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Kermally, Jenny. "Towards a Deleuzian Postcolonialism." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500637.
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Langer, Jessica. "Science fiction and postcolonialism." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538778.
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Heeren, Travis Roy. "The Past Isn't Dead: Faulkner's Postcolonialism." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/557.
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While William Faulkner preceded the formalized movement of postcolonialism, he anticipated a great many of its tenets and wrote them in into the early works of his career. As the theoretical conversation within postcolonialism has expanded in recent years to include notions of the new empire and post-hybridity, this thesis explores the ways in which Faulkner's narrative elements of encounter, fissure, and cycle may allow us to consider the postcolonial narrative more expansively, and to read William Faulkner as a postcolonial author.
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Hilborn, Ryan. "The forgotten Europe: Eastern Europe and postcolonialism." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104858.
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This study examines three novels, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Ivan Klima's Love and Garbage, and Nina FitzPatrick's The Loves of Faustyna, and their relation to the creation, and the propagation, of the discourse which surrounds Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War. In studying these texts I address the relation between postcommunist studies of Eastern Europe and the field of postcolonialism, which have traditionally overlooked one another. In doing so, I argue that the application of postcolonialism to postcommunist studies allows for a deeper understanding as to Eastern Europe's position throughout the twentieth century. The three writers I have chosen share similar themes with the postcolonial discourse and as such I have chosen to highlight these similarities in order to point to a new manner in which Eastern Europe's literary contribution to the twentieth century can be understood.Cette étude examine trois romans, Dracula par Bram Stoker, Love and Garbage par Ivan Klima, et The Loves of Faustyna par Nina Fitzpatrick, et leurrelation à la création et la propagation du discours qui entoure Europe de l'Est pendant 'la guerre froide'. Dans l'étude de ces textes j'ai adressé la relation entre les études post-communiste de l'Europe de l'Est et le champ du post-colonialisme, qui ont traditionnellement négligé un l'autre. Ce faisant, je soutiens que l'application du postcolonialisme aux études post-communistepermet une meilleure compréhension de la position de l'Europe orientale tout au long du XXe siècle. Les trois auteurs que j'ai choisi soulève des thèmes similaires avec le discours postcolonial et à ce titre que j'ai choisi de mettre en preuve ces similitudes, afin de pointer vers une nouvelle façon dans laquelle la contribution littéraire de l'Europe orientale au XXe siècle peut être comprise.
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Lee, Seok-Ho. "Ngugi wa Thiongo and third world postcolonialism." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7883.
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Bibliography: leaves 184-194.This study investigates the ambivalent traits of third world postcolonialism. Third world postcolonialism appears as an antithesis against the logical fallacy of the binary oppositions performed by the contemporary first world postcolonial theory and practice. The division between the first and the third world postcolonial aesthetics is due to their different interpretations and practices of the term 'postcolonial,' respectively.
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Tillis, Antonio Dwayne. "Manuel Zapata Olivella : from regionalism to postcolonialism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9988703.
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Boucher, Rémi. "A comparative post-colonial reading of Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler and Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ61717.pdf.
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Lakhani, Safia. "From orientalism to postcolonialism : producing the Muslim woman." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116128.
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This thesis addresses particular limitations of postcolonial scholarship about Muslim women. To locate my analysis of postcolonial works, I survey Orientalist productions of the Muslim woman by European travelers and certain Muslim reformists. I read these repressive constructions of the Muslim woman through the lens of postcolonial critique. While postcolonial discourses about Muslim women are frequently framed as a "corrective" to Orientalist accounts, they are often limited by a commitment to teleological conceptions of development. This is especially true of the discourse of "Islamic Feminism" in the works of Margot Badran and miriam cooke. Examining Badran's and cooke's conceptions of feminism and religiosity, I highlight the ways in which it re-inscribes particular Orientalist assumptions, and remains bound by its adherence to secular-liberal values, and teleological conceptions of modernity. These biases carry serious implications for future scholarship about Muslim women within the Western Academy.
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Wattenbarger, Melanie. "Reading Postcolonialism and Postmodernism in Contemporary Indian Literature." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1351102017.
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Dobson, Filippa Jane. "Barren (yeld ) : (traces of ain) landscape, postcolonialism and identity." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20604/.
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Yeld is a Scottish/North of England word meaning barren. The practice-based research contradicts binary notions of fertile/unfertile, nature/culture and inside/outside, arguing for a more nuanced entanglement of the human with the non-human animal and the other-than-human environment. The thesis details the productive ‘naturecultural’ relationship between the author and the Badger Stone, a Neolithic cup and ring marked statutory monument on Ilkley Moor. The three key aims of my practice-based research relate to geographical boundaries, the structuring of identity and cultural resistance to issues of power and control. The research tests postcolonial theory as a strategy for reading landscape and investigating geographical boundaries and relates postcolonial theory to phenomenological and other theories about the structuring of identity in relation to performance and place. My research to date has signified a change in emphasis from a definition of postcolonialism as necessarily boundaried and territorial to a potentially new understanding of postcolonialism as signifying a political tactic of resistance to issues of power and control. The primary themes of walking, collecting, mapping and printmaking were the catalyst into performance and land art. Four key performances on the Moor investigated considerations of place in relation to what I term ‘heritage control’ as a strategy for land management and access to scheduled monuments. By intertwining different theoretical ideas and actions, print forms became natural/cultural objects situated somewhere between physical artefacts and ephemeral performance. It is the combination of performance with principles of mapping that form the potentially original contribution to knowledge that this thesis attempts to outline.
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Acón-Chan, Lai Sai. "Nation formation and identity formulation processes in Hong Kong literary, cinematic, plastic and spatial texts amidst the uneasy confluence of history, culture, and imperialism /." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2008/l_aconchan_041408.pdf.
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Serra, Pagès Conrad. "Men in David Malouf’s Fiction." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668922.
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The aim of this thesis is to assess David Malouf’s contribution to the field of gender and men studies in his fiction books.
In order to do so, I have proceeded by offering a close reading of each of his novels so as to emphasise those parts of the plot where gender and masculinities are more relevant, and from here engaging in a series of theoretical discourses as I saw convenient in the course of my analysis. We read his largely autobiographical novel Johnno in the tradition of the Bildungsroman. In this tradition, the main characters fulfil themselves when they meet the roles that society expects of them. Therefore, becoming a man or a woman means meeting these expectations. In Johnno, Malouf offers an alternative form of successful socialisation that redeems the main character, Dante as an artist but is also built on personal tragedy.
We use Judith Butler’s studies on the performativity of gender, Hélène Cixous and
Julia Kristeva’s ècriture feminine and their distinction between symbolic and semiotic language, Eve K. Sedgwick and René Girard’s studies on homosocial desire and triangulation, and Simone the Beauvoir and Pierre Bourdieu’s ethnographic research on women and Kabyle society, respectively, to read An Imaginary Life and Harland’s Half Acre. In An Imaginary Life, Malouf fictionalises the life of the poet Ovid in exile. In Rome, Ovid defies patriarchy and the Emperor writing a poetry that is uncivil and gay. In his exile in Tomis, Ovid decides to raise a feral Child against the advice of the women in the village, who end up using their power, based on folklore and superstition, to get rid of them. In Harland’s Half Acre, Malouf creates a male household where women are mostly absent, and a female one where the women are the main actors and men play a secondary role. When the main character of the novel, Frank Harland, finally recovers the family estate for his family’s only descendant, his nephew Gerald, the latter commits suicide. One of Malouf’s main concerns in his writings, the outcome of the novels privilege a spiritual sort of possession over one based on the
values of patriarchy, that is, bloodline succession by right of the first-born male child, hierarchical power relations and ownership: Ovid survives in his poems thanks to the human need for magic and superstition, and so does Frank in his art.
