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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"Post-colonial studies"”.
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Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals
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POST-COLONIAL DISLOCATION AND AMNESIA: A CURE FROM MOLEFI KETE ASANTE'S AN AFROCENTRIC MANIFESTO
'Post-colonial Dislocation and Amnesia: A Cure from Molefi Kete Asante's An Afrocentric Manifesto' aims at investigating the epistemological problems and theoretical inconsistencies in contemporary post-colonial studies. Capitalizing Molefi Kete Asante's theorizations on agency, location, identity, …
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Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
This dissertation research focuses on post-colonial storytelling practice, theorizing a framework I call Narrative Justice Playmaking which addresses the research question: How can and do theatre practitioners tell stories of ongoing traumatic subject matter in ways that are not just trauma- …
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The Duchy of Courland’s Colonial Networks and Encounters from the Baltic to the Atlantic: 1638-1698
… of the Baltic Sea, was an unlikely candidate for colonial expansion. Yet, in the mid- to late seventeenth century, the ambitions of the dukes, in particular Duke Jakob Kettler (reigned 1642-1682), provided it with a brief colonial presence in Tobago and The Gambia. The Duchy is an extreme example …
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Discourses of language acquisition and identity in the life histories of four white South African men, fluent in isiXhosa
A post-structuralist framework (Foucault, 1976; Weedon, 1997) is used to explore language acquisition and identity construction in the life histories of four multilingual white South African men, who became fluent in the African language of isiXhosa in the racially-divided world of Apartheid South …
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The Post-Colonial Christ Paradox: Literary Transfigurations of a Trickster God
Within English post-colonial literary studies, Christianity has often been characterized as principally a colonial imposition and, therefore, only modestly theorized as a post-colonial religion that lends itself to complex post-colonial literary renderings. However, the literary implications of …
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Marriage, the Family, and Security in Israel: The Paradox of the Liberal State
… of liberalism, biopolitics, nationalism, and post-colonial studies. Part one traces the history of Israel from the late Ottoman period through the founding of the State in 1948, with consideration paid both to Israel's founders (and the political Zionisms they espoused) and to political …
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"She speaks with wisdom and faithful instruction...": the influence of a religio-spiritual epistemology on the academic knowledge, pedagogy, and theorizing of Black women university teachers
… Theology, the Theory of the Black Church, and Post-colonial Studies were employed in order to facilitate this inquiry. Every woman was reared in a predominantly Black congregation (PBC), and many still practice their faith in a PBC. The primary focus of this study was to consider the influence …
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(Re) Presenting Study Abroad through the 'Colonial Library'
… on the continent of Africa, most of which have colonial histories. Relying on scholarship from postcolonial studies, critical tourism studies, and higher education, this analysis addresses the social imaginary that anchors study abroad programs in such host countries on the African Continent. …
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John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype
… such as Orientalism and Spanish cultural studies, an approach that has not been undertaken to date.</p> <p>The thesis intends to demonstrate that Sargent's early paintings -along with those of his American counterparts who traveled to Paris- were strongly motivated by the prevailing …
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Comparisons of employment barriers between visible minority and Anglo-Saxon women in different occupations
Minority groups tend to face disproportionately higher rates of unemployment, underemployment and restricted job mobility than non-minority groups. In recognition of the inequalities borne by these groups in the labour force, Judge Rosalie Abella produced a report iterating the most “efficient, …
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The Persian Period Pottery of Tall Al-'Umayri
<p>Problem</p> <p>In Transjordan, archaeological evidence found at well-stratified sites and dating to the Persian period (539-330 BC) has been lacking until the publication series of Tall al- ‘Umayri. This dissertation determines a pottery typology of the Persian period by distinguishing between …
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The value hierarchies of J.R.R. Tolkien and his legacy: a reimagining of fantasy fiction and the propagation of colonial racism
… the Rings, and The Silmarillion are based on his colonial worldview. They are biographical in that Tolkien draws heavily from his life experience to tell his stories. The biographical influence manifests in a hierarchical representation of everything from trees and their ancestry to the elves, …
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Black education in Canada West: A parochial solution to a secular problem. Rev. M. M. Dillon and the Colonial Church and School Society
… had been abolished by 1834 in all British colonial possessions. Blacks were promised protection from racism by virtue of British institutions. Upper Canada offered the fugitives a chance to begin a new life. Life in Canada West was not to be as joyful as was promised. When Blacks arrived in …
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A Postcolonial Critique of Industrial Design: A critical evaluation of the relationship of culture and hegemony to design practice and education since the late 20th century.
A Postcolonial Critique of Industrial Design: A critical evaluation of the relationship of culture and hegemony to design practice and education since the late 20th century. This thesis specifically focuses on the professional practices and training of Western industrial designers using …
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An unblinking gaze: Readerly response-ability and racial reconstructions in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' and 'Beloved'
This thesis examines Toni Morrison's reconstruction of racial representations in The Bluest Eye and Beloved. Morrison stresses the need for a transformation of current representations of black and white culture in her critical study, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, in …
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