Date of Award
Fall 11-25-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
December 2025
Department
English
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Ian MacDonald
Abstract
This thesis offers a reading of Hiroko Oyamada’s The Hole as discourse surrounding modern neoliberalism’s dissolution and transformation of boundaries between socio-political domains, such as the public/private, and its consequent effects on individual subjectivity and interpersonal relationships. Within the novella’s depictions of the mundane, I also seek to argue that Oyamada’s employment of the liminal, through distortions of space and time, is used to depict the precarity of marginalization as an always present force due to the pervasiveness of capitalism, but purposefully hidden to maintain security in illusion.
Recommended Citation
Kabir, Maliha, "THE CURRENT OF ANXIETIES: GHOSTS AND CAPITAL FOR THE LIMINAL BRIDE IN HIROKO OYAMADA’S THE HOLE" (2025). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 198.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general/198