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1. Yoo, Jin. Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience.

Degree: MA, Asian Studies, 2014, Cornell University

► This thesis explores Joseph Conrad's first two novels, Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands, from the perspective of history. It broadly argues that… (more)

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Yoo, J. (2014). Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience. (Masters Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37075

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Yoo, Jin. “Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37075.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Yoo, Jin. “Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience.” 2014. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Yoo J. Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37075.

Council of Science Editors:

Yoo J. Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience. [Masters Thesis]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37075

Cornell University

2. Kaakinen, Kaisa. Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2013, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34297

► At the beginning of the twenty-first century the discipline of comparative literature faces the challenge of responding to expanding transnational readerships. Increasingly heterogeneous reading contexts… (more)

▼ At the beginning of the twenty-first century the discipline of comparative literature faces the challenge of responding to expanding transnational readerships. Increasingly heterogeneous reading contexts not only highlight the need to extend comparative analysis to include formerly marginalized texts; they also challenge traditional analytical categories informing comparative literature as a discipline. This dissertation proposes that the notion of the implied reader, central to reader-response criticism based on hermeneutic conventions, has to be rethought in order to account for readers who cannot engage with a given text in an unimpeded relationship of dialogue; this is especially the case when literary texts revolve around histories of violence. Through an analysis of literary works by three European emigré writers, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Peter Weiss (1916-1982), and W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), this study highlights postimperial, postgenocidal and post-Cold War reading positions that challenge the traditional hermeneutic sense of a textual horizon of understanding. The study further argues that comparative analysis of situated reading needs to go beyond constructivist notions of reading, which make it difficult to grasp relationships between literature and history. This analysis proposes instead that historical pressures in the twentieth century require comparative literature to address not only implied but also various unimplied and unwelcome reading positions that engage twentieth-century history in displaced yet material ways that manifest in literary form. The dissertation identifies a key stylistic feature in texts by three twentiethcentury authors whose work, by virtue of this feature, cuts across stylistic periods and national literatures. It analyses indeterminate narrative and historical linkages that suggest elusive yet pivotal relations between historical and cultural contexts that would not otherwise seem to belong together in any obvious sense. The analysis of these weak analogies demonstrates the need for renewed disciplinary attention to reading literature as a form of historical imagination that engages postgenocidal and postimperial legacies in both timely and untimely ways. This dissertation opens up new perspectives on relations between postcolonial critique and transnational analysis of European literatures beyond a traditional focus on Western European canonical literatures and hermeneutics, and beyond the putative binary between West and non-West. Advisors/Committee Members: Adelson, Leslie Allen (chair), Lacapra, Dominick C (committee member), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member).

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Kaakinen, K. (2013). Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34297

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kaakinen, Kaisa. “Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34297.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kaakinen, Kaisa. “Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald.” 2013. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Kaakinen K. Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34297.

Council of Science Editors:

Kaakinen K. Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34297

Cornell University

3. Hashem, Noor. Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction.

Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2015, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39392

► This project argues that recent literary representations of Muslim faith practices portray the productive interplay between mindful reason and embodied habit. Drawing upon critical theories… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Islam; Embodiment; Ritual

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Hashem, N. (2015). Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39392

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hashem, Noor. “Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39392.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hashem, Noor. “Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction.” 2015. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Hashem N. Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39392.

Council of Science Editors:

Hashem N. Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39392

Cornell University

4. Zhang, Ning. Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society.

Degree: PhD, Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture, 2017, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59124

► This dissertation is a genealogical investigation of the thematic significance of female same-sex sentimentality in the construction of the space of female imaginary in modern… (more)

