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Affective Landscapes: Re-negotiating the Ordinary in Contemporary Lebanese Cultural Production
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This dissertation examines contemporary Lebanese cultural production and its shifting relationship to the everyday/ordinary as a site that unfolds in the midst of or in proximity to violence. I argue that attention to the ordinary is an effective mode through which to approach societies, like...
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Fall 1975
The allegorical imagery of medieval literature often poses a problem in comprehension for the modern reader. This study investigates the moral allegory used by the unidentified author of the Ancren Riwle in presenting his anchorite directives. It explores the sources of traditional images,...
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Fall 2013
Anorexic Affect: Disordered Eating and the Conative Body performs a material feminist re-mapping of the sense events occasioned by self-starvation. Suspending the usual critical interpretations of eating disorders (gender, transcendence, and representation), as well as the clinical rallying...
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Fall 2020
This collection of essays explores my experience of girlhood in rural Alberta and beyond, especially the ways in which my relationships with other women and girls have impacted my sense of myself and the world. This project takes a particular interest in platonic love, and the kinds of heartbreak...
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Arabs Imagining Communities: how privileged writers restore Arab public and private space to anglophone places
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This thesis argues that recent Arab-anglophone literature can swell or shrink the private and public space which real-life Arabs inhabit in anglophone societies. Gendered and economic privileges change how Arab-anglophones tell stories, which changes, in turn, Arabs’ status in an- glophone...
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Spring 2012
This project favours transgender narratives and affects inspired by exteriority, folds, queer décor, assemblage, and the archive. These spatial models help the project displace models of gender that are grounded in the concepts of enclosure, privacy, and property. As a response to the enforced...
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Fall 2014
While studies in Renaissance childhoods, literary and historical, are becoming more prominent, this work has failed to distinguish between children and adolescents, leaving youth, as such, largely unexamined. My project attends not to the children of early modern drama, but to post-pubescent...