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Cucher, Michael Jeremy.
Riding with Zapata through Las Entrañas del monstruo:
representations of Emiliano Zapata from cold war Hollywood,
chicana/o literature and culture, and the EZLN rebellion.
Degree: PhD, English, 2011, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/661701/rec/5597 
► When the ski-masked representatives of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) first announced their rebellion against the Mexican government from the Lacondón jungle on…
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▼ When the ski-masked representatives of the Ejército
Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) first announced their
rebellion against the Mexican government from the Lacondón jungle
on January 1, 1994, journalists, cultural critics, and many others
marveled at their deft combination of armed guerrilla tactics and
their skillful use of the Internet. In retrospect, their efforts to
forge networks of solidarity and support employed at least one
additional strategy, for this is hardly the first time since the
Mexican Revolution of 1910 that the image of Emiliano Zapata—-his
unmistakable moustache and piercing eyes, his sombrero, bandoliers,
and rifle, and his undying love for the land—-has been used to
imagine and/or mobilize competing visions of Mexico. The legacy of
Zapata’s principled struggle for tierra y libertad on behalf of the
poor and indigenous peasants of Morelos has also enjoyed a fruitful
life in the literature and culture of the United States, where it
has been marshaled from perspectives as disparate as liberal
anticommunism and queer Chicana feminism to reproduce and to
disrupt various ideas about identity and national development. My
dissertation tracks representations of the Zapata legacy as they
circulate across the U.S./Mexico border in order to create a
transnational conversation about race, gender, and national
belonging between the discursive contexts of mid-century U.S.
exceptionalism, Chicana/o literature and culture, and the EZLN
rebellion. Central to understanding how the image of Zapata
operates in these different cultures of circulation, this
dissertation argues, are the ways in which it relates to space. ❧
In Chapter One, I argue that by extricating Zapata from the
historical realities of the Mexican Revolution in their film Viva
Zapata! (1952), John Steinbeck and Elia Kazan transform the Zapata
legacy into a kind of blank screen upon which to project, in the
imagery of the cowboy western, Cold War fantasies about heroic
revolutionaries in the so-called Third World. The driving logics of
these fantasies seem particularly evident in the relationship
between the film’s Zapata and his indigenous followers, who appear
desperately in need of a father figure to free them from the
feminized shackles of their underdevelopment. The extent to which
both John Steinbeck and George H.W. Bush attempt to deploy the film
against Fidel Castro’s Cuba in the 1960s suggests that Viva Zapata!
has at least as much to do with the mid-century spaces of Cold War
containment in Latin America as with the lands and fields of
Morelos. ❧ In Chapter Two, I demonstrate that the activists of the
Chicano Movement use Zapata, along with other symbols from Mexican
and Mexican American history, to inform a militant sense of
collective identity with which to challenge historical and
contemporary experiences of dispossession and violence in the
United States. On one hand, I find Chicana critiques of the
Movement’s sexism and misogyny particularly relevant when cultural
nationalist representations of Zapata appear to conflate…
Advisors/Committee Members: Rowe, John Carlos (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David (Committee Member), Gomez-Barris, Macarena (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Zapata; American Exceptionalism; Chicana/o; EZLN; American studies; national identity; cultural studies; race; revolution; subaltern
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Cucher, M. J. (2011). Riding with Zapata through Las Entrañas del monstruo:
representations of Emiliano Zapata from cold war Hollywood,
chicana/o literature and culture, and the EZLN rebellion. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/661701/rec/5597
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cucher, Michael Jeremy. “Riding with Zapata through Las Entrañas del monstruo:
representations of Emiliano Zapata from cold war Hollywood,
chicana/o literature and culture, and the EZLN rebellion.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/661701/rec/5597.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cucher, Michael Jeremy. “Riding with Zapata through Las Entrañas del monstruo:
representations of Emiliano Zapata from cold war Hollywood,
chicana/o literature and culture, and the EZLN rebellion.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Cucher MJ. Riding with Zapata through Las Entrañas del monstruo:
representations of Emiliano Zapata from cold war Hollywood,
chicana/o literature and culture, and the EZLN rebellion. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/661701/rec/5597.
Council of Science Editors:
Cucher MJ. Riding with Zapata through Las Entrañas del monstruo:
representations of Emiliano Zapata from cold war Hollywood,
chicana/o literature and culture, and the EZLN rebellion. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2011. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/661701/rec/5597
University of Southern California
2.
Park, Jecheol.
The vicissitudes of postnational affects: visuality,
temporality, and corporeality in global east Asian films.
Degree: PhD, Cinema-Television (Critical Studies), 2012, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/124286/rec/7400
► One of the salient changes East Asian films have undergone during the past decade of globalization is their increasing tendency to foreground affective intensities that…
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▼ One of the salient changes East Asian films have
undergone during the past decade of globalization is their
increasing tendency to foreground affective intensities that are
excessive in relation to their thematic or signifying aspects. My
dissertation, The Vicissitudes of Postnational Affects: Visuality,
Temporality, and Corporeality in Global East Asian Films, explores
political implications of these affective features as expressed in
some of the recent East Asian films, focusing on their
relationships with the postnational condition that has increasingly
swept over East Asia during the past two decades. By the term
postnational condition, I mean the recent remarkable change in the
mode of socio-political power, which is characterized by the
gradual simultaneous processes of the decline of sovereign and
disciplinary powers and the rise of global neoliberal
governmentality. As such, the postnational condition needs to be
understood as a double-edge sword in the sense that it makes it
possible for hitherto unrepresentable affective others to emerge at
the same time that it prepares for a new condition that makes it
possible to manage and rationalize them in such a calculative
manner that it may preempt subversive forms of affective otherness
from appearing. My dissertation calls attention to how recent East
Asian films have responded to this postnational condition in
different ways by developing various kinds of narrative and
stylistic strategies that can cinematically express, as well as
cope with, this affective otherness. ❧ My dissertation focuses on
three aspects of film experience—its visual, temporal, and
corporeal ones—in which affective otherness is expressed in films.
Part I focuses on the phenomenon of global exoticism and discusses
and compares different ways East Asian films deploy the aesthetics
of the exotic vis-à-vis the dominant neoliberal tactics of
valorizing visual alterity or excess. If Kim Ki-duk’s recent films
such as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring (2003) and 3-Iron
(2004) show how the exotic can undergo generification, thereby
losing its singularity in accordance with the neoliberal
governmental management of visual excess, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s recent
films, such as Flowers of Shanghai (1998) and Flight of the Red
Balloon (2007) illustrate the possibility that the residual,
unvalorizable exotic can appear in the cinema of the era of
neoliberal governmentality. ❧ Part II addresses how affective
otherness can be expressed through contingency and temporal
heterogeneity. The compulsive repetition characteristic of Hong
Sang-soo’s Tale of Cinema (2005) serves to turn otherwise singular
contingencies into probabilistic, and thus valorizable chances.
This examination of Hong’s film shows how neoliberal
governmentality regularizes these temporal disturbances through the
process of the real subsumption of time. Yet, alternative thoughts
on time such as Deleuze’s notion of the empty form of time and
Benjamin-Agamben’s notion of the dialectical image indicate the
possibility that unvalorizable…
Advisors/Committee Members: Lippit, Akira Mizuta (Committee Chair), James, David E. (Committee Member), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: east Asian cinema; postnational condition; affect; visuality; temporality; corporeality
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APA (6th Edition):
Park, J. (2012). The vicissitudes of postnational affects: visuality,
temporality, and corporeality in global east Asian films. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/124286/rec/7400
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Park, Jecheol. “The vicissitudes of postnational affects: visuality,
temporality, and corporeality in global east Asian films.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/124286/rec/7400.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Park, Jecheol. “The vicissitudes of postnational affects: visuality,
temporality, and corporeality in global east Asian films.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Park J. The vicissitudes of postnational affects: visuality,
temporality, and corporeality in global east Asian films. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/124286/rec/7400.
Council of Science Editors:
Park J. The vicissitudes of postnational affects: visuality,
temporality, and corporeality in global east Asian films. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/124286/rec/7400
University of Southern California
3.
Ferrante, Allyson Salinger.
Emperors of invisible cities: the sovereignty of the
imagination in Caribbean literature.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2011, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/619317/rec/2317
► My dissertation, “Emperors of Invisible Cities: The Sovereignty of the Imagination in Caribbean Literature,” explores the ability of the imagination to empower the individual, both…
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▼ My dissertation, “Emperors of Invisible Cities: The
Sovereignty of the Imagination in Caribbean Literature,” explores
the ability of the imagination to empower the individual, both as
fictional character and reader, to make political and personal
changes in her reality. The novels I engage with all center around
the social and national exclusion of individuals whose racially,
culturally, and sexually hybrid identities cannot be wholly
accounted for because of their inability to adhere to a myth of
singular origins or to maintain distinctions between supposed
binaries. These texts all produce an uncanny effect up on the
reader as they unsettle comfortable notions of identity and open
new possibilities for how to conceive of the individual, the
community, aesthetics, and the nation through what Martinican
theorist Édouard Glissant terms, a poetics of relation. I suggest
that the Uncanny, in its revelation of the supernatural, exercises
political power in these novels when it shakes a reader from her
habitual interpretations and makes visible what was previously
invisible to the reader. ❧ With a history born from European myth,
the people and cultures of the Caribbean are a product of warring
indigenous Indian populations, European colonialism, African
slavery, the immigration of Arab and Asian laborers, revolution,
postcolonial nationalism. The region could be perceived as a
cacophonous mish-mash of cultures without social unity or cultural
solidarity were it not for the popular philosophy of creolization
which proudly recognizes the multiple strands of identities that
make up a new, complex, and rich collectivity rooted in shared
experience. Though creolization has aided in forming culturally
proud and independent nation states, often the Creole individual
goes ignored or remains invisible, such as the white Creole who
after emancipation belongs in neither Europe nor the Caribbean or
the mixed-race single woman who refuses to abide by her society’s
demands of racial or gender distinctions. My project refers to
these diverse characters as Creole, as they claim multiple and even
opposing identifications simultaneously and challenge their
society’s assumptions of difference, revealing the constructed-ness
of the “knowledge” it relies upon. ❧ I theorize the imperial quest
for knowledge as a form of possession with the aid of Le città
invisibili, a novel whose author, Italian national icon Italo
Calvino, was ironically born in Cuba. Read outside of its
conventional classifications, Calvino’s novel speaks directly to
the Caribbean with concern to evading dominion and crafting modes
of self-possession, such as relying upon one’s physical senses
alone to know and confirm reality rather than society’s
prescriptions of race, gender, and their subsequent values. In
studying Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) I demonstrate how the
uncanny aids the reader in recognizing an individual’s imaginative
sovereignty, allowing for previously regarded defeats to be
revealed as individual’s struggles against and victories over
oppression.…
Advisors/Committee Members: Diaz, Roberto Ignacio (Committee Chair), Meeker, Natania (Committee Member), Lloyd, David (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Caribbean; literature; Creole; Calvino
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Ferrante, A. S. (2011). Emperors of invisible cities: the sovereignty of the
imagination in Caribbean literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/619317/rec/2317
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ferrante, Allyson Salinger. “Emperors of invisible cities: the sovereignty of the
imagination in Caribbean literature.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/619317/rec/2317.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ferrante, Allyson Salinger. “Emperors of invisible cities: the sovereignty of the
imagination in Caribbean literature.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Ferrante AS. Emperors of invisible cities: the sovereignty of the
imagination in Caribbean literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/619317/rec/2317.
