I analyze...
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Writing (fictional) lives: the relationship between biography and fiction in the work of Carol Shields
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This thesis examines the intersections between biography and fiction in three novels and one biography by Carol Shields: Small Ceremonies, Swann, The Stone Diaries, and Jane Austen. By writing about biography and biographers in each novel, Carol Shields foregrounds the subject of biography and...