French erotic colonial postcards depicting Algerian women are seldom but a yellowed reminder of a painful past - they encapsulate a constellation of signifiers, histories, and mythical identities...Show moreFrench erotic colonial postcards depicting Algerian women are seldom but a yellowed reminder of a painful past - they encapsulate a constellation of signifiers, histories, and mythical identities.The thesis explores the many fantasies and phantasms of the colonial postcards, not merely for analytical purposes, but rather with the quest of redefining identity for the depicted women as subjects, rather than objects.Show less
This thesis analyzes the representation of Kazakhstan as a multiethnic nation in contemporary Kazakhstani cinema. Although much has been made of how the state has attempted to build the image of...Show moreThis thesis analyzes the representation of Kazakhstan as a multiethnic nation in contemporary Kazakhstani cinema. Although much has been made of how the state has attempted to build the image of Kazakhstan as inherently multiethnic, in focusing on film, this thesis hopes to go some way to exploring the representation of Kazakhstani mnogonational'nost' (multinational-ness) at the popular level. In doing so, the thesis argues that there are several competing representations of 'multiethnic Kazakhstan'. One, arguably the more prominent, represents Kazakhstani mnogonational'nost' in a totalized, essentialized and depoliticized manner reminiscent of Soviet categories of nationality. Other emerging representations, meanwhile, appear to offer more complexity.Show less