Council of Science Editors:
Ferrante AS. Emperors of invisible cities: the sovereignty of the
imagination in Caribbean literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2011. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/619317/rec/2317
University of Southern California
4.
Cetinic, Marija.
Sadness after postmodernism: mood in contemporary
fiction.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2012, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/357683/rec/5676
► My dissertation project is a comparative study of very recent Anglo-American and post-Yugoslav literary texts that address traumatic experience through experimental forms. What interests me…
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▼ My dissertation project is a comparative study of very
recent Anglo-American and post-Yugoslav literary texts that address
traumatic experience through experimental forms. What interests me
in these texts is the manner in which they treat affect as a form
of circulation, rather than as the emotional experience of a
particular character. By “affect as a form of circulation,” I mean
that the feeling of emotions is detached from individuals and
thereby becomes the basis of an impersonal distribution of
collective experience. The texts that I am studying—including works
by Dubravka Ugrešić,
David Markson, Salvador Plascencia, Ben
Marcus, and Aleksandar Hemon—are characterized by an ambiguous
atmosphere of diffuse and unlocatable “sadness”—a tonal quality
that emerges as much from their formal properties as from their
content. I argue that the new forms and narrative procedures by
which these texts transmit the emotional residue of traumatic
experience break down the constitution of individual characters and
privilege the circulation of affect as a form of exchange and of
community.; The dissertation is particularly invested in the
politics and the ethics of these experimental literary texts.
Trauma theory—as a way of engaging personal and collective
experiences of historical catastrophe—has traditionally operated
within a psychoanalytic framework that stresses the pathology of
the individual subject. Taking up recent work in political theory,
my project aims to transform this framework in order to address the
contemporary political conditions of globalization, attempting to
account for the new forms of transmission and relationality that
transnational capitalism has created. My argument is that an
adequate understanding of how historical catastrophe functions in
this political climate requires a study of how the affective flows
that trauma opens create collectivities that are not predicated
upon identity categories, and which resist the hegemony of global
capitalism even as they are enabled by it. If the operations of
capitalism break down national boundaries in order to facilitate
the exchange of commodities, my project explores how this opening
of transnationality enables other forms of transaction that are not
subsumed by the imperatives of the market.; The texts that I study
foreground “sadness” as a global condition that circulates as an
obstruction underneath or alongside the networks of capital.
Sadness is, I argue, the mood of the contemporary fiction I study
here. Each chapter of my dissertation focuses on a different mode
of such circulation in these texts: archivization, technological
connectivity, narration, and the ethics of passivity. The
theoretical framework of the study engages extensively with the
work of numerous philosophers and theorists, including Jean-Luc
Nancy, Gilles Deleuze, Baruch Spinoza, Brian Massumi, Fredric
Jameson, and Jacques Derrida. Overall, “Sadness After
Postmodernism” aims to make a significant intervention in the
manner in which we think about the relation between literature and…
Advisors/Committee Members: Lippit, Akira Mizuta (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David (Committee Member), Norindr, Panivong (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: affect; trauma; mood; contemporary fiction
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APA (6th Edition):
Cetinic, M. (2012). Sadness after postmodernism: mood in contemporary
fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/357683/rec/5676
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cetinic, Marija. “Sadness after postmodernism: mood in contemporary
fiction.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/357683/rec/5676.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cetinic, Marija. “Sadness after postmodernism: mood in contemporary
fiction.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Cetinic M. Sadness after postmodernism: mood in contemporary
fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/357683/rec/5676.
Council of Science Editors:
Cetinic M. Sadness after postmodernism: mood in contemporary
fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/357683/rec/5676
University of Southern California
5.
Neely, Jean L.
Sensing race against representation in the experimental
writings of Gertrude Stein: 1910–1940.
Degree: PhD, English, 2012, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/202555/rec/5795
► This dissertation undertakes to read, hear, and feel the openly unsaid and concretely sounded, spelled, and sewn manifestations of race and racial anxiety in the…
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▼ This dissertation undertakes to read, hear, and feel
the openly unsaid and concretely sounded, spelled, and sewn
manifestations of race and racial anxiety in the writing of
Gertrude Stein after 1910. It explores race as the irresistible,
elusive, ever-irruptive trace of difference that resists reference
and abstractive representational logic while inflecting and shaping
the meaning of the ordinary everywhere. In this project I read the
frequent explicit references to the racial throughout Stein’s
corpus as pivotal, loosely fastening (and fattening) buttons that
connect and charge Stein’s recurring vocabularies of the body and
domestic space with racial significance. I begin by reviewing the
critical climate of discussions of race in Stein’s writing and
outlining some of the theoretical work that is instrumental in
thinking, locating, and articulating race in relation to Stein and
other representation-resistant forms. After some discussion of the
historical contexts in which we find race pervasively saturating,
infusing, and structuring Stein’s world of late nineteenth-century
and early twentieth-century life in the U.S. and France, I consider
the ways in which race weaves together and sounds through Stein’s
oblique plays on the ordinary, her handling of “little” everyday
words and her challenges to the limits of representation. In
reading a broad span of Stein’s writings over many years, I look
into the intensely intertextually connective and re-sounded,
proliferative and profound dynamics of the non-negligible,
structuring trace and tracks of race imprinted in and sounded
through the familial-ly and materially associative potential of
words as relationally suggestive rather than abstractly
substitutional, as part of the embodied substance of the Real that
constitutes everything though it always exceeds and evades
communicative translation and pressures toward graspable,
master-able clarity.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lloyd, David C. (Committee Chair), Norindr, Panivong (Committee Member), Rowe, John Carlos (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Gertrude Stein; race; representation; experimental poetry; avant-garde poetics
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APA (6th Edition):
Neely, J. L. (2012). Sensing race against representation in the experimental
writings of Gertrude Stein: 1910–1940. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/202555/rec/5795
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Neely, Jean L. “Sensing race against representation in the experimental
writings of Gertrude Stein: 1910–1940.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/202555/rec/5795.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Neely, Jean L. “Sensing race against representation in the experimental
writings of Gertrude Stein: 1910–1940.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Neely JL. Sensing race against representation in the experimental
writings of Gertrude Stein: 1910–1940. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/202555/rec/5795.
Council of Science Editors:
Neely JL. Sensing race against representation in the experimental
writings of Gertrude Stein: 1910–1940. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/202555/rec/5795
University of Southern California
6.
Torres, Domino.
Theatre, culture and performance: contemporary Irish drama
and the Celtic Tiger.
Degree: PhD, English, 2015, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/251071/rec/7423
► This dissertation examines the relation between theatre, culture and performance in contemporary Ireland and researches the role of Irish drama in the transformative time known…
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▼ This dissertation examines the relation between
theatre, culture and performance in contemporary Ireland and
researches the role of Irish drama in the transformative time known
as the Celtic Tiger, a critical era that drastically shifted the
economic and cultural landscape of the nation as it experienced
profound increases in wealth and prosperity. The chapters offer
close readings of key dramas and major themes that emerged during
this time, presenting the critical background to situate the plays
within a larger social-historical context. The dissertation
researches primary theatre texts and critical works on gender and
identity as well as studies on space and geography, and examines
plays by writers such as Marina Carr, Patricia Burke Brogan, Gina
Moxley, Stella Feehily, and Martin McDonagh, amongst others.
Utilizing studies on space and demography, the work takes
particular focus on the construction of place in contemporary
dramas, especially those set in liminal or border regions, noting
how the plays that emerge from Celtic Tiger Ireland grapple in some
capacity or another with issues of dislocation. It contemplates
questions of economic and social mobility by examining
representations of youth and violence in plays by Enda Walsh and
Mark O’Rowe, and in selected Irish films, demonstrating how these
writers each construct complicated portraits of contemporary Irish
adolescence in their works as they reimagine the bonds and
limitations of friendship. It also examines issues of
representation and diversity in contemporary Ireland, paying
particular attention to the 2007 adaptation of Synge’s The Playboy
of the Western World. The dissertation argues that many of the
dramas emerging in Celtic Tiger Ireland function on a survivalist
imperative where characters employ strategies of endurance to
resist displacement as they navigate violent landscapes and
confront the complicated matrix of power relations in an
increasingly cosmopolitan world.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lloyd, David C. (Committee Chair), Rowe, John Carlos (Committee Member), Deverell, William F. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: cultural studies; drama; transnational studies
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APA (6th Edition):
Torres, D. (2015). Theatre, culture and performance: contemporary Irish drama
and the Celtic Tiger. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/251071/rec/7423
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Torres, Domino. “Theatre, culture and performance: contemporary Irish drama
and the Celtic Tiger.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/251071/rec/7423.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Torres, Domino. “Theatre, culture and performance: contemporary Irish drama
and the Celtic Tiger.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Torres D. Theatre, culture and performance: contemporary Irish drama
and the Celtic Tiger. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/251071/rec/7423.
Council of Science Editors:
Torres D. Theatre, culture and performance: contemporary Irish drama
and the Celtic Tiger. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2015. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/251071/rec/7423
University of Southern California
7.
