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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Constructions of space"”.
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Constructions of Space in Fiction of Neil Gaiman
This thesis conducts a spatial reading of a selection of novels written by Neil Gaiman to demonstrate how constructions of space in contemporary fiction can be analysed to reveal the underlying politics and cultural commentary of the work. Each of the titles selected juxtaposes an ostensibly …
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… does not realize that he is the deadly foe of the native Negro . . . It is a silent conflict on a gigantic scale."" While this statement illustrates only a limited view of the cross-cultural encounters that it describes, it is based on historical facts that anchor my dissertation which …
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Spatiality of power surrounding "the Nenets'" involvement in local tourism industry development
The importance of power structure analysis in tourism studies is appreciated by academic scholars based on the fact that the tourism industry is a capitalist activity concerned with wealth production, accumulation and distribution. This is the power structure that serves to reproduce and condition …
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Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
… thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing …
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Transnational Crime Scenes and Travelling Detectives: Space and Movement in Crime Drama Series 2017-2023
This thesis examines changes in the constructions of space and movement in transnational crime drama series between 2017 and 2023. Focused on the timeframe between Brexit and the Covid pandemic, it argues that a significant shift within the crime genre is well underway. Following European …
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Homelands and the representation of cultural and political identity in selected South-Asian texts, 1857 to the present
This thesis is a study of representations of cultural and political identity in a selection of literary and cinematic texts (in English and in regional South-Asian languages in translation), all of which situate South-Asian cultural and political subjectivity in relation to specific narrative …