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Arimitsu, Michio. "Black Notes on Asia| Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3611509.
Full textBlack Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013 sheds new light on the hitherto neglected engagements of African American writers and thinkers with various literary, cultural, and artistic traditions of Asia. Starting with a reevaluation of Lewis G. Alexander's transcultural remaking of haiku in 1923, this dissertation interrogates and revises the familiar interracial (read as "black-white") terms of the African American struggle for freedom and equality. While critics have long taken for granted these terms as the sine qua non of the African American literary imagination and practice, this dissertation demonstrates how authors like Alexander defied not only the implicit dichotomy of black-and-white but also the critical bias that represents African American literature as a nationally segregated tradition distinctly cut off from cultural sources beyond the border of the United States and made legible only within its narrowly racialized and racializing contexts. More specifically, Black Notes on Asia argues that the ruling conceptions of the so-called "Harlem Renaissance in black and white" and the reductive understanding of the Black Arts Movement as an uncomplicated, propagandistic expression of black nationalism, fail to pay due attention to their underlying multiracial/multicultural/transnational aesthetics and perspectives. In order to understand the full complexity and heterogeneity of the African American imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, it is necessary to account for cultural ebbs and flows, echoes and reverberations, beyond the United States, Europe and Africa, to include Asia. Rediscovering the hitherto overlooked traces and reflections of Asia within the African American imagination, this dissertation argues that Asia has provided numerous African American authors and intellectuals, canonized as well as forgotten, with additional or alternative cultural resources that liberated them from, or at least helped them destabilize, what they considered as the constraining racial and nationalist discourse of the United States.
Kao, Chia-li. "Imperialist ambiguity and ambivalence in Japanese and Taiwanese literature, 1895-1945." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3345077.
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Arimitsu, Michio. "Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11208.
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Majchrowicz, Daniel Joseph. "Travel, Travel Writing and the "Means to Victory" in Modern South Asia." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467221.
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Brightwell, Erin Leigh. ""The Mirror of China"| Language selection, images of China, and narrating Japan in the Kamakura period (1185-1333)." Thesis, Princeton University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626441.
Full text"Kara kagami" (The Mirror of China) is something of an enigma—only six of an original ten scrolls survive, and there is no critical edition with comprehensive annotation or previous translation. A work composed for Imperial Prince-cum-Shogun Munetaka by the scion of a distinguished line of Confucian scholars, Fujiwara no Shigenori, on a topic of pressing interest in the thirteenth century—the fate of Continental China—it embodies many of the characteristic concerns of Kamakura Japan. Tensions between privatization and circulation of learning, imperial and warrior authority, Japan's envisioning of China and her relations thereto, as well as a larger cosmological narrative all run through the work. Yet they do so ways that challenge now long-held ideas of language, stance towards the Continent and its traditions, and narratives of generic development and resistance.
This dissertation explores the ways in which "The Mirror of China" defies familiar-yet-passé conceptions of medieval Japan. It examines afresh how three issues in medieval discourse—language selection, portrayals of China, and narrating Japan—are refracted in "The Mirror of China" in order to better understand text-based claims of political, cultural, and philosophical authority. "The Mirror of China"'s linguistically diverse manuscripts invite question of the worldviews or allegiances of identity a multilingual text can intimate. Its depiction of China and the implied narratives such a vision creates likewise differ markedly from those of contemporary works. And lastly, the linguistic and thematic innovation it brings to the Heian genre of "Mirror" writing marks a previously obscured turning point in medieval historiographic writing, one that allows an appreciation of the genre as a medieval experiment in crafting histories as legitimating narratives. Drawing on multiple understudied works in addition to better-known writings, this dissertation provides a new understanding of how medieval thinkers exploited languages, images, and traditions in order to create their own visions of authority.
Priyanimal, Karunanayake Dinidu. "GEOPOLITICS OF FORGERY: LITERATURE, CULTURE AND MEMORY OF THE POSTCOLONIAL SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY STATE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami156354614875673.
Full textMartin, Casey. "The creation of a pacifist narrative in Saotome Katsumoto's Senso to Seishun." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1539361.
Full textThis thesis examines Japanese writer Saotome Katsumoto and his efforts to create a pacifist message in his 1991 film Senso to Seishun (War and Youth). The story presents multigenerational viewpoints on the Pacific War, and is significant for being the first film to depict the Great Tokyo Air Raid of March 9–10, 1945. I discuss how Saotome's use of fiction, metaphor, and autobiographical techniques assist the film in creating a pacifist narrative. The film's pacifist message continues to hold relevance today, as nationalist and conservative groups push strongly for revisions to Article 9 of the Japanese Peace Constitution in order to remilitarize the nation.
Dovale, Madeline J. "Postwar japan's hybrid modernity of in-betweenness| Historical, literary, and social perspectives." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527481.
Full textThis thesis explores Japanese society through the lens of cultural hybridity and liminality to understand the shift towards nonconformity and hyper-individualism among post-postwar Japanese. This shift reflects an important point in Japan's transculturation process whereby post-postwar Japanese have developed a cultural hybridity of inbetweenness (liminality) juxtaposing their native Japaneseness (wakon) against their adopted Westernness (y okon). This wakon-yokon hybrid construct is posing a challenge to Japan's longstanding hybrid modernity philosophy of wakon-y osai (Japanese spirit- Western things), which perpetuated the pre-modern core values and collectivist ethics of Japaneseness for nearly 150 years below its façade of Western modernity. The dilemma inherent in Japan's wakon-y okon in-betweenness is foreshadowed in the pioneering works of Abe Kob o and Murakami Haruki, who both illuminated the conflicting juxtaposition of the core values and ethics of Japaneseness (wakon) and seken-Other (the jury-surrounding- the-Self) against the pursuit of the individualist ethics of Westernness (y okon) and Selfhood ( shutaisei) within their imaginaries.
Hubert, Rosario. "Disorientations. Latin American Fictions of East Asia." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11566.
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Goldstein, Elon. "Ethics and Religion in a Classic of Sanskrit Drama: Harṣa's Nāgānanda." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11099.
Full textGyves, Clifford Michael 1969. "An English translation of General Qi Jiguang's "Quanjing Jieyao Pian" (Chapter on the Fist Canon and the Essentials of Nimbleness) from the "Jixiao Xinshu" (New Treatise on Disciplined Service)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278273.
Full textGuo, Yan. "review of literature on the prevalence and characteristics of child trafficking in the developing countries of Asia." Thesis, University of Macau, 2016. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3570083.
Full textKumar, Priya Haryant. "Ruptured nations, collective memory & religious violence : mapping a secularist ethics in post-partition South Asian literature and film." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37904.
Full textGramaglia, Letizia. "Representations of madness in Indo-Caribbean literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/850/.
Full textBrown, David Bruce Windsor. ""Opaque rings of earth": landscape description in Conrad's Africa and Asia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47869744.
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Holgate, Ben. "Porous borders : the amorphous nature of magical realist fiction in Asia and Australasia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:32abdfeb-baa7-40ee-b721-89b66bc74043.
Full textKo, Yuni Jeongyun. "Catching up with "New Asia" and its diasporas transnational representations and imaginations /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
Find full textMin, Gyungsook. "Reporting East Asia : foreign relations and news bias." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4721.
Full textDeckard, Sharae Grace. "Exploited Edens : paradise discourse in colonial and postcolonial literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1139/.
Full textDixon, John Spencer. "Representations of the East in English and French travel writing 1798-1882 : with particular reference to Egypt." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35766/.
Full textDobson, Eleanor. "Literature and culture in the golden age of Egyptology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7248/.
Full textNaidu, Sam. "Towards a transnational feminist aesthetic: an analysis of selected prose writing by women of the South Asian diaspora." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012941.
Full textJaffer, Sadaf. "Ismat Chughtai, Progressive Literature and Formations of the Indo-Muslim Secular, 1911-1991." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845441.
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Banerjee, Rita. "The New Voyager: Theory and Practice of South Asian Literary Modernisms." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11044.
Full textMehdid, Malika. "Tradition and subversion : gender and post-colonial feminism : the case of the Arab region (with particular reference to Algeria)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1993. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34641/.
Full textAhmed, Talat. "Literature and politics in the age of nationalism : the progressive writers' movement in south Asia, 1932-1956." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497787.
Full textKim, Stephanie B. "Postcolonial Literature: Dualities in the God of Small Things." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/659.
Full textJabb, Lama. "Modern Tibetan literature and the inescapable nation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dd216865-df8b-4973-b562-4e6dc3d525eb.
Full textMukhopadhyay, Priyasha. "Unlikely readers : negotiating the book in colonial South Asia, c.1857-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0650a300-d54f-438e-97bf-1a9e0feebe92.
Full textMapa, Carmela Consejo. "Language, literature and the liberal arts : a study of the University of Asia and the Pacific's language programme." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019807/.
Full textMcEvoy, Sadia. "The construction of Ottoman Asia and its Muslim peoples in Wellington House's propaganda and associated literature, 1914-1918." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-construction-of-ottoman-asia-and-its-muslim-peoples-in-wellington-houses-propaganda-and-associated-literature-19141918(3f553c22-255e-4021-87cd-f5cb2f4c3eba).html.
Full textHill, Geoffrey Burt. "'A breeding-ground of authors' : South East Asia in British fiction, 1945-1960." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708370.
Full textAdenekan, Olorunshola. "African literature in the digital age : class and sexual politics in new writing from Nigeria and Kenya." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3895/.
Full textGarud-Patkar, Nisha. "India’s Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media: Building Agendas and National Reputation in South Asia." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou151016626035757.
Full textCyzewski, Julie Hamilton Ludlam. "Broadcasting Friendship: Decolonization, Literature, and the BBC." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461169080.
Full textIdrus, Faizah. "The construction of shared Malaysian identity in the upper secondary English literature classroom." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12429/.
Full textBurns, Lorna M. "Creolizing the canon : engagements with legacy and relation in contemporary postcolonial Caribbean writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1090/.
Full textChen, Chia-Hwan. "Images of the other, images of the self : reciprocal representations of the British and the Chinese from the 1750s to the 1840s." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63281/.
Full textBeedham, Matthew. "'Border rhetoric' : reading Asian-Canadian literature." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401546.
Full textCousins, Helen Rachel. "Conjugal wrongs : gender violence in African women's literature." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6934/.
Full textGohain, Atreyee. "Where the Global Meets the Local: Female Mobility in South Asian Women's Fiction in India and the U.S." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1428022854.
Full textThapa, Anirudra. "The Indic Orient, nation, and transnationalism exploring the imperial outposts of nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture, 1840-1900 /." [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2008. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-12052008-162349/unrestricted/Thapa.pdf.
Full textSrinivasan, Ragini Tharoor. "Thinking “What We Are Doing”: V. S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh on Being in Diaspora, History, and World." South Asian Literary Association, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626247.
Full textCox, Christopher A. "To Thailand, With Ronald." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1509386309137657.
Full textCampbell-Hall, Devon. "Writing Asian Britain in contemporary anglophone literature." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502251.
Full textPearce, Laura Elizabeth Pearce. "Recording the West: Central Asia in Xuanzang’s Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1515139237769597.
Full textYerrabati, Sridevi. "Economic governance, foreign direct investment and economic growth in South and East Asia Pacific region : evidence from systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2014. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/13958/.
Full textYoung, Matthew. "Evolution in literature: Natsume Sōseki's theory and practice." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110701.
Full textDans Bungakuron (Principes de littérature) de Natsume Sōseki, il s'agit d'une dilatation des concepts d'évolution aux domaines de la littérature, de la conscience et de la société. Bien que Sōseki souligne que certaines transformations prennent place dans les domaines de la littérature et des mouvements littéraires de façon largement contingente et non-téléologique, il suggère également que le développement et le progrès effectués dans ces domaines sont orientés vers une différentiation et une complexification grandissantes. En réponse aux effets aliénants de la différentiation et de l'individualisation qui accompagnent la modernisation, il explore les possibilités pour que d'autres types de relation émergent. Ce potentiel est largement exploré en termes de processus affectifs, incluant des formes d'expériences pures. Ce mémoire amorce une série d'analyses des théories et des travaux littéraires de Sōseki incluant Wagahai wa neko de aru (Je suis un chat), Koto no sorane (Entendre des choses), Shumi no iden (L'hérédité du goût) et Kusamakura (Oreiller d'herbe) en considérant les questions éthiques soulevées dans le traitement des thèmes de la guerre, du traumatisme et du rapport entre sujets et l'état-nation.
El, Masry Yara. "Representations of political violence in contemporary Middle Eastern fiction." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16563/.
Full textHumble, Geoffrey Frank. "Biographical rhetorics : narrative and power in Yuanshi biography." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8267/.
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