Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-177).

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My dissertation studies gender and politics in printed imagetexts in colonial Bengal. It covers the period from the publication of the Bengali Punch Magazine, Basantak, in 1874 to the circulation of anti-imperial newspaper gags during WWII. At the core of this project are colonial illustrated periodicals—the quintessential mediums of colonial modernity and pedagogy, and the bearer of anticolonial imagetexts. The dissertation analyzes printed imagetexts like comics, cartoons, caricatures, newspaper gags, posters, and advertisements in periodicals and their effects on anti-imperial thought and the politicization of colonial popular culture. Imagetexts are synthetic mediums where ‘image’ and ‘text’ compositely create meaning. I argue that the printed imagetexts understood nationalist politics and gender through the stereotypes of English-educated babu, native politician, and the urban clerk. Imagetextual satire, for anticolonial and nationalist politics, framed these three stereotypes as both the oppressor and the oppressed in relationship to which other genders were conceived in colonial Bengal. These imagetextual stereotypes provided the bases for imagining the self and the other and a set of sensibilities, practices, and modes of sociability that defined late colonial South Asia. The circulation, co-existence, and deployment of these satirical discursive models for decolonial projects in English and vernacular illustrated periodicals stemmed from the nineteenth-century phenomenon of print erotophobia—the national and imperial fear of Indian erotic literature. I examine the imagetextual satire born in the wake of this print erotophobia at the intersections of class, gender, and nationalist politics. This cultural history of imagetexts also draws attention to the fictional properties of the colonial archival documents, which served as mediums of political exclusion and representation, history-recording, storytelling, and articulating nationalist sentiments.

Thesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))—University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between eroticism, violence and death as it occurs in Jeanne Goosen's short story collection, ' n Gelyke kans. The research is based upon the hypothesis that these stories express in a particular manner the transgressive role of eroticism in breaking through social conventions and barriers. As a possible framework for discussion reference is made in the first place to George Bataille's theories on the subversive nature of eroticism, Julia Kristeva's semiotic and pre-Oedipal theories, and Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque. Subsequently a reading strategy was designed by means of an in-depth analysis of ten stories from the collection in accordance with general formalistic principles. The conclusion is reached that Goosen with non-judgmental sympathy exposes man's inborn, continuous search for the illusion of perfect happiness. This state of bliss is sometimes achieved by the violent "incorporation" of the beloved/desired “other", and the final outcome is a concomitant and inevitable decline into an unwholesome, destructive, and fatal erotic power play.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Vanderbilt University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-229). Also issued online.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Comparative Literature)--Vanderbilt University, May 2006. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-26T13:44:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 690202 bytes, checksum: 4a9f3d909d0c6ce999b3675b584ea6ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this paper we studied the relationship between literature and the sacred, analyzing its interlocution in Poemas malditos, gozosos e devotos (1984) and Sobre a tua grande face (1986) by Hilda Hilst, trying to observe how the humanization of the divine process is in the mentioned works. We also analyze the approaching between the lyrical and the divine being, as well as the importance of eroticism for the construction of a religious metaphysical image. The contents of the corpus are composed by eight hilstian poems, four poems of each work, and one of the results suggests that the humanization of the divine is done mainly through the word and human attributes bestowed upon God. In Poemas malditos, gozosos e devotos (1984) the sacred appears in many ways, through apostrophes to God, for example, but mainly through the revelation of the divine being as a sacred entity, sovereign on humans. The theoretical approach is based on the studies developed by Mircea Eliade (2010), Suzi Frankl Sperber (2011) and Rudolf Otto (2007) concerning the Sacred; studies related to spirituality by José Carlos Barcellos (2001) and Hilstian lyrical studies by Alcir Pécora (2005, 2010) and Nelly Novaes Coelho (1993). / No presente trabalho, estudamos as relações entre a literatura e o sagrado, analisando esta interlocução em Poemas malditos, gozosos e devotos (1984) e Sobre a tua grande face (1986), de Hilda Hilst, e verificando como se dá o processo de humanização do divino nas obras em questão. Analisamos também as formas de aproximação do eu lírico para com o ser divino, bem como a importância do erotismo para a construção de uma imagem metafísico-religiosa. Como corpus, analisamos oito poemas hilstianos sendo quatro de cada obra e como resultado, constatamos que a humanização do divino se faz, sobretudo, através da palavra e da caracterização humana conferida a Deus. Em Poemas malditos, gozosos e devotos (1984), o sagrado aparece, dentre outras formas, através de apóstrofes a Deus, mas se mostra, principalmente, pela revelação do ser divino enquanto uma entidade sagrada, soberana aos seres humanos. Para a realização desta pesquisa, utilizamos como aparato teórico as teorias de Mircea Eliade (2010), Suzi Frankl Sperber (2011) e Rudolf Otto (2007) acerca do sagrado; a teorização de José Carlos Barcellos (2001) sobre a espiritualidade e os estudos de Alcir Pécora (2005, 2010) e Nelly Novaes Coelho (1993) acerca da lírica hilstiana.