Outputs (2)

Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging (2023)
Thesis
Kubin, K. Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Inspired by the South African novelist and theorist, Zoë Wicomb, this doctoral thesis is based in the nexus of affect theory and post/de-colonial theory. My research was prompted by Wicomb’s observation in her seminal essay, “Shame and Identity,” tha... Read More about Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging.

Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study (2022)
Thesis
al-Baroud, D. S. Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis tackles the controversial concept of dialogue with the Divine in Sufi literature and its use as an indirect vehicle to transmit a mystically camouflaged social message. The in-depth study offers a modern theoretical framework that examine... Read More about Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study.