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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Martinique"”.
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Martinican Women and the French State: Race and Gender in the Construction of the Colonial Relation
… research in Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique.
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Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau : Fantastique et Histoire
… cultural personality from the French island of Martinique. His reputation is due to the worldwide success of his novels, especially Texaco, winner of the Prix Goncourt-award in 1992, but also to the fact that he is the leading theorist of the Créolité, an ideological movement whose aim is to …
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Religion in the work of Frantz Fanon
… the social and political contexts of his native Martinique and his adopted Algeria, both countries which are defined by strict social and religious hierarchies. Through this focus on his engagement with Christianity, Islam and indigenous traditions in both Martinique and Algeria I argue that, …
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MIGRATIONS INTERCONTINENTALES D¿OBJETS VERS LA CARAÏBE D¿EXPRESSION FRANÇAISE
… three Francophone territories: Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti. Drawing on research in anthropology, ethnology and sociology, we highlight the active role played by cultural objects within the social dynamics of the Caribbean. In particular, by situating literary production within its …
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Retour au paysage natal : Zur Natur im postkolonialen Roman der frankophonen Antillen
… der frankophonen Antillen (Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique) von seinen Anfängen in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart (Jacques Stephen Alexis, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Raphaël Confiant, Edouard Glissant, Daniel Maximin, Gisèle Pineau, Clément Richer, Jacques …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… in this study are Barbados, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue. This dissertation argues that the sociopolitical upheaval experienced by colonial residents during these military conflicts led to an increased desire for news that was satiated by the development and improvement of …
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A Population Genomic Study of Mutton Snapper (Lutjanus analis) Throughout Florida and the Caribbean
… waters off Belize, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, Martinique, and three areas around the Florida peninsula. Samples were assayed using dd-RAD sequencing, revealing 7,748 SNP markers. Mantel tests showed a weak isolation-by-distance pattern across the sampled range. Significant spatial …
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The U.S. Recognition of Vichy, France
… of French war vessels and airplanes in Martinique after French capitulation.</li> <li>Consideration of the problem of giving food relief to France without aiding Germany.</li> <li>Protection of American property in France after French capitulation.</li> <li>Persecution of Jews by German …
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The eye of the needle: magnetic survey and the compass of capital in the age of revolution and reform
… combinations: from Newcastle Town Moor to the Martinique marina. Combination, resistance, and revolution prove critical. The protests of English commons are shown to have fuelled the launch of the magnetic campaign, just as the uprisings of the Black Atlantic formed its material and theoretical …
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Mangroves, fisheries and coastal communities’ perception of environmental change
… in three case studies: Thailand (Chapter 4), Martinique (Chapter 5) and Jamaica (Chapter 6). In each case, the relationship between small-scale fishers and their surrounding mangroves is presented to assess their vulnerability, through their perception of environmental factors including direct …
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Blood and virus detection on barber hair clippers
… genotype A sequences from SA, India, Brazil and Martinique, while clipper 20 clustered with SA genotype D sequences. The clipper 20 sequence was identical to a subtype D sequence (GenBank accession AY233291) from Gauteng, SA. Conclusion: This study confirms that there is significant contamination …
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The poetics of hermeticism: Andre Breton's shift towards the occult in the War years
… Marseilles, with an enforced three week stop in Martinique while waiting for onward passage, he chose to carry the spirit of Surrealism into ‘exile’ in the United States until 1946, rather than risk its extinction by remaining in war-torn Europe. Following his journey into exile, this thesis …
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EXPLORING THE CAPACITY AND STUDENT NEEDS OF WELLNESS PROGRAMS AND SERVICES OFFERED AT A HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY (HBCU): A CASE STUDY APPROACH
Every year universities across the United States administer the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) to assess their students’ general health based on nine topic areas (i.e. sleep, nutrition, mental health, drug use, sexual behavior, etc.) in relation to their impact on academics. Overall, …
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Determining timescales of natural carbonation of peridotite in the Samail Ophiolite, Sultanate of Oman
Determining timescales of the formation and preservation of carbonate alteration products in mantle peridotite is important in order to better understand the role of this potentially important sink in the global carbon cycle and also to evaluate the feasibility of using artificially-enhanced, in …
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The Problem of Guilt: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Glissant
… of this strand of thinking on guilt in Martinique, Algeria, and the U.S. in the work of Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. Analyzing such sources as Fanon’s library and marginalia, his coursework with Merleau-Ponty at the University of Lyon, and his ‘Society and Psychiatry’ lectures at …
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Geographies of suffering: the literature of catastrophe in the Francophone Caribbean
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La poetique du paysage dans l'oeuvre d'Edouard Glissant, de Kateb Yacine et de William Faulkner
This dissertation examines the different ways in which Edouard Glissant, Kateb Yacine and William Faulkner combine landscape, history and identity in their work. The depiction of landscape in literature is not new, but the French Romantics in the 19th century, for instance, tended to describe the …