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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"cultural nationalism"”.
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Canon Ulick Bourke: cultural nationalism, popular politics and the Knock apparition
… revival has been overlooked by scholars of cultural nationalism. By examining Bourke’s cultural nationalism and views on antiquity and language, as well as his politics and reaction to the Land War, this thesis argues that Bourke sought to create an orthodox version of the apparition which …
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Between two flags: cultural nationalism and racial formation in Puerto Rican Chicago, 1946-1994
… transformations. Throughout this period, cultural nationalism proved itself a valuable tool to mobilize support for multiple and competing political projects, including both those that supported and those that rejected independence for the island of Puerto Rico. As such, I argue, cultural …
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Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Mass Media: Television and the Struggle Over Meaning in Wales
… the late 1960s until 1982, a revitalized Welsh cultural nationalism mobilized over the issue of Welsh-language television. This study of that mobilization uses theories of culture and politics from the cultural studies literature to examine transformations in the discourses on culture during the …
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Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural nationalism and the growth of English-Canadian drama, 1945 to 1960.
"Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural Nationalism and the Growth of Canadian Drama 1945-1960" is concerned with the texture and substance of English-Canada's cultural life in the decade and a half following World War II. This thesis represents a case study in English-Canadian …
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After the Demolition: Constructing the Communal Riots of 1992--1993 in the Indian Media
… can be said to be building around ""secular-cultural nationalism"" rather than a rabid Hindutva ideology."
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Wilderness Nation: Building Canada's Railway Landscapes, 1885-1929
… of national expansion, economic growth, and cultural development. In alignment with federal projects of cultural nationalism, the country's first transcontinental railway promoted land-grant sales and tourism by representing Canadian landscapes as wilderness areas to be at turns enhanced as …
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Collective Leadership in Contemporary Irish Nationalism: The Writing of Gerry Adams
… national self-determination, antisectarianism, cultural nationalism, radical social policies, the politics of electoralism, as well as support for the armed struggle dedicated to British withdrawal from Northern Ireland and a united Ireland. Today, the modern Irish Republican movement is best …
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The path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897
Basic components of nineteenth century American nationalism influenced the creation of a national library in the United States. Manifest destiny, mission, nativism, and cultural nationalism provided the impetus to build an institution that preserved, symbolized, and spread national thought and …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
… instead that these narratives reproduce the cultural nationalism and anti-realist prejudices of leading figures of the Revival and do not satisfactorily account for the debates among Irish writers of this period of the nature and value of realism for an Irish literary project. This project …
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The Politics of Medical Syncretism in the Ghanaian National Healthcare System
… Ghanaian medical revivalism were the role of cultural nationalism in creating a policy platform in the early post-independence period concerned primarily with redeveloping indigenous Ghanaian arts and sciences and the role of individual leadership -- personified by Kwame Nkrumah and Dr. Aku …
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Black and Yellow Power: The Intersections of Identity Politics and Literary Study
… signified by changes in dress, hair, and other cultural practices. This slippage, I argue, is a result of conflations of revolutionary and cultural nationalism which eventually stripped the figure of its ideological and political specificity, leaving this counter-hegemonic identity open to …
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The power of Pan Africanism: Tanzanian/African American linkages, 1947-1997
… of Pan-Africanism enhanced through black internationalism exposes the cross-cultural fertilization of Tanzanian nationalism with the US black community’s self identity in the 1960s. By examining the interactions of black networks and the extension of hospitality between Tanzanians and African …
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Celluloid classicism: Early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam
… investigates how two of the most prominent cultural forms of modern South India—Tamil cinema and Bharatanāṭyam dance—share complex and deeply intertwined histories. It addresses the entangled emergence of these two modern art forms from the 1930s to the 1950s, which were decades marked by …
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Overlapping Terrains: Orientalism, Indian Nationalism and the Erotics of Cross -Cultural Contact
"The dissertation explores issues of cross-cultural 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 …
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Early Nineteenth Century German Idealism and Historical Perspectives in Beethoven's Eroica Variations, Op. 35
… generated a new intellectual ethos that merged cultural nationalism with the glorification of the self (Burnham). Beethoven’s music gave reliable expression to the values of the Goethezeit, depicting the self as a spiritual entity with a constitutive autonomy, a possibility for …
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Between Tradition and Transgression: Education, Culture, and (Inter)national Pedagogies in Spain (1857–1931)
… Libre de Enseñanza pursued a liberal Spanish “cultural nationalism,” while the Escuela Moderna eschewed nationalist formulations in favor of international collectivism, and the Escola Nova Catalana sought to increase Catalonia’s political and economic influence both domestically and …
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Authoritarian Renewal and Legitimation in Saudi Arabia
… This thesis investigates how authoritarian nationalism – a political ideology that fuses nationalist mobilization with authoritarian rule and the centralization of political power – is sustained and legitimized from below. I observe this dynamic during processes that I term “authoritarian …
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From 'nobody to somebody' : challenges and opportunities for Gujarati women learning English in London
… ideas in the UK, and during a precise moment of cultural nationalism in South Asia which is framed by concerns with race, ethnicity, class and gender which informs the formation of British-Asian femininities. This research supports other work that conceptualises identity as being in a constant …
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Dance, Culture and Nationalism: the Socio-cultural Significance of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwanese Society
The socio-cultural significance of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (est. 1973) in Taiwan is manifested in the interconnection of political nationalism and the representation of a diasporic postcolonialist cultural nationalism in its dance creations. The hybrid nature of Taiwanese society and its struggle …
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"X-rays" of self and society : Dambudzo Marechera's avant-gardism and its implications for debates concerning Zimbabwean literature and culture
… avant-gardism involves a rejection of cultural nationalism, and an eschewal of traditional realist criteria for writing. The thesis locates Marechera in a socio-historical context, and in the framework of black Zimbabwean literature (written in English). It discusses his rejection of …
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