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RODRIGUES, FLAVIA ARRUDA. "NARRATIVES OF DOMINATION IN GENERAL AGENCY OF COLONIES’ COLONIAL LITERATURE CONTEST (1926-1951)." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16487@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
O objetivo deste trabalho é fazer uma análise da construção discursiva da colonialidade portuguesa a partir da leitura de narrativas que receberam o Prêmio de Literatura Colonial da Agência Geral das Colónias (AGC), distinção concedida pelo Estado Novo português entre 1926 e 1951. Trata-se do estudo dos processos de dominação e hierarquização social realizados pela via literária nas antigas colônias de Moçambique, Angola, e Timor-Leste. Para tanto, três obras foram privilegiadas para leitura: Oiro africano, Na pista do marfim e da morte: reportagens vividas e escritas por Ferreira da Costa e Gentio de Timor, escritas pelos colonialistas portugueses Julião Quintinha, Ferreira da Costa e Armando Pinto Corrêa nos anos de 1929, 1944 e 1935, respectivamente. Além de destacar e analisar aspectos significativos do discurso colonial, este trabalho evidencia, em paralelo, a dimensão política e cultural desses textos, que, usados como ferramenta da ação colonial, acabaram também fazendo um autorretrato dos próprios portugueses que colonizaram aquelas terras. Faz-se, ainda, pela análise de fontes primárias como materiais de jornais de época, uma correlação entre o lançamento dos títulos no mercado editorial português, a atuação social de seus autores como articulistas na imprensa e os papeis que exerceram como educadores ou administradores coloniais.
The aim of this work is to draw an analysis of the discursive construction of the portuguese coloniality trough the reading of narratives that won the General Agency of Colonies` Colonial Literature Prize, an award granted by the portuguese Estado Novo between 1926 and 1951. It focuses on the study of domination and social hierarchization set up by literary means in the former colonies of Mozambique, Angola and East Timor. For such task, three books were chosen: Oiro africano, Na pista do marfim e da morte: reportagens vividas e escritas por Ferreira da Costa e Gentio de Timor, respectively written by portuguese colonialists Julião Quintinha, Ferreira da Costa and Armando Pinto Corrêa in 1929, 1944 and 1935. Besides pointing out relevant aspects of the colonial discourse, this work highlights the cultural and political dimension of these texts, wich, used as a tool for the colonial action, ended out by making a portrait of the same portuguese people who colonized those lands. Still, the release of those titles in the portuguese editorial market is put into perspective with the authors` social performance as news articulists and their roles as educators or colonial managers. Primary sources, as newspapers, help accomplish this work.
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Fitzmaurice, Andrew. "Classical rhetoric and the literature of discovery 1570-1630." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307941.
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Chow, Chi-shing Jeffrey, and 鄒志誠. "Postcoloniality in Hong Kong Literature: withspecial reference to Xi Xi's and Ye Si's Fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950541.
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Alrawashdeh, Abeer Aser. "A comparative study of selected Arab and South Asian colonial and postcolonial literature." Thesis, Swansea University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678267.
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Tay, Eddie. "Not at home colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37898139.
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Rieley, Honor. "Writing emigration : Canada in Scottish romanticism, 1802-1840." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cbeac4b3-cb79-4c22-a308-03be120d2c26.
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This thesis is a study of the representation of emigration to Canada in Scottish Romantic periodicals and fiction, and of the relationship between these genres and the little-studied genre of the emigrant's guide. Chapter One tracks the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review's reviews of books on Canadian topics and demonstrates how the rival quarterlies respond to, and intervene in, the evolving public debate about emigration. Chapter Two examines depictions of Canada in Blackwood's Magazine and Fraser's Magazine, and reveals connections between these magazines' engagement with Canadian affairs and the concurrent reception of Scottish Romanticism in early Canadian literary magazines. Chapter Three argues for an understanding of the emigrant's guide as a porous form that acts as a bridge between nonfictional and fictional representations of emigration. Chapter Four reads novels with emigration plots in relation to the pressures of American, Canadian and transatlantic canon formation, arguing that these novels trouble the stark division between the American and Canadian emigrant experiences which was insisted upon by contemporary commentators and which continues to underpin criticism of transatlantic literary works. Chapter Five considers the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and nineteenth-century Canadian literature, a relationship which has often been framed in terms of the portability of a 'Scottish model' of fiction associated most strongly with Walter Scott. Overall, this thesis contends that foregrounding the literature of emigration allows for greater understanding of the synchronicity of Scottish Romanticism and the escalation of transatlantic emigration, offering an alternative to conceptions of Canada's colonial and transatlantic belatedness.
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Woode, Edward Winston Babatunde. "Alterity and hybridity in Anglophone postcolonial literatuare : Ngugi, Achebe, p'Bitek and Nwapa /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 2001.
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Jones, Christopher D. ""From thy mother's arms" Coleridge, colonialism, and the domestic realm /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1101874559.
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Demougin, Laure. "Identités et exotisme : représentations de soi et des autres dans la presse coloniale française au dix-neuvième siècle (1830 - 1880)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30078.
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Sur les territoires colonisés par la France paraissent des journaux locaux qui suivent le développement national de la presse : entre 1830 et 1880, l’époque est médiatique et le journal est un support important des publications littéraires. Dans les colonies, les périodiques contiennent ainsi des textes adaptés à leurs territoires respectifs, mais publiés toujours selon la même structure, ce qui permet une comparaison entre les différentes stratégies conduisant à l’élaboration d’identités coloniales. Ces textes, par leur diversité et leurs évolutions, représentent une sorte de chaînon manquant entre la littérature des récits de voyage et la littérature coloniale qui se définit au tournant du XXe siècle : interrogés et étudiés sous cet angle, ils prennent valeur de corpus signifiant. Ils montrent en effet le rôle identitaire de cette littérature médiatique adaptée aux colonies : en adaptant l’exotisme aux conditions coloniale, en faisant varier le critère d’altérité et par bien d’autres moyens encore, la presse locale fonde en partie une attitude coloniale qui se retrouve, mutatis mutandis, dans l’empire colonial français. C’est également la raison pour laquelle le corpus médiatique colonial du XIXe siècle se trouve être au centre de connexions avec les textes de la littérature coloniale ainsi qu’avec les problématiques de l’écriture postcoloniale : lieu de publication, de nouveauté, de tentatives identitaires et d’essais génériques, le journal colonial a produit entre 1830 et 1880 des mécanismes d’écriture appelés à se développer par la suiteLocal newspapers were published in French colonial areas following the same evolution as the national newspapers: between 1830 and 1880, media-rich times, the press represents a significant publishing-platform for literary texts. Colonial newspapers contain texts adjusted to their respective geographic areas, but keep the same structure regardless, thereby allowing the comparison between the strategies leading to the building of colonial identities. The diversity and the different evolution pathways of these texts may then be considered as the missing link between the travel narratives and the early-20th century defined colonial literature. As such, they can undoubtedly be considered as a significant corpus of colonial times. These texts reflect the identity role this colonial-area adjusted media literature had: by adapting exoticism to the colonial conditions, by varying the criterion of alterity and by many other ways, local press founds, partially, a colonial attitude that can further be found, mutatis mutandis, in the French colonial empire. This is also the reason the 19th-century colonial-media corpus is at the crossroads of both colonial literature and postcolonial writing problematics: as a place for publication, novelty, identity essays, and literary genre essays, the colonial newspaper witnessed the creation, between 1830 and 1880, of writing mechanisms that would eventually develop later on
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Renker, Cindy K. "Imperial Motherhood: The German Civilizing Mission in Bülow's Im Lande der Verheißung." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6661.
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This thesis explores Frieda von Bülow's last and most popular colonial novel. Im Lande der Verheißung, which she wrote in 1899 after she had returned to Germany from her second journey to the German colony of East Africa. In her novel, Bülow manifests her nationalistic ideology and her support for female participation in the colonies in the character of Maleen Dietlas, who believes in and supports the German colonial ambitions. Bülow provides her female protagonist with a role and purpose in the colony. Maleen serves as an imperial mother who sees it as her duty to "civilize" the German men of the colony. Her true sense of purpose is shown, however, in her guidance of a motherless, wayward, and dark-skinned girl, Maria, who maleen feels nees to be brough into womanhood and "civilization". This thesis views Im Lande der Verheißung and Maleen's "civilizing mission" as a metaphor for Germany's nationalistic objective to "civilize" its overseas empire.
