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This research investigates the intersection of religion, self-identification, and imperialism in a number of Arab American literary works. It engages a wide array of, and contributes to, scholarship from American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Global Studies, and Transnational Literary Theory. The project examines two groups of writers: the first group consists of American cultural conservatives of Arab or Muslim descent, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, Bridgette Gabrielle, and Wafa Sultan, while the second includes Arab American literary writers Mohja Kahf, Leila Ahmed, Ibrahim Fawal, and Alia Yunis. The former employ the traditional autobiography genre to produce master narratives, while the latter utilize the memoir, novel, and short-story cycle genres to challenge hegemonies and master narratives. The cultural conservatives, I contend, belong to a growing transnational body of writers whose phenomenon constitutes an extension of what Matthew F. Jacobs calls an “informal network” of transnational self-identified specialists (4). In their autobiographies, Ali, Gabrielle, Darwish, and Sultan concentrate on the Middle East, Muslims, and Arabs, but they are unique in the sense that their policy-oriented personal narratives explicitly seek to influence not only American attitudes and practices aimed at Arabs and Muslims, but also those directed at American citizens of Arab or Muslim descent. Furthermore, their culturally-conservative traditional autobiographies Infidel (2007), Nomad (2010), Heretic (2015), Now They Call Me Infidel (2006), Because They Hate (2006), They Must Be Stopped (2008), and A God Who Hates (2009) deem American multiculturalism a serious danger to the United States and the West, a thesis not unlike Samuel P. Huntington’s in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996). In this research project, I claim that Arab American literary writers have had to face, and write against, the predominance of this old-new clash of civilizations idea which has evolved into a discourse promulgated by the self-identified experts of the “informal network” and the cultural conservatives of Arab or Muslim descent. The Arab American literary novels, memoirs, and short-story cycles my study closely examines trouble the clash of civilizations discourse. Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006), Ahmed’s A Border Passage (1999), Fawal’s On the Hills of God (1998), and Yunis’s The Night Counter (2009) are arguably representative of trends in, though not limited to, the contemporary Arab American memoir, novel, and short-story cycle genres and are best understood as literary writing within the context of this broader American tradition of interpreting the Middle East, Arabs, and Muslims and the specific cultural conservative fixation on Arab and Muslim Americans. / Graduate

This thesis focuses on the work of two contemporary authors, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson, and their treatment of the concepts of history and gender in their fiction. I argue that, by openly speculating about the nature of time and history, and by making their readers think about the origin of these notions, Smith and Winterson uncover the seemingly stable but, in actuality, very fragile roots of the 'truths' we take for granted. They explore the potentiality of the past, which, in turn opens up the present and the future. To support my argument, I turned to Hayden White and his theory of historiography and Paul Ricoeur's philosophy of time and history. The latter part of the thesis deals with gender, as well as biological sex and sexual orientation, and the way in which Smith and Winterson's texts put into practice Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity, and work towards the subversion of gender norms as well as the destabilisation of heteronormativity. Both parts of the thesis are closely connected; history serves to keep the laws that define gender, sex and sexuality intact, and, in turn, these laws are often adhered to solely by the virtue of their historicity. What is more, myth and language are equally exposed to be supporting these norms. The aim of this thesis is to...