Navarro, José Alfredo.
Machos y malinchistas: Chicano/Latino gang narratives,
masculinity, & affect.
Degree: PhD, English, 2013, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/105072/rec/3902
► Machos y Malinchistas interrogates how Chicano nationalist cultural productions, after the Chicano movement (1960-2010), have posited a monolithic Chicano/Latino identity primarily based on a racist,…
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▼ Machos y Malinchistas interrogates how Chicano
nationalist cultural productions, after the Chicano movement
(1960-2010), have posited a monolithic Chicano/Latino identity
primarily based on a racist, heteropatriarchal nation-state model
for nationalism that results in the formation of a “transcendental
revolutionary Chicano [male] subject” (Fregoso). Furthermore,
although this project examines how these literary, cinematic, and
musical representations of Chicano/Latino men in late 20th century
are strategically deployed by the mainstream media and also by
Chicanos/Latinos to simultaneously reproduce and resist
imperialist, racist, and heteropatriarchal logics of domination. It
also highlights the process through which dominant cultural
ideologies force Chicanas/os and Latinas/os to imagine themselves
through the prism of a white racist, heteropatriarchal
nation-state—one that ultimately regulates Chicano/Latino identity
and sexuality. Such nationalist narratives, I argue, not only
effect a symbolic erasure of Chicana and Latina women—especially
with regard to representations of these women in the novels and
films I analyze—but also fiercely regulate male Chicano/Latino
sexuality. Therefore, many of these literary and cultural
representations of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os—especially in gang
narratives, and particularly with respect to representations of
so-called “figures of resistance” like El Pachuco and El
Cholo—reveal the effects of Spanish and U.S. colonial residues on
the Chicano/Latino community while they underscore the history of
racism and sexism in the U.S. ❧ In this respect, my preliminary
conclusion is that the representations of Chicano/Latino men and
their masculinities/sexualities in literature, film and music in
the U.S. has largely been what I call a masking—or brown-facing—of
the legacies of Spanish and U.S. imperialisms, heteropatriarchy,
and racism in the country. Nevertheless, I maintain that such
performances still form particularly cogent responses to state
oppression and the underlying logics of domination. Furthermore, I
argue that these literary, cinematic, and musical products create
opportunities to disrupt these imperial logics. Finally, in my
consideration of the ways that gender and sexuality mediate Chicano
nationalist discourses, especially as these discourses relate to
Chicano/Latino masculinity represented by Chicano/Latino gangs, I
begin to rearticulate Chicano/a Latino/a identity as a part of a
larger anti-racist, egalitarian, and anti-imperialist political
identity that functions to “liberate [Chicano/a and other minority]
constituencies from the subordinating forces of the state”
(Rodríguez 2009). ❧ Consequently, Machos y Malinchistas utilizes
the fields of American Studies, Postcolonial, and Cultural
Studies—specifically, Chicana/o Cultural Studies—, literary
criticism, and other subaltern historiographies as key frameworks
for understanding Chicana/o Latina/o nationalist cultural
productions. My project draws upon recent Chicana/o Latina/o
scholarship like Richard T.…
Advisors/Committee Members: Rowe, John Carlos (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Vallejo, Jody Agius (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Chicano; Chicana; Latino; Latina; gang narratives; film; literature; rhythm &; blues (oldies music); sexuality; masculinity; affect
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Navarro, J. A. (2013). Machos y malinchistas: Chicano/Latino gang narratives,
masculinity, & affect. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/105072/rec/3902
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Navarro, José Alfredo. “Machos y malinchistas: Chicano/Latino gang narratives,
masculinity, & affect.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/105072/rec/3902.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Navarro, José Alfredo. “Machos y malinchistas: Chicano/Latino gang narratives,
masculinity, & affect.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Navarro JA. Machos y malinchistas: Chicano/Latino gang narratives,
masculinity, & affect. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/105072/rec/3902.
Council of Science Editors:
Navarro JA. Machos y malinchistas: Chicano/Latino gang narratives,
masculinity, & affect. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2013. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/105072/rec/3902
University of Southern California
8.
Solomon, Samuel Bernard.
Reproducing the line: 1970s innovative poetry and
socialist-feminism in the U.K.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2012, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/114056/rec/5547
► This dissertation considers the experimental group of ""Cambridge poets"" in the 1970s and explains how and why their somewhat obscure body of work was a…
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▼ This dissertation considers the experimental group of
""Cambridge poets"" in the 1970s and explains how and why their
somewhat obscure body of work was a battleground for cultural
politics. I focus on the writing of women who bridged Cambridge
poetry and socialist-feminist politics even as they worked at the
margins of both communities. I argue that this poetry took shape at
a unique conjuncture – the history of literary study at Cambridge,
the varied British reception of Marxist thought and political
action, the rise of Conservatism, and the increasing influence of
feminism – that made radical poetics a hotly contested site for the
production and reproduction of social relations, both in the 1970s
and beyond. I follow the poetry's circulations between the colleges
of Cambridge
University, poetic communities of practice, and
revolutionary socialist-feminist organizations. The poems and
critical writings of Veronica Forrest-Thomson, John James, Wendy
Mulford, J.H. Prynne, and, in particular, Denise Riley, form the
backbone of this study; I read their work through the
above-mentioned nexus of formal, historical, political, and
economic contexts and trajectories. ❧ The dissertation considers
the transformative possibilities of fields that produce and
reproduce ruling-class ideology, namely, literary education and
poetry. It is my task to explain how the writers in question
navigated their contradictory commitments and to outline the formal
effects of such contradictions on their poetic output. I also
consider how the exigencies of socialist-feminist organizing were
directly related to their work: such social practices are not
merely a ""content"" that fills autonomous literary forms; they are
part of the formal fabric of the work and of its circulation. I
argue that a narrowly construed literary history cannot explain
these texts; it is my aim, instead, to produce a materialist
account of feminist social movements and dialectically to bring
such an account to bear on the formal analysis of poetry. ❧ My
introduction provides a historical and theoretical sketch of the
connections between Marxist and feminist analyses of
""reproduction"" and cultural education. ❧ Chapter 1 explores the
history of poetry at Cambridge, tracing the movements from I.A.
Richards and William Empson to Veronica Forrest-Thomson and J.H.
Prynne to underscore how studying and writing poetry were seen as
moral preparation for the creation or restoration of a better
society. From here, I turn in Chapters 2 and 3 to the writings of
Riley and Mulford, who were trained in this tradition and who also
actively engaged in socialist-feminist theory and practice. I track
the continuities and differences between the Cambridge-based,
pedagogical-moral understanding of lyric's social worth and
socialist and feminist political ambitions for poetry. Chapter 4
returns to the poetry and prose of Riley from late 1980s through
the early 2000s. Finally, my epilogue outlines the situation of
contemporary British poets who have been influenced by the subjects
of the…
Advisors/Committee Members: Kamuf, Peggy (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Tongson, Karen (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: poetry; contemporary literature; feminism; Marxism; aesthetics; literary theory
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Solomon, S. B. (2012). Reproducing the line: 1970s innovative poetry and
socialist-feminism in the U.K. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/114056/rec/5547
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Solomon, Samuel Bernard. “Reproducing the line: 1970s innovative poetry and
socialist-feminism in the U.K.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/114056/rec/5547.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Solomon, Samuel Bernard. “Reproducing the line: 1970s innovative poetry and
socialist-feminism in the U.K.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Solomon SB. Reproducing the line: 1970s innovative poetry and
socialist-feminism in the U.K. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/114056/rec/5547.
Council of Science Editors:
Solomon SB. Reproducing the line: 1970s innovative poetry and
socialist-feminism in the U.K. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/114056/rec/5547
University of Southern California
9.
Bardan, Alice-Mihaela.
Contemporary European cinema in a transnational perspective:
aftereffects of 1989.
Degree: PhD, English, 2014, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/24991/rec/1617
► This dissertation investigates what is new about European identity in the post-Cold War era, and what is European about New European cinema. I offer an…
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▼ This dissertation investigates what is new about
European identity in the post-Cold War era, and what is European
about New European cinema. I offer an expansive reading of recent
transnational films by linking cinema to current debates on
historical memory, cultural identity, and neoliberal capitalism. In
my analysis of the relationship between the social and political
realities of Europe at present and the transnational sensibility
emerging in the New European cinema, I highlight cinema’s
privileged role in generating images for a changing European
imaginary. With this, I uncover what is at stake institutionally,
aesthetically, and critically in the creation of “European Cinema,”
a category until recently perceived as the counterface of Hollywood
and equated with art cinema or with specific national cinemas. I
also challenge a trend in current debates on European cinema which
focuses on the representation of migrants and other marginalized
identities as privileged figures of authenticity, showing how, in
many recent European films, the average European citizen is also
rendered “marginal,” in the thrall of precarious employment and an
uncertain financial future. What emerges from this transnational
cinema, I argue, is a vision of Europe as a territory united not by
a common culture, but rather by a set of shared economic anxieties.
Crucially, I show how contemporary European films transmit memory
and shape identities by evoking spectral traces from the past.
These films also foreground the ways in which personal and
transnational conflicts and allegiances disrupt national ones, and
suggest the interrelatedness of conflicts within the nation and
those between the national and the global capitalist order. These
intersections have both spatial and temporal dimensions, since
Europe’s past is not simply something to be unearthed or rewritten.
As the films themselves propose, the past co-exists with the
present, haunting contemporary Europeans with uncanny insistence.
This dissertation is one of the first extended projects to
interrogate the cinematic landscapes of the “new” Europe,
attempting to determine how these serve both to articulate a
politics of memory and cast light on the accelerated
transformations of the post-Cold War era.
Advisors/Committee Members: Modleski, Tania (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Lippit, Akira Mizuta (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: European cinema; 1989; transnational; Eastern Europe; post-communism
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Bardan, A. (2014). Contemporary European cinema in a transnational perspective:
aftereffects of 1989. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/24991/rec/1617
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bardan, Alice-Mihaela. “Contemporary European cinema in a transnational perspective:
aftereffects of 1989.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/24991/rec/1617.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bardan, Alice-Mihaela. “Contemporary European cinema in a transnational perspective:
aftereffects of 1989.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Bardan A. Contemporary European cinema in a transnational perspective:
aftereffects of 1989. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/24991/rec/1617.
