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Adolph, Jessie Prahlad Anand. "Time-binding in African American verbal art as a salve for post-traumatic slave syndrome." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6711.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on January 26, 2010) Thesis advisor: Dr. Anand Prahlad. Includes bibliographical references.
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Diop, Samba. "The oral history and literature of the Wolof people of Waalo, Northern Senegal : the master of the word (Griot) in the Wolof tradition /." Lewiston (N.Y.) ; Queenston (Ont.) ; Lampeter (G.B.) : E. Mellen press, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb377512560.
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Daniel, Latson Trudie I. "A GRIOT’S YARN." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1310406150.
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Diabang, Mamadou. "L’Epopée de Bakari II : approche littéraire de la chronique historique du "Roi perdu" de l’empire médiéval du Mali." Thesis, Limoges, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIMO0039.
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Cette thèse s’est assigné, comme modalités de recherches de définir les modes spécifiques d’apparition et de fonctionnement de l’épique dans la chronique historique et les chants d’exaltation en l’honneur de l’empereur Bakari II, représenté comme le « découvreur » de l’Amérique avant Colomb. Le texte est une version bilingue composée d’une transcription en langue Mandenka et d’une traduction française. En chantant ses hauts faits, le griot fait l’éloge des qualités héroïques du personnage et la nature des émotions que son audace d’aller à l’assaut des vagues de l’océan Atlantique suscite. A un texte qui se présente sous une apparence simple, une intonation épique est de la sorte attribuée même si on peut le qualifier de « néo épopée ». Certes l’épique s’imposait au regard du choix d’une esthétique d’oralité qui permet de nouer « sans artifice » l’historique, l’héroïque et le merveilleux. On retrouve là, la définition du registre épique et du style noble qui lui est associé dans la rhétorique, et qu’emprunte effectivement l’œuvre. Tout d’abord, nous avons tenté de jeter un regard sur la fondation du Mande, des origines à l’avènement de Soundjata Keïta, fondateur de l’empire et sur la composition sociale et l’organisation politique de l’empire du Mali. Cette thèse confirme, à l’instar d’autres études ethnographiques, que la société mandingue médiévale est organisée autour de trois pôles fortement hiérarchisés, endogamiques et spécialisés: les horon, les nyamakala et les jon. Avant de transcrire en langue malinké, puis les traduire en français les chants-rythmes d’éloge de Fa Bukari, nous avons revisité le cycle épique de Maghan Soundjata qui s’accompagne de la chronique de l’empereur du Mali Aboubakari II. Pour conclure, nous avons abordé les propriétés stylistiques et sémantiques qui s’articulent autour de la figure du poète épique, de la poésie formulaire, de la parole épique, de la rythmique particulière de la parole épique, sans occulter les perspectives de recherches nombreuses qui s’ouvrent dans le champ de la littérature orale, en général et sur l’épopée de Bakari II, en particulier qui contient un pan entier de domaines à explorer<br>This thesis is assigned, as the terms and conditions of research to define specific modes of appearance and operation of the epic in the historical Chronicle and the songs of exaltation in honour of Emperor Bakari II, represented as the "discoverer" of America before Columbus. The text is a bilingual version consisting of a transcript in Mandinka language and a French translation. Singing its achievements, the griot is the praise of the heroic qualities of the character and nature of the emotions aroused by his daring to go to the onslaught of the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. A text that presents itself as a simple appearance, epic intonation is assigned to it even though it can be called 'neo epic’. Certainly the epic was necessary with regard to the choice of an aesthetic of orality that allows to establish 'unadorned' history, the heroic and wonderful deeds. We have here, the definition of epic registry and noble style associated with it in the rhetoric, which is followed by the work. First of all, we have tried to look on the Foundation of the Mande, from the origins to the advent of Sundiata Keita, founder of the empire and the social composition and the political organization of the Mali Empire. This thesis confirms, along with other ethnographic studies, that medieval Mandingo society is organized around three poles strongly hierarchical, endogamous and specialised: the horon, the nyamakala and the jon. Before transcribing malinke language, then translate them into French songs-rhythms of praise of Fa Bukari, we revisited Maghan Sundiata epic cycle which is accompanied by the Chronicle of the Emperor of Mali, Aboubakari II. To conclude, we discussed stylistic and semantic properties that revolve around the figure of the epic poet, poetry form, epic speech, the special rhythmic of epic speech, without concealing the prospects of many research that open in the field of oral literature, in general and the epic of Bakari II, in particular that contains an entire domain to explore
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Вакуленко, Ігор Анатолійович, Игорь Анатолиевич Вакуленко, Ihor Anatoliiovych Vakulenko, et al. "A systematic literature review of smart grids." Thesis, EDP Sciences, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/83802.