Michael S. Kimmel and R. W. Connell’s studies on men and masculinities, and historical research on Australian identity as it was forged during the colonial period and the World Wars help us read Fly Away Peter, The Great World, Remembering Babylon and The Conversations at Curlow Creek. In Australia, national identity and definitions of manhood are closely tied to frontier and war masculinities. In these novels, Malouf portrays the Australian legend: sceptical of authority, easy-going, egalitarian, larrikin, resourceful, etc. Unfortunately, the legend had a destructive effect on women and the feminine, and that is the reason why we recover from oblivion the important role that women played in the construction of Australia. Edward Said’s research in Culture and Imperialism, Homi Bhabha’s notions of hybridity and mimicry, and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness provide us valuable tools to analyse class and ethnic issues when we ask ourselves what it means to be a man in Remembering Babylon.
Margaret M. Gullette’s studies on the representation of age bias in literature and Ashton Applewhite’s research against ageism provide the theoretical framework for Ransom, where Malouf tells the story of Priam’s ransom of his son Hector, urging us to wonder what kind of heroism is left to a man in his old age.
Finally, we offer a close reading of the outcome of the novels, where the agents of transformation are always male or involve male characters: Dante and Johnno, the eponymous hero of the novel; the Child in An Imaginary Life; Digger and Vic in The Great World; Gemmy in Remembering Babylon or Priam and Achilles in Ransom. In this way, we hope to better understand and more clearly render the world of men that Malouf portrays in his novels.L’objectiu de la tesi és valorar la contribució de les obres de ficció de David Malouf als estudis de gènere i de masculinitats. Per tal d’aconseguir-ho, hem dut a terme una lectura fidel de les seves novel·les tot emfasitzant aquells elements de la història on el gènere i les masculinitats són més rellevants, i a partir d’aquí hem emprat una sèrie de teories que consideràvem adients en la nostra anàlisi. Hem llegit la seva novel·la àmpliament autobiogràfica, Johnno en la tradició de la Bildungsroman. En aquesta tradició, els personatges principals es realitzen quan compleixen les expectatives que la societat espera d’ells. Així doncs, fer-se un home o una dona vol dir complir aquestes expectatives. A Johnno, Malouf ens dóna una forma alternativa de socialització exitosa que redimeix al personatge principal, Dante, però que també s’erigeix sobre una tragèdia personal. Emprem la recerca de Judith Butler sobre la “performativitat” del gènere, l’ècriture feminine d’Hélène Cixous i Julia Kristeva i la distinció que fan entre llenguatge semiòtic i simbòlic, els estudis de Eve K. Sedgwick i René Girard sobre desig homosocial i el triangle amorós, i la recerca etnogràfica de Simone the Beauvoir i Pierre Bourdieu sobre la dona I la societat Kabyle, respectivament, en la nostra anàlisi d’An Imaginary Life i Harland’s Half Acre. A An Imaginary Life, Malouf narra la vida del poeta Ovidi a l’exili. A Roma, Ovidi desafia el patriarcat escrivint una poesia que és impertinent i divertida. Al seu exili a Tomis, Ovidi decideix criar un nen salvatge, contradient el consell de les dones del poble, que acaben utilitzant el seu poder, basat en les tradicions populars i la superstició, per lliurar-se’n. A Harland’s Half Acre, Malouf crea una llar principalment masculina on les dones hi són absents, i una de femenina on les dones porten les rendes de la casa i els homes hi tenen un paper secundari. Quan el personatge principal de la novel·la, Frank Harland, finalment recupera l’herència de la seva família i la vol entregar a l’únic descendent que queda de la família, el seu nebot Gerald, aquest es suïcida. Un dels temes més recurrents a les novel·les de David Malouf, el desenllaç de les novel·les privilegien una possessió de tipus espiritual per damunt d’una possessió basada en els valors del patriarcat, és a dir, la descendència basada en els fills legítims o de sang i els privilegis del fill primogènit, relacions jeràrquiques de poder i la propietat. Emprem els estudis sobre homes i masculinitats de Michael S. Kimmel i R. W. Connell, la recerca històrica de la identitat Australiana tal com es va forjar durant el període colonial i les dues Guerres Mundials en la nostra anàlisi de Fly Away Peter, The Great World, Remembering Babylon i The Conversations at Curlow Creek. A Austràlia, la identitat nacional i les definicions de masculinitat estan estretament lligades a les masculinitats de fronteres i de guerra. En aquestes novel·les, Malouf representa la llegenda del típic Australià: escèptic de l’autoritat, relaxat, igualitari, malparlat, informal, amb recursos, etc. Malauradament, la llegenda va tenir un efecte molt destructiu en les dones i els valors femenins, i per això recuperem de l’oblit l’important paper que van jugar les dones en la construcció d’Austràlia. La recerca d’Edward Said a Culture and Imperialism, les nocions d’hibridització i mimetisme d’Homi Bhabha, i la novel·la Heart of Darkness, de Joseph Conrad, ens proporcionen eines valuoses per la nostra anàlisi de qüestions ètniques i de classe quan ens preguntem què vol dir ser home a Remembering Babylon. Els estudis de Margaret M. Gullette sobre els prejudicis de la representació de l’edat a la literatura, i la recerca d’Ashton Applewhite contra els prejudicis de l’edat, ens proporcionen el marc teòric de la nostra lectura de Ransom, on Malouf explica la història de Priam, que rescata el cos del seu fill Hèctor de les mans d’Aquil·les, tot preguntant-nos quin tipus d’heroisme li queda a un home quan es fa vell. Finalment, oferim una lectura atenta de la resolució de les novel·les, on els agents del canvi són sempre masculins o impliquen personatges masculins. Per exemple, Dante i Johnno, l’heori epònim de la novel·la; el nen salvatge a An Imaginary Life; Digger i Vic a The Great World; Gemmy a Remembering Babylon o Priam i Achilles a Ransom. D’aquesta manera, esperem entendre millor i transmetre més clarament el món dels homes que Malouf ens representa a les seves novel·les.
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Bohata, K. "Postcolonialism revisited : the challenging case of Welsh writing in English." Thesis, Swansea University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636115.
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This study considers how far some of the paradigms of postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted in order to provide an illuminating reading of Welsh writing in English. The introduction considers Wales's colonial/postcolonial status, and the first chapter discusses the construction of Wales as a colonised nation as it appears in writing (in both Welsh and English) of the 1950s and 1960s, with special reference to policies of afforestation in the Welsh uplands, including a discussion of the rhetoric of the Forestry Commission. The second chapter discusses recuperative feminist projects in Wales, and focuses on the fin de siécle, highlighting women's imperial roles as missionaries, but mainly focusing on women's engagement with, and the interaction between, discourses of nationalism, feminism and imperialism. The position of the Welsh (as authors, readers and textual constructions) as 'outsiders inside' is explored in the third chapter, which highlights the interpenetrations of discourses of race, degeneration, gender and pathology as they occur in Welsh writing in English. The penultimate chapter considers how a postcolonial understanding of linguistic power-struggles may be useful to Wales and focuses on the literary device of code-switching. The final chapter discusses the value of theories of hybridity in illuminating Welsh cultural experiences of assimilation and alterity.
