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Omwomo, Beatrice O. "Revisiting Frantz Fanon in the era of globalization." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1311683491.
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Cadle, Nathaniel Thrailkill Jane F. "The mediating nation American literature and globalization from Henry James to Woodrow Wilson /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1673.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.
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Harrison, Charlotte Louise Monamy. "Fictions of globalisation in the twenty-first century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46700870.
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Daigle, Amelie. "Transnational Communities and the Novel in the Age of Globalization:." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108571.
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Thesis advisor: Kalpana SeshadriThe novel is generally read through a Western lens that privileges both individual subjectivity and the nation-state. My dissertation acts as an intervention into the critical tradition that sees the novel as a genre preoccupied with the individual, the nation-state, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship through which the two relate to each other. This tradition includes seminal theorists Ian Watt, Fredric Jameson, and Benedict Anderson as well as contemporary critics such as Pascale Casanova and Joseph Slaughter. Transnational Communities challenges this accepted framework for understanding the novel genre through an examination of novels which decenter the categories of individual and nation-state and argues that in this moment of unprecedented globalization, the novel’s ability to imagine new forms of community is an increasingly relevant social function
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Reyes-Santos, Irmary. "Racial geopolitics interrogating Caribbean cultural discourse in the era pf globalization /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3274592.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 4, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-245).
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Kim, Jinah. "U.S. racial imaginaries." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3221813.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 19, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-175).
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Weiser, Sterling. "Analyzing the Globalization of Traditional Chinese Medicine through a Cultural and Institutional Lens." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396967860.
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Ingvoldstad, Bjorn Paul. "Post-socialism, globalization, and popular culture 21st century Lithuanian media and media audiences /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3219906.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2006.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 1962. Adviser: Barbara Klinger. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 21, 2007)."
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Sugden, Edward. "American literature and global time, 1812-59." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0c1a68fe-2e17-48bd-851b-00133ca256f0.
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American Literature and Global Time, 1812-59 explores the effects of the early stages of globalization on time consciousness in antebellum American literature and non-fiction. It argues that oceanic trade, extracontinental imperialism, immigration, and Pacific exploration all affected how antebellum Americans configured their national pasts, presents, and futures. The ensuing pluralisation of time that followed disallowed cogent conceptions of national identity. It analyses transnational geographies to examine how they transmit heterogeneous times. The project’s interest is in U.S. national sites that counterintuitively acted as fulcrums for the importations of foreign times and non-U.S. sites that interacted with and modified the homogenous progressive time of nationalism. As such, my project seeks to combine the transnational and temporal turns. It argues that the ethnic, racial, and geographic contestation emphasized by transnational critics found parallels in how antebellum Americans conceived of time. Conversely, it suggests that there were profound links between globalization and the sorts of instabilities in time identified by the critics of the temporal turn. Over its course my project identifies a series of “global times” that came into being in the years between the War of 1812 and the discovery of petroleum in 1859. These fall under three broad headings. First, what I term, entangled times that came about as a result of the movement of ships across borders and different social contexts; secondly, foreign local times that re-set the clock of imperialism and national progress; and, thirdly, a huge mass of reconfigurations in the origins and futures of the still-young United States.
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Nandi, Swaralipi. "Narrating The New India: Globalization And Marginality In Post-Millennium Indian Anglophone Novels." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1342390183.
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Roberts, Amanda. "“Shifting Boundaries and Unfixing Fixities”: Boundary Crossing in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of English, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8677.
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A central theme in Pauline Melville’s novel, The Ventriloquist’s Tale, is the question of endogamy and exogamy, with the opposing alternatives embodied in Melville’s characters. This theme has received much attention in the critical commentaries generated by the novel, with a prevailing number of critics claiming that Melville proposes endogamy as the only option for indigenous communities to remain intact. However, such an argument overlooks the significant fact that Melville’s characters are always already the offspring of exogamous encounters, through which a multiplicity of boundaries have been permeated. Furthermore, the spatial motifs developed in the novel can be seen to undermine commonly accepted delimitations of supposedly homogenous groups, the nation-state constituting the prime example, and this in turn profoundly alters the notion of mixing. Consequently, contending that Melville even enters a debate on endogamy and exogamy stems from a predisposition to see the world in other terms than those Melville sets out in her novel. The nature of boundaries and borders in Melville’s fictitious world are therefore explored using Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities as a framework. This examination shows that the novel undermines the notion of the nation-state as a homogenous entity and reveals a global structure that dictates and drives interaction on a global scale. Consequently, instead of a debate on exogamy, we see in the novel an exploration and dismantling of notions of borders, boundaries and barriers between individuals and groups of people.
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Gard, Ron. "Bodies of Capital: Spatial Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195847.
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Positing subjectivity as a structural formation arising dialectically at the cultural intersection of physical bodies and material conditions, Bodies of Capital: Spatial Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction identifies textual dynamics as revelatory of the intrinsic relationship between subjective experience and spatial practice. To advance this formulation, Bodies of Capital critically examines a series of U.S. fictional narrative texts from the late nineteenth-century to the present by placing them in dialogue with comparative articulations of U.S. ‘regimes of accumulation’ (spatial formations enacting particular capital organization and conditions) as they developed during this same historical period. Such an approach allows critical analysis to be devoted to material and empirical developments, such as geographical (e.g., urban and suburban growth), institutional (e.g., corporations and markets), and societal (e.g., types of labor) formations, but at all times places primary focus, through its recognition of subjectivity as a spatial and ideological formation, on the practices and dynamics of signification to which these developments critically contribute. Bodies of Capital’s spatio-textual formulation thereby advances the critical enterprise by illuminating the ways in which fictional narrative texts inherently both speak and are spoken by cultural ideologies spatially active at a given time and place. Bodies of Capital allows one, as well, to draw connections otherwise by-andlarge occluded between fictional works appearing at distinctly different times and places across a broad historical expanse, an expanse reflected in the selection of works the dissertation comparatively examines, including William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, Jack London’s Martin Eden, Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Sam Mendes’s American Beauty, Don DeLillo’s White Noise, and Richard Powers’s Gain.
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Redmond, Dennis Robert. "Global storm : Theodor Adorno's Negative dialectics /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978596.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 377-380). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Zeino, Arwa, and Aiat Tabiei. "The benefits of using world literature for globalizing English in the ESL classroom." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-39591.
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Although the focus on English as a global language is apparent in the Swedish curriculum today, many educators do not take advantage of world literature and non-native English authors in their ESL classrooms. With the help of empirical research, we investigate the benefits of using such literature for gaining global awareness. Furthermore, we analyze the activities and teaching approaches used in the empirical studies. Through this essay, we summarize the empirical research used for this essay and synthesize the results to find out what implications were found. It shows that using non-native fiction helps students to learn and explore different cultures, which also expands their global view. Apart from this, teaching methods such as discussions, literature circles, presentations, blogging and collaborative learning deepened students' global view and cultural awareness. The teaching methods that were used while working with world literature showed that students were conscious of their own learning and developed this ability by working in a social environment. This paper concludes with describing the limitations of writing the study, and presents a future research project that involves the field of world literature.
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Mateu, D. M. "An investigation into the impact of globalization on the intergenerational transmission of oral literature in Namibia: a community based education perspective." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4279.
