This dissertation examines the politics of representation in Salman Rushdie’s published works and social media feeds. As a literary celebrity and public intellectual with significant influence over the way in which western media frames discussions about the East, Rushdie’s modes of representation...
This dissertation relies on scholarship on Saudi Arabia, as well as feminist and postcolonial theory, to explore how representations of Saudi women are constructed and deployed in the political sphere in both Saudi Arabia and the United States. It argues that these representations form the basis...
This dissertation assesses the aesthetic, political, and ideological interventions in the critical nonfiction by British Modernist writers between the years of 1895 and 1940. This project contextualizes these artist-critics against major historical events in order to demonstrate that criticism...
There is nothing natural or permanent about the body and its sexuality. The "sexual" is constructed through a host of discourses including the legal, penal, medical, psychological and linguistic practices. Similarly, abuse has its own evolving history. I argue that the script of rape involves a...
My dissertation studies contemporary literary and cinematic narratives about violent conflicts that have affected ideas of Indian nationhood from 1988 to the present: Hindu-Muslim riots, the Kashmir and Maoist insurgencies, and terrorist violence in Indian metropolitan cities. Postcolonial...