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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Frantz Fanon"”.
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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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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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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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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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'To explain the other to myself': Fanon, Ramasamy and Identity Politics
This thesis compares the identity politics of Frantz Fanon and ‘Periyar’ EV Ramasamy. After framing an interpretative paradigm through which the core ideas of Fanon could be deciphered, an interpretation of Fanon as a rigorous critic of identity politics is arrived at. Exploring Fanon’s strained …
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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
… principles of pioneering theorists, such as Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha, we will see how <em>Black Panther</em> interprets these concepts and presents them in innovative ways to cultivate a means of understanding and reformation in today’s highly politicized …
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Island Rewrites: Postcolonial Caribbean, British and Irish Revisions.
… postcolonial theorists such as Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fanon and Edward Said - as well as the extant body of literature that surrounds postcolonial studies - in order to investigate the occurrences of rewriting, response and adaptation, and the ways in which the postcolonial Caribbean works …
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Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest
… novel and the theories of Abdul JanMohamed and Frantz Fanon on colonization. This study also applies the work of Victor Turner, Mary Douglas, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Anzaldua, Homi Bhaba and others to an examination of the subversive cultural formations that evolve through the boundary …
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Subjectivities in Decolonisation: The Post-Independence Film and Novel in Africa and South Asia
… the treatment of subjectivity via the thought of Frantz Fanon, I elucidate the dialectical relation between the self and the world that he gestures towards. In an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, I then consider eight texts via this Fanonian approach to subjectivity, pairing one novel …
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White Terror, Canada's Indian Residential Schools, and the Colonial Present: from Law Towards a Pedagogy of Recognition
… I first draw upon the anti-colonial theory of Frantz Fanon (1963, 1967) and contemporary anti-colonial theorists, to understand the nature of colonial power and settler occupation. I develop the theoretical framework of “white terror as colonial force field” structured by the triadic relation …
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Between Communist Internationalism and a ‘New Humanism’: Episodes in the Intellectual History of Twentieth Century Anticolonialism
… M.N. Roy, and the Martinican revolutionary, Frantz Fanon. This project examines how these thinkers understood the relationship between national, anticolonial movements and the international class struggle against capitalism. Humanism is a theme worth investigating not only because all these …
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