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Sarkar, Jaydip. "Postcolonialism and Indian women`s question : text, context and theory." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1342.
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Wiggur, Malin, and Ida Löfström. "Postcolonialism in Development Policy : - a comparative analysis of SIDA and USAID." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Department of Social Work, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-8298.
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Two recent tendencies are brought together in this study; the emergence of a postcolonial academic discipline and the restructuring of international development aid and cooperation. Researchers have tried to advocate a postcolonial perspective in policies for international development. This study investigates to what extent this has been done in key documents from SIDA and USAID. A qualitative dimensional analysis was performed from which the results are then used for a comparative analysis. The findings show that documents from both agencies only to a limited extent express a postcolonial perspective, though; documents from SIDA show a stronger prevalence of a postcolonial perspective in some dimension and in the overall index. As demonstrated with the MIP index, both agencies policy documents have more non-postcolonialist rhetoric. The documents demonstrate a development discourse in which the donor countries own national development is prioritized at the cost of that of the receiver countries.
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Vukov, Tamara. "Imagining Canada, imagining the desirable immigrant : immigration spectacle as settler postcolonialism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54268.pdf.
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Moles, Kate. "Narratives of postcolonialism in liminal space : the place called Phoenix Park." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2007. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/56164/.
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Encounters with physical places construct a sense of both communal and individual identity. This thesis looks at the effects of transformation and fragmentation of existing and remembered places through a qualitative engagement with postcolonial Ireland in the context of modernisation. Phoenix Park, Dublin, is taken as the lens, constituting the research site and refracting both historical legacy and contemporary (re)invention. It is argued that many of the 'monuments' of contemporary and historic 'Irishness' events, gatherings, buildings, statues, structures and spaces, are represented in the Phoenix Park, Dublin and as such the space acts as an important location for the development of shared memories and commemoration, and understandings of state, culture, nature and history. The Park creates an illusion of nature, designed from scratch and then re-presented back to human audiences in a cultural performance. Using ideas from postcolonial thinking (Bhabha, 1994 Spivak, 1990, 1999), this thesis asks what this performance tells us about the culture of the Park and the way people understand it. Colonialism is inherently spatial processes of mapping, charting and defining space are linked with the colonial project, as are the epistemological issues connected to these methods. This thesis examines these ideas by looking at a postcolonial space by examining the changing uses and events that have occurred in the Park. The thesis works through the intersections between the local and the national in a liminal place that exists in the interstices of history, culture, space and nature. By exploring the cracks in these discourses, it discovers new epistemologies, cultures and understandings in Phoenix Park. The three main themes that emerge from this research surround ideas of authenticity, nationalism and Irishness and the engagement with and understanding of space and place through a postcolonial perspective.
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Nelson, Velvet. "LANDSCAPE AND POSTCOLONIALISM IN BRITISH WEST INDIES TRAVEL NARRATIVES, 1815-1914." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1144161405.
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Sandford, Michael J. "Jesus and the poor : Western Biblical scholarship, structural violence, and postcolonialism." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2903/.
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This work offers a postcolonial critique of Western Jesus scholarship, focused specifically on discussions about Jesus and ‘the poor’ in British and North American scholarship. While remaining heavily engaged with Western biblical studies, this work challenges fundamental assumptions and projects of Western biblical studies, such as the ‘Quest for the Historical Jesus’, ultimately calling for postcolonial and liberationist readings to be acknowledged in the field as equally valid. This work begins by using standard Western historical-critical methods to examine the extent to which Jesus and the gospel texts may have been shaped by social and economic factors. Focusing on Luke 4:16-30 and the ‘good news to the poor’ that Jesus announces at the Nazareth synagogue, it is argued that Western scholarship has tended to downplay the social and economic dimension of numerous gospel texts and sayings of Jesus. Further, it is argued that a large amount of scholarly work on Luke 4:16-30 downplays social and economic readings in favour of anti-Judaic and missionary focused readings, which ultimately serve to support Western religious imperialism and oppression of marginalised groups. The subjectivity of such readings is highlighted, and it is argued that such readings result from the positionality of the scholars in the US and the UK who, whilst purporting to illuminate history and the nature of the divine, end up producing writings that legitimise Western supremacy and ultimately perpetuate oppression. Themes central to recent postcolonial biblical criticism, such as Jesus’ relationship to Empire, and methods of resistance to structural violence are also explored. It is concluded that, paradoxically, Jesus offered a fierce critique of the rich through ‘positive nonviolence’, utilising the threat of divine punishment in the afterlife to challenge the structural violence of economic inequality; a reading that has hitherto not been allowed to surface due to the firm grasp that Western capitalism has had upon biblical scholarship.
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Pritchard, Stephen (Stephen John) 1970. "Contested titles : postcolonialism, representation and indigeneity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2000. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7831.
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Belcher, Oliver Christian. "The afterlives of counterinsurgency : postcolonialism, military social science, and Afghanistan 2006-2012." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45520.
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This dissertation examines the United States military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan from 2006-2012. In recent years, the U.S. military has relied upon the methods and research of social scientists to model the Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan in hopes of predicting and mitigating the movement of the insurgency. The U.S. military has also used social scientists to gather “cultural intelligence” for surveying and interpreting the general population in Afghanistan in order to develop methods for “winning the hearts and minds” of civilians. This dissertation makes three central arguments. First, contrary to the “winning hearts and minds” narrative, counterinsurgency in practice has consistently produced two outcomes: the arming local defense forces, and massive population displacement. Second, “cultural intelligence” has been utilized to produce a narrative that Pashtuns in southern Afghanistan are “naturally” inclined towards local tribal structures as the desired mode of political order and legitimacy. Whether or not this is true, the U.S. military has used this Orientalist “local” narrative to set up place-bound tribal strongmen and warlords to counter what is perceived as a transnational, networked, and therefore locally “inauthentic” insurgency. The dissertation identifies this move by the U.S. military as the “weaponization of scale” at both a global and local level. Third, the dissertation examines the worldview that governs the U.S military’s approach to Afghanistan, and argues that it is one where populations are “de-coded” as “networks.” To see like the twenty-first century U.S. military is to see a world of networks. This world of networks is a secular cosmological vision derivative from the human-machine assemblages where U.S. military personnel and institutions are imbricated. These human-machine assemblages have been violently extended within the general Afghan population through new technologies like iris-scan biometrics devices and data-base management. The dissertation draws the important point that many new twenty-first century technologies, like “big data” mining and computational social network analysis, are rooted in colonial practices.
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Ap, Gareth Owain Llŷr. "Welshing on postcolonialism : complicity and resistance in the construction of Welsh identities." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/cf2014ac-64d6-4084-9aba-11a8b7639655.
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The thesis places Wales within a postcolonial framework, and uses postcolonial theory to analyse the emergence of Welsh identities. Positioning ‘Wales’ and the ‘Welsh’ as subjects of study in relation to the British Empire suggests how discursive processes of power in Wales take place parallel to those in other areas of the Empire. In analysing these processes, the thesis illustrates the different effects of power in different local contexts. Welsh identities are shown as emerging and being produced by these discursive processes, and are found to be often resistant and complicit with dominant discourses in the same movement. In the central chapters of the thesis, the emergence of Welsh identities is analysed with reference to particular discourses and events: education, ritual, literary criticism and popular culture. These are, in Chapter 1, the Blue Books controversy; in Chapter 2, the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1911 and again in 1969; and, finally, in Chapter 3,the construction of different theories of literary criticism and the role of play and authenticity in Welsh popular culture. Using the work of Michel Foucault, the thesis rejects the notion of an original and essential Welsh identity and takes power to be fluid and productive of subjects. Various articulations of Welsh identity appear as dynamic, hybrid and linked to particular discourses, allowing us to understand the emergence of such identities without reference to a pre-given Welsh identity.
