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Fall 2019

Friesen, Jay

This dissertation explores the relationship between comedy and multiculturalism by considering what many commentators have called the first Muslim sitcom, the Canadian series Little Mosque on the Prairie (Little Mosque). While past studies have examined various aspects of Little Mosque, this...

Fall 2019

Xie, Haiyan

This dissertation engages with novels of contemporary Chinese writer Yan Lianke, to explore his formal experiment called mythorealism (神实主义) and investigate how mythorealist form produces textual meanings subverting a totalizing reality prescribed by literary realism and reshaping a diversity of...

Fall 2018

Mumm, Shanna

The goal of this dissertation is to legitimize and to bolster the validity of an intuitive epistemology. By using Léopold Sédar Senghor’s “Revolution of 1889” as the foundation for deeper consideration of a movement towards an intuitive epistemology, I not only consider the meaning of intuition...

Fall 2018

Shaw, Lina

Abstract This study attempts to provide a literary analysis of some of the most popular contemporary Orthodox bestsellers in an effort to discuss their literary and cultural values and to explain their widespread appeal, focusing on historical, social and political concern that inform the...

Spring 2018

Oneschuk, Nadya

Project SUCH (Save the Ukrainian Canadian's Heritage) was conducted in the summers of 1971 and 1972 in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. Young, largely untrained fieldworkers were tasked with interviewing Ukrainian pioneers in the target areas about their immigration...

Spring 2018

Panenko, Svitlana

This thesis explores the unofficial photography of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in the 1980s and 1990s: an art form that is barely studied in academia and therefore remains almost completely unknown to the general public. The dissertation offers a novel perspective of research within Eastern...

Fall 2018

Abdolmaleki, Kara

In the wake of the 1953 CIA-backed coup d’état in Iran and the toppling of the democratically elected government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, a cultural-political movement that opposed the Shah’s policy of rapid, authoritarian modernization emerged in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. This study...

Fall 2018

Hall, Amelia

The construction of colonial cities manifests itself as a Eurocentric projection onto the spatial and human environment of the Americas. The built environment was expressly designed to serve the colonial hegemony, each feature with a purpose and signification. The Historical Center of the city of...

Fall 2018

Perez Trujillo, Axel

The dissertation traces the evolution of dominant environmental imaginations of the Latin American plains as depicted in literary texts. It offers the close readings of texts in various genres, targeting the descriptions of plains geographies. I argue in favour of establishing an epistemology of...

Spring 2018

Panenko, Svitlana

This thesis explores the unofficial photography of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in the 1980s and 1990s: an art form that is barely studied in academia and therefore remains almost completely unknown to the general public. The dissertation offers a novel perspective of research within Eastern...