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Magister Educationis - MEdThis study endeavoured to gauge the impact of globalization on the intergenerational diffusion of oral literature and its pedagogic role in Namibia. The study also sought to highlight the contribution of oral literature and its pedagogic value in addressing the aims and objectives of the Namibian education system in regard to the training of learners to acquire the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values needed for them to become effective and valuable members of society. The theoretical framework that underpins the study, the functionalist approach, foregrounds the functional values of social systems and structures. Oral heritage is seen as having various societal functions, pre-eminently that of moulding, educating and shaping young people to be functional members of the society (Finnegan, 1970). The aims of this study were pursued through a case study of two educational contexts in the Zambezi (formerly Caprivi) region of north-east Namibia. The inquiry in the formal educational setting was done in four schools, while that into the non-formal educational setting took place in four rural villages. The latter were crucial in the study in that they were home to research subjects who possessed valuable insights into the pedagogic role of oral literature as a form of community based education. The four schools were purposefully selected for offering Silozi, a lingua franca in Zambezi region, as a first language subject
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Lemos, Alessandra Maia de. "Guillermo Arriaga, um autor midiático: as fronteiras entre cinema e literatura na pós-modernidade." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3166.
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A pós-modernidade é marcada pela dissolução de fronteiras, sejam elas espaciais, culturais, sociais ou artísticas. No campo da arte, percebe-se uma significativa influência mútua entre cinema e literatura, na medida em que as estéticas, os estilos e os recursos são transitáveis entre essas duas artes, a ponto de alguns romances possuírem características da linguagem cinematográfica e de o cinema possuir uma narrativa bem próxima à literária. Por outro lado, a pós-modernidade também é marcada por um grande crescimento das produções fílmicas e literárias para a massa, para um público cujo interesse é o entretenimento, e não a discussão, a crítica ou a reflexão. Nesse sentido, surgem vários autores que se preocuparão em produzir sua arte de forma que atinja o maior número de pessoas, de público, o que inevitavelmente aproxima suas obras das de mercado - ou as converte em obra de mercado. O presente trabalho, portanto, visa fazer uma análise de algumas das produções artísticas do romancista, diretor e roteirista Guillermo Arriaga, cuja obra transita pelo cinema e pela literatura, porém unindo-os a partir de uma estética realista contemporânea, que produz suas obras para o público de massa, caracterizando-se, segundo a definição da prof. Vera de Figueiredo (2010) como um autor midiáticoPostmodernity is characterized by the dissolution of boundaries, whether spatial, cultural, social or artistic. In artistic field, it is perceived a significant mutual influence between cinema and literature, to the extent that the aesthetics, styles and resources are passable between these two arts, to the point of some novels have film language characteristics and cinema has a narrative very close to the literary. On the other hand, postmodernity is also characterized by a large growth of filmic and literary productions to the masse, for an audience whose interest is entertainment, not discussion, criticism or reflection. In this sense, there are several authors who will concentrate themselves on producing their art in a way that reaches a bigger amount of people and public, which inevitably brings their works closer to the market ones or converts them into a work of market. Therefore, the present study aims at analyzing some of the artistic productions of the novelist, cinema director and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, whose work goes through cinema and literature, but joining them from a contemporary realistic aesthetics, which makes his works for the masse public, being characterized, as defined by Professor Vera de Figueiredo (2010), as a mediatic author
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Piper, Eleanor. "A Transnational Reading of My Heart Will Cross this Ocean, The Dark Child, and Ambiguous Adventure." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1367415367.
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MacPherson, Sandra. "From Spectator to Citizen: Urban Walking in Canadian Literature, Performance Art and Culture." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37321.
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This dissertation examines urban walking in Canada as it deviates from a largely male peripatetic tradition associated with the flâneur. This new incarnation of the walker—differentiated by gender, race, class, and/or sexual orientation—reshapes the urban imaginary and shifts the act of walking from what is generally theorized as an individualistic or simply transgressive act to a relational and transformative practice. While the walkers in this study are diverse, the majority of them are women: writers Dionne Brand, Daphne Marlatt, Régine Robin, Gail Scott, and Lisa Robertson and performance artists Kinga Araya, Stephanie Marshall, and Camille Turner all challenge the dualism inscribed by the dominant (masculine) gaze under the project of modernity that abstracts and objectifies the other. Yet, although sexual difference is often the first step toward rethinking identities and relationships to others and the city, it is not the last. I argue that poet Bud Osborn, the play The Postman, the projects Ogimaa Mikana, [murmur] and Walking With Our Sisters, and community initiatives such as Jane’s Walk, also invite all readers and pedestrians to question the equality, official history and inhabitability of Canadian cities. As these peripatetic works emphasize, how, where and why we choose to walk is a significant commentary on the nature of public space and democracy in contemporary urban Canada. This interdisciplinary study focuses on Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, cities where there has been not only some of the greatest social and economic change in Canada under neoliberalism but also the greatest concentration of affective, peripatetic practices that react to these changes. The nineteenth-century flâneur’s pursuit of knowledge is no longer adequate to approach the everyday reality of the local and contingent effects of global capitalism. As these walkers reject an oversimplified and romanticized notion of belonging to a city or nation based on normative identity categories, they recognize the vulnerability of others and demand that cities be more than locations of precarity and economic growth. This dissertation critically engages diverse Canadian peripatetic perspectives notably absent in theories of urban walking and extends them in new directions. Although the topic of walking suggests an anthropocentrism that contradicts the turn to posthumanism in literary and cultural studies, the walkers in this study open the peripatetic up to non-anthropocentric notions as the autonomous subject of liberal individualism often associated with the male urban walking tradition is displaced by a new focus on the interdependent, affective relation of self and city and on attending to others, to the care of and responsibility for others and the city.
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Awele, Emmanuel Chukwudi. "Globalization and slow violence : slow genocide at the periphery in Jeannette Armstrong’s Whispering in shadows and Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6850.
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Abstract : The work that follows analyses the environmental, cultural, economic and rhetorical methods of conceptualizing violence affecting traditional Niger-Deltan and pan-Indigenous peoples. Whispering in Shadows by Jeanette Armstrong and Yellow-Yellow by Kaine Agary represent how Okanagan and other pan-Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Niger Deltans experience contemporary forms of slow genocide as a result of environmental pollution and various forms of displacement from ancestral spaces. This analysis of both texts brings to the fore the Indigenous sense of life, well-being, and progress that is grounded in a holistic view of communal life on traditional lands, and places it in contrast with the non-traditional use of traditional lands, as well as the exploitation of Okanagan and Nigerian Indigenous peoples produced by the dominant socio-economic realities controlled by the forces of globalization.
Indigenous environmentalism reflected by Armstrong’s and Agary’s novels views human relationships with the land in terms of an interconnected familial dependence, and not within extreme notions of romanticized abstinence from dependence on land or of capitalist exploitative use of land. In the light of the environmental criticism of Yellow-Yellow and Whispering in Shadows, I propose that both texts may be read as eco-literature. However the ecocritical work of both novels is based, not on Western-identified notions of ecocriticism that often prioritize the non-human through what Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin describe as “anti-human” environmentalism. Rather, the novels adopt an Indigenous view of humans and non-humans not as competing subjects, but as interdependent and interrelated parts of one entity: the land. Agary’s and Armstrong’s renderings of displacement disrupt dominant utilitarian perceptions of the land by showing that it carries meaning and identity that encompasses culture, social, personal and communal existence. I suggest that a reaffirmation of culturally-grounded relations with the land, a reconnection to land and rebuilding of localized networks between Individuals in eco-devastated communities and between such communities in a form of globalization-from-below provides a strong base for healing, for cultural preservation, and for creative collaborative responses and solutions to globalization. Global minority collaboration and cultural affirmation ultimately has potentials of destabilizing and resisting globalization in sustainable ways. They insulate communities from the hegemony of the dominant Western socio-cultural models.
The close familial ties between Indigenous peoples and the land, coupled with historic, cultural and economic meaning of land to such communities suggest that the loss of traditional land under systems of globalization is a traumatizing and devastating experience for traditional peoples. I argue that such cultural and physical dislocation normalizes a trend of infighting and social instability, which becomes a self-reproducing violence that exacerbates the process of slow genocide: “the emotional and physical harm done to survivors of violence over time that leads to extreme hardship and premature death for many” (Cottam, Huseby, and Lutze 2).