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White, Laura. "Fictions of progress the eco-politics of temporal constructions in colonial and postcolonial novels /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Chow, Chi-shing Jeffrey. "Postcoloniality in Hong Kong Literature : with special reference to Xi Xi's and Ye Si's Fiction /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13793779.
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Höglund, Johan A. "Mobilizing the novel : the literature of imperialism and the First World War /." Uppsala (Sweden) : distrib. by Uppsala university library, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376485711.
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Kenny, Tobias. ""Coming home to roost" : some reflections on moments of literary response to the paradoxes of empire." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0023/NQ50200.pdf.
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Davies, Dominic. "Imperial infrastructure and spatial resistance in colonial literature (1880-1930)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:369d5ffb-fea5-44ae-9b15-4087a28ead0a.
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Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire's vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into what Immanuel Wallerstein and others have called the capitalist 'world-system'. Colonial literature written throughout this period, in recording this vast expansion, repeatedly cites imperial infrastructures to make sense of the various geographies in which it is set. Physical embodiments of empire proliferate in this writing. Railways and trains, telegraph wires and telegrams, roads and bridges, steamships and shipping lines, canals and other forms of irrigation, cantonments, the colonial bungalow and other kinds of colonial urban architecture - all of these infrastructural lines break up the landscape and give shape to the literature's depiction and production of colonial space. In order to analyse these physical embodiments of empire in colonial literature, this thesis develops a methodological reading practice called infrastructural reading. Rooted in a dualistic, yet connected use of the word 'infrastructure', this reading strategy works as a critical tool for analysing a mutually sustaining relationship embedded within these literary narratives. It focuses on the infrastructures in the text, both physical and symbolic, in order to excavate the infrastructures of the text, be they geographic, social or economic - namely, the material conditions of the world-system that underpinned Britain's imperial expansion. This methodology is applied to a number of colonial authors including H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner, William Plomer and John Buchan in South Africa and Flora Annie Steel, E.M. Forster, Edmund Candler and Edward Thompson in India. The results show that the infrastructural networks that circulate through colonial fiction are almost always related to some form of anti-imperial resistance, manifestations that include ideological anxieties, limitations and silences, as well as more direct objections to and acts of violent defiance against imperial control and capitalist accumulation. In so doing, the thesis demonstrates how this literary-cultural terrain and the resistance embedded within it has been shaped by, and has in turn shaped, the infrastructure of the capitalist world-system.
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Armstrong, Jeanne Marie. "Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187509.
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The contact of two different cultures in the colonization process produces a zone of cultural mingling that resembles Victor Turner's concept of "liminality" referring to states or persons that elude classification. This study considers the repercussions of colonization on the lives of women characters in novels about four different "post-colonial" contexts--Native American, Jamaican, Irish and Mexican American. These novels reflect both the unique historical circumstances of each context and common themes that occur due to colonization and transcend the specific cultures such as the mourning of personal and collective loss, liminal states of consciousness and mingling of cultures. The introductory chapter examines the particular historical contexts of each novel and the theories of Abdul JanMohamed and Frantz Fanon on colonization. This study also applies the work of Victor Turner, Mary Douglas, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Anzaldua, Homi Bhaba and others to an examination of the subversive cultural formations that evolve through the boundary dissolution of colonization. Chapter two considers Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks in which the decimation of the Anishinabe people is the context for the three primary characters who have experienced personal and collective loss and respond by resisting or adapting to colonization. Chapter three examines Erna Brodber's Myal and the impact of the manichean colonial ideology on a Jamaican woman who is literally half-black and half-white. Chapter four addresses Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men, a novel about two women, one who lived through the early twentieth century movement for Irish independence and the other who is her great niece, that have both been silenced and sexually controlled by colonialism and Irish Catholicism. The fifth and final chapter examines Lucha Corpi's Delia's Song about a young Chicana activist who has suffered losses on several levels and recovers by writing an autobiographical novel that weaves the personal and political issues of her life. All four novels are concerned with the liminal states of consciousness in these women characters and their efforts to both find love and tell their stories, thus counteracting the colonizer's version of history.
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Chiu, Man-Yin, and 趙敏言. "Written orders: authority and crisis in colonial and postcolonial narratives." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29812902.
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Hagiwara, Tomoko. "Children in fiction and reality, the British Colonies in North America and Canada in the nineteenth century." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ26919.pdf.
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Elewa, Salah Ahmed. "In search of the other/self : colonial and postcolonial narratives and identities /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262130.
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Tay, Eddie, and 鄭竹文. "Not at home: colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37898139.
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Hugo, Pieter Hendrik. "Between wilderness and number : on literature, colonialism and the will to power." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1947.
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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.The eras of colonial expansion and the era designated the modern have been both chronologically and philosophically linked from the commencement of the Renaissance period and Enlightenment thought in the 15th century. The discovery of the New World in 1492 gave impetus to a new type of literature, the colonial novel. Throughout the development of this genre, in both its narrative strategies and the depiction of the colonist’s relationship with the foreign land he now inhabits, it has been both informed and formed by the prevailing philosophical atmosphere of the time. In the context of this discussion it is particularly interesting to note what might be termed the level of regression of the modern ideal, and how it is reflected in the colonial novels written at the time. Commencing with the essentially optimistic Robinson Crusoe and The Coral Island, and progressing through the far darker imaginings of Heart of Darkness, Lord of the Flies, and eventually Apocalypse Now and Blood Meridian, it is possible to trace the effects of the declining power of Enlightenment thought. Whereas earlier texts deal quite unambiguously with the issue of the Western subject’s subjugation of both the foreign environment and the foreign subjects he encounters there, and the relation between subject and object remains quite uncomplicated, in later, more self-reflexive texts the modern subject’s relationship with both the alien land and alien people becomes far more problematic. Later texts such as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies depict a world where the self-assurance of early texts is strikingly absent. Increasingly, as the initial self-confidence of modernism is eroded, secular moral values, too, come to be questioned. It is here that the works of Nietzsche come to play a prominent role in the analysis of how such a decline in modern confidence is reflected in later colonial works. Even later works such as Apocalypse Now and Blood Meridian provide a view of the colonial enterprise that is in striking contrast to the optimism of early texts. The chronological progression of texts dealt with here, spanning an era of almost three hundred years prove to be reflective, to a large degree, of the decline of modernity and the effects of this on the colonial enterprise as depicted in the colonial genre.
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Schneider, Rosa B. ""Um Scholle und Leben" zur Konstruktion von "Rasse" und Geschlecht in der kolonialen Afrikaliteratur um 1900 /." Frankfurt : Brandes & Apsel, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/52134354.html.
