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Dislodging (New) Orientalist Frames of Reference: Muslim Women in Diasporic and Immigrant Muslim Anglophone Narratives
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Abstract Aided by the methodologies of postcolonial theory, particularly critiques of Orientalist discourse, Muslim feminist scholarship, cultural studies and studies on diaspora this dissertation explores the ways in which an emergent body of Muslim immigrant/ diasporic narratives in English by...
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Fall 2014
This thesis identifies and explores a literary and theoretical correlation between Virginia Woolf’s “moments of being” and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of “becoming.” It does this by examining the total deconstruction of identity in Woolf’s fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway. Through her...
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Fall 2012
The preternatural, meaning that which is beyond the natural, is an essential component of medieval romance, but has seldom been discussed in spatial terms. European maps and manuscript marginalia from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries place the preternatural on the margins of the late...
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Fall 2011
This dissertation analyzes representations of the archive in four late twentieth-century American novels: Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988), Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (1985), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), and Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World (1993)....
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Fall 2011
The English medieval cycle drama of Chester and York has attracted much scholarship that is critical of the anachronism, anglicization, and inconsistency found in these plays’ stagings of the Creation-to-Doom biblical narrative. By introducing the concept of domestic disturbance, this project...
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Fall 2016
As renaissance prince, godly virgin, mother to the nation, and above all, masterful politician, Elizabeth I's multivalent political performances made her the ultimate drama queen. Through such self-conscious performances Elizabeth crafted a composite role formed from gendered images of authority...
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Eating Serials: Pastoral Power, Print Media, and the Vegetarian Society in England, 1847-1897
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This thesis is based on research I conducted in the archives of the Vegetarian Society. Drawing on Foucault’s theories of governmentality and pastoral power, as well as on press scholarship, it argues that print media (the Vegetarian Advocate [1848-1851] and Vegetarian Messenger [1849-]) served...
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Fall 2020
Edmonton in situ is a multimedia project containing letters, poetry, images, WhatsApp threads, and essais. My aim is to explore the City of Edmonton/amiskwaciwâskahikan as a site of connective tissues between humans and non- or other-than-human beings. The work is necessarily convoluted and...
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Fall 2017
In North America, opera constitutes both an art form and an industry. Because companies rely on philanthropy and ticket revenues, they respond to a mass audience among the public at large, and yet granting agencies’ and critics’ influence suggests restricted circulation and in some ways a “high”...
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Spring 2022
This dissertation reads the informational ethos of authors Herman Melville and Walt Whitman through the lens of critical data studies and surveillance studies, examining how emerging data cultures in the nineteenth century gave rise to new subjectivities. The study situates these authors at a...