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The development and implementation of smart grids involve developing new and improvements in existing energy technologies, introducing information systems to manage the smart grid, monitoring and controlling energy consumption, and closely related to alternative energy and decarbonization of the economy. Scientific research of smart grids differs significantly in terms of topics because they aim to solve problems in each of these areas. Thus, this research aims to present a bibliometric overview to define the current scientific production state regarding “Smart Grid.” A review of 1359 publications from the Scopus database (2008–2020) was conducted. The “Title, abstract, keywords” field of search in the Scopus database was done. The visualization of the results was made using VOSviewer program to map the material graphically. The study used the cooccurrence of keywords and co-authorship (country) analyzes. As a result, the most productive authors and journals were defined. The most cited studies were determined. Country clusters and keywords (co-occurrence) clusters were represented. The obtained results of the analysis and graphical presentations are relevant, and they form the basis for a better understanding of Smart Grid’s concept.
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Ekelund, Johanna. "Grimms ”Rapunsel” & Disneys Trassel : – En komparativ studie." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-50651.
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Kaut, Nadja. "Grenzüberschreitungen : Eine untersuchung ausgewählter Novellen Hans Grimms im Zusammenhang mit der kolonialen Grenzproblematik." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8225.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-126).<br>The focus of this dissertation is the concept of liminality within selected novellas of the German colonial author Hans Grimm (1875-1959). Boundaries and frontiers are an omnipresent key issue within colonial literature. Within the postcolonial German literary studies field, however, liminality has so far been given only very little interest, although it is an essential tool in elaborating our understanding not only of the colonial ideology and the colonial discourse, but also of society in general. The methodology used in this dissertation is derived from a postcolonial paradigm. Within the globalization tendencies of the 21st century the postcolonial discourse is characterized by the fluidity and questioning of boundaries. Postcolonial and post-modern theorists have designated the identity formation with expressions like "hybridity" (Homi K. Bhabha) and "fragmentation" (Stuart Hall). Studies have shown that every human contact influences identity formation. Every exchange, every dialectic interaction between the heterogeneous "other" and "self" leads to new, complex and hybrid identities. Postcolonial and post-modern concepts are a significant tool in understanding the colonial obsession with boundaries. Besides an understanding of the postcolonial discourse, an overview of the particularly complex concept of the German word "die Grenze," the boundary, is vital with regard to literary analysis. This literary study draws attention to gender, race as well as geographical boundaries within Grimm’s writings. In his novellas these boundaries are explored, undermined and underpinned at the same time. Any recognition of the "other," any hybridisation jeopardizes the colonial power, and calls for the constant reinforcement of the boundaries. The novellas reveal that any repressive and totalitarian boundary settings leave no space for any other aspirations, apart from power. That is the dilemma Grimm’s fictional characters have to deal with. The colonial enterprise is not compatible with personal fulfilment and the human condition itself, which is the reason why most of the characters are doomed to failure in the colony.
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Hochsess, Evelina. "Bröderna Grimms Törnros vs Disneys TörnrosaEn adaptionsstudie." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-89875.
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Denna uppsats undersöker vilka skillnader som gjorts när man adapterat en bok till film. Boken som behandlas är Bröderna Grimms folksaga ”Törnros” (1981, som är översatt från en utgåva år 1913-14) och den modernare filmatiseringen av Walt Disney (1959). Uppsatsen följer en komparativ struktur och båda verkens berättelser beskrivs med en narrativ metod för att klargöra verkens särart och skillnaden mellan dem. Det som behandlas och jämförs är hur karaktärer, miljö och motiv förändrats från boken till filmen. Förutom fastställandet av de stora skillnaderna som finns kommer uppsatsen behandla hur materialet kan användas i den pedagogiska verksamheten för årskurs 1-3.