▼ This dissertation is a genealogical investigation of the thematic significance of female same-sex sentimentality in the construction of the space of female imaginary in modern Chinese literature from the beginning of the twentieth-century to contemporary popular culture. By focusing on the textual and cinematic representations in female-authored fiction and woman-centered films, I argue that female same-sex sentiment is primarily a psychological intimate relationship developed from the modern institution of education, in which women will try to avoid developing friendships with the opposite sex in order to maintain the virginity and the chastity that have historically been characterized by patriarchal censorship as moral codes for women. It helps the young female go through her social recasting of self-identification in the transitional stage from kin-inflected family to institutional-based society, and simultaneously convey her into a “homeward” journey of heterosexual marriage. It therefore reflects the integrity of heterosexual mechanics. On the other hand, this intimate relationship between women raises a suggestion of female homoeroticism. By shifting the focus from whether female same-sex sentiment is purely non-erotic or really homosexual to the questions of within which institution and in what language that this female intimate relationship becomes suggestive of being homosexual, I argue that its “in-between” position lies in a lack of feminine discourse based on real gender differentials. The suspicion of homoeroticism in female same-sex sentimentality is neither a representation nor a confirmation of female homoeroticism. Rather, it is a reflection of woman’s self-awareness of not slipping into homosexuality that has been labelled as both physically illicit and mentally abnormal. Secondly, it is also a reflection of the fact that feminine pleasure has politically been conceptualized on the basis of masculine parameters and has to remain inarticulate in language. In this sense, female same-sex sentimentality has destabilized the fixed boundary of the binary system of heterosexuality from within the monolithic discourse of masculine Oneness. It thematically performs women’s dynamic interacted-ness with the nation-state system, as well as the discursive (de)construction of gender as a man-made category brought by the new visions regarding the constitution of the subject, gender, and sex in the fields of feminism and gender studies. Advisors/Committee Members: Gunn, Edward Mansfield (chair), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member), de Bary, Brett (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Modern Chinese Literature; Same-Sex Relationships; Sentimentality; Women's Literature; Modern literature; Gender studies; Asian literature; Chinese Popular Culture; Female Relationships

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Zhang, N. (2017). Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59124

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Zhang, Ning. “Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59124.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Zhang, Ning. “Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society.” 2017. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Zhang N. Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59124.

Council of Science Editors:

Zhang N. Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59124

Cornell University

5. Reyes, Michael. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934.

Degree: PhD, Romance Studies, 2014, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124

► This dissertation examines the lasting consequences of the anticolonial, antislavery discourses of the Haitian Revolution on the way in which postcolonial Haitians understood the narrative… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the lasting consequences of the anticolonial, antislavery discourses of the Haitian Revolution on the way in which postcolonial Haitians understood the narrative structure of their national history from Independence (1804) to the end of the American Occupation of Haiti (1934). In this study Haitian intuitions of historical time are apprehended through an analysis of nineteenth and early twentieth century Haitian literary and historical works. These texts are scrutinized with respect to (a) formal narrative features such as truncation, ellipsis, elision, prolepsis and analepsis which reveal an implicit understanding of the disposition of the metahistorical categories of "past," "present," and "future" and (b) the analysis of the explicit reflections on history provided by narrators or authors. This dissertation argues, primarily, that the event of the "Haitian Revolution" (17911804) was fundamental to Haitian understandings of the emplotment of the whole of Haitian history. Chronologically "past" and "future" events were transformed so that they would be legible as analogical "recurrences" of the revolutionary past; when such manipulations proved difficult, the recent past was sometimes elided altogether. This was possible, in part, because Haitian postcolonialism was imagined as immanently precarious and thus remained dependent on revolutionary discourses of anticolonialism and radical antislavery. Also important was the analeptic, explicitly anticolonial fantasy of historical erasure in "restoring" the Amerindian name of "Haiti" to what had been the French colony of "Saint-Domingue." The national history thus came to be underwritten by an impossible anachronistic return to the time of the fifteenth century Amerindians at the moment of Independence. This dissertation alleges that Haitian historical time depended upon, and remained largely bound by, this significant anticolonial contradiction. Drawing upon this metahistorical analysis, I ultimately argue both that Haitians' experiences of time in this period are not compatible with "modernity" as it is understood by conceptual historiography, and that the accepted accounts of the historical development of nationalism cannot explain the rise of this sentiment in Haiti. Advisors/Committee Members: Dubreuil, Laurent (chair), Vallois, Marie-Claire (committee member), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Haitian Literature; Postcolonial Literature; Modernity

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Reyes, M. (2014). The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Reyes, Michael. “The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Reyes, Michael. “The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934.” 2014. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Reyes M. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124.

Council of Science Editors:

Reyes M. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124

Cornell University

6. Hadeed, Khalid. Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31084

► This dissertation explores the relation between gender and crisis in the late modern phase of Arabic literature-specifically, from the late 1960s to the present. Working… (more)

