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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Spivak"”.
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Arendt and Spivak: a feminist approach to political worlding and appearing
<p>“Arendt and Spivak: A Feminist Approach to Political Worlding and Appearing” offers the first systematic and comparative reading of Hannah Arendt and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Beginning with their mutual interests in political speech and appearance (the ability for individuals to represent …
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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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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… 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 rule (the …
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From 'a room of one's own' to 'a room in the home': Discourses of negation in Indian feminist post-colonial fiction of Anita Desai, Mannu Bhandari and Ashapurna Devi
… Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, Pratima Parmar, Valerie Amos and others. I personally have been inspired by Chandra Talpade Mohanty in conceiving and researching my dissertation which analyzes in a comparative light the struggle of three Indian Post-colonial women writers, …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… 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 results of …
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Productively Undoing a Doctoral Study: Ethically Researching Early Childhood Education and Care in the Majority World
This thesis productively undoes (Spivak, 2012) a doctoral study in the early childhood education and care classes of an NGO run school in Pune, India. I tell the story of my original research project that intended to develop a rich understanding of children’s play and early learning in an early …
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"Equal Partners in Crime": Narration in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
… 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 readers …
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Becoming
… space for knowledge production, combatting what Spivak dubs as epistemic violence. Guided by the principles of post colonial life writing, African and Black feminist thought, Black queer theory, and art as an emancipatory tool, this thesis centers voices often theorized about yet rarely heard and …
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O Kae? An Autoethnographic Dramaturgy Through A Deliberate Incommensurability
… for the study drawn primarily from Gayatri C. Spivak and Toni Morrison. In addition, the study interrogates the processes towards creating O Kae? - a performance installation that evaluates the importance of opacity towards the self-representation of the Other in an attempt to discover an …
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Christopher Durang : satire and beyond
Christopher Durang, a contemporary American playwright who has written over sixteen plays so far, including A History of the American Film, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, and The Marriage of Bette and Boo, writes satiric plays. His objects of satire are mostly institutions of …
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SNP auto-calling using artificial neural networks
In recent years feedforward artificial neural networks (ANN) and their training algorithms have become an effective methodology for the construction of nonlinear systems that solve the statistical problem of classification. The ability of ANNs to solve this problem is highly germane to making …
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"Her organs were a question of the state" reading Adriana Cavarero from the Latin American post-colony
… postcolonial thinkers like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Sara Ahmed.</p>
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Desejo Clandestino : o trânsito por corpos e espaços homoeróticos no Recife em Orgia de Tulio Carella
… Pimentel (2019, 2020); Silva (2015, 2016); Spivak (2010); Trevisan (2000), entre outros. Resultando em considerações sobre os estigmas inscritos nos sujeitos desviantes da norma hegemônica e os territórios que se ressignificam e possibilitam, mesmo que clandestinamente, a prática de …
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Film adaptation of the post-apartheid South African novel: re-examining the aesthetics of creation of disgrace
… 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 avenues …
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Women, Azaadi, Shadhinota, Freedom
… 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 where …
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Experimental Observation of Geometric Phases in Narrow-Gap Semiconductor Heterostructures
… of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) and Alâ tshuler-Aronov-Spivak (AAS) quantum oscillations in meso- scopic devices that we fabricated on these NGSs. Our measurements are unique in that we observe both AB and AAS in comparable magnitude in ballistic networks with strong SOI. We show that, with appropriate …
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A "Responsibility to Speak Out": Perspectives on Writing from Black African-Born Male Youth with Limited or Disrupted Formal Education
… 1996), and postcolonial theory (Said, 1978; Spivak, 1998), the study illuminates participants' perspectives on writing and makes suggestions for teaching adolescent youth, especially immigrant populations (Campano, 2007; Gutiérrez, 2008). The findings suggest that youth like these young men …
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A Part of it All. (Original writing);
… 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 description and …
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(W)raps of consciousness: articulating women's rights through hip hop in the Middle East and North Africa region
… third world feminist studies (Sandoval, 1991; Spivak, 1985; Mansour, 2016) and hip hop feminist studies (Morgan, 1999; Pough, 2004; Brown, 2013; Durham, 2013) to examine the diverse lived experiences of girls and women in the Middle East and North Africa region through the work of seven female …
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The Corset and the Hijab: the Discursivisation of Identity Between the West and the Orient
… Margalit, 2004; Lévi-Strauss, 1952; Said, 2003; Spivak, 1999), and works about the corset (Jardim, 2014; Kunzle, 2004; Steele, 1997, 2001) and the hijab (Ahmed, 2011; El Guindi, 1999; Shirazi, 2003) to promote an examination of the objects as communication praxes constructing and disseminating …
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