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Katriou, Fotini. "Kvinnlig kluvenhet i Maria Gripes Skugg-gömman." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of History of Literature and History of Ideas, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6804.
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<p>Uppsatsen Kvinnlig kluvenhet undersöker Maria Gripes roman Skugg-gömman, sista delen i</p><p>tetralogin Skuggserien, ur ett feministiskt perspektiv. Skugg-gömman skiljer sig markant från</p><p>de tidigare romanerna i Skuggserien till form och innehåll. Den huvudsakliga frågan som</p><p>ställs i undersökningen är huruvida karaktären Carolins kluvenhet och romanens form kan</p><p>kopplas till kön. Genom en närläsning av Skugg-gömman görs ett försök att komma närmare</p><p>det ogreppbara och opålitliga i berättandet och hos karaktären. Paralleller till tidigare</p><p>forskning dras där framför allt feministisk teori och litteraturteori ger stöd för romanens</p><p>koppling till kön. En kort presentation av begreppet kluvenhet och ett undersökande av den</p><p>kvinnliga kluvenhetens historia görs. Författargrepp, gotiska inslag, dubbelgångarmotivet,</p><p>undersökandet av det egna jaget, speglandet och förklädnadstemat diskuteras.</p><p>Undersökningen tyder på att form och innehåll tillsammans formar ett slags kluvet vara som</p><p>är specifikt kvinnligt. Analysen leder till resultatet att detta kluvna och specifikt kvinnliga</p><p>vara skapas på två plan. Dels genom romanens uppbyggnad såsom dess tema, berättarteknik</p><p>och gotiska inslag. Dels genom personifikationen av det kluvna kvinnliga; karaktären Carolin.</p>
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Perwak, Lindsay H. "Gritos en el Desierto: Denuncia y Resistencia en las Obras de las Escritoras Wayuu Estercilia Simanca Pushaina y Vicenta María Siosi Pino." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3001.
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The way we read and interpret literature is frequently influenced by factors that operate beyond the scope of the average reader's awareness. In this thesis, selected works by two Wayuu writers, Estercilia Simanca Pushaina and Vicenta Maria Siosi Pino, are analyzed and interpreted in an attempt to unveil some of these behind-the-scenes agents and issues, as well as explore how the stories' classification in the children's literature genre reveals a deep-rooted colonial tendency to infantilize indigenous individuals in contemporary Colombia.
Despite the fact that the two authors, both mestizo women who self-identify with the Wayuu indigenous group of northern Colombia, prefer to write short stories that highlight the child and adolescent experience, the implicit themes and the complexity of their texts reject the "children's story" label that has been imposed on their literature. Furthermore, this thesis discusses how the two authors utilize the colonial trope of the Indian-as-child to their advantage by capsizing the imagery, thus rejecting the original power of the symbol and claiming it as their own.
The first section of this investigation provides certain contextual specifics related to the cultural and social environment of the Wayuu indigenous group, particularly regarding that experienced by women. The second chapter includes an explanation of the impact a book's genre and its "paratext" may have on the reception and interpretation of these texts, and additionally proposes that the colonial practice of infantilizing indigenous people appears in both the assignment of genre as well as in several extratextual elements surrounding the stories. Chapter three offers an in-depth analysis of five selected pieces of the Wayuu authors' writing and explores how the texts may be read on multiple levels. This close reading reveals several examples of overt criticism towards the hegemonic society as well as displays instances of a more subtle rebellion; both explicit and implicit messages effectively expose and protest the current conditions of abuse, oppression and injustice that continue to anguish the Wayuu people.
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Fall, Moussa Balla. "Histoire coloniale et postcoloniale de l’Afrique de l’Ouest à travers les figures du griot dans les films d’Ousmane Sembène." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/799.
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My thesis examines the figure of the griot in five films of the Senegalese writer and film director, Ousmane Sembène, widely considered to be the "Father of African Cinema." I reevaluate the figure of the griot in Sembène‟s works from the vital place played by history. I focus on the use of the griot by Sembène to rewrite sub-Saharan African history. I compare Sembène‟s representation of history with the modern historical criteria laid out by Paul Ricoeur, Michel de Certeau and Pierre Nora. The central claim of my dissertation is that the griot should be contextualized as a historical figure that interprets memory and influences the perception of the past rather than as a mere literary and cinematic device. Current scholarship on Sembène privileges the Western interpretation of the griot, that is, the narrative aspect-the storyteller-over the more nuanced position the griot traditionally holds in West African societies.
In an oral traditional culture, the griot holds a place of honor and power because of his role as a chronicler, storyteller, educator, advisor, spokesperson, historian, genealogist and guardian of traditions, history and culture. The griot knew the history of the kingdom, its foundation and the various ethnicities and communities which constituted it, as well as the history of each group. As the living receptacle of history, he had the ability to shape and influence the memories of his community, and its perception of the past. The historical aspect of the griot figure provides an unparalleled opportunity to free Sembène works from classical themes such as Marxism, Panafricanism and the father of African cinemas as well as to contribute to the debate between history and memory from a West African perspective. In order to analyze the representation of history through the figure of the griot in Sembene‟s films, I have chosen to study five films of Sembène: Black Girl (1966), Emitai (1971), Ceddo (1977), Guelwaar (1992), and Camp de Thiaroye (1987) which depict distinct periods (pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial) in West African history.
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Rodrigues, Adriana Mattoso. "Silêncios e gritos, corpos e sexualidade : filhas e mães representando a repressão sexual em O espartilho, Verão no aquário e As meninas de Lygia Fagundes Telles." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2011. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/9055.
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2011_ Adriana Mattoso Rodrigues.pdf: 669624 bytes, checksum: 0c8173096a50cc289dc5c4468ddee4d6 (MD5)<br>Este trabalho faz uma leitura analítica da representação da repressão sexual tendo como foco sua transmissão de mãe para filha na literatura nas obras Verão no Aquário, O Espartilho e As Meninas de Lygia Fagundes Telles. Considerando a literatura como uma prática social podemos assim analisar como a repressão sexual é praticada pela mãe e como se manifesta a reação por parte das filhas. Considerando essa relação uma relação deficiente quanto ao estabelecimento de fronteiras identitárias, pois mães e filhas estão intimamente ligadas devido aos papéis sociais que atrelam a identidade da mulher à maternidade. A situação entre mãe e filha é também, uma das razões pelas quais a transmissão da repressão sexual se dá de forma inconsciente e se reproduz até os dias de hoje. As teorias sociais, de gênero e psicanalíticas dão suporte para analisar como essas relações são estabelecidas no meio social e familiar, no nível individual e social, que aparecem testemunhadas
através da criação literária feminina. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT<br>This dissertation attemps an analytical reading of sexual repression, focusing on the transmission from mother to daughter in the literature, more specifically in Verão no Aquário, O Espartilho and As Meninas, by Lygia Fagundes Telles. It is relevant to take into account how sexual repression is
put into practice by the mother, and how the reactions of the daughter manifests itself. Taking into account that this is a troubled relationship, when it comes to the establishment of identitary frontiers, since mothers and daughters are intimately connected due to women social roles that bind
their identiy to motherhood. This intimate relationshiop is why the transmission of sexual repression happens at an inconscious level, and is reproduced until these days. Social, psychoanalytical and gender theories give support to the study on how these relationships are established in the social and familial milieu, at the individual as well as at the social level, and are shown through women's writings.
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Morais, Fernando Luís de. "Diamantes negros sob um arco-íris multicolorido : as identidades negras-gay na poesia de Thomas Grimes /." São José do Rio Preto, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/180943.
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Orientador: Cláudia Maria Ceneviva Nigro<br>Banca: Emerson da Cruz Inácio<br>Banca: Flávia Andrea Rodrigues Benfatti<br>Resumo: O propósito deste trabalho é o estudo da intersecção entre raça/etnia e gênero, mais especificamente identidades negras-gay masculinas, construídas a partir dos poemas de autoria de Thomas Grimes, compilados na antologia Milking Black Bull: 11 Gay Black Poets [Tirando leite de touros negros: 11 poetas negros-gay] (1995). Interessa-nos verificar como esse cruzamento de múltiplas instâncias identitárias se adensa, ganhando corpo e voz nos poemas, instigando visões mais plurais e desbravando leituras mais ajustadas da identidade negra-gay masculina, secularmente sufocada, suprimida e subjugada ao anonimato e ao ostracismo por/em uma sociedade pronunciadamente branca e cis-heteronormativa. Defendemos a hipótese de que Grimes usa a escrita de modo a revolver as raízes íntimas daqueles que carregam o peso opressor de um fardo, no mínimo, duplo: serem negros e gays; sujeitos que, hostilizados pelo racismo e pela homofobia, fazem frente ao autoritarismo agenciador de estereotipias heteronormativas e raciais, perseguindo, ao mesmo tempo, a extenuante tarefa de encontrar um chez soi, um lugar ao qual possam pertencer. As reflexões aqui propostas estão em consonância com as analíticas queer e quare e com as perspectivas críticas que concebem o sujeito como performativo e reivindicador de posições e o processo de construção identitária como um mosaico provisório. O aparato teórico sob o qual este projeto está embasado e sustentado abarca, portanto, obras como as de Bauman (2001, 2005),...<br>Abstract: The main focus of this work is the study of the intersection between race/ethnicity and gender, more specifically black gay male identities, forged from Thomas Grimes' poems, compiled in the anthology Milking Black Bull: 11 Gay Black Poets (1995). We are interested in verifying how this layering of multiple identities gains body and voice in the poems, inciting more pluralistic visions and exploring more accurate readings of the black gay male identities, which have been stifled, suppressed, and subjected to anonymity and ostracism by/in an overtly white and cis-heteronormative society. We defend the hypothesis that Grimes makes use of his writing in order to go through the intimate roots of those who carry the oppressive weight of an, at least, double burden: to be black and gay; subjects who, oppressed by racism and homophobia, defy the limits of racial and heteronormative hegemony in pursuit of finding a chez soi, a place where they can belong. The reflections proposed here are in line with both queer and quare analytics and the critical perspectives that conceive the subject as performative, and the process of identity construction as a provisional mosaic. The theoretical framework under which this study is conducted is based mainly on the contributions of Bauman (2001, 2005), Butler (2000, 2002, 2008, 2016), Crenshaw (1995), Hall (2003, 2005), Hooks (1995, 2001), Jagose (1996), Johnson (2005), Wilchins (2004) and Woodward (1997)<br>Mestre
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Geisser, Franziska. "Götter, Geister und Dämonen Unheilsmächte bei Aischylos : zwischen Aberglauben und Theatralik /." München : Saur, 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=719iAAAAMAAJ.
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Pack, Kendall G. ""We want to get down to the nitty-gritty": The Modern Hardboiled Detective in the Novella Form." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4247.
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This thesis approaches the issue of the detective in the 21st century through the parodic novella form. The main body of the work is a piece of fiction about an amateur detective trying to find a solution to an imagined crime. This comes from my study of detective fiction, starting with Oedipus and ending with twentieth and twenty-first century examples, especially in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Chester Himes, where the detective loses power. The novella follows Whitney Sloat as he acts as detective in a world that can’t let go of the hardboiled traditions. He and the people around him struggle to connect with reality, pursuing a way of life that cannot exist outside of their world.
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Caprili, Gian Luca [Verfasser]. "Gli uccelli come figure liminari nella concezione poetica di Jacob Grimm = Die Vögel als Grenzfiguren in der Poesieauffassung Jacob Grimms / Gian Luca Caprili." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2015. http://d-nb.info/107726545X/34.
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Andrade, Alexandra, and Jansson Emelie Dahlin. "Kvinnlig karaktärsgestaltning –en komparativ studie som belyser skillnaderna mellan bröderna Grimms sagor och Disneys adaptioner." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-92549.