▼ This dissertation explores the relation between gender and crisis in the late modern phase of Arabic literature-specifically, from the late 1960s to the present. Working with a regional Arab context, I define crisis as an endemic situation of political paralysis and cultural stagnation, one historically connected to the Arab world's failure to obtain the political freedom, economic independence, and social reform aspired to in anti-colonial nationalism. This dissertation focuses on literature that has developed out of three of the most salient crises since the late 1960s: the Israeli occupation of Palestine, sectarian strife in Lebanon, and the nexus between comprador capitalism and the police state in Egypt. The texts I read for this purpose are: from Palestine, the poems "Moans at the Permits Window" (1969) and "A Hurtful Wish" (1973) by Fadwa Tuqan, the poetic memoir The Siege (1982) by May al-Sayigh, the experimental novella All That's Left to You (1966) by Ghassan Kanafani, and the sociological novel The Inheritance (1997) by Sahar Khalifeh; from Lebanon, Rashid al-Daif's arguably "post-modern" novel Dear Mr Kawabata (1995) and Jabbur al-Duwayhi's historical novel The Rain of June (2006); and from Egypt, Sonallah Ibrahim's Kafkaesque novel The Committee (1981). My aim in reading these different literary treatments of crisis in a single framework of gender analysis is threefold: to call attention to gender as a critical dimension of historical continuity between the national and regional Arab contexts within which crisis unfolds; to present Arabic literature as a uniquely generative site for the imagining, and re-imagining, of the gender of crisis in the Arab world; and to suggest that the emergence of gender as a crucible of crisis-as opposed to an allegory of crisis-in Arabic literature is specific to the late modern period during which the selected texts were written. Given that my choice of primary texts is based on the extent of their thematic resonance with the proposed argument, the dissertation should not be read as a literary-historical survey. However, in light of the regional context within which gender appears as a crucible of crisis, I contend that my argument has strong implications for Arabic literary history. Advisors/Committee Members: Starr, Deborah A. (chair), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member), Toorawa, Shawkat M. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: late modern arabic literature; gender; crisis

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APA (6^th Edition):

Hadeed, K. (2012). Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31084

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hadeed, Khalid. “Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31084.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hadeed, Khalid. “Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis.” 2012. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Hadeed K. Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31084.

Council of Science Editors:

Hadeed K. Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31084

Cornell University

7. Clarke, Ainsworth. Aporetic Thinking And The Production Of 'Race': W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, And The Unmaking Of The Negro.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29189

► Aporetic Thinking and the Production of 'Race' focuses on the early critical writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and the central theoretical texts of Frantz Fanon.… (more)

▼ Aporetic Thinking and the Production of 'Race' focuses on the early critical writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and the central theoretical texts of Frantz Fanon. Usually viewed as articulating the conflict between a biological and a socio-historical notion of race Du Bois's early texts are generally considered a failed attempt to disentangle himself from the constraints of nineteenth century racial discourse. Moving away from the limitations of this interpretation, I claim that Du Bois's conception of race emerges from his methodological engagement with the defining question of his early work, "What is a Negro?" My dissertation contends that the methodological imperative guiding his early analysis of this question places him alongside Max Weber, Heinrich Rickert and the German neo-Kantians, and his mentor Gustav Schmoller in his attempt to establish the epistemological basis of social scientific practice. I link the epistemological concern that guides Du Bois early analysis of the 'Negro problem' to the emergence of his distinct notion of race. His increased focus on the epistemological substrate constitutive of the phenomena he calls the 'Negro' and his inability to determine it in a manner he considers satisfactory coincides with his accelerated shift to the biographical as the modality through which the paradox of the 'Negro' is thought. I suggest that race, as formulated by Du Bois in texts as diverse as The Negro, Dusk of Dawn, "The Conservation of Races," "Sociology Hesitant," Darkwater, and Black Reconstruction, is reducible to neither biology nor culture. Rather than this often rehearsed dichotomy I propose that Du Bois's notion of race gestures towards what contemporary theory identifies as the space of the 'political'. It is on this point that the problematic Du Bois confronts insinuates itself within the work of Frantz Fanon. In "Aporetic Thinking" I argue that the proliferation of theoretical languages within Fanon bears witness not to a seeming theoretical confusion on his part but rather speaks to the inadequacy of available theoretical languages to define or register the being of the Negro. Rather than championing one specific theoretical 'Fanon' (e.g. psychoanalytic, Marxist, phenomenological, etc.) my analysis, read within the context of Heidegger's "Age of the World Picture," contends that Fanon's work is best viewed as a challenge to the dominance of 'theoretical understanding' itself and of the subject it produces. The slippage within Fanon between 'theory' as discursive modality and 'theory' as a form of understanding is the site, I argue, from which Fanon's conception of what constitutes the space of colonial politics must be thought. Advisors/Committee Members: Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (chair), Spillers, Hortense Jeanette (committee member), Waite, Geoffrey Carter W (committee member).

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Clarke, A. (2012). Aporetic Thinking And The Production Of 'Race': W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, And The Unmaking Of The Negro. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29189

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Clarke, Ainsworth. “Aporetic Thinking And The Production Of 'Race': W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, And The Unmaking Of The Negro.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29189.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Clarke, Ainsworth. “Aporetic Thinking And The Production Of 'Race': W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, And The Unmaking Of The Negro.” 2012. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Clarke A. Aporetic Thinking And The Production Of 'Race': W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, And The Unmaking Of The Negro. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29189.

Council of Science Editors:

Clarke A. Aporetic Thinking And The Production Of 'Race': W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, And The Unmaking Of The Negro. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29189

Cornell University

8. Kuby, Emma. Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962.

Degree: PhD, History, 2011, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33517

► As the wartime German occupation of France came to a close in 1944, the French Resistance became a symbol of the heroic use of violence… (more)

▼ As the wartime German occupation of France came to a close in 1944, the French Resistance became a symbol of the heroic use of violence for a just political cause. The subsequent reconstruction of a republican France, which involved a protracted and sometimes bloody campaign to bring collaborators to justice, further cemented popular support for the selective use of political violence - even violence by non-state actors, even violence that targeted civilians - if it could be associated with memory of the struggle against Vichy. In this climate, leading postwar intellectuals on the French Left such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre articulated some of the most striking justifications for political violence, including revolutionary "terror," in the history of twentieth-century thought. But despite their prominence, these figures did not represent the views of all left-leaning French thinkers: over time, the use of violence in politics became the object of increasing unease and contestation, particularly as the exigencies of the liberation faded, Cold War fears grew, and new forms of "terror" - labor militancy, the Soviet gulag, torture and terrorism in the Algerian War (19541962) - came to the fore of political debate. This dissertation is an attempt to retell the history of France's postwar intellectual Left in a way that reintegrates those who decided between 1944 and 1962 that violence was not a legitimate means of effecting political change. Drawing on an extensive source base of published and archival materials, I show that the position that violence should be used to help build a more just society was maintained by some intellectuals on the Left but was substantively challenged by others. These latter figures - notably Albert Camus, David Rousset, and Jean-Marie Domenach - used what they self-consciously deemed "ethical" arguments to reject even those acts of violence committed for the sake of highly desirable ends. Their new discourses also drew on the memory of World War II, but instead of emphasizing Resistance heroism they stressed the suffering of victims. Meaningful action, they declared, need not involve violence: it could, rather, be a matter of "bearing witness" to violent assaults on bodily integrity and human dignity. Advisors/Committee Members: Lacapra, Dominick C (chair), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member), Kaplan, Steven Laurence (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: political violence; intellectual history; France

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APA (6^th Edition):

Kuby, E. (2011). Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33517

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kuby, Emma. “Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33517.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kuby, Emma. “Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962.” 2011. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Kuby E. Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33517.

Council of Science Editors:

Kuby E. Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33517

Cornell University

9. Powers, Jean. Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978).

Degree: PhD, History of Art and Archaeology, 2015, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40944

► This dissertation focuses on artistic modernism in Morocco. It articulates the local iteration of transnational discourses, considering how these broader movements played out in the… (more)

▼ This dissertation focuses on artistic modernism in Morocco. It articulates the local iteration of transnational discourses, considering how these broader movements played out in the confines of a local context and its exigencies. The nationalist movement and the struggle for decolonization in all areas of Moroccan life, especially culture and the arts, played a central part in the shaping of such modernist movements. I focus in this dissertation on artists of the Casablanca school during the period between 1956 (the year of Moroccan independence) and 1978. The artists at the Casablanca Ecole des Beaux Arts under the direction of Farid Belkahia (1962-1974), through their activism, engagement, and varied interventions brought energy to the movement of Moroccan modernism, and were at the center of these national discourses. The methodology used for this work relied heavily on interviews with artists and arts practitioners in Morocco, as well as archival work in personal archives throughout Morocco and in Lebanon, the media archive of the Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (Rabat), the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (Rabat), the Bibliothèque Kandinsky (Paris), and The Khalid Shoman Foundation-Darat al Funun (Amman). I argue that the pedagogy, structural engagements, and transnational solidarities of this generation of artists form an intrinsic part of their broader artistic projects and are grounded in the same ideology and stakes. The actual art objects only make up one part of multifaceted, consistent, and wide-ranging artistic projects, and must be analyzed in relation to these other activities as well as the network of institutions with which the artists engaged. Moreover, I argue for a reading of Moroccan modernism that is deeply rooted in a contemporaneous national context yet that arises from a cosmopolitan foundation in dialogue with transnational, anti- colonial and pan-Arab intellectual movements and networks. This does not suggest that there was a center of global modernism that was being copied, but instead that global discourses were played out, staged and experienced within specific historic, political, and cultural contexts. Rather than explaining away these transnational connections, they are perceived to be at the crux of modernism itself, and particularly the Moroccan experience of modernism. To force a solely national narrative onto Moroccan modernism is to ignore the rich intersections and explorations fomented by the cosmopolitanism of these artists and their training. Advisors/Committee Members: Hassan,Salah (chair), Dadi,Muhammad Iftikhar (committee member), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas,Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Morocco, post-colonial, modernism, art; Third Worldism, Pan-Arabism

