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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Colonial Literature"”.
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"Assia Djebar and ""La Ville Blanche"": Writing in and on the *City"
… of Algiers stands in contrast to much Algerian literature, which tends to depict the city as an alienating and hostile space, or with regard to much colonial literature, as a paradise of innocent pleasures. For purposes of condensation, I identify the movement of the subject through the city as …
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Advertising America: The Printing, Publication, and Promotion of English New World Books, 1553-1600
… First, the field of study of English travel and colonial literature lacks a bibliographically informed account of how the books’ constitutive elements of type and paper affect meaning. Widespread use of modern editions of the few accessible texts effaces the originals’ rich aesthetic, structural …
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Interpreting the Witness: Frederick Thomas Morrison and Other Accounts of Precolonial Lake Nyasa, 1878 to 1891
… study aims to contribute to the academic pre-colonial literature through diaries and other reflections. Five objectives were identified. Firstly, to review the appropriate literature on the history of pre-colonial Nyasaland, and the current historiographical understanding on the construction …
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Grenzüberschreitungen : Eine untersuchung ausgewählter Novellen Hans Grimms im Zusammenhang mit der kolonialen Grenzproblematik
… within selected novellas of the German colonial author Hans Grimm (1875-1959). Boundaries and frontiers are an omnipresent key issue within colonial literature. Within the postcolonial German literary studies field, however, liminality has so far been given only very little interest, …
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The company man: colonial agents and the idea of the virtuous empire, 1786-1901
… other reciprocally, I argue that Anglo-Indian literature is properly understood as one of a series of disciplinary apparatuses which were developed in response to that persistent logistical problem: how best to convince plenipotentiary agents to work in the interest of a mercantile employer, …
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Mediterraneità and modernità : architecture and culture during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa
… examines the intersection of the modern and the colonial in architecture and culture during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa from 1911 to 1943. Rather than see the colonies as merely a projection of the metropolitan context, this research reverses this relationship by examining …
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The construction of Anglo-Indian spaces in middlebrow works of Raj fiction, 1880-1914
… women-authored works of Raj fiction, a field of colonial literature that this thesis identifies as being fiction produced between 1857-1949 that in some way is related to the British Raj. The thesis suggests that in their depiction of the spaces of Anglo-Indian life these works shaped impressions …
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Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas
… tenants, into the transhumant tribe disrupts the colonial literature on Gaddis. It further unsettles assumptions of tribal egalitarianism and complicates how South Asian sociology theorizes the discrete borders of tribal and caste organization. Understanding the intersectional identity of Gaddi …
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El arte de la resistencia: música, literatura y tradición oral en la región andina desde el período pre moderno hasta el siglo XVII
… to survive in a male world, but also about colonial life itself.
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Echoes of Laocoön's Warning in Letters from an American Farmer
A dramatic shift in tone in the final letter of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer reveals Farmer James' conflicting attitudes about an independent America. When the letters are juxtaposed with a Western myth of origin such as Virgil's Aeneid, it becomes clear that …
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Psychodynamic perspectives on the master-servant relationship and its representation in the work of Doris Lessing, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer
… approach to i) the individual and society, ii) literature and social analysis and iii) psychoanalysis and literature. It is argued that individuals are at one and the same time both public and private entities, made by and making the society they live in. The notion that group behaviour is …
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<i>Segunda Parte de la Historia General Llamada Índica</i> (1572) de Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Estudio y Edición Anotada.
… study was guided by the theoretical frame on colonial and imperial policies as proposed by A. Padgen, Jürgen Osterhammel, Eduardo Subirats, Frantz Fanon, Jeremy Munford, Pierre Duviols, and additionally by Walter Mignolo’s ideas on the Colonization of History. Consequently, it is concluded …
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The Editor, the Preface, and the Eighteenth-Century Edition: A Critical Bibliographic Study
… and the fourth and final chapter addresses colonial editions. Such a study reveals that eighteenth-century editors were interested in diverse texts. Furthermore, statements by editors about editorial method, textual transmission, and historical context appear consistently in prefaces to …
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Los campos literario y de poder en el virreinato del Perú: Los escritos de Juan del Valle y Caviedes (1645-1697)
… My research focuses on Caviedes’ position in the colonial literary field as well as on his interaction with the colonial field of power in the viceroyalty of Peru in the 1600s.</p><p>The origins of the colonial literary field coincided with a moment of cultural splendor in the metropolis and …