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Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006 (2024)
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Boonhok, S. Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the reinvention of Thainess (khwam pen Thai) or national Thai identity in Thai literature after 2006, the year of the coup which overthrew Thaksin Shinawatra and led to decades-long political and ideological clashes. At the same... Read More about Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006.

Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers (2023)
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Zhan, F. Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the representations of women’s pains, subjectivities and motherdaughter relationships in fictional writing published between 1980 and 2020 by Chinese women writers. More specifically, this project addresses three issues prominent... Read More about Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers.

Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging (2023)
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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.

Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond (2023)
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Topoonyanont, W. S. Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the interrelationships between humans and Nature1 as represented in the Thai folk oralities - from folk lullabies to rural belief systems. This includes a consideration of the portrayals of the archaic female guardian spirit (Mae... Read More about Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond.

The Fantastic World of the Bengali Roopkatha: Unpacking Gender, Generation and Genre (2023)
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Adhya, R. The Fantastic World of the Bengali Roopkatha: Unpacking Gender, Generation and Genre. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores a Bengali literary genre called the roopkatha, which has commonly been seen as a counterpart to English 'fairy tales' It traces its crystallisation from the oral tradition to becoming both anti-colonial, or 'Swadeshi', literature... Read More about The Fantastic World of the Bengali Roopkatha: Unpacking Gender, Generation and Genre.

Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019 (2022)
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Stolyar, J. Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

For years Japanese media, and in particular television, was ‘self-sufficient’. Local productions took up most of the broadcasting schedule on open channels, and foreign content was limited in amount and mainly broadcast on cable and satellite. The in... Read More about Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019.

Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city (2022)
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Mitski, A. I. Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In recent decades, Bangkok’s Japanese community has undergone an unprecedented growth, with its official numbers skyrocketing to over 70 thousand (Japanese MOFA data 2015) and the unofficial ones thought to exceed 100 thousand. The majority of that i... Read More about Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city.

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema (2022)
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Yeung, S. Y. Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This project offers the framework of “semiotics of allegory” as an alternative to Fredric Jameson’s national allegory for studying non-Western cultural products by emphasising their plural meanings of signs and the importance of situating their readi... Read More about Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema.

Daryaganj’s Parallel Book History (2022)
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Dhingra, K. Daryaganj’s Parallel Book History. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar is a local weekly informal market for used books that has been thriving on the streets of Old Delhi every Sunday for the past five decades, before it was closed by the Delhi Municipal Corporation and moved to a dif... Read More about Daryaganj’s Parallel Book History.

Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study (2022)
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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.

Anticolonial imaginaries in the ‘failed state’: epistemic violence and the representation of the Congo in cultural discourse (2021)
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Sandhu, H. L. Anticolonial imaginaries in the ‘failed state’: epistemic violence and the representation of the Congo in cultural discourse. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research critiques the contemporary representation of the Congo as a ‘failed’ or ‘invisible’ state and argues that this discourse continues in the tradition of epistemic violence fundamental to European colonial history in the Congo and Africa m... Read More about Anticolonial imaginaries in the ‘failed state’: epistemic violence and the representation of the Congo in cultural discourse.

Lineage and Legacy: Thomas Manning and the Early British Study of China, 1800-1830 (2020)
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Weech, E. Lineage and Legacy: Thomas Manning and the Early British Study of China, 1800-1830. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis provides the first full-length academic study of Thomas Manning (1772-1840), one of Britain’s first scholars of Chinese, using recently rediscovered archival materials to shed new light on his career and underlying motives and objectives.... Read More about Lineage and Legacy: Thomas Manning and the Early British Study of China, 1800-1830.

Beyond the “Bhai-Bhai” Rhetoric : China-India Literary Relations, 1950-1990 (2019)
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Jia, Y. Beyond the “Bhai-Bhai” Rhetoric : China-India Literary Relations, 1950-1990. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the multi-layered relationship between the literary spheres of the People’s Republic of China (1949-) and the Republic of India (1947-) from the 1950s to the 1980s. Drawing on previously underexplored materials in Chinese, Hindi,... Read More about Beyond the “Bhai-Bhai” Rhetoric : China-India Literary Relations, 1950-1990.

Longing for Salmá and Hind : (Re)producing Arabic Literature in 18th and 19th-Century North India (2019)
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Leese, S. Longing for Salmá and Hind : (Re)producing Arabic Literature in 18th and 19th-Century North India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Arabic writing is an important but neglected aspect of Indian cultural history. Likewise, being on the Arabic “periphery”, India is almost always overlooked in histories of Arabic literature. As a two-pronged intervention to these fields, this thesis... Read More about Longing for Salmá and Hind : (Re)producing Arabic Literature in 18th and 19th-Century North India.

Mapping the Migrant City: Presentations of the Migrant Experience in the Contemporary European Novel 1995-2015 (2019)
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Grahl, F. Mapping the Migrant City: Presentations of the Migrant Experience in the Contemporary European Novel 1995-2015. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is a comparative investigation into contemporary novels of migration to three European capital cities: London, Paris and Rome. It uses a range of approaches to analyse the tripartite relationship between the novel, the city and the lived... Read More about Mapping the Migrant City: Presentations of the Migrant Experience in the Contemporary European Novel 1995-2015.

Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976 (2018)
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Yang, Y. Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This PhD thesis examines woodblock book publishing during the radical years of Mao’s life time, when thread-bound books were criticised as representing the symbol of the old literati culture by the CCP government. This very political authority parado... Read More about Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976.