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Ranasinghe, Seuwandhi Buddhika. "Management control, gender and postcolonialism : the case of Sri Lankan tea plantations." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8597/.
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Management accounting and control research in developing countries has neglected gender issues. Focusing on management controls over marginalised female workers in Sri Lankan tea plantations, this thesis tries to fill this gap. It takes a postcolonial feminist perspective to theorise ethnographic accounts of mundane controls. The findings illustrate that there are 'embedded‘ controls through colonial and postcolonial legacies, which made the female workers 'double colonised‘. The notion of subalternity captures these repressive forms of controls in their work as tea pluckers. However, postcolonial transformations created a space for resistance against these controls. This shaped a subaltern agency and emancipation and gave rise to a more enabling form of postcolonial management control. The thesis contributes to debates in postcolonial feminist studies in organisations and management control research in general, and management control research in developing countries, in particular.
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Robinson, Sarah E. "The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808581.
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This thesis examines Sherlock Holmes texts (1886–1927) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and their recreations in the television series Sherlock (2010) and Elementary (2012) through a postcolonial lens. Through an in-depth textual analysis of Doyle’s mysteries, my thesis will show that his stories were intended to be propaganda discouraging the British Empire from becoming tainted, ill, and dirty through immersing themselves in the “Orient” or the East. The ideal Imperial body, gender roles, and national landscape are feminized, covered in darkness, and infected when in contact for too long with the “Other” people of the East and their cultures. Sherlock Holmes cleanses society of the darkness, becoming a hero for the Empire and an example of the perfect British man created out of logic and British law. And yet, Sherlock Holmes’ very identity relies on the existence of the Other and the mystery he or she creates. The detective’s obsession with solving mysteries, drug addiction, depression, and the art of deduction demonstrate that, without the Other, Holmes has no identity. As the body politic, Holmes craves more mystery to unravel, examine, and know. Without it, he feels useless and dissatisfied with life. The satisfaction with pinpointing every detail, in order to solve a mystery continues today in all media versions. Bringing Sherlock Holmes to life for television and updating him to appeal to today's culture only make sense. Though society has the insight offered by postcolonial theory, evidence of an imperial mindset is still present in the most popular reproductions of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock and Elementary.
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Lakraâ, Hayatte. "« Identités musulmanes » dans le roman féminin anglophone et francophone après le 11 septembre 2001." Thesis, Paris 13, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA131066.
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Le 11 septembre 2001 a créé une nouvelle catégorie cultuelle et culturelle, les « musulmans ». Face à la montée de l’islamophobie dans les sociétés occidentales, Miriam Cooke invente le néologisme « The Muslimwoman », ou en français, la femme-musulmane. Prise entre les tensions néo-colonialistes et islamistes, l’étiquette femme-musulmane offre une plateforme d’action qui permet soit de rejeter, d’embrasser ou de subvertir cette identification grâce, entre autres, à la littérature. A partir de six romans écrits en anglais et en français, publiés après le 11 septembre, par des femmes arabo-américaines, Mohja Kahf et Laila Halaby, arabo-britanniques, Leila Aboulela et Fadia Faqir, et francophones, Zahia Rahmani et Saphia Azzeddine, ce travail propose une réflexion sur l’émergence d’une sensibilité littéraire internationale qui interroge les « identités musulmanes » dans cet état global d’exception. Cette redéfinition de l’identité dans des langues séculaires – l’anglais et le français - est étroitement liée à l’histoire de l’immigration de chaque pays. Les personnages s’interrogent sur leur « identité musulmane » dans le pays d’“accueil”. Ces romancières s’efforcent de ne pas tomber dans l’un des deux discours dominants, néo-colonialiste et islamiste, et invitent d’ores et déjà le lecteur à suivre la construction identitaire de leurs personnages de l’intérieur et à suivre les difficultés auxquelles ils font face. L’Islam, par sa capacité à voyager dans ce monde globalisé, permet différentes affiliations, des plus sereines aux plus discutablesSoon after 9/11, G.W. Bush launched the War on Terror outside and inside the U.S.A. A new cultural and religious category became more visible: « Muslim ». Muslim women in Western societies became the representatives of this community and the target of Islamophobia. In this context Miriam Cooke invented the neologism « The Muslimwoman », an identification created by outside forces, either neo-colonialist or Islamist. This new identification offers a platform for action: Muslim women either embrace, deconstruct or subvert this identification from within and through literature. Mohja Kahf and Laila Halaby as Arab-American ; Leila Aboulela and Fadia Faqir as Arab-British ; Zahia Rahmani and Saphia Azzeddine as francophone writers question the significance of these new « Muslim identities » in Euro-american societies, in their novels. Without falling into the neo-colonialist or the Islamist discourse, « Muslim identities » emerge as plural. Islam's capacity for reformulation outside of Muslim heartlands according to conditions of modernity helps usher in a process of engagement with « Muslim identities », ranging from peaceful to more questionable responses
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Yacoubi, Youssef. "Salman Rushdie : imagining the other name for Islam." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289158.
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Hwang, Dong-Jhy. "Sport, imperialism and postcolonialism : a critical analysis of sport in China 1860-1993." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1500.
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Over the last three decades or more, there has been a considerable interest in the sociological analysis of sport. While a number of Western sociologists and cultural critics have attempted to locate the development of sport in various societies within an analysis of their own culture, very few have made sociological accounts of the development of sport in China. This study examines the significance of sport within the broader context of social and political change in China during the period from 1860 to 1990. Primarly this work is concerned with: (i) providing a theoretical analysis of imperialism and postcolonialism; (ii) treating the analysis of sport as a tool of cultural imperialism; (iii) highlighting the development of Western sports and physical culture in modern China and (iv) contributing to the analysis of sport in China through the notion of imperialism and postcolonialism. Nonetheless, the relative strength and weakness of this thesis may be its attempt to address the interrelated nature of all of these concerns.
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Cuxima-Zwa, Chikukuango Antonio. "Angolan body painting performances : articulations of diasporic dislocation, postcolonialism and interculturalism in Britain." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7589.