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de, Beer Amanda Erika. "„Wo ist der Junge aus dem Urwald?“ Abenteuer und koloniales Afrika in der Jugendliteratur." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96813.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2015AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Hierdie proefskrif is ’n ondersoek na die wyse waarvolgens Duitse jeugboekskrywers die koloniale periode in Afrika uitbeeld. Duitse avontuurliteratuur speel dikwels af in die koloniale periode in Afrika. Motiewe in die avontuurroman stem egter nie altyd ooreen met die historiese konteks en geografiese ruimtes nie. Dit skep die indruk dat so ’n verhaal tyd- en ruimteloos is en dat die historiese en geografiese konteks bloot die afstand tussen Afrika en Europa beklemtoon. In die lig van die feit dat Afrika en sy historiese konteks dikwels as eksotiese agtergrond dien, bespreek die studie die problematiek rondom die manier waarvolgens skrywers die koloniale periode in die avontuurliteratuur ontleed. Vervolgens word die vraag gestel tot watter mate die uitbeelding van Afrika sedert 1945 verander het. Die wyse waarop die koloniale periode in Afrika in Duitse jeugliteratuur uitgebeeld word, behoort dus ondersoek te word binne die konteks van die tradisionele avontuurliteratuur. Deurdat die studie gesentreer is rondom die avontuurliteratuur voor 1945 en avontuurboeke na 1945, stel die dissertasie ondersoek in tot watter mate jeugboeke en hulle uitbeelding van die koloniale periode verander het en in hoeverre die tradisionele avontuurliteratuur aan hierdie boeke ontleen is. In hierdie proefskrif word avontuurverhale en avontuurlike jeugverhale wat tydens die koloniale periode in Afrika afspeel, vervolgens ontleed. Die studie fokus op vier periodes: Eerstens word tradisionele avontuurstories en motiewe wat ’n belangrike rol speel in die uitbeelding van Afrika, geïdentifiseer. Die volgende tekste word ontleed: C.Falkenhorst se Der Baumtöter (1894), Gustav Frenssen se Peter Moors Fahrt nach Südwest (1906), Josef S. Viera se Bana Sikukuu (1924) en Gust in der Klemme (1933), Max Mezger se Aufruhr auf Madagaskar (1930) en Rolf Italiaander se Wüstenfüchse (1934). Tweedens ondersoek die studie die rol wat avontuurmotiewe – inisiasie, weerstand en verowering – speel in jeugboeke wat in die Federale Republiek van Duitsland gepubliseer is. Die volgende tekste word onder die loep geneem: Kurt Lütgen se ...die Katzen von Sansibar zählen (1962), Rolf Italiaander se Mubange, der Junge aus dem Urwald (1957), Herbert Kaufmann se Der Teufel tanzt im Ju-Ju-Busch en sy historiese roman Des Königs Krokodil (1959). Derdens ondersoek die studie watter rol avontuurmotiewe – die edel barbaar (edle Wilde), antiheld en die tweegeveg – speel in jeugboeke wat in die Duitse Demokratiese Republiek gepubliseer is. Die volgende tekste word analiseer: Ferdinand May se roman Sturm über Südwest-Afrika (1962) en Götz R. Richter se Savvytrilogie (1955 – 1963) en Die Löwen kommen (1969). Laastens stel die studie die vraag tot watter mate die kontemporêre avontuurliteratuur – soos Hermann Schultz se sendingroman Auf den Strom (1998) ’n nuwe ontwikkeling toon wat van die tradisionele avontuurliteratuur van die 19de en 20ste eeu afwyk.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This dissertation investigates how the African colonial period is portrayed in German youth literature. German adventure literature is often set in the African colonial period. However, motifs in the adventure novel do not always correspond with historical themes and geographical spaces. This gives the impression that such novels stand outside of time and space and that the historical and geographical context merely emphasize the distance between Africa and Europe. In light of the fact that Africa and its historical context are often reduced to an exotic backdrop, questions are raised about the way authors examine the colonial period in the adventure literature and how the portrayal of Africa has changed since 1945. The question how the African colonial period is portrayed in German youth literature is therefore examined within the context of the traditional adventure literature. Reflecting on adventure literature before 1945 on the one hand and adventure stories after 1945 on the other, this study examines to what extent youth books and their portrayal of the colonial period have changed and how these books relate back to the traditional adventure literature. For this purpose, adventure stories and adventurous youth stories and –novels that are set in the colonial period in Africa are analysed and the study focuses on four periods: Firstly, traditional adventure stories and motifs that play an important role in the portrayal of Africa are identified. The following are analysed: C. Falkenhorst’s Der Baumtöter (1894), Gustav Frenssen’s Peter Moors Fahrt nach Südwest (1906), Josef S. Viera’s Bana Sikukuu (1924) and Gust in der Klemme (1933), Max Mezger’s Aufruhr auf Madagaskar (1930) and Rolf Italiaander’s Wüstenfüchse (1934). Secondly, the dissertation investigates what role adventure motifs – initiation, resistance and conquest – play in the youth literature of the Federal Republic of Germany. The following are analysed: Kurt Lütgen’s …die Katzen von Sansibar zählen (1962), Rolf Italiaander’s Mubange, der Junge aus dem Urwald (1957), Herbert Kaufmann’s Der Teufel tanzt im Ju-Ju-Busch and his historical novel Des Königs Krokodil (1959). Thirdly, the study examines adventure motifs – noble savage (edle Wilde), anti-hero and the duel – in the literature published in the German Democratic Republic. These are Ferdinand May’s novel Sturm über Südwest-Afrika (1962) and Götz R. Richter’s Savvy-Trilogie (1955-1963) and Die Löwen kommen (1969). Lastly, the dissertation poses the question to what extent the contemporary adventure literature – like Hermann Schulz’ missionary novel Auf dem Strom (1998) – shows a new development which deviates from the traditional adventure literature of the 19th and 20th century.
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Rauwerda, Antje M. "Unsettling whiteness, Hulme, Ondaatje, Malouf and Carey." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63446.pdf.
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Jerez, Olga Estela. "La hija del adelantado, de José Milla : reflejo del pasado y proyección del futuro nacional guatemalteco." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21222.
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The cultural and historical context in which La hija del adelantado was first published in 1866, is very important in this study because it helps us understand why Milla chose to write about the early colonial past, and why he valued the traditions and customs of those years. It is also shown how the author---mixing history and fiction---denounces the system of exploitation practiced by the colonizers of America, and uncovers the historical roots of some of the contemporary problems that affected the Guatemala of those days.The main purpose of this work is to highlight the importance that Jose Milla places on his country's history, and to demonstrate that through the rewriting of the colonial past, the author contributes to the building process of the national identity. Also emphasized is the way in which Milla---giving priority to national history and to America's natural forces and beauty---places La hija del adelantado, as Guatemala's foundational text.
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Favor, Lesli J. "Interactions Between Texts, Illustrations, and Readers: The Empiricist, Imperialist Narratives and Polemics of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279069/.
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While literary critics heretofore have subordinated Conan Doyle to more "canonical" writers, the author argues that his writings enrich our understanding of the ways in which Victorians and Edwardians constructed their identity as imperialists and that we therefore cannot afford to overlook Conan Doyle's work.
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Armstrong, Catherine. "Writing North America in the seventeenth century : English representations in print and manuscript /." Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006101292.html.
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Dear, Lou. "Colonialism, knowledge and the university." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30710/.
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This thesis is a study of colonialism and the university, and the relationship between knowledge, imperialism, empire and domination. It is influenced by those who have written on and lived through decolonisation, principally, Sylvia Wynter. The first chapter examines the history of the Westernised university as a Eurocentric narrative. It also considers the evolution of the discipline of the humanities as an imperial science of the human. The second chapter reflects on the effect of an imperial education on an individual’s relationship with their communities. Reading texts written during and after anti-colonial struggle, I consider how writing begins the process of communitarian ethical repair. Chapter 3 explores what it means to be included in the imperial university, and the cost of assimilation. The chapter focuses on texts from ‘outsiders’ to Oxford University who write back to an imperial centre. Chapter 4 revisits Wynter’s analysis of the Westernised institution in the context of 1968 Jamaica to reflect on the Westernised university’s internationalisation agenda. The chapter looks at the history of educational institutions in settler colonial plantations. The fifth chapter examines the evolution of the Westernised university as a site and agent of border control. It reviews the Tier 4 visa regime and Prevent legislation, examining the colonial history of the university as border control. In turning to the work of writer Leila Aboulela, the chapter explores how the creative imagination interprets the university, border control, race and emergent authoritarianism. The conclusion to this thesis is a dystopian short story. The narrative follows the journey of an international student at the University of Glasgow in 2050. Lecturers and books have been abolished. The violent collusion between university and state forces the protagonist into a choice. This thesis is intended as a sustained reflection on participation in Westernised higher education. The decision to conclude with a dilemma is a strategic one.
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Loriaux, Stéphanie. "Luid tussen twee stilten: vergeten vrouwenstemmen uit tempo doeloe. De Indisch-Nederlandse literatuur uit het negentiende-eeuwse damescompartiment." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211227.