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APA (6^th Edition):

Powers, J. (2015). Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978). (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40944

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Powers, Jean. “Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978).” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40944.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Powers, Jean. “Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978).” 2015. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Powers J. Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40944.

Council of Science Editors:

Powers J. Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978). [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40944

Cornell University

10. Casad, Madeleine. The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29414

► A commonplace in digital-literary studies holds that narrative, connected to the binary logic of symbolic representation, exists in tension with digital culture. Digital media modes… (more)

▼ A commonplace in digital-literary studies holds that narrative, connected to the binary logic of symbolic representation, exists in tension with digital culture. Digital media modes privilege interactivity, simulation, and the epistemological paradigm of "the virtual," understood as the interconnectedness of culture, symbolic systems, material reality, and experience. The dissertation argues that, despite its connection to structuralist binaries, narrative form remains important to identity and cultural memory in complex ways. This complex connection is imperative to investigate in a global, digital age, where cultural memory seems increasingly fragile. The theoretical framework in Chapter One argues that digital texts reject the Oedipal desire for mastery, certainty, or closure, invoking instead a simple desire for connection. The appearance of narrative desire in such texts, because of narrative's association with pastness, implies a desire for connection with an historical other as such-with some "archive" of shared memory. This theoretical framework informs close analyses of the tensions between narrative representation and the virtual modes of new media in three digital and literary texts. These tensions mark the texts' conflicted engagements with history; here, specific conflicts between individual and public memory in Germany from 1945-1998. The chapters analyze a Jewish narrator's attempt to create a public, non-representational art of Holocaust memory in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset (1965); the interplay of Ostalgie and destabilized mediamemory of DEFA Indianerfilme in the western-dominated cultural imaginary of unified Germany in artist pair Nomad's DVD-ROM The Last Cowboy (1998); and the feminist inversion of Derrida's Archive Fever, based in the artist's intimate experiences as immigrant and mother, in Agnes Hegedüs' virtual database Die Sprache der Dinge (1998). These artworks all construe the limit of narrative possibility as an archive of cultural memory, but also as an agential human other. Within the interactive logic of the virtual, the narrative limit these figures embody becomes a zone of ethical engagement, negotiation, or struggle. Offering a nuanced combination of literary and digital analytical methods and modeling a strong orientation to humanistic concerns of cultural memory, history, identity, and ethics, the dissertation contributes to the growing field of digital humanities scholarship. Advisors/Committee Members: Murray, Timothy Conway (chair), Adelson, Leslie Allen (committee member), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: digital humanities; media art; German literature

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Casad, M. (2012). The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29414

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Casad, Madeleine. “The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29414.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Casad, Madeleine. “The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age.” 2012. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Casad M. The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29414.

Council of Science Editors:

Casad M. The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29414

Cornell University

11. Caserta, Silvia. An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2017, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59001

► Through a comparative analysis of contemporary literary and visual narratives that dialogue across the Mediterranean Sea, in this dissertation I apply the category of narrative… (more)