Council of Science Editors:
Bardan A. Contemporary European cinema in a transnational perspective:
aftereffects of 1989. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/24991/rec/1617
University of Southern California
10.
Luk, Sharon.
The life of paper: a poetics.
Degree: PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, 2012, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/1520/rec/6949
► ""The Life of Paper: A Poetics"" explores the role of letter correspondence in practices of social reproduction, specifically within histories of racism, mass incarceration, and…
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▼ ""The Life of Paper: A Poetics"" explores the role of
letter correspondence in practices of social reproduction,
specifically within histories of racism, mass incarceration, and
social struggle in
California and the West. I trace this life by
fleshing out the labors that comprise letter correspondence in
three case studies: ""Detained"" focuses on migrants from
Southern
China during the early period of U.S. Chinese exclusion
(1880s-1920s); ""Interned"" focuses on people identified with Japan
during the World War II period (1930s-1940s); and ""Imprisoned""
focuses on diasporas of Blackness in the post-Civil Rights period
(1960s-present). ❧ Using a range of methods to analyze previously
unstudied archives of letters, this project explores how targeted
diasporas – facing conditions of radical alienation and
confinement – engaged in practices of reading, writing, and
circulating letters to sustain communal life. I study a number of
these inventive practices by thematically framing each chapter.
First, I historicize ""detained"" letters in relation to emerging
technological, epistemological, and social infrastructures. Second,
I analyze ""interned"" letters through dialectics of censorship and
aesthetic production. Third, I clarify how ""imprisoned"" letters
have transformed practices of collectively re-embodying the human.
❧ Situating letters within the political violence that qualifies
them, I define letter correspondence in these contexts as a social
response to coercion, ritually distinct from more commonly-studied
epistolary social practices. I argue that such conditions radically
alter how and what letters mean, and how we might better understand
them. Thus, in this cultural studies project I interrogate the
processes that connect paper objects to historical human identity
and being. I also examine how these forms of
connection – internalized in the letter – create alternative
conditions of existence that both ground and animate struggles
against premature death. As such, I methodologically elaborate the
life of paper to re-create an ""abolitionist"" epistemology of
race, space, gender, and labor. Finally then, I call the life of
paper a ""poetics"": a process of both literary and social
reproduction that revolves around maintaining the dynamics of
creative essence. ❧ This interdisciplinary project contributes to
critical thought and methodology in History, Media/Literary
Studies, Cultural Studies, Geography, and Political Theory by
addressing gaps in each field. Typically, historians' uses of
letters as evidence overlook the humanistic aspects of letters as
literary works and media forms. Inversely, literary and media
analyses commonly neglect the historically material contexts in
which letters were written. Dominant geographic research likewise
remains under-attentive to disenfranchised epistemologies, as
manifest in and through ""the life of paper"" and the ways they
radically transform knowledge about space and place. Lastly, both
critical race scholars and political theorists take for granted
categories of…
Advisors/Committee Members: Gilmore, Ruth Wilson (Committee Chair), Halberstam, Judith (Committee Member), Kelley, Robin D.G. (Committee Member), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: ethnicity; incarceration; letters; prison abolition; racism; social reproduction
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Luk, S. (2012). The life of paper: a poetics. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/1520/rec/6949
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Luk, Sharon. “The life of paper: a poetics.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/1520/rec/6949.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Luk, Sharon. “The life of paper: a poetics.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Luk S. The life of paper: a poetics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/1520/rec/6949.
Council of Science Editors:
Luk S. The life of paper: a poetics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/1520/rec/6949
University of Southern California
11.
Stefanek, Robert David.
Spying and surveillance in the early modern state and
stage.
Degree: PhD, English, 2012, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/75462/rec/6024
► This dissertation argues that the theatre of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, and their professional and amateur contemporaries was used by different authorities throughout…
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▼ This dissertation argues that the theatre of William
Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, and their
professional and amateur contemporaries was used by different
authorities throughout early modern England to conduct surveillance
on audiences comprised of suspect classes, including political
rivals, recusant Catholics, radical Protestants, and economic
dissidents. I argue furthermore that the architecture of theatres
was designed with an eye towards audience surveillance and control.
This project is organized by different performance locations
throughout England – towns, the universities, and the court – and
analyzes a variety of sources, including court, civic, and
university records, political, scientific, and philosophical
treatises, maps, architecture, painting, prose works, and poetry. ❧
This dissertation deepens our understanding of how Shakespeare and
his contemporaries achieved the central place in our culture that
they occupy today, while critiquing Michel Foucault's genealogy of
the modern surveillance state and his rigid distinctions between
the disciplinary strategies of different epochs. By considering
plays in their historical conditions of performance throughout
England, I theorize that meaning is a complex interaction involving
not only play texts and actors, but also audiences and theatre
architectures. I also offer an approach that opens the study of
early modern drama in a way that is inclusive of the dramatic
experiences available to the entire English population, not just
the portion residing in London.
Advisors/Committee Members: Smith, Bruce R. (Committee Chair), Lemon, Rebecca (Committee Member), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Velasco, Sherry (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: architecture; early modern English literature; English Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; surveillance; spying; theatre
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Stefanek, R. D. (2012). Spying and surveillance in the early modern state and
stage. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/75462/rec/6024
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Stefanek, Robert David. “Spying and surveillance in the early modern state and
stage.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/75462/rec/6024.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Stefanek, Robert David. “Spying and surveillance in the early modern state and
stage.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Stefanek RD. Spying and surveillance in the early modern state and
stage. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/75462/rec/6024.
Council of Science Editors:
Stefanek RD. Spying and surveillance in the early modern state and
stage. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/75462/rec/6024
University of Southern California
12.
Kim, Michelle Har.
Antipodes of Asian American literature: heterolingualism and
the Asian Americas.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2012, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/9783/rec/843
► This dissertation frames a series of Asian American texts that are written in Spanish and/or that cite Asian diasporic lives in South America, and investigates…
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▼ This dissertation frames a series of Asian American
texts that are written in Spanish and/or that cite Asian diasporic
lives in South America, and investigates the ways in which they
challenge the implicit singularities of North America and the
English language as premiere locales for Asian American literature.
For critics of traditionally Anglophone Asian American literature
and its putatively organic emergence within the geo-cultural
boundaries of North America, the “foreignness” and potential
confusions introduced by these texts’ castellano and invocations of
Asian American Others allow for readings that do not gravitate
toward representations of the exceptional Asian American who
manages (or fails) to accede to voice as a dissonantly singular
individual, citizen-subject or cultural hybrid. The trope of
“coming-to-voice” need not be a compulsory crucible for, but rather
a point of view of, subjectivation within Asian American
literatures. Due to the wider and more discrepant ranges of
scholarship necessary to make sense (and nonsense) of the Asian
Americas and its unwieldy linguistic, historical, and cultural
terrain, a purview of “the entire hemisphere from the Yukon to
Patagonia,” as Kirsten Silva Gruesz puts it, is well equipped to
identify not only Asian American literature’s originary axioms of
U.S. and North American exceptionalism, but also its Anglophonicity
and prioritization of the liberal subject who steers herself toward
individual self-awareness. ❧ Rather than assimilate the authors
investigated here—Anna Kazumi Stahl, José Watanabe, Siu Kam Wen,
Julia Wong Kcomt, Joan Didion, and Pedro Shimose, among others—as
exemplary writers of an Asian Latin American hybrid individuality
that iterates a dual-culture or dual-world schema, this project
tracks the palpable foreignness and conspicuousness of language in
their writings. Drawing in particular upon the philosophy of Gilles
Deleuze, it reckons with Asian American texts as muddled
fertilities rather than panethnic additions to Asian American
heterogeneity. In a de-emphasis upon the location of representative
Asian American authors of Latin America, and upon reading in ways
that tend toward the biopolitical (the “dimension or the level at
which human life is inscribed, constituted, recognized, and defined
within a given sociopolitical order,” as Gabriel Giorgi and Karen
Pinkus define it), the following chapters promote a vigilance
toward destabilizations of the monolingual and geographical bounds
of traditional Asian (North) American literature, and a watching
out for irruptions that render the imprecision and ambiguity of
another identificatory location: that of the Asian American as an
evident subset of the liberal human.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lippit, Akira Mizuta (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Nguyen, Viet Thanh (Committee Member), Giorgi, Gabriel (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Asian American literature; comparative literature; Asian American studies; American studies; diaspora; globalization; Gilles Deleuze; translation; transnational; hemispheric; literature; transnationalism; ethnic studies; ethnic literature
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Kim, M. H. (2012). Antipodes of Asian American literature: heterolingualism and
the Asian Americas. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/9783/rec/843
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kim, Michelle Har. “Antipodes of Asian American literature: heterolingualism and
the Asian Americas.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/9783/rec/843.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kim, Michelle Har. “Antipodes of Asian American literature: heterolingualism and
the Asian Americas.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Kim MH. Antipodes of Asian American literature: heterolingualism and
the Asian Americas. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/9783/rec/843.
Council of Science Editors:
Kim MH. Antipodes of Asian American literature: heterolingualism and
the Asian Americas. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/9783/rec/843
University of Southern California
13.
Lettman, Stacy J.
Unfaded echoes of slavery: the sublime language of violence
in Jamaican literature and music.
Degree: PhD, English, 2013, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/668836/rec/7696
► This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary approach in order to understand the dynamics and representation of (post)colonial violence in the Caribbean, Jamaica in particular. Utilizing theories…
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▼ This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary approach
in order to understand the dynamics and representation of
(post)colonial violence in the Caribbean, Jamaica in particular.
