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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"national imagination"”.
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Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth-Century Denmark C.C.Thomson, University of Edinburgh, 2003 This thesis centres on the contemporary Danish novel as a conduit for national imagining. Chapter one begins with a discussion of Benedict Anderson's account of the ability …
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Not all camps have camouflage: gay writing and the great South African dream
… of homosexuality, in the self-defining national imagination of post-apartheid South Africa. I shall be concerned with ways of thinking the representation of marginalised sexualities, as well as of the significance of the paradoxical or oxymoronic centrality of those marginalities within …
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Constituting the un-American atheist: Eisenhower's theistnormativity and the negation of American atheists
… In order to understand how atheists fit into the national imagination inspired by President Eisenhower, this thesis explores how Eisenhower talked explicitly and implicitly, through rhetorical omission, about atheists. I argue that President Eisenhower framed atheists as un-American during his …
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Defining the nation, defining public television: discourses of publics on public service television in post-communist Latvia
… of social constructionist approaches to national imagination and broadcasting, my study focuses on the investigation of responses publics of the Latvian public television LTV have developed vis-à-vis its role as contributing to the nation-building project in this ex-Soviet Baltic country. …
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A new India: Contestations of national identity at the crossroads of postcolonial aspirations and globalized imagination
My dissertation examines contestations of national identity and representation of individual aspirations within a globalized imagination of 21st century India. In analyzing the metaphoric construction of a New India, I look at the unrestrained urbanization that has followed economic liberalization …
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The Gilded Tropics: Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in Florida, 1886-1917
… The state of Florida persists in the national imagination as the locus of troubling anxieties and bold aspirations concerning nationality, borders, and real estate values. Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent were some of the first artist travelers to explore these themes in …
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Tracing the boundaries: women, nation & modernity in Turkey
… project examines the dominant discourses of national identity and delineates the processes of othering in contemporary Turkey. It does this by following the various debates that have surfaced around women in Turkey. The data that informs this process consists of news coverage of selected case …
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“Architecture of the land”: Louis I. Kahn’s national assembly building complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the construction of a national identity
Louis I. Kahn’s (1901–74) National Assembly Building Complex (constructed 1963–82) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, provides a case study on how the builtenvironment can help in the formation of a nation’s identity in its postcolonial (after 1947) and postindependence (after 1971) eras. My study will …
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Reenactments: Embodied Encounters with the U.S. Southern Past
… this dissertation responds to contemporary national conversations around race, region, cultural memory, and political ideology through an examination of four distinct performance practices that “reenact” the South. Reenactments explores the multiple historic and contemporary U.S. Souths …
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Black Folk /White Bondage: Race, *Class and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925--1942
… New Deal reformism, and a Depression-traumatized national culture fascinated with images of both Southern rural suffering (""white bondage"") and literary grotesquery. I see Depression-era Southern writing as a literature of conflict rather than consensus, countering the Agrarian/New Critics' …
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National aspirations, imagined futures, and space exploration: The origin and development of Korean Space Program 1958-2013
… a “space program” and “the construction of national identity” in a political, social, and transnational context. Through historical analysis, I will show that South Korea’s space program has been primarily driven by nationalistic rationales implicit in the argument that space development …