▼ Through a comparative analysis of contemporary literary and visual narratives that dialogue across the Mediterranean Sea, in this dissertation I apply the category of narrative to the field of Mediterranean Studies. Working across different genres, different media, and different languages, I explore the possible configuration of a Mediterranean narrative that would take into account the multiple articulations of a real and imaginary Mediterranean space. I focus on alternative narratives of migration, of the interconnection between land and sea, and of the desert, through a comparative reading of Italian literary works by Paolo Rumiz and Lina Prosa, Libyan novels by Ibrahim Al-Koni and Razan Moghrabi, video installations by the French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira, and a short story by the Lebanese writer Emily Nasrallah. How can these narratives of and in the Mediterranean help us understand the ways in which the contemporary Mediterranean is experienced, and the role it might have to play within the current dynamics of globalization? In this dissertation, I argue that the two dimensions of living and narrating the Mediterranean cannot be separated, but that they are, rather, intimately interconnected. I show that Mediterranean narratives can provide alternative ways of thinking, conceptualizing, and ultimately experiencing the Mediterranean, both within its permeable and porous boundaries and beyond that, in the space of the global world. The narratives I put in dialogue with each other counteract a mainstream narrative of the Mediterranean as backward and immobile, when compared to Northern Europe, and as a conflict zone and a barrier, which separates Europe from the threatening Arab world. Thus, these narratives all respond to Iain Chamber’s call for “dissonant” narratives, whose “disturbing” voices are able to create the Mediterranean as a postcolonial space of agency and resistance, where alternative modernities can also be imagined. The Mediterranean that ultimately emerges from the interaction of its narrative voices is a dialogic space of differences that, while retaining their own specificities, “encounter” each other without necessarily melding. In the dichotomy that globalization proclaims between assimilation and proliferation of difference, alternative Mediterranean narratives occupy, and create, an in-between space, suspended in its unresolved, and potential, condition of liminality. Advisors/Committee Members: Pinkus, Karen Elyse (chair), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member), Campbell, Timothy C. (committee member), Diabate, Naminata (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: migration; Mediterranean; Comparative Literature; Libya; narrative; sea; Italian literature; African literature; Italy

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Caserta, S. (2017). An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59001

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Caserta, Silvia. “An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59001.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Caserta, Silvia. “An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa.” 2017. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Caserta S. An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59001.

Council of Science Editors:

Caserta S. An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59001

Cornell University

12. Steyn, Jan. Present Junctures: World Literature, Translation, and the Limits of Contemporaneity.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2018, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59341

► Present Junctures approaches world literature from a translational and comparative perspective by asking, for a situated “we,” who, in the world, shares “our” time, and… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Contemporary; Translation; Literature; Comparative Literature; Coetzee; Condé; Newspapers; World Literature; Translation studies

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Steyn, J. (2018). Present Junctures: World Literature, Translation, and the Limits of Contemporaneity. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59341

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Steyn, Jan. “Present Junctures: World Literature, Translation, and the Limits of Contemporaneity.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59341.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Steyn, Jan. “Present Junctures: World Literature, Translation, and the Limits of Contemporaneity.” 2018. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Steyn J. Present Junctures: World Literature, Translation, and the Limits of Contemporaneity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59341.

Council of Science Editors:

Steyn J. Present Junctures: World Literature, Translation, and the Limits of Contemporaneity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59341

Cornell University

13. Leger, Natalie. "A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution.

Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441

► Dissertation Abstract "A Tragedy of Success!" is a close engagement with the ongoing artistic turn to Haiti and its revolution within the Caribbean literary imaginary.… (more)

▼ Dissertation Abstract "A Tragedy of Success!" is a close engagement with the ongoing artistic turn to Haiti and its revolution within the Caribbean literary imaginary. It argues that twentieth and twenty-first writers of the region are drawn to the nation and its Upheaval precisely because the striking incongruity of Haiti's revolutionary past and postcolonial present vividly discloses how the modern Caribbean experience is profoundly shaped by the ceaseless play of radical change (conquest, colonialism and anti-colonial revolution) and debilitating communal crisis. This project joins the rich conversation on Haiti, modernity and the Revolution begun by C.LR. James, and continued by Nick Nesbitt and Sibylle Fischer, to address this discussion's slight attention to the abundant literary production inspired by the Revolution. This dissertation therefore focuses on the ideological work of the Revolution's repeated narration in the Caribbean, specifically, the manner in which it arouses anti-colonial aspirations. It argues that the Caribbean experience of modernity has introduced a tragic mode into literary representations of the Upheaval, causing regional writers to depict the immediate as confounded by the past. Characterized by a subtle wavering between tragic pathos and comic elation, iii this mode is as much an engagement with time and its affective oscillation as it is a politics of possibility. It speaks strongly to the writers' longing for total decolonial liberation region wide. This project participates in the rethinking of tragedy, as initiated by contemporary scholars like Rita Felski, Timothy Reiss and David Scott, in order to gauge how Caribbean writers use Haiti to negotiate the difficulties and successes of the region in their efforts to portray their desire for an improved Caribbean future. iv Advisors/Committee Members: Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (chair), DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M. (committee member), Boyce Davies, Carole Elizabeth (committee member), Monroe, Jonathan Beck (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Haitian Revolution; Modernity; Tragedy; Comedy; Caribbean Literature

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Leger, N. (2012). "A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Leger, Natalie. “"A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Leger, Natalie. “"A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution.” 2012. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Leger N. "A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441.