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This ‘practice-informed’ doctorate research is the beginning of a creative investigation, integration and unification of theory and practice as a method of analysis of ideas about my performances, and the context it emerged from: my experiences of the postcolonial and intercultural relationship between Angola and Britain. It focuses on the trajectories of the self that are ‘re-invented’ as a process of evolution and as a result of migration and dislocation in the British diaspora. It looks deeply at the complex interplay of my practice of body painting, as a symbolic ritual and dance in relation to notions of “origin” and “identity” and other sources of influences. The roots of Angolan cultural traditions and the veneration of the Angolan ancestral spirit when I perform play an important part in my work and this research strives to simplify my ideas of body and spirit, material and aesthetic. However, this research analyses, investigates and interrogates Angolan contemporary arts and artists and the progress of their practice in the Britain postcolonial and intercultural setting. At the core of this research is a comparative interrogation of contemporary art practices, artists and their influences on my work in order to contextualise my own practice and its implications and generative potential. I describe the main artists that influenced my practice (Pablo Picasso, ean- ichael as uiat and ela ansome ni ulapo-Kuti compare my or ith the or s of other non- estern artists oco usco, uillermo me - e a and ani-Kayode) who work with reference to ancient traditions as a fictional and racial identity. Furthermore, it is suggested by Gen Doy that artists working with ancient traditions and producing these types of works in the west are stereotyped and their works are considered backward and unsophisticated; their or s suffered and continue to suffer “discrimination on the grounds of race…” Doy, 2000: 15 n other words, this takes place when these artists attempt to present their works in mainstream western galleries, shows and festivals. I argue that much ancient Angolan tradition has lost its voices through the process of modernisation, civilisation, colonialism and capitalism. The key issue I am addressing is that my performances and the or s of these artists use the body to explore notions of ‘primitivism’ and ‘ethnicity’ and ritual to address personal and cultural concerns. In this light, through the dialectics of practice and theory, this thesis is searching for more attention to be paid to or s derived from concepts of ‘primitivism’ and ‘tribalism’ that are considered inferior ithin the estern parameters of modern art. At the very core of this thesis, propose that the practice of body painting and ‘primitivism’ and ‘tribalism’ are under recognised in the west because of western ideas of racial superiority, civilisation and colonialism (Darwinism).
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Whalen, Kenneth G. "Imagetexting the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail reciprocal exchange, postcolonialism and meaning /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024639.
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Torres, Mary Ann Rado. "Transnational feminism in the academy : linking humanities and human rights /." Electronic version (Microsoft Word), 2005. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2005/torresm/marytorres.doc.
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Henry, Alain-Kamal. "Mythes et violence dans l'oeuvre de Sony Labou Tansi." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CERG0579/document.
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Notre étude du roman de Sony Labou Tansi aborde les notions de violence et des mythes dans leurs fonctions littéraire et sémiologique. Elle les envisage comme les sources fondatrices de l'écriture romanesque.C'est dans ce sens que la violence est assimilée à l'action des états postcoloniaux représentés par la fiction. Dans une interaction entre l'imaginaire et le réel, l'auteur évoque la confrontation des identités, des mémoires collectives et des territoires en résistance contre une autorité postcoloniale liberticide.Une autre forme de violence dite scriptuaire poursuit, avec audace, cet élan initié par les premières œuvres africaines de langue occidentale, elle s'exerce sur le langage littéraire déstructuré et dont les bases narratologiques sont éclatées. Le roman sonyen amène les mots à leur limite pour réinventer un langage néologique qui instaure, dans le roman, le domaine de « la tropicalité » sonyenne, une hétérogénéité littéraire et une hybridation du roman francophone.Notre étude du mythe exploite deux axes majeurs, en tant que parole et récit des origines, la mythologie structure une vision du monde basée sur l'ethno-religieux, dans sa fonction sémiologique, le mythe est lui-même signe et symbole, il appelle à l'analyse des langages littéraire, artistique et mythique démystifiés et débridés par un univers où l'humour et l'ironie participent d'une démythification du pouvoir et des traditionsOur study of the novel of Sony Labou Tansi approaches the notions of violence and myths in their literary and semiological functions. It envisages them as the founder sources of the romantic writing.In this sense that violence is assimilated to the postcolon states action represented by the fiction. In a correlation between fiction and reality, the author recalls iditities conflicts, collectives memories and territories in resistance against the postcolon authority oppression.nother forms of said violence scriptuaire follow, with boldness, this impulse initiated by the first Africain writings of western language, it's on the literary language destruction and narratologiques foundations of which are burst.The sonyen novel brings words to their border to reinvent a neological language which institutes, in the novel, the domain of " the sonyenne tropicalité ", a literary heterogeneity and a hybridization of the French-speaking novel.Our study of the myth exploits two major axles, as word and tale of origins, mythology structures a vision of the world based on the ethno-monk, in its semiological function, the myth is itself sign and symbol, he calls to the analysis of literary, artistic languages and mythical dispelled the illusions and unbridled by a world where humour and irony participate in demythologization of power and traditions
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Han, Min Wha. ""The Paths to be United:" A Postcolonial Critical Retorical Reading of Korean Reunification Rhetoric." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/HanMW2004.pdf.
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Buhre, Frida. "”En föråldrad brokig tafla” : Spatio-temporala representationer av samernas första politiska rörelse 1903-1907." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för retorik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-160302.
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Samernas första politiska rörelse runt sekelskiftet i Sverige var startskottet, inte bara för samernas egen politiska organisation, utan också för en debatt kring samernas rasifierade identitet. Debatten kretsade kring rätten till land, och huruvida den skulle förbehållas endast nomadiserande renskötande samer, eller om rätten skulle inkludera alla samer oavsett levnadsuppehälle. Samtidens argumentativa klassificeringssystem satte samernas yrkesutövning främst, men med rasifierade premisser kring samernas temporala och spatiala tillhörighet. En av premisserna för argumentationen, samernas temporala tillhörighet, präglades ur svensk medias synvinkel av en stark tro på att samerna riskerade att försvinna. Jag argumenterar för att detta hade en rasbaserad logik i form av en anakronistisk tillhörighet utanför en (svensk) evolutionistisk tidslinje. Genom en annan premiss, den spatiala, visade de svenska journalisterna på en stark tendens att placera samerna i ett mytiskt mellan-rum, där fjällen fungerade som en gränslös kuliss, som befäste samernas utanförskap i det svenska produktiva landskapet. Då den svenska definitionen av samerna inte baserades på yttre karaktärsdrag, utan på en yrkesutövning, destabiliserar den de flesta västerländska uppfattningar om ras. Denna studie presenterar därför några ledtrådar till hur och varför moderna minoritetsfrågor är så komplexa för den svenska självbilden.The first political movement of the Sami, the indigenous Swedes, at the turn of the last century, became the starting point, not only for the political organization of the Sami, but also for a debate concerning the racial identity of the Sami. The debate dealt with the right to the land, and whether the use of the land should only be allowed for the nomadic reindeer herding Sami, or whether the right should be extended to all Sami regardless of means of living. The argumentative classification at the time was based on the Sami’s occupation, but with racial premises around the Sami’s temporal and spatial belonging. One of the premises for the argumentation, the temporal belonging of the Sami, was marked by a strong belief on behalf of the Swedish media that the Sami were at risk of disappearing. I argue that this came to have a racial logic in the form of an anachronistic belonging outside a (Swedish) evolutionist timeline. Through the means of a separate logic, the spatial, the Swedish journalists showed a strong tendency to place the Sami in a mythical in between-ness, in which the mountains functioned as a borderless backdrop, which confirmed the alienation of the Sami in the Swedish productive landscape. Because the Swedish definition of the Sami was not based upon physical features, but upon a professional category, it destabilizes most western notions about race. This study therefore presents some clues to how and why modern minority issues are so complex within the Swedish self-image.
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Harrison, Robert Baker Pegram. "Precursors to postcolonialism : Leonard Woolf, E.J.Thompson, and E.M.Forster and the rhetoric of English India." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270412.
