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Lente, Sandra van. "Cultural exchange in selected contemporary British novels." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17133.

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In dieser Dissertation werden die Repräsentationen von Kulturtransfer in zeitgenössischen britischen Romanen untersucht (Monica Ali: Brick Lane (2003), Nadeem Aslam: Maps For Lost Lovers (2004), Gautam Malkani: Londonstani (2007) und Maggie Gee: The White Family (2002)). Für die Analyse der Begegnungen und Kulturtransferprozesse werden narratologische Analysekategorien mit denen der Kulturtransferanalyse verknüpft. Neben den textimmanenten Aspekten werden außerdem die Produktions- und Rezeptionskontexte der Romane mitberücksichtigt. Dazu gehören u.a. auch das Buchmarketing und Buchumschlagdesi

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Fang, Chih-hui. "Lesbian identity in British and Taiwanese contemporary novels." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410809.

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Snider, Caleb. "Almost an Englishman: Black and British Identities in Three Contemporary British Novels." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28830.

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This project describes the work of three contemporary British novelists as they explore the possibility of self-identifying as black and British in contemporary Britain, despite the prevalence of racist attitudes that hold that these two identities are mutually exclusive. The three novels examined -- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, and Brick Lane by Monica Ali -- present black protagonists who self-identify as British. While other characters in the novels either conform to assimilationist or diasporic models of identity, where the subject seeks to expunge

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Majed, Hasan. "Islam and Muslim identities in four contemporary British novels." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2012. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/3739/.

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The aim of the dissertation is to explore how Islam is depicted and Muslim identities are constructed in four representative works of contemporary British fiction: Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album, Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma, and Leila Aboulela’s Minaret. Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses is also discussed in terms of its crucial role in fostering what some Muslims might consider polemical and stereotypical positions in writing about Islam. The term ‘Islamic postcolonialism’ provides the theoretical underpinning to the thesis. Islamic postcolonialism is a theoret

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Henesy, Megan Louise. "Novels of precarity : neoliberal counternarratives in contemporary British women's fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2016. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/413764/.

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This thesis argues that there isa growing canon of contemporary women’s literature that is interested in exploring and reimagingthe ‘capitalist fraying’1 of conventional good-life fantasies in contemporary Britain. By primarily using the theories of Lauren Berlant and Sara Ahmed as a framework for understanding how precarity can be considered from an affective standpoint, this thesis will study how the chosen authors present British neoliberal society as an inherently precarious environment. The thesis begins by discussing the evolution of the neologism ‘precarity’ from a term used to describ

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Petty, Sue. "Working-class women and contemporary British literature." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5441.

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This thesis involves a class-based literary criticism of working-class women s writing. I particularly focus on a selection of novels by three working-class women writers - Livi Michael, Caeia March and Joan Riley. Their work emerged in the 1980s, the era of Thatcherism, which is a definitive period in British history that spawned a renaissance of working-class literature. In my readings of the novels I look at three specific aspects of identity: gender, sexuality and race with the intersection of social class, to examine how issues of economic positioning impinge further on the experience of

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Cao, L. "Within the archive : cultural memory and historical representation in four contemporary British novels." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597278.

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This study examines two categories of contemporary British historical fiction. One category is historical fiction that aims at recuperating or revitalizing the English literary heritage through ventriloquism and pastiche. The other is the closely related category of postcolonial rewriting of the histories of the marginalized or the silenced, which poses a challenge to the canon. Four novels have been chosen as examples: A. S. Byatt’s <i>Possession</i>: <i>A Romance</i> (1990), Peter Ackroyd’s <i>Chatterton </i>(1987); Jean Rhys’s <i>Wide Sargasso Sea</i> (1966) and Marina Warner’s <i>Indigo or

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Bowen, Deborah. "Mimesis, magic, manipulation: A study of the photograph in contemporary British and Canadian novels." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6007.

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The photograph is of interest to the writer because it is uniquely a product both of the realm of objective, physical reality and of the realm of artifice. Its ambiguous status as the physical emanation of a past referent endows it with an uneasy authority. It appears to offer assurances of identity and clarity; at the same time, it undermines the attempt to control experience by demonstrating that to freeze time and space is to render them obsolete. Thus the photograph can be seen as a metaphor for the life-giving and death-dealing enterprise of writing fictions. Moreover, because the photogr

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van, Lente Sandra Verfasser], Gesa [Akademischer Betreuer] Stedman, and Jana [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gohrisch. "Cultural exchange in selected contemporary British novels / Sandra van Lente. Gutachter: Gesa Stedman ; Jana Gohrisch." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1067484868/34.

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Lente, Sandra van [Verfasser], Gesa Akademischer Betreuer] Stedman, and Jana [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gohrisch. "Cultural exchange in selected contemporary British novels / Sandra van Lente. Gutachter: Gesa Stedman ; Jana Gohrisch." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1067484868/34.

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