Browsing by Subject "Comparative literature"
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A Meta-Physics of Sexual Difference: The Quantum Gravity Matrix and Embryogenesis of Our Universe
(2021)This dissertation makes a case that sexual difference, to date, has been a deeply misconceptualized philosophical concept. Too often reduced to only one expression of itself—the difference between the sexes—critiques of ... -
Between Boys: Fantasy of Male Homosexuality in Boys’ Love, Mary Renault, and Marguerite Yourcenar
(2018)“Between Boys: Fantasy of Male Homosexuality in Boys’ Love, Mary Renault, and Marguerite Yourcenar” examines an unexpected kinship between Boys’ Love, a Japanese male-on-male romance genre, and literary works by Mary Renault ... -
Child's Play: Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Clinic
(2017)In 1925, Sigmund Freud wrote a short preface for August Aichhorn’s forthcoming book, Wayward Youth. There, Freud hailed ‘the child’ as the future of psychoanalysis, declaring that “[o]f all the fields in which psychoanalysis ... -
“Chinese Whispers”? The “China” that Disappears from Lossy Communications
(2021)In 1949, Bell Lab mathematician Claude Shannon modeled telephone communication by assigning statistic regularity to the rather irregular usage of human language. His lab mate Warren Weaver took a step further, putting the ... -
Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
(2012)This dissertation focuses on a group of 20th and 21st century novelists writing in English - Samuel Beckett, J.M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro - whose fiction is populated by figures of disconsolation: characters who resist, ... -
Doktor Zhivago's Cold War
(2021)My dissertation project, Doktor Zhivago’s Cold War, follows the global travels of Boris Pasternak’s novel as it becomes a key text in the propaganda politics of the 1950s. The story I tell contributes to scholarly understandings ... -
Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
(2018)Dreaming Woman decenters Europeanist histories of psychoanalysis by examining the ways in which forced migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. ... -
Fugitive Time: Black Culture and Utopian Desire
(2018)This project examines how African diasporic writers and filmmakers from Zimbabwe, Martinique, Britain, and the United States inscribe into their works a sense of anticipation of release from subjection, as if to experience ... -
Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
(2012)<italic>Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics</italic> confronts islands -at once as a problem, a concept, and a historical and mythical fact and product- by generating a tidalectical encounter between some of the ways ... -
Killing Me Softly in a Metropolis: Tales of Murder and Murderous Passion in Republican Shanghai (1911-1937)
(2021)The relationship between metropolitan cities around the world and tales of murder has encompassed the complicated nature of modern life, and such is also the case of Shanghai in the Republican era. The prosperity of the ... -
Living in Other Places: Genre and Globalization in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel
(2022)This dissertation reframes current debates over the role national culture and international connection plays in contemporary anglophone fiction in the formalist terms of genre studies. The processes and consequences ... -
Posthumous Persona(r)e: Machado de Assis, Black Writing, and the African Diaspora Literary Apparatus
(2018)Posthumous Persona(r)e: Machado de Assis, Black Writing, and the African Diaspora Literary Apparatus analyzes the life writings of Machado de Assis (1839-1908) in light of the conditions of his critical reception and translation ... -
The Ends of the World-System: Resource Scarcity and Population Panics from Chesney to London
(2022)This dissertation seeks to understand the conditions of hegemonic transfer, in the case of world-historical cycles of accumulation, through investigating the cultural production of the period. I examine turn of the century ... -
The Minted-City: Money, Value, and Crises of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (1822-1903)
(2020)This dissertation analyzes how Colombian criollos – people of real or imagined European origins – dealt with the problem of representing value as part of their efforts to build a “civilized” nation during the nineteenth ... -
Whosoever Doubts My Power: Conjuring Feminism in the Interwar Black Diaspora
(2017)This dissertation uses the revolutionary potential of Caribbean religion to theorize black feminism between the two World Wars. It argues that women artists and performers across the diaspora produced ethnographic and creative ...
