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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"literary resistance"”.
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Disruptive soldiers : literary responses to the standing army controversy (1688-1846)
… is to provide a sustained consideration of literary engagements with the Standing Army Controversy in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution until the start of the Mexican-American War (1688 -1846). More specifically, I examine a selection of prominent literary examples from the …
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What'S So Funny?: Satire And African American Literature And Culture In The Twenty-First Century
… trajectory of satire within African American literary resistance calls for a shift in an understanding of humor as potentially frivolous and stress that the political and social import of African American humor must not be disassociated from the laughter it inspires today. By reading these …
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Re-situating the body : history, myth, and the contemporary women's writings in English and Japanese
This thesis analyses contemporary literary attempts by Western and Japanese writers to defy patriarchal control over the female body. Situating the female body through myth, religion, and various forms of art as "grotesque" is Western culture's means of control over nature. Contrary to this, …
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NATIONAL SELF AND NARRATIVE OF IDENTITY: CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM IN MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM
… at the dialectical relationship between Persian literary works representing or alluding to the pre-Islamic legacy and the political conditions of Iran. Through discursive analyses, it shows that these works in new political conditions change the orientation and main thrust of their message, and …
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Nations without nationalisms: on Palestinian and American Indian literary imaginations
… Nationalisms: On Palestinian and American Indian Literary Imaginations” approaches settler colonialism as a story that exhibits complex identity politics, competing concepts of humanity, and overlapping narratives of diaspora and trauma. It is also a story that is constantly disputed by Indigenous …