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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Africanness"”.
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A study of change and continuity in the world-views of isiXhosa-speaking school leavers in their quest to succeed in the world of work without abandoning their African identity
… of a technological society while affirming their Africanness, albeit a changing Africanness. The study addresses the basic question "How can African youths, who desire to succeed materially, maintain some sort of integrated sense of self in a working environment dominated by a Western style of …
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A comparative study of the portrayal of characters in A.C. Jordan's The wrath of the ancestors, Modikwe Dikobe's The marabi dance and G.B. Sinxo's Unojayiti wam
… a purely African conception of life. The "Africanness" of their outlook can only be determined when measured against the real life African socio-cultural background. Therefore, as a starting point in this study, I has been essential to explore the various debates about African literature, …
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Re-mapping the Atlantic: transatlantic mobility in contemporary African literature in French and English
… and scholarly models of both blackness and Africanness, models that have existed in Europe and America for decades, even centuries. Specifically, the thesis claims that this body of writing challenges enduring associations of black and African culture in general, and literature in …
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Narratives Of The New Diaspora: Migration And Transnationalism In Contemporary African Literature
… and ultimately the ideoscapes of Africa and Africanness that continue to be so central to the global circulation of goods and ideas.
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Seeing ghosts: The absented presence of black lesbian women in mid-2000s Kwa-Thema and the legacies of trauma
… of being” and separation from citizenship and Africanness that black lesbians have experienced and continue to experience in this country.2 It is my position that the purpose of trauma is to ask questions about the past and the present. The absenting of black lesbian womanhood in the mid-2000s …
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AFROBEATS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS, INTERCULTURAL FORMATIONS, AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
… of diasporic Africans from Blackness to Africanness. This shift is tied to the longing of a homeland, and the pride associated with the success of Afrobeats.
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The Worlds of Samuel Felsted: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica
… backgrounds. Chapter Four then explores how Africanness was depicted in literary sources mentioning performances of Afro-Jamaican music, which were published or prepared for publication in Britain. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to show how the reinterpretation of sources is vital to the …
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Looking South African: tracing the relationship between national pavilion and nation in South Africa s history at the Venice Biennale
… in Venice sought to capture a specific ‘South Africanness' rather than seeking to emulate modernism as it had developed in Europe and America. The country's exclusion from Venice during the boycott years of the 1970s to early 1990s coincided with the emergence of a politically-aware national …
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(Un)-African: queering South Africas approach to SOGI rights
… on South Africa as it sought to re-establish its Africanness and anti-neocolonial credentials whilst also promoting its moral leadership on human rights. It has further been established that the South African approach to SOGI rights was informed by the demands of local rather than international …
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Diasporic Reasoning: The Idea of Africa and the Production of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
… crisis surrounding the very idea of Africa and Africanness. The paradoxical legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, which produced unthinkable dislocation and suffering even as it created new diasporic networks of black affiliation built around a common African origin, forced a reexamination of …
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“We Are Not Asking for Handouts!” Amplifying the Voices of African Women Refugees and Moving Beyond Trauma Towards Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Qualitative Inquiry
… of religion, solidarity, ethnic identity (Africanness), strong family/community ties, and activism to survive; and (3) the majority of women use informal social networks to secure employment. While this combination of resources may allow women refugees get by, many women are still unable to …
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South African boys in New Zealand: Immigrants' retrospective accounts of adapting to life in a new country during adolescence
… social inclusion based on their particular South Africanness. Although these findings are not representative of all South African boys in New Zealand, they do suggest some of the ways that immigration and masculinity might intersect during adolescence and the ways aspects of masculine identity …
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Specters of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Student Movement and its evocation of the ‘National Question’ during the global-local long Sixties
… in negation to the category of blackness and Africanness. Assuming the role of an imposter, i.e., imitating the hegemony of modem Europe, the modern Ethiopian empire state reduced numerous inhabitants of its historic South realm into the category of “subhuman,” thus legitimatizing its …
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Diasporic movement practices: African/Afro/Black embodied translineages and contemporary migrations in dance
The work of this dissertation is to unveil less visible narratives of movement artists who are teachers, choreographers, and/or performers in the movement cultures of black/African diasporic dances. Furthermore, this dissertation contributes to critical discourse around identity from diasporic …