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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"postcolonial studies"”.
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Ecologia come paradigma di resistenza. Il paesaggio minerario di Sardegna: Environmental criticism in aree industriali dismesse
… integrates ecocriticism, Marxist theory, and postcolonial studies. By critically engaging with works by Dickens, Zola, Orwell, and Angioni, the research elucidates how extractive practices mirror a broader system of socio-ecological injustice. It argues that extractivism should not be …
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Agape and Emancipation: The Common Good in Recent Postcolonial Fiction
… I argue that there is a tendency in postcolonial studies to equate injustice with a lack of knowledge. The political task for postcolonial studies is then framed in pedagogical terms: to provide the missing or invisible knowledge that is the catalyst for political change, or the …
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Comics carnet : the graphic novelist as global nomad
… perspectives derived from cultural and postcolonial studies, examines how comics camet represents the non-European other and identifies the genre's ideological assumptions. Four representative texts are examined: Joe Sacco's Palestine (2001), Craig Thompson's, Camet de Voyage (2004), Guy …
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Beyond postcolonial: expression of self and exploration of the infinite in the writing of Jorge Luis Borges
<p>"Studies of postcolonial literature often focus on works that pertain to the East such as African or Indian nations. Written works such as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and film such as Bollywood or Nollywood offer perspective for students of English Literature on the struggle of Eastern …
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Restoring the history of the subaltern: a corpus-informed study of ‘The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave’
… above might be used to explicate key concepts in postcolonial studies relating to the voice of the subaltern subject. Second, I use corpus methods to carry out the type of linguistic analysis being proposed. Taking KNOW, KEEP, SAY, GIVE and TAKE as examples, it is suggested that the use of verbs …
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
… (2012). Situated at the intersection of Media Studies, American Indian Studies, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, this dissertation explores the ways in which Navajo identities are constructed by the shows’ white/non-Navajo hosts and producers for viewers’ cultural consumption. …
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Conflicting discourses in Canadian Aboriginal politics : a case study of the First Nations governance initiative
… rights. The approach taken is inspired by postcolonial studies and discourse analysis. The goal is to explain the current "dialogue of the deaf" between the federal government and First Nations leadership in terms of "discursive" divergences. The debates around the FNGI can be classified …
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TOWARDS SELF-DEFINED EXPRESSIONS OF BLACK ANGER IN CLAUDIA RANKINE'S CITIZEN AND PERCIVAL EVERETT'S ERASURE
… of African American literary and cultural studies to provide its basic frameworks, though it also applies, minimally, relevant theories in postcolonial studies. Beginning with Everett’s Erasure, this study uses theories of authenticism (via Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce) and stereotype (via Homi …
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In the Name of the People: Yugoslav Cinema and the Fall of the Yugoslav Dream
… interpretive perspectives and utilizes film studies, cultural studies, political history, and postcolonial studies to discuss how the Yugoslav society and its political system are scrutinized through allegory, satire, and genre revisionism, for instance, and to elucidate what the films …
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Marionettes and metaphor : political satire in the photographs of Tina Modotti
… complexity and metaphoricity. Feminist and postcolonial studies provide a theoretical framework within which Modotti's photographs may be conceived of as symbolic cultural signifiers. In particular, notions of difference (sexual, cultural, national) and identity (hybrid and nomadic) ground …
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Web of words : poetry, fandom and globality
… media change, negotiation of literary value and postcolonial hybridity through a study of The Wondering Minstrels, a largely South-Asian community on the Web dedicated to the celebration of English poetry. I aim to demonstrate how an online community like Minstrels can unsettle hierarchies such …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies. Despite their related genealogies, these theoretical frameworks often give different accounts of the claim to an essential or real identity, as well as the relationship between identity, embodiment, and power more broadly. I argue not only …
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Manifestations of the oil encounter: an ecocritical approach to Middle Eastern petro-literature
… industry’s impacts. By drawing from ecocritical studies, feminist and eco-feminist studies, and postcolonial studies, this dissertation highlights the ways in which the authors under study imaginatively subvert Euro-Americans myths regarding the oil industry and foreground counter-stories of the …
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A LOOK AT MORALITY IN CONNECTION TO MARGINALIZATION AND DISABILITY IN JANE AUSTEN’S MANSFIELD PARK
… specifically within the fields of feminist and postcolonial studies. There is, however, a notable lack of disability studies scholarship on this novel. The novel’s heroine, Fanny Price, suffers from chronic fatigue, and headaches. She has an exercise horse, and on occasion, she must take folk …
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Weisse Weiblichkeiten: Afrika, deutschsprachige Schriftstellerinnen und ihre (post-)koloniale Verortung von Geschlecht
… For this dissertation, I largely rely on German postcolonial research. I offer a gendered perspective on German (post-)colonial works that feature the figure of the white female vis-à-vis Africa. I also take into account the categories of “race” and “class”. The project contributes to the field …
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Storytellers, Dreamers, Rebels:
… these discussions revolve around postmodernism, postcolonial studies or, indeed, both at once. So, either Peter Carey has been writing the same old novel for nearly thirty years by now, or there are whole worlds in his writings that have yet to be uncovered. Since I claim the latter is the case, …
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Adorno, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory Beyond Europe
… Europe, I engage with Adorno’s reception in Postcolonial Studies, before turning to an Iranian performance in Paris and an innovative institute in Amman.
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Reconstruction of atrocities through fiction in Namibia: An evaluation of Mari Serebrov's Mama Namibia and Lauri Kabuitsile's the scattering
… to the field of knowledge on contemporary postcolonial studies, which will become a useful reference tool to students, politicians, the general public and academics studying Namibian and African literature in general. The study was a desktop study, which adapted the qualitative research …
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Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijra Suicides in India
… works on governmentality and biopolitics, postcolonial studies, sociolegal scholarship, and queer theory, this dissertation attempts to answer these questions by tracing the discourses that inform the regulation of suicide in India and showing how they are put together (or kept apart) in …
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De la décolonisation du discours de la bioéthique à une bioéthique ivoirienne efficiente
… the research employs theoretical tools from postcolonial studies to deconstruct the foundations of Western bioethical paradigms, often perceived as hegemonic, and propose an alternative grounded in Ivorian specificities. The methodological approach follows three interdependent steps: …
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