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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Frantz"”.
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Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation
… Thus in this thesis I set out to examine Frantz Fanon’s thought in order to provide a critique of post-independence failures in Africa. I will argue that whilst Fanon shared the same ideals as the anti-colonial movements in their objective to remove colonial regimes from power, that Fanon, …
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Religion in the work of Frantz Fanon
This thesis explores Frantz Fanon's engagement with religion, and its impact on his theories of race and racism. As a cultural theorist and political activist with strong Marxian-humanist sympathies, Fanon asserted that, as an irrational force, religion anaesthetised the oppressed and inhibited the …
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Juan Bobo, postcoloniality and Frantz Fanon's theory of violence
In the postcolonial written adaptations of the oral tales and stories about Juan Bobo political violence is generated against the Jibaros by colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial discourses that are still perpetuated in Puerto Rico through unaltered colonial attitudes, political, socioeconomic …
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The Influence of Religion in Frantz Fanon’s Decolonial Theory and Ethics on Violence
<p>How does religious language influence Frantz Fanon’s Decolonial theory and ethics onviolence in the struggle for decolonization and disalienation? This is the question I address in this dissertation carefully observing Patrick Crowley's mention of the presence of religious language in Fanon's …
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THE "FACT OF BLACKNESS" DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON'S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
… of black/white social relations often cite Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks for its psychological analysis of the "Fact of Blackness." Attributing this supposed facticity to a fundamental mistranslation of the original French text, this thesis explores the implications of scholar's …
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… theory, specifically the contributions of Frantz Fanon and Albert Memmi to this field, as well as those of many contemporary scholars like Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Gayatri Spivak.</p> <p>Whereas O'Neill's earlier work (Thirst, The Moon of the Caribbees , and The Dreamy Kid) promotes …
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Hummingbird oil she breast: Testimony and Resistance in Vincentian Redemption Songs
… who have resisted colonialism in St. Vincent. Frantz Fanon and Stuart Hall shape the analysis of how these works demonstrate that the degradation of human beings by the imperial project is overturned by the creole culture that very undertaking has made possible. Warner testifies to the use of …
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Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator
… analyzed by scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois and Frantz Fanon informs the theoretical frame of this dissertation but also reflects Tyler’s investments in subverting American racial ideology in his controversial audio-visual performances. Through his participation in and appropriating of …
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False presences: Fanon's reinforcement of the female subaltern
… presence of the colonized female arises within Frantz Fanon's books Peau noire, masques blancs, L'an V de la révolution algérienne, and Les damnés de la terre. Through a close reading of these texts, this thesis aims to locate where these blind spots exist and how they are facilitated by Fanon, …
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A Környezeti Identitás szerepe a környezettudatos viselkedés kialakulásában = The Role of Environmental Identity in the Development of Environmentally Conscious Behaviour
… önpusztító viselkedésként éljük meg (Mayer és Frantz, 2004), ezért megpróbáljuk elkerülni. A környezeti identitás koncepciója - azaz annak mértéke, mennyire érezzük a természetet az énünk fontos részének (Clayton, 2003) - a környezettudatos viselkedés iránti elköteleződés erős befolyásoló …
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Queer Natives
… McKay, Leopold Senghor, Jomo Kenyatta, and Frantz Fanon---both constructed and contested black normativity across diaspora."
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The Problem of Guilt: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Glissant
… of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Frantz Fanon, and Édouard Glissant. More specifically, I consider guilt and moral responsibility, using archival research to trace the unusual lineage of writing on moral responsibility that has lain unexamined in their work, and to undo scholarly …
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Black Male Representations in Non-Urban Settings in The UK
Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s assertion ‘the Black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the White man’ (Fanon,1982:110) this research project analyses the ways in which representation has affected the performativity of Black masculinity in non-urban settings in the UK. Framed by a Practice …
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The production of the sacred in postcolonial Africa
… such contests of power to produce the sacred in Frantz Fanon's On National Culture and the indigenous authorities in post-apartheid South Africa. In doing so, I draw upon the resources of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and African/Fanon studies to demonstrate how strategies of containment …
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Film adaptation of the post-apartheid South African novel: re-examining the aesthetics of creation of disgrace
… postcolonial scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Frantz Fanon, and adaptation 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 …
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Mourning and Melancholia in Zimbabwean Culture and Cinema
… Jacques Lacan, Homi Bhabha, Louis Althusser and Frantz Fanon, and more recent thinkers such as Agnieszka Piotrowska, Stephen Frosh, Lauren Berlant and Ranjana Khanna. I also draw upon Zimbabwean writers Alois Mlambo, Dambudzo Marechera, Robert Muponde and, most notably, Tsitsi Dangarembga, P …
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Escrita de si e do entrelugar em “Os pretos de pousaflores” e “Essa dama bate bué!”
… as contribuições teóricas de autores como Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Julia Kristeva, Saidiya Hartman e Donatella Di Cesare.
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A Theory of Racial Oppression and Liberation
… variety of oppression), using Hegel, Sartre, and Frantz Fanon. I argue that a successful theory of racism can be constructed with a foundation in Hegelian recognition, aided by the appropriation of the social ontology (especially the notions of ""series"" and ""praxis/process"") developed by …
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