Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE: IDENTITY STRUGGLE FOR CARIBBEAN DIASPORIC SUBJECTS IN AMERICAN RACIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS(Old Dominion University, 2024-08) Almutairi, Samirah Munahi; Phillips, Delores; Mourao, ManuelaThis study includes six contemporary literary texts (novels and short stories) that offer exemplary representations of identification process of the Caribbean diaspora situated within American context. The texts included in this study are: Disposable People by Ezekel Alan (2012), Now Lila Knows by Elizabeth Nunez (2022), Brother, I’M Dying by Edwidge Danticat (2007), “Cheap, Fast, Filling” in Ayiti by Roxane Gay (2011), Dominicana by Angie Cruz (2019), and “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands” in How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs (2018). By studying representations of identity formation throughout the Caribbean-American literature, a postcolonial analysis integrated with cultural studies such as critical race theory, decolonial approach, and diaspora studies leads to a discovery of differences in identity processes for Caribbean subjects in America based on personal and temporal experiences. Identity formation for Caribbean subjects show a level of struggle that is informed by alienation, critical emotions such as hate, fear, melancholic self, confusion over racial identity, liminality, lack of empowerment, hybridization, race-consciousness, and double subordination. Through contemporary narratives – many considered realist in style– the authors offer representations of individuals taking on the process of identity negotiation while inscribing the characters of the expatriates, migrants, and immigrants as confused, weak, alienated, and passive. Through the act of literary production, Caribbean diasporic identity illustrates the potential values of literary studies in developing critical awareness for the United States and hemispheric racial politics. Literature that deals with the identity struggle in America about diaspora is an important component to cultural studies, research about immigration, and race theory.13 0Item Restricted The figure of Home: Exilic Optics and Archival Intervention(University College London, 2024-03-10) Kutbi, Luluh; Pinney, ChristopherThis thesis focuses on how archiving has been assumed as a practice and responsibly in the SWANA region, as a process that enables the possibility of cross-cultural encounters and the emergence of an "exilic" optics. Focusing on how these audio- visual archival remediations are presented, shared and "encountered" by a recipient, this thesis focused on the practice of recycling, and reusing archival resources to discuss how representation is understood, highlighting, in ethnographic fashion; how archival works tend to discuss and deal with the language of representation by highlighting the role of archival documents in shaping cultural identity politics in the region. This field of social participation can have a number of positive impacts on the way visual legacies and heritage is understood in Arab countries and their communities both from the homeland and abroad. While the geographical spaces covered in this thesis vary, it draws on the experience of the Lebanese cultural diaspora to discuss the overlapping, diverse, and over signified reality of cultural identity politics in the SWANA region, as mediated through and from Western art- systems. In this sense, Lebanon acts as the interlocutor from which broader cultural, regional and political issues can be raised.35 0Item Restricted Arab Diaspora Poems' Journey from Nostalgia to Nature Immersion and Belonging to a Wider World(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-11-23) Falqi, Atheer; Davies, SteffanThis dissertation discusses how nostalgia transforms and evolves in the poems of the Arab diaspora in the United States. It explores how nostalgia leads to the formation of the two main features of these poems: immersion in nature and the search for the self and truth. While these three main themes of Arab diaspora literature: Nostalgia, Nature, and the Philosophical approach, have been studied, they usually discussed in isolation rather than in connection with each other. This dissertation attempts to study how these three interconnect to influence one another. It is divided into three chapters, chapter one identifies the role of nostalgia in making the poet use writing as a way of returning to the homeland. Chapter two sheds light on the Eco-poetics implications of using nature to escape from the materialism of the city and to immerse in nature for a better understanding of oneself in connection to the universe. Chapter three observes how the poets developed a new sense of self-identity, that elevated them from being cultural mediators between the East and the West to belong to a broader and more hybrid unearthly realm, which is not a complete Orient or Occident. Throughout the dissertation, the discussion is supported by looking at selective poems and writings of Ameen Rihani, Gibran Khalil Gibran, and Ilya Abu Madi. This study reflects on how nostalgia is a trans-formative feeling that encourages nature immersion for a better understanding of oneself and surrounding. And finally how nostalgia can develop into a dream of a better world, where everyone around the world can live in harmony with nature.14 0