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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"post-colonial theory"”.
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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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Shakespeare in South Africa : literary theory and practice
… of a "South African Shakespeare". Relying on post-colonial theory as primary framework, it views colonised culture not as secondary and responsive, but as primary and creative. The main work of the thesis is to trace the role played by "Shakespeare", as a set of texts and as an icon, in a …
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An investigation of the literary portrayal of children as participants in the liberation struggle as illustrated in Ellen Namhila's The Price of Freedom and Lydia Shaketange's Walking the Boeing 707
… and analysed. This analysis was informed by post-colonial theory as a theoretical framework. Post-colonial theory deals with the reading and writing of literature written in previously or currently colonised countries, or literature written in colonising countries which deals with the …
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Occidental Encounters: Early Nineteenth-Century Egyptian travelers to Europe
… in itself, but it can help us better understand post-colonial theory, which has always been more skewed towards Western views. The study will look at some of the tenets of modern Occidentalism, among them powerless discourse, knowledge, ambivalence, emancipation of women and the use of religion …
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Colonial shorthand: Swift, the ascendancy, and internal Colonialism
… contemporary critical picture of Swift as anti- colonialist. Combining historical research with discursive and rhetorical analyses of heretofore neglected primary sources, I focus on the colonial assumptions underlying Swift's tracts, sermons, and correspondence. Though Swift often opposed …
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Parental engagement, new technologies and education : between two cultures
… racial, and migratory identities and the colonial legacy on minority group's ability to participate in education. This study focuses on the impact of subjectification, intersecting identities and post-colonial theory on minority group parents' abilities to engage with schools in their …
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American Desi : representation and reproduction in diaspora /
… review of the literature in cultural studies and post-colonial theory on identity in the diaspora. A textual analysis of three films: American Desi, Bollywood/Hollywood, and East Is East, helps frame the characteristics of South Asian diasporic film. Theoretical concepts of diaspora and identity …
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The use and abuse of genealogy : genealogical critique from Nietzsche to Said
… deconstructs and rejects the claim that the post-colonial thinker in Edward Said's book 'Orientalism' is a genealogy in a similar sense to Nietzsche and Foucault. The rejection of Said's texts and Orientalism's status as a genealogical history is premised on a critical analysis of Said's …
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An Uncanny Perspective: Sculptures by Martin Puryear
… and fear. Using methods of psychoanalysis and post-colonial theory, in combination with art-historical documentation and journalism, I will investigate a deeper layer of inquiry. Puryear’s work remains veiled under a screen of mystery, ambiguity and abstraction, beckoning the viewer to analyze …
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Ethics and Responsibility of Post-Colonial Allyness
… past few centuries is the history of European colonialism. Colonialism was the conquest and control of geographies and populations through the structuration of capitalist economies and violent relationships with the colonized. Since decolonization, there have been many remnants of colonial …
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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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Hybridizing Sovietness, Modernity, Nationality and Provinciality in Uzbekistan, 1941–1984
This dissertation is focused on post-WWII Uzbekistan as a space of multifaceted interactions of the local Uzbek population with the war evacuees from European regions of the Soviet Union. This topic, just as the problem of postwar social experiences in Uzbekistan in general, is a major lacuna in …
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National Allegory: Land and Body in Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
… relation to the male). This dissertation employs post-colonial theory and its issues (in particular the work of Fredric Jameson, Homi K. Bhabha, Francoise Lionnet, Reda Bensmaia, and Anne Donadey) to analyze the authors' works in question. The problems of women are symptomatic of those of the …
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"Hybrid Historiography in Colonial Mexico: Genre, Event and Time in the ""Cuauhtitlan Annals"" and the ""Historia De La Nacion Chichimeca"
… make use of it as they respond to the colonial situation in which they are immersed. While the Historia de la nacion chichimeca (written in Spanish by the colonial historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl), appears to be a more Christianized account of the pre-Hispanic past than the …
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'Score! You Are Now More Canadian': A Case Study Approach to Understanding Citizenship and National Belonging in Sport
… study utilizes the foundational assumptions of post-colonial theory and social constructivism lens to conceptualize, examine, and analyse identity and the notions of belonging. This study reveals multiple interconnected themes that allow for a better understanding of second-generation bicultural …
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The Corset and the Hijab: the Discursivisation of Identity Between the West and the Orient
… unfold into the works’ core contribution: the postulation of the West and the Orient in parallel, rather than viewed as opposed cultural practices. Utilising mainly the Semiotic and Socio-semiotic Theories developed by Greimas (1970, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 2000; Greimas & Courtés, 1993) and …
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Ambivalence and penetration of boundaries in the worship of Dionysos: Analysing the enacting of psychical conflicts in religious ritual and myth, with reference to societal structure
… classics and psychoanalysis alongside Queer and post-colonial theory, as well as extensive fieldwork and primary source analysis, this thesis provides a grounded materialist critique of psychoanalysis’ complicity in reproducing a false dichotomy between polis and phusis, a dichotomy that furthers …
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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 …
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Power and community in Scottish community land initiatives
… of discourse and resistance (MacKenzie 2012) or post-colonial theory (MacPhail 2002). The approach taken in this thesis is to use concepts of power and community to study the Scottish community land ownership movement. The thesis explores if, and how, community land ownership alters power …
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