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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Cultural Hybridity"”.
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Cannibalizing the Victorians: Racial and Cultural Hybridity in the Brontes and Their Caribbean Rewritings
… but in relation to the underexplored model of hybridity. In short, my dissertation uses these linked literary works to examine the notion of race not as an irreducible and natural category of difference whose reality is registered in fiction, but as a trope which gets imaginatively deployed in …
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Into Ireland: An Analysis Of Cultural Hybridity, Immigration, Food, And Place In The Silicon Docks Market In Dublin, Ireland
… also dealing with increasing diversity and multiculturalism during a time of rising economic stability. This thesis analyzes the effects of globalization on the local expressions and perceptions of changing cultural identities through an examination of interactions between Irish patrons and …
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Journeying to a Third Space of Sovereignty: Explorations of Land, Cultural Hybridity, and Sovereignty in <em>Ceremony</em> and <em>There There</em>
… relationship, effectively changing the nature of cultural and spiritual relationships as well. Indigenous literature provides examples of the modern relationship Native people have with their land; an example of this is Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Tommy Orange’s There There Despite …
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Black Panther Shatters Social Binaries to Explore Postcolonial Themes: How Ancestry, Identity, Revenge, and the Third Space Impact the Ability to Navigate Change and Create New Forms of Cultural Hybridity
… anticolonialism, Orientalism, gender roles, hybridity, and ancestry. Through its characters and their relationships, I will analyze how the film presents overriding factors, such as ancestry, heritage, identity, trauma, anger, hatred, and revenge, and how they impact an individual’s ability …
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Bringing home the body: Bi/multi racial Maori women's hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… Maori women's difference through a narrative of cultural hybridity. Presented in two parts, Part One engages with a theoretical overview of the formation of the New Zealand nation, the social construction of Maori and Pakeha cultural groups and the race relations that developed through the …
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Gozo in the world and the world in Gozo : the cultural impact of migration and return migration on an island community
… Melboume whose situation captures the dilemma of cultural 'hybridity'. Through Lina, the reader is introduced in turn to the concept of crossings into worlds beyond the familiar, a metaphor which is employed throughout the thesis.
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Italienischer Faschismus und deutscher Nationalsozialismus im italienischen Genrefilm
… past. Making genre theory productive for cultural studies, the main focus of the analytical method is the importance of serial production, cultural hybridity and genre hybridity for this discourse. The following genres are discussed: peplum, gothic horror, italowestern, giallo, poliziesco, …
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Japanese American Cultural Identity: The Role of WWII, Internment, and the 3/11 Disaster in Japan
… explores the nature of Japanese American cultural identity through an examination of the historical contexts of WWII, internment, and the 3/11 disasters in Japan. Interview data was analyzed using both interpretive and critical paradigms. I then utilized the Communication Theory of …
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Between Ashkenaz and Sepharad, Judaism and Christianity: Asher ben Jehiel as a Liminal Figure in the High Middle Ages
… the scholarship of Homi Bhabha on the topic of cultural hybridity, in addition to other thinkers, this medieval rabbi is presented as an individual who situated himself between various borders, often as a consequence of historical circumstances. The first border he crossed was from his …
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L'ecriture hybride dans le roman francophone African et Antillais : resemblances et differences
The hybridity of the postocolonial novelistic writings from francophone Africa and Caribbean present many differences and few similarities at the linguistic and generic levels. Caribbean writers mix the French language with Creole words as a way to symbolize the cultural hybridity of their society. …
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INTERNATIONAL CHINESE AND CANADIAN STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION AT A CANADIAN UNIVERSITY
… of higher education impacts students’ intercultural relations, identities, intercultural sensitivity, critical understandings, and notions of citizenship. A postcolonial perspective is used to explore how students perceive the influences of globalization. Contemporary ideological …
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Iranian (Persian)-Francophone Women in Diaspora and the Literature of Exile Reconstructing Self Through Writing
… voices in shaping contemporary literature and cultural discourse. The study aims to examine how the concept of Écriture Féminine1 developed by French feminist theorists, is manifested in the works of Negar Djavadi, Chahdortt Djavann, and Maryam Madjidi. Here, Écriture Féminine serves not as …
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Bombay before Bollywood: the history and significance of fantasy and stunt film genres in Bombay cinema of the pre-Bollywood era
… stream of Bombay cinema has always revelled in cultural hybridity, borrowing voraciously from global popular culture and engaging with transcultural flows of cosmopolitan modernity and postmodernity.
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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
… described by Alan Golding, and the evolution of cultural studies departments are a few examples. However, most prominent is the division of dominant American poetry into two exclusionary factions. One is associated with refashioning traditional lyric forms, the other with formal invention and …
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‘Paul Scott’s Hippie’ and Hanging On
… through the generations of his family in Luton. Cultural difference is now the prime source of conflict, rather than political power, and it aims to demonstrate that cultural hybridity is the paradoxical consequence of the racial rigidity which accompanied the colonial project to its termination.
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The Maltese gift : tourist encounters with the self and the other in later life
… examining what is being transacted at a social, cultural and symbolic level between the Maltese and the OBT. It then enquires as to the extent the previous colonial relationship is influencing the present ex-colonial and neocolonial Anglo-Maltese tourist encounter. The ethnographic study employs …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… the coinage of the term world literature? Many cultural scholars would argue to the contrary. This dissertation aims at exploring Coelho narratives and their popularity and controversial reception by contextualizing them within the contemporary scholarship on World Literature and within the …
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Orchestrating the Self: Identity Construction in Howard Hanson's Seven Symphonies and "Symphony of Freedom"
… draws on theories of belonging, nationalism, and cultural hybridity to explore Hanson’s aesthetic, ethnic, spiritual, and national affiliations across his career. Each chapter investigates one mode of belonging as expressed through a particular symphonic pair, contextualizing Hanson’s musical …
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Counter-discursive strategies in first-world migrant writing
… as it becomes the site for an interaction of cultural codes. The methodology adopted draws eclectically on theories which explore the space between" from anthropological, linguistic, post-colonial and feminist perspectives. The thesis examines different textual paradigms of countering dominant …
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