Utilizing theories from psychology, linguistics, philosophy,
performance studies, and literature, I situate the contemporary
violence in the larger contexts of slavery, colonialism, and
globalization throughout the Americas. I argue that (post)colonial
violence as represented in the literary and musical texts is a
learned nonverbal language that builds upon the unrepresentable
experience of slavery that I term the slave sublime. Slavery is
thus the real of freedom, in the sense that, as Jacques Lacan
remarks, the real always returns to its place of origin—in this
case, the originary violence of conquest and slavery. I argue that
slavery is ever-present in the language of violence, whether
expressed in psychic, physical, linguistic, or economic domains. As
I contend, certain aesthetic forms inherited from the West, the
realist novel for instance, demand a certain kind of
representativity and resolution that cannot accommodate the
colonial and postcolonial violence of the Caribbean. Dancehall
music, on the other hand, assumes the dissonant material of
contemporary violence into its form, which it signifies by its very
refusal of resolution; it is not merely mimetic, however, as it
involves a reflection on form and history. Certainly, what has been
absent until now is a reading of dancehall as a form of mediation
and metalanguage, that is, language in relation to its cultural
context in which structures and form are imperative. Of specific
interest are the questions regarding how a violent past is socially
articulated and rendered meaningful as I explore the connections
between speech and writing, silence and speech, and writing and
performance, and the ways in which art can mediate and mitigate
violence.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lloyd, David (Committee Chair), Rowe, John Carlos (Committee Member), Tongson, Karen (Committee Member), Hill, Edwin (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: violence; Jamaica; dancehall music; Andrew Salkey; Roger Mais; Nourbese Philip; sublime
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Lettman, S. J. (2013). Unfaded echoes of slavery: the sublime language of violence
in Jamaican literature and music. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/668836/rec/7696
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lettman, Stacy J. “Unfaded echoes of slavery: the sublime language of violence
in Jamaican literature and music.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/668836/rec/7696.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lettman, Stacy J. “Unfaded echoes of slavery: the sublime language of violence
in Jamaican literature and music.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Lettman SJ. Unfaded echoes of slavery: the sublime language of violence
in Jamaican literature and music. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/668836/rec/7696.
Council of Science Editors:
Lettman SJ. Unfaded echoes of slavery: the sublime language of violence
in Jamaican literature and music. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2013. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/668836/rec/7696
University of Southern California
14.
Inoue, Mayumo.
Senses of history: colonial memories, works of art, and
heterogeneous community in America's Asia-Pacific since
1945.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2014, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/7679/rec/5794
► This dissertation attempts to locate a nexus of aesthetic theory, historical memory, and emergent ""community"" that is inherently heterogeneous and does not revolve around an…
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▼ This dissertation attempts to locate a nexus of
aesthetic theory, historical memory, and emergent ""community""
that is inherently heterogeneous and does not revolve around an
exemplary subject. It does so through a reading of canonical and
non-canonical post-World War II American, Asian American, and some
Japanese-language literary and cinematic texts. The authors and
filmmakers analyzed include Charles Olson, Kiyota Masanobu, Allen
Ginsberg, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim,
and Kim Shijong. It examines and proposes a type of ghostly
materialism whereby the barely sensible aspect of historical memory
solicits at once the becoming of its witnesses and transformative
differentiation of the very memories themselves.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lippit, Akira Mizuta (Committee Chair), Kamuf, Peggy (Committee Member), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Nguyen, Viet Thanh (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: aesthetic theory; postcolonial studies; Asian American literature; the Transpacific
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Inoue, M. (2014). Senses of history: colonial memories, works of art, and
heterogeneous community in America's Asia-Pacific since
1945. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/7679/rec/5794
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Inoue, Mayumo. “Senses of history: colonial memories, works of art, and
heterogeneous community in America's Asia-Pacific since
1945.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/7679/rec/5794.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Inoue, Mayumo. “Senses of history: colonial memories, works of art, and
heterogeneous community in America's Asia-Pacific since
1945.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Inoue M. Senses of history: colonial memories, works of art, and
heterogeneous community in America's Asia-Pacific since
1945. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/7679/rec/5794.
Council of Science Editors:
Inoue M. Senses of history: colonial memories, works of art, and
heterogeneous community in America's Asia-Pacific since
1945. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/7679/rec/5794
University of Southern California
15.
Solomon, Jeffrey H.
Unsettling the nation: anti-colonial nationalism and
narratives of the non-western world in U.S. literature and culture,
1783-1860.
Degree: PhD, English, 2011, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/160469/rec/7708
► In Unsettling the Nation, I explore the uneven construction of a non-Western imaginary in U.S. literature and culture, focusing my attention upon early narrative representations…
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▼ In Unsettling the Nation, I explore the uneven
construction of a non-Western imaginary in U.S. literature and
culture, focusing my attention upon early narrative representations
of U.S. citizens who represent their presence and actions within
the non-Western world as a response to Anglo-European imperialism.
In these realist narratives of cultural contact, national
characteristics are drawn out of the imaginative comparison of
national protagonists and their Western and non-Western cultural
Others. I argue that the literary portrayal of U.S. citizens in the
non-Western world contributed important factual and imagined
articulations of U.S. identity and nationality for a highly
literate public that was already primed by the political writing of
the period to reject their inherited colonial identities, and the
works I discuss here present readers with representative Americans
who are imaginatively portrayed in contrast to both Anglo-European
foils engaged in colonial ventures in the non-Western world, and
the non-Western people who inhabit that desirable geography. The
representative U.S. citizens in these works act out national
conflicts upon foreign landscapes imaginatively constructed as
“neutral ground” – to use Hawthorne’s popular literary term for the
space imaginatively conceived of as the setting for the American
Romance genre – to produce, promote and disseminate U.S.-centric
geopolitical narratives about a world of undeveloped nations
threatened by Anglo-European colonial occupation, and in need of
U.S. political intervention. ❧ John Ledyard asked for and received
the first legal copyright for a literary work in the newly formed
U.S. nation in 1783. The inaugural U.S. critique of British
Imperial hubris that emerges in his Journal of the Final Voyage of
Captain Cook (1783) is soon after echoed by U.S. Navy Captain
David
Porter in support of his own contrasting act of colonial occupation
of Nuku Hiva during the War of 1812; like Ledyard’s journal of
service with Cook, Porter’s A Journal of a Cruise Made to the
Pacific (1822) contrasts U.S. actions in the non-Western world to
those of Britain and the European empires. I revisit this very same
geopolitical terrain in my chapter on Herman Melville’s
quasi-fictional novel, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), set
on the same island of Nuku Hiva that was identified and claimed for
the U.S. by Porter in his Journal. Collectively, these works
present nuanced descriptions of the characteristic “American”
approach to the valuable territory and indigenous cultures of the
Pacific, while condemning the contrasting Anglo-European colonial
approach to those same people and places, documenting new and
varied possibilities for a U.S. presence in the non-Western world.
❧ The non-Western world of the Pacific may hold symbolic
significance in U.S. literary history and U.S. political history
for the actions documented and described in these two popular
memoirs, but the more significant contributions to the
“geopolitical” character of U.S. identity emerged from the
imaginative…
Advisors/Committee Members: Lloyd, David C. (Committee Chair), Rowe, John Carlos (Committee Member), Handley, William (Committee Member), Ross, Steven (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: John Ledyard; Royall Tyler; David Porter; Susanna Haswell Rowson; Herman Melville; William Walker; geopolitics; American studies; 19th century U.S. literature; postcolonial literature; non-Western imaginary; orientalism; imperialism; Journal of the Final Voyage of Captain Cook; Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean; Slaves in Algiers; The Algerine Captive; Typee; The War in Nicaragua
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Solomon, J. H. (2011). Unsettling the nation: anti-colonial nationalism and
narratives of the non-western world in U.S. literature and culture,
1783-1860. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/160469/rec/7708
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Solomon, Jeffrey H. “Unsettling the nation: anti-colonial nationalism and
narratives of the non-western world in U.S. literature and culture,
1783-1860.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/160469/rec/7708.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Solomon, Jeffrey H. “Unsettling the nation: anti-colonial nationalism and
narratives of the non-western world in U.S. literature and culture,
1783-1860.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Solomon JH. Unsettling the nation: anti-colonial nationalism and
narratives of the non-western world in U.S. literature and culture,
1783-1860. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/160469/rec/7708.
Council of Science Editors:
Solomon JH. Unsettling the nation: anti-colonial nationalism and
narratives of the non-western world in U.S. literature and culture,
1783-1860. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2011. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/160469/rec/7708
University of Southern California
16.
Traester, Mary.
Mourning melancholia: modernist poetics and the refusal of
solace.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2014, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/375255/rec/4245
► This dissertation uncovers a markedly consistent and transhistorical critical bias that has favored violent and melancholic responses to loss, while discrediting passive and mournful responses.…
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▼ This dissertation uncovers a markedly consistent and
transhistorical critical bias that has favored violent and
melancholic responses to loss, while discrediting passive and
mournful responses. It is meant as a catalyst to reexamine the
“aesthetic repudiation” of the feminized, racialized other and the
“cultural devaluation” of female grief in both poetic work and
critical responses (Forter 8, Schiesari 12). My work joins that of
Judith Butler, Anne Cheng, Greg Forter, and Ranjana Khanna, who
have argued that a melancholic response to loss is the basis of a
masculinist, colonialist form of Western subjectivity in which
minority identities are “uneasily digested” by dominant culture
(Cheng 10). ❧ I reclaim an alternate strain of melancholy, the
“Galenic” variety, which moves beyond the logic of cannibalism and
consumption that has otherwise occupied modernism by instead
representing objects and others in terms of apartness,
concreteness, and agency. While Charles Baudelaire’s spleen fits
within the commonly‐received form of melancholy, and is developed
into a radical political praxis by Walter Benjamin, I uncover two
modern poets whose canonicity has in part been established and
maintained by interpreting their work through the dominant,
Ficinian theory, but who diverge from its logic. Reexamining Emily
Dickinson’s and William Butler Yeats’s poetic melancholy, I
reformulate a poetics and politics based on that divergence. Yeats
employs Galenic melancholy in developing his “Irish idealism” as a
counterpoint to “English materialism.” Dickinson similarly turns
away from the solace of substitution and false lure of the
“representative American” to inaugurate a new identity during Civil
War. ❧ A critical reassessment of the melancholic tradition is
timely and necessary; theories derived from psychoanalysis and the
Ficinian tradition more generally continue to be reprised in
literary criticism (theories of the Romantic symbol, elegy),
identity politics (Butler, Cheng) and in the theorization of
relationships with others, objects, and landscapes (Brown, Khanna,
Muñoz, Gilroy). The ability to read outside psychoanalysis, and the
Ficinian tradition with which Freud’s work bears striking affinity,
is necessary to the development of an open relationship to alterity
within critical literary and social theory. This study is meant as
a first step in this direction.