Council of Science Editors:

Leger N. "A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441

Cornell University

14. Arslan, Gizem. Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada.

Degree: PhD, Germanic Studies, 2013, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34241

► This comparative dissertation project examines the critical status of written signs (letters of phonetic alphabets, Sino-Japanese ideograms, mathematical symbols, and punctuation marks) in translational, multilingual… (more)

▼ This comparative dissertation project examines the critical status of written signs (letters of phonetic alphabets, Sino-Japanese ideograms, mathematical symbols, and punctuation marks) in translational, multilingual and intermedial techniques in literature since World War II and in an increasingly global and multicultural world since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Romanian-German poet Paul Celan, French author Georges Perec, and Japanese-German author Yoko Tawada respond to historical, political and literary moments in Europe that challenge the capacities of verbal arts to articulate turmoil, transformation, and silence, by transfiguring the very medium of writing on the micro-level of individual written signs. International scholarship on these authors and theoretical work on translation and multilingualism focus heavily on reference and meaning, frequently conflating word-fragmentation with illegibility. Often overlooked are elements of writing not widely considered to be vehicles of meaning. In response, this dissertation offers strategies for reading what might appear nonsensical as sensory, and the unreadable as newly legible. This project draws on the history and theories of writing systems from Plato's Cratylus to debates on logocentrism (Jacques Derrida), as well as studies on writing and media, particularly the concept of notational iconicity (Sybille Krämer, Wolfgang Raible, Friedrich Kittler). It argues that Celan, Perec and Tawada subtly transform the very material of writing at the elemental level of written signs, treating letters and by extension texts as material objects in continual transformation. Relatedly, this project shifts its focus from translation as the reproduction of something familiar to transformation as the creation of something new, in order to illustrate that a transformative approach to translation gains far more than what is lost in translation, and that it gains something in addition to the semantic meanings that may accrue in translation. In doing so, this dissertation project offers the microperspective of written signs to Celan, Perec and Tawada scholarship in particular and to the literary humanities in general. Advisors/Committee Members: Adelson, Leslie Allen (chair), Schwarz, Anette (committee member), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member), Kittler, Wolf (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: written signs; translation; letters; transformation; intermedia aesthetics; Paul Celan; Georges Perec; Yoko Tawada

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Arslan, G. (2013). Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34241

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Arslan, Gizem. “Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34241.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Arslan, Gizem. “Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada.” 2013. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Arslan G. Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34241.

Council of Science Editors:

Arslan G. Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34241

Cornell University

15. Singh, Kavita. Translative Carnivalism: Performance And Language In The Caribbean Text.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2014, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38849

► This dissertation identifies two dominant modes of postcolonial Caribbean expression: performance and multilingualism. I propose that a relational logic underlies the region's literature and popular… (more)

▼ This dissertation identifies two dominant modes of postcolonial Caribbean expression: performance and multilingualism. I propose that a relational logic underlies the region's literature and popular culture, where the persistence of coloniality coincides with the new practice of autonomy, whether purely cultural autonomy or also political. Performance layers the desires and impulses for self-expression and self-determination upon the continuing impositions and complicities of the (neo)colonial order, while multilingualism translatively enacts a similar negotiation between standardized European languages and local Creoles, metropolitan or global standards and Caribbean cognitive and expressive logics. Within this doubling of selves and of ways of being, acting, and creating, exhibition, understood through Carnival masquerade, makes a specifically Caribbean exceptionality conspicuous. Drawing on translation theorist Naoki Sakai's concept of the "heterolingual address," departing from Homi Bhabha's now classic postcolonial theory of "hybridity," and revising Antonio Benitez-Rojo's post-modern understanding of Caribbean performance, I present distinct moments and sites of postcolonial Caribbean expression where the mode and framework for both political action and creative expression emerge as translative performance, and achieve, in the process, an exhibitive visibility of the national or local. In the chapter on Derek Walcott's Drums and Colours, I use Arendtian "action" to describe this speaking and acting before others in the moment of independence, a multilingual experiment in community against a vulnerable plurality. In Monchoachi's post-départementalisation exhibition of Creole philosophical value through vehicular French, the postcolonial logic of alienation serves to initiate "freedom" and "ecstasy," the "looseness" of excess produced in the relation between "word" and "body." Maryse Condé's autobiographical performance of an untraditional self that does not speak Creole overtly troubles categories of "truth" in order to expose how marginalities are engendered in a valorization of créolité as the only authentic writing. Finally, an exploration of Carnival texts and archives, both in the present and in previous centuries, demonstrates how the new Trinbagonian nation-state struggles to reconcile liberal political ideals and contradictory local practices-a duality that recalls Peter Wilson's "crab antics," between reputation and respectability. Advisors/Committee Members: Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (chair), Munasinghe, Viranjini P (committee member), Aching, Gerard Laurence (committee member), Boyce Davies, Carole Elizabeth (committee member), Samoyault, Tiphaine (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Caribbean Literature; Creole; Carnival

