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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"The Foreigner"”.
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The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor
<p>This thesis will focus on Katherine Anne Porter's 'Noon Wine,' Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person.' In each work, the author constructs dynamics between the native, white Southerner and the white foreigner (of Swedish, Grecian, and …
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LA CONDIZIONE DI PRECARIETÀ DEL MIGRANTE: UNA PROSPETTIVA GIUSLAVORISTICA
This doctoral thesis focuses on the employment relationship of non-EU nationals and studies its peculiarities, with particular attention to the legal position that the foreigner holds in the Italian legal system and the effects that this condition produces on the employment relationship. The first …
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Teacher Otherness in Early Childhood Education: Rethinking uncertainty and difference through a Kristevan lens
… intimately and subjectively, able to live with the others, to live as others, without ostracism but also without leveling? (Kristeva, 1991, p. 2, emphasis in the original) This thesis is a critical philosophical response to Kristeva’s opening question. I draw on Kristeva’s theories to challenge, …
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Coping Methods of College Women of Color Facing Discrimination
… microaggressions can have a negative impact on the psychological and physical health of women of color. Female college students of color specifically have shown to experience microaggressions in the college setting. Researchers have documented that certain coping strategies can protect against …
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A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva
In utilizing Kristeva's psychoanalytic discursive theory of identity-formation within literary symbolic structures, my thesis seeks to follow the ontological processes involved in identity and signification in “subversive” signifying practices. Specifically, I'm interested in the ways modern poetry …
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The Determinants of Capital Market Development in Tanzania, The Case Study of Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange.
This study sought to determine the determinants of capital market development in Tanzania. The empirical study was conducted using time series data for the period 1998- 2012. This study adopted quantitative approach and employed secondary data of fifteen years, Pearson correlation test was used to …
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Les étrangers aux frontières de la France : étude de récits de migration (1870 à nos jours)
… narratives make an ambiguous contribution to the democratization of French national borders. National borders are essentially spaces of crises from which it is possible to study the constant evolution of national identity. Migration narratives, regardless of their ideological dimension, offer …
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Soomaali Mi'yaa? an ethnographic exploration of Somali identity formation in Cape Town
Somalinimo is the blood, breath, and bone of this research. Meaning “the essence of being Somali,” this word walks through borders, creating transnational communities. Somalis are viewed as one people, and Somalis believe themselves to be one people. This thesis explores the meaning and …
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Producing Ambiguous Threats: The Xenos and Xenophobia in Postcolonial France
… as threats and persecuted accordingly because they are ambiguous, that is, neither similar nor different, neither one thing nor its opposite. This research groups those subjects under the analytical term xenos (both the host and the guest in the ancient Greek hospitality) and studies three …
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Patterns of Exile in Greek Tragedy
The argument that underlies the present study is that exile, defined as the exclusion from the social, religious and political life in the polis, constitutes in the tragic plays an exploration of civic identity by means of its opposite, reinforcing its importance through its very antithesis. This …
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The Marquis de Cuevas : pushing the boundaries of self
… is best remembered as a fashionable socialite of the 1940s and 50s who married heiress Margaret Rockefeller Strong and founded several ballet companies in Europe and America in the wake of the great Ballet Russes era. This dissertation examines how Cuevas cultivated his fictionalized public …
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Bible Noise: Hearing Hidden and Silenced Voices through Sound Art Practice in the Reading Aloud of the Bible
My research brings together sound art with the ritual of reading aloud the bible. When the bible is read aloud in worship, it is done by a single voice. I consider this single voice as a mono-voice of hegemony that hides and silences that plurality of voices that are present in scripture, with …
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Exploring Strange, New Worlds: Travellers and Foreigners in Medieval Iberian Literature
… from twelfth- to fifteenth-century Iberia. The guiding research questions revolve around how journeyers encountered, reacted to, and reported on foreign peoples, lands, and customs as they left behind their homes and travelled throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. From their liminal position …
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Connecting to the Feminine and to the Inner Self in Sarah Orne Jewett's <em>The Country of the Pointed Firs</em>.
… depth and its moral and emotional significance. There is a foundation in the real world of human feeling, and while there is much grief and sorrow in this community, there are also possibilities for happiness. The connection to death and loss is what gives much in this feminine world meaning. …
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Negotiated ecologies: Indigeneity and ecocriticism in 19th century Bolivia and Chile
This dissertation examines four themes which underscore how the 19th century was, in a number of ways, a pivotal time period with regards to ecological relations in the Andean region. During the 19th century, food production became more mechanized, the introduction of the steam engine led to faster …