Advisors/Committee Members: Meeker, Natania (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Kamuf, Peggy (Committee Member), Rowe, John Carlos (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: melancholy; modernism; psychoanalysis; Charles Baudelaire; Emily Dickinson; William Butler Yeats; Walter Benjamin
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Traester, M. (2014). Mourning melancholia: modernist poetics and the refusal of
solace. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/375255/rec/4245
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Traester, Mary. “Mourning melancholia: modernist poetics and the refusal of
solace.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/375255/rec/4245.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Traester, Mary. “Mourning melancholia: modernist poetics and the refusal of
solace.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Traester M. Mourning melancholia: modernist poetics and the refusal of
solace. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/375255/rec/4245.
Council of Science Editors:
Traester M. Mourning melancholia: modernist poetics and the refusal of
solace. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/375255/rec/4245
University of Southern California
17.
Shrestha, Sriya.
Profiting from disparity: marketing to the poor across the
United States and South Asia.
Degree: PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, 2016, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/429253/rec/5266
► Market saturation and growth in inequality has created a crisis in consumer capitalism that has presented particular challenges to the personal care industry. In this…
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▼ Market saturation and growth in inequality has created
a crisis in consumer capitalism that has presented particular
challenges to the personal care industry. In this dissertation, I
look at how multinational corporations like Colgate‐Palmolive,
P&G, and Unilever seek to address these challenges by turning
to three low‐income markets: poor people in the United States;
middle‐class consumers in the global south; and very poor people in
developing countries also referred to as the
‘bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid.’ Analysis of documents from market research
and management consulting firms and field work in US Dollar Stores
and retail sites in Kathmandu, Nepal indicate that in low‐income
markets, multinational firms and retailers extend modern market
systems and consumer practices among marginalized consumers by
adapting to and standardizing local retail practices, personal
habits, and social norms. In the process, American ideologies of
upward mobility and personal responsibility that have disparaged
the poor are becoming globalized in the name of expanding consumer
choice. Thus, under neoliberal consumer capitalism, ‘choice’
becomes a disciplinary mechanism that justifies and ameliorates the
anxieties of growing economic disparity and
uncertainty.
Advisors/Committee Members: Seiter, Ellen (Committee Chair), Banet-Weiser, Sarah (Committee Member), Govil, Nitin (Committee Member), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: globalization; economic inequality; consumerism; marketing; retail; fast‐moving consumer goods (FMCGs); low‐income markets; emerging markets; global corporations
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Shrestha, S. (2016). Profiting from disparity: marketing to the poor across the
United States and South Asia. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/429253/rec/5266
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Shrestha, Sriya. “Profiting from disparity: marketing to the poor across the
United States and South Asia.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/429253/rec/5266.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Shrestha, Sriya. “Profiting from disparity: marketing to the poor across the
United States and South Asia.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Shrestha S. Profiting from disparity: marketing to the poor across the
United States and South Asia. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/429253/rec/5266.
Council of Science Editors:
Shrestha S. Profiting from disparity: marketing to the poor across the
United States and South Asia. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2016. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/429253/rec/5266
University of Southern California
18.
Snyder, Richard Boswell.
The biopoetic: toward a posthuman epic.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2014, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/475196/rec/6464
► This dissertation theorizes “the biopoetic,” a recasting of the epic genre in a post-generic age, by examining three American long poems, George Oppen’s “Of Being…
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▼ This dissertation theorizes “the biopoetic,” a
recasting of the epic genre in a post-generic age, by examining
three American long poems, George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous,”
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, and Alice Notley’s The Descent of
Alette. The biopoetic engages with biopolitical theory and
illuminates how these poems address key social and political issues
of the late modern and contemporary landscape. This dissertation
analyzes the representational techniques and thematic approaches of
the poems in question within the contexts of genre theory, social
theory, and political philosophy. Drawing upon theorists who trace
connections between literary forms and political systems, this
study begins with a consideration of the changes in generic
standards and expectations that arose with the emergence of
liberalism in modernity and led to the dominance of the lyric and
the novel as modernity’s preeminent forms. ❧ In contrast to these
forms, the epic is often held up as historical testimony of
holistic life cast aside with the ascendance of capitalism and
individual rights. The modern long poem, in turn, is sometimes
tasked with the impossible goal of reconstituting elements of the
“organic” premodern world. Whereas canonical long poems of high
modernism, such as The Cantos and The Waste Land, took up this task
directly, the poems analyzed in this study interrogate the notions
underlying it in ways that are best understood through the
biopolitical thought of Foucault and Agamben. Engaging issues such
as the (poorly) disciplined body, social holism and aggregation,
sovereign power, “state racism,” and the significance of speech to
conceptions of the human, these poems evince (bio)political
concerns in ways that would elude dominant conceptions of the
political, whether oriented around “engaged” literature or around
poststructuralist subversions of discursive and representational
norms. ❧ Issues of genre and its relations to conceptions of the
individual and his or her larger community are explored in the
first chapter, which focuses on the materialist theories of genre
put forward Fredric Jameson, Jacques Rancière, and Raymond
Williams. This chapter also contains extended analyses of the
“modern verse epic” and long poem, as formulated by Michael André
Bernstein and Charles Altieri, before concluding with an
examination of the implications of Lukács’ seminal notions of epic
totality and the “problematic individual” of the modern novel.
Chapter 2 expands the theoretical purview of this study to include
the biopolitical formulations of Foucault and Agamben, focusing on
the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of man as a “political animal”
relates to their respective approaches. ❧ Chapters 3 and 4 analyze
George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous” in the context of these
conceptions of genre and biopolitics, calling out the implications
of Oppen’s interrogations of “the meaning” of being numerous and
the difficulty of speech in the modern polis. In chapter 5, I turn
to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, which engages notions that are…
Advisors/Committee Members: Thalmann, William G. (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Norindr, Panivong (Committee Member), Irwin, Mark (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: American poetry; biopolitics; posthumanism; long poem; epic; genre
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Snyder, R. B. (2014). The biopoetic: toward a posthuman epic. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/475196/rec/6464
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Snyder, Richard Boswell. “The biopoetic: toward a posthuman epic.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/475196/rec/6464.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Snyder, Richard Boswell. “The biopoetic: toward a posthuman epic.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Snyder RB. The biopoetic: toward a posthuman epic. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/475196/rec/6464.
Council of Science Editors:
Snyder RB. The biopoetic: toward a posthuman epic. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/475196/rec/6464
University of Southern California
19.
Smith, Micaela Alicia.
Conditions of belonging: life, historical preservation and
tourism development in the making of Pelourinho-Maciel, Salvador da
Bahia, 1965-1985.
Degree: PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, 2012, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/88532/rec/1573
► Conditions of Belonging focuses on the development of Pelourinho-Maciel from 1965-1985. It argues that the making of Pelourinho-Maciel, and the particular rationale market development discourse…
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▼ Conditions of Belonging focuses on the development of
Pelourinho-Maciel from 1965-1985. It argues that the making of
Pelourinho-Maciel, and the particular rationale market development
discourse produced by the city, state, and international elite,
relied on the symbolic presence of the longtime residents in the
beginning just as much as it required their structured absence in
the end. ❧ Pelourinho-Maciel is the colonial center of the old city
of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and consists of the largest and most
important collection of baroque and rococo architecture in the
Americas. As the oldest Brazilian city, and one that for two
hundred and fourteen years was the seat of the Portuguese empire
(1549-1763), Pelourinho-Maciel is synonymous with times of colonial
splendor and the labor of enslaved Africans. The campaign to
restore Pelourinho-Maciel for tourism development began in earnest
during the late 1960s, as local urban developers and state managers
began the extensive process of petitioning the United Nations
Educational, Science, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to make
Pelourinho-Maciel an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Yet setting the
conditions and priorities for how Pelourinho-Maciel should be
restored was no easy task. While UNESCO recommendations mandated
that the original community benefit from tourism development, the
military regime (1964-1985) had radically different ideas of how
economic development should proceed. During the regime, absolute
security and development was enforced—meaning absence of conflict
and economic growth at any cost. Economic growth was maintained
through an orientation toward profit rather than welfare. As a
result, the highly censored press contested these recommendations
by describing UNESCO officials as foreigners intervening with no
sense of the local issues. The “local issues,” decried the critics,
were the increasing numbers of Black prostitutes and thieves living
within the abandoned colonial mansions. Yet as many sociological
surveys contested, prostitution was already in decline, based on a
policy of residents moving out “of their own accord”. ❧ Since the
1930s, Pelourinho-Maciel had become isolated and abandoned by the
local state as the elite continued to move out of the colonial
neighborhood in search of housing with more modern amenities. A
growing number of poor Afro-Brazilians took up residence as the
neighborhood proceeded to decline, subdividing the colonial
mansions into small partitioned rooms. Local residents worked in
the city center as well as in the nearby areas as shoemakers,
book-binders, laundry washers, street vendors, domestics,
laundresses, seamstresses, hair stylists (Espinheira 1971, 57).
Thirteen percent of the Maciel population had lived in the area for
more than twenty years and in the same building. 27.5% in the same
category had lived there for eight to twenty years (Espinheira
1988, 9). These numbers demonstrate the sense of permanency
residents felt living in their homes and of the duration of their
relationship as renters to their…
Advisors/Committee Members: Gilmore, Ruth Wilson (Committee Chair), Gomez-Barris, Macarena (Committee Member), Gómez-Barris, Macarena (Committee Member), Lloyd, David C. (Committee Member), Sanchez, George J. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Afro-Brazil; Pelourinho; Salvador da Bahia; history; 20th century; Latin American development; urban renewal; UNESCO world heritage preservation
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Smith, M. A. (2012). Conditions of belonging: life, historical preservation and
tourism development in the making of Pelourinho-Maciel, Salvador da
Bahia, 1965-1985. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/88532/rec/1573
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Smith, Micaela Alicia. “Conditions of belonging: life, historical preservation and
tourism development in the making of Pelourinho-Maciel, Salvador da
Bahia, 1965-1985.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/88532/rec/1573.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Smith, Micaela Alicia. “Conditions of belonging: life, historical preservation and
tourism development in the making of Pelourinho-Maciel, Salvador da
Bahia, 1965-1985.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Smith MA. Conditions of belonging: life, historical preservation and
tourism development in the making of Pelourinho-Maciel, Salvador da
Bahia, 1965-1985. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/88532/rec/1573.
