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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"postcolonialism"”.
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Ngugi wa Thiongo and third world postcolonialism
… the ambivalent traits of third world postcolonialism. Third world postcolonialism appears as an antithesis against the logical fallacy of the binary oppositions performed by the contemporary first world postcolonial theory and practice. The division between the first and the third …
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Imagining Canada, imagining the desirable immigrant : immigration spectacle as settler postcolonialism
… spectacle is a social practice of settler postcolonialism specific to the former British dominions, emerging from the settler need to imagine and people the nation through colonial settlement. The settler trajectory of immigration spectacle is traced through two contexts--early Canadian …
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Placing the Body: A Study of Postcolonialism and Environment in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid
This project examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid for iterations of the body, specifically how Postcolonial and Ecocritical theories may inform those representations. I will look at the narrators of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother for examples of embodiment, negotiations and …
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
<p>This dissertation focuses on a group of 20th and 21st century novelists writing in English - Samuel Beckett, J.M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro - whose fiction is populated by figures of disconsolation: characters who resist, evade, or - in the case of Ishiguro's protagonists - assiduously attempt …
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‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism: tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties
This study investigates William Butler Yeats’s relationship to the issues of colonialism and anti-colonialism and his stance as a postcolonial poet. A considerable part of Yeats criticism has read him either as a revolutionary and anti-colonial figure or a poet with reactionary and colonialist …
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Postcolonialism and the Marshallese Diaspora: Structural Violence and Health in the Marshallese Community in Springdale, Arkansas
… as well as relevant bodies of literature: postcolonialism, Pacific migration theory, and global health and structural violence. I also conducted topical interviews with Marshallese and non-Marshallese community members, health workers, and government officials in Springdale, Arkansas.</p> …
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Beyond postcolonial: expression of self and exploration of the infinite in the writing of Jorge Luis Borges
… have addressed the question of whether postcolonialism should include Latin American writers. In this work, I contend that Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges does have a place in postcolonial studies, although I assert that he takes postcolonialism to a new level - beyond the politically …
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Ballingskap en vervreemding in die werk van Vernon February en Julian de Wette (exile and estrangement in the work of Vernon February and Julian de Wette)
… Concepts such as hybridity and the Other within postcolonialism will also be discussed.
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
… expanded from a genre squarely located within postcolonialism to one that includes many non-colonial, Western writers such as Karen Russell and Helen Oyeyemi. Using Russell’s Swamplandia!, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl as representative texts, this thesis …
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A nation's visual language: nation branding and the visual identity of contemporary Malaysia
… context of present views of globalization and postcolonialism, and the phenomenon of ‘glocalization’ emerges as an important one in Malaysia. A variety of design research methods are used to identify the nature of graphic design practice in Malaysia, including the examination of the national …
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A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
… from a postcolonial ecofeminist perspective. Postcolonialism focuses on issues pertaining to power, culture, and religion in relation to humanity, whilst ecofeminism explores the links between the environment and women, connecting women to the epistemological understanding of nature. The …
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Quid restat profugis? Exile and power in Silius Italicus’ Punica
… the benefit of empire. Theories of space and Postcolonialism are therefore important touchstones for the argumentation of this project. By examining the principal exilic figures of the poem (especially Scipio Africanus, Hannibal, Camillus, and Livius Salinator), the Punica is revealed to be a …
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Marginal/minority popular music : the concept of the "third space" and the case for "hybridities" of cultures/identities /
… draw from two fields of study; popular music and postcolonialism. Within the area of popular music, Theodor Adorno's "Standardization" theory is the focus. Within the area of postcolonialism, this thesis concentrates on two specific topics; 1) Stuart Hall's and Homi Bhabha's overlapping …
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Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures
… aesthetic that, although not unique in terms of postcolonialism, is particularly mine; as a tricultural transplant, my writing vividly reflects the pluralistic ethos of an exile and a dislocated diasporic, but who, like George Lamming, also writes about the “pleasures of exile<em>.</em>”</p>
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A Community-University Partnership: Collaborating to Improve Teacher Preparation for an Urban Indigenous Community
… partnerships to advance self-determination and postcolonialism through self-education.</p>
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J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel
… are motivated by the political readings of postcolonialism and postmodernism. The premise of this dissertation is to depart from those postcolonial and postmodern approaches and offer close readings of Coetzee’s novels through the origins and legacy of the early eighteenth-and nineteenth …
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The discursive construction of identity and legitimation in the UN mission in Haiti (2004 - 2015)
… international interventions, peacekeeping and postcolonialism. This framework analyses a set of discursive strategies through which legitimation and identity are constructed. This study comprises a total set of 18 interviews with leaders of MINUSTAH collected on four different fieldtrips, …
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