At the heart of Armstrong’s and Agary’s texts are critiques of both environmental and social injustices that emanate from industrial activities on Indigenous traditional lands. The environmental representations of Armstrong and Agary portray Indigenous perspectives that link environmentalism to the cultural, economic and social facets of sustainability. The pan-Indigenous and African environmentalisms represented in Whispering in Shadows and in Yellow-Yellow respectively do not define “environmental concerns” and issues of justice in terms of separate issues that need linking. Rather, they represent the issues of equity, justice, and environmental, spiritual and cultural stability as a one and the same interrelated issue of sustainability.Résumé : Ce qui suit analyse des dispositifs environnementaux, culturels, économiques et rhétoriques qui engendrent le déplacement chez les peuples traditionnels autochtones et du Delta de Niger. Whispering in Shadows de Jeannette Armstrong et Yellow-Yellow de Kaine Agary représentent, de manière similaire, la façon dont les peuples traditionnels autochtones et ceux du Delta de Niger expérimentent les formes contemporaines du génocide lent sous forme de pollution environnementale, ainsi que des déplacements spatiaux. Cette analyse porte un regard particulier sur le sens de la vie, du bien-être et du progrès selon les cultures traditionnelles autochtones qui se basent sur une vision globale de la vie commune sur la Terre ancestrale. Cette cosmologie est mise en contraste avec la culture mondialisée qui encourage notamment l’utilisation non-traditionnelle des terrains et l'exploitation des peuples traditionnels autochtones. L'environnementalisme autochtone reflété dans les romans d'Armstrong et d’Agary considère les relations des humains avec la Terre comme étant une dépendance familiale interconnectée. Cette relation ne se définit pas sur base des notions extrêmes d'abstinence romancée ou de non-dépendance sur la Terre. Elle n’est pas définie non plus par des notions de l'exploitation écocidaire capitaliste de la Terre. À la lumière de la critique environnementale de Whispering in Shadows et de Yellow-Yellow, je propose que les deux textes soient lus comme des éco-littératures. Cependant, le travail des deux romans écocritiques est fondé non sur les notions occidentales de l’écocritique qui privilégient souvent les non-humains dans un environnementalisme que Graham Huggan et Helen Tiffin (2010) décrivent comme étant « antihumain », mais plutôt sur celles qui considèrent les humains et les non-humains non pas comme des sujets en concurrence, mais comme les parties interdépendantes et intimement liées au sein d’une seule entité: la Terre. La conception de la question du déplacement selon Agary et Armstrong déstabilise la perception dominante matérialiste de la Terre en montrant que la Terre est porteuse d’un sens et d'une identité qui peuvent sembler arbitraires, mais qui englobent au fait la culture, la vie sociale, personnelle et communautaire. Je propose qu’une base solide pour gagner la guérison spirituelle, la préservation des cultures marginalisées et la lutte contre la mondialisation se trouve dans la réaffirmation des relations culturellement fondées avec la terre, la reconnexion à la terre et la construction de réseaux localisées entre les individus dans les communautés éco-dévasté, ainsi qu’entre ces communautés, dans une forme de « mondialisation d’en bas. » La collaboration entre les minorités et l'affirmation culturelle ont de la potentielle à déstabiliser et résister la mondialisation de manière durable. Cette globalisation d’en bas isole aussi les communautés de l'hégémonie des modèles socio-culturels dominants venant souvent de l’occident. Les liens familiaux étroits que partagent les peuples autochtones et leur Terre, ainsi que les significations historiques, culturels et économiques de la Terre pour ces communautés autochtones, suggèrent que la perte des espaces terrestres traditionnelles sous les systèmes de la mondialisation est vécue comme une véritable expérience traumatisante et dévastatrice. Cette injustice normalise par la suite une tendance de la violence latérale et de l'instabilité sociale qui devient une violence autoreproductrice et qui maintient le processus historique du génocide lent: «le préjudice émotionnel et physique subi par les victimes de la violence au fil du temps qui mène à la pauvreté extrême et à la mort prématurée pour beaucoup» (ma traduction : Cottam, Huseby, et Lutze 2). Au cœur des textes d'Armstrong et d’Agary se trouvent des critiques contre les injustices sociales et environnementales émanant des activités industrielles dans les espaces traditionnelles autochtones. L’environnementalisme d'Armstrong et d’Agary décrit des cosmologies autochtones qui interagissent entre l'écologie et les aspects culturelles, économiques et sociaux du développement durable. L’environnementalisme autochtone d’Armstrong et l’environnementalisme africain d’Agary, en fonction de leurs cosmologies traditionnelles respectives, ne conceptualisent pas des «préoccupations environnementales» et les questions de justice dans le contexte des questions distinctes qui devraient être liées comme la culture dominante occidentale les conçoivent. Pour eux, les questions de l'équité, de la justice, de la stabilité environnementale, spirituelle et culturelle ne sont qu’une et la même question du développement durable.
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Nusky, Carmela Esther. "Language Defense, the French Response to Globalization: A Critical Analysis." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1248209088.
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Stengel, Julia. "Die ,globale Provinz' ? Der Globalisierungsdiskurs am Beispiel von Arnold Stadlers Roman Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler (1999) und Andreas Maiers Roman Klausen (2002)." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2815.
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This thesis demonstrates how two literary works ? Arnold Stadler's Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler (1999) and Andreas Maier's Klausen (2002) ? can be read as part of the globalization discourse. As a theoretical basis for the textual analysis the thesis first develops an understanding of the concept of globalization which forms a background against which the two literary works can be read. By embedding literature into the sociological theories of globalization it is possible to examine to what extent the two novels reflect and/or generate particular aspects of globalization. Both texts are set largely in provincial towns, and the regions themselves play commanding roles in the stories being told. This focus on the provincial takes on an ironic appearance in the era of globalization where one would assume that localities have lost meaning. It is therefore useful to look at theories that broach the issue of the tense relation between globality and locality. Since no universally accepted definition of globalization exists, it is necessary to establish the crucial aspects of the phenomenon to be applied in the analysis of the novels by examining the work of various theorists on the topic.
The prominent model of 'glocalization,' originated by the sociologist Roland Robertson to refer to 'global localization,' offers useful categories for the analysis of the provincial in the era of globalization. In this model the simultaneity of global and local processes is assumed and with it the alleged antagonism of the 'global' and the 'local' is overcome. Claiming those dynamics Robertson's model can serve as a confirmation of the arguments put forward in this thesis which looks at literature about the 'local' through the prism of globalization. Other theories relating to explicit local dynamics are presented to round out the model of 'glocalization. ' In addition, the thesis takes into account normative ideas regarding the province in the global era.
The textual analysis that follows the delineation of the model of 'glocalization' demonstrates how the novels illustrate the global and local processes postulated by the model. The investigation also explains how the literary texts themselves evaluate the provinces portrayed. The results of the examination show that selected aspects of the globalization discourse have found their way into two contemporary German-language novels and therefore into German literary discourse. Even though the two novels deal with different ideas from the discourse, and even reject to a certain extent some of these concepts, they each reveal a particular literary manner of echoing the processes of globalization. Finally, the thesis demonstrates that the globalization discourse is of use for the interpretation of literary texts.
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Stengel, Julia. "Die ,globale Provinz' ? Der Globalisierungsdiskurs am Beispiel von Arnold Stadlers Roman Ein hinreissender Schrotth??ndler (1999) und Andreas Maiers Roman Klausen (2002)." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2815.
