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Towards an ethno-global cosmopolitanism: Self-fashioning in South Asian American women's literature
(2014)
This dissertation examines the representations of identity formation and transnational experiences of women in the literary narratives of South Asian American women writers, namely, Meena Alexander, Bharati Mukherjee, ...
Dedoxifying gender identity through language and sexuality: Kathy Acker's abjection of western phallocentric traditions and the feminist Utopian sublime
(2009)
In an attempt to ascertain identity Acker rejects the Phallocentric traditions of Western Culture having assigned Acker an identity of weakness based on biological and physical attributes; hence, a psychological slavery, ...
The shadow of difference: Sex, race, and the unconscious
(2006)
This dissertation draws on the psychoanalytic concept of sexual difference to offer a new model for reading the interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and race. I attempt to show that racial symbols (e.g., blackness ...
La transnarrationalite euro-maghrebine: Mouvement et ecriture identitaires dans la litterature contemporaine de l'homosocial marocain
(2014)
This study explores the development of contemporary Moroccan queer literature written in French since 1995 and how it attests to a literary trend called transnarrationalité. It bases its approach in part on existing studies ...
The Andalusian faces of Spanishness: Myth, icons and identity in Andalusian theatre of the Second Republic
(2016)
In Spain during the 1930s, the democratically elected Second Republic government imposed progressive reforms designed to modernize the nation. However, conservative factions opposed these changes in favor of a return to ...
The Andalusian faces of Spanishness: Myth, icons and identity in Andalusian theatre of the Second Republic
(2016)
In Spain during the 1930s, the democratically elected Second Republic government imposed progressive reforms designed to modernize the nation. However, conservative factions opposed these changes in favor of a return to ...