This thesis focuses on the patterns of racial formation, and epistemological points of entry that are salient to the mulatta experience in the United States, through the use of life writings. The results gleaned from this research are utilized to problematize revived political and social assertions of a post-feminist, post-racist United States.

The thesis examines the phenomenon of the positive philosophy of exile in contemporary literature on the basis of Stefan Themerson's fiction. Themerson's positive attitude to exile and its antecedents--the Stoic ideal of "cosmopolis" and its eighteenth-century transformations--are compared to the views on expatriation expressed by another exiled writer, Witold Gombrowicz, to the moral philosophy of Bertrand Russell, and to the ideology of the twentieth-century avant-garde. / Within emigre literature the works marked by the positive philosophy of exile are treated as a separate form to be distinguished from the works in which exile is only a theme. The positive philosopher of exile bases his optimism on scepticism and the recognition of the arbitrariness of human values. The thesis claims that, although far from being universally true and free from weaknesses, the positive philosophy of exile has a genuine claim to validity as an attempt to contribute to the process of bridging cultural differences without compromising cultural diversity.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in English. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-320). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR11602

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007. / Title from title page screen, viewed on March 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Susan M. Kim (chair), Susan M. Burt, K. Aaron Smith, Thomas Klein. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 318-326) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. American Studies Program, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Mar. 31, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Oregon, 2008. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-107). Also available online.

Thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 212-223).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, August, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-160)

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Augsburg, 2000. / Jewish aspects are treated secondarily. Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-450).