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Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi. "A philosophical labyrinth: tracing two critical motifs in Kezilahabi´s prose works." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-93522.

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This study aims at studying one of the most important contemporary Kiswahili writers: Euphrase Kezilahabi. In a way this paper can be seen as a continuation of my earlier articles on the same writer. It is definitely different from the other ones though a certain thread links them: the interest in Kezilahabi`s philosophy. In this paper my interest is with two main motifs namely contemptus mundi and carpe diem. Contemptus mundi is a Latin expression for contemptible world, world as a bad place and one that is perceived contemptuously. I intend to explore the said motifs in Kezilahabi\'s prose w

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Carr-West, Jonathan. "Cultures in motion : the negotiation of identity in francophone West African fiction." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269558.

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Lipenga, Ken Junior. "Narrative enablement : constructions of disability in contemporary African imaginaries." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86304.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines depictions of disability in selected African films, novels and memoirs. Central to the thesis is the concept of narrative enablement, which is discussed as a property that texts have for enabling the recognition of disability by the reader or viewer. In the thesis, I investigate the ways in which narrative enablement manifests in the texts. The motivation for the study comes from the recognition of several trends in current literary disability studies. Firstly, the study attempts to expand the theoretical b

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Higgins, MaryEllen. "Questions of apprenticeship in African and Caribbean narratives gender, journey, and development /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034547.

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Rodriguez, Ivette. "Reimagining African Authenticity Through Adichie's Imitation Motif." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3351.

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In An Image of Africa, Chinua Achebe indicts Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for exemplifying the kind of purist rhetoric that has long benefited Western ontology while propagating reductive renderings of African experience. Edward Said refers to this dynamic as the way in which societies define themselves contextually against an imagined Other. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction exposes how, by occupying cultural dominance, Western, white male values are normalized as universal. Nevertheless, these values are de-naturalized by their inconsistencies in the lived experiences of Adichie’s black, Afri

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Sherman, Payet Jeannine. "Le rêve et la magie dans le roman africain et afro-américain." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0023.

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Siwak, Jakub. "An investigation of the African subjectivity represented in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi (2006)." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1093.

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This treatise will focus on a critical examination of Gavin Hood’s South African Oscar-winning film, Tsotsi (2006), in the interest of exploring how the mass media creates a problematic configuration of the subject, in virtue of its valorization of the continued discursive colonization of Africans (identified broadly in geographical rather than racial terms). That is, within the narrative of the film, the protagonist, after engaging in a crime spree, gives himself over to the state authorities and emotively confesses to his transgressions. Importantly, this dramatic confession is represented a

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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, 2015<br>AFRIKAANSE 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 ko

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O'Connell, Grainne Marie Teresa. "A comparative analysis of HIV/AIDS, transnationalism, sexuality, gender and ethnicity in selected Anglophone Caribbean and South African literature and film." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48857/.

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In this thesis, I demonstrate that the historical, and ideological, trajectories of HIV/AIDS discourses mirror the tensions between the local, global and transnational in my analysis of selected Anglophone Caribbean and South African literature and film. My methodology is adamantly a comparative studies approach as I overview the broader socio-historical narrative of HIV/AIDS whilst concurrently incorporating the idea of texts as always inflected by the wider historical and ideological processes behind transnationalism. I then link the competing histories of HIV/AIDS with textual depictions of

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Manirambona, Fulgence. "Africanité et mondialisation à travers la production romanesque de la nouvelle génération d'écrivains francophones d'Afrique noire." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209947.

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Le roman africain de la nouvelle génération s’élabore au carrefour des langues et des cultures. Dans son orientation théorique et paratextuelle, le discours romanesque de la nouvelle génération se résume en une « modernité universalisante », lieu de l’articulation dialectique entre l’africanité et la mondialisation. Le contexte idéologique de création de cette littérature et le questionnement identitaire nous amènent à considérer l’africanité comme une notion dynamique et la mondialisation littéraire comme une ouverture à la concurrence et à la légitimité littéraire. Le discours péritextuel, c

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Moukagni, Moussodji Serge. "La figure du bâtard dans la littérature africaine des indépendances : enjeux et significations autour des textes d'Ahmadou Kourouma et de Sony Labou Tansi." Thesis, Paris Est, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PEST0027/document.

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Mntanga, Overman Mziwakhe. "A critical analysis of the portrayal of women in some selected Xhosa dramas." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1030.

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This thesis entitled “a critical analysis of the portrayal of women in some selected Xhosa dramas”, endeavours to examine the effect of gender inequality. Women who are iv submissive toward some cultural aspects. It endeavours to give a critical analysis of women’s self assertion in some selected Xhosa dramas. According to the findings in this study, in African tradition women like to enforce patriarchy upon younger women. Older women feel that they have the duty of passing on cultural practices from generation to generation. Everything from manner of dress, posture, appropriate seating positi

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Monbeig, Fanny. "Représentation et performance de genre et de « race » dans la littérature féminine noire (africaine-américaine, caribéenne, française)." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30038.

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L'esclavage constitue le chronotope de "Tituba" de M. Condé et de "Beloved" de T. Morrison. Il est un héritage paradigmatique dans les autres œuvres de ces auteures, ainsi que chez Alice Walker et Gisèle Pineau, déterminant les rapports raciaux contemporains. La fragmentation du corps esclave convoque le motif de la couture, entre tissage conteur, re-membrement du corps social, et reconfiguration d'une tâche traditionnellement féminine. La mise en exergue du pouvoir performatif des mots des maîtres rappelle l’historicité et la dimension politique de l'invention du racisme dans le régime planto

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Weber-Fève, Stacey A. "There's no place like home homemaking, making home, and femininity in contemporary women's filmmaking and the literature of the Métropol and the Maghreb /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148746370.

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Lefilleul, Alice. "Animismes : de l'Afrique aux Premières Nations, penser la décolonisation avec les écrivains." Thèse, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21128.

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Di, Carmine Roberta. "Cinematic images, literary spaces : the presence of Africa in Italian cinema and Italophone literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3120620.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-232). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Lower, Jonathan Scott. "The American Blues: Men, Myths, and Motifs." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1340154289.

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Martinez, Kamir. "Entre violence et resistance : la réinsertion de la femme africaine subsaharienne dans l'histoire." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA018/document.

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Se situant dans l’histoire immédiate, la littérature africaine contemporaine participe de la dénonciation de la violence des régimes postcoloniaux et des guerres civiles. Ce sont des nouvelles formes d’écriture caractérisées à la fois par l’urgence et par l’intention de s’éloigner des formes européennes, donnant lieu à une expression universelle et à la revendication du roman comme œuvre d’art. Cette contribution se propose, à partir de neufs romans francophones, anglophones et hispanophones publiés entre 1990 et 2000, d’explorer et d’analyser la réinsertion de la femme africaine subsaharienne

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Gomis, Aimé. "Écritures du corps dans la littérature sénégalaise. Esquisse d'une corporéité et implications plurielles : de Senghor à Ken Bugul." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030085.

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L'identité constitue une des notions-clés des littératures africaines. Elle prend une résonance particulière chez Senghor et chez Ken Bugul ainsi que chez beaucoup d’écrivains sénégalais. Elle permet d’établir une passerelle épistémologique avec le corps. Ainsi, les discours sur le corps aident à comprendre les enjeux identitaires qui animent la tension dramatique des structures narratives. Par exemple chez Cheikh Hamidou Kane, le corps devient le motif d'une appréhension métaphysique de l'"esse". Dans les autobiographies de Ken Bugul, l’affirmation identitaire du Moi féminin relève tout simpl

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Mehdizadeh, Hossein. "Mystical motifs in Goethe's "West-ostlicher Divan"." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123034.

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A major problematic concerning Goethe's West-östlicher Divan is the possibility of a mystical interpretation of this cycle of poetry. Opinions regarding this issue range over a wide spectrum, covering the extremes of a total rejection of such an interpretation and a thoroughly Christological/Christian reading. In this work, we will re-examine the question of mysticism in the Divan and argue that a mystical reading of it is indeed possible, provided that the exact coordinates of this mysticism are explicated and demonstrated as operative in the composition of the cycle. Our interpretive/hermene

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Foukara, Abderrahim. "Alienation in South African literature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287285.

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Zhu, Minqi 1953. "Literary motifs in traditional Chinese drama." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290589.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine some of the distinctive qualities of traditional Chinese drama in light of comparative studies in literature and drama, especially of Richard Wagner's theory of motifs. Opposed to realism, Wagner argued that music is necessary to the finest drama, for it should be "distanced" from actual life. Wagner intended to fuse all artistic arts into his "music drama." However such drama has existed in China for at least seven hundred years. Moreover, it still keeps vigorously springing up, and greatly manifesting its vitality. The hypothesis of this dissert

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Zhou, Yana. "Représentations des désidentifications et réélaborations identitaires dans la trilogie africaine de Léonora Miano." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30009.

