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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"postcolonial identity"”.
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Film and national culture in Namibia: a study and analysis of how the films 100 Bucks and Try have contributed to the creation of post-colonial identity and national culture in independent Namibia
… regarding national culture, African cinema and postcolonial identity and explore how it relates to local cinema in Namibia. How have Namibian films contributed to this debate? The films 100 Bucks and Try contributed to the creation of postcolonial identity and national culture in independent …
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Inherent rights, vision rights : a virtual environment by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
… (1991-92) is explored within the literature of postcolonial identity politics and contemporary theories of virtual environments and cyberspace. Yuxweluptun's longhouse in cyberspace is an invitation for the viewer to understand his Coast Salish culture through cyberspace immersion. The notion of …
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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
… can help in the formation of a nation’s identity in its postcolonial (after 1947) and postindependence (after 1971) eras. My study will investigate this process by focusing on the designed landscape that surrounds the National Assembly Building Complex. Whereas the building itself has …
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Beyond Italian Opera. Manuel García in postcolonial Mexico City (1826-1828)
… thesis 'Beyond Italian opera. Manuel García in postcolonial Mexico City (1826-1828)' examines the operatic activities of the tenor and composer Manuel García in Mexico City between 1826 and 1828, and how they intersected with the Mexican nation-building project in the aftermath of independence …
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Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante
… contributed to building a decolonized identity for Moroccans. By focusing on the literary tools deployed by these authors the research highlights aspects previously overshadowed when concentrating on the post-colonial context in which they were written. My dissertation research briefly …
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Choreographing postcolonial identities in Britain: Cultural policies and the politics of performance, 1983-2008
… examines the way in which dance work produced by postcolonial dance artists is often misread and exoticised by critics, funders and audiences. Yet the works produced have a disruptive effect and are products and clear indications of the sometimes oppressive processes that create cultural …
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The business of solidarity: Socialist Yugoslavia and development aid in non-aligned Africa (1954-1991)
… its economic relations with a host of emerging postcolonial states as part of its socialist internationalist ideology and need of new markets for its developing economy. In juxtaposing the universalist ideology of socialist internationalism with the demands of national postwar development, I …
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The emergence of cultural policy in Zimbabwe 1984-1997
… of cultural animation and policy production in postcolonial Zimbabwe, seeking to place these observations and theories in the domain of Cultural Policy Studies. The nation was in transition from oracy to literacy and from colonial control to socialist independence. Cultural workers in Bulawayo …
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The value of home narratives in shaping identities and making sense of experiences in a host culture
… cultures. Females drew from strong native female identity archetypes rooted in their home cultures, which resulted in a reinforcement of their strong sense of black woman identity in the host culture. Males drew from an identity of an educated man who excels and achieves his goals, informed by the …
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Identity and Social Change in North-Western Europe (BCE 250/100 - 200 CE): new narratives through funerary evidence
… imperial fringe. Each chapter expands on earlier postcolonial analysis in archaeology and history to cast light on cultural amnesias and the fragmentation of identity in situations of growing material incursion and external imperial occupation and control. The thesis prepares the way for PRIA and …