Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "identity"
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Identity and Security: Identity Distance Theory and Regional Affairs in Northeast and Southeast Asia
(2013-01-02)The dissertation explores the relationship between identity and international security, and tests the effect of the former on the latter by analyzing a set of puzzling phenomena in East Asia—the emergence of mutual threat ... -
Motherhood on the Outside: Reintegration and Moral Meaning Making among Ex-Offender Mothers
(2013-09-30)This dissertation examines how formerly incarcerated mothers manage the moral ambiguity associated with their ex-offender identity. In studying this group I address how the event of motherhood shapes how women frame their ... -
Personalizing Tradition: Surinamese Maroon Music and Dance in Contemporary Urban Practice
(2013-02-25)Through comparing the repertoires, presentational characteristics, and rehearsal procedures of Surinamese Maroon culture-based performance groups within Paramaribo, I outline the concept of personalizing tradition. This ... -
Reading Over the Referent in Duras, Djebar, and Louis: Autofiction, Universalism, and Excentric Reading
(2023-09-06)This dissertation explores the construction of identity in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first century autofictions of Marguerite Duras, Assia Djebar, and Édouard Louis—that is, novels in which the central character ...