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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Postcolonial discourse"”.
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Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision
… and ideologies.<em> Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision</em> investigates female circumcision practices from a philosophical, Yoruba traditionalist perspective. African philosophy and religion provides an ideological foundation and helps reveal the …
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Grenzüberschreitungen : Eine untersuchung ausgewählter Novellen Hans Grimms im Zusammenhang mit der kolonialen Grenzproblematik
… key issue within colonial literature. Within the postcolonial German literary studies field, however, liminality has so far been given only very little interest, although it is an essential tool in elaborating our understanding not only of the colonial ideology and the colonial discourse, but also …
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Poësie en die politiek van die postmodernisme : 'n ondersoek na die postmodernistiese poësie van Wilma Stockenström
… opens up links between the postmodern debate and postcolonial discourse. This is especially pertinent when reading literary texts from a former colony such as South Africa, and specifically a text which focuses on an event which forms part of the country's colonial history, that being the arrival …
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
… is to prove that Rushdie's recent novels are not postcolonial in the sense that they abandon the colonial/colonized binary, the embrace of hybridity, and the theme of undermining the coercion and domination of the colonial country assumed in postcolonial discourse. Instead, his recent fiction is …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution: National Identity in the context of History, Race, and Language
Building upon a variety of approaches in postcolonial discourse, this project performs a rhetorical analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution through the features of race and written Standard English. It contends that neither race nor written Standard English are suitable and reliable constructs …
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The native artistic subject and national identity : a cultural analysis of the architecture of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, designed by Douglas J. Cardinal
… studies, drawing particularly on theories of postcolonial discourse and identity. Essentially the dissertation explores the relationship between the artistic subject, expressive form and the problematic of signification in relation to a symbol of national identity.
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The creation of a national identity: construction and representations with a case study of Mobutu's Zaire
… perpetuated around Africa. Much like other postcolonial spaces, Africa has fallen prey to Western assumptions and stereotypes. While the continent is diverse and has multiple narratives and voices, the notion of barbaric backward Africa has lived on. The shift to independence from Belgian …
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The Black Body in Arctic Space: Revisioning Racialised Landscapes in the Films of John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien
… and renegotiate the territory’s position within postcolonial discourse. Taking into consideration fresh global focus on the region in line with political ecologies and neocolonial collusions for ownership, this thesis is anchored by my aim to scrutinise how the Arctic territories are visualised, …
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Irma Stern (1894-1966) : the creation of an artist's reputation in her lifetime and posthumously, 1920-2013
… ideological positions - from colonial to postcolonial discourse and feminist studies. Also relevant to Stern's sustained reputation is the international recognition the artist has received. Stern's links to German Expressionism and recognition from foreign scholars and institutions served …
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Space, place and spatial loss in North African and Canadian writing in French
… an integral part of intellectual and everyday discourse that we are often not conscious of their existence and significance, and yet, they have profound consequences for how society is organised. However, these assumptions are not inherent to our thinking; they are socially constructed, …
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Buddhism and the state in Burma: English-language discourses from 1823 to 1962
This thesis examines three English-language discourses on the relationship between Buddhism and the state in Burma: its core focus is a postcolonial narrative produced largely by Burmese lay Buddhists writing in English, a narrative that I examine with reference to two other Anglophone discourses – …
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The Hybrid Spirit Animating Chinese Pentecostals in Malaysia
… dissertation interrogates the assertion in postcolonial scholarship, especially from the work of Homi Bhabha that the construction and performance of hybrid identities act as a form of resistance for marginalized communities against structures of oppression. While this study supports this …