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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"National Allegory"”.
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National Allegory: Land and Body in Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
… of Egypt and Assia Djebar of Algeria treat the national allegory that makes use of images of nation as woman and land as woman as well as woman as land and woman as nation. My question is what these two women do with this Arab narrative tradition used mainly by male writers. Do El Saadawi and …
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The tension of national allegory: the search for Chinese identity and modernity – an analysis of Chinese literature in the post-Mao era in the context of globalization
… theory, particularly his ideas relating to national allegory, and applies theoretical constructs, such as postmodernism (e.g the theories of Jean-Francois Lyotard), postcolonial theory (e.g Edward Said’s Orientalism), Julia Kristeva’s intertextuality, the carnival theory and the idea of …
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Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition
… are generated. My interest lies in the new national symbols and myths that emerge from this historical moment and the ways in which they have been figured through images and appropriations of women and their bodies. Women's bodies, I argue, are the contested sites upon which nationalism …
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God and the Novel in India
… the divine in the daily, whereas the more international novelists formally distance themselves from the felt enchantment of the first order they struggle to represent. Another way to view that bifurcation: as the disenchanted, statist worldview comes to prevail in the national imaginary at …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF KWANG WOO NOH, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mass Communication and Media Arts, presented on August 25, 2009, at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. TITLE: MEMORIES OF RAPID TRANSFORMATION: RETROSPECTION AND NOSTALGIA IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREAN …