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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"binary opposition"”.
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Patriarchal fallacies East and West: A comparative study of gender imposition in the writings of Hell
… structuralist's seemingly profound theory of ""binary opposition"" is a danger of institutionalizing gender. It is my contention in this project that ""gender imposition"" is a patriarchal and theological projection derived from the institutionalization of symbolic orders. By ""gender …
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"""Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick"": Humor and the subversive in three novels by Zora Neale Hurston"
… humor in her works helps explode this critical binary opposition. Specifically, the carnivalesque and the heteroglossia often subvert essentialist notions of (Black) identity.
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Juxtaposition and the creative reader Malinowski in the field
… of the same work, separated only by essentialist binary opposition codes (i.e., self/other, dominant/submissive, objective/subjective, public/private) that have dominated much of western modern philosophical discourse. This re-assessment will take the form of a postmodern critique of some of the …
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Public dialogue between Church and Others through a communicative mode of madanggŭk : A practical theological perspective
… the church and the other is a response to “binary opposition” or “dichotomy,” that is, the separation of faith and praxis, knowing and doing, private sphere and public sphere, Christian and non-Christian, text and context, educator and learner. As explored in Chapter 2, religion is presently …
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The Parisian Stage during the Occupation, 1940-1944: A Theatre of Resistance?
… as either pro-Resistance or pro-Collaboration, a binary opposition I will challenge. While it is understandable that certain lines or themes took on special relevance, writers would not risk attracting the attention of the German or Vichy authorities. Mythical or historical subject material was …
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Syllable "sonority" hierarchy and the stress patterns in Pulaar. A metrical approach
"""Syllable weight is usually viewed as a binary opposition... "" (Hayes, 1989). That is, distinctions are seen in terms of heavy versus light, bimoraic versus monomoraic syllables. An analysis of the metrical structure and other phonological processes of Pulaar, a member of the West Atlantic …
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Curious parallels: an examination of terms and concepts shared between biology and linguistics, and their relevance to the study of languages.
… and life, given that the term is often used in binary opposition to nature on the one hand, and in a rather vague alliance with language in the term “language and culture” on the other. Defining precisely what culture is, and its relationship to biology and language alike, will therefore be a …
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Moving out of the Shadows: Resistance and Representation in the Struggle for Migrant Rights
… organizing approach no longer dependent on the binary opposition of migrants as criminal/lawful.
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Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd : Contemporary urban conditions with special reference to thai homosexuality
… disarray the traditional relationship between binary oppositions, whether tradition/modernity, old/new, global/local, heterosexual/homosexual, and the like. It is a kind of in-between condition that manifests itself through different scales and different levels, physically and metaphorically, …
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La construcción y el papel de la identidad vasca en la literatura vasco americana
… left behind its penchant for ethnocentric and binary opposition hermeneutics, so did the literary production we associate with the Basque American Diaspora. The present study aims to shed light on a contemporary shift in Basque Diaspora writings by viewing them through a comparative lens that …
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Western China on Screen: Cinema and Urban Exploration as Thirdspace
… China becomes a space of resistance in the binary opposition of China’s developing west versus its developed east. Looking into the everyday city spaces inhabited by ordinary citizens and subaltern groups, this thesis adds an alternative urban image—the cinematic Thirdspace of contemporary …
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Substitutive bodies and constructed actors: a practice-based investigation of animation as performance
… animation and performance to problematise a binary opposition between that which is live as opposed to that which is animated. It is contextualised by a review of historical practice and interviews with key contemporary practitioners whose work combines animation with an intermedial mixture …
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Thinking Beyond Identity, Nationalism, and Empire
… of the idea of sovereignty, as well as the binary opposition of “Arabs” and “Jews” in Euro-American thought. Americanized Zionism, I conclude, is less a product of Jewish ethnicity or religion than enactment of a commitment to U.S. nationalism as a fundamental aspect of American Jewish …
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'Garden of evil' : images of the enemy in American war literature 1962-1990
… myths of national identity the'self from and in binary opposition to which all American enemies spring;second, the exploitation of gender and sexuality as tropes through whichAmericans and American enemies are shaped; third, race and racistdiscourses (including the imagery of miscegenation, …
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Meanings of social exclusion and inclusion in relation to older people with dementia in care homes
… of older people with dementia in care homes, the binary opposition on which it is based, namely medical/social, is too simplistic for understanding the complex and fluid relationships, that the people with dementia involved in this study, had with their social world.
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The novel ''Another Country'' and “Miss Jessie Isn’t All There”: Jean Rhys, spaces, and difference
… include a postcolonial experience. The apparent binary opposition in Rhys’s fiction between a present time in Europe and a remembered life in the Caribbean is discussed. Finally, the intrinsic restlessness of her protagonists, and her fiction, is compared to Jacques Derrida’s idea of ‘différance’.
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THEATRES OF THE SUBJECT: THEATRICALITY AND DIALECTIC IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT
… its mimetic and spatial disjunctions, its opposition of spectator and actor – invariably lead practitioners and theorists to take a stand with respect to two orientations toward the subject. They are distinguished, I argue, by their different attitudes concerning the aleatory, unpredictable …
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'From local hero to national star?' : the changing cultural representation of the professional footballer in England, 1945-1984
… development of football stardom. Instead of the binary opposition of the local hero/national star trope, it argues that footballers' star images embody different male cultural types. Types are complex constructions, that mutate in relation to changes within football and in society. The first two …
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Producing Ambiguous Threats: The Xenos and Xenophobia in Postcolonial France
… that have emerged beside the traditional binary, dominating Western differentiation (e.g., French/stranger). To that end, it resorts to a Foucaultian archaeology to analyse the regularity of discursive and non-discursive practices of subjectification – like xenophobic discourse, knowledge, …
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Beyond Home and Exile: Encounters between Syrian Refugee and Local Women in Germany
… critically and cinematically negates the binary opposition of both terms.
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