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Singh, K. (2014). Translative Carnivalism: Performance And Language In The Caribbean Text. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38849

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Singh, Kavita. “Translative Carnivalism: Performance And Language In The Caribbean Text.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38849.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Singh, Kavita. “Translative Carnivalism: Performance And Language In The Caribbean Text.” 2014. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Singh K. Translative Carnivalism: Performance And Language In The Caribbean Text. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38849.

Council of Science Editors:

Singh K. Translative Carnivalism: Performance And Language In The Caribbean Text. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38849

Cornell University

16. Mihara, Yoshiaki. Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza.

Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2013, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33962

► "[The ordinary man] falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other" - a good reader of… (more)

▼ "[The ordinary man] falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other" - a good reader of T. S. Eliot's criticism probably knows this famous passage; a good researcher on Eliot's apprenticeship in philosophy perhaps knows that he did actually read Spinoza; and yet, in the current Eliot studies, reading Eliot and reading Spinoza seem to have nothing to do with each other. In this dissertation, I attempt to reconstruct Eliot's reading of Spinoza as faithfully and comprehensively as possible, by closely analyzing the marginalia in Eliot's copy of Spinoza's Opera, housed in the Archive Centre of King's College, Cambridge. At the same time, the Spinozist context for Eliot's apprenticeship at Harvard and Oxford (with the intermission of "a romantic year" in Paris) is also to be presented, which is, in fact, a glaring absence in the philosophical branch of Eliot studies. In addition to these positivistic contributions, I also take a theoretical approach so as to demonstrate how illuminative Eliot's reading of Spinoza can be for understanding the characteristic style (or "ethology") of Eliot's reading in general (i.e., Theory), by way of extensively analyzing the unpublished as well as published materials of Eliot's "academic philosophizing" that culminated in his doctoral dissertation on F. H. Bradley. Furthermore, theories of reading are to be provided mainly by the (New) Spinozist tradition, e.g., Deleuzean "double reading" and Althusserian "symptomatic reading". With these theoretical weapons in hand, I examine the ways in which Eliot's repression, or symptomatic oversights, of the Ontological question in his "systematic reading" of Spinoza (hence his Theory in general) is dogged by the return of the repressed "affective reading", while his evasion of the Ontological question leads to an epistemological deadlock over the issue of solipsism, which is only to be resolved, rather violently, by a "leap" at an imagined commonality based on "essential kinship" that Eliot has contrived for himself - in sharp contrast to the idea of an "inessential commonality" that Agamben derives from Spinozian "common notions". Finally, the political afterlives of Eliot's Theory are problematized through the analysis of several uncanny mis/readings, or appropriations, of Eliot's celebrated essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent". Those politicized mis/readings by Nishida Kitarō (arguably the greatest philosopher of Imperial Japan) and Ch'oe Chaesŏ (a most prominent "pro-Japanese" intellectual in Colonial Korea) as well as that by the later Eliot himself will, in turn, illuminate the idea of Empire and its logic that are latent in Eliot's ostensibly "purely literary" theory of "Tradition". Advisors/Committee Members: Culler, Jonathan Dwight (chair), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member), Waite, Geoffrey Carter W (committee member), Mao, Douglas (committee member), Sakai, Naoki (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: T. S. Eliot; Spinoza; Empire

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Mihara, Y. (2013). Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33962

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mihara, Yoshiaki. “Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33962.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mihara, Yoshiaki. “Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza.” 2013. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Mihara Y. Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33962.

Council of Science Editors:

Mihara Y. Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33962

17. Lenoble, Alex. How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation.

Degree: PhD, Romance Studies, 2019, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360

► In this dissertation I address the ways in which postcolonial authors from the Caribbean and the Maghreb, anglophone and Francophone such as Frankétienne, Edouard Glissant,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: African studies; Caribbean literature; Haiti; French literature; Carribean Literature; Postcolonialism

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Lenoble, A. (2019). How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lenoble, Alex. “How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 15, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lenoble, Alex. “How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation.” 2019. Web. 15 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lenoble A. How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 15]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360.

Council of Science Editors:

Lenoble A. How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360

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