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Each chapter involves parallel examinations of anxiety and rhetoric; while anxiety is seen to operate behind texts as a state of mind occupying each author, various rhetorical strategies from within texts are examined as devices for communicating, accommodating, and eventually moving beyond anxiety. This development - from Woolf's loss of voice, through Thompson's search for voice, and to Forster's evolution beyond voice - comprises an attitudinal and rhetorical trajectory leading specifically to postcolonialism. After an Introduction situating various inspirations for the thesis in theoretical writings of Edward Said, Georg Lukács, Raymond Williams, Harold Bloom, and Sara Suleri, chapters follow on each of the three writers. Woolf's fiction represents a self-conscious disaffection with the realist and sentimental rhetoric of narrative fiction, a loss of creative energy caused by anxieties over the inherited genre. Thompson's strong sense of inherited guilt conditions a momentum toward an atonement which will reconceive the rhetoric of English India but which he does not feel himself in a position to make on his own. Forster's infringements upon the rhetoric of realism represent an attempt to move beyond the potential resignation and isolation of critical realism, with a vision of the possibility of engagement in a world community and with strong hopes for such a utopia, even though its consummation is consistently deferred. Similarly, his alignments to some of the innovations of modernism, and his own idiosyncratic rhetorical strategies are all determined by a particular imagination of a postcolonial future. All three of these figures write for the future without ever representing what its shape might be, yet always implying that it will be a postcolonial one. In this imagining, they precede the critical and creative writing of today which endeavors to consummate that imagining, and consequently stand before postcolonialism as precursors.
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Ray, Radharani. "The rhetoric of postcolonialism Indian middle cinema and the middle class in the 1990s /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3035171.
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Chung, Hon-man. "Hong Kong's postcolonial condition an oscillating identity and the politics of Nostalgia and pragmatism /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38670756.
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Sharma, Seetal. "Globalisation and postcolonial identity." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262348.
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Vallee, Jest Cécile. "Poétique du roman féminin : Écrivaines mauriciennes francophones, Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CERG0802.
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Les trois auteures du corpus de notre thèse sont très souvent regroupées par la critique et leur œuvre romanesque envisagée sous l'angle de leur origine – ce sont trois femmes indo-mauriciennes – et de leur prédilection pour la représentation de la femme noire subalterne. Si les axes de recherche de cette thèse – qui embrasse l’ensemble de leurs trois productions romanesques – reprennent cette question essentielle du statut de la femme opprimée dans un contexte patriarcal – lui-même ancré dans la communauté indo-mauricienne insulaire – toutefois, ces outils incontournables et éclairants ont été inscrits dans une analyse plus systématique de la poétique de leurs romans afin qu'ils ne soient pas définis par des catégories externes au projet d’écriture et donc restrictives mais appréciés sur le plan esthétique, mettant en analyse leurs qualités littéraires plus que « l’originalité » de leur origine et de leur « francophonie ».Les termes du sujet, qui sont souvent traités avec une certaine condescendance – le genre romanesque est toujours suspect, d'autant plus s'il est écrit par une femme et qu'il est contemporain et périphérique –, doivent permettre de montrer la richesse et l'originalité de chacune des auteures. Comment racontent-elles ? Comment définir leur style ? Que font-elles de leur héritage littéraire ? Quel rapport au réel ? Comment s’inscrivent-elles dans le double champ littéraire de leur origine et de leur langue d’écriture : le champ littéraire mauricien et le champ littéraire français et francophone ? Ces axes de recherche ont été explorés en menant parallèlement le travail de mise en contextes et l'analyse des romans des trois écrivaines, liant analyse socio-historique et analyse interne des textes, plus strictement littéraire.Le corpus est d’abord inscrit dans l’Histoire de Maurice qui est celle de la grande majorité des romans : il permet de comprendre le choix de la langue d'écriture ainsi que la présence du plurilinguisme dans les œuvres. Il explique aussi l'essor et la position centrale de la culture française qui ont permis la création d'un véritable champ littéraire mauricien, principalement francophone, auquel appartiennent nos trois auteures.L'insularité est également un élément essentiel aussi bien dans la problématique des personnages féminins que dans celle de la représentation littéraire de l'île. Ces écrivaines doivent en effet se positionner vis-à-vis de sa représentation exotique, la détropicalisation sur laquelle on a beaucoup insisté n'est pas leur seule réponse. Cet axe d'analyse nord/sud est enrichi par un axe sud/sud, par l’appréciation des rapports de Maurice et de l'Inde car la communauté indo-mauricienne a marqué en partie le paysage mauricien. Nos auteures s'opposent à cet ancrage dans une tradition importée, imposée qui crée une île dans l'île.Ce refus du communautarisme va de pair avec la défense d'une hybridité qui est portée par les voix féminines. Elle s'ancre à la fois dans la relation entre les personnages mis en scène et dans la poétique des romans par le mélange des genres, des voix et une riche intertextualité. La place du féminin dans notre corpus ne se résume donc pas à la représentation de la femme de couleur opprimée des Suds. Elle interroge de façon plus complexe la société mauricienne et au-delà le monde postcolonial auquel nord et sud appartiennentThe three writers of our thesis corpus are very often associated by the critics, and their fiction writing considered from the point of view of their origin – the three women are Indo-Mauritian – and of their predilection for representing the subordinate black woman. Indeed the research areas of this thesis – that embraces the whole of the three works of fiction – tackle the essential matter of the status of the oppressed woman in a patriarcal context, itself anchored into the insular Indo-Mauritian community. However these inescapable enlightening tools fit in a more systematic analysis of the poetics in their novels in order for these tools not to be defined by categories both external to the writing project and restrictive, but appreciated on an aesthetic level that would analyse their literary qualities more than the originality of their origin and their « French language character ». The words of the subject, which is sometimes looked down upon, – the genre of the novel always being suspicious, all the more if written by contemporary women from overseas –, should reveal the wealth and originality of each of our women writers. What is their story-telling like ? How could we define their style ? How do they deal with their literary legacy ? What of their link with reality ? How do they fit in the double literary field of their origin and their writing language : the Mauritian field on the one hand, the French on the other ? These research directions have been explored by carrying out both the contextualization and the analysis of the novels of the three writers, linking socio-historical and internal, more strictly literary, analysis of the texts. First of all, the corpus lies within the framework of the History of Mauritius, being the framework of the great majority of the novels. It enables to understand the choice of the written language as well as the presence of multilingualism in the works. It explains the development and the central position of French culture that allowed the creation of a Mauritian literary field, mainly in French, to which our three writers belong. Insularity is also an essential element as regards the problematic of the feminine characters as well as the literary representation of the island. Indeed these writers must position themselves vis-a-vis its exotic representation, and the detropicalization which has been insisted upon is not their only answer.This analytical north/south axis is enriched by a south/south axis, through the appreciation of the relationship between Mauritius and India since the Indo-Mauritian community has partly influenced the Mauritian landscape. Our writers oppose this rooting in an imported, compulsory tradition, which creates an island within the island. This refusal of communitarianism goes hand in hand with the defense of hybridity carried by the feminine voices. It lies both within the relationship between the characters and the poetic of the novels through the mix of genres, the voices, and a rich intertextuality. Thus the place of the feminine in our corpus does not amount to the representation of the oppressed southern colored woman. It questions in a more complex way the Mauritian society and further, the post-colonial world to which north and south belong
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Meimandi, Mohammad Nabi. "‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism : tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/134/.
