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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Gayatri Spivak"”.
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… Drawing on the scholarship of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Fredric Jameson, I situate Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk within literary attempts at national representation and narratives of westernization. The main question that the study raises is: what are the literary …
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"Equal Partners in Crime": Narration in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
… the subaltern. The writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, Gayatri Spivak, and Scott McCloud work together to uncover the political and ethical implications of Yunior’s willful erasure of Beli’s voice. In the sections detailing her early life, Yunior draws attention to the gaps in the information he gives …
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Film adaptation of the post-apartheid South African novel: re-examining the aesthetics of creation of disgrace
… as Gerard Genette, 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 …
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Women, Azaadi, Shadhinota, Freedom
… By referencing theorists such as Sara Ahmed, Gayatri Spivak, Michael Rothberg, Rebecca Schneider, I frame my practice within a critical discourse that interrogates institutional complicity and the politics of visibility.</p> <p>Ultimately, this thesis proposes performance as a fugitive space …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… and the deconstructive Marxist Feminism of Gayatri Spivak, this work examines the production of the sign 'woman' in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. I locate Ngugi's semiotics of the feminine in the conflicting discursive formations of two historical junctures of Kenyan resistance to colonial …
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A Part of it All. (Original writing);
… and post-colonial writers as Trinh Minh-ha and Gayatri Spivak. And, while working within the form of the short story, I fight against that form, hoping to find not symmetry and closure, but polyphonic voices and astounding juxtapositions. Mingling spare dialogic interactions with thick …
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(Dis)identifying female archetypes in live art
… Massey, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Elspeth Probyn, Gayatri Spivak and Iris Marion Young.
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Ethnic Minorities in Brazil and Spain: Erasure and Stigmatization, Gender, and Self-Representation of Indigenous and Roma Communities
… of reference scholars such as Faye Ginsburg, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Achille Mbembe, and David Harvey. Specifically, this dissertation examines Indigenous communities in Brazil and the Roma (Gypsy) population of Spain, uncovering the multiple discourses through which ethnic …
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Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak
… social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak I offer a critical analysis that can help to disentangle the reliance of social legitimacy on social intelligibility. I maintain that legitimacy and intelligibility are woven into a kind of double-bind, wherein the illegitimacy of some social …
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La representación del personaje afrodescendiente en el caso de Punce Negroide que se quería cheliar de Salarrué y Al Negro le pagan por bailar de Matilde Elena López
… de intelectuales como la de Stuart Hall, Gayatri Spivak, y Edmod Cros. Con relación a lo anterior, mediante el corpus selecto, se realizará un análisis a través del que se estudiará, cómo los discursos de los diferentes personajes, se resignifica a la otredad, es decir, a los personajes …
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… 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 stereotypes of blackness, such as primitivism and cannibalism, the Anglo-American playwright has transcended these racial myths …
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A Question of Listening: Nancean Resonance and Listening in the Work of Charlie Chaplin
… on the <br/> work of Nancy, Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak, I consider a claim that <br/> philosophy has failed to address the topic of listening because a logocentric <br/> tradition claims speech as primary. In response to Derrida’s deconstruction of <br/> logocentrism, Nancy complicates …
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Martin Heidegger's Critiques of Metaphysics
… Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gayatri Spivak, and Jacques Lacan. The work of these thinkers, the dissertation concludes, lead to the unthought terrain of peripheral thinking, a corporeal engagement, rethinking locality-temporality as situated-otherness, as a new praxis.
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Hidden Hout Bay mainstream, myths and margins
… Subaltern Studies Group in Calcutta formed by Gayatri Spivak and exemplified in Partha Chattterjee’s (Chatterjee 2000, Chatterjee 2004, Chatterjee 2011) distinction between political and civil societies, Asef Bayat’s (Bayat 2013, Bayat 2013) quiet encroachment of the ordinary, Hardt and …
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Towards an Articulation of Architecture as a Verb; Learning from Participatory Development, Subaltern Identities and Textual Values.
Originating from a disenfranchisement with the contemporary definition and realisation of Westernised architecture as a commodity and product, this thesis seeks to explore alternative examples of positive socio-spatial practice and agency. These alternative spatial practices and methodologies are …