Through a comparative literary study of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Olga Grjasnova’s Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt, this thesis concludes that although the migrant experience is heterogeneous and that integration is a difficult process that varies through the diversity of experiences, these experiences can be unified by the common way in which migrants learn to “belong” by connecting with voices of the past and present and by building and maintaining relationships that extend beyond the limits of place. In defending this argument, the thesis draws upon themes of Bakhtinian heteroglossia, nationalism and transnationalism, space, globalism, and migration. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015 / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:33:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leila Cristina Mendes.pdf: 316500 bytes, checksum: 2668a8322e7c018814ac9bf6eab83be6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-22 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This thesis is included in the Portuguese Language s History and Description of the Postgraduate Studies Program at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Its object of study are the figures of speech presented in the Gramática Secundária da Língua Portuguesa (Portuguese Language Secondary Grammar) written by Manuel Said Ali and Moderna Gramática Portuguesa (Modern Grammar Portuguese) of Evanildo Bechara. This research main purpose is to describe and analyze how the books Gramática Secundária and Moderna Gramática Portuguesa discuss figures of speech. Since we are based in the line of thought of the History of Linguistic Ideas, this research considers the historical, political, social, economic, cultural and educational aspects of the context in which these grammars were built. The methodological procedure used/followed was the theoretical descriptive and analytical study whose stages were effective in finding answers to our goals. The relevance of this research is that both authors have produced grammars which have been reference in researching and teaching Portuguese Language.The results indicated that the authors, each within its historical moment, have known to produce rich, completes and accessible grammars in order to facilitate access to effective and practical knowledge of Portuguese language, clearly showing the importance of figures of speech in the linguistic construction. Notwithstanding, we conclude that this research may be continued, since we have studied only one book of each author and they still offer a rich production to be analyzed / Esta dissertação situa-se na linha de pesquisa História e Descrição da Língua Portuguesa do Programa de Estudos Pós Graduados em Língua Portuguesa da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Tem por objeto de estudo as figuras de linguagem presentes na Gramática Secundária da Língua Portuguesa de Manuel Said Ali e na Moderna Gramática Portuguesa de Evanildo Bechara. O objetivo principal que norteia esta pesquisa é descrever e analisar como as obras Gramática Secundária de Said Ali e a Moderna Gramática Portuguesa de Bechara abordam as figuras de linguagem. Por estar alicerçada nos pressupostos teóricos da História das Ideias Linguísticas, esta investigação considera os aspectos histórico, político, social, econômico, cultural e educacional em que as gramáticas foram construídas. O procedimento metodológico utilizado foi o teórico-descritivoanalítico, cujos passos foram eficazes no direcionamento da busca por respostas aos objetivos apresentados. A relevância desta pesquisa é justificada pelo fato de ambos os autores terem produzido gramáticas que serviram e servem, ainda hoje, como referência no ensino e pesquisa de língua portuguesa.Os resultados obtidos indicaram que os autores, cada um dentro do seu momento histórico, souberam produzir compêndios ricos, completos e acessíveis no intuito de facilitar o acesso ao conhecimento da língua portuguesa de forma prática e eficaz, mostrando claramente a importância das figuras de linguagem na construção linguística. Não obstante, podemos afirmar que esta pesquisa precisa ter continuidade, visto que foram estudadas apenas uma obra de cada autor, sendo que os mesmos oferecem uma vasta produção a ser analisada

Les résultats acquis au cours de ce travail à propos (i) des basaltes récents du Golfe de Tadjoura et (ii) les séries synrift initiales des domaines Ali Sabieh et Danakil apportent de nouvelles contraintes sur, repectivement, la cinématique récente du Rift Tadjoura et celle, plus ancienne, des zones marginales de la dépression Afar. Mais, ils apportent aussi des éléments permettant de discuter, à une échelle plus vaste, certains aspects de la dynamique du rift Afar, sensu lato.<br />- L'étude structurale des basaltes récents (2.8-1.1 Ma) des marges du Golfe de Tadjoura nous conduit à interpréter la structure générale du rift Tadjoura en termes d'hémi-graben, à vergence sud, développé au-dessus de traps antérieurs, et accommodant une extension estimée à 25-30%. L'âge décroissant des structures vers la partie axiale, immergée, du dispositif reflète la concentration progressive des déformations au cours du temps. L'analyse géométrique et statistique des populations de failles exposées le long des deux flancs de l'hémi-graben met en évidence, au niveau du système extensif méridional, un gradient croissant de déformation vers l'W, en direction de la zone transverse d'Arta. Ce dispositif est attribué au blocage frontal de la propagation des structures axiales du Golfe contre une discontinuité mécanique pré-existante. Dans le modèle cinématique proposé, le transfert de l'extension depuis le rift Tadjoura vers la zone du Ghoubbet s'effectue, non pas par l'intermédiaire de structures en échelon, mais par un saut de rift (en sénestre) de part et d'autre de cette discontinuité sub-méridienne à polarité ‘Mer Rouge'.<br />- L'étude structurale et géochimique/géochronologique des séries volcaniques d'Ali Sabieh et de leur substratum mésozoïque démontre les faits suivants :<br /> . Les ensembles volcaniques initiaux se mettent en place entre 26-19 Ma (complexe intrusif-effusif d'Ali Sabieh), cad. environ 6 Ma après les traps éthiopiens et yemenites qui n'ont donc pas d'équivalents dans ce secteur intermédiaire. <br /> . La partie intrusive du complexe magmatique est interprétée en termes de laccolithe dont la mise en place provoque la structuration antiformale de la couverture mésozoïque, puis son démantelement partiel, sous forme d'enclaves, lors d'un processus de ‘block stoping'.<br /> . L'antiforme d'Ali Sabieh implique jusqu'aux séries acides Mablas (15-11 Ma) et il est scéllé, sur ses flancs, par les basaltes Somali (7.2-3.0 Ma) et du Dalha (8.6-3.8 Ma). <br />- Un tout autre mécanisme est proposé pour l'édification des reliefs Danakil qui résultent de mouvements verticaux beaucoup plus jeunes, postérieurs (ou synchrones) des Basaltes Stratoïdes, et d'origine probablement tectonique, en liaison avec le rifting Tadjoura et/ou Asal.<br />- Ces résultats ont aussi des implications sur la dynamique de l'ensemble du dispositif Afar, et de nouvelles hypothèses sont proposées au sujet (i) du sens de propagation des axes de rift récents-actifs recoupant la dépression Afar et de leur appartenance aux systèmes Golfe d'Aden ou Mer Rouge, (ii) de la distribution spatiale du magmatisme initial (à 30 Ma), de type trap, au niveau de deux sous-provinces, séparées par un domaine amagmatique, et (iii) de l'évolution du domaine Danakil et de la nature de sa limite orientale avec la Mer Rouge, considérée comme une discontinuité héritée de premier ordre, de part et d'autre de laquelle les mécanismes de l'extension sont dominés par des processus, soit magmatiques (W), soit tectoniques (E).

