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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Subalternity"”.
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Unsettling whiteness : Kipling's Boers and the case for a white subalternity
The 'Bard of Empire' Rudyard Kipling's Boer War (or South African War) writing has largely been dismissed as jingoism. Yet these texts may well have something to contribute both to existing discourses around colonialism, as well as to our understanding of South Africa's deeply intertwined racial …
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The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: A Study in International Legal Subalternity
… of what the author calls International Legal Subalternity, according to which the promise of justice through international law has been repeatedly proffered under a cloak of political legitimacy furnished by the international community, but its realization interminably withheld.
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Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
The present study investigates the field of theatre practice that I have chosen to call alternative Zimbabwean theatre through a detailed study of four plays and reference to several others all first performed and written between 1980 and 1996. The study interrogates the interweaving and …
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"""Who speaks for me, with and to me?"" Subalternity and representation in the works of Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar"
… representations of subaltern agency relate subalternity to social and political conditions of living in exile. I contend that it is this lived experience that leads Head to articulate a completely new perspective for examining the elite-subaltern relationship, namely the subaltern’s …
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The sexual politics of asylum: lived experiences of sexual minority asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
… and differences amongst the conditions of subalternity to which non-heteronormative subjects can be exposed in different geo-political locations. In the process I seek to: i) understand the specificity of the experiences of identification and belonging of people claiming asylum for fear of …
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Pinnip pinainthu kidakkum oorangattthalkalai kattudaiththal: Reimagining social activism with intersectional subaltern activist consciousness
… to argue i) particular experiences of subalternity emerge in post-war justice movements, ii) activist consciousnesses are shaped by everyday struggles that are constantly changing and evolving as activists navigate precarious living due to multiple and intersecting forms of …
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Masters of difference : Creolization and the Jewish presence in Cabo Verde, 1497-1672
… in Cabo Verde was accompanied by transference of subalternity in the Atlantic world from Sephardim to Africans, ensuring that the cristãos novos of Cabo Verde were, indeed, masters of difference. It is argued that the cristãos novos’ doubleness of identity facilitated their success in Cabo Verde, …
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Globalization, Critical Post-colonialism and Career and Technical Education in Africa: Challenges and Possibilities.
… discrimination, reproduction, hegemony, and subalternity. Through the concept of democratic education Dewey and Freire offer, I envision, idealistically and realistically, a holistic and emancipatory TVET where the main concern would not just be to train hands but also heads. In so doing, SSA …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
<p>Building upon examinations of genericity, subalternity, and carcerality by Black, Indigenous, and women-of-color feminist scholars, my dissertation offers an account of how truth claims are produced and sustained to limit social change in representatively governed societies. Taking the gangster …
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UCRAINA POLYTROPA: LA LETTERATURA DEL PERIODO 1917-1934 ALLA RICERCA DI UN ORIENTAMENTO TRA SPINTE ANTICOLONIALI E TENDENZE POSTCOLONIALI
… one, with which Ukrainian culture shares the ‘subalternity complex’ towards Western Europe, perceived as the center of cultural colonialism whose influence extends to the whole of Eastern Europe (Wolff 1994; Morozov 2015); 2) Europe itself, of which Ukraine feels part, albeit marginal. The …
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The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel
… uses. Eventually, the novels convey a sense of subalternity to a substantially Hindu nationalist history and historiography, the centrifugal force of which developed in the twentieth century and continues into the present.
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
… we can see witches’ spells as a rhetoric of subalternity. Rhetorical meanings (re)/create in ways that defy traditional delineations of the ‘real.’ Witches’ spells are a priori impolite because they are deployed from twitching tongues already considered dangerous and clamorous. Like the …