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This thesis demonstrates how two literary works ? Arnold Stadler's Ein hinreissender Schrotth??ndler (1999) and Andreas Maier's Klausen (2002) ? can be read as part of the globalization discourse. As a theoretical basis for the textual analysis the thesis first develops an understanding of the concept of globalization which forms a background against which the two literary works can be read. By embedding literature into the sociological theories of globalization it is possible to examine to what extent the two novels reflect and/or generate particular aspects of globalization. Both texts are set largely in provincial towns, and the regions themselves play commanding roles in the stories being told. This focus on the provincial takes on an ironic appearance in the era of globalization where one would assume that localities have lost meaning. It is therefore useful to look at theories that broach the issue of the tense relation between globality and locality. Since no universally accepted definition of globalization exists, it is necessary to establish the crucial aspects of the phenomenon to be applied in the analysis of the novels by examining the work of various theorists on the topic.
The prominent model of 'glocalization,' originated by the sociologist Roland Robertson to refer to 'global localization,' offers useful categories for the analysis of the provincial in the era of globalization. In this model the simultaneity of global and local processes is assumed and with it the alleged antagonism of the 'global' and the 'local' is overcome. Claiming those dynamics Robertson's model can serve as a confirmation of the arguments put forward in this thesis which looks at literature about the 'local' through the prism of globalization. Other theories relating to explicit local dynamics are presented to round out the model of 'glocalization. ' In addition, the thesis takes into account normative ideas regarding the province in the global era.
The textual analysis that follows the delineation of the model of 'glocalization' demonstrates how the novels illustrate the global and local processes postulated by the model. The investigation also explains how the literary texts themselves evaluate the provinces portrayed. The results of the examination show that selected aspects of the globalization discourse have found their way into two contemporary German-language novels and therefore into German literary discourse. Even though the two novels deal with different ideas from the discourse, and even reject to a certain extent some of these concepts, they each reveal a particular literary manner of echoing the processes of globalization. Finally, the thesis demonstrates that the globalization discourse is of use for the interpretation of literary texts.
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Franco, Adenize Aparecida. "Labirintos perdidos: ficção contemporânea em trânsito nos romances de Bernardo Carvalho e Francisco José Viegas (2000-2010)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-27012014-104758/.
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Esta tese investiga de que forma a ficção contemporânea de língua portuguesa encontra possibilidades de resistência à crise do romance que tem se estabelecido na contemporaneidade. As obras dos autores Bernardo Carvalho e Francisco José Viegas, inscritos no início do século XXI, permitem verificar como a ficção da era atual suplanta a crise da narrativa e inscreve-se como elemento de resistência. Com base nas teorias de Walter Benjamim, Theodor Adorno, Zygmunt Bauman e Andreas Huyssen - acerca do declínio da narrativa e do romance aliadas a questões de deslocamento, memória e identidade procuramos demonstrar que essa ficção responde a um momento de crise e de transição. Assim, a ficção dos autores investigados representa não a crise do romance, antes configurase como romance da crise, justamente por encontrar nas questões conflitantes (transgressão narrativa, deslocamento espacial, diluição da memória e identidades fluídas) os muros para a construção de seu labirinto ficcional.This thesis investigates how the contemporary fiction of Portuguese language meets possibilities of resistance to the crisis of the romance that has established in the contemporaneity. The titles of the authors Bernardo Carvalho and Francisco José Viegas, registered in the beginning of the 21st century, allow examining how the fiction from the current era supplants the narrative crisis and inscribes itself as a resistance element. Based in the theories of Walter Benjamim, Theodor Adorno, Zygmunt Bauman and Andreas Huyssen about the decline of the narrative and the romance allied to questions of displacement, memory and identity we try to demonstrate that this fiction responds to a moment of crisis and transition. Thus, the fiction of the authors investigated represents not the crisis of the romance, before, it configures itself as romance of the crisis, justly for meeting in the conflicting questions (narrative transgression, spatial displacement, dilution of the memory and fluid identities) the walls for the construction of its fictional labyrinth.
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Ahyicodae. "The programmer : a saint run mad." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1390648.
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This trio of stories explores the cost of our increasingly commercialized, globalized society in a fictional future setting. They contain some dystopian science fiction elements in the tradition of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. The antagonist and central focus of all three stories is Hobbes Sylvan, an entitled white southerner whose gradual transformation into activist, criminal, and finally cyberterrorist is chronicled through the successive stories. The titular "Programmer," Hobbes Sylvan is both manipulator and product of the fictional future world she inhabits. Through the ethical dilemmas she faces the reader is asked to examine questions of morality in our own society. The stories are self-contained but connected, with different protagonists and conflicts but similar thematic material. They are told in first person, in epistolary (email) format, and in third person respectively, and set in chronological order.Revisiting ADP -- A crime of passion -- A power like God.
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Cesare, Nicole L. "Intricate Fictions: Cartography and the Contemporary African Novel." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/255972.
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Intricate Fictions: Cartography and the Contemporary African Novel examines the relationship between narrative and mapping practices in recent African novels. Considering the continent's well-documented history as a site of cartographical projection, I ask how its literary output remaps this space in the years following colonial rule. This project responds to calls for increased attentiveness to space in African literature, employing an interdisciplinary methodology that puts critical cartography into conversation with African literary criticism and globalization studies. I trace a trajectory from post-independence novels writing against colonial depictions of the continent to contemporary novels interested in engaging the instability concomitant with globalization and its attendant diasporas, migrations, and challenges to epistemological categories such as the nation. These novels develop what I term dynamic cartography, a mode of space-writing characterized by fluidity, disjunction, and mobility. This study brings to the fore a corpus of works that embody the spatial tensions of the contemporary era, raising provocative questions about our metageographical and cartographical tendencies. As absolute frameworks of time and space give way, new modes of space-writing continue to blur the boundaries between the map and the novel, offering further avenues of analysis. Ultimately, I pursue these avenues in order to contend that as global space becomes increasingly dynamic, so too do the genres that represent that global space. Contemporary African novels, composed with a profound awareness of geographical transformation, are thus also positioned at the forefront of generic transformation.
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Elmersson, Filip. "Som en brygga över kulturer helt enkelt : Lärares förhållningssätt till icke västerländsk litteratur i gymnasieskolans svenskundervisning." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-61607.
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The aim of this study is to examine how four different upper secondary school teachers of Swedish relate to the global perspective and today’s multiculturalism when they do their teaching, and to examine how teachers reason and reflect concerning the use in Swedish teaching of literature written from a non-western perspective. To achieve the aim I have used a qualitative method, interviewing four Swedish teachers from two upper secondary schools. The study shows that the teachers have different attitudes to the global perspective and different perceptions of the use of non-western literature in school. They can see the value of including non-western literature in their teaching, but they rarely do so, due to factors such as lack of time, lack of knowledge, the design of the textbooks, or the use of a school canon.
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Azevedo, Felipe Vigneron. "A resistência na literatura em tempos de globalização." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8684.
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Este trabalho pretende investigar as relações existentes entre o mercado, a globalização, a chamada pós-modernidade e a literatura. Para tanto, inicialmente delineia-se um breve panorama da literatura brasileira contemporânea, com a finalidade de expor uma parte do que ora se produz em termos de crítica e de ficção. Em seguida, trata-se do controverso conceito de pós-modernidade, com atenção especial às divergências terminológicas que vem suscitando, principal tópico objeto das considerações finais. Analisa-se depois o fenômeno da globalização, particularmente no que afeta a formação de novas subjetividades, ponderando-se também seu impacto na conceituação dos valores em geral e dos valores estéticos em particular. Por fim, passa-se ao conceito de resistência, com base em elementos teóricos extraídos de Schiller (o papel do artista), Agambem (a questão do contemporâneo) e Alfredo Bosi (relações entre narrativa e resistência), fechando-se o foco na produção literária, mediante análise sucinta da narrativa Eles eram muitos cavalos, de Luiz RuffatoThis dissertation aims at investigating the relationship between the market, the globalization, the so-called Postmodernity and literature. First, for this purpose, a brief view of contemporary Brazilian literature is outlined, in order to present part of what is currently produced in terms of criticism and fiction. Then, the controverted concept of Postmodernity is analysed, focusing specially on the terminological differences that have been raised, which is the main object of the final considerations. So, the phenomenon of globalization is analyzed, especially in what it concerns the constitution of new subjectivities, as well as in its impact on the conception of values in general and aesthetic values in particular. This work also deals with the concept of resistance, based on theoretical elements drawn from Schiller (the role of the artist), Agambem (the issue of contemporary) and Alfredo Bosi (relationship between narrative and resistance), focusing on the literary production, by means of a brief analysis of Luiz Ruffatos narrative There were many horses
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Thompson, Jay. "Sex and power in Australian writing during the Culture Wars, 1993-1997 /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6714.
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I address a selection of texts published in Australia between 1993 and 1997 which engage with feminist debates about sex and power. These texts are important, I argue, because they signpost the historical moment in which the culture wars and globalisation gained force in Australia. A key word in this thesis is ‘framing’. The debates which my texts engage with have (much like the culture wars in general) commonly been framed as conflicts between polarised political factions. These political factions have, in turn, been framed in terms of generations; that is, an ‘older’ feminism is pitted against a ‘newer’ feminism. Each generation of feminists supposedly holds quite different views about sex. I argue that my texts actually provide an insight into how various feminist perspectives on sex diverge and intersect with each other, as well as with certain New Right discourses about sex. My selected texts also suggest how the printed text has helped transport feminism within and outside AustraliaMy texts fit into two broad genres, fiction and scholarly non-fiction. The texts are: Helen Garner’s The First Stone (1995), Sheila Jeffreys’ The Lesbian Heresy (1993), Catharine Lumby’s Bad Girls (1997), Linda Jaivin’s Eat Me (1995) and Justine Ettler’s The River Ophelia (1995). I engage with various critical responses to these texts, including reviews, essays and interviews with the authors. I draw also from a range of theoretical sources. These include analyses of the culture wars by the American theorist Lillian S. Robinson and the Australian scholars McKenzie Wark, David McKnight and Mark Davis. Davis has provided a useful overview of how the metaphor of ‘generational conflict’ circulated in Australian culture during the 1990s. I draw on Arjun Appadurai’s model of “global cultural flows” and Ann Curthoys’ history of feminism in Australia. I engage with research into the increasingly ‘globalised’ nature of Australian writing, as well as a number of feminist works on the relationship between sex and power
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Kulbaga, Theresa A. "Trans/national subjects genre, gender, and geopolitics in contemporary American autobiography /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1150386546.
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Hoddinott, Merrill R. "Globalization, utilitarianism, and implications for the study of literature : a critical analysis of the eclectic nature of the senior high English language arts curriculum of the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0032/MQ47457.pdf.
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Govender, Shanali Candice. "On the fringes of a diaspora : an appraisal of the literature on language diaspora and globalization in relation to a family of Tamil-speaking, Sri Lankan migrants to South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3609.
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While the language attitudes and reported behaviours of migrants have long been of interest to linguists, educationalists and sociologists, increased levels of global mobility and technological activity are changing the nature of migration. This mini-thesis considers competing paradigms of mobility including diaspora, transnationalism and super-diversity and emerges at the recognition that the shape of migration has changed considerably over the last 20 years, especially in the South African context. This new migration, characterised in this paper as a shift from diaspora to transnationalism, might have significant consequences for the way migrants conceptualise host countries and countries of origin. This study sought to investigate the language attitudes and behaviours of a family of recent Sri Lankan migrants to South Africa. The aim of the study was to describe their attitudes and reported language behaviours, and having done so, to consider whether, in theory, any of these language attitudes or behaviours might be related to longer-term language attitudes and behaviours such shift, maintenance or loss.
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Geary, James P. "Social Realism in Central America: the Modern Short Story Translated." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1215444512.
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Lin, Yu-Fang. "The Cultural Construction of Taiwan in the Literatures of Taiwan, China, and the United States." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent149178259135258.
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Kuo, Chien-hua. "A post-colonial critique of the representation of Taiwanese culture in children's picturebooks." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1124153596.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xvi, 312 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Hildebrand, Laura A. ""Speculated Communities": The Contemporary Canadian Speculative Fictions of Margaret Atwood, Nalo Hopkinson, and Larissa Lai." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20503.
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Speculative fiction is a genre that is gaining urgency in the contemporary Canadian literary scene as authors and readers become increasingly concerned with what it means to live in a nation implicated in globalization. This genre is useful because with it, authors can extrapolate from the present to explore what some of the long-term effects of globalization might be. This thesis specifically considers the long-term effects of globalization on communities, a theme that speculative fictions return to frequently. The selected speculative fictions engage with current theory on globalization and community in their explorations of how globalization might affect the types of communities that can be enacted. This thesis argues that these texts demonstrate how Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s notion of “cooperative autonomy” can be uniquely cultivated in the conditions of globalization – despite the fact that those conditions are characterized by the fragmentation of traditional forms of community (Empire 392).
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Thierry, Raphaël. "Le marché du livre africain et ses dynamiques littéraires : le cas du Cameroun." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LORR0302/document.
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À partir des années quatre-vingt, des groupes industriels internationaux entrent dans le capital de maisons d'édition du Nord. C'est le début de ce que l'on appellera la globalisation du livre. Face à la crainte de l'uniformisation des productions éditoriales, on observe l'émergence de réflexions et de projets autour de la bibliodiversité. C'est notamment dans cette dynamique que le marché du livre africain se structure en réseaux pour favoriser la diffusion, la distribution et la coédition de ses productions. Dès la fin des années quatre-vingt-dix, la recherche universitaire s'intéresse de plus en plus à l'arrière-plan des oeuvres littéraires africaines. Derrière chaque ouvrage se situent des institutions, des économies, des stratégies d'auteurs, etc., qu'il est important de prendre en considération. Ce travail s'intéresse d'abord à la relation de la production littéraire africaine avec le marché global du livre. Dans un second-temps, notre recherche étudie le cas du marché du livre camerounais et sa cohérence en tant que système éditorial participant à l'économie littéraire nationale, sous-régionale et internationaleSince the eighties, international industrial firms enter North publishing houses' capital. This was the beginning of what is called book globalization. That process raises a standardization fear of published material; it also involves the emergence of thoughts and projects concerning bibliodiversity. In that context, African book's market has been structured in different kind of networks with the goal of sustaining its diffusion/distribution. On the end of the nineties, scholar researches increase their interest for African literature production's background. Behind each book, we find institutions, economies, authors' strategies, which are important to take in account. In this present work, we will consider the relations between African literary productions and Global book's market. Secondly, our work will focus on Cameroonian book's market as an editorial system, and will question its participation to the economy of literature at national, regional and international scales
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Lee, Michael Ethan. "La Influencia de Jugadores de América Latina y España en El NBA de Una Perspectiva Mercadeo y de Negocios." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/391.
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La influencia española y latinoamericana es muy evidente en el NBA. Hay muchos jugadores de América Latina y España que cambiaron la liga. El éxito de jugadores de América Latina y España ha aumentado el número de aficionados latinos y españoles en todo el mundo, y por eso el NBA está cambiando de una perspectiva de mercadeo y de negocios para globalizar la liga.
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Orfall, Blair. "Bollywood retakes : literary adaptation and appropriation in contemporary Hindi cinema /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1883677651&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Ngadi, Maissa Laude. "La littérature française contemporaine au prisme de la littérature-monde : à propos des « Étonnants voyageurs » et de l’œuvre d’Olivier Rolin." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0267.
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Cette thèse confronte les manifestes du mouvement Étonnants Voyageurs et l’œuvre d’Olivier Rolin. D’emblée située dans l’histoire contemporaine de la France, elle met en lumière les mécanismes de la mondialisation littéraire entendue comme phénomène planétaire. La dimension mondiale de la littérature française est appréhendée dans sa relation aux littératures étrangères qui incluent aussi les autres littératures francophones, à partir de l’analyse du discours manifestaire dans son rapport à l’histoire et au cadre institutionnel. À partir d’une approche multiscalaire, qui croise la transdisciplinarité et la systémique, cette étude resitue la « littérature-monde » dans son héritage littéraire français et montre en outre que l’ouverture aux littératures francophones concourt au renforcement du centre parisien. L’articulation socio-historique et poétique du corpus met en avant un triple mouvement de mondialisation : celle-ci résulte d’abord, à la suite d’une crise dans le champ littéraire, d’un ensemble de stratégies de singularisation mises en œuvre par des écrivains périphériques centraux et étrangers qui entendent contester les canons traditionnels ; elle répond ensuite à l’exigence ressentie par les écrivains d’élaborer des arts poétiques du monde ou du réel, des pratiques de conquête de l’ailleurs et de cosmopolitisme, après un trauma national ou individuel qui implique la détestation de la nation d’origine ; elle correspond enfin au besoin de créer des œuvres susceptibles de construire un imaginaire qui serait le reflet de la mondialisation contemporaine. Il est alors possible de percevoir la mondialité dans les programmes littéraires et dans la littérature viatique en France comme une production qui s’élabore en réaction aux circonstances propres à l’ère du temps et comme une conséquence du jeu entre tradition et modernitéThis thesis confronts the manifestos of the Étonnants Voyageurs movement and Olivier Rolin’s work. From the outset in the contemporary history of France, she highlights the mecanisms of literay globalization understood as a global phénomenon. The global dimension of French literature is apprehended in its relation to foreign literature, which also include other Francophone literatures, from the analysis of the speech in its report to history and the institutional framework. From a multiscal approach, which crosses transdisciplinarity and systemic, this study resituates the « world literature in French » in its French literay heritage and shows that openess to francophone literature contributes to the strengthening of the Parisian center. The socio-historical and poetic articulation of the corpus puts forward a triple movement of globalization : this one results at first, following a crisis in the literary field, from a set of singularization strategies is implemented by central and foreign peripheral writers who intend to challenge traditional canons ; it then responds to the demand felt by writers to develop poetic arts of the world or the real, the practices of conquest of elsewhere and cosmopolitism, after national or individual trauma which implies the detestation of nation of origin ; finally, it corresponds to the need to create works likely to construct an imaginary that would relfect contemporary globalization. It’s then possible to perceive globality in the literary programs and the viatic literature in France as a production which develops in reaction to the circumstances proper and as a consequence of the interplay between tradition and modernity
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Shen, Yipeng. "In the Heat of Sentiments: Nationalism, Postsocialism, and Popular Culture in China, 1988-2007." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10846.
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xi, 284 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.My dissertation delves into the recent articulation of popular nationalism in Mainland China, with particular emphasis on the changes that globalization and transnationalism have brought about to the representation of the Chinese nation in sentimental terms. Complementing the rich existing literature of Chinese nationalism that focuses mainly on the pre-1949 period, my study explores the less-treaded contemporary era characterized by the new historical condition of postsocialism, which features a residual of the socialist past as well as its reinvention under new overwhelming trends of globalization. Postsocialism and its consequences-the deepening of a neoliberalist economic refonn, the state-intellectual promotion of cultural economy, the emergence of a dominant consumer culture, etc.-have produced new issues existing scholarship on Chinese nationalism has yet to address. One such issue is how the paradoxical entity of the "nation" in time and space has been fragmented by the accretion of diversified voices from a wide spectrum of Chinese society. In postsocialist China, the agents imagining the nation include not only regulars like the state and intellectuals, but also new players like mass-media elites and netizens (wangmin). I argue that these voices of different social forces that break up the hegemony of the state in representing the nation-the result of which being not that the state is excluded from this enterprise but that it now tells only part of the story-become expressed as modes of national sentiments (minzu qinggan) when the nation is imagined under the historical condition of postsocialism. My study then explores in detail the fashioning and refashioning of contemporary Chinese subjectivity, as it relates through the joining of national sentiments to the literal and figurative body of the nation and the social power structure, by analyzing these specific voices in a broad range of popular texts from TV, film, and the Internet. The detailed examination includes four chapters dealing with specific modes of national sentiments articulated by the intellectuals, the state, the mass-media elites, and the netizens, respectively.
Committee in charge: Tze-lan Sang, Co-Chairperson, East Asian Languages & Literature; David Leiwei Li, Co-Chairperson, English; Maram Epstein, Member, East Asian Languages & Literature; Bryna Goodman, Outside Member, History
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Mombach, Clarissa Kristen. "A representação da cultura brasileira teuto-gaúcha na literatura sul-rio-grandense contemporânea." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/15003.
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Este estudo consiste numa reflexão acerca da identidade cultural no contexto contemporâneo, mais especificamente, da cultura brasileira teuto-gaúcha e da sua representação na literatura sul-rio-grandense contemporânea. Para tanto, realizou-se um levantamento de obras da literatura gaúcha mais recente que focalizam os imigrantes e descendentes alemães como personagens centrais da narrativa, dentre as quais se selecionou um corpus constituído pelos livros A asa esquerda do anjo (1981), de Lya Luft, e Valsa para Bruno Stein (1986), de Charles Kiefer. A partir da análise realizada, percebeu-se que a cultura teuto-gaúcha é representada através de uma ambigüidade marcante na vida dos protagonistas, oriunda do entre-lugar de sua condição intervalar, constituída pela herança cultural alemã e pela vivência no contexto brasileiro. De um modo geral, a presença da cultura teuto-gaúcha pode ser notada no emprego da língua alemã, na rigidez dos costumes e comportamentos familiares, no preconceito interétnico e de gênero, na culinária e na religião defendida e posteriormente abandonada (no caso de Bruno Stein). Desse modo, tornam-se evidentes as marcas da imigração germânica – iniciada a partir de 1824 – na literatura contemporânea produzida no Rio Grande do Sul. Tal cultura, traduzida pelos seus descendentes e integrada ao contexto brasileiro, deu origem à cultura híbrida teuto-gaúcha, própria do grupo em questão, cujos representantes ainda se fazem notar, conforme atestam os romances analisados.The present research is a reflection about the cultural identity in the contemporary context, more specifically, about the Teuto-Gaucha Brazilian culture and its representation on the contemporary riograndense literature. For this reason, it was researched books on the gaucha literature which focus the immigrants and German descendents as main characters in the narrative. Among these books it was selected a corpus consisting from A Asa esquerda do anjo (1981), by Lya Luft, and Valsa para Bruno Stein (1986), by Charles Kiefer. Based on the performed analysis, it was noticed that the Teuto-Gaucha culture is represented through a stressed ambiguity in the main characters life, which came from an in-between place condition, consisting of the German culture heritage and the life in Brazil. In general, the presence of the Teuto-Gaucha culture can be observed in the use of the German language, in the strictness of the customs and behaviors, in the ethnic and genre prejudice, in the food and religion defended and later abandoned (in the case of Bruno Stein). This way it is clearly perceived the marks of the German immigration – which began in 1824 – on the contemporary literature written in Rio Grande do Sul. This culture, translated by the German descendents and integrated into the Brazilian context, created the hybrid Teuto-Gaúcha Brazilian culture, specific from this group, whose members are still visible, considering the novels analyzed.
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Dadras, Danielle Mina. "Circulating Stories: Postcolonial Narratives and International Markets." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1222096875.
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Ivanova, Tsvétélina. "Littérature et paysage mondial." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LAROF002.
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La thèse se propose d’effectuer une lecture analytique et comparative de la production littéraire qui a eu lieu au cours de la première et de la deuxième mondialisation moderniste à l’époque contemporaine. Suivant la logique de l’évolution économique mondiale de Kondratieff, il s’agirait de la période de création esthétique et littéraire moderne entre 1850 et 1920, postmoderne entre 1950 et 1990, et hypermoderne à partir des années 2000. Ceci dans le but de vérifier si le roman moderniste, post- et hyper-moderniste, colonial et postcolonial pouvait acquérir le statut de littérature mondiale (Weltliteratur) fondée sur l’unité dualiste du système-monde capitaliste et sur l’idée de modernité antimoderniste ; telle que Baudelaire la définit en 1863 dans le Peintre de la vie moderne : « la modernité, c'est le transitoire, le fugitif, le contingent, la moitié de l'art, dont l'autre moitié est l'éternel et l’immuable ». La thèse se propose d’expliquer l’unité antagoniste de la notion de littérature mondiale et de l’affirmer comme œuvre d’art totale (Gesamtkunstwerk), moderne, à travers la vérification parallèle de l’existence d’un paysage mondial littéraire. Celui-ci, aussi fondé sur une approche dualiste -esthétique/stylistique et phénoménologique -, serait le produit (anti)moderniste des deux périodes de mondialisation capitalisteThe doctoral thesis proposes to effectuate an analytical and comparative reading of the literary production that took place during the first and second modernist globalization in the Late modern period. According to the logic of the world economic evolution of Kondratiev wave, it would be the period of modern aesthetic and literary creation between 1850 and 1920, postmodern between 1950 and 1990, and hypermodern from 2000 onwards. In order to ascertain whether the modernist, post- and hyper- modernist, colonial and postcolonial novel could acquire the status of world literature (Weltliteratur) based on the dualistic unity of the capitalist world-system theory and on the idea of modern anti-modernism ; as Baudelaire defined it in 1863 in The Painter of Modern Life (Le peintre de la vie moderne). The thesis proposes to explain the antagonistic unity of the notion of world literature and to affirm it as a modern "total work of art" (Gesamtkunstwerk), through the parallel verification of the existence of a literary world landscape. The latter, also based on a dualistic approach - aesthetic /stylistic and phenomenological - would be the (anti)modernist product of the two periods of capitalist globalization
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Balestra, Alisa. "Shift in Work, Shift in Representation: Working-Class Identity and Experience in U.S. Multi-Ethnic and Queer Women's Fiction." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303080667.
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Martin, Samuel James Louis. "The 'Lad Lit' dilemma : institutional influences on creative writing practice." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/17032/1/Sam_Martin_-_eighteenth.pdf.
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This thesis consists of a novel, eighteenth, and an exegesis, The ‘Lad Lit’ Dilemma: Institutional influences on creative writing practice. It will address my research question; how did institutional factors surrounding the publishing category of Lad Lit influence my creative practice in drafting and re-drafting the novel eighteenth?
eighteenth is the story of Will Swift, a seventeen year-old Brisbane university student. Will is part of a close group of friends from high school. When he falls for Kate, family friend of his mate Simon, his first semester of study becomes more complicated than he might have expected. Will’s movement through these issues and character development is represented symbolically through four eighteenth birthday parties. The project’s exegesis then analyses the changing nature of the publishing industry in the last twenty years, and the implications of these changes for creative writers.
Together, the two elements of this practice-led research will articulate the shift in the balance between the cultural and commercial imperatives of publishers, explain the impact of this shift for the publishing category of Lad Lit, and explore the ramifications of this for creative writing practitioners.
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Martin, Samuel James Louis. "The 'Lad Lit' dilemma : institutional influences on creative writing practice." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/17032/.
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This thesis consists of a novel, eighteenth, and an exegesis, The ‘Lad Lit’ Dilemma: Institutional influences on creative writing practice. It will address my research question; how did institutional factors surrounding the publishing category of Lad Lit influence my creative practice in drafting and re-drafting the novel eighteenth?
eighteenth is the story of Will Swift, a seventeen year-old Brisbane university student. Will is part of a close group of friends from high school. When he falls for Kate, family friend of his mate Simon, his first semester of study becomes more complicated than he might have expected. Will’s movement through these issues and character development is represented symbolically through four eighteenth birthday parties. The project’s exegesis then analyses the changing nature of the publishing industry in the last twenty years, and the implications of these changes for creative writers.
Together, the two elements of this practice-led research will articulate the shift in the balance between the cultural and commercial imperatives of publishers, explain the impact of this shift for the publishing category of Lad Lit, and explore the ramifications of this for creative writing practitioners.
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Gancea, Uliana. "L’écocritique dans les romans "Globalia" et "Amour à l’Ancienne Ligne"." Thesis, Paris Est, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PEST0008/document.
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La présente thèse est une étude écocritique où l’on analyse l’environnement dans les romans: Globalia (2004), écrit par l’écrivain français Jean-Christophe Rufin et Amor en la Línea Vieja (Amour sur l’Ancienne Ligne) (2007), écrit par le Costaricien Walter Rojas Pérez. Cette investigation examine l’expression de la conscience écologique, représentée à partir de l’optique de chaque romancier non seulement dans des périodes différentes (2004/2007), mais aussi dans des endroits distincts. Ici sont analysées les visions singulières de l’Homme en relation avec la campagne et la ville, accompagnées d’une structure politique corrompue où l’on observe l’inégalité de correspondances qui influence le déséquilibre écologique, affectant les systèmes naturels , anthropiques et l’être humain. Les romans étudiés ne reflètent pas l’image de la nature vue comme «enfer vert», au contraire, le naturel traduit le portrait d’une Mère qui fournit tout le nécessaire pour la survie des êtres vivants. C’est pour cela que les postulats de dénonciation critiquent l’abus que l’être humain fait contre l’environnement, le déboisement de la forêt, la contamination des bassins hydrographiques, l’utilisation indistincte des produits agrochimiques, la pollution de l’air et de la terre avec des résidus industriels tirés comme décharges à ciel ouvert, tout en se transformant en éléments destructifs qui raccourcissent la vie des êtres vivants sur la Planète Verte. Dans les deux romans les auteurs accusent l’exploitation insoutenable des ressources naturelles par l’homme conquérant de la nature qui sert aux buts globalisateurs de l’industrialisation. Les textes enregistrent une séries de scène qui critiquent la pratique du développement non-durable et où le paupérisé dévaste la nature et se soumet au pouvoir économique par la nécessité de survivre, pour se transformer finalement en «des-gens», vivre comme les ordures recyclées et se nourrir des déchets de l’industrialisation. La pauvreté globale est telle que les «trois quarts de la population mondiale vivent dans le Tiers Monde, ce qui représente plus de deux tiers du secteur de la surface de la terre» (Stokke 19). La Terre incarne l’être vivant qui appartient à un écosystème universel et, pour se maintenir robuste, elle a besoin de son espace soutenable, dans un milieu écologique sain. La stabilité de la planète est d’importance suprême pour le reste des espèces qui la cohabitent. Voici le discours écocritique que les romanciers Rufin et Rojas Pérez souhaitent transmettre dans le but de perpétuer la viabilité terrestre, de sorte que toute espèce prenne plaisir au nectar qui la maintient vigoureuse. La dénonciation des romanciers cherche à éveiller la conscience pour maintenir l’équilibre écologique sur la Planète Verte. De la même manière, le discours environnementaliste-littéraire va au-delà de la frontière terrestre, tout en arrivant à des mondes cosmiques et universalisés de la Terre, comme celui qui apparaît dans le roman Globalia. L’analyse écocritique dans Amor en la Línea Vieja fait transparaître une réalité cosmologique définie depuis une dimension inextricable qui cherche à recréer la bonne interrelation entre toutes les espèces. Ce monde terrestre-universel offre l’occasion de coexister avec la société interplanétaire où les espèces maintiennent une racine commune. Tant Globalia comme Amor en la Línea Vieja donnent aux nouvelles générations le message écocritique suivant: elles sont dédiées à sauver l’habitat globalThe following study analyzes the environment in the novels: Globalia (2004), written by the French novelist Jean-Christophe Rufin and Amor en la Línea Vieja (Love at the Old Rail) (2007), written by the Costa Rican author Walter Rojas Pérez. This research examines the expression of ecological consciousness represented from the authors’ perspectives both in different periods of time (2004/2007) and distinctive places. Below are analyzed the peculiar visions of the Mankind in relationship with the country and the city, accompanied by a corrupt political structure where the inequality of connections influences the ecological unbalance, affecting the natural, anthropic, and human beings’ ecosystems. The novels here studied do not reflect the image of nature viewed as «a green hell»; nonetheless, the natural aspects depict the portrait of a Mother furnishing all the necessary for the humankind’s survival. Thus, the denunciation premises criticize the abuse committed by mankind against the environment, the deforestation of woods, the contamination of hydrographic basins, the indistinct use of agrochemical products, air and land pollution with industrial residue dumped outside as garbage; most likely destructive elements which shorten humankind’s life on the Blue Planet. Both novels accuse the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources by the human conqueror of nature and who serves the globalization goals of the industrialization. This unsustainable development favors the ecological imbalance which leads to the disappearance of uncountable species dying without having ever been studied, taking away the opportunity to the future generations to have even known them. The texts register how the economically poor human beings devastate the nature and give into the economic power for the need to survive, and to finally become “un-people”. Global poverty is such that “three quarters of the world population live in the Third World, which stands for more than two thirds of the earth’s surface” (Stokke 19). The lucky ones, supported by certain people in power, manipulate the citizens by means of transnational companies, and –using the excuse of modernization- they steal nature’s resources. Therefore, when these living beings stop serving the petty interests of the rich, they are laid off without any benefits, directly affecting their human ecology and that of their families; consequently, the underprivileged have no other alternative but to join certain at-risk settlements, live as recycled garbage, and eat from the industrialization’s waste. The Earth embodies a living being that pertains to a universal ecosystem and which requires its own sustainable space, within a healthy ecological environment. The planet’s stability is of supreme importance to the rest of the species that live together on it. This is the ecocritical discourse that the novelists Rufin and Rojas Pérez desire to transmit, hoping to perpetuate the terrestrial viability that all species could enjoy the nectar which maintains it strong. The novelists’ denunciation awakens the consciousness for preserving the Blue Planet’s ecological balance. Moreover, the environmental-literary discourse goes beyond the terrestrial frontiers, getting to the Earth’s cosmic and universal worlds, as the one that appears in the novel Globalia. A defined cosmological reality surges in Amorn en la Línea Vieja, when –from an inextricable point of vegetation on Earth- one may go through a tunnel onto another dimension where friendly beings interact with each other. On that terrestrial-universal world, the vegetation resembles the one known on Earth, and where the characters Ion and Elena welcome Nuria as member of their family, thus giving Nuria the opportunity to coexist with an interplanetary society of common root species. Both Globalia and Amor en la Línea Vieja pass on to the new generations a clear ecocritical message: they are dedicated to save the global habitat
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Pacheco, Lozada Zaira. "Manuel Abreu Adorno: El mundo como escenario literario." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/299532.
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La literatura de Manuel Abreu Adorno representa un quiebre respecto al uso de las metáforas de identidad nacional, de las cuales se habría apropiado la literatura del canon puertorriqueño. A lo largo de su obra literaria observamos cómo las relaciones entre el individuo y una identidad estable pierden el papel protagónico que le habría otorgado la literatura nacional. Mientras la literatura nacional se preocupa por una definición homogénea de la identidad, la literatura posnacional se centra en plantear construcciones identitarias más apropiadas ante los cambios que ha producido la globalización en el mundo contemporáneo. En esta tesis estudiaremos cómo se lleva a cabo esta ruptura en la obra de Abreu Adorno y de qué formas las teorías de literatura posnacional se convierten en un espacio de reflexión para obtener una interpretación más amplia de su proyecto literario.Manuel Abreu Adorno's literature represents a change in the use of the national identity metaphors, of which would have appropriated the Puerto Rican literary classics in the past decades. As proof, within his writings we see various characters who are not anchored to any specific territory. Because of this, the search for a homogeneous identity looses the prominence that has in national literature. Instead, post national literature, a phenomenon that emerged in the late XIX and early XX centuries, presents identity constructions related with the changes resulting from globalization in the contemporary world. In this article we will study how post national tradition establishes a dialogue with the work of Abreu Adorno and in what ways it becomes a reflection space for a broad interpretation of his literary project.
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Strecker, William. "Ecologies of knowledge : narrative ecology in contemporary American fiction." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1177991.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, many scientifically cognizant young novelists turned away from the physics-based tropes of entropy and chaos and chose biological concepts of order, complexity, and self-organization as their dominant metaphors. This dissertation focuses on three novels published between 1991 and 1996 that replace the notion of the encyclopedia as a closed system and model new narrative ecologies grounded in the tenets of the emergent science of complex systems. Thus, Richard Powers's The Gold-Bug Variations (1991) explores the marriage of bottom-up self-organizing systems and top-down natural selection through a narrative lens and cautions us against any worldview which does not grasp life as a complex system; Bob Shacochis's Swimming in the Volcano (1993) illustrates how richly complex global behavior emerges from the local interaction of a large number of independent agents; and, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (1996) enacts a collaborative narrative of distributed causality to investigate reciprocal relationships between the individual and the multiple systems in which he is embedded. Unlike many other contemporary authors, the new encyclopedists do not shun the abundance of information in postmodern culture. Instead, as I demonstrate here, the intricate webs of their complex ecologies emerge as narrative circulates through diverse informational networks. Ecologies of Knowledge argues that these texts inaugurate a new naturalism, demanding a reconciliation between humans and the natural world and advocating an increased understanding of life's interdependent patterns and particularities. Grounded in such an awareness of ecological complexity, these large and demanding books are our survival guides for the twenty-first century.Department of English
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Anacleria, Valentina. "Pour une poétique de l'entre dans la littérature de migration." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020GRALL008.
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Le fil rouge qui traverse notre étude, réalisée à partir d’un corpus de quatre romans (français et italiens) de la littérature de la migration, est la mise en évidence des motifs et figures de l’« entre » (F. Jullien) qui témoignent de l’existence d’une nouvelle poétique.Puisque l’activité exploratoire de l’« écart » met en tension ce qu’il semble avoir séparé, nous voulons éviter l’enfermement de la littérature de la migration dans une catégorie fixe pour faire émerger sa nature innovante, qui réfléchit la créativité singulière des auteurs mais aussi les effets de la mondialisation sur l’évolution des littératures nationales.La nouvelle poétique qui émerge de l'analyse de notre corpus est capable d’établir des connexions productives, au carrefour de plusieurs disciplines. C’est ainsi que la littérature de la migration ouvre vers une méthodologie pluridisciplinaire et interculturelle, encore en chantier, permettant de rendre compte de la complexité et de la mobilité du monde contemporainThe common thread of this research is to focus on the patterns and the figures of the “entre” (F. Jullien) in order to prove the existence of a new way of thinking because of the analysis of a body made up of four migrant novels (French and Italian).As the exploratory activity of the “écart” stresses on the elements that it separated, the challenge of this research is to avoid bringing the literature of migration to a closed category. We want to bring out its innovative nature which reflects its singular creativity connected to the authors, but also the effects of the globalization on the evolution of national literatures.The new way of thinking that emerges from the analysis of our body is able to set productive connections at the intersection of several disciplines. Thereby the literature of migration provides a multidisciplinary and intercultural methodology to comprehend the complexity of the contemporary world