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<p>The present study has a twofold purpose: Firstly, it is an analysis of the Karbalā´ Drama—i.e. the death of Ḥusayn b. `Alī in the hands of an army which had been sent out by the Umayyad authorities, at Karbalā´ in 60/680—as it is retold by the Muslim jurist and historiographer Abū Ja`far Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923). Despite its importance, especially to Shī`ite Islam, this text as such has received relatively little attention among scholars of Islam. In this study, the Karbalā´ Drama is regarded as a myth and the method used to analyze it is inspired by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Straussian structuralism has probably never before been applied to early Arabic material to the extent that it is used here. The second purpose of the study, then, is to investigate to what extent and in what mode such a method is applicable to this material.</p><p>A portion of the text, called the “Text of Reference,” has been selected and thoroughly analyzed. In that analysis, a number of structural features such as codes, oppositions, mediations, and transformations have been identified and made the basis for a more cursory study of the rest of the story. An important structural feature that is detected in this way is the way the argument of the story is forwarded. By the transformation of metaphors into metonyms, the story attempts to make arbitrary relationships look natural and intrinsic. Such a relationship is that between water and blood—two liquids which are at times shed, at times withheld in the story. Husayn takes a mediating position in that he <i>gives</i> his water and his blood. He acts as mediator both in a negative sense (he establishes the basic Islamic opposition of good and evil), and in a positive sense (as religious guide he acts as a bridge between them).</p>

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The present study has a twofold purpose: Firstly, it is an analysis of the Karbalā´ Drama—i.e. the death of Ḥusayn b. `Alī in the hands of an army which had been sent out by the Umayyad authorities, at Karbalā´ in 60/680—as it is retold by the Muslim jurist and historiographer Abū Ja`far Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923). Despite its importance, especially to Shī`ite Islam, this text as such has received relatively little attention among scholars of Islam. In this study, the Karbalā´ Drama is regarded as a myth and the method used to analyze it is inspired by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Straussian structuralism has probably never before been applied to early Arabic material to the extent that it is used here. The second purpose of the study, then, is to investigate to what extent and in what mode such a method is applicable to this material. A portion of the text, called the “Text of Reference,” has been selected and thoroughly analyzed. In that analysis, a number of structural features such as codes, oppositions, mediations, and transformations have been identified and made the basis for a more cursory study of the rest of the story. An important structural feature that is detected in this way is the way the argument of the story is forwarded. By the transformation of metaphors into metonyms, the story attempts to make arbitrary relationships look natural and intrinsic. Such a relationship is that between water and blood—two liquids which are at times shed, at times withheld in the story. Husayn takes a mediating position in that he gives his water and his blood. He acts as mediator both in a negative sense (he establishes the basic Islamic opposition of good and evil), and in a positive sense (as religious guide he acts as a bridge between them).