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Léonora Miano est une écrivaine franco-camerounaise qui est « jeune » mais féconde et déjà appréciée et reconnue par un large public ; elle peut être considérée comme une figure représentative parmi les écrivains de la génération postcoloniale sur le continent africain. Elle a publié une dizaine de romans, y compris deux trilogies, l’une dite africaine et l’autre « afropéenne » , de nombreux d’essais et des pièces de théâtres. La trilogie africaine regroupe L’Intérieur de la nuit, Plon, 2005 ; Contours du jour qui vient, Plon, 2006 ; Les Aubes écarlates, Plon, 2009 et constitue le corpus princ

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Luther, Carola. "South African theatre." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375957.

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Champagnat, Pauline. "Littérature et identités minorisées dans les œuvres de Conceição Evaristo (Brésil) et Paulina Chiziane (Mozambique)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019REN20042.

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Cette thèse a pour ambition d’analyser la relation entre littérature et identités minorisées, en se basant sur l’étude des romans Ponciá Vicêncio (2003) et Becos da memória, (2006) de Conceição Evaristo, et de Niketche : uma história de poligamia (2002) et O Alegre Canto da Perdiz, (2008) de Paulina Chiziane. L’étude s’appuie sur une approche décoloniale et comparatiste qui permet d’aller au-delà des découpages nationaux, lorsqu’elle établit un parallèle entre les éléments des contextes littéraire et historique dans lesquels évoluent les œuvres des auteures. Ces œuvres cherchent à donner une v

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Nantcha, Sylvie. "Interdisziplinarität - Kulturtransfer - Literatur : Afrika-Fremdwahrnehmung in ausgewählten deutschsprachigen Reisewerken von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart /." Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?sys=000254492.

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Diss. Univ. Freiburg i.Br., 2007/2008.<br>Originaltitel: Metatheoretische Überlegungen zum Transfer von Kategorien und Teiltheorien in die Interpretation interkultureller Texte, Titel der Diss. Originaltitel: Metatheoretische Überlegungen zum Transfer von Kategorien und Teiltheorien in die Interpretation interkultureller Texte.

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Rountree, Wendy Alexia. "THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997212820.

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Adjadji, Anani Guy. "L’enfant et la violence dans le roman africain de l’ère postcoloniale." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL047.

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Que ce soit dans le domaine médiatique, social ou littéraire, la violence, la guerre et la précarité sont des termes qui refont surface dans les différents discours portant sur la situation générale du continent africain. Dans la littérature spécialement, ces expressions dominent les publications issues aussi bien de l’ère coloniale que postcoloniale. Par conséquent, ce travail de thèse a pour objectif principal d’analyser les différents discours axés sur la représentation de la violence postcoloniale dans des œuvres romanesques publiées par des auteurs africains issus de l’Afrique d’expressio

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Gotz, Hanna Betina. "Luso-African Real Maravilloso? : a study on the convergence of Latin American and Luso-African literatures /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487953204280871.

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Pearse, Adetokunbo. "Aspects of madness in contemporary African literature." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250284.

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Bennett, Jessica. "National Identity in South African Children's Literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3584.

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National identity is an important characteristic of a country and helps to create a sense of national unity between its citizens. Identity is a learned concept that develops at a young age from children's surroundings and interactions. According to Martyn Barrett, this sense of National identity is present as early as the age of 5, with children gaining greater understanding of the significance of national identity to the age of 11. During this time period, picture books play a major role in childhood development. Using picture books to help create a positive, unified sense of national identit

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Nguimbi, Arnold. "Le monde carcéral dans la littérature africaine : lecture de "Toiles d'araignées" d'Ibrahima Ly, "Prisonnier de Tombalbaye" d'Antoine Bangui et "Parole de vivant" d'Auguste Moussirou Mouyama, "Le mort vivant" d'Henri Djombo." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00462161.

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La notion de prison est obsédante en littérature africaine d'expression française. Le dispositif d'enfermement des hommes dans un espace clos remonte véritablement à la période coloniale. Les nombreuses méthodes punitives qui avaient cours en Afrique précoloniale privilégiaient davantage d'autres formes de sanction que la prison. Il y avait par exemple le bannissement, la réparation immédiate, l'exil et la lapidation. Avec l'installation occidentale, l'habitat africain s'est doté d'une structure particulière et singulière. La prison fait désormais partie des politiques pénales de premier choix

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Abdourahman, Ismaël Monneyron M. Frederic. "Aspects du fantastique et romans négro-africains." Lille : Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/58432535.html.