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I vår uppsats jämför vi bröderna Grimms sagor Snövit, Askungen och Törnrosa med Walt Disneys adaptioner av dessa.I de flesta utgivna sagohistorier skildras den kvinnliga karaktären på två olika sätt där det goda möter det onda. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka, reflektera och framhäva hur de angivna karaktärerna framhävs och hur detta bemöts av läsaren. Detta för att ta reda på hur de olika verken skiljer sig i framställning av dessa karaktärer samt hur detta mottages och påverkar läsaren/tittaren Vi diskuterar vidare den roll dessa framställningar har för barns identitetsskapande samt hur vi som lärare kan arbeta med dessa verk för att synliggöra stereotypa könsmönster.Vår komparativa studie kommer i huvudsak bestå av en djupgående analys av karaktärer baserad på litteratur, vetenskapliga artiklar, artiklar, examensarbeten och filmer.Resultatet visar en tydlig polarisering av karaktärerna i de angivna sagohistorier, där de ofta kategoriseras som antingen goda eller onda. Detta leder till att läsaren kan behöva välja sida vilket i de flesta fall medför att läsarens sympatiserar med det goda. Det finns dock risker som medföljer denna kategorisering, såsom de ouppnåeliga normerna som en flicka förväntas agera som i sin tur kan leda till blandade känslor av dålig självkänsla och otillräcklighet.
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Greenhalgh, Michael John. "A critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of the libretto texts of Montagu Slater and Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e7341552-afc2-4c6f-b7de-9339c85e304b.
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A definitive text of the libretto of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes is here presented. The process by which it was created is revealed in detail. All the extant versions are collated and significant differences between them displayed. For the first time the scenarios written by Britten and his partner Peter Pears and the first surviving draft versions of scenes by the librettist Montagu Slater are published in full. Additions to the draft and final libretto texts and revisions throughout this process by Slater, Britten, producer Eric Crozier and, in the final scene, poet Ronald Duncan, are clarified and a critique provided. Marked differences in stage directions between the libretto texts and music scores are shown and versions selected or created which offer the best indicative detail for performance practice. The edited text is similarly enriched by the inclusion of performance indicators from various sources added by Britten, Pears and the work's first conductor, Reginald Goodall. The edition is introduced by three 'Perspectives' sections which consider (1) Britten's relationship with Slater and working practice with librettists; (2) the relationship of the work to its original source, George Crabbe's poem The Borough, the difference in the portrait and treatment of the character Peter Grimes and the reasons for the difference; and (3) the particular contribution and features of Slater's writing. Thereafter follow an account of the rationale, principles and practice of the edition and introductions to every scene in which the use of source material, the evolution of the text, the plot development and performance issues of the scene, the presentation of characters and the set are delineated, the latter with reference to photographs of the original set hitherto unpublished.
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Carovani, Anne M. "Uneigentliche Differenz." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19768.
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Die Arbeit untersucht Differenzdiskurse zu zwei historischen sozialen Identitäten im Manden (Westafrika) anhand mündlich und schriftlich tradierter Texte unterschiedlicher Sprachen (Bambara, Französisch, Deutsch, Englisch) und Genres (Reisebericht, Preislied (fasa), Epos (maana), Roman, Märchen (nsiirin), Lied (donkili)), die zwischen dem 14. bis 21. Jahrhundert erschienen sind.
Die Differenz von horon, dem Edlen, Freien und jeli, dem 'Handhaber des Wortes' wird dabei höchst unterschiedlich als komplexer Beziehungsmodus diskursiv und performativ hervorgebracht und gestaltet. Als uneigentliche Differenz bildet sie sich unter der Prämisse des Schamprinzips vor allem entlang der jeweils vorgenommenen Zuschreibungen von freigiebigem Renommee-Suchenden und erbittendem Panegyriker.
Die analysierten Texte, die den Zeitraum von Beginn des mittelalterlichen Mali-Reiches bis Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts als intradiegetisches Setting haben, verhandeln die Differenz entsprechend spezifischer Wirkungsintentionen von einer Außenseiter-Perspektive, z.T. zur Legitimation kolonialer Absichten oder von einer Insider-Perspektive aus, um, teils politisch motiviert, das eigene kulturelle Erbe zu valorisieren oder auch um (historische) Mißstände anzuprangern. Dabei wird die Differenz von jeli und hↄrↄn unterschiedlich ausgestaltet, mit dem horon als Helden (ŋana, cεfarin), König (mansa, faama), Gastgeber (jatigi) und dem jeli als Meisterredner/sänger (ŋaara), Reputations-Verantwortlichen, Klienten des jatigi.
