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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"postcoloniality"”.
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Juan Bobo, postcoloniality and Frantz Fanon's theory of violence
In the postcolonial written adaptations of the oral tales and stories about Juan Bobo political violence is generated against the Jibaros by colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial discourses that are still perpetuated in Puerto Rico through unaltered colonial attitudes, political, socioeconomic …
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Repurposing Colonialism: Postcoloniality and the Politics of World Heritage
Since the turn of the 21st century, countries in the Global South have increasingly sought to inscribe their heritage sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. World Heritage listing is considered prestigious because it brings global recognition, secures political legitimacy, boosts tourism, and …
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Psychonalysis, Fantasy, Postcoloniality: Derivative Nationalism and Historiography in Post-Ottoman Turkey
Probably nowhere are the themes of tolerance and multiculturalism more prominently at display than in the recently flourishing literature on Ottoman religious-ethnic communities in Turkey, wherein Ottoman rule, particularly the Millet System of the 15th -17th centuries, is romanticized by Turkish …
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Decolonizing Moral Visions: Christian Political Economic Ethics, Latino/a Religiosity, and Postcoloniality
<p>This dissertation examines moral visions of the political economy of mainstream Christian social ethics through a liberationist and postcolonial analysis of the work of three leading political economic ethicists, Daniel Finn, Max Stackhouse, and Philip Wogaman. Constrained by their subject …
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The depiction of Homelessness in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents and Phaswane MPE's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
… and human dignity against the backdrop of postcoloniality and transculturalism.
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Viral visions : art, activism, and epidemiology in the global AIDS pandemic
… of postmodernism, queerness, globalization, and postcoloniality.
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Web of words : poetry, fandom and globality
… an account of ways in which globalization and postcoloniality intersect and the new networked society complicates the center-periphery model of cultural traffic. In choosing to informally engage with English poetry as bookmarks for their own lives and remaking the rules of engagement, the …
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Transatlantic transactions: writing hispanism at the centennial of 1892
… point of access for reconsidering issues of postcoloniality, neocolonialism, and internal colonialism from the unique vantage point of transatlantic relations between Spain and Latin America."
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Understanding innovation in digital media artistic production in Ireland
… as a postcolonial state and explores how this postcoloniality has influenced artistic production and art critique. This framework forms the basis for an empirical study which explores digital art production in Ireland from the micro-individual level, through to the meso-institutional and …
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Imperial recollections: The colonial contexts and postcolonial predicaments of exhibiting Native American cultures and histories in the contemporary United States
… contemporary United States as the emergence of postcoloniality, a condition marked not only by the breakdown of metanarratives which position EuroAmerican history and culture as History and Culture, but also the recycling of imperial idioms which resuscitate this connection. Second, …
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Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary
… of global frames, scholars of race and postcoloniality have critically embraced the global by arguing for the need to theorize transnationalism from marginalized perspectives. However, casting the global and the national in oppositional terms ignores the fact that national racial …
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The sins of the father: a study of patrilineality in Colm Toibins' The Heather Blazing and Dermot Bolger's The Valparaiso Voyage
… how cultural and historical transitions such as postcoloniality, the increased presence of Irish women in the public sphere, the decline of the moral authority of the Catholic Church, and the uneven economic prosperity of the Celtic Tiger may have reinforced andlor challenged male power and …
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Regional Identities and Dynamic Normative Orders in the Global South: A Comparative Study
Because of the insecurities of postcoloniality, we expect states in the global South to be ‘jealous’ of their sovereignty and to resist intrusions into domestic political and security matters. I find, contrary to this conventional understanding, that non-interference has eroded in the South in …
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Investigating the Problematic of Migrant Identity in South-Asian and Arab Postcolonial Fiction in English: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
… principally relating to displacement, exile, postcoloniality, and cultural hybridity. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s work, I approach the problematic nature of the construction of migrant identity in terms of being ‘fluid’, ‘dynamic’, and constantly unstable. The primary sources comprise a body of …
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Space, place and spatial loss in North African and Canadian writing in French
… discourse(s) on space despite their presumed postcoloniality. The research presented critically evaluates the concepts and theories of space and place in human geography and applies these to the study of space, place and spatial loss in the postcolonial Francophone texts selected from the …
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Queering Ghana: Sexuality, Community, And The Struggle For Cultural Belonging In An African Nation
… offers insights to enrich our understanding of postcoloniality, sovereignty, and democratization in Africa.</p>
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
… different literary genealogy, in which an exilic postcoloniality becomes the paradigmatic sensibility for a global late modernist novel.</p><p>Georg Lukács argued that the transcendental homelessness of modernity is registered most emphatically in the novel, a form he imagined functioning as a …
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Identities In Motion: Cyberspace And Diasporic Queer Male Bodies In The Context Of Globalization
… formations in the context of globalization and postcoloniality by focusing on experiences and interactions in cyberspace. Broadly, the goal of this project is to examine how queer diasporic individuals (re)create cultural identity through lived and mediated realities, and how they use queer …
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"Her organs were a question of the state" reading Adriana Cavarero from the Latin American post-colony
<p>This dissertation explores the place of the body in the history of philosophy to argue that despite the fact that the history of Western philosophy is well known for repudiating the body, in philosophy, the body nevertheless does a lot of work. Yet, the body of which philosophy speaks of is a …