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Drame, Siacka. "Trois exemples du personnage feminin dans le roman francophone d’Afrique subsaharenne: salimata, perpetue et laokole." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13276.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Modern Languages<br>Claire L. Dehon<br>Francophone Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa is an important indicator of the extent of the awakening by African people to their realities that link them to the past and the present. Novels of prominence written from the sixties to the nineties demonstrate how well their authors appreciate the characteristics of their societies. In this respect, some African writers such as Mongo Beti, Regina Yaou and Emmanuel Dongala in their respective works The Suns of Independence by Ahmadou Kourouma, Perpétua and the Habit of Unhappi

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Ruck, Elaine Heather. "An index of themes and motifs in twelfth century French Arthurian poetry." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328882.

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Poikāne-Daumke, Aija. "African diasporas : Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience /." Berlin ; Münster : Lit, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015425726&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Hester-Williams, Kim D. "(Re) making freedom : representation and the African American modernist text /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9945691.

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Petropoulos, John Constantine Boulgaris. "Continuity and erotic motifs and imagery in ancient and modern Greek popular poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385592.

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Jakubiak, Katarzyna Dykstra Kristin. "Performing translation the transnational call-and-response of African diaspora literature /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1276391711&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1200674412&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed on January 18, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Kristin Dykstra (chair), Christopher Breu, Christopher DeSantis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-237) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Gibson, Ebony Z. "Art for whose Sake?: Defining African American Literature." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/aas_theses/17.

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This exploratory qualitative study describes the criteria that African American Literature professors use in defining what is African American Literature. Maulana Karenga’s black arts framework shaped the debates in the literature review and the interview protocol; furthermore, the presence or absence of the framework’s characteristics were discussed in the data analysis. The population sampled was African American Literature professors in the United States who have no less than five years experience. The primary source of data collection was in-depth interviewing. Data analysis involved open

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Halil, Karen. "Conjuring power in Caribbean and African-American literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/NQ39535.pdf.

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Cousins, Helen Rachel. "Conjugal wrongs : gender violence in African women's literature." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6934/.

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This thesis considers ways in which African women writers are exploring the subject of violence against women. Any attempt to apply feminist criticism to novels by African women must be rooted in a satisfactorily African feminism. Therefore, the history of black feminist thought is outlined showing how African feminisms have been articulated in dialogue with western feminists, black feminisms (developed by women in the African-American diaspora), and through recognition of indigenous ideologies which allowed African women to protest against oppression. Links will be established between the tex

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Himmelman, Natasha. "Madness in African literature : ambivalence, fluidity, and play." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3582.

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Word processed copy.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Madness in African Literature: Ambivalence, Fluidity, and Play examines how representations of madness in six literary pieces are used to reflect upon discourse.

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Ewing, Maureen Colleen. "South African women's literature and the ecofeminist perspective." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007808.

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A social-constructionist ecofeminist perspective argues that patriarchal society separates the human (or culture) from nature, which causes a false assumption that humanity possesses the right, as a superior species, to dominate nature. This perspective integrates the domination of nature with social conflicts, including but not limited to racial discrimination, gender oppression, and class hierarchies. Understanding how these various forms of oppression interrelate forms the main goal of an ecofeminist perspective. Since the nature-culture, female-male, and whitenonwhite conflicts resonate an

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van, Heerden Imke. "The vulnerable body in contemporary South African literature." Thesis, University of York, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10686/.

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This thesis examines a selection of South African literary texts written in English and published after 2000, arguing that these works of literature illustrate the ways in which the exigencies of the vulnerable body – brutal violence, HIV/AIDS, and social inequality – complicate attempts to transcend discrimination in contemporary South Africa. Consequently, the study concentrates on representations of the vulnerable body that specifically destabilise fixed categories of identity, thus instantiating the literary ethics of interconnection that comprises its main focus. Each of the five chapters

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Kreuz, Jill. "Shakespeare on South African television." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21692.

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This study undertakes the analysis of the eight productions of Shakespeare that were produced for television by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) between 1977 and 1988. The plays that were selected for production are Much Ado About Nothing (1977) Macbeth (1980) Twelfth Night (1981), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982), Hamlet (1983), and The Merchant of Venice (1987). The SABC has also televised two stage productions by performing arts councils; these are Romeo en Juliet (1982) and The Winter's Tale (1988). The approach I have taken is a cultural materialist one. The television pr

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Shango, Lokoho Tumba. "Roman et écriture de l'espace en Afrique (noire) francophone." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=sZxcAAAAMAAJ.

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Hinton-Johnson, KaaVonia Mechelle. "Expanding the power of literature African American literary theory & young adult literature /." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054833658.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 175 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Caroline Clark, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-175).

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Kim, Junyon. "Re-imagining diaspora, reclaiming home in contemporary African-American fiction /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147823.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-239). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Alnawaiseh, Ali M. "Natural Disasters and Citizenship: Belonging Through Ecology in African American Writing." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1571755777462077.

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