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This study investigates William Butler Yeats’s relationship to the issues of colonialism and anti-colonialism and his stance as a postcolonial poet. A considerable part of Yeats criticism has read him either as a revolutionary and anti-colonial figure or a poet with reactionary and colonialist mentality. The main argument of this thesis is that in approaching Yeats’s position as a (post)colonial poet, it is more fruitful to avoid an either / or criticism and instead to foreground the issues of change, circularity, and hybridity. The theoretical framework is based on Homi Bhabha’s analysis of the complicated relationship between the colonizer and the colonized identities. It is argued that Bhabha’s views regarding the hybridity of the colonial subject, and also the inherent complexity and ambiguity in the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized can provide us with a better understating of the Irish poet’s complex interactions with Irish nationalism and British colonialism. By a close reading of some of Yeats’s works from different periods of his long career, it is shown that most of the time he adopted a double, ambiguous, and even contradictory position with regard to his political loyalties. It is suggested that the very presence of tensions and uncertainties which permeates Yeats’s writings and utterances should warn us against a monolithic, static, and unchanging reading of his colonial identity. Finally, it is argued that a postcolonial approach which focuses on the issue of diversity and hybridity of the colonial subject can increase our awareness of Yeats’s complex role in and his conflicted relationship with a colonized and then a (partially) postcolonial Ireland.
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Odenmo, Emma. "Empowerment of the Oppressed in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Louise Erdrich’s Tracks : A Comparative Study of Feminism and Postcolonialism." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Department of Humanities, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-11221.
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A comparative essay to show links between empowerment in feminism and postcolonialism by comparing the development of the protagonist in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing to the development of Pauline in Louise Erdrich's Tracks.
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Chaudhuri, Nandita. "Colonial legacies and the politics of ethnoregionalism in South Asia : the cases of Chittagong hill tracts and Jharkhand movements /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061939.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-166). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Eko, Mba Fabrice. "La représentation de l'intellectuel africain dans le roman africain francophone de 1950 à nos jours. : Du prométhéisme au repli narcissique." Thesis, Pau, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PAUU1020/document.
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Le présent travail, dont le champ de recherche concerne le roman francophone d'Afrique au sud du Sahara, se propose d'analyser la mise en scène de la trajectoire de l'intellectuel africain, des années cinquante à nos jours. Il s'agit précisément de voir la manière dont les productions romanesques africaines de ces soixante dernières années représentent la situation de l'intellectuel dans la société africaine, à travers ses évolutions et ses perspectives. Quel rôle le roman africain de langue française a par le passé consacré au personnage de l'intellectuel et quels sont ses nouveaux modes d'actions et de productions d'idées contribuant aujourd'hui à renforcer ce rôle ? Au moment où, en Afrique, l'opinion publique parle de plus en plus de la faillite ou de la « mort de l'intellectuel africain », nous avons jugé nécessaire d'interroger le roman à ce sujet, à partir d'une sorte de panorama analytique allant de 1950 aux années 2010, pour observer comment la fiction littéraire africaine a longtemps représenté la figure de l'intellectuel et comment cette représentation a évolué au cours des dernières décennies. Empruntant sans cesse ses outils théoriques et méthodologiques à la sociologie de la littérature, cette thèse de doctorat s'interroge sur ce qui est advenu de l'intellectuel africain et sur le positionnement qu'il adopte dans le contexte actuel des sociétés africaines tournées vers la mondialisation. Sous forme d'histoire littéraire, elle présente chaque époque intellectuelle du continent africain à travers ses enjeux identitaires et politiques. Au-delà de ses échecs innombrables, l'intellectuel africain est une figure habitée par une éthique de conviction et de responsabilité. Dans cette perspective, la crise de l'engagement observable chez l'intellectuel évoluant dans le roman africain contemporain, loin d'être le signe de sa « mort » très prochaine, se veut en fait une crise des mutations, où de vieilles modalités d'engagement meurent et de nouvelles cherchent à écloreThis work, whose research field concerns the French novel of Africa south of the Sahara, is to analyze the direction of the trajectory of the African intellectual, fifties to the present. It is precisely to see how African fiction productions of the last sixty years represent the situation of the intellectual in African society, through its developments and prospects. What French-language African novel role has historically devoted to the character of the intellectual and what are the new modes of action and ideas productions today contribute to strengthening the role? At the time, Africa, public speaking increasingly of the bankruptcy or the "death of the African intellectual," we found it necessary to question the novel on this subject, from a kind analytical panorama from 1950 to the 2010s, to observe how the African literary fiction has long represented the figure of the intellectual representation and how this has evolved over the past decades. Borrowing constantly its theoretical and methodological tools in the sociology of literature, this dissertation examines what happened to the African intellectual and positioning it adopts in the current tour to the African societies globalization. Form of literary history, it has intellectual every time the African continent through its identity and political issues. Beyond its countless failures, the African intellectual is a figure inhabited by an ethic of conviction and responsibility. In this perspective, the crisis of the observable commitment to evolving the intellectual in contemporary African novel, far from being a sign of his "death" imminent, wants it a crisis of change, where old modalities commitment die and new ones seek to hatch
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Douglas, Cynthia Marie. "Ethnogenesis, Identity and the Dominican Republic, 1844 - Present." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1386%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Jönsson, Robert. "Literature for the Intercultural Classroom : Discussing Ethnocentric Issues Using The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-41525.
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Abstract This essay takes as its starting point that the Swedish classroom often is an intercultural environment and that it is therefore important to address issues connected to ethnocentrism in it. In this essay I examine how the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid can be used in schools to raise such ethnocentric issues. The novel’s didactic potential becomes clear by capturing some of the views held by the book’s protagonist as an alternative to Western ethnocentric concepts. Furthermore, the ambiguity of the novel allows for students to reflect on the identification processes that produce ethnocentrism. The power of nostalgia is also discussed in this essay, and with it nostalgia’s possibly alluring, yet counterproductive qualities. Together, these topics and themes from The Reluctant Fundamentalist combine to illuminate a use of literature within the context of intercultural education. Keywords: Intercultural education, Ethnocentrism, Calvinism, Islam, Capitalism.Dominant cultures exist in many different guises, yet may function almost invariably in symbiosis with double standards and discrimination. However, these acts are often only recognised by those being subjected to them, not by those practising the same. Selective concern and empathy depending on who the practitioners happen to be, as well as who the recipients of said acts are, actually helps to illustrate the precise definitions of these terms.
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Homberg-Schramm, Jessica [Verfasser], Heinz [Gutachter] Antor, and Beate [Gutachter] Neumeier. "“Colonised by Wankers”. Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction / Jessica Homberg-Schramm ; Gutachter: Heinz Antor, Beate Neumeier." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1156461650/34.
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Rocha, Franco Sérgio H. "Urban Trajectories. A comparative study between Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas and Johannesburg’s Townships." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667236.