Council of Science Editors:
Smith MA. Conditions of belonging: life, historical preservation and
tourism development in the making of Pelourinho-Maciel, Salvador da
Bahia, 1965-1985. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/88532/rec/1573
University of Southern California
20.
Grieman, Pamela.
Representing the unnarratable: “feminist terrorism” and the
problem of realism in the novel.
Degree: PhD, English, 2010, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/298257/rec/5545
► This project examines the portrayal of leftwing female and feminist “terrorists” in English-language realist novels, narrated from an insider perspective, within the social, political, and…
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▼ This project examines the portrayal of leftwing female
and feminist “terrorists” in English-language realist novels,
narrated from an insider perspective, within the social, political,
and historical contexts from which the novelists derived their
material. The texts under study depict the actions of fictional and
historical women who were active participants in the Provisional
Irish Republican Army, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Black
Liberation Army, the Weather Underground, and other groups that
advocated armed struggle against the nation-state and that espoused
an international socialist, anticolonial, anticapitalist, cultural
nationalist, and feminist ideological platform. Taking a
transdisciplinary approach, I draw from narratological, historical,
and feminist methodologies to analyze the ways in which such
insider realist novels are complicit to varying degrees with the
disciplining function of normative standards governing women’s
behavior.; The primary novels under study include Henry James’s
1886 Princess Casamassima, Morgan Llywelyn’s quintet of novels
about IRA violence, Marion Urch’s Dark Shadows, Susan Choi’s
American Woman, Jay Cantor’s Great Neck, and Leslie Marmon Silko’s
Almanac of the Dead. In using the term realism, I am following the
practice of recent theorists who define realism, or realisms, as an
evolving narrative mode which adapts to changing historical
realities. Deploying Todorov’s concept of verisimilitude and the
narratological tool of focalization, I show how the cultural taboo
against the representation of feminist violence results in the
fictional inscription of appropriately “feminine” maternal and
nurturing values onto the female protagonists, leading to a rupture
in the underlying structure of the realist form. I argue that
politically violent women who engage in what Walter Benamin calls
law-making violence are ultimately unnarratable within the formal
structure of the realist novel due in part to Hegelian associations
of women with familial piety.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lloyd, David (Committee Chair), Román, David (Committee Member), Accampo, Elinor (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: literary terrorism
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Grieman, P. (2010). Representing the unnarratable: “feminist terrorism” and the
problem of realism in the novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/298257/rec/5545
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Grieman, Pamela. “Representing the unnarratable: “feminist terrorism” and the
problem of realism in the novel.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/298257/rec/5545.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Grieman, Pamela. “Representing the unnarratable: “feminist terrorism” and the
problem of realism in the novel.” 2010. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Grieman P. Representing the unnarratable: “feminist terrorism” and the
problem of realism in the novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/298257/rec/5545.
Council of Science Editors:
Grieman P. Representing the unnarratable: “feminist terrorism” and the
problem of realism in the novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/298257/rec/5545
University of Southern California
21.
Tekdemir, Hande.
Collective melancholy: Istanbul at the crossroads of
history, space and memory.
Degree: PhD, English, 2008, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/123124/rec/1442
► This study draws on a historical perspective on the evolution of a certain form that I call the "Istanbul canon" in which the city has…
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▼ This study draws on a historical perspective on the
evolution of a certain form that I call the "Istanbul canon" in
which the city has always been associated with loss. Tracing the
genealogy of loss in the literary representations of Istanbul by
both western and local writers in the past and the present, I
explore how the various configurations of loss are related to the
local context and to the history of modernity at large. The city's
ambivalent history in this geography on the threshold, functions as
a means to understand loss, concealed in the various
spatio-temporal layers – East and West, colonizer and the
colonized, pre-modern and modern, – within the history of
modernity. My objective is to consider the cityscape as a template
upon which modernity is projected as a subjective and fleeting
experience, comprehended in both local and global terms, and
critiqued accordingly. I focus on the uncanny as a recurrent
characteristic of nineteenth-century travelogues, in which the
traveler is unsettled by unexpectedly encountering the familiar
within the unfamiliar terrain of Constantinople, while I consider
the nostalgic renditions of modern travelogues and western
detective fiction not only as reflections on the changes within the
western literary canon about the city, but also as reactions
against the modernizing world. Finally, the last chapter
illustrates melancholy as the dominant sentiment in the
contemporary Turkish literature on Istanbul; yet, it also displays
the convergence of melancholy with the uncanny and nostalgia in
Turkish writers' ambiguous relationship to the
modern.
Advisors/Committee Members: Russett, Margaret (Committee Chair), Lloyd, David (Committee Member), Norindr, Panivong (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: melancholy; Istanbul; Orhan Pamuk; travel literature; detective fiction
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Tekdemir, H. (2008). Collective melancholy: Istanbul at the crossroads of
history, space and memory. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/123124/rec/1442
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tekdemir, Hande. “Collective melancholy: Istanbul at the crossroads of
history, space and memory.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/123124/rec/1442.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tekdemir, Hande. “Collective melancholy: Istanbul at the crossroads of
history, space and memory.” 2008. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Tekdemir H. Collective melancholy: Istanbul at the crossroads of
history, space and memory. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2008. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/123124/rec/1442.
Council of Science Editors:
Tekdemir H. Collective melancholy: Istanbul at the crossroads of
history, space and memory. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2008. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/123124/rec/1442
University of Southern California
22.
Jauregui, Carolina Gabriela.
Contemporary GrotesQueries: the multifaceted Grotesque as an
aesthetic and political strategy of resistance 1968-2008.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2010, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/390478/rec/1618
A comparative analysis of the Grotesque as an
aesthetic and political strategy of resistance from 1968-2008 in
selected works by Severo Sarduy, Kathy Acker and Teresa
Margolles.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lippit, Akira Mizuta (Committee Chair), Diaz, Roberto Ignacio (Committee Member), Lloyd, David (Committee Member).Subjects/Keywords: comparative literature; grotesque; contemporary literature; American fiction; Latin American literature; Kathy Acker; Severo Sarduy; contemporary art; Mexican art; Teresa Margolles; Mexico
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Jauregui, C. G. (2010). Contemporary GrotesQueries: the multifaceted Grotesque as an
aesthetic and political strategy of resistance 1968-2008. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/390478/rec/1618
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jauregui, Carolina Gabriela. “Contemporary GrotesQueries: the multifaceted Grotesque as an
aesthetic and political strategy of resistance 1968-2008.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/390478/rec/1618.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jauregui, Carolina Gabriela. “Contemporary GrotesQueries: the multifaceted Grotesque as an
aesthetic and political strategy of resistance 1968-2008.” 2010. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Jauregui CG. Contemporary GrotesQueries: the multifaceted Grotesque as an
aesthetic and political strategy of resistance 1968-2008. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/390478/rec/1618.
Council of Science Editors:
Jauregui CG. Contemporary GrotesQueries: the multifaceted Grotesque as an
aesthetic and political strategy of resistance 1968-2008. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/390478/rec/1618
University of Southern California
23.
O'Neill, Peter Desmond.
Transatlantic Irish and the racial state.
Degree: PhD, English, 2010, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/441001/rec/7570
► Many decades after the narrator in the “Cyclops” chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses lamented the loss of “the winged speech of the sea-divided Gael,” scholars…
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▼ Many decades after the narrator in the “Cyclops”
chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses lamented the loss of “the winged
speech of the sea-divided Gael,” scholars have come to realize that
Irish travels on the Green Atlantic merit systematic study like
that given to the Black Atlantic. Yet it is only recently that any
Irish Studies scholars have considered the Atlantic world as a
framework that exceeds the usual binational approach to diaspora.
In American Ethnic Studies, Irish America receives little
consideration, except perhaps within the unstable category of
“whiteness studies.” My dissertation assumes a different stance. It
argues that comparison of the transnational experiences of the
Irish in two quite different racial states, Britain and America,
enriches comprehension of the racialization processes on both sides
of the Atlantic.; The Irish not only fitted into the US racial
state, I argue; they helped to form it. The claim that the Irish
“became white” over time in the United States, while justified with
regard to the shifting perceptions of race in US culture, does not
account for the legal position of the nineteenth-century US state,
which deemed the Irish “white” upon arrival. Till now, little heed
has been paid either to the state’s role in the Americanization of
the Irish or to the Irish role in the development of US state
institutions.; My dissertation contributes a significant rethinking
of racial formation in the United States, from a comparative and
transnational perspective through a synthesis of seldom-connected
theories and theorists. My Introduction explores Carl Schmitt’s
concepts “sovereign power” and “nomos,” along with Giorgio
Agamben’s concept of “bare life” in relation to the victims of the
Famine, to the nineteenth-century British colonial state.
Foucault’s concepts of biopower and governmentality in turn provoke
reconsideration of the classic works of Omi and Winant, and of
David Theo Goldberg, on the racial state. I undertake that task
through the work of Nicos Poulantzas, whose seminal concepts of the
methodologies of state formation are especially useful to describe
the complex struggle between the economic and the political in the
nineteenth-century evolution of the US state. Although none of
these thinkers ever squarely confronts race, racialization, or
colonialism, my synthesis and extension of their work furnish a
more nuanced location of the post-Famine Irish in racial formations
in the Atlantic world. Chapter 2 undertakes such a theoretical
synthesis through the writing of James Joyce.; The oft-remarked
rapidity with which the Irish Famine faded from historical and
popular memory is usually attributed to the emigration of so many
Famine victims and to the Famine’s role as an agent of the colonial
modernization of Ireland. Yet the hidden afterlife of the Famine
may be discerned in Ireland’s preeminent literary work, Ulysses.
Joyce’s concern with the biopolitical management of life and death
in what was then a British colony is readily apparent in “Hades”
and “Lestrygonians,” chapters…
Advisors/Committee Members: Lloyd, David (Committee Chair), Rowe, John Carlos (Committee Member), Norindr, Panivong (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Atlantic studies; Irish studies; racialization; state; transnational; transatlantic; American studies; racial state; state theory; Irish-American studies
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O'Neill, P. D. (2010). Transatlantic Irish and the racial state. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/441001/rec/7570
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
O'Neill, Peter Desmond. “Transatlantic Irish and the racial state.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/441001/rec/7570.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
O'Neill, Peter Desmond. “Transatlantic Irish and the racial state.” 2010. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
O'Neill PD. Transatlantic Irish and the racial state. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/441001/rec/7570.