Literatur wie Differenz wird als rhetorischer Ort kreativer Verhandlungen, strategischer (Neu)schöpfungen betrachtet, durch welche die jeweiligen Akteure spezifische Interessen verfolgen und damit variabel an Diskursen und damit an Wirklichkeiten mitgestalten. Jeli und horon verändern sich als literarische Konstruktion in Abhängigkeit von ästhetischen und ideologischen Strategien.<br>The present work examines discourses of difference about two historical social identities in Manden (West Africa) using oral and written literary texts of different languages (Bambara, French, German, English) and genres (travelogue, praise song (fasa), epic (maana), novel, fairy tale, song (dↄnkili)), published between the 14th to the 21st century.
The difference between horon, the noble, the free, and jeli, the 'handler of the word', is produced and shaped in a highly differentiated way as a complex mode of relation(ship) in a discursive and performative manner. As an improper difference it is formed under the premise of the principle of shame, especially along the attributions made between the generous rewards seeker and the panegyrical requester.
The analysed texts, which have the period from the beginning of the medieval Mali empire to the middle of the 20th century as an intradiegetic setting, negotiate the difference according to specific intended effects from an outsider perspective, eg. for purposes of legitimacy of colonial intentions or from an insider perspective, partly politically motivated, in order to valorise one's own cultural heritage or to denounce (historical) grievances. The difference between jeli and hↄrↄn appears in varying ways, with the horon as hero (ŋana, cεfarin), king (mansa, faama), host (jatigi) and the jeli as master-singer/-orator (ŋaara), reputational entrepreneur, client of a jatigi.
Literature and Difference are considered both as a rhetorical place of creative negotiation, of strategic (re)creation, through which the respective actors pursue specific interests and thereby participate in shaping discourses and thus realities. The jeli, who is at the same time performer, narrator and protagonist of many narratives, and the horon, determined by his status and his ethos, change as a literary construction depending on aesthetic and ideological strategies.
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Torefeldt, Stina. "Kärlekens skugg-gömma : om det queera begäret i Maria Gripes skuggromaner." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37545.
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Maria Gripe’s shadow-series consists of four novels written in the 1980s and feature a character who present themselves as both as a girl and a boy. Carolin, also known as Carl has got a mysterious and captivating aura that leaves everybody fascinated and most people enamoured with him/her. Carolin shares many similarities with the 19th century author Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s character Tintomara from the novel The Queen’s Tiara (Drottningens juvelsmycke). This essay examines the desire that is aimed at Carolin and explores the queer situations that arises as consequences of his/her cross dressing. I comparatively analyse the desire expressed in the shadow-series and The Queen’s Tiara to find similarities in who is affected by it and where the queer situations occur. The damaging effect of the desire is explored as well. The essay concludes that while most situations can be viewed as both heterosexual and homosexual Gripe uses genres and metaphors that amplify the queerness. Both Carolin and Tintomara are greatly affected by the desire toward them and get hurt because of it. Gripe and Almqvists charismatic androgynous characters bring desire and despair wherever they go, at least as long as they do not conform to society’s norm of gender dichotomy.
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Ohlsson, Lina. "Prinsessor i förvandling : – en komparativ studie av bröderna Grimms Snövit, Disneys Snövit och de sju dvärgarna ochDisneys Frost." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-65486.
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I den här uppsatsen gör jag en komparativ analys av bröderna Grimms version av folksagan Snövit, Disneys film Snövit och de sju dvärgarna och en av Disneys senaste filmer, Frost. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur bilden av prinsessor har förändrats över tid, det vill säga vilka skillnader och likheter det finns mellan de kvinnliga karaktärerna. Fokus ligger alltså på Snövit i folksagan Snövit, Snövit i filmen Snövit och de sju dvärgarna och Elsa i filmen Frost. Analysen visar att när folksagan Snövit adapteras till film ändrades handlingen en del, filmen är mer barnvänlig och många scener är borttagna och ersatta med andra. Filmen precis som sagan handlar dