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Alrawashdeh, Abeer Aser. "A comparative study of selected Arab and South Asian colonial and postcolonial literature." Thesis, Swansea University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678267.

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Tay, Eddie. "Not at home colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37898139.

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Chow, Chi-shing Jeffrey, and 鄒志誠. "Postcoloniality in Hong Kong Literature: withspecial reference to Xi Xi's and Ye Si's Fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950541.

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White, Laura. "Fictions of progress the eco-politics of temporal constructions in colonial and postcolonial novels /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

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Boucher, Rémi. "A comparative post-colonial reading of Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler and Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ61717.pdf.

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Elewa, Salah Ahmed. "In search of the other/self : colonial and postcolonial narratives and identities /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262130.

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Chiu, Man-Yin, and 趙敏言. "Written orders: authority and crisis in colonial and postcolonial narratives." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29812902.

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Demougin, Laure. "Identités et exotisme : représentations de soi et des autres dans la presse coloniale française au dix-neuvième siècle (1830 - 1880)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30078.

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Sur les territoires colonisés par la France paraissent des journaux locaux qui suivent le développement national de la presse : entre 1830 et 1880, l’époque est médiatique et le journal est un support important des publications littéraires. Dans les colonies, les périodiques contiennent ainsi des textes adaptés à leurs territoires respectifs, mais publiés toujours selon la même structure, ce qui permet une comparaison entre les différentes stratégies conduisant à l’élaboration d’identités coloniales. Ces textes, par leur diversité et leurs évolutions, représentent une sorte de chaînon manquant entre la littérature des récits de voyage et la littérature coloniale qui se définit au tournant du XXe siècle : interrogés et étudiés sous cet angle, ils prennent valeur de corpus signifiant. Ils montrent en effet le rôle identitaire de cette littérature médiatique adaptée aux colonies : en adaptant l’exotisme aux conditions coloniale, en faisant varier le critère d’altérité et par bien d’autres moyens encore, la presse locale fonde en partie une attitude coloniale qui se retrouve, mutatis mutandis, dans l’empire colonial français. C’est également la raison pour laquelle le corpus médiatique colonial du XIXe siècle se trouve être au centre de connexions avec les textes de la littérature coloniale ainsi qu’avec les problématiques de l’écriture postcoloniale : lieu de publication, de nouveauté, de tentatives identitaires et d’essais génériques, le journal colonial a produit entre 1830 et 1880 des mécanismes d’écriture appelés à se développer par la suite<br>Local newspapers were published in French colonial areas following the same evolution as the national newspapers: between 1830 and 1880, media-rich times, the press represents a significant publishing-platform for literary texts. Colonial newspapers contain texts adjusted to their respective geographic areas, but keep the same structure regardless, thereby allowing the comparison between the strategies leading to the building of colonial identities. The diversity and the different evolution pathways of these texts may then be considered as the missing link between the travel narratives and the early-20th century defined colonial literature. As such, they can undoubtedly be considered as a significant corpus of colonial times. These texts reflect the identity role this colonial-area adjusted media literature had: by adapting exoticism to the colonial conditions, by varying the criterion of alterity and by many other ways, local press founds, partially, a colonial attitude that can further be found, mutatis mutandis, in the French colonial empire. This is also the reason the 19th-century colonial-media corpus is at the crossroads of both colonial literature and postcolonial writing problematics: as a place for publication, novelty, identity essays, and literary genre essays, the colonial newspaper witnessed the creation, between 1830 and 1880, of writing mechanisms that would eventually develop later on

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Chow, Chi-shing Jeffrey. "Postcoloniality in Hong Kong Literature : with special reference to Xi Xi's and Ye Si's Fiction /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13793779.

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Hugo, Pieter Hendrik. "Between wilderness and number : on literature, colonialism and the will to power." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1947.

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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.<br>The eras of colonial expansion and the era designated the modern have been both chronologically and philosophically linked from the commencement of the Renaissance period and Enlightenment thought in the 15th century. The discovery of the New World in 1492 gave impetus to a new type of literature, the colonial novel. Throughout the development of this genre, in both its narrative strategies and the depiction of the colonist’s relationship with the foreign land he now inhabits, it has been both informed and formed by the prevailing philosophical atmosphere of the time. In the context of this discussion it is particularly interesting to note what might be termed the level of regression of the modern ideal, and how it is reflected in the colonial novels written at the time. Commencing with the essentially optimistic Robinson Crusoe and The Coral Island, and progressing through the far darker imaginings of Heart of Darkness, Lord of the Flies, and eventually Apocalypse Now and Blood Meridian, it is possible to trace the effects of the declining power of Enlightenment thought. Whereas earlier texts deal quite unambiguously with the issue of the Western subject’s subjugation of both the foreign environment and the foreign subjects he encounters there, and the relation between subject and object remains quite uncomplicated, in later, more self-reflexive texts the modern subject’s relationship with both the alien land and alien people becomes far more problematic. Later texts such as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies depict a world where the self-assurance of early texts is strikingly absent. Increasingly, as the initial self-confidence of modernism is eroded, secular moral values, too, come to be questioned. It is here that the works of Nietzsche come to play a prominent role in the analysis of how such a decline in modern confidence is reflected in later colonial works. Even later works such as Apocalypse Now and Blood Meridian provide a view of the colonial enterprise that is in striking contrast to the optimism of early texts. The chronological progression of texts dealt with here, spanning an era of almost three hundred years prove to be reflective, to a large degree, of the decline of modernity and the effects of this on the colonial enterprise as depicted in the colonial genre.

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Tay, Eddie, and 鄭竹文. "Not at home: colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37898139.

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Hills, Sehten Porshe. "Things Fall Apart & Heart of Darkness : Colonialism: Presenting the same universal ethic in two diametrically opposite ways." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-29327.

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This research paper will examine the representation of colonialism in the narratives Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The aim of this Analysis is to demonstrate that both Achebe and Conrad expressed the same universal ethic in two diametrically opposite ways. The term “universal ethic” refers to the evil that is associated with colonialism, and “evil” represents the psychological, physical and emotional trauma that was suffered by both the colonizers and the colonized people. Therefore, as the basis for analysis, this research uses the psychological, emotional and physical criticisms to expose the evil of colonialism. As a postcolonial, Achebe’s opposition to the concept of colonialism is represented by the psychological and emotional collapse of the Igbo natives in Things Fall Apart. As for Joseph Conrad, a colonizer who was sent to the Congo, the physical abuse of the natives represents the evil of colonialism in Heart of Darkness. Achebe criticizes the evil of colonialism as a postcolonial, while Conrad criticizes the evil of colonialism as a colonial. This research was conducted exclusively with the support of textbooks and internet articles as well as Webb publications that address the concepts of postcolonialism and colonialism. A total of six (6) recognized books, as well as twelve (12) Webb publications, were used as references to support the postcolonial theory in this analysis. In addition, this research features twelve pages of close reading that examines the psychological, emotional and physical criticism of colonialism that are used to defend the thesis. Correspondingly, the conclusion is established based on the suitability of the findings. It is then concluded that the evil of colonialism is expressed by Chinua Achebe and Joseph Conrad in two diametrically opposite ways in Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness respectively.

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Finnegan, Jordana T. "Rewriting colonial histories race, gender, and landscape in new Western narrative /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3190516.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-333). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Still, Edward. "Representing the Algerian woman in Francophone literature of the late-colonial period : une dissymétrie s'évoque." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:15de2de5-ef05-4e08-8508-5da1da4d6973.

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This thesis seeks to discuss the ways in which canonical Francophone Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945 - 1962), namely Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri and Assia Djebar, approached the representation of Algerian women through literature. The thesis, divided into five chapters, each focusing on the late-colonial oeuvre of one writer, initially makes use of Bourdieusian conceptions relating to a gendered "dissymétrie fondementale" and concomitant Spivakian notions of representation, to argue that a masculine domination of public fields of representation contributed to, if not ensured, a post-colonial marginalization of women and a reduction of their public role. However, it is the principal argument of this thesis that the canonical writers of the period, who were mostly male, both textually acknowledge their inability to articulate the experiences and subjectivity of the feminine Other, to represent women, and deploy a remarkable variety of formal and conceptual innovations in an attempt to tentatively produce evocations of Algerian femininity that seek to upset or highlight the structural imbalance of masculine symbolic hegemony in literary and socio-political milieux. Though this thesis does not shy from investigating those aspects of its corpus that produce ideologically conditioned masculinist representations, it chiefly seeks to articulate a shared reluctance concerning representativity and an omnipresent literary subversion of a masculine subject pole. It deploys formal narrative analysis, Lacanian psychoanalytical frameworks and a conceptualisation of "pessimistic" form to achieve these ends and to argue that the texts of its corpus discreetly militate for a communal feminine self-representation to be inaugurated, before outlining in its conclusion a post-colonial Algerian feminine literary tradition, in particular contemporary symbolic conduits such as la bande dessinée that might serve as effective motors for progression in gender relations.

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Hållen, Nicklas. "Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-46365.

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This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. The author argues that objects are deeply involved in the construction of pre-modern and modern spheres that the travelling subject moves between. The objects in the travel accounts are studied in relation to a contextual background of Victorian commodity and object culture, epitomised by the 1851 Great Exhibition and the birth of the modern anthropological museum. The four analysis chapters investigate the roles of objects in ethnographical and geographical writing, in ideological discussions about the transformative powers of colonial trade, and in narratives about the arrival of the book in the colonial periphery. As the analysis shows, however, objects tend not to behave as they are expected to do. Instead of marking temporal differences, descriptions of objects are typically unstable and riddled with contradictions and foreground the ambivalence that characterises colonial literature.

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Hamilton, Grant A. R. School of English UNSW. "Beyond representation : Coetzee, Deleuze, and the colonial subject." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22310.

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This thesis concerns the colonial subject, subjectivity, and resistance in postcolonial theory and literature. It argues that contemporary attempts within the practice of postcolonial theory to retrieve a colonial subject from a representation that issues from a dominating colonial discourse can only be met with failure. Thus, this thesis follows Spivak's claim that the colonial subject is merely a production of positions granted by its very representation, which is to say, a given. However, this thesis also recognises that Spivak's assertion cannot account for moments of resistance to colonial discourse that abound in postcolonial literature. As such, this thesis claims that the colonial subject is not wholly given; that if one approaches the colonial subject through Gilles Deleuze's re-writing of subjectivity, demonstrated in the concept of 'the body without organs', then a transcendent configuration of the colonial subject is revealed. In elucidating this claim, this thesis turns to the fiction of South African academic and novelist, J.M. Coetzee. It is argued that Coetzee writes the Other by 'staging it', that is by testing the limits and eventually going beyond the authoritarian regime of representation. Thus, this thesis is constructed by three main chapters that offer both a rethinking of postcolonial theory in light of the work of Deleuze, and a reading of a selected cynosure of texts authored by Coetzee. The first chapter is a reading of Coetzee's Dusklands that concentrates on the body as a site of resistance to the manoeuvres of representation, demonstrating it to be a site that takes authority in the production of truth from the 'objective', structured methodology of reason, while the second chapter offers a reading of Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians that interrogates the postcolonial concern with 'space'. It is in this novel that Coetzee renders space in terms of its dynamic relationship with the nomad, which ultimately problematises the colonial endeavour to organise, represent, and thereby, 'know' the world. The final chapter engages Coetzee's Foe by way of a sustained critique of the operation of language, and demonstrates how Coetzee manages to test the boundaries of representation through language use. As such, each chapter offers a specific account of an entire programme that tends towards the transgression of the binds organised by the operation of representation.

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Minster, Christopher W. "Literature and the other political history, origins, and the invention of the American in the early Spanish colonial period /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1149775390.

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Minster, Christopher. "Literature and the other: political history, origins, and the invention of the American in the early Spanish colonial period." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1149775390.

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Burns, Brian. "Hybridization of the Self, Colonial Discourse and the Deconstruction of Value Systems : A Postcolonial Literary Theory Perspective of Literature inculpating Colonialism." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35112.

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The aim of this essay is to provide a perspective on literature inculpating colonialism using postcolonial literary theory and method. The subject material incorporates four novels studied during the literature modules for the English course at Högskolan Gävle (HIG). The four novels combine to highlight various issues that affect the Self-identity through hybridization and colonial discourse as well as the detrimental nature of the colonial project for indigenous value systems during the period of colonialism. There is also application of theories and concepts raised in academic literature from within and outside the curriculum of HIG. The use of the postcolonial literary methodology provides a critical perspective of the aforementioned literature while implementing theories associated with that movement such as hybridity and the redefining of borders as well as focusing on the social, cultural, political and religious impact of the coloniser’s activities in the colonies as raised in the novels. The most significant findings of this essay include the roles of isolation and disconnection within the colonial project and the subsequential effects on the colonised and their descendants. There are findings and observations of the level of strategic application of universalistic colonial discourse and the intrinsic application of the language used in the objectification of the indigenous and the subjugation of their value systems. The role of perception is also highlighted including findings on the social implications for the colonies inhabitants, both dissident and conformist, raised within the chosen literature and this essay. The essay also examines the application of various strands of literary theory incorporated within postcolonialism including poststructuralism and psychoanalytic criticism as well as anthropology material. The conclusion of this essay culminates with the conflicting interpretations of progress as a universalism that counters the theories of postcolonialists and poststructuralists and their subsequent refusal to succumb to literature’s prevalence. The subjectivity of the postcolonial literary theorist and the self-imposed parameters restrict the interpretation of the colonial and postcolonial literature. The aforementioned progress defined by improved standards of health, education and social justice is lacking in presence in both the postcolonial literature and the accompanying literary theory counterpart. Subsequently, the disconnected voice of isolation and the split/double identity take precedence over higher standards of living and the appreciation of access to improved human rights and social justice within postcolonial society.

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Dalsfoist, Kayla. "Monsters From Within and Madness From Without: Manifestations of Identity Fragmentation as a Result of Postcolonialism in Filipino American Theatre." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/267.

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This thesis explores the way in which it is possible to undermine dominant colonial power structures through the figure of the organic intellectual. In the context of this work, the figure of the organic intellectual is the Filipino American playwright, who creates characters and worlds that expose the fragmented identities of the postcolonial condition following both Spanish and American occupation. This thesis focuses on Han Ong and Ralph Peña, two Filipino American playwrights who are well suited to the role of instigating change because they embrace the cracks and fissures brought on from years of trying to reconcile disparate identities within an often insecure self and transform those disjointed regions into something beautiful, and above all, worth examining further. By creating works that allow literal embodiment of postcolonial discourse, Filipino American playwrights are able to articulate issues and foster awareness for all involved in the production of the play, whether it be through a performative or spectatorial perspective.

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Migoyan, Janet. "Sexual Domination: Colonial Guilt and Postcolonial Hatred in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184168.

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J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace was published during a defining moment in South African history in 1999. Five years earlier Nelson Mandela had been elected president after the first general election. The healing process in a country divided by race and a history marked by racial crimes, committed under long time by collective actions of many generations of colonizers, was a decisive historical necessity. Disgrace illustrates the economical and emotional mechanisms of sexual exploitation of women in post-apartheid South African society. Those socioeconomic mechanisms are fueled by postcolonial hate, making the reconciliation process difficult in the new democracy. The aim of this bachelor project is to show how Coetzee’s Disgrace contextualizes the collective humanitarian guilt and disgrace caused by sexual oppression of woman and illustrates the challenges that post-apartheid South Africa faces to reconcile with the racial crimes committed during apartheid when sexual crimes continue under the historical shadow of colonial power and postcolonial hatred.

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Dias, Daise Lilian Fonseca. "A subversão das relações coloniais em o morro dos ventos uivantes: questões de gênero." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2011. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6161.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:39:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1069647 bytes, checksum: c2bcc81903c8fab579f52597328eca9d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-25<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>The objective of this research is to analyze Wuthering Heights (1847), written by the English writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), from a postcolonial perspective, based on Said (1994; 2003), Ashcroft et al (2004), Loomba (1998), and Boehmer (2005), among others. It is noticed that there is in the English literature a repetitive model of representation of the colonial relationships mainly until 1847, when Brontë s romance was published which praises the English people and their culture, disqualifying dark skinned people as well as their culture. Those people are, in general, represented from a negative perspective and subjugated by the English imperialism. Brontë romance subverts this kind of representation because the protagonist, a foreign gypsy, Heathcliff, reverts the socio-economical relationships imposed by his oppressors, the Englishmen who surround him and, consequently, subjugates them by an analogical way to his own experience. The novel s subversive characteristic will be highlighted, mainly the fact that the history takes place in England, which gives significance to Heathcliff s actions, since he is well succeed in something that provokes fear to English people: they become victims of dark skinned people in their own territory, England.<br>O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar O morro dos ventos uivantes (1847), da escritora inglesa Emily Brontë (1818-48), sob a perspectiva póscolonial, tomando como base os estudos de Said (1994; 2003), Ashcroft et al (2004), Loomba (1998), e Boehmer (2005), dentre outros. Percebe-se na literatura inglesa um padrão repetitivo de representação das relações coloniais sobretudo até 1847, ano da publicação da obra em estudo - que enaltece os ingleses e sua cultura, e que desqualifica os povos de pele escura, assim como suas respectivas culturas. Esses povos são, em geral, representados de forma preconceituosa e sob o domínio do imperialismo inglês. O romance de Brontë subverte esse tipo de representação porque o protagonista, um cigano estrangeiro, Heathcliff, consegue reverter as relações socioeconômicas impostas por seus opressores, os ingleses que o cercam, e, consequentemente, subjuga-os de forma análoga à sua própria experiência. Destaca-se, nesta obra, seu caráter subversivo, porque a narrativa passa-se na Inglaterra, o que confere ao feito de Heathcliff um valor significativo, uma vez que ele obtém sucesso em relação a algo que despertava grande temor para os ingleses: serem vítimas das forças de raças escuras em seu próprio território, a Inglaterra.

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Foreman, Chelsea. "Speaking With Our Spirits : A Character Analysis of Eugene Achike in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65249.

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The purpose of this essay is to conduct a character analysis on Eugene Achike from Chimamana Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus, to see whether or not the character is used by Adichie as a portrayal of colonial Nigeria and its values. I have done this by looking at the themes of violence and hypocrisy in relation to Eugene’s language usage, religious attitude, and behaviour towards others, and comparing these aspects of his personality with the attitudes shown by colonialists in colonial Nigeria. The more important issues that prove Eugene’s character is a portrayal of colonial Nigeria are: his utter disregard for his heritage and background, including the physical disregard of his father; his absolute control over his family members, both physically and mentally, which leads to violent outbursts if he is disobeyed; the fact that he is shown in the novel to be a direct product of the missionaries and colonial structure that was present in Nigeria when he grew up. These things, together with the subtle connections in Adichie’s writing that connect her novel to Things Fall Apart, firmly place Purple Hibiscus in the postcolonial category. Thus, I concluded that Eugene’s character is a portrayal of Colonial Nigeria.<br>Syftet med denna upsats är att genomföra en karaktärsanalys på karaktären Eugene Achike i Chimamanda Ngozi Adichis roman Purple Hibiscus, för att se ifall karaktären används av Adichie som en skildring av koloniala Nigeria och dess värderingar. Jag har gjort detta genom att undersöka två teman – våld och hyckleri – i samband med Eugenes användning av språk, religös attityd, och beteende mot andra, för att då jämföra dessa aspekter av hans personlighet med attityderna kolonisatörer hade i koloniala Nigeria. De viktigaste sakerna som bevisar att Eugenes karaktär är en skildring av koloniala Nigeria är: hans fullständiga ignoreing av sin bakgrund, inklusive den fysiska ignorering av hans pappa; hans absoluta kontroll över sin familj, både fysiskt och mentalt, vilket leder till våldsamma utbrott om han inte blir åtlydd; det faktum att han beskrivs som en produkt av missionärerna och koloniala samhället vid flera tillfällen i boken. Detta tillsammans med romanens subtila kopplingar till Achebes Things Fall Apart, placerar tveklöst Purple Hibiscus i den postkoloniala kategorin. Därmed drar jag slutsatsen att Eugene’s karaktär är en skildring av koloniala Nigeria.

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VIEIRA, Maria Luiza. "Escrever, resistir: ficção ameríndia na perspectiva pós -colonial." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17603.

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Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-08-03T13:52:33Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissert_MariaLuiza-BC.pdf: 938722 bytes, checksum: be7c46c2bd834496f171f32afa38dfc7 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T13:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissert_MariaLuiza-BC.pdf: 938722 bytes, checksum: be7c46c2bd834496f171f32afa38dfc7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25<br>CAPEs<br>Este trabalho consiste no estudo dos romances Slash (1985), da escritora okanagan Jeannette Armstrong, e Mean Spirit (1990), da chickasaw Linda Hogan, e busca examinar de que forma as autoras ficcionalizaram, nas suas obras, certos acontecimentos da história dos povos ameríndios no século XX, como os que envolveram a militância política que se fortaleceu a partir dos anos 60 na América do Norte e os assassinatos de membros da nação Osage na década de 1920. Para tanto, recorri ao conceito de metaficção historiográfica proposto por Linda Hutcheon (1988, 1989) e aos estudos em memória de Anh Hua (2005), Maurice Halbwachs (2006), Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2008), Marianne Hirsch (2008) e Aleida Assmann (2011). Considerando as obras de Armstrong e Hogan como espaços de enunciação de uma resistência cultural que vai além dos limites tribais, optei por adotar uma perspectiva cosmopolita tal qual sustentada por Arnold Krupat (2002), e que se apoia nas teorias póscoloniais segundo Mary Louise Pratt (1999), Homi Bhabha (2013), Ella Shohat (1996), Stuart Hall (2003), Kwame Anthony Appiah (1997) e Liane Schneider (2002, 2008). Ademais, foram de suma importância os diálogos com alguns nomes da crítica indígena como Graça Graúna (2013), Michael Dorris (1979), Craig S. Womack (1999), Louis Owens (1922), Simon Ortiz (2001), Winona Stevenson (1998), Paula Gunn Allen (1992) e Robert Warrior (2014). Intentei, assim, verificar como a resistência ameríndia toma corpo na escrita de Armstrong e Hogan, que constroem narrativas artisticamente complexas e de imensa relevância política.<br>This work consists of the study of Slash (1985), by Okanagan writer Jeannette Armstrong, and Mean Spirit (1990), by Chickasaw Linda Hogan, and it aims to examine the way in which the writers have fictionalized, in their books, certain events of the history of the American Indian peoples in the twentieth century, such as those concerning the militancy that gained strength in the 60s and the Osage murders that took place in the 20s. With that in mind, I have resorted to the concept of historiographic metafiction, proposed by Linda Hutcheon (1988, 1989) and to the memory studies by Anh Hua (2005), Maurice Halbwachs (2006), Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2008), Marianne Hirsch (2008) and Aleida Assmann (2011). Considering the works of Armstrong and Hogan as sites of enunciation of a type of cultural resistance that goes beyond tribal limits, I have chosen to adopt a cosmopolitan perspective such as sustained by Arnold Krupat (2002) and which leans on the postcolonial theories by Mary Louise Pratt (1999), Homi Bhabha (2013), Ella Shohat (1996), Stuart Hall (2003), Kwame Anthony Appiah (1997) and Liane Schneider (2002, 2008). Moreover, dialogues with the following authors of Native criticism were of the utmost importance: Graça Graúna (2013), Michael Dorris (1979), Craig S. Womack (1999), Louis Owens (1922), Simon Ortiz (2001), Winona Stevenson (1998), Paula Gunn Allen (1992) and Robert Warrior (2014). Thus, I have attempted to verify how the Amerindian resistance takes form in the writings of Armstrong and Hogan, who build narratives artistically complex and of an immense political relevance.

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VIEIRA, Maria Luiza de Paula Lopes Fernandes. "Escrever, resistir: ficção ameríndia na perspectiva pós -colonial." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17580.

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Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-07-29T12:56:40Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissert_MariaLuiza-BC.pdf: 938722 bytes, checksum: be7c46c2bd834496f171f32afa38dfc7 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-29T12:56:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissert_MariaLuiza-BC.pdf: 938722 bytes, checksum: be7c46c2bd834496f171f32afa38dfc7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25<br>CAPEs<br>Este trabalho consiste no estudo dos romances Slash (1985), da escritora okanagan Jeannette Armstrong, e Mean Spirit (1990), da chickasaw Linda Hogan, e busca examinar de que forma as autoras ficcionalizaram, nas suas obras, certos acontecimentos da história dos povos ameríndios no século XX, como os que envolveram a militância política que se fortaleceu a partir dos anos 60 na América do Norte e os assassinatos de membros da nação Osage na década de 1920. Para tanto, recorri ao conceito de metaficção historiográfica proposto por Linda Hutcheon (1988, 1989) e aos estudos em memória de Anh Hua (2005), Maurice Halbwachs (2006), Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2008), Marianne Hirsch (2008) e Aleida Assmann (2011). Considerando as obras de Armstrong e Hogan como espaços de enunciação de uma resistência cultural que vai além dos limites tribais, optei por adotar uma perspectiva cosmopolita tal qual sustentada por Arnold Krupat (2002), e que se apoia nas teorias póscoloniais segundo Mary Louise Pratt (1999), Homi Bhabha (2013), Ella Shohat (1996), Stuart Hall (2003), Kwame Anthony Appiah (1997) e Liane Schneider (2002, 2008). Ademais, foram de suma importância os diálogos com alguns nomes da crítica indígena como Graça Graúna (2013), Michael Dorris (1979), Craig S. Womack (1999), Louis Owens (1922), Simon Ortiz (2001), Winona Stevenson (1998), Paula Gunn Allen (1992) e Robert Warrior (2014). Intentei, assim, verificar como a resistência ameríndia toma corpo na escrita de Armstrong e Hogan, que constroem narrativas artisticamente complexas e de imensa relevância política.<br>This work consists of the study of Slash (1985), by Okanagan writer Jeannette Armstrong, and Mean Spirit (1990), by Chickasaw Linda Hogan, and it aims to examine the way in which the writers have fictionalized, in their books, certain events of the history of the American Indian peoples in the twentieth century, such as those concerning the militancy that gained strength in the 60s and the Osage murders that took place in the 20s. With that in mind, I have resorted to the concept of historiographic metafiction, proposed by Linda Hutcheon (1988, 1989) and to the memory studies by Anh Hua (2005), Maurice Halbwachs (2006), Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2008), Marianne Hirsch (2008) and Aleida Assmann (2011). Considering the works of Armstrong and Hogan as sites of enunciation of a type of cultural resistance that goes beyond tribal limits, I have chosen to adopt a cosmopolitan perspective such as sustained by Arnold Krupat (2002) and which leans on the postcolonial theories by Mary Louise Pratt (1999), Homi Bhabha (2013), Ella Shohat (1996), Stuart Hall (2003), Kwame Anthony Appiah (1997) and Liane Schneider (2002, 2008). Moreover, dialogues with the following authors of Native criticism were of the utmost importance: Graça Graúna (2013), Michael Dorris (1979), Craig S. Womack (1999), Louis Owens (1922), Simon Ortiz (2001), Winona Stevenson (1998), Paula Gunn Allen (1992) and Robert Warrior (2014). Thus, I have attempted to verify how the Amerindian resistance takes form in the writings of Armstrong and Hogan, who build narratives artistically complex and of an immense political relevance.

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Homberg-Schramm, Jessica [Verfasser], Heinz [Gutachter] Antor, and Beate [Gutachter] Neumeier. "“Colonised by Wankers”. Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction / Jessica Homberg-Schramm ; Gutachter: Heinz Antor, Beate Neumeier." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1156461650/34.

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Schultz, Andrew B. "Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu : Western rationality in the context of British colonialism and Western modernity /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2034.pdf.

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Wattenbarger, Melanie. "Reading Postcolonialism and Postmodernism in Contemporary Indian Literature." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1351102017.

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Zelenenkaya, Ekaterina. "The Projector Principle as a Means of Portraying the Cultural through the Personal in Olive Senior's Summer Lightning and Other Stories." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-102466.

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The essay represents the projector principle, on which, as the essay’s author believes, the narration of The Summer Lightning and Other Stories by Olive Senior is based. The projector principle illustrates the idea that little details and images in the text serve big purposes, for example, reflect the emotional state of the characters or how the characters construct their identity. The literary analysis of the present essay aims at exploring a complicated identity construction in the context of Jamaica with its half-lost indigenous and half-remained colonial legacies through the identity construction of adolescent Jamaican protagonists of the short stories.

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Smit, Susanna Johanna. ""Placing" the farm novel : space and place in female identity formation in Olive Schreiner's The story of an African farm and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / S.J. Smit." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/873.

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Hilborn, Ryan. "The forgotten Europe: Eastern Europe and postcolonialism." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104858.

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This study examines three novels, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Ivan Klima's Love and Garbage, and Nina FitzPatrick's The Loves of Faustyna, and their relation to the creation, and the propagation, of the discourse which surrounds Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War. In studying these texts I address the relation between postcommunist studies of Eastern Europe and the field of postcolonialism, which have traditionally overlooked one another. In doing so, I argue that the application of postcolonialism to postcommunist studies allows for a deeper understanding as to Eastern Europe's position throughout the twentieth century. The three writers I have chosen share similar themes with the postcolonial discourse and as such I have chosen to highlight these similarities in order to point to a new manner in which Eastern Europe's literary contribution to the twentieth century can be understood.<br>Cette étude examine trois romans, Dracula par Bram Stoker, Love and Garbage par Ivan Klima, et The Loves of Faustyna par Nina Fitzpatrick, et leurrelation à la création et la propagation du discours qui entoure Europe de l'Est pendant 'la guerre froide'. Dans l'étude de ces textes j'ai adressé la relation entre les études post-communiste de l'Europe de l'Est et le champ du post-colonialisme, qui ont traditionnellement négligé un l'autre. Ce faisant, je soutiens que l'application du postcolonialisme aux études post-communistepermet une meilleure compréhension de la position de l'Europe orientale tout au long du XXe siècle. Les trois auteurs que j'ai choisi soulève des thèmes similaires avec le discours postcolonial et à ce titre que j'ai choisi de mettre en preuve ces similitudes, afin de pointer vers une nouvelle façon dans laquelle la contribution littéraire de l'Europe orientale au XXe siècle peut être comprise.

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Almquist, Karin Marie. "Works of mourning : Francophone women's postcolonial fictions of trauma and loss /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3153777.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-215). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Heeren, Travis Roy. "The Past Isn't Dead: Faulkner's Postcolonialism." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/557.

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While William Faulkner preceded the formalized movement of postcolonialism, he anticipated a great many of its tenets and wrote them in into the early works of his career. As the theoretical conversation within postcolonialism has expanded in recent years to include notions of the new empire and post-hybridity, this thesis explores the ways in which Faulkner's narrative elements of encounter, fissure, and cycle may allow us to consider the postcolonial narrative more expansively, and to read William Faulkner as a postcolonial author.

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Sham, Hok-man Desmond. "Sinophone comparative literature problems, politics and possibilities /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42182530.

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Sham, Hok-man Desmond, and 岑學敏. "Sinophone comparative literature: problems, politics and possibilities." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42182530.

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Zouai, Manon M. "Entre les Murs et L'exclusion: L'echec du Systeme Educatif Francais." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/230.

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This thesis examines the issues of the modern French education system through an analysis of the film, Entre Les Murs (2008) and French education's socio-historical and political context. The study finds that the way in which France thinks about authority, language, and multiculturalism leads to the exclusion of certain students from the learning process. The aim of the study is to critically rethinks these issues in light of theories on race, identity, and postcolonialism in order to eventually propose solutions so that all students may fully flourish in modern French society.

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Romanow, Rebecca Fine. "The postcolonial body in queer space and time /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2006. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3225329.

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Acón-Chan, Lai Sai. "Nation formation and identity formulation processes in Hong Kong literary, cinematic, plastic and spatial texts amidst the uneasy confluence of history, culture, and imperialism /." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2008/l_aconchan_041408.pdf.

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Mirze, Z. Esra. "Disorientation : "home" in postcolonial literature/." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2005. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/dissertations/fullcit/3209125.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2005.<br>"August 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-239). Online version available on the World Wide Web. Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2005]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Fitzmaurice, Andrew. "Classical rhetoric and the literature of discovery 1570-1630." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307941.

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Naito, Jonathan Tadashi. "The postimperial imagination the emergence of a transnational literary space, from Samuel Beckett to Hanif Kureishi /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619104271&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Philippou, Eleni. "Speaking politically, not politics : an Adornian study of 'apolitical' twentieth-century fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fdebd470-81a8-4c1c-9ff5-e211e4bafe03.

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My thesis is concerned with Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), the Frankfurt School theorist, and the implications of his philosophy for literary studies. I show that Adorno's thought may offer a valid contribution to the analysis of literary texts, even texts with which he is not historically associated. More specifically, I link Adorno with texts that emerge out of situations of political extremity but are not necessarily understood as "political" protest literature. Drawing on a variety of Adorno's texts, I assert that key concepts within Adorno's thought - truth content, immanence, the non-identical - allow us a way of understanding literary texts that appear apolitical, but in fact are speaking to the social and material relations of their specific (political) context. Adorno's exposition on the interface between the artwork and history usefully engages authors that problematise or dismantle our traditional conception of what constitutes the "political" - overt manifest content that aligns itself with a particular ideological position. I have chosen three twentieth-century authors (J.M. Coetzee; Margarita Karapanou; Michael Ondaatje) whose literature bear the burden of political extremity (respectively, South African apartheid, the 1970s Greek military junta, and the Sri Lankan civil war), and is at loggerheads with the literature of political commitment emerging from each of those situations. Each of these authors asserts his or her aesthetic autonomy over prescriptive understandings of literature as a vehicle actively espousing a particular nationalist, political, ideological or even aesthetically formalist position. The work of these authors, I argue, embodies an alternative Adornian version of engaged literature. In short, my thesis operates as a two way conversation asking: "What can Adorno's concepts give to certain literary texts?", and reciprocally, "What can those texts give to our traditional understanding of Adorno and his applicability?" This thesis is an act of rethinking the literary in Adornian terms, and rethinking Adorno through the literary.

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Robinson, Sarah E. "The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808581.

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<p> This thesis examines Sherlock Holmes texts (1886–1927) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and their recreations in the television series <i>Sherlock </i> (2010) and <i>Elementary</i> (2012) through a postcolonial lens. Through an in-depth textual analysis of Doyle’s mysteries, my thesis will show that his stories were intended to be propaganda discouraging the British Empire from becoming tainted, ill, and dirty through immersing themselves in the “Orient” or the East. The ideal Imperial body, gender roles, and national landscape are feminized, covered in darkness, and infected when in contact for too long with the “Other” people of the East and their cultures. Sherlock Holmes cleanses society of the darkness, becoming a hero for the Empire and an example of the perfect British man created out of logic and British law. And yet, Sherlock Holmes’ very identity relies on the existence of the Other and the mystery he or she creates. The detective’s obsession with solving mysteries, drug addiction, depression, and the art of deduction demonstrate that, without the Other, Holmes has no identity. As the body politic, Holmes craves more mystery to unravel, examine, and know. Without it, he feels useless and dissatisfied with life. The satisfaction with pinpointing every detail, in order to solve a mystery continues today in all media versions. Bringing Sherlock Holmes to life for television and updating him to appeal to today's culture only make sense. Though society has the insight offered by postcolonial theory, evidence of an imperial mindset is still present in the most popular reproductions of Sherlock Holmes <i> Sherlock</i> and <i>Elementary</i>.</p><p>

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Maia, Claudio Silveira. "Pedras perdidas : o decadentismo e a visão pós-colonial de Gastão Cruls /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102361.

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Orientador: Maria Clara Bonetti Paro<br>Banca: Alda Maria Quadros do Couto<br>Banca: Márcio Roberto do Prado<br>Banca: Karin Volobuef<br>Banca: Ana Luiza Silva Camarani<br>Resumo: Esta tese, com base nos pensamentos de Franz Fanon, Homi Bhabha e Albert Memmi, faz uma leitura pós-colonial da obra do escritor brasileiro Gastão Cruls (1888-1959), examinando-a pelo viés de sua crítica à colonização e à neocolonização do Brasil e situando seu autor ao lado de Euclides da Cunha de Os sertões, como um dos mais importantes - se não o mais importante entre os de sua época - reveladores da realidade nacional, principalmente do Nordeste e do Norte do Brasil. Paralelamente, esta tese realiza uma leitura decadentista de alguns contos crulsianos e os examina em paralelo à obra de outros decadentistas, como Augusto dos Anjos, Alain Fournier e Oscar Wilde. O objetivo dessa leitura é, sobretudo, ressaltar, na obra de Gastão Cruls, sua produção decadentista de alto nível, ainda pouco estudada, como é a maioria de seus textos. Dessa forma, ao entrelaçar na análise da obra crulsiana a perspectiva pós-colonialista, para revelar o posicionamento crítico do autor em face de uma realidade histórica e de uma realidade social emergente, e a perspectiva decadentista, para explorar sua obra como uma manifestação estética singular que reage aos paradigmas da poética adotados pela sociedade burguesa, esta tese revela Gastão Cruls como um autor crítico, que nos dá uma faceta pouco explorada do período Modernista da Literatura Brasileira.<br>Abstract: Based on FF's, HB's and AM's thought, this dissertation offers a postcolonial reading of the work of the Brazilian writer Gastão Cruls (1888-1959) and examines his texts in the light of his critical stance against the colonization and neocolonization of Brazil. It also places Cruls, together with Euclides da Cunha, as one of the most important writers - and maybe the most important in his time - who revealed our national reality, especially of the north and northeast regions of the country. This dissertation also examines some of Cruls's short stories with the lenses of the Decadent movement and compares them to the work of other writers, such as Augusto dos Anjos, Alain Fournier and Oscar Wilde. It stresses the importance of Cruls's decadent texts and claims that they have not received the attention they deserve, as is also the case for most of his texts. Therefore, by intertwining a postcolonial perspective, that reveals Cruls's critical view of the historical and emerging social reality of his country, with a decadent perspective, that elicits his singular literary response to the aesthetic paradigms of the Brazilian burgeois society of his time, this dissertation presents Gastão Cruls as a critical author that represents an almost unexplored aspect of the Brazilian Modernist period.<br>Doutor

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Signell, Andreas. "An argument for a postcolonial canon of literature for upper-secondary schools in multicultural Sweden : Course book analysis and didactic questions regarding the teaching of literature in the English subject." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-22388.

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This essay investigates the possibility of a postcolonial canon of literature for upper-secondary schools in multicultural Sweden. It uses an in depth course book analysis as a basis for looking at didactic questions regarding the teaching of postcolonial literature. The main argument is that since no real guidelines exist neither in course plans or course books as to what literature to use in education at the upper-secondary level in the English subject, a postcolonial canon of literature is both an interesting and effective way of fulfilling both the English curriculum, and the overall larger goals of the Swedish schools. Teaching postcolonial literature is introduced as a method of bridging cultural gaps and promoting tolerance in a practical way in the form of multicultural education. This is of growing interest in a multicultural Sweden that faces challenges with immigration, especially since education is one of the best methods of social integration into society. Questions asked by the essay are: 1. Does a canon of literature exist in Sweden for the English subject at upper-secondary level? If not, are there general guidelines to be found on how to select literature in the curriculum? 2. To what extent do English 6 course books include/promote a canon of literature (if at all)? If postcolonial texts are featured, are they relegated to their separate area (i.e. treated as Edward Said’s “the other”) or do the course books include postcolonial novels in said canon? and 3. What arguments can be made for teaching a postcolonial canon of literature overall and in what ways does this argument fit with the GY 2011 course plan for English, and to a larger extent, some specific goals (mentioned in the introduction) of the overall upper-secondary curriculum? The essay finds that while this is certainly not an all encompassing solution to the challenges facing Sweden, the argument of including a postcolonial canon in the teaching of literature for the English subject is a small, but important, and viable way of fulfilling both the criteria of the English subject and the general criteria of the upper-secondary schools.

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Gaeta, Jill M. "In the eye of the hurricane Antillean children's literature, postcoloniality, and the uneasy reimagining of the self /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of French, Classics, and Italian, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Apr. 1, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-244). Also issued in print.

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Tillis, Antonio Dwayne. "Manuel Zapata Olivella : from regionalism to postcolonialism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9988703.

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Jönsson, Robert. "Literature for the Intercultural Classroom : Discussing Ethnocentric Issues Using The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-41525.

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Abstract This essay takes as its starting point that the Swedish classroom often is an intercultural environment and that it is therefore important to address issues connected to ethnocentrism in it. In this essay I examine how the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid can be used in schools to raise such ethnocentric issues. The novel’s didactic potential becomes clear by capturing some of the views held by the book’s protagonist as an alternative to Western ethnocentric concepts. Furthermore, the ambiguity of the novel allows for students to reflect on the identification processes that produce ethnocentrism. The power of nostalgia is also discussed in this essay, and with it nostalgia’s possibly alluring, yet counterproductive qualities. Together, these topics and themes from The Reluctant Fundamentalist combine to illuminate a use of literature within the context of intercultural education. Keywords: Intercultural education, Ethnocentrism, Calvinism, Islam, Capitalism.<br><p>Dominant cultures exist in many different guises, yet may function almost invariably in symbiosis with double standards and discrimination. However, these acts are often only recognised by those being subjected to them, not by those practising the same. Selective concern and empathy depending on who the practitioners happen to be, as well as who the recipients of said acts are, actually helps to illustrate the precise definitions of these terms.</p>

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Temiz, Ayse Deniz. "Gens inconnus political and literary habitations of postcolonial border spaces /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.

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Alrasheed, Khalid Mosleh. "The postcolonial Middle Ages a present past /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2065749111&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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