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Description:: This dissertation investigates the relationship between melancholy and the development of American and Iranian literary discourses as responses to the crisis of postwar sovereignty. While situating itself against the complicated backdrop of US/Iran relations since the Second World War, it explores the impact of religion on the formation of political...
Keyword:: melancholy, paranoia, guilt, narration, Sovereignty, and politics
Subject:: Literature, Psychology, and Political science
Creator:: Mohammadi, Marjan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_731789 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15044

Description:: International media immediately lambasted plans to build a Louvre and a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the whimsy of wealthy sheikhs using oil money to “buy culture.” The museums are part of a $27b development project called Saadiyat Island. While Saadiyat is spectacular, dismissing it...
Keyword:: critique, art, culture, museums, and politics
Subject:: Art history, Middle Eastern studies, and Cultural anthropology
Creator:: Derderian, Elizabeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14736 and etdadmin_upload_674378

Description:: This dissertation explores the role and relation of capitalism in contemporary political life, with the aim to reveal the inherent oppression of what I refer to as capitalist culture. To this end, the project follows three main objectives: (1) to identify the widespread and pervasive nature of capitalist culture (2)...
Keyword:: feminist, culture, oppression, social, politics, and capitalism
Subject:: Philosophy, Gender studies, and Political science
Creator:: LoTempio, Christina Frances
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_673759 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14733

Description:: This study in media anthropology uses participant observation, interviews, questionnaires, and recorded broadcasts to analyze how people use FM radio technology in the Koutiala area of southeast Mali, and particularly how they use FM radio to produce locality by relating audience members to one another, to the dominant national culture,...
Keyword:: technology, cultural representation, Media anthropology, Africa, politics, and language ideology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Craig Tower
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/19/2018
Date Modified:: 09/19/2018
Date Created:: 2008-06-02
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation casts an aesthetic light on a selection of polyphonic novels from the Francophone contemporary canon. From the forms of feminism around the prophet of islam in Far from Madina by Assia Djebar, to the multiple voices of Créolité in Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau, to the forms of...
Keyword:: francophone, postcolonial, narrative, feminism, politics, and islam
Subject:: French and Italian
Creator:: Emilie Marie-Louise Cappella
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/13/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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