Council of Science Editors:
O'Neill PD. Transatlantic Irish and the racial state. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/441001/rec/7570
University of Southern California
24.
Vu, Cam Nhung.
Regarding Vietnam: affects in Vietnamese and Vietnamese
diasporic literature and film.
Degree: PhD, American Studies & Ethnicity, 2010, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/401975/rec/5481
► The aftermath of the Vietnam War/American War (post-1975) not only resulted in the largest moment of Vietnamese bodily dispersal around the world, but also figured…
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▼ The aftermath of the Vietnam War/American War
(post-1975) not only resulted in the largest moment of Vietnamese
bodily dispersal around the world, but also figured a crisis in the
affective management of the newly minted unified Vietnamese nation,
simultaneously forcing exiled refugees to configure new relations
to nation and state, notions of the future, and their own selves as
bodies in a new world. My dissertation explores how the cultural
production of this era – from artists in the postwar Vietnamese
nation and diaspora – uses the grammar of affect to indict,
excoriate, impugn, lament, remember and reconcile the effects of
war.; Because of the profoundly specular nature of the Vietnam War,
images of loss, grief, and terror continue to circumscribe
representations of Vietnam and its postwar subjects in Western
cultural representation. Postwar subjects, construed as the
“Other,” then, are burdened with the responsibility to provide
closure to the unmitigated traumas of the Vietnam War. I argue that
the cultural production of Vietnam’s dispersed postwar subjects
continues to be looked to, by a global viewing and reading
audience, for signs of ‘reconciliation’ and ‘forgiveness’ so that
the history of Vietnamese turmoil can be made coherent and
therefore more amenable to market-friendly narratives.; In my
dissertation I examine how the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic
cultural producers under consideration turn to an economy of
affects to torque the narrative on forgiveness and healing as
particularly vexing and difficult postwar ethical imperatives. The
texts I examine include diasporic renderings of Vietnam’s epic
poem, The Tale of Kieu, by the diasporic variety show Paris by
Night and by the scholar and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh Ha, the
contemporary literature of Vietnamese Australian writer Nam Le and
Vietnamese American writer le thi diem thuy whose stories detail
the difficult reckoning of children to their fathers’ failures, two
films by two prominent postwar directors – Tran Anh Hung and Dang
Nhat Minh – in which vision and nostalgia act as concomitant and
paradoxical processes at work in remembering and honoring Vietnam,
and finally the popular-fiction of the Vietnamese-language writer
Nguyen Ngoc Ngan, a popular personality of the Vietnamese diaspora.
Through an analysis of select works in his corpus, I examine how
Nguyen Ngoc Ngan identifies sadness and sorrow as burdens of
Vietnamese postwar masculinity. His depictions call upon the
sympathies and empathies of available “affective communities” in
the diaspora but they do so in complex ways that acknowledge other
feelings and emotions that emerge for his readers as they consider
Vietnamese postwar men and manhood.; My dissertation follows the
traces of affect in postwar transnational and diasporic Vietnamese
cultural representation and shows that an attention to affects does
more than give a glimpse into internal subjectivity; such an
attention can offer Critical Studies complex and varied language to
assess how deeply it is that cultural texts are…
Advisors/Committee Members: Nguyen, Viet T. (Committee Chair), Iwamura, Jane Naomi (Committee Member), Lloyd, David (Committee Member), Norindr, Panivong (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Vietnamese diaspora; Asian American studies; film studies; comparative literature; affect; ethnic studies; cultural studies
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Vu, C. N. (2010). Regarding Vietnam: affects in Vietnamese and Vietnamese
diasporic literature and film. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/401975/rec/5481
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Vu, Cam Nhung. “Regarding Vietnam: affects in Vietnamese and Vietnamese
diasporic literature and film.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/401975/rec/5481.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Vu, Cam Nhung. “Regarding Vietnam: affects in Vietnamese and Vietnamese
diasporic literature and film.” 2010. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Vu CN. Regarding Vietnam: affects in Vietnamese and Vietnamese
diasporic literature and film. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/401975/rec/5481.
Council of Science Editors:
Vu CN. Regarding Vietnam: affects in Vietnamese and Vietnamese
diasporic literature and film. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/401975/rec/5481
University of Southern California
25.
Gaptov, Plamen Ivanov.
Slow folk at work! Literary appropriations of local
materials by Irish, Spanish and Bulgarian modernists Page 1.
Degree: PhD, English, 2009, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/15533/rec/5893
► Folklore plays a crucial role in the construction of modernist poetry. Especially in a conflict or post-conflict social context, literatures seeking to renew themselves often…
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▼ Folklore plays a crucial role in the construction of
modernist poetry. Especially in a conflict or post-conflict social
context, literatures seeking to renew themselves often turn for
inspiration to local traditions which they seek to appropriate.
When literary criticism studies the link between folklore and
literature, it usually does that from a thematic point of view,
laying the stress almost exclusively on themes and folkloric
motifs. Rarely is the sound of folklore emphasized as a formative
influence on modernist poetry. Lying somewhere among the fields of
linguistics, folkloristics, ethnomusicology, and literary studies,
the present project aims to trace very specifically and directly
the crucial influence of local traditions on four modernists.;
Chapter one (‘Dialectism’) examines the ways in which modernists
forge an “original” language using folk speech. I examine the
hybrid English of J. M. Synge via the prism of second language
acquisition, particularly the concept of inter-language. Chapter
two (‘Poetic Folklorism’) studies Yeats’s theories of performance,
particularly his theories regarding the speaking of poetry and
drama, and their indebtedness to folklore. I look at several
examples of the ‘more practical side’ of his work. The centerpiece
of the chapter is Yeats’s collaboration with Florence Farr in the
speaking of verse to musical notes. Chapter three (‘Vernacularism’)
mixes the football chant – a vernacular poetic genre as well as an
example of urban folklore – with Geo Milev’s poem ‘September’. It
is an audio-print experiment in sounding expressionist poetry. I
also examine García Lorca’s “flamenco” poetry, his aesthetic
theories and their debt to a vernacular vision. I have presented
excerpted audio examples as well as a modicum of original work in
the CD accompanying the dissertation.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lloyd, David (Committee Chair), Russett, Margaret (Committee Member), Rollo, David (Committee Member), Diaz, Roberto Ignacio (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: modernism; poetry; folklore; chant; flamenco; music
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Gaptov, P. I. (2009). Slow folk at work! Literary appropriations of local
materials by Irish, Spanish and Bulgarian modernists Page 1. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/15533/rec/5893
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gaptov, Plamen Ivanov. “Slow folk at work! Literary appropriations of local
materials by Irish, Spanish and Bulgarian modernists Page 1.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/15533/rec/5893.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gaptov, Plamen Ivanov. “Slow folk at work! Literary appropriations of local
materials by Irish, Spanish and Bulgarian modernists Page 1.” 2009. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Gaptov PI. Slow folk at work! Literary appropriations of local
materials by Irish, Spanish and Bulgarian modernists Page 1. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/15533/rec/5893.
Council of Science Editors:
Gaptov PI. Slow folk at work! Literary appropriations of local
materials by Irish, Spanish and Bulgarian modernists Page 1. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2009. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/15533/rec/5893
University of Southern California
26.
Cheng, Wendy Hsin.
Episodes in the life of a place: regional racial formation
in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley.
Degree: PhD, American Studies & Ethnicity, 2009, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/577754/rec/2416
► "Episodes in the Life of a Place" develops a theory of regional racial formation through examining the everyday experiences of residents of four cities in…
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▼ "Episodes in the Life of a Place" develops a theory of
regional racial formation through examining the everyday
experiences of residents of four cities in the West San Gabriel
Valley (SGV), an area which became known in the 1980s and 1990s as
a “suburban Chinatown,” but which is in fact a multiethnic,
majority-Asian American and Latina/o space. Drawing from episodic
case studies, cognitive maps, and in-depth interviews with diverse
Asian American and Latina/o residents, I examine how hierarchies of
race, ethnicity, and class are shaped by racialized relationships
to property, neighborhood-based social formations, and key
institutions of civil society such as high school and the Boy
Scouts of America. How have Asian American and Latinas/os’
movements into the West SGV been shaped by, and subsequently
productive of, differentially racialized relationships to property?
What kind of “world(s) of their own” (to paraphrase Matt Garcia)
have they made collectively, in what have become largely non-White,
suburban, middle-income neighborhoods? What affective and political
possibilities do such spaces allow or foreclose, which are distinct
from those articulated in majority-White settings? Finally, how are
ideological linkages between notions of race and space formative of
local civic landscapes? In my analysis, three important themes
emerge: the intertwined relationship of race, property,
homeownership, and privilege; the essential role of institutions of
civil society in reconciling regional epistemes and practices with
national ideologies; and the development of an emergent ‘non-White’
identity rooted in middle-class and suburban contexts. I find that
people’s experiences and everyday landscapes in the West SGV are
simultaneously saturated with dominant racial ideologies and their
attendant material outcomes, and rich with alternative narratives
of pasts, presents, and futures.; These contradictions and
possibilities illustrate the importance of considering
neighborhoods and regions as units of analysis in order to
understand processes of racial formation.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gilmore, Ruth Wilson (Committee Chair), Pulido, Laura (Committee Member), Nguyen, Viet Thanh (Committee Member), Lloyd, David (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Asian American; Latina/o; interethnic relations; southern California; Los Angeles; suburban; San Gabriel Valley; racial formation
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APA (6th Edition):
Cheng, W. H. (2009). Episodes in the life of a place: regional racial formation
in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/577754/rec/2416
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cheng, Wendy Hsin. “Episodes in the life of a place: regional racial formation
in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/577754/rec/2416.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cheng, Wendy Hsin. “Episodes in the life of a place: regional racial formation
in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley.” 2009. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Cheng WH. Episodes in the life of a place: regional racial formation
in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/577754/rec/2416.
Council of Science Editors:
Cheng WH. Episodes in the life of a place: regional racial formation
in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2009. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/577754/rec/2416
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