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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"anti-colonialism"”.
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Sedition, Equality, Nature, and Love: Anti-colonialism in the Literary Corpus of Kazi Nazrul Islam, 1900-1930
… of resistance anchored in the vicissitudes of anticolonial thought as shaped by a comet in his own right who fired from the Bengal countryside. I chart Kazi Nazrul Islam’s life and literary praxis driven by secularist ambitions and affinities for concepts such as self, truth, and justice. As …
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The British Empire and the Early Cold War: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Cyprus
… against the challenges of international anti‐colonialism, colonial nationalisms, and, above all, the seemingly coordinated efforts of colonial, national, and transnational communist movements to undermine the British Empire. This British revisionist study argues that British imperialism …
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"Entering the Tooniverse:" Anti-Capitalist Children's Play in Disney's Toontown Online
… media and play culture is represented through an anti-capitalist lens in Toontown Online and its fan-made remakes, using cultural studies and historical, literary, and media analysis. By positioning children’s play culture against U.S. adult work culture, Toontown’s narrative emphasizes how …
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Hieroglyphic, Oral, and Performative: (Re)Evaluating Resistance to Colonialism in the Works of Melville
… I revisit Melville’s engagements with colonialism, evaluating their efficacy and limitations. Tommo’s refusal of the Typee facial tattoo, Ishmael’s fear of Queequeg during the Monkey Rope scene, and Amasa Delano’s inability to understand the revolt aboard the San Dominick show a …
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‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism: tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties
… Butler Yeats’s relationship to the issues of colonialism and anti-colonialism and his stance as a postcolonial poet. A considerable part of Yeats criticism has read him either as a revolutionary and anti-colonial figure or a poet with reactionary and colonialist mentality. The main argument of …
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Diversity is (not) good enough: Unsettling White Settler Colonialism within Toronto's Queer Service Sector
… about their understandings of how diversity, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism are practiced. Findings highlight how queer service provision, particularly its perpetual crisis and capacity to care for queerness, can obscure the ways the organizations themselves contribute to the naturalization …
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Identity Denied: Minority-Within-Minority Discrimination and the Contradictions of British Multiculturalism
… explores the causes and lived experiences of anti-Ahmadi sentiment in the United Kingdom. It reveals that British Ahmadis experience severe, targeted anti-Ahmadi hostility, which is both more widespread and has a greater negative impact on their lives than the anti-Muslim prejudice they …
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Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927)
… impact on the Chinese May 4th Movement. The anti-colonialism of writings by Yeats, Synge and Lady Gregory became useful as a model of decolonisation literature for Chinese intellectuals, particularly during the nineteen-twenties. More specifically, through archival research, the author showed …
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A study of Communist Thought in Colonial India, 1919-1951
… world in the twentieth century. In particular, anti-colonial thinkers engaged productively with Marx’s ideas as part of their struggle against Empire. Yet, little attention has been paid to the displacements and innovations in political thought as a result of this encounter between …
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The development of the right to education in international law
… resistance against Nazi and Fascist regimes colonialism vs. anti-colonialism, and limited economic resources have affected the content and the scope of these thematic components over time. The broader historical comprehension of the right to education undertaken by the thesis not only …
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The army league, conscription and the 1956 defence review
… response to further decolonization and anti-colonialism based on national security concerns.
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新加坡华文诗歌中的国家意识(1945-1970) = A Study of State Awareness in Singapore's Chinese Poetry (1945-1970)
… of the Singapore?s Chinese poetry during the Anti-Colonialism Period in 1950s and 1960s. The fifth chapter analyses the external and internal factors building state awareness existed in the Singapore?s Chinese poetry. The sixth chapter gives an in-depth view on the gradual development of state …
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The Anti-Racist Avant-Garde: Modernist Legacies and Experimentation in Ralph Ellison and James Joyces’ postcolonial and racial subjects
… to provide an overview of each authors’ early anti-colonial/-racist arguments, with specific focus on their use of music as it relates to nationalism. The second chapter will discuss the pinnacle of each authors’ canon - Ulysses and Invisible Man respectively - within a cultural materialist …
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Exploring Anti-colonial Struggles in Nursing: A Situational Analysis of Indigenous Homelessness and Community Health Nursing
… Problem: Indigenous homelessness is rooted in colonialism and has profound impacts on health and wellbeing. Nurses encounter Indigenous people experiencing homelessness in their community health and harm reduction work, and yet little is known about how nurses struggle against colonial …
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Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
… as a non-lieu, Resnais’s use of syntopy invites anticolonial and anti-Eurocentric reflections on historical trauma. His filmmaking voyage then comes to the unlocatable hotel in L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961), as discussed in chapter 2. Here, syntopy relates to body and perception, inviting …
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Exploring the pattern of Islamic social movements : four case studies
… study are: the Tobacco Movement (1892) - an 'anti colonialism' movement, the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1906) - a 'justice' movement, the 15th of Khordad movement (1963) - an 'anti modernisation' movement, and the last in chain, the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 - an 'anti imperialism' …
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Palestinian Revolution and World Imperialism in the "American Century," 1945-1972
This study examines Palestinian analysis of, and responses to, United States imperialism on the basis of research in Arabic. The inquiry is organized around several key US interventions in West Asia immediately following World War Two, namely the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine …
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Rethinking Vivekananda through Space and Territorialised Spirituality, c. 1880-1920
… Exposition. Furthermore, his speeches painted an anti-colonial geography of fraternity, and instilled new malleable subjectivity in his western female followers. After his death, his life and ideas continued to challenge the colonial state's distinction between 'spirituality' and anarchism. Thus, …
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Towards a Decolonial Feminist Aesthetics: Gender, Race, and Empire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s <i>Dictee</i>
<p>Defining revolutionary struggle as a struggle between fictions, Trinh T. Minh-ha asserts that art in revolution is a spiritual presence which widens the conception of freedom. Political struggle is constituted by clashes in differently written and conceived realities—hinged on the creation and …
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Race, Identity, and Belonging in Early Zimbabwean Nationalism(s), 1957-1965
… in 1957 and the widespread adoption of an anti-white violent struggle in 1966. It reassesses the place of non-black individuals within African anti-settler movements. Using the chronological narrative provided by the experiences of marginal non-black supporters (including white, Asian, …