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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Cultural negotiation"”.
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Writing as a cultural negotiation: a study of Mariama Bâ, Marie NDiaye and Ama Ata Aidoo
… that nowhere is the question of writing as a cultural negotiation posed, discussed or much less addressed. This is a lacuna that this dissertation addresses for the first time by proposing a re-reading of the selected works of Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama Bâ and Marie NDiaye through the new prism of …
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“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage
… 1995 and 2010—a period of economic and cultural change known as the “Celtic Tiger.” This study argues that the way that aging and senescence—defined jointly as the process of aging and as the state of being “aged”—are represented on stage reveals …
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Paper Dolls Ride Shotgun
… Hayword, and Young, in particular and popular/cultural criminology. Popular/cultural criminology can be summarized as “a category composed of discourses about crime found not only in film but also on the Internet, on television and in newspapers, novels and rap music and myth” (Rafter 7). …
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A Re-examination Of The 20th Century Intercultural Theatre: Peter Brook's The Mahabharata (1985) And Ong Keng Sen's Lear (1997)
My thesis re-examines 20th-century intercultural theatre by looking at two acclaimed productions: Peter Brook's The Mahabharata (1985) and Ong Keng Sen's Lear (1997). The first chapter is a historical analysis of intercultural theatre's emergence in the late 20th century, which explores the early …
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Expressions of Diasporic Identity: Transcultural Language in Jewish-Greek Inscriptions
… non-Jews. To achieve this, I explore how transcultural language in Greek inscriptions expresses the Jewish identity in a manner fitting both the boundaries of Judaism and the larger societal framework of the Graeco-Roman world. By transcultural language, I refer to cross-culturally shared …
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Mediated encounters in diasporic space:exploring processes of transculturation syncretism and identity redefinition in the Ghanaian diaspora in London
… the difference that the diverse menu of cultural resources offered by television is making to dispositions, cultural proclivities, and patterns of identification across intergenerational differences among Ghanaian-Londoners. The study qualitatively assembles and analyses empirical data …
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Dis/locating audience : transnational media flows and the online circulation of East Asian television drama
… that are reshaping the way we understand cultural formation. While the rise of massive global commercial media enterprises leads to renewed discussion of the dominance of the "West" upon the "Rest," the increasing portability, transmitability, and reproducibility of media has helped to …
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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 …
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From Text to Screen The Role of Feminism in Adapting Female-Oriented Internet Literature to Chinese Television Drama
… adaptations function as sites of ideological negotiation, where representations of femininity are constructed, contested, and circulated. The study demonstrates that Chinese adaptations of female-oriented internet literature serve not only as commercial entertainment but also as potent …
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Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925
… chapters thus deal with key moments and sites of negotiation between, on the one hand, elitist, intellectualising and national bourgeois cinephile critics and filmmakers, and on the other hand, a heterogeneous public of ordinary filmgoers. In some of these moments the negotiation was gradual, …
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Outcomes and Prospects for Collaboration in Two Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Forest Management Negotiations in Ontario
Successful intercultural natural resource management collaboration is challenged by divergent worldviews and power disparities. Studies of non-intercultural collaboration efforts demonstrate that good outcomes emerge when procedural conditions are met, such as fostering open and high-quality …