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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Alexie"”.
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In “the American Strain”: The Hybrid Poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Chin, and Sherman Alexie
… Marilyn Chin, and Native American poet, Sherman Alexie. Chin describes her cultural position and poetics as hybrid, and Alexie’s poetry explores and formally reflects the “in-between”, a liminal position between the American and Indian components of his identity. This lineage, like the hybrid …
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Blues Trope as a Cultural Intersection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
… Alice Walker and Native American author Sherman Alexie the blues trope is a successful literary device in expressing long lost and rediscovered emotions, identities and hopes among an ever growing multiethnic nation.
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Poetry matters: Radical politics in postmodern American poetry
… Grenier, Gary Snyder, A.R. Ammons, Sherman Alexie, and Kenneth Goldsmith—examined in this dissertation illustrates, postmodernism is a period in which multiple modes or versions of postmodern poetry exist and flourish.</p>
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'How can you go to a Church that killed so many Indians?' : Representations of Christianity in 20th century Native American novels
… gehen, die so viele Indianer umgebracht hat?' [Alexie, Reservation Blues] -- werden in den Romanen diskutiert und in meiner Arbeit analysiert. Es wird ferner versucht, eine literaturgeschichtliche Klassifizierung der einzelnen Werke entsprechend ihrer Repräsentation dieser Probleme vorzunehmen. …
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Film adaptation of the post-apartheid South African novel: re-examining the aesthetics of creation of disgrace
… critics including Linda Hutcheon, Robert Stam, Alexie Tcheuyap, and Lindiwe Dovey, the dissertation explores at a time formal and thematic aesthetics of the film adaptation to diversify its critical avenues not only but also to bridge epistemological gaps left by previous studies which are …
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From pretending to supposing: redeeming the madwoman in Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
This thesis demonstrates how the emergent genre of girls’ literature in the Victorian period served to destabilize and challenge contemporary restrictive depictions of women. It revises the theory of Gilbert and Gubar in The Madwoman in the Attic, which posits that in nineteenth-century literature, …
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Narrative privacy : keeping secrets in contemporary Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American metafictions
… The Translation of Dr. Apelles (2006), Sherman Alexie’s “Dear John Wayne” (2000), Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines (2003), and Nam Le’s “The Boat” (2008) as rejecting ethnographic imperatives in ethnic literature. By constructing private spaces for their characters within the narrative, …
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Realising the socio-economic rights of refugees under international human rights law: A case study of South Africa
The purpose of this study is to outline the socio-economic rights of refugees in South Africa with a particular emphasis on their rights to education, housing and health care. The study aims to explore whether the current treatment of refugees in South Africa is in accordance with existing …
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Die ongelooflike avonture van Afrikaanse filmaanpassings: filmic adaptations of Afrikaans literature with specific focus on novels, youth literature and stage plays
… cinemas can be studied. It models itself on Alexie Tcheuyap’s framework in Postnationalist African Cinemas (2011) which directly questions the notion that African cinemas have to be revolutionary, nationalistic, subversive and/or post-colonialist. These demands were clearly set out by FEPACI …
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Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
… American authors Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, both vocal advocates of educating the lost generations - those who were forbidden to learn of and practice their language or tribal rituals due to colonialism - as well as Anglo-Americans on the importance of preserving the culture and …
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The Diary of a Vanishing Indian: Arnold Spirit's Assimilation in Sherman Alexie's YA Novel the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
… autobiographies and their relevance to Sherman Alexie’s Young Adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The introduction and subsequent chapters provide a background on Indian autobiographies and present a critical reading of Alexie’s text, arguing that, just as Indian …
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Experiencias de estigma en personas con enfermedad mental y su impacto en la autoestima en Colombia
El estigma es una marca que separa a los individuos en grupos basándose en juicios sociales acerca de la supuesta inferioridad de un grupo con respecto al otro. Esta separación puede ser secundaria a atribuciones religiosas, raciales o por tener una enfermedad mental, dando lugar a respuestas …
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Experiencias de estigma de enfermos mentales con trabajadores de la salud en Colombia
Los conceptos para la comprensión del estigma, inician con Goffman en los años sesenta, hasta los estudios de los noventa liderados la World Psychiatri Asociation (WPA). ¿Cómo se crea el estigma?, ¿cómo se difunde? y ¿que efectos tiene sobre los enfermos mentales, sus familias, la sociedad y los …