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Hattori, Mina. "National and colonial language discourses in Japan and its colonies, 1868-1945." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38131.
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This thesis focuses on the colonialist discourse in Japanese linguistics in the period from 1868 to 1945, the time when Japan changed from a semi-feudal isolated country to a modernized nation and a colonizer. To address the complexity caused by such rapid development, and namely, to show how modernization and colonialism shaped Japanese language studies during this period, I present my analysis in two parts: the first part explores multiple facets of Japanese language education in the colonial period, both on Japanese territory and in Japanese colonies, particularly on the Korean Peninsula; the second part is a study of language manuals for Japanese soldiers. Although I examine some multilingual manuals, my main focus is on Korean language manuals because their number far exceeds that of other languages and also because Korea is my primary research area.
My claim is that a careful examination of language manuals as well as of Japanese language education both in Japan and its colonies reveals one of the characteristic features of Japanese colonial linguistics: a situation when a standard-in-the-making was simultaneously being exported to colonial sites with variable success rates. Before the Japanese language went abroad, and more importantly, after its export, the struggle over what kind of Japanese language to teach continued to be a matter of controversy and was never settled until the U.S. occupied Japan and implemented educational reforms. But superimposed on all the debates was always the conflicting concept of kokugo (national language), which was so over-politicized that it precluded the possibility of any academic reforms or structural refinements in tandem with its political expansion overseas. As my study shows, one of the reasons for this complexity was that not only nationalism but also pan-Asianist discourse played a significant role in the Japanese colonial enterprise in East Asia. The language manuals for Japanese soldiers that I examine were published between 1882 and 1935. As the publication years grow more recent, we can see, in the prefaces and the contents, shifts in the forms of nationalism and pan-Asianist rhetoric occurring simultaneously with the rise of colonialist discourse.
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Choi, Inhwan. "Otherness and identity in eighteenth-century colonial discourses /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3072577.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-180). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Jimenez, del Val Nasheli. "Seeing cannibals : European colonial discourses on the Latin American other." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2009. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55851/.
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The figure of the cannibal has been central in the development of European colonial discourses on Latin America. It has functioned as a locus for coming to grips with otherness and as a crucial marker for differentiating between the "civilised" and the "savage" in European discourses. While there is an extensive academic body of work on the figure of the Latin American cannibal in written texts, a study dedicated exclusively to the images of Latin American cannibals is lacking. The present dissertation addresses this gap by looking at the role that printed images of cannibalism played in the construction of European discourses on Latin American otherness during the colonial period of the region (1500-ca. 1750). It focuses on a corpus consisting mainly of woodcuts and copperplates that illustrated the main European travel narratives, New World compendiums, maps and atlases of the period. Centrally, this work proposes that visual representations of the cannibal functioned as discursive sites for the deployment of strategic othering at the service of European colonialism in the Americas. The theoretical framework for this study is based on Foucault's work on discourse and the impact that particular systems of power/knowledge had on the representational regimes of the period. Further theoretical references include postcolonial theory through figures such as Said, Bhabha and Mignolo, as well as current debates on visual culture and visuality. In terms of methodology, the thesis locates the shifts in European forms of discursive othering over time and space by following a Foucauldian method of discourse analysis based on archaeological and genealogical analyses of the corpus. It also addresses the intertextual and interdiscursive threads that connect these printed images of Latin American cannibals to their accompanying texts and surrounding discourses.
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Cooper, Nicola J. "French colonial discourses : the case of French Indochina 1900-1939." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35581/.
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This thesis focuses upon French colonial discourses at the height of the French imperial encounter with Indochina: 1900-1939. It examines the way in which imperial France viewed her role in Indochina, and the representations and perceptions of Indochina which were produced and disseminated in a variety of cultural media emanating from the metropole. Framed by political, ideological and historical developments and debates, each chapter develops a socio-cultural account of France's own understanding of her role in Indochina, and her relationship with the colony during this crucial period. The thesis asserts that although consistent, French discourses of Empire do not present a coherent view of the nation's imperial identity or role, and that this lack of coherence is epitomised by the Franco-indochinese relationship. The thesis seeks to demonstrate that French perceptions of Indochina were marked above all by a striking ambivalence, and that the metropole's view of the status of Indochina within the Empire was often contradictory, and at times paradoxical. Indeed, the thesis argues that Indochina was imagined through a series of antitheses which reflect the incoherent nature of French colonial discourse during this period. This thesis uses as its primary material a variety of key cultural media which informed the popular perception of Indochina during this period: metropolitan and Franco-indochinese school manuals; the writings and designs of French colonial urbanists; the works of influential colonial apologists; 'official' texts relating to the organisation and impact of the Exposition coloniale of 1931; travel journalism; and metropolitan fiction relating to Indochina. The discursive approach that this thesis takes, focusing clearly upon the socio-cultural dimension, should provide an important re-evaluation of French Indochina and its legacy, and should make a contribution to the understanding of France's relations with her colonial territories during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Koons, Casey Joseph. "Dynamics of Concealment in French/Muslim Neo-Colonial Encounters: An Exploration of Colonial Discourses in Contemporary France." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1218057001.
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Porter, Mary Ann. "Swahili identity in post-colonial Kenya : the reproduction of gender in educational discourses /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6561.
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Johsefin, Tallroth. "The ripple effects of discourses : An examination of post-colonial tendencies among three British NGOs." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-313185.
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Duenas, Alcira. "Andean Scholarship and Rebellion: Indigenous and Mestizo discourses of Power in Mid- and Late-Colonial Peru." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392119315.
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Njoroge, Dorothy Wanjiku. "PUBLICIZING THE AFRICAN CAUSE: EVALUATING GLOBAL MEDIA DISCOURSES REGARDING THE CELEBRITY-LED "MAKE POVERTY HISTORY" CAMPAIGN." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1967963401&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Gärde, Rafaella. "Preserving the Colonial Other : A postcolonial discourse analysis of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-322624.
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Frith, Nicola. "Competing colonial discourses on India : Representing the Indian 'mutiny' (1857-58) in French- and English language texts." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.526867.
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Butale, Phenyo. "Discourses of poverty in literature : assessing representations of indigence in post-colonial texts from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96749.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2015ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis undertakes a comparative reading of post-colonial literature written in English in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe to bring into focus the similarities and differences between fictional representations of poverty in these three countries. The thesis explores the unique way in which literature may contribute to the better understanding of poverty, a field that has hitherto been largely dominated by scholarship that relies on quantitative analysis as opposed to qualitative approaches. The thesis seeks to use examples from selected texts to illustrate that (as many social scientists have argued before) literature provides insights into the ‘lived realities’ of the poor and that with its vividly imagined specificities it illuminates the broad generalisations about poverty established in other (data-gathering) disciplines. Selected texts from the three countries destabilise the usual categories of gender, race and class which are often utilised in quantitative studies of poverty and by so doing show that experiences of poverty cut across and intersect all of these spheres and the experiences differ from one person to another regardless of which category they may fall within. The three main chapters focus primarily on local indigence as depicted by texts from the three countries. The selection of texts in the chapters follows a thematic approach and texts are discussed by means of selective focus on the ways in which they address the theme of poverty. Using three main theorists – Maria Pia Lara, Njabulo Ndebele and Amartya Sen – the thesis focuses centrally on how writers use varying literary devices and techniques to provide moving depictions of poverty that show rather than tell the reader of the unique experiences that different characters and different communities have of deprivation and shortage of basic needs.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis onderneem ‘n vergelykende studie van post-koloniale letterkunde in Engels uit Botswana, Namibië en Zimbabwe, om sodoende die ooreenstemmings en verskille tussen letterkundige uitbeeldings van armoede in hierdie drie lande aan die lig te bring. Die tesis ondersoek die unieke manier waarop letterkunde kan bydra tot ‘n beter begrip van armoede, ‘n studieveld wat tot huidiglik grotendeels op kwantitatiewe analises berus, in teenstelling met kwalitatiewe benaderings. Die tesis se werkswyse gebruik voorbeelde uit gelekteerde tekste met die doel om te illustreer (soos verskeie sosiaal-wetenskaplikes reeds aangevoer het) dat letterkunde insig voorsien in die lewenservarings van armoediges en dat dit die breë veralgemenings aangaande armoede in ander (data-gebaseerde) wetenskappe kan illumineer. Geselekteerde tekste uit die drie lande destabiliseer die gewone kategorieë van gender, ras en klas wat normaaalweg gebruik word in kwantitatiewe studies van armoede, om sodoende aan te toon dat die ervaring van armoede dwarsdeur hierdie klassifikasies sny en dat hierdie tipe lewenservaring verskil van persoon tot persoon ongeag in watter kategorie hulle geplaas word. Die drie sentrale hoofstukke fokus primêr op lokale armoede soos uitgebeeld in tekste vanuit die drie lande. Die seleksie van tekste in die hoofstukke volg ‘n tematiese patroon en tekste word geanaliseer na aanleiding van ‘n selektiewe fokus op die maniere waarop hulle armoede uitbeeld. Deur gebruik te maak van ‘ die teorieë van Maria Pia Lara, Njabulo Ndebele en Amartya Sen, fokus hierdie tesis sentraal op hoe skrywers verskeie literêre metodes en tegnieke aanwend ten einde ontroerende uitbeeldings van armoede te skep wat die leser wys liewer as om hom/haar slegs te vertel aangaande die unieke ervarings wat verskillende karakters en gemeenskappe het van ontbering en die tekort aan basiese behoefte-voorsiening.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo [Verfasser], and Graham [Akademischer Betreuer] Huggan. "Shackled memories and elusive discourses? : colonial slavery and the contemporary cultural and artistic imagination in South Africa / Pumla Dineo Gqola ; Betreuer: Graham Huggan." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2004. http://d-nb.info/1202011454/34.
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Da, Costa Dinis Fernando. "A critical analysis of colonial and postcolonial discourses and representations of the people of Mozambique in the Portuguese newspaper ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’ from 1970-1980." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3885.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThe aim of this thesis is to probe how Mozambican people were represented or constructed in the colonial and post-colonial periods through the columns of the Portuguese newspaper, ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’. The study examines a corpus of 58, 070 tokens (consisting of 100 articles, 50 for colonial and 50 for postcolonial periods), which were systematically selected from the political, sport, letters to the reader and editorial domains published from 1970 to 1980. The analytical framework for this study is threefold. It is informed by corpus linguistics (CL) as described by, amongst others, McEnery and Wilson (1996/2001) and Bennett (2010); critical discourse analysis (CDA), in particular the work of Van Dijk (1996; 2003), Wodak (1995; 2011) and Wodak and Meyer (2009) and multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) as used by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996; 1998; 2006), Kress (2010) and Machin and Mayr (2012)
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Cardenas, Elizabeth J. "Within and Beyond the School Walls: Domestic Violence and the Implications for Schooling." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1049814168.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Leadership, 2003.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains xxi, 478 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-466).
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Pettinger, Alasdair. "Irresistible charms : African religion and colonial discourse." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328351.
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Nielsen, Danielle Leigh. "Reading the Empire from Afar: From Colonial Spectacles to Colonial Literacies." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1301074476.
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Deckard, Sharae Grace. "Exploited Edens : paradise discourse in colonial and postcolonial literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1139/.
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This thesis examines the relation between figures of paradise and the ideologies and economies of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism, arguing that paradise myth is the product of a value-laden discourse related to profit, labour, and exploitation of resources, both human and environmental, which evolves in response to differing material conditions and discursive agendas. The literature of imperialism and conquest abounds with representations of colonies as potential gold-lands to be mined materially or discursively: from the EI Dorado of the New World and the 'infernal paradise' of Mexico, to the 'Golden Ophir' of Africa and the 'paradise of dharma' of Ceylon. Most postcolonial analyses of paradise discourse have focused exclusively on the Caribbean or the South Pacific, failing to acknowledge the appearance of fantasies of paradise in association with Africa and Asia. Therefore, my thesis not only performs a comparative reading of marginalized paradisal topoi and tropes related to Mexico, Zanzibar, and Ceylon, but also uncovers literature from these regions which has been overlooked in mainstream postcolonial .criticism, mapping the circulations, continuities, and reconfigurations of the paradise myth as it travels across colonie{and continents, empires and ideologies. My analysis of these three regions is divided into six chapters, the first of each section excavating colonial uses ofthe paradise myth and constructing its genealogy for that particular region, the second investigating revisionary uses of the motif by postcolonial writers including Malcolm Lowry, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. I address imperialist discourse from outside the country in conjunction with discourse from within the independent nation in order to demonstrate how paradise begins as a literal topos motivating European exploration and colonization, develops into an ideological myth justifying imperial praxis and economic exploitation, and [mally becomes a literary motif used by contemporary postcolonial writers to challenge colonial representations and criticize neocolonial conditions.
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Decome, Marion. "La formation du discours conventionnel français sur les Chinois : une approche littéraire, 1840-1945." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON30039.
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Avec sa brillante civilisation et son paganisme, la Chine a bousculé le XVIIIe siècle, bouleversé les Lumières et inspiré les auteurs de romans. Au XIXe siècle, tandis que l'Europe se passionne pour l'Asie et que les études chinoises se développent, la France, contrariée dans ses projets coloniaux, met le racisme scientifique au service de sa politique impérialiste. A partir de 1840, le discours sur les « Jaunes » se cristallise. À la fin du XIXe siècle, il représente un danger incarné dans la notion de Péril jaune. Ce propos diabolisateur, oublié de la critique postcoloniale, fait aujourd'hui partie des représentations communes. Pour le comprendre, nous nous proposons d'extraire les spécificités chinoises du discours générique sur l'Asie et l'Orient, pour examiner qui l'énonce et dans quelles conditions en terme d'histoire sociale et culturelleWith its brilliant civilisation and its paganism, China disturbed the eighteenth century, troubled the Enlightenments and inspired novelists. In the nineteenth century, while Europe had a passion for Asia, Chinese studies developped, France, obstructed in its colonial projects in China, used scientific racism in the service of its imperialist policy. From 1840 on, the discourse on the "Yellow" freezed. At the end of the nineteenth century, it embodied a danger known as the ‘Yellow Peril'. This discursive demonisation, put aside by postcolonial studies, is now part of the common representations. In order to understand it, we propose to take the Chinese characteristics out of the generic speech on Asia and the East in order to examine who formulates it and under what conditions, from a social and cultural history point of view
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Mah, Ahmed. "The colonial discourse of development in Africa, the Somalia experience." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0007/MQ46207.pdf.
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Tong, Shenxiao. "Discourse and colonial encounter : situating Robert Louis Stevenson's South Seas fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22694.
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The thesis begins with an inquiry into the literary romance and realism that formed the background of R.L. Stevenson's South Seas fiction, and the Orientalist discourse that has influenced contemporary criticism of colonial and post-colonial literature. Within this theoretical context, Stevenson's realistic and liberal representation of the late 19th century Pacific is seen as offering an alternative both to the romance of the exotic and to the archetypal modes specified in Edward Said's Orientalism. By looking into his correspondence, essays and travel writings during the period, I try to argue that over the last six and a half years of his life in the South Seas, Stevenson was emotionally torn between Scotland and Samoa, while rationally he was searching for the common ground of identity with the Polynesians, partly as a result of the paradoxical nature of his Scottish identity in relation to the British Empire. Two groups of the author's South Seas works are examined subsequently: his ballads and short stories that reflect Stevenson's fascination with Polynesian folklore and oral tradition, and his novels that are primarily ethnographic allegories of white men's tales. Central to both are the issues of race, language and faith. The thesis proposes that the colonial encounters in Stevenson's South Seas fiction show as much destructive impact upon Europeans as upon natives, and that the value of his fiction lies in his ability to transcend the boundary of nationality to achieve humanistic significance. The serious moral concerns which are not so obvious in his previous popular fiction reached their full development as he became associated with the colonial realities of the Pacific, and his represents the rich potential of his South Seas fiction that has until recently been neglected despite the revival of critical attention to Stevenson's major works.
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Benali, Abdelkader. "L'espace maghrébin dans le cinéma colonial français (1919-1939) : espace filmique et fonctionnement du discours cinématographique colonial." Paris 10, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA100044.
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La majorite des films coloniaux francais constitue actuellement ce que nous poumons nommer un cinema d'archives, representatif d'une epoque revolue et dont les implications formelles et ideologiques ne sont plus d'actualite. Ne repondant pas aux criteres esthetiques edifies par l'histoire du cinema, le cinema colonial fut reconnu, tres vite apres les independances, comme un cinema de propagande, et relegue par consequent dans la categorie des " genres mineurs ". Si l'historiographie coloniale, et meme post-coloniale, a fonde son argumentation sur un rapport colon/colonise qui ne quitte guere le terrain de la dialectique, l'analyse des films coloniaux determine une approche plus complexe et multidirectionnelle. Seul un veritable decodage des composantes formelles symboliques et metaphoriques nous permet de definir le champ interne de references utilise pour assurer au public francais et europeen un pouvoir d'identification. Notre etude est un parcours qui marque une progression, partant de la consideration generale de l'ensemble du corpus vers des analyses approfondies des plus importants themes autour desquels s'articule le contenu dramatique des films. La premiere partie considere l'ensemble du corpus filmique a partir de ses implications dans la pensee coloniale, et dans le processus formel qu'il etabli en vue d'integrer le maghreb dans un systeme de representation. Le deuxieme axe concerne l'organisation spatiale du maghreb a l'interieur des fictions. Nous y relevons les mecanismes d'interaction entre les personnages et les espaces ou ils evoluent. A ce propos, l'espacemaghrebin est formule selon deux degres de perception : il est presente en tant espace etranger, tout en possedant le statut d'espace colonial solidement approprie et domestique. Dans la premiere categorie, les attributs du maghreb se definissent de maniere globale, en fonction de ses differences par rapport a la metropole qui reste le modele et le critere d'appreciation. Une fois l'espace colonial defini et sa structure organisationnelle reconstruite, nous procedons a l'analyse du profil du heros colonial et de l'ensemble des valeurs dont il est le porte-parole. Lors de cette progression, les films sont consideres uniquement selon leur fonction de mediation et de traduction de codes preetablis par une conjoncture politique, culturelle et intellectuelle propre a l'epoque coloniale
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Khamas, Eman Ahmed. "New colonial rescue. Appropriating a feminist discourse in the war on terror." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129320.
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Esta tesis es un análisis crítico del discurso de la Guerra contra el Terrorismo (GCT) y la representación de las mujeres del Oriente Medio (OM). Mi tesis se resume en que este discurso ha esencializado las mujeres del OM como víctimas y abusó de esta imagen como una de las justificaciones para iniciar guerras contra países del OM antes y después de 9/11/2001. El trabajo se divide en dos partes, cada una subdividida en capítulos. El análisis se basa en tres premisas filosóficas de Michel Foucault (la teoría del discurso y su aproximación al problema de la representación), de Edward Said (la práctica crítica del orientalismo) y estudios feministas de Gayatri Spivak dentro de la teoría postcolonial, y la doctrina política del poder blando de Joseph Nye.
En la primera parte se examina el discurso político, histórico y feminista de GCT, con un estudio de caso de Irak. El primer y el segundo capítulos se centran en dar una introducción y exponer el marco teórico. El capítulo III revisa histórica y críticamente la confusión conceptual en el discurso dominante del terrorismo y sus definiciones. El capítulo IV traza la evolución del discurso de rescate a través de las narraciones de los derechos humanos, el imperialismo como defensa propia y narrativa de organizaciones internacionales y de las Naciones Unidas. El capítulo V es un estudio de caso de lo que se haya demostrado en los capítulos anteriores.
La segunda parte trata textos literarios. El capítulo VI traza la genealogía de las representaciones de las mujeres del OM en la imaginación literaria angloamericana a través del último milenio. Los dos capítulos siguientes son comentarios de texto. El capítulo VII trata de ver un subgénero de narrativa (auto) biográfica sobre las mujeres musulmanas oprimidas de la diáspora en los EE.UU. y Europa, y tomo, como ejemplo, cuatro relatos de Azar Nafisi y Khaled Hosseini como ejemplos. El capítulo VIII analiza unos relatos británicos y estadounidenses que abordan el tema del terrorismo desde diferentes puntos de vista, pero representan a las mujeres en la misma imagen de víctima indefensa, se analizan textos de Ian McEwan, Richard Zimler y John Updike como ejemplos.This dissertation is a critical analysis of the discourse of the War on Terrorism (WOT) and the representation of the Middle Eastern (ME) Women in it. My thesis is that this discourse essentialized ME women as victims and misused this image as one of the justifications to wage wars against ME countries before and after 9/11/2001. The dissertation is divided into two parts, each subdivided into chapters. It is built on three philosophical premises: Michel Foucault’s theory of discourse and his approach to the problem of representation; Edward Said’s critical practice of Orientalism, and Gayatri Spivak’s feminist studies within postcolonial theory; and the political doctrine of Joseph Nye’s Soft Power. The first part of the dissertation reviews the political, historical, and feminist discourses of WOT, with a case study of Iraq. Chapter III reviews -historically and critically- the conceptual confusion in the mainstream discourse of terrorism and its definitions. In the fourth chapter I map the evolution of the rescue discourse through narratives of human rights, imperialism as self defense, and UN and international organizations’ narratives. Chapter V is a case study of what I have already demonstrated in the previous chapters. The second part is literary. Chapter VI traces the genealogy of the representations of ME women in the Anglo-American literary imagination through the last millennium. The next two chapters are text analyses. Chapter VII is about a subgenre of diasporic (auto)biographical narratives -in the US and Europe- of oppressed Muslim women, and four narratives by Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini as examples. In Chapter VIII, British and American narratives that tackle the issue of terrorism from different points of view, but which represent ME women in the same image of a helpless victim, are analyzed, with narratives by Ian McEwan, Richard Zimler, and John Updike as examples.
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Connal, Criana. "Draupadi, Sati, Savitri : the question of women's identity in colonial discourse theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244219.
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Morehouse, Dawn M. "Copley's compromise navigating the discourse of beauty and likeness in colonial Boston /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 58 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1597629701&sid=23&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Baneth-Nouailhetas, Emilienne L. "Le roman anglo-indien de Rudyard Kipling à Paul Scott : discours colonial et discours poétique." Paris 3, 1995. http://books.openedition.org/psn/3753.
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Ce travail a pout but de souligner les marques de genericite qui permettent de faire valoir l'unite de la fiction anglo-indienne. En examinant des oeuvres romanesques de r. Kipling (kin), f. A stell (on the face of the waters), a. Perrin (the woman in the bazaar), e. M. Forster (a passage to india), g. Orwell (burmese days) et paul scott (the raj quartet), l'etude y releve la preponderance du discours ideologique, element indispensable de la fiction coloniale et anglo-indienne. Le discours colonial y est integre comme un instrument de la reflexion narrative sur les modalites de production du texte litteraire. Il engendre ainsi un discours poetique dont l'evolution dans la chronologie des oeuvres temoigne de la specificite et du dynamisme de l'ecriture anglo-indienne. Le discours ideologique colonial fonde en effet une certaine approche romanesque, s'imposant a des recits qui sont toujours subordonnes a la doctrine : qu'il soit une demonstration de la doctrine ou son invalidation, le recit ne peut eviter de s'y referer car la situation coloniale est le contexte qui rend le recit possible. Le discours ideologique est donc toujours l'antecedent du recit anglo-indien mais il devient vecteur de creation romanesque et d'innovation : les romans successifs enrichissent une quete poetique infinie en recherchant les moyens de s'affranchir de cette empreinte hypotextuelleThis study seeks to underline the "generic" characteristics which evince the liberary unity of angloindian fiction. Through an investigation of novels by r. Kipling (kim), f. A. Steel (on the face of the waters), alice perrin (the woman in the bazaar), e. M. Forster (a passage to india), g. Orwell (burmese days), and paul scott (the raj quartet), this analysis underlines the dominance of ideological discourse as an essential element of colonial fiction, and more specifically, of the angloindian novel. The colonial discourse is absorbed by the narrative process and becomes the insturment of a poetic reflection on the modes of textual production. It thus breeds a poetic discourse which demonstrates, in its chronological evolution, the specificity and dynamism of anglo-indian fiction : the ideological discourse initiales a certain novelistic approach, and imposes itself upon narratives which inevitably refer to it. Indeed, whether it confirms or refutes colonial doctrines, the narrative cannot but acknowledge the existence of this discourse, as the colonial situation is the very context of its creation the anglo-indian narrative is therefore always predetermined by a hypotextual discourse, but this discourse becomes a vehicle of literary creation, as the anglo-indian novel constantly seeks to break free from its hold through innovative poetic techniques
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Marchand, Iris. "Being Dogla : hybridity and ethnicity in post-colonial Suriname." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10578.
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This thesis explores hybridity and ethnicity in Nickerie, Western Suriname. It undertakes this exploration from the perspective of doglas, Surinamese people with mixed African and Asian parentage. In Suriname’s postcolonial process of nation-building, ethnicity has been essentialized, with doglas representing a category of anomaly, but also of uncertainty. What I have termed ‘dogla discourse’ refers to the opinions, experiences and negotiations among and about doglas in Nickerie that both shored up and destabilized Suriname’s ethnic essentialism. Dogla discourse fuses and confuses ethnic categories and boundaries in its insistent hybridity. The thesis shows that being dogla does not simply align with common tropes of ‘mixed-race’. I argue that in embracing conflicting paradigms of ethnicity, doglas in Nickerie both emphasized and undermined ethnic essentialism. This was expressed in idioms of kinship and sexual relations, in notions of the pure/impure dogla body, and in the relevance and irrelevance of ‘cultural spirituality’. Furthermore, dogla discourse problematized the role of ethnicity in the enduring struggles of how to define ‘the national’ in postcolonial states. Thus, the thesis presents an ethnographic contribution to studies of ‘mixed-race’ in contexts of postcolonial nation-building, and theoretically expands conceptualizations of ‘the hybrid’.
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Colvin, Gina Maree. "The Soliloquy of Whiteness: Colonial Discourse and New Zealand's Settler Press 1839-1873." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3689.
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From 1839 to 1873 New Zealand was characterised by ideological, religious, economic cultural and social contest. This struggle to order a new society, in which colonists and indigenes were required to co-exist, is captured in the newspapers of the day. These document and attest to a contest over power; power to appropriate and control resources, power to administer, control and institutionalize the colony, and power to ascribe identities. Newspapers published during the initial period of colonization in New Zealand are saturated with instances of ideological work where discourses were deployed that supported the colonial endeavour. In this study therefore I have sought to understand and articulate those racial ideologies, racial formations, and discourses, which emerged from New Zealand’s colonial press archives. How did New Zealand’s colonial press constitute the privileges, entitlements and struggles of the white British colonist in relation to the native? What white British colonial ideologies, discursive formations and discourses can be identified in the colonial press in relation to the native? Are there any patterns or relationships between these discourses? What did these discourses look like over time? A critical discourse analytical approach has been applied to a body of texts extracted from newspapers published in New Zealand between 1839 and 1873. From this analysis three broad discursive formations have been apprehended; the discourses of sovereignty, discipline and paternalism respectively. These discourses were not independent of one another but worked to construct an interlocking network of discourse that provided sound ideological coverage. The discourse of sovereignty provided a broad platform for working out the colony’s ideological and institutional plan; discourses of discipline discursively managed native disruptions to the plan, while discourses of paternalism invested the colonial project with affectations of concern and interest in the progress of the native. Weaving through these discourses are patterns of meaning which worked to constitute white British colonial authority in economic, political, judicial, social, martial and moral affairs. These constitutive repertoires were malleable and adaptable and attached and detached themselves, according to the context, to and from the discourses of sovereignty, discipline and paternalism. Over time it appears that these discourses and the associated patterns of meaning worked responsively and flexibly, bleeding into each other, reconstituting authority and identity across different contexts. Furthermore, these discourses and patterns attest to a complex encounter with a vociferous non-white challenge, which necessitated a flexible reservoir of rhetoric to situate and position the white British colonial incursion favourably in the white settler public arena.
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Prentice, Christine A. "The problem(atics) of post-colonisation: the subject in settler post-colonial discourse." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4688.
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This thesis concerns aspects of settler post-colonial discourse, examined through fictional and non-fictional prose writing from Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Major works discussed have been published between the 1970s and 1990s. These include fiction by Kate Grenville, Elizabeth Jolley, and Sally Morgan, from Australia; Alice Munro, Audrey Thomas, Aritha Van Herk and Rudy Wiebe, from Canada; and Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Ian Wedde, from New Zealand.
Section One of the thesis begins with an Introduction which contextualises the following discussion in relation to background issues of definition of the term 'post-colonialism', and then describes the scope, method and selection of texts in the thesis. The argument is briefly stated and expanded upon in discussion of the theoretical perspectives. Chapter One suggests a reading of Empire as (M)Other in relation to Britain's settler colonies, and the status of the latter, within the terms of the familial metaphor, as extensions of Empire. The ambivalence of that status – as extension and as autonomous being -- is explored in consideration of affective relations between colonies and Empire. Also considered are the consequences of this 'familial'-colonial background for the attainment of
'autonomous' Nationhood, imaged as 'self-hood' according to a masculine model of the self. Analysis of discourses of (national) identity reveals 'subjective sovereignty' to be a discursive illusion, disturbed by two sources of 'disunity': 'neo-imperialism' is suggested as an 'external' threat to sovereignty, while post colonialism constitutes the difference within', akin to the functioning of the unconscious in relation to the subject. The chapter concludes with an analysis of subjective processes in three fictional texts.
Section Two introduces a focus on how subjectivity is articulated through post-colonial discourses. Chapter Two explores the post-colonial textual mediation of relationships to the land, including the representation of land and landscape in writing, and the resultant facilitation of settler appropriation of the land -- of belonging. It concludes with a reading of post-colonial fictional critiques of colonisation and textuality as the basis of an authentic relationship to the land. Chapter Three considers discourses from indigenous and 'other' subject-positions which, rather than subsuming the land under their own identity, seek to gain and express their identity in relation to the land, attempts at elision of the alienating intervention of textuality. It concludes with discussion of texts which problematise the authority of textuality. Chapters Four and Five more fully examine the subject-positions of 'self' and 'other' in the context of the settler post-colonial ambivalence of authority and authenticity. Chapter Four considers strategies of privileging and appropriating the discursive place of the 'post-colonised' in order to authenticate the authority of the 'post-colonisers'. Chapter Five addresses the 'authorising' of the 'other' into a 'self', or a subject in discourse, and entry into the discursive market as the ambivalent attempt both to accede to subjectivity and to articulate it with the integrity of authenticity. The problems with this invoke the subjective problematic of hybridity which is introduced at the end of Chapter Five.
The third section develops the preceding exploration of discourses into a consideration of subjective and discursive problematics, informed by an understanding of post-colonialism as a condition of instability resulting from the re-introduction of what the dominant (National) discourse constitutively excludes. In its phallocentric subjective moment, the exclusion is shown to be that of the maternal body and thus any possibility of a feminine sex; in its imperially-informed cultural moment, it is difference and heterogeneity which are submitted to and subsumed under the colonising gaze: they are disavowed, and the disavowed objects repressed to the 'national' unconscious. Chapter Six posits an analogy between the productions of sexual and colonial difference. Similarly in that chapter the return to, and reconsideration of, motifs and analyses in the thesis enact the thematic-analytic focus on the return of the body and its contaminations of unity, purity and linearity. In Chapter Seven, the theory of the abjection of the subject is employed to suggest a reading of the non-autonomy and non-integrity of settler post-colonial subjectivities and cultures: the settler post-colonial subject is abjected by the internal difference of its own heterogeneity -- the body-difference for which the metaphor of the land (as mother) is used -- and by the perceived radical cultural otherness or externality of post-modernism. However, it is argued that these others are constitutive of the post-colonial self, and that cultural and political agency must therefore relinquish its privileging of purity and sameness, principles which themselves re-play the dynamics of imperialism. Chapter Seven concludes with an argument against the imperialism of identity and against the identity of a text. Chapter Eight concludes the third Section, and the thesis as a whole, with the exploration of a textual-cultural 'case-study' in the discourses and problematics which have constituted the preceding discussions.
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Gualtieri, Claudia. "The discourse of the exotic in British colonial travel writing in West Africa." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274829.
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Padamsee, Alexander. "Spectacles of dispossession : representations of Indian Muslims in British colonial discourse, 1857-1905." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2003. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1803.
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This thesis analyses some of the changing features by which Indian Muslims were identified in British colonialist discourse between the outbreak of revolt in 1857 and the partition of Bengal in 1905. Most of the texts examined emanate out of the relatively circumscribed Anglo-Indian official community, and range from personal correspondence, to 'Mutiny' memoirs, travel guides, and socio-political essays. The argument takes as its starting point David Washbrook's description of the selfconstitution of the Raj as a centralised, secular and neutral state arbitrating the claims of competing ascriptive racial and ethnic communities. Drawing on recent Lacanian analyses of the formation and maintenance of ideologies, as well as on the sociological schema of Zygmant Bauman, the thesis argues that in the post-1857 period the preservation of this official identity became dangerously reliant on a discourse of power centred on representations of Indian Muslims. Chapter One reads the stereotype of the Indian Muslim in 1905 for its most salient features - debased foreign origins, religious incontinence, isolation within Indian society, and secret ambitions towards temporal power. It then traces them back to their first marked appearance in colonial discourse in 1857. Chapter Two begins with a reassessment of the historiography with regard to Muslim 'conspiracy' during the revolt, as well as a reconsideration of official praxis towards Indian Muslims in the half-century before its outbreak. Proceeding to a detailed analysis of' Mutiny' texts, it concludes that the unprecedented, widespread British misperception of 'conspiracy' stemmed in part from an irrational colonialist attempt to re-possess their own fractured secular ideology through tropes of Christian persecution. Chapter Three compares the highly ambivalent post-'Mutiny' representations of Indo-Muslim 'fanaticism' that resulted with a secularised late eighteenth-century discourse on Mughal figures of authority. It argues that the strikingly similar discourses of alienation and lack of self-command structuring both forms of representation derived from crises in the colonialist inability to command their own self-presentation as rulers within the Indian environment. In the later discourse, in particular, these instabilities issued in a disastrous process of representational stigmatisation and segregation.
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Gosh, Vaswati Bidhan Chandra. "The dynamics of scientific culture under a colonial state : Western India, 1823-1880." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322186.
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Snively, Judith. "Female bodies, male politics : women and the female circumcision controversy in Kenyan colonial discourse." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26124.
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At the end of the 1920s in Kenya, Protestant Missionaries, government authorities and Christian Kikuyu clashed when missionaries sought to prohibit female circumcision among their adherents. The mission discourse emphasised the negative moral and physical effects of female circumcision on individual women, while that of the government stressed the function of female circumcision in maintaining the body-politic. The colonial discourse, as whole, is marked by a striking division between issues concerning women and those deemed political. Thus, women seldom appear as actors in historical narratives of the female circumcision controversy, which is generally represented as a nationalist movement initiated by, and of concern to, men.This thesis presents alternate readings of the relevant colonial records. By examining the processes that functioned to exclude women from the political discourse it provides a different interpretation of the controversy as one in which women did indeed play a central political role, indirectly controlling the issue through men, who were regarded by the colonialists as the legitimate representatives of tribal interests. The thesis explores indirect methods of eliciting the perspectives of women which are muted or absent from the historical record.
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Schulenburg, Alexander Hugo. "Transient observations : the textualizing of St Helena through five hundred years of colonial discourse." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3419.
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This thesis explores the textualizing of the South Atlantic island of St Helena (a British Overseas Territory) through an analysis of the relationship between colonizing practices and the changing representations of the island and its inhabitants in a range of colonial 'texts', including historiography, travel writing, government papers, creative writing, and the fine arts. Part I situates this thesis within a critical engagement with post-colonial theory and colonial discourse analysis primarily, as well as with the recent 'linguistic turn' in anthropology and history. In place of post-colonialism's rather monolithic approach to colonial experiences, I argue for a localised approach to colonisation, which takes greater account of colonial praxis and of the continuous re-negotiation and re-constitution of particular colonial situations. Part II focuses on a number of literary issues by reviewing St Helena's historiography and literature, and by investigating the range of narrative tropes employed (largely by travellers) in the textualizing of St Helena, in particular with respect to recurrent imaginings of the island in terms of an earthly Eden. Part III examines the nature of colonial 'possession' by tracing the island's gradual appropriation by the Portuguese, Dutch and English in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century and the settlement policies pursued by the English East India Company in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Part IV provides an account of the changing perceptions, by visitors and colonial officials alike, of the character of the island's inhabitants (from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century) and assesses the influence that these perceptions have had on the administration of the island and the political status of its inhabitants (in the mid- to late twentieth century). Part V, the conclusion, reviews the principal arguments of my thesis by addressing the political implications of post-colonial theory and of my own research, while also indicating avenues for further research. A localised and detailed exploration of colonial discourse over a period of nearly five hundred years, and a close analysis of a consequently wide range of colonial 'texts', has confirmed that although colonising practices and representations are far from monolithic, in the case of St Helena their continuities are of as much significance as their discontinuities.
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Price, Brinley. "The language of traffic : colonial slavery and political discourse in the late eighteenth century." Thesis, University of York, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2529/.
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Tinitali, Peter. "Culture, language and colonial discourse a study of educational professional preparation in American Samoa /." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765044601&SrchMode=1&sid=10&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1209146903&clientId=23440.
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Noyes, John Kenneth. "Space and spatiality in the colonial discourse of German South West Africa 1884-1915." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22490.
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Bibliography : pages 312-319.The present study sets out to accomplish two things: first, to demonstrate that space and spatiality is the domain in which discourse partakes of the colonial project, and second, to isolate a number of textual strategies employed in the discursive production of colonial space. The first aim requires a lengthy theoretical discussion which occupies the first part of the study. Here I develop the thesis that spatiality as a philosophical preoccupation has never been divorced from the questions of sigmfication and subjectivity, and that the production of significant and subjective space is always a production of social space. In support of this thesis, it is shown that vision and writing are the two functions in which subjective space becomes meaningful, and that in both cases it becomes meaningful only as social space. It is thus in the context of looking and writing that the production of colonial space may be examined as a social space within which meaning and subjectivity are possible. The second aim requires an analytical study of a number of colorual texts, which I undertake in part II of the study. For simplicity, I have confined myself to the colonial discourse of German South West Africa in the period 1884-1915. The central thesis developed here is that discourse develops strategies for enclosing spaces by demarkating borders, privileging certain passages between spaces and blocking others. This organization of space is presented as the ordering of a chaotic multiplicity and, as such, as a process of civilization. The contradiction between the blocking and privileging of passages results in what I call a "ritual of crossing": an implicit set of rules prescribmg the conditions of possibility for crossing the borders it establishes. As a result, in its production of space, the colonial text assumes a mythical function which allows it to transcend the very spaces it produces. It is here that I attempt to situate colonial discourse's claims to uruversal truth. In conclusion, the detailed analysis of the production of space in colonial discourse may be understood as a strategic intervention. It attempts to use the texts of colonisation to counter colonization's claims to universal truth and a civilizing mission.
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Stenlund, Magdalena. "Selling the colonial Other : A discourse analysis of marketing and communications of development organisations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295338.
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Abulwassie, Nasser. "Unhomely Lives : Double Consciousness in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25858.
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This essay argues that Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother depicts how the indigenous colonized in Dominica are living ‘unhomely lives’ and that their experience is one of the double consciousness. i.e. when a person see the world through different "lenses." The person does not only have a dual personality but also feels the notion of having different roles in society, such as having a black identity and at the same time conforming to the stereotypical norms of the white society for a black person. Therefore, the person sees the world, and oneself, through one’s own “black” lens and the “white” lens at the same time. Subsequently, with a setting full of diversities, the novel depicts a colonial background where the characters have been ascribed certain features to their persona. Furthermore, the novel uses metaphors to show a futile endeavor of finding identity of the main characters in an ineluctable power structure. By utilizing the postcolonial theoretical framework; mainly Du Bois’s notion on ‘double consciousness’ and Bhabha’s term ‘unhomely lives’ which means to grow up between two cultures, to live on borders and in margins and not feel at ease in either sides, expands the readers understanding of the text. A central aspect of the novel is the alienation of an individual’s personal identity in the context of a postcolonial society. Therefore, the psychology of the novel’s characters will be a major theme of this essay. Nevertheless, the novel shows that it is hard for the characters Alfred and Xuela to break free from the bonds of society.
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Furberg, Burén Frida. "Great Zimbabwe as Illustrated : A Discourse Analysis of Today's Representation of the Monument." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413714.
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This study investigates the current discourses of Great Zimbabwe by analysing traces of colonial terminology within present-day literary illustrations. The aim is to identify western ideas and perspectives still dominant within the discourses and explore its implications. By conducting research on how Great Zimbabwe is being illustrated today within academic literature as well as more popular texts, the study demonstrates the role and power of discourse in relation to questions regarding who is authorized to write history and define heritage. Special focus is placed on discourse’s implications on the perception of reality and identity within a context heavily tainted by colonialism. This investigation is a pilot study which hopes to encourage further research on the representation of heritage sites that are vulnerable to political discourses.Studien undersöker den nuvarande diskursen kring Stora Zimbabwe genom att identifiera och analysera spår från den koloniala terminologin inom dagens litterära illustrationer. Syftet är att urskilja dominanta västerländska idéer och perspektiv inom diskursen och granska dess inflytande. Genom att undersöka hur Stora Zimbabwe illustreras inom dagens akademiska och mer populära litteratur kan studien demonstrera diskursens roll och maktposition, vilket leder till frågor om vem som bär på rätten att definiera historia och kulturarv. Speciellt fokus har lagts på diskursens påverkan vad gäller hur människan uppfattar verkligheten och hur identiteter formas inom den koloniala kontexten. Underökningen är en förstudie som hoppas kunna uppmuntra vidare forskning som behandlar representationen av kulturarv som formats och påverkats av politiska diskurser.
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Schoeberlein, Robert William. "Mental Illness in Maryland public perception, discourse, and treatment, from the colonial period to 1964 /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3487.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Kamgang, Emmanuel. "Discours postcolonial et traduction de la littérature africaine subsaharienne après les années soixante : rémanences colonialistes." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23556.
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La traduction postcoloniale de la littérature africaine europhone ne saurait s’inscrire dans le contexte colonial à proprement parler, où la traduction pouvait directement servir les intérêts de la colonisation. Les années 60 marquent la transition entre le discours du roman colonial, dimension essentielle du discours hégémonique occidental sur l’espace colonial africain, et celui du roman africain moderne. Si ce changement de perspective se reflète sur la traduction, celle de la littérature africaine reste le fait d’instances énonciatrices majoritairement occidentales. Or, le discours occidental sur l’altérité africaine s’étant constitué en un savoir qui subsiste à ce jour sous une forme ou une autre (rémanences), on peut s’interroger sur le positionnement d’une traduction occidentale de la littérature africaine postcoloniale par rapport à ce savoir dont la crise a présidé à l’éclosion de cette littérature anticoloniale qu’elle se propose de promouvoir. Autrement dit, la traduction occidentale de la littérature africaine postcoloniale est-elle à l’abri des représentations coloniales qui ont au fils des années voire des siècles façonné le regard de l’Occident sur l’Afrique?
Pour aborder cette question, la traduction est posée ici, au-delà des considérations d’ordre linguistique et culturel – notamment l’hybridation de la langue d’écriture par les valeurs culturelles africaines – en termes de rapport à l’altérité. Dans une approche descriptive, les traductions française, anglaises et allemandes d’œuvres africaines représentatives de la postcolonialité ont été respectivement examinées dans une perspective comparative.
Plus que de juger un acte de promotion de la littérature africaine au sein du canon universel, il faut d’abord voir ici l’occasion de revisiter le cadre théorique d’une traduction de soi, par opposition à une traduction de l’autre, la littérature africaine postcoloniale se définissant elle-même comme une écriture de soi, non pas en termes d’opposition binaire, mais bien dans une perspective hybride. Car, au-delà de sa dimension politique, la littérature africaine europhone assume la double identité propre à la postcolonialité.
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Baptiste, Sharon. "La diaspora antillaise en Grande-Bretagne : Analyse politique et sociale de l'évolution des représentations depuis la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040076.
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Cette thèse porte sur l’évolution des représentations de la diaspora antillaise en Grande-Bretagne depuis la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle. La recherche se fonde sur l’hypothèse que le processus d’intégration est lié aux représentations. L’intégration ne peut se faire pleinement que lorsque les représentations négatives datant de l’époque coloniale sont complètement démantelées. Impuissante dans les années 1950 et 1960 face à l’hostilité de la population autochtone à son égard, la première génération de la diaspora antillaise en Grande-Bretagne ne pouvait que subir la discrimination raciale et les inégalités sociales dont elle fut victime. Cependant, dès la fin des années 1960, libérée du joug colonial britannique et se reconnaissant dans un discours de fierté noire venu des États-Unis, la diaspora antillaise se mobilisa, créant des associations de quartier et se donna de nouvelles représentations postcoloniales. Cette étude examine différentes stratégies déployées par une panoplie d’acteurs sociaux, politiques et culturels issus de la diaspora antillaise. L’évolution des représentations est certes bien amorcée, mais les résultats sont encore ambivalents. De nombreux travaux témoignent de la persistance d’un racisme institutionnel qui touche tout particulièrement les jeunes générations. L’éducation et les relations avec la police sont des domaines où des progrès sont encore à faire. Aux premières années du vingt-et-unième siècle, plus de soixante ans après son installation en Grande-Bretagne, la diaspora antillaise n’est toujours pas complètement intégrée à la société britanniqueThis doctoral thesis focuses on the evolution of the social, political and cultural representations of the Caribbean diaspora in Great Britain since the second half of the twentieth century. It puts forward the hypothesis that integration is linked to representations and will only be successful when the negative representation of the colonial era is completely deconstructed. In the 1950s and 1960s, the members of the Caribbean diaspora were the passive victims of racial discrimination and social inequality. At the end of the 1960s, thanks to a growing political awareness and the emergence of Black self-help and protest groups encouraged by the U.S. Black Power movement, the diaspora began to weave its own new post-colonial social, political and cultural representations. Examples of the various strategies deployed to cast off detrimental colonial representations are analyzed. Representations have undoubtedly changed, but the results are mixed. Numerous reports indicate that institutional racism has not been eradicated from the British education system or from the police and that the younger generations are particularly vulnerable. At the beginning of the twenty-first century and after over sixty years of presence in the country, the Caribbean diaspora in Great Britain has still not achieved full integration
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Symons, Stuart. "White lies : history, narrative and post colonial discourse in the fictions of Peter Carey and Mudrooroo /." Title page and conclusion only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ars9882.pdf.
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Wilson, Jon E. "Governing property, making law : land, local society and colonial discourse in Agrarian Bengal, c.1785-1830." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368131.
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Winchcombe, Rachel. "Constructing America : English encounters with the New World and the development of colonial discourse, 1492-1607." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/constructing-america-english-encounters-with-the-new-world-and-the-development-of-colonial-discourse-14921607(507d487b-ae96-46df-98db-0a5a4720597e).html.
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This thesis explores English representations of America and Americans from the 'discovery' in 1492 to the establishment of the Jamestown colony in 1607. In examining this earlier period of English engagement with the New World, this thesis aims to illustrate the many ways that sixteenth-century understandings of America impacted the development of English colonial discourse, from shaping where colonies should be located, to influencing how native populations should be incorporated into colonising schemes. In particular, this thesis establishes two fundamental sixteenth-century approaches to the construction of English colonial ideology: the use of continental European portrayals of America that were manipulated and adapted to meet the discursive demands of early English projects in the New World and the selective appropriation of frameworks of knowledge, both old and new, that were employed in an attempt to explain the new lands across the Atlantic. The following chapters analyse the various processes by which an English colonial discourse, focused on America, came into being. This thesis assesses how English colonisers and explorers constructed the theory of empire using Old World frameworks of understanding, examines how explorative failures and an oscillating English religious, economic, and cultural landscape affected early English colonial discourse, and explores how the practicalities of English trade and settlement in the New World manifested themselves in descriptions of native appearance and behaviour and in accounts of the American environment. By employing a methodology of 'thick' contextualisation and close reading, and by interpreting travel narratives and colonial texts as sites where rhetoric, inter-textual influences, and cultural priorities converge, this thesis enhances historical understandings of the development of English colonial ideology. The formation of early English colonial discourse took place within an international framework of European rivalry and shared cultural heritage and a domestic context of fluctuating economic, political, and religious circumstances. This discourse, which was first articulated in the sixteenth century, was therefore the product of a complex process of assimilation, manipulation, colonial competition, and cultural appropriation.
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Ekelund, Nord Lina. "Det riktiga Kenya och orientaliska Tunisien : En diskursanalys av Lonely Planets guideböcker om Tunisien och Kenya." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-17297.
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Presentations of Oriental people as subordinated the West and their ideals was one way for Europeans to expand and keep control over their colonies in Africa during the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries. France and Great Britain controlled their colonies in different ways which has led to diverse legacies. Today, tourism is a source of revenue for former colonies, such as Tunisia and Kenya, and tourism also helps to spread knowledge and images of distant countries. A guidebook is one way that knowledge of other countries and people are spread to travelers. During history, images of distant people were based on a colonial discourse in which the west was seen as superior; but is that still the case? The purpose of this paper was to analyze how Tunisia and Kenya are presented in the Lonely Planet guide to Tunisia and the Lonely Planet guide to Kenya to investigate if they are constructed through a colonial discourse, and to see if there are any dissimilarities on how they are presented. With a postcolonial theory and critical discourse analysis and with a colonial discourse as framework, the guidebooks were examined to see how people and culture were presented. The research showed that Lonely Planet guidebooks use a colonial discourse in the presentation of Tunisia and Kenya where distinctions are made between the inhabitants and the western world. The Orient was subordinated the superior Occident which reinforces the notion of others as being different and less than the west. Diversities between how Tunisia and Kenya were drawn in the guidebooks were found. The colonial heritage was more present in Tunisia than in Kenya, while in Kenya the people were presented as more brutal than in Tunisia. Reasons for that could be many, but the critical issue is why the western world still constructs other people as subordinate and different.
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Blend, Masifi Sorin. "Utvandringens tid : Kolonialismens variga sår och orientalistiskt begär." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1627.
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This paper is an analysis of the novel Season of Migration to The North by Tayeb Salih. Season of Migration to The North was first published in 1967 and it is the most accomplished among several works in modern Arabic literature.
I shall focus on one of the two major characters, Mustafa Said, a young Sudanese student whose brilliant career at school in Sudan and Cairo eventually brings him to England; he has a successful academic career in England as a lecturer at the University of London.
One of the major themes of the novel is the confrontation between Mustafa Said and England, which in other terms is described as the confrontation between East and West. The conflict is rooted in colonialism. Mustafa Said’s native country, Sudan, was a British colony when the story takes place. It is a period marked by war, oppression and colonial violence. Hence Mustafa Said comes to England as a conqueror and invader. The confrontation is mainly depicted through Mustafa’s relationships with a number of English women. These relationships are nothing less than complex and they symbolize the clash of two cultures within a Western context.
My main purpose is to more closely examine the relationship between Mustafa Said and the English women. In these relationships an important part is played by the stereotypes; the women see Mustafa as an object of their “oriental desire”. This is something he is well aware of but chooses to use the stereotype of himself as the typical Arab-African male, (so as) to seduce and “conquer” the women. In this context the term “orient/oriental” references Edward Said’s theoretical definition as described in his book Orientalism. Questions that will be raised in this paper are: what (is the composition of) the relationships between Mustafa Said and the English women. How does Mustafa Said construct an “oriental identity”, what role does the female body play in the relationships? These questions will all be discussed through a postcolonial perspective. One of the central features of postcolonial theory is an examination of the impact and continuing legacy of the European conquest, colonization and domination of non-European lands, peoples and cultures. What is also central to this critical examination is an analysis of the ideas of European superiority over non-European peoples and cultures that such imperial colonization implies.
I will be referencing the postcolonial theories of Edward Said in Orientalism but my main focus will be on Black Skin, White Mask by Frantz Fanon, which is a psychological analysis of colonialism.
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Kaiser, Bettina. "Collegiate Debating Societies in New Zealand: The Role of Discourse in an Inter-Colonial Setting, 1878-1902." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Culture, Literature and Society, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4289.
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This thesis examines how, in New Zealand during the nineteenth century, debate was practised as an educative means to cultivate a standard of civic participation among settlers. Three collegiate debating societies and their activities between 1878 and 1902 are the object of this study. The discussion of these three New Zealand societies yields a distinctly colonial concept of debate. In the New Zealand public forum, a predominantly Pakeha intellectual elite put forth the position that public decisions should be determined by a process of deliberation that was conducted by educated individuals. This project was dominated by scientific argumentation that underpinned debate as a reliable means of discursive interaction. New Zealand's intellectual elite was influenced by similar trends in Britain and the United States. Moreover, the concept of debate, that developed over the period of thirty years, carried significant normative connotations that rendered rational argumentation an acceptable form of discursive interaction. It is shown that nineteenth-century debating practice in New Zealand should be understood as a cultural phenomenon that combines the practice of debate with alternative forms of discursive interaction like mock trials or musical evenings. Mostly composed of students, these societies negotiated ideal standards of discourse and real encounters on the debating platform. In order to understand this relation of real and ideal in nineteenth-century discourse, Habermas's theory of communicative action helps to identify levels of interaction that reveal the social structure of debating activity. In addition, this thesis discusses events of imperial dimension like the Boer War and the Australia Federation movement to locate students' discourse in an inter-colonial setting and identify discursive patterns of colonial policy making. Due to the lack of rhetorical research in New Zealand, American scholarship on literary and debating societies in the Gilded Age era provide a frame of reference for this study. The story of nineteenth-century New Zealand was written in an inter-colonial web of written and oral discourse. As such, the understanding of a distinctly New Zealand nineteenth-century concept of debate contributes to a shift of perspective in New Zealand historical research towards a rhetorical interpretation of discourse culture. Furthermore, this study informs a reading of New Zealand's past that takes into account the strategic function of public discourse and its effect on the creation of jingoism and grounds for national identification. This thesis concludes that nineteenth-century debate was an imagined and ideal standard imposed on the public forum as well as a lived and embodied experience of social interaction. While this thesis focuses on the activities of three debating societies, it is suggested that literary and debating societies, in general, were more numerous and influential that historical scholarship has acknowledged.
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Pfeffer, Adam Keith. ""The Little Stop Before the Words": Bildungsroman and the Building of a Colonial Discourse in Rudyard Kipling's "Kim"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626314.
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