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My general objective with this thesis is to contribute to the search for connections between postcolonial and critical understandings in urban studies. Building on my analysis of the urban trajectories of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships, I argue for bringing the grammars of critical thought and postcolonial thought in urban studies closer together. The historical-geographies of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships show that critical theorization of urbanization must be somewhat pluralized and decentered. I also argue that such an agenda of research should be developed in the form of a critique of capitalist (urban) development. Therefore, in this study, I aim at contributing to the critical understanding of (urban) development by emphasizing how processes of (de)commodification and socio-spatial segregation have been taking place in these two contexts of urban marginalization. Concerning the temporal scope of the study, I put the emphasis on recent dynamics of social change in Brazil and South Africa that might have had consequences for the historically marginalized urban spaces of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. Consequently, despite my attentiveness to the history of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships, I place the weight of the analysis on the period that starts somewhere between the 1990s and 2000s and goes on into the 2010s. As a comparative, historically attentive, multi-sited study, my research demanded a resourceful organization and combination of several methodological elements. In order to organize a comparative study of the urban trajectories of favelas and townships, I rely on a methodology that combines both secondary and primary sources. I draw upon the pertinent literatures about each of the two cities in order to delve into the histories of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. On the other hand, this study depends largely on qualitative research methods, particularly on qualitative data I gathered during my fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. The data coming from my fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro in 2014 and in Johannesburg in 2013 and in 2015 comprises in-depth interviews, field notes, and photos from the areas I lived in and visited. While approaching Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships through qualitative methodologies, and without neglecting a historical-comparative orientation, I show that we have a more complex picture that hardly fits into the general representation of them as static, indistinguishable, dreadful worlds. I also maintain that critique – which in our case might be also understood as a critique of (urban) development – must not be sidestepped. I argue that a strong engagement with the critical literature in urban studies is required while understanding the complex and evolving historical-geographies of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. We must take the unevenness of capitalist development and other debates around key issues like the production of space, accumulation by dispossession, and (de)commodification into account if we are to understand our urbanizing present.El meu objectiu general amb aquesta tesi és contribuir a la recerca de connexions entre enteniments postcolonials i crítics en estudis urbans. A partir de la meva anàlisi de les trajectòries urbanes de les faveles de Rio de Janeiro i de les townships de Johannesburg, argumento que cal apropar les gramàtiques del pensament crític i el pensament postcolonial en els estudis urbans. Les geografies històriques de les faveles de Rio de Janeiro i de les townships de Johannesburg mostren que la teorització crítica de la urbanització ha de ser pluralitzada i descentralitzada. També argumento que aquesta agenda d’investigació hauria de desenvolupar-se en forma de crítica del desenvolupament capitalista (urbà). Per tant, en aquest estudi, pretenc contribuir a la comprensió crítica del desenvolupament (urbà), emfatitzant com s'han produït en aquests dos contextos de marginació urbana els processos de mercantilització i segregació socioespacial. Pel que fa a l’abast temporal de l’estudi, he posat l’èmfasi en les dinàmiques recents del canvi social a Brasil i Sud-àfrica que podrien tenir conseqüències per als espais urbans històricament marginats de les faveles i les townships. En conseqüència, malgrat la meva atenció a la història de les faveles i de les townships, poso el pes de l'anàlisi sobre el període que comença entre els anys 1990 i 2000 i continua fins als anys 2010. Com a estudi comparatiu, històricament atent i amb múltiples llocs, la meva investigació exigeix una organització enginyosa i una combinació de diversos elements metodològics. Per tal d’organitzar un estudi comparatiu de les trajectòries urbanes de faveles i townships, confio en una metodologia que combina fonts secundàries i primàries. A partir de les literatures pertinents sobre cadascuna de les dues ciutats, aprofito per aprofundir en les històries de les faveles i les townships. D'altra banda, aquest estudi depèn en gran mesura de mètodes qualitatius d'investigació, especialment de dades qualitatives que vaig reunir durant el meu treball de camp a les faveles i les townships. La data provinent del meu treball de camp a Rio de Janeiro el 2014 i de Johannesburg el 2013 i el 2015 inclou entrevistes en profunditat, notes de camp i fotos de les àrees en què vaig viure i vaig visitar. Mentre m’endinso a les faveles de Rio de Janeiro i als townships de Johannesburg a través de metodologies qualitatives, i sense descuidar una orientació històric-comparativa, demostro que tenim un quadre més complex que no encaixa en la representació general d’aquests mons com a estàtics, indistingibles i esgarrifosos. També mantinc la crítica, que també podria entendre's com a crítica del desenvolupament (urbà), no s'ha de deixar mai de banda. Argumento que es requereix un compromís fort amb la literatura crítica en estudis urbans mentre es comprèn les complexes i evolucionades geografies històriques de les faveles de les townships. Hem de tenir en compte la producció de l’espai, l’acumulació per despossessió, la mercantilització i les desigualtats del desenvolupament capitalista si volem entendre la nostra urbanització present.
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Almquist, Karin Marie. "Works of mourning : Francophone women's postcolonial fictions of trauma and loss /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3153777.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-215). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Namessi, Solange. "Écrire l’événement : poétiques de la revenance chez Tierno Monénembo, Kossi Efoui et Abdourahman A. Waberi." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Strasbourg, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023STRAC026.
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Cette thèse a pour objet d’apporter un éclairage sur l’écriture de l’événement en littérature francophone d’Afrique subsaharienne. Elle s’adosse à un corpus composé de huit romans : Un rêve utile (1991), Un attiékè pour Elgass (1993), Bled (2016) du Guinéen Tierno Monénembo, Solo d'un revenant (2008), L’ombre des choses à venir (2011), Cantique de l’acacia (2017) du Togolais Kossi Efoui, Passage des larmes (2003) et Transit (2009) du Djiboutien Abdourahman A. Waberi. Cette recherche met en évidence les manières dont ces auteurs modélisent l’Histoire par une écriture dont la mise en œuvre témoigne d’une expérience du temps et que l’universitaire Jean-François Hamel théorise et nomme la « revenance ». Monénembo, Efoui et Waberi développent leur conception de l’historicité qui est de l’ordre de cette « revenance » en tant que mouvement récurrent et rétrospectif d’un présent qui se retourne constamment vers un passé qu’il rumine en quelque sorte. Ils reprennent l’histoire. Reprendre : au sens de repriser l’imaginaire formé sur une histoire vécue dont la lecture est faite de méprises ; mais aussi s’emparer de la possibilité que donne l’écriture d’une prise possible sur le cours de cette histoireThe aim of this thesis is to shed light on the writing of the event in French-language literature from sub-Saharan Africa. It is based on a corpus of eight novels: Un rêve utile (1991), Un attiékè pour Elgass (1993), Bled (2016) by Guinean author Tierno Monénembo, Solo d'un revenant (2008), L'Ombre des choses à venir (2011), Cantique de l'acacia (2017) by Togolese author Kossi Efoui, Passage des larmes (2003) and Transit (2009) by Djiboutian author Abdourahman A. Waberi. This research highlights the ways in which these authors model history through writing whose implementation bears witness to an experience of time and which academic Jean-François Hamel theorizes and calls "revenance". Monénembo, Efoui and Waberi develop their conception of historicity, which is of the order of this "revenance" as a recurrent, retrospective movement of a present that constantly returns to a past that it ruminates, as it were. They take history back. Taking it back: in the sense of darning the imaginary formed on a lived history whose reading is made up of misunderstandings; but also seizing the possibility offered by writing of a possible grip on the course of this history
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Thomson, Jennifer. "Gendered Resistance & Reclamation: Approaches to Postcolonialism Modeled by Female Characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/654.
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Motivated by the lack of scholarship surrounding female characters in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, I sought to examine the distinct identities of four female characters. The collapse of dualities and embodiment of hybridity in Ursula, Pilar Ternera, Amaranta, and the Remedios women reveals the hegemonic power structures that are disrupted by these empowered women. The exploration of these women and their relationships to gendered dichotomies points to the potential of their identities in enacting colonial resistance and reclaiming traditional cultural heritage.
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Holmes, Steven Keoni Dabydeen David. "A writer's progress the politics of representation in David Dabydeen's A harlot's progress /." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2008/s_holmes_042208.pdf.
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