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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"nationhood"”.
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Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama
Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama posits that the importance of sixteenth-century martyrologies in defining England's national identity extends to the seventeenth century through popular representations of martyrdom on the page and stage. I argue that drama …
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Time and Nationhood: The United States and Indigenous Nations
… print narrative conceptions of colonialism, nationhood, and temporality. </p>
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Contested nationhood: Literary Geographies of contemporary Italian Alpine borders
… of spatial identity, and the sense of nationhood as expressed in Italian literature set in the Alpine border regions from the 1980s to the present. It explores how the presence of the national border, along with its related geopolitical, cultural, and social dynamics, influences …
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Transcolonial nationhood: Global interplay in Irish and Korean national theatre
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Two paths to nationhood : explaining the goals of ethnic rebellions
Contrary to widely held assumptions in the ethnic conflict literature, ethnic rebellions do not have to be separatist. Indeed, roughly one third of the largest ethnic rebellions since World War II have been attempts to take over, rather than separate from, existing states. Incorporating theories of …
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Young, Urban, Professional, and Kenyan?: Conversations Surrounding Tribal Identity and Nationhood
… colonialism, and the lived experience of nationhood?,” the researcher engages with eight participants in exploring their relationships with their tribal groups. From this juncture the researcher, through a co-constructed process with participants, interrogates the idea of nationhood by …
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Whose hero? : images of Louis Riel in contemporary art and Métis nationhood
… Riel in contemporary art in reference to Métis nationhood. I use visual images of Riel to discuss the various opinions of Riel, Métis historical and contemporary cultural struggles, and the concept of "nation" in reference to the Métis. My intent is to give a Métis point of view on art that …
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Reforming nationhood : England in the literature of the Tudor imperial age, 1509-1553
… explores the relationship between empire and nationhood in the literature of the Royal Supremacy. In so doing, it contests the assumptions of the social historians Michel Foucault, Benedict Anderson, Jürgen Habermas, and Ernest Gellner - all of whom have dated the dawn of the nation-event on …
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Between Two Motherlands: Struggles for Nationhood Among the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1906--1949
"This dissertation examines the Greek community in Bulgaria and its transformation from a prominent minority into a marginalized refugee population after resettlement in Greece. Its history illustrates the tension between nationality as a form of cultural affinity and national ideology as a …
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I Dreamt of Saltwater and Eggs: Magic, Nationhood, and the Writer-out-of-Country
… with questions of identity, belonging and nationhood. While extensive research has been conducted on post-colonial writing and the over- running themes in fiction which falls under this category, Cyprus has remained fairly un- explored, mainly due to the fact that its anti-colonial struggle …
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Tasha: A practice-based problematisation of Australian comedy cinema’s representation of gender, family and nationhood
Between 2007 and 2012, 140 fictional feature films were financed with the assistance of Australian film funding bodies. Of these 140 films, only 31 featured female protagonists and of these 31 films, only 8 were comedies (see Appendix B). These figures show statistically, Tasha, the creative film …
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‘Cyprus is the Country of Heroes, Not of Homosexuals’: Sexuality, Gender and Nationhood in Cyprus
… it examines how predominant discourses of nationhood and national identity as well as the processes, norms, institutions and mechanisms of Europeanization, affect local approaches to the relationship between national identity, gender and sexuality. -- Chronologically, the thesis covers the …
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Civilizing the Prehispanic: Neo-Prehispanic Imagery and Constructions of Nationhood in Porfirian Mexico (1876-1910)
This work looks at the artistic production of the Porfiriato (1876-1910) with particular attention to the representation of prehispanic cultures and their incorporation into an official historiography. Whilst highlighting the growing popularity of prehispanic and conquest themes, during the last …
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Producing America's Enemies and the Contested Rhetorics of Nationhood in the United States, 1775--1815
"To build a nation, Americans had to renege on their history. Once the American Revolution was won, the types of mob violence and citizen participation that brought victory in the war were no longer desirable. Hence, this dissertation investigates how the radical democracy of the Revolutionary War …
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood
This thesis addresses the critical terrain on which the colonial and post-colonial narratives of identity take shape. Taking Gayatri Spivak's aphorism that imperialism requires a rereading "not because Empire ..... is abstract, but because Empire messes with identity" as its premise, it attempts to …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
This dissertation examines the politics of representation within the novel of the Third World. Drawing on the scholarship of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Fredric Jameson, I situate Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk within literary attempts at national representation and narratives of …
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In the Shadow of the Horseman: The Petrine Era and the Search for Russian Nationhood, 1811-1941
… take on the development and nature of Russian nationhood through an analysis of Petrine historiography from the earlier nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century. The thesis specifically attempts to develop a connection between imperial and Stalinist discourses concerning Russian …
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Language, identity and nationhood: language use and attitudes among Xhosa students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
This thesis is a study of patterns of language attitudes and use among Xhosa home language speakers at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Speakers of Xhosa, according to Statistics South Africa 2000, form the second largest speech community in South Africa (17.9% of the total …
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The Politics of Border Walls in Hungary, Georgia and Israel
… measure. Yet, alternative geographic visions of nationhood in Hungary, Georgia and Israel define the fenced perimeters in these countries as the lines that divide the nation and its territory. These cases illustrate the contradiction between the geography of security, marked by the border wall, …
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Body politics: an illumination of the landscape of sexuality and nationhood? Re-seeing Zimbabwe through elderly women's representations of their sexual and gendered lives
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