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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"colonial discourse"”.
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The Influence of English Colonial Discourse on Early Irish Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1674-1754
… The thesis deploys a historically informed postcolonial analysis, in considering the extent to which the plays in question become bound up with their contemporary moment, on both an individual and collective basis. Duffet and Tate wrote whilst Ireland was still under the effect of plantation, …
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Space and spatiality in the colonial discourse of German South West Africa 1884-1915
… that space and spatiality is the domain in which discourse partakes of the colonial project, and second, to isolate a number of textual strategies employed in the discursive production of colonial space. The first aim requires a lengthy theoretical discussion which occupies the first part of the …
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Colonial and post-colonial discourse in the novels of Yom Sang-sop, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie
This dissertation examines colonial and post-colonial discourse in the works of Yom Sang-sop of Korea, of Chinua Achebe of Nigeria and of Salman Rushdie of Indian subcontinent. Since much of the critical attention on colonial discourse has been focused on western narratives, this study aims to shed …
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"A journal among them" : colonial discourse and the creation of an imaginary community in the Graham's Town Journal, 1831-36
This dissertation is a study of the discourse of the Graham's Town Journal in the years 1831 to 1836. An example of early Cape journalism, the Journal was established in the eastern Cape by L.H. Meurant, and owned and operated soon thereafter by R. Godlonton. The Journal was a means to represent …
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The RelaciåÑn of Don Joan De Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua: Colonial Discourse and Indigenous Memory in the Viceroyalty of Per
Chapter One is a summary of what is known about Pachacuti Yamqui's manuscript and offers a survey of scholarly opinion about the test. Chapter Two presents the state of our knowledge on the author biography. Chapter Three deals with Pachacuti Yamqui's treatment of pre-Hispanic ritual. Chapter Four …
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Thinking through the politics of shame as a contemporary form of colonial discourse : analysing media representations of the Baby Tshepang rape case
… stuck onto Louisvale through the mobilization of colonial and gender discourse. Quickly the town was known for its "barbarism" and "savage" existence; a town with no future and a disgrace to the country. Essentialist thinking about woman was used to condemn and blame the mother of baby Tshepang, …
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An expression of Guyanité: the writings of Serge Patient and Elie Stéphenson in the (re-) creation of a national literary allegory
… and literary production, and the legacies of colonial discourse as they pertain specifically to the French département are presented. The objective of the study is to present and evaluate the effectiveness of postcolonial reactions to legacies handed down from the “official” colonial record, …
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Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein
The dissertation engages in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting …
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The Leopard Men of the Eastern Congo (ca. 1890-1940): history and colonial representation
… for Central Africa, Belgium. Recently this colonial icon was criticised for presenting a racist image. Leopard men killed on behalf of chiefs in the east of Congo (ca. 1890-1940). The emergence of a mythology of leopard men is analysed in relation to its suppression as an anti-colonial …
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Walter Spies, tourist art and Balinese art in inter-war colonial Bali
… is an art historical study informed by post-colonial perspectives which critically examines the discourse concerning the role and the work of the artist Walter Spies in relation to Bali, Balinese art and the Balinese in the inter-war Dutch Colonial period. Drawing from a wide variety of …
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Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy
… easy categorization. Situated as "other" within colonial discourse, the represented black female body has historically undergone a double fetishization on the basis of a perceived sexual and racial lack. Dorothy Stevens' Coloured Nude (1933) is symptomatic of this unique fetishization, a state …
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Returning the gaze from the margins: decoding representations of gender, race and sexuality in tourist images of Jamaica
The thesis adopts a post-colonial approach to examine the relationship between historical and contemporary visual representations of Jamaica and identifies the repeated visual associations made with blackness and servitude, and whiteness with luxury from the colonial period in Jamaica and the …
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Subjectivity in the 'maid'/'madam' relationship and its effects on the occupational child care-giving functions of the domestic worker
… was informed by Hallway's (1989) interpretative discourse analysis whilst analytical concepts from Davies and Harre (1990) were used for the actual analysis of discursive positioning. Discourses that emerged from the "madams" accounts polarized into a progressive liberal discourse and an …
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
… of orientalism, I draw on Marxist and post-colonial theory in an inter-disciplinary analysis of several fields. These include Area Studies work on the Mao and 'reform' eras, from the Great Leap Forward famine to the 1989 Tiananmen event and beyond; the reception of new Chinese cinema …
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H. M. Stanley and the Literature of Exploration: Empire, Media, Modernity
… generally been treated as generic examples of ’colonial discourse’ or simply as a historical footnote to the canon of colonial adventure fiction. Little attention has been paid to the possible reasons for the phenomenal popularity and enduring appeal of these texts. I will expand upon previous …
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Discourse and Psyche: Three Women's Texts of Empire
… of women's writing of empire, the study of colonial women's texts has been limited by critics' working within the theoretical framework of complicity and resistance. Rather than exploring the dynamic psychic processes that give rise to colonial women's representations of the colonized, …
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Overlapping Terrains: Orientalism, Indian Nationalism and the Erotics of Cross -Cultural Contact
… erotics in twentieth-century narratives set in colonial India. It examines narratives by E. M. Forster, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi Devi and Rabindranath Tagore, which provide a romance setting for themes of East/West encounter. The necessity of addressing or accommodating the ""other"" in these …
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A Part of it All. (Original writing);
… heavily informed by critical theory and the post-colonial discourse, although not always overtly so. After Raymond Carver, the style of writing is minimalist, and much is said in the silent spaces between words--I employ silence as an evocative tool in the manner of such feminist and post-colonial …
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Foreign bodies in the river of sound : seeking identity and Irish traditional music
… from the viewpoint that knowledge is embedded in discourse, it argues that certain repertories and styles have been regards as symbolically representing and expressing essentially Irish characteristics mythologized within colonial discourse and inverted within nationalist discourse. These …
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The creation of a national identity: construction and representations with a case study of Mobutu's Zaire
… perpetuated around Africa. Much like other postcolonial spaces, Africa has fallen prey to Western assumptions and stereotypes. While the continent is diverse and has multiple narratives and voices, the notion of barbaric backward Africa has lived on. The shift to independence from Belgian Congo …
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