Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted Toward a Resuscitation of Postcolonial Theory: Reshaping Homi Bhabha's Colonial Discourse Within an Arabic Context(University of Sussex, 2024) Althobaiti, Hissah; Masterson, JohnThis thesis explores the colonial/postcolonial discourse articulated by Homi Bhabha, with a specific emphasis on the concept of mimicry as it is performed in Arabic contexts. Departing from the conventional method of applying theory to literary texts, I utilise fiction to both challenge and augment Bhabha’s notion of colonial mimicry within the Arab world in light of his totalising tendency to broaden the scope of his study (both spatially and temporally) without adequate consideration or contextualisation. To achieve this, four writers and texts are selected: Ali Bader’s The Tobacco Keeper (2008; trans. 2011), Yasmina Khadra’s What the Day Owes the Night (2008; trans. 2010), Sahar Khalifeh’s The End of Spring (2004; trans. 2008), and Sayed Kashua’s Dancing Arabs (2002; trans. 2004). These emerge from diverse geo-political locations such as Iraq, Algeria and Palestine, with distinctive histories of colonialism and its afterlives. I investigate the extent to which Bhabha’s conceptualisations of ‘transitive’ and ‘intransitive’ resistance materially translate into effective forms of opposition for the colonised. In this, I seek to expose, what I, along with other critics, see as Bhabha’s mythologisation of some excessively abstract concepts. I do so by foregrounding and analysing the concrete hurdles that confront the mimic men featured in my chosen novels as they are performing and/or existing in various interstitial positions/locations. The thesis proposes that these writers and their work demonstrate some inherent complexities and/or risks when it comes to applying Bhabha’s resistance tool/s. They encompass, but are not limited to, the emergence of degrees of mimicry ranging from resistance to complicity, the conditions of mimicry, the act of authorisation, the distinction between mimicry and camouflage, and self-hatred as an aftermath of mimicry. These are all core preoccupations of this study. This thesis identifies the performance of mimicry within Arabic contexts as ensnared by hindering factors that directly impede its efficacy. It asserts that this process commences with the imposition of prerequisites, progresses through stages of exclusion and estrangement, and ultimately concludes with experiences of rejection and self-revulsion.10 0Item Restricted Bush and Blair’s decision to invade Iraq(King's College London, 2023-12-01) Alqarni, Khalid; SefaNyarko, ClementThe decision made by Bush and Blair to invade Iraq was one of the most questionable decisions in the global foreign affairs in the last 50 years due to the lengthy war that occurred after the invasion which resulted in the insecurity that came in Iraq and the region. Such a major decision by two top leaders in the global foreign affairs needs to be studied based on leadership studies. Hence, this research will adapt the process-based leadership analytical framework in order to analyse the whole invasion starting from the history that led to the decision, and how both leaders emerged to make such a decision. This is to reach the main aim of this research which is to measure the effectiveness of Bush and Blair decision to go to war in Iraq. The analysis of the decision ended in showing how ineffective was both Bush and Blair decision on the U.S., UK and Iraq because it led to a deadly civil war, death of Americans and British soldiers, and large civilian death toll. furthermore, the decision led to long lasting consequences which impacted the following governments of Bush and Blair such as sectarian war in Iraq, economical effect on the U.S, UK, emerge of ISIS. The current studies of leadership did not take this major event to account as a situation, but rather it was examined based on the leaders themselves. Thus, this research adapted the process-based leadership approach because events in regards of conflict and peace needs to be studied through the situation not the leaders, because it will help to measure the effectiveness and detect any new emerging situation that needs a new leader to emerge. However, studying a case through the leader will end in judging the leader of being good or bad, and this is not helpful in reaching a solution if the process was ineffective.12 0