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Nicolau, Maria da Conceição dos Santos. "A fúria dos tambores: music in African post-colonial literaturea música na literatura pós-colonial Africana." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17761.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesThe following dissertation attempts to discuss the presence of music (from indirect to more direct references) in representative texts of African Post- Colonial literature, in particular, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross, and Paulina Chiziane’s Niketche. This dissertation attempts to contextualise the use of music in three African countries, with respect to the historical, social, and cultural backgrounds, as well as to provide an approach to general musical practice and significant aspects of the way music is present in the three novels individually. It is necessary to understand and recognize that music is not only interesting in the analysis of African cultures, but also when analysing certain literary works. I intend to characterise and valorise music from literature or vice-versa. One of the aims of this dissertation is to approach how, through the presence of musical references, we can understand the novel and the cultures of the country portrayed. Focus has often been made on other cultural aspects in the study of these novels, generally with music being dealt with sketchily if at all. These books thus raise a number of questions about human beings, society, and cultural practices, demonstrating the extent to which different aspects of a given society and music are interwoven in complex ways. It is in this interdependence between music and society that we find a point of analysis of different African cultures as of the novels in question.
A presente dissertação procura discutir a presença da música (desde referências indirectas até às mais directas) em textos representativos da literatura Pós-Colonial Africana, nomeadamente, Things Fall Apart de Chinua Achebe, Devil on the Cross de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o e Niketche de Paulina Chiziane. Esta dissertação pretende contextualizar o uso da música em três países Africanos, respeitando o contexto histórico, social e cultural, analisando a prática musical em geral e aspectos significativos na forma como a música está presente nas três obras individualmente. Torna-se necessário perceber e reconhecer que a música não só é interessante na análise de culturas Africanas, mas também o é quando analisamos determinadas obras literárias. Pretendo caracterizar e valorizar a música a partir da literatura ou vice-versa. Um dos objectivos desta dissertação é abordar o modo como, através da presença de referências musicais, podemos compreender a obra e as culturas do país em causa. Muitas vezes se deu relevo a outros aspectos culturais no estudo destas obras, sendo a música normalmente analisada com imprecisão, ou nem isso. Nas três obras são levantadas questões ligadas ao ser humano, sociedade e práticas culturais, de forma a poder demonstrar como diferentes aspectos de uma dada sociedade e a música estão interrelacionadas de forma complexa. É nesta interdependência entre música e sociedade que vamos encontrar um ponto de análise de diferentes culturas Africanas e das três obras em questão.
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Manlove, Clifford T. "Eyes that colonize and post-colonial resistance to the transatlantic gaze in literature /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9962541.
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Choe, Hyonhui. "The Purloined Name of the Colonized| "Culture" in Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945." Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3595816.
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This study analyzes "culture" in late colonial Korea, 1937 to 1945, with the methodology of worldly repetition. By embedding culture between quotation marks, I intend to clarify that the object of this study is not an object per se. Korean "culture" is constructed around the three names that the present researcher is barred from objectifying. The names Yi Sang, Ch'oe Chaesoˇ, and Mun Yebong are not mere indexes of three persons with their particular intrinsic qualities. They are names that represent the Korean culture of the time. However, their representativeness does not mean that they enable the present researcher to reconstruct a general view of Korean culture of the time through them. They are representative to the extent that they allow the present researcher to reflect his own positionality in his research on a past event in history. This reflexive return is induced by the names' essential self-reflexivity; reflections on them are not to be objective if they are aiming at others through the names. The three names are representative of Korean culture of the time to the extent that they are the "origin" of the "culture" that is being formed within the present researcher's time.
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Alshammari, Shahd. "Madwomen agents : common experiences in British imperial, postcolonial, and Bedouin women's writing." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47601/.
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British imperial culture and indigenous patriarchy both work to subjugate women. There is very little room for resistance. Madness as protest is a dominant theme in Victorian literature as well as late twentieth-century postcolonial writing by women. This thesis refashions our understanding of the madwoman trope by investigating writers’ use of it to capture the diverse experiences of ‘other’ madwomen. Instead of a strictly Eurocentric approach to female protagonists’ experiences of madness, the thesis places British imperial literary culture in the nineteenth century alongside postcolonial writing by women, whether in the Caribbean (Dominica), South Asia (India) or the Middle East and North Africa (Jordan and Egypt). Jeans Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt and Miral Al-Tahawy’s The Tent are placed alongside Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. A transnational approach is necessary to establish commonality between Eastern and Western women’s literary experiences of madness. Such commonality persistently emerges, once one is alert to its possibility, despite the often obvious differences between literary madwomen’s experiences in a transnational frame. The relationship between madness and empire, madness and patriarchy, and madwomen as agents of resistance is exemplified throughout the thesis by closely analysing each literary text.
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Morris, Michael. "Atlantic archipelagos : a cultural history of Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, c.1740-1833." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3863/.
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This thesis, situated between literature, history and memory studies participates in the modern recovery of the long-obscured relations between Scotland and the Caribbean. I develop the suggestion that the Caribbean represents a forgotten 'lieu de mémoire' where Scotland might fruitfully ‘displace’ itself. Thus it examines texts from the Enlightenment to Romantic eras in their historical context and draws out their implications for modern national, multicultural, postcolonial concerns. Theoretically it employs a ‘transnational’ Atlantic Studies perspective that intersects with issues around creolisation, memory studies, and British ‘Four Nations’ history. Politically it insists on an interrogation of Scottish national narratives that continue to evade issues of empire, race and slavery. Moving beyond a rhetoric of blame, it explores forms of acting and thinking in the present that might help to overcome the injurious legacies of the past. Chapters include an examination of pastoral and georgic modes in Scottish-Caribbean texts. These include well-known authors such as James Thomson, Tobias Smollet, James Grainger, Robert Burns; and less well-known ones such as John Marjoribanks, Charles Campbell, Philip Barrington Ainslie, and the anonymous author of Marly; or a Planter’s Tale (1828). Chapters two to four highlight the way pastoral and georgic modes mediated the representation of ‘improvement’ and the question of free, bonded and enslaved labour across Scotland, Britain and the Caribbean in the era of slavery debates. The fourth chapter participates in and questions the terms of the recovery of two nineteenth century ‘Mulatto-Scots’, Robert Wedderburn and Mary Seacole. Bringing ‘Black Atlantic’ issues of race, class, gender, empire and rebellion to the fore, I consider the development of a ‘Scottish-Mulatto’ identity by comparing and contrasting the way these very different figures strategically employed their Scottish heritage. The final chapter moves forward to consider current memorialisations of slavery in the Enlightenment- Romantic period. The main focus is James Robertson’s Joseph Knight (2003) that engages with Walter Scott’s seminal historical novel Waverley (1814) to weave issues of racial slavery into the familiar narratives of Culloden. Robertson also explores forms of solidarity that might help to overcome those historical legacies in a manner that is suggestive for this thesis as a whole.
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Georges, Richard William Ethan. "Charting the sea in Caribbean poetry : Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, Dionne Brand, Alphaeus Norman, Verna Penn Moll, and Richard Georges." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66040/.
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This thesis consists of a poetry manuscript and a critical component that considers the poetics and history that inform the writing of that manuscript. Critical Component: Charting the Sea in Caribbean Poetry This thesis focuses on the influence of the sea in constructing identity in the writing of Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, and Dionne Brand. It is particularly interested in examining how these poets trace identity primarily in The Arrivants, Omeros, and No Language is Neutral through their various employments of the sea and liquidity in those works. I then read selections from two of my poetic forbearers from the British Virgin Islands - Alphaeus Norman and Verna Penn Moll - in order to examine the construction of the sea in their poetry against the canonised work of Brathwaite, Walcott, and Brand. I argue through close contextual readings of the selected works that through engagement of various approaches each poet arrives at a portrait of Caribbean identity that is constructed integrally through the fluid, mutable natures of the sea. The five poets are scrutinised in four chapters, in relation to their personal philosophies regarding national or regional identity through essay writings and interviews but more prominently in close readings of their poetry and in particular their representations of the sea. I begin by arguing that in Brathwaite's The Arrivants (1980), the importance of the sea in the various formations of West Indian identity is represented through the exercising of his tidalectic process in his reconstructions of the archetypes of Legba and Ananse, and his ritualising of cricket and calypso. In Walcott's Omeros (1990), the sea is presented as the embodiment of history itself through which all of Saint Lucia's contemporary inhabitants must access their ancestral memories. Walcott utilises the Atlantic as a creolising force in his reimagining of the Homeric archetypes of Philoctetes, Achilles, Hector, and Helen. Brand however, departs from this metaphorical interpretation of the sea and turns inward, redefining the boundaries of land, sea, and sexual desire in Trinidad through a remapping of that island that is focused on the ocean, waterways, and the bodies of women. Lastly, British Virgin Islander poets Alphaeus Osario Norman and Verna Penn Moll embrace different mythic versions of the sea. Norman's work creates a distinct sailor aesthetic that resonates with classic European naval and militaristic poetry as a way to invoke a national pride, while Penn Moll focuses on performances of cultural and communal waterside rituals to frame narratives of local history and village culture. Ultimately, I argue that the sea is presented variously as a portal through which history and tribal memory can be accessed, and as a supernaturally transformative force for the poet. Creative Component: Make Us All Islands Make Us All Islands is a poetry manuscript based in the British Virgin Islands that explores historical and personal relationships with the sea. The first section revolves around the various arrivals of liberated Africans rescued from slave ships wrecked or captured by the British Navy in the early 1800s. The liberated Africans were not enslaved, but rather forced into indentureship before ultimately being segregated from society and then disappearing from history. The second section is built around the departure of a generation of Tortolan men to work in the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic at the turn of the following century, alongside other Anglophone Afro-Caribbean migrants. A large portion of these poems are built around accounts of the greatest boating disaster in the islands' history, the loss of a schooner christened Fancy Me which wrecked in a hurricane in 1926 off the coast of the Dominican island Saona. The final movement personalises this exercise and focuses on the poet's interactions with the sea and memory.
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Chemmachery, Michaux Jaine. "Modernité et colonisation : les nouvelles sur l’empire de Rudyard Kipling et de Somerset Maugham." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013REN20026/document.
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Les nouvelles coloniales de Kipling et de Maugham mettent en scène, respectivement, la société anglo-indienne à l’époque du Raj et la vie dans les colonies anglaise et hollandaise des îles d’Asie du sud-est durant l’entredeux-guerres. Malgré ces spécificités contextuelles et l’écart temporel entre les époques auxquelles les deux auteurs écrivent leurs nouvelles, ces dernières sont invariablement traversées par le motif d’une colonisation pensée comme crise. Or le genre de la nouvelle porte formellement l’idée de crise. En utilisant le rapprochement opéré par les études postcoloniales entre modernité et colonisation comme paradigme de lecture, cette thèse montre comment la nouvelle peut opérer une prise spécifique sur ce rapport et se révéler lieu de trouble. Dans le cadre de cette réflexion sur la propension de ce genre à déstabiliser la modernité politico-philosophique et les idéologies qu’elle charrie – la promotion de la raison, du savoir, du progrès – il apparaît que les nouvelles de Kipling et de Maugham opèrent selon des modalités différentes. Celles de Kipling interrogent poétiquement le politique et la modernité tels qu’ils apparaissent dans leur spécificité coloniale par le biais d’une écriture qui opère depuis les marges, ce par un double décalage par rapport au roman domestique. Le fait même de prendre pour objet la société coloniale, elle-même située sur les marges de la société métropolitaine anglaise, s’inscrit en effet dans une écriture du décentrement. Les nouvelles de Maugham s’énoncent elles aussi depuis certainesmarges mais s’inscrivent davantage dans un constat général du déclin de la civilisation européenne durant l’entre-deux-guerres et dans une réflexion sur la situation de l’écrivain face à divers centres, sources d’autorité et de savoir. Le trouble que produit la nouvelle est donc certes lié au statut de « voix solitaire » de cette dernière mais surtout à sa position de marginalitéKipling’s and Maugham’s short stories respectively stage Anglo-Indian society during the Raj and English and Dutch colonial societies in interwar South-East Asia. In spite of contextual differences and the two specific moments when the authors wrote their short stories, the latter invariably deal with a problematic colonisation seen as a crisis while the genre of the short story formally conveys the notion of crisis. By using the relation between modernity and colonisation as it was conceptualised by the Postcolonial studies as a paradigm, this dissertation shows how short stories can operate a specific take on this relation and be considered as a site of disturbance. In this reflection on the propensity of short stories to destabilise political and philosophical modernity and the various ideologies it is associated with – such as the promotion of reason, of knowledge, of progress – Kipling’s and Maugham’s colonial short fictions seem to operate in different ways. Kipling’s short stories poetically question the “political” and modernity as they appear in the colonial paradigm through awriting that operates from a marginal position moving away from the domestic novel. By focusing on colonial society, itself being located on the margins of English metropolitan society, the writers’ works practise a decentering form of writing. Maugham’s short stories partake more of a general feeling about the decline of European civilisation in the interwar period but also reflect on the location of the writer who faces various centres which produce knowledge and cultural authority. The destabilising effect of the short story is certainly linked to its position as a “lonely voice” but above all to its marginal position
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Buckley, Thea Anandam. ""In the spicèd Indian air by night" : performing Shakespeare's Macbeth in Postmillennial Kerala." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7148/.
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This thesis examines the twenty-first-century intercultural performance of Shakespeare in Kerala, India. The thesis highlights Shakespeare’s function in invigorating local performing arts traditions that navigate tensions between paradigms of former feudalism, post-Independence democracy and capitalist globalisation. Throughout, individual artistic perspectives in interview illustrate local productions of \(Macbeth\) for indigenous Keralan performing art forms, ranging from the two-thousand-year old kutiyattam to contemporary postmodern Malayalam-language drama. My introduction contextualises these hybrid productions in their global, national, and local historiography, exploring intersections of the sacred, supernatural, and secular; postmodernism and rasa theory; intercultural Shakespeares and Keralan performing arts; and Shakespearean works with Indian literary and theatrical traditions from the colonial to the postmillennial era. Chapter One highlights cultural translation, focusing on kutiyattam artist Margi Madhu’s 2011 \(Macbeth\); Chapter Two discusses cultural collaboration, studying kathakali artist Ettumanoor P. Kannan’s \(Macbeth\) \(Cholliyattam\), 2013; Chapter Three considers cultural fusion, profiling Abhinaya Theatre’s experimental local-language production of \(Macbeth\), 2011. In closing, the thesis underscores the importance of giving a voice to Keralan theatre artists on Shakespeare, recognising the hitherto critically unexamined potential for the meeting point of two great dramatic cultural traditions as a forum, underpinned by residual colonial and Communist legacies, for intercultural discourse.
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Collins, Brenda. "Representations of landscape and gender in Lady Anne Barnard's "Journal of a month's tour into the interior of Africa"." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17744.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis will focus on Barnard’s representations of gender and landscape during her tour into the interior of the South of Africa. Barnard’s conscious representation of herself as a woman with many different social roles gives the reader insight into the developing gender roles at the time of an emerging feminism. On their tour, Barnard reports on four aspects of the interior, namely the state of cultivation of the land, the type of food and accommodation available in the interior, the possibilities for hunting and whether the colony will be a valuable acquisition for Britain. Barnard’s view of the landscape is representative of the eighteenth century’s preoccupation with control over and classification of nature. She values order and cleanliness in her vision of a domesticated landscape. She appropriates the land in wanting to make it useful and beautiful to the colonisers. However, her representations of the landscape, as well as its inhabitants, remain ambivalent in terms of the discourse of imperialism because she is unable to adopt an unequivocal colonial voice. Her complex interaction with the world of colonialism is illustrated by, on the one hand, her adherence to the desire to classify the inhabitants of the colony according to the eighteenth century’s fascination with classification and, on the other hand, her recognition of the humanity of the individuals with whom she interacts in a move away from the colonial stance.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis fokus op Barnard se voorstellings van gender en landskap gedurende haar toer in die binneland van die suide van Afrika. Barnard se bewuste voorstelling van haarself as ‘n vrou met vele sosiale rolle gee die leser insig in die ontwikkelende genderrolle gedurende ‘n tydperk van ontluikende feminisme. Gedurende haar toer doen Barnard verslag oor vier aspekte van die binneland, naamlik hoeveel van die grond reeds bewerk is, die tipe kos en akkommodasie wat beskikbaar is, die jagmoontlikhede, en of die kolonie ‘n waardevolle aanwins vir Brittanje sal wees. Barnard se beskouing van die landskap is verteenwoordigend van die agtiende-eeuse obsessie met beheer oor en klassifikasie van die natuur. Sy heg groot waarde aan orde en netheid in haar visie van ‘n getemde landskap. Sy lê beslag op die land deurdat sy dit bruikbaar en mooi wil maak vir die kolonialiste. Haar voorstellings van die landskap sowel as die inwoners weerspieël egter haar ambivalente posisie jeens die koloniale diskoers omdat sy sukkel om ‘n ondubbelsinnige koloniale stem te gebruik. Haar komplekse interaksie met die wêreld van kolonialisme word weerspieël deur, enersyds, haar navolging van die koloniale neiging om die inwoners van die land te kategoriseer in lyn met die agtiende-eeuse obsessie met klassifikasie en, andersyds, haar herkenning van die menslikheid van die individue met wie sy kontak maak in ‘n skuif weg van die koloniale standpunt.
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Al, Shalabi Rasha. "Mapping the Dominican-American experience : narratives by Julía Alvarez, Junot Díaz, Loida Maritza Pérez and Angie Cruz." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19396/.
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Dominican mass-migration to the United States only started in the 1960s but Dominican Americans are now a sizable minority and in 2014 they became the largest Latino group in New York City. This thesis examines fictional works by Dominican American writers who migrated to the United States from the early 1960s to the 1990s which explore the predicament of Dominican Americans before and after the consolidation of Dominican-American communities. The novels under scrutiny here were published in English between 1991 and 2012 by Julia Alvarez (b. 1950), Loida Maritza Pérez (b. 1963), Junot Díaz (b. 1969), and Angie Cruz (b. 1972) and present us with characters whose search for a ‘home’ and for ways in which to articulate their individual and collective identity are shaped by continuous negotiations between the traditional values of their country of origin and the potentially transformative opportunities afforded by their new country. I will show how these texts powerfully challenge homogeneity, marginalisation, mainstream ideologies, nationalism, and discrimination while questioning the economic, social, religious, patriarchal, educational, and political structures of both the Dominican Republic and the United States in order to formulate diverse modalities of belonging to what Julia Alvarez has called a new “country that’s not on the map” and establish their own distinct position as Dominican American writers.
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Silva, Wellington Rogério da. "Representações do espaço na literatura magrebina contemporânea: da literatura argelina à literatura-mundo." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/4717.
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Esta tese toma por objeto obras de três escritores argelinos de língua francesa, a saber, Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar e Anissa Mohammedi, inseridas na literatura contemporânea do Magrebe. Esses autores percorrem o espaço da própria terra e encontram na expatriação da sua literatura o motivo de sobrevivência. Eles nos fornecem a dimensão duma nova espacialidade como fruto do spatial turn, e do incontornável fenômeno migratório na Argélia desde muito tempo, notadamente durante o período colonial e pós-colonial. Escrevendo atualmente na França ou noutras partes do mundo, mostram, nessa condição, possibilidades novas de inserção da literatura argelina escrita na língua deste que foi o seu antigo colono. Assim, eles se inscrevem numa inter-relação com o mundo, noção desenvolvida por Édouard Glissant pela Poética da Relação. Como rizomas, indo ao encontro do outro, trazem para a problemática segundo a qual as relações entre a literatura e a geografia se tornam essenciais para se pensar a ancoragem da literatura no espaço. Apoiamo-nos nalgumas noções desenvolvidas por alguns pensadores, dentre quais enfatizamos Édouard Glissant e Michel Collot. Por isso, considerando essas relações, concebemos a existência duma Geografia Literária como uma variante para a nossa abordagem Como tratamos de escritores contemporâneos, dialogamos com os processos globalizadores, considerando-os como projetos e não como uma constante na vida humana, ao mesmo tempo em que espaços continuam vazios, na contingência e, por isso mesmo, cheios de encantamento. Desenvolvemos então as noções como a de espaço e espacialidade, relacionando-as às obras escolhidas, que permanecem o nosso principal objeto em relação à espacialidade magrebina: o espaço da mulher árabo-muçulmana, das línguas e da poesia, esta última responsável pela formação da literatura argelina e sua inserção numa literatura-mundo. Concluímos a nossa tese com aportes sobre as possibilidades nossos escritores nos espaços encarnados, e considerando-os como andorinhas costeiras, razões de sobrevivência do sujeito num mundo cada vez mais fragilizado e incerto.
Cette thèse prend pour objet des oeuvres de trois écrivains algériens de langue française, à savoir, Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar et Anissa Mohammedi, insérées dans la littérature contemporaine au Maghreb. Ces auteurs parcourent l‟espace de la propre terre et trouvent dans l‟expatriation de leur littérature la raison même de survie. Ils nous fournissent la dimension d‟une nouvelle spatialité comme résultat d‟un spatial turn et de l‟incontournable phénomène migratoire en Algérie depuis longtemps, nottament durant la période coloniale et post-coloniale. Écrivant actuellement en France ou ailleurs, ils démontrent dans cette condition des possibilités nouvelles d‟insertion de la littérature algérienne écrite dans la langue de celui qui fut son ancien colon. Ainsi, ils s‟inscrivent dans une interrelation avec le monde, notion développée par Édouard Glissant à partir d‟une poétique de la Relation. En les considérant comme des rhizomes, nous avons développé la problématique selon laquelle les rapport entre la géographie et la littérature devient fondamental pour penser les rapports entre la littérature et l‟espace. Nous avons cherché quelques notions étudiées par des théoriciens, dont Édouard Glissant et Michel Collot. De ce fait, considérant les rapports entre la littérature et la géographie, nous concevons l‟existence d‟une Géographie Littéraire comme une variable dans cette approche. Puisque il s‟agit d‟écrivains contemporains, le dialogue avec les processus de mondialisaion devient aussi important, sachant qu‟il ne s‟agit pas d‟un processus naturel, mais d‟un projet majeur, alors que des espaces restent en friche, dans la contingence et, en l‟occurrence, pleins d‟echantement. Nous avons donc cherché les notions d‟espace et de spatialité et ses rapports aux ouvrages sélectionés, qui restent notre principal objet sur la spatialité maghrébine: l‟espace de la femme arabo-musulmane, des langues et celui de la poésie, celle-ci responsable pour la formation de la littérature algérienne et son insertion dans une littérature-monde. Pour conclure, nous proposons des apports sur les possiblités de nos écrivains dans les espaces incarnés, en les considérant comme des hirondelles de rivage, seule raison de survie du sujet dans un monde de plus en plus fragilisé et incertain.
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Nakai, Asako. "Conrad's inheritors : colonial and postcolonial literatures." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308867.
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Menardi, Ana Paula Seco. "A educação na literatura de viagem e na literatura jesuitica - seculos XVI e XVII." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251657.
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Resumo: O presente trabalho trata sobre a educação na Literatura de Viagem e na Literatura Jesuítica, buscando trazer à tona o seu caráter ideológico. Entendemos por Literatura de Viagem o conjunto de obras, sejam elas escritas por colonizadores, aventureiros, comerciantes, naturalistas ou exploradores, que trazem informações e imagens que deram à Europa uma visão do Novo Mundo através de uma experiência própria proporcionada pela viagem. E por Literatura Jesuítica, os muitos escritos deixados pelos membros da Companhia de Jesus em diferentes formatos: cartas, sermões, narrativas, relatórios, tratados, informativos. Os relatos produzidos pelos viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros que estiveram no Brasil ao longo dos séculos XVI e XVII são testemunhos fundamentais das viagens e dos contatos estabelecidos com os habitantes do Novo Mundo, sendo uma parte integrante do próprio quadro do processo de conquistas e colonização. Os europeus foram os primeiros a construírem um conhecimento referente à educação no Brasil, entendida tanto no sentido amplo: enquanto conhecimento e observação dos costumes e da vida social, civilidade, polidez, cortesia, cultura socialização e sociabilidade, como também no sentido mais restrito: como meio de adquirir formação e desenvolvimento físico, intelectual, religioso e moral, na sua forma institucionalizada, no sentido mesmo de instrução, de ensino, escolarização. A forma como viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros, mais especificadamente europeus, observaram, interpretaram, registraram e construíram um conhecimento acerca da educação estão ligadas, direta e indiretamente, a uma visão de mundo socialmente condicionada, representando, portanto, a visão de mundo do branco ocidental civilizado e cristão. Os relatos dos viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros são expressões ideológicas que refletem as concepções de colonização, sociedade e educação de seu tempo, servindo tanto aos propósitos da Coroa portuguesa como também da Igreja reformada. A questão que se colocou para este trabalho foi justamente como alguns viajantes e jesuítas que estiveram no Brasil nos séculos XVI e XVII e observaram a sociedade colonial brasileira construíram imagens, forjaram interpretaram a sociedade brasileira, articularam informações, fatos e idéias, elaboraram teorias, de forma a expressar uma concepção ideológica de sociedade, religião e educação. Ou seja, como construíram e reproduziram um conhecimento a respeito da educação no Brasil, através de suas obras, buscando desvendar o caráter ideológico desses escritos resultantes das viagens.
Abstract: The present work regards the Education in Travel Writing and Jesuit Literature, seeking to bring out its ideological nature. Travel Writing is all works written by colonizers, adventurers, traders, naturalists and explorers who have information and images that gave Europe a vision of the New World through an experience provided by the trip. And Jesuit literature, the many writings left by members of the Society of Jesus in different formats: letters, sermons, narratives, reports, treaties, information. The reports produced by the Jesuits and foreign travelers who visited Brazil during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are evidence of the fundamental travel and contacts established with the inhabitants of the New World, and is part of the very framework of the conquest and colonization. The Europeans were the first to build a knowledge related to education in Brazil, as understood in the broad sense: as knowledge and observation of manners and social life, civility, politeness, courtesy, culture, socialization and sociability, but also in the narrower sense: as a means to gain training and physical, intellectual, religious and moral, in its institutionalized form, in the same sense learning and acquisition of knowledge. The way that travelers and foreign Jesuits, more specifically the Europeans ones, observed, interpreted, recorded and built a knowledge of education are linked, directly and indirectly, to a worldview socially conditioned, and thus become the world view of Western White civilized and Christian. The accounts of foreign travelers and Jesuits are ideological expressions that reflect the views of colonization, society and education of his time, serving both the purposes of the Portuguese crown, but also of the Reformed Church. The question asked for this work was just as some travelers and missionaries who came to Brazil in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and found the Brazilian colonial society constructed images, forged interpreted the Brazilian society, articulated information, facts and ideas, developed theories of order to express an ideological conception of society, religion and education. That is, as constructed and reproduced knowledge about education in Brazil, through his works, trying to uncover the ideology of these writings of journeys.
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Historia, Filosofia e Educação
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Stroh, Silke. "(Post)colonial Scotland? : literature, gaelicness and the nation /." Frankfurt a.M, 2009. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?sys=000259524.
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Djomo, Esaïe. "" Des Deutschen Feld, es ist die Welt!" : Pangermanismus in der Literatur des Kaiserreichs, dargestellt am Beispiel der deutschen Koloniallyrik : ein Beitrag zur Literatur im historischen Kontext /." St. Ingbert : W.J. Röhrig, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb356157860.
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Santos, Fernanda Fatima da Fonseca. "Experiência colonial e pós-colonial na ordem ruinosa do mundo: uma leitura de O esplendor de Portugal, de António Lobo Antunes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-24052017-105502/.
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A observação dos procedimentos formais empregados por António Lobo Antunes em O esplendor de Portugal (1997) levou-nos a constatar a existência, no livro, de uma visão crítica muito peculiar e complexa a respeito da História do colonialismo português e do contexto pós--colonial em que Angola e Portugal inserem-se. Dessa forma, o objetivo de nossa dissertação de mestrado é elucidar a dinâmica social representada nO esplendor de Portugal e a condução que o desígnio autoral dá a essa representação. Nesse sentido, procuramos identificar as inter- -relações entre os elementos formais estruturadores da obra e aqueles que regem as dinâmicas sociais que nela figuram. Para alcançarmos tal objetivo, direcionamos nossos estudos a leituras de teoria e crítica literária pautados nas noções de redução estrutural e de interpretação dialética, que Antonio Candido propõe. Paralelamente, procedemos ao delineamento e à análise dos contextos históricos que envolvem o enredo do romance em questão, com ênfase à observação das dinâmicas dialéticas que se deram entre o desenvolvimento do capitalismo das grandes potências mundiais e o atraso econômico de Portugal, bem como ao modo como essas dinâmicas intervieram na constituição e na manutenção das formas sociais de base do colonialismo português na África. Depois desse embasamento teórico, efetuamos a análise literária de O esplendor de Portugal e constatamos que, nessa obra, a visão crítica sobre o colonialismo português em suas imbricações com as conjunturas políticas e econômicas mundiais assenta-se no cruzamento, dentro do romance, de diversas temporalidades, que se situam entre o fim do século XIX e o ano de 1995. É a partir do cruzamento dessas temporalidades que o desígnio autoral faz sobressaírem questões como os modos de exploração da força de trabalho angolana, a atuação do grande capital estrangeiro em Angola, o travamento das expectativas de expansão econômica dos colonos proprietários, subordinados que estavam ao Estado português e ao poderio do grande capital, a corresponsabilidade desses colonos na instituição e na generalização da violência que permeou as relações sociais na colônia e a influência que os interesses estrangeiros também tiveram na exploração de Angola, nos rumos da guerra colonial e na intensificação e ampliação dos conflitos existentes entre os movimentos nacionalistas angolanos. A principal conclusão a que chegamos, portanto, é a de que o pilar sobre o qual se assenta a construção de O esplendor de Portugal é a composição, subjacente à complexa rede narrativa do romance, de uma rede não menos complexa de relações causais entre as temporalidades abrangidas no livro, na qual se destacam as linhas de ruptura e de continuidade históricas que sustentam essa rede e que constroem a representação do presente catastrófico em que se situam os narradores.The observation of formal procedures employed by António Lobo Antunes in O esplendor de Portugal (1997) took us to recognize the existence, in the book, a very peculiar and complex critical view about the History of portuguese colonialism and the post-colonial context in that Angola and Portugal are inserted. In this way, the purpose of our dissertation is to show the social dynamics represented in O esplendor de Portugal and the driving the authorial plan gives to this representation. Therefore, we look for to identify the relationships between the formal elements structures of the work and those that react the social dynamics that are listed. To achieve this purpose, we direct our studies to readings of literary theory and criticism based on the concepts of structural reduction and dialectical interpretation that Antonio Candido proposes. At the same time, we proceed to delineation and to analysis of the historical context to involve the plot of the novel in question, with emphasis to observation of dialectical dynamics that happened between the development of capitalism of the major world powers and the economic backwardness of Portugal, as well to how these dynamics intervened in the constitution and in the maintenance of basic social forms of portuguese colonialism in Africa. After this theoretical base, we did the literary analysis of O esplendor de Portugal and we found that, in this work, the critical view on portuguese colonialism in their impact, appear with the political and economic situations in the world are cross, into the novel, of different temporalities, which fall between the end of the 19TH century and the year of 1995. Is from crossing these temporalities that authorial intent does to protrude issues like operating modes of the angolan workforce, the performance of large foreign capital in Angola, the expectations of economic expansion of the colonists owners, subordinates who were the Portuguese State and the power of big capital, the co-responsibility of these settlers in the institution and in the widespread violence that pervaded the social relations in the colony and the influence that foreign interests also had on Angola exploration, in the direction of the colonial war and on intensification and expansion of the existing conflicts between the Angolan nationalist movements. The main conclusion that we reached, therefore, is that the pillar on which sits the creation of O esplendor de Portugal is the composition, underlying the complex net of romance narrative, not less complex of causal relationships between the temporalities covered in the book, in which the lines of rupture and historical continuity that underpin this network and that build the representation of the catastrophic present in which are situated the narrators.
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Morris, James Medley. "Beyond Orientalism : 'the stranger' and 'colonial cosmopolitanism' in the romantic period novel." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7534/.
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Going beyond Orientalism in its examination of novels dealing with British colonisation in the West, as well as the East Indies, the postcolonial frame of my thesis develops recent theorisations of the Romantic ‘stranger’. Analysing a range of novels from the much anthologised Mansfield Park (1814), to less well-known narratives such as John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption (1801) and Sir Walter Scott’s Saint Ronan’s Well (1823), my thesis seeks to account for a model of ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’ within fiction of the period. Considering the cosmopolitan dimensions of the transferential rhetoric of slavery, my thesis explores the ways in which, Jane Austen, Amelia Opie and Maria Edgeworth consider the position of women in domestic society through a West Indian frame. Demonstrating the need for reform both at home and abroad, such novels are representative of a fledgling cosmopolitanism that is often overlooked in current criticism. In seeking to account for ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’ as a new model for reading fiction composed during the Romantic period, my thesis attempts to add further nuance to current understandings of sympathetic exchange during the process of British colonisation. In chapters four and five I will develop my analysis of novels dealing with colonial expansion in the Caribbean to consider novels which deal with the Indian subcontinent. Although stopping short of questioning colonial expansion, discourses of ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’, as my thesis demonstrates, provided a foundation for humanitarian and cultural engagement which was mutually transformative for both the coloniser and the colonised.
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Deckard, Sharae Grace. "Exploited Edens : paradise discourse in colonial and postcolonial literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1139/.
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This thesis examines the relation between figures of paradise and the ideologies and economies of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism, arguing that paradise myth is the product of a value-laden discourse related to profit, labour, and exploitation of resources, both human and environmental, which evolves in response to differing material conditions and discursive agendas. The literature of imperialism and conquest abounds with representations of colonies as potential gold-lands to be mined materially or discursively: from the EI Dorado of the New World and the 'infernal paradise' of Mexico, to the 'Golden Ophir' of Africa and the 'paradise of dharma' of Ceylon. Most postcolonial analyses of paradise discourse have focused exclusively on the Caribbean or the South Pacific, failing to acknowledge the appearance of fantasies of paradise in association with Africa and Asia. Therefore, my thesis not only performs a comparative reading of marginalized paradisal topoi and tropes related to Mexico, Zanzibar, and Ceylon, but also uncovers literature from these regions which has been overlooked in mainstream postcolonial .criticism, mapping the circulations, continuities, and reconfigurations of the paradise myth as it travels across colonie{and continents, empires and ideologies. My analysis of these three regions is divided into six chapters, the first of each section excavating colonial uses ofthe paradise myth and constructing its genealogy for that particular region, the second investigating revisionary uses of the motif by postcolonial writers including Malcolm Lowry, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. I address imperialist discourse from outside the country in conjunction with discourse from within the independent nation in order to demonstrate how paradise begins as a literal topos motivating European exploration and colonization, develops into an ideological myth justifying imperial praxis and economic exploitation, and [mally becomes a literary motif used by contemporary postcolonial writers to challenge colonial representations and criticize neocolonial conditions.
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Xiong, Ying. "Representing empire: Japanese colonial literature in Taiwan and Manchuria." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28923.
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Japan's imperialist expansion in late 19th and early 20th Asia was marked by its
official colonisation of Taiwan in 1895, of Korea in 1905, and by its subsequent
occupation of Northern China in 1931, prior to heading further to the South in the late
19305. Living as they did in the heyday of imperialism and nationalism, two significant
historical phenomena of the 20th century, Japanese colonial writers who travelled to the
colonial territories left behind them abundant stores of writing and records that deserve
scholarly attention. The dual historical processes of nationalisation and imperialisation
put these colonial writers under no little strain and, at the same time, affected their
national identification, which is the focus of this study.
Any study of Japanese national identification, and the tension between Japan’s
nationalism and imperialism reflected in colonial writings, cannot be undertaken from a
purely national perspective; rather, it demands a transnational vision that takes into
account colonial factors, which in this study includes Japan’s interaction with China and
Chinese literature. Drawing upon the examples of Nishikawa Mitsuru and Ouchi Takao,
my thesis aims to scrutinise Japanese colonial literature and cultural production in
Taiwan and Manchuria, and to identify the similarities and divergence in colonial
identities that would otherwise be neglected in a more narrow treatment.
This thesis argues that both Japanese state and imperialism were understood by
the Japanese people living in Taiwan and Manchuria in an ambiguous way. There was
inconsistency in their understanding of the relations between state, nation and empire. In
both Taiwan and Manchuria, space could be found for individual deviation from
imperialist power.
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Sanusi, Ramonu Abiodun. "Representations of Sub-Saharan African Women in Colonial and Post-Colonial Novels in French." Thesis, view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136444.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-186). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Carvalho, Manuella Pereira. "As dicotomias da Nação: o espaço em Eterna paixão e Venenos de Deus, remédios do Diabo." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2014. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/2723.
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Os estudos comparados têm permitido operar uma descentralização da literatura, promovendo uma abertura para o estudo de obras literárias até então consideradas periféricas. O estudo aqui apresentado realiza um comparativo entre as obras Eterna paixão (1994), de Abduali Sila, escritor guineense e Venenos de Deus, remédios do Diabo (2008), de Mia Couto, escritor moçambicano. Este construto teórico analisa temas como comunidades imaginadas, observadas pelos espaços externo (esfera pública) e interno (esfera privada) no período pós-colonial. Esse momento da história torna-se singular para as jovens nações africanas, porque é um período de tensões geradas por inúmeros aspectos culturais locais e questões ligadas à modernidade. As ideias para a reflexão e explanação das questões teóricas concernentes a este trabalho são iluminadas principalmente por Henry Lefebvre, Partha Chatterjee, Hommi Bhabha, Kwame Appiah e Stuart Hall, em relação ao espaço, as comunidades imaginadas, cultura, nação e identidade. Cada uma das obras observadas revelam a sua comunidade imaginada, isto é, criam uma imagem de nação para refletir acerca dos rumos que seus países tomaram após um longo período de colonização. Com efeito, constata-se a dificuldade de compreensão dos sujeitos em como lidar com os costumes e mitos locais em relação à modernidade. Desse modo, criam-se dicotomias da nação que manifestam as diferenças entre o local e o global e como estas diferenças acabam se conformando na construção da imagem nacional.
Comparative studies have allowed a decentralization of literature, fostering an openness to study literary work previously considered peripheral. The study presented here shows a comparison between two works - Eterna Paixão (1994), from Abduali Sila, a Guinean writer, and Venenos de Deus, Remédios do Diabo (2008), from Mia Couto, a Mozambican writer. The theoretical construct examines subjects as the imagined communities, observed by external spaces (public sphere) and internal spaces (private sphere) in the post-colonial period. This moment in history becomes unique for young African nations, because it is a period of tension generated by numerous local cultural aspects and issues related to modernity. The reflection and explanation of ideas of the theoretical questions concerning this research are mainly enlightened by Henry Lefebvre, Partha Chatterjee, Hommi Bhabha, Kwame Appiah and Stuart Hall, in relation to space, the imagined communities, culture, nation and identity. Each of the analyzed work reveals their imagined community, which means, they create an image of a nation to reflect on the path that their countries took after a long period of colonization. Indeed, subjects have had a difficulty in understanding and dealing with local customs and myths in relation to modernity. Thus, nation dichotomies are created and show the differences between the local and the global, and how these differences end up shaping the construction of national image.