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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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 . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37075

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Yoo, Jin. “Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience .” 2014. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37075.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Yoo, Jin. “Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience .” 2014. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

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Yoo J. Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37075.

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

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember), Toorawa, Shawkat M. (committeeMember).

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

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

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hadeed, Khalid. “Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis .” 2012. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31084.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hadeed, Khalid. “Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis .” 2012. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Hadeed K. Late Modern Arabic Literature: Gender As Crucible Of Crisis . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31084.

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

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember), Kaplan, Steven Laurence (committeeMember).

Subjects/Keywords: political violence; intellectual history; France

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

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kuby, Emma. “Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962 .” 2011. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33517.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kuby, Emma. “Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962 .” 2011. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Kuby E. Between Humanism And Terror: The Problem Of Political Violence In Postwar France, 1944-1962 . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33517.

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

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Adelson, Leslie Allen (committeeMember), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember).

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 . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29414

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Casad, Madeleine. “The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age .” 2012. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29414.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Casad, Madeleine. “The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age .” 2012. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Casad M. The Virtual Turn: Narrative, Identity, And German Media Art Practice In The Digital Age . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29414.

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

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Cornell University

5. Ferraris-Besso, Caroline. Postcards From Tahiti: Images Of The Other From William Hodges To Pierre Loti And Paul Gauguin .

Degree: 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29256

► This dissertation considers the making of the Tahitian other through verbal and pictorial images. My interdisciplinary analysis is grounded in the productive use of concepts… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Tahiti; Paul Gauguin; Pierre Loti; William Hodges; Henri Lebeau; postcards; Patagonia; travel; photography

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Ferraris-Besso, C. (2012). Postcards From Tahiti: Images Of The Other From William Hodges To Pierre Loti And Paul Gauguin . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29256

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Ferraris-Besso, Caroline. “Postcards From Tahiti: Images Of The Other From William Hodges To Pierre Loti And Paul Gauguin .” 2012. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29256.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ferraris-Besso, Caroline. “Postcards From Tahiti: Images Of The Other From William Hodges To Pierre Loti And Paul Gauguin .” 2012. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Ferraris-Besso C. Postcards From Tahiti: Images Of The Other From William Hodges To Pierre Loti And Paul Gauguin . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29256.

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Ferraris-Besso C. Postcards From Tahiti: Images Of The Other From William Hodges To Pierre Loti And Paul Gauguin . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29256

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Lacapra, Dominick C (committeeMember), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember).

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

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kaakinen, Kaisa. “Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald .” 2013. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34297.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kaakinen, Kaisa. “Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald .” 2013. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

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Kaakinen K. Minding The Gap: Reading History With Joseph Conrad, Peter Weiss, And W. G. Sebald . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34297.

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

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Vallois, Marie-Claire (committeeMember), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember).

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. (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124

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Reyes, Michael. “The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. ” 2014. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Reyes, Michael. “The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. ” 2014. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Reyes M. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124.

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

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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 . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39392

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Hashem, Noor. “Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction .” 2015. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39392.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hashem, Noor. “Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction .” 2015. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

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Hashem N. Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39392.

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

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Dadi,Muhammad Iftikhar (committeeMember), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas,Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember).

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

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

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Powers, Jean. “Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978) .” 2015. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40944.

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Powers, Jean. “Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978) .” 2015. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

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Powers J. Moroccan Modernism: The Casablanca School (1956-1978) . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40944.

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

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10. Casey, Anna. Aesthetic Impropriety: Properties Of Law And Politics In Postcolonial Literature .

Degree: 2016, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/43561

► "Aesthetic Impropriety: Properties of Law and Politics in Postcolonial Literature" addresses the problem of property lying at the heart of many postcolonial novels. The complicated… (more)

▼ "Aesthetic Impropriety: Properties of Law and Politics in Postcolonial Literature" addresses the problem of property lying at the heart of many postcolonial novels. The complicated status of property as a construct, legal precept, and philosophy of self-ownership has not been fully considered in a postcolonial context, particularly as it has informed the genre of the novel. My research draws upon theorizations of property in political philosophy and American legal studies to examine how property has shaped anti-colonial literary form. Chapter One builds on a long tradition of critiquing institutions of law, government, and the nation-state for being exclusionary, egoistic, and overly invested in the construct of property. Using the paradigm of "aesthetic impropriety," I argue that postcolonial novels frequently configure non-proprietary forms of ethical relation. Chapter Two turns to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Using research into Indian inheritance and matrimonial law, I show how Roy's novel confronts Indian property law's gendered exclusions, countering the systematic dispossession of Indian women by establishing, through its non-proprietary, "improper" aesthetics, a relational mode of political life. Chapter Three illuminates J. M. Coetzee's late-apartheid novel, Life & Times of Michael K through contextual readings of apartheid's racially exclusionary land and labor laws. I reveal this novel's concern with the question of inheritance, arguing that it rejects the hereditary power of the ruling white minority by describing its black protagonist as part of an elective, democratic community. Chapter Four considers the relationship between aesthetic style and political form in Ben Okri's 1991 novel, The Famished Road. Whereas critics typically describe Okri's novel as magical realist, I associate this novel's extravagant, excessive, and exuberant aesthetics as consonant with democracy's mode of functioning, affirming the Nigerian population's capacity to democratically achieve a fairer nation. Finally, my conclusion contributes to contemporary debates about modes of literary interpretation by exploring a possible method of improper reading. Overall, my dissertation is interdisciplinary in its insights: it offers a new paradigm for postcolonial literary studies and it demonstrates, through sustained formal analysis, the necessary contributions of literary studies to analyzing privative economic, legal, and political systems and theorizing alternatives. Advisors/Committee Members: McNulty,Tracy K. (committeeMember), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas,Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember).

Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial literature; Global Anglophone literature; Property, Law, Politics, Novel

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Casey, A. (2016). Aesthetic Impropriety: Properties Of Law And Politics In Postcolonial Literature . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/43561

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Casey, Anna. “Aesthetic Impropriety: Properties Of Law And Politics In Postcolonial Literature .” 2016. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/43561.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Casey, Anna. “Aesthetic Impropriety: Properties Of Law And Politics In Postcolonial Literature .” 2016. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Casey A. Aesthetic Impropriety: Properties Of Law And Politics In Postcolonial Literature . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2016. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/43561.

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Casey A. Aesthetic Impropriety: Properties Of Law And Politics In Postcolonial Literature . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/43561

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember), de Bary, Brett (committeeMember).

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 . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59124

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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. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59124.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Zhang, Ning. “Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society .” 2017. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Zhang N. Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59124.

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

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Schwarz, Anette (committeeMember), Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember), Kittler, Wolf (committeeMember).

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 . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34241

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Arslan, Gizem. “Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada .” 2013. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34241.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Arslan, Gizem. “Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada .” 2013. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Arslan G. Metamorphoses Of The Letter In Paul Celan, Georges Perec, And Yoko Tawada . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34241.

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

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember), Waite, Geoffrey Carter W (committeeMember), Mao, Douglas (committeeMember), Sakai, Naoki (committeeMember).

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

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

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mihara, Yoshiaki. “Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza .” 2013. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33962.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mihara, Yoshiaki. “Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza .” 2013. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Mihara Y. Reading T. S. Eliot Reading Spinoza . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33962.

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Council of Science Editors:

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

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Cornell University

14. Chen, Pei Jean. The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language And Sexuality In Colonial Taiwan And Korea .

Degree: 2016, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/44360

► Dissertation Abstract This dissertation seeks to examine the modern construction of language and sexuality in colonial Taiwan and Korea. It takes a transnational approach to… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Colonial Modernity; East Asian Literature; Sexuality

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Chen, P. J. (2016). The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language And Sexuality In Colonial Taiwan And Korea . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/44360

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Chen, Pei Jean. “The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language And Sexuality In Colonial Taiwan And Korea .” 2016. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/44360.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Chen, Pei Jean. “The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language And Sexuality In Colonial Taiwan And Korea .” 2016. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

Vancouver:

Chen PJ. The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language And Sexuality In Colonial Taiwan And Korea . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2016. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/44360.

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Chen PJ. The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language And Sexuality In Colonial Taiwan And Korea . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/44360

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Cornell University

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

Degree: 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: Marie%22%29&pagesize-30">Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember), Campbell, Timothy C. (committeeMember), Diabate, Naminata (committeeMember).

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 . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59001

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Caserta, Silvia. “An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa .” 2017. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59001.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Caserta, Silvia. “An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa .” 2017. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

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Caserta S. An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59001.

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

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Cornell University

16. Allar, Neal. Poetry Of Relation: Edouard Glissant, French Modernism, And The Poetics Of Opacity .

Degree: 2016, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/45296

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Allar, N. (2016). Poetry Of Relation: Edouard Glissant, French Modernism, And The Poetics Of Opacity . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/45296

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Allar, Neal. “Poetry Of Relation: Edouard Glissant, French Modernism, And The Poetics Of Opacity .” 2016. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed October 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/45296.

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Allar, Neal. “Poetry Of Relation: Edouard Glissant, French Modernism, And The Poetics Of Opacity .” 2016. Web. 22 Oct 2019.

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Allar N. Poetry Of Relation: Edouard Glissant, French Modernism, And The Poetics Of Opacity . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2016. [cited 2019 Oct 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/45296.

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Allar N. Poetry Of Relation: Edouard Glissant, French Modernism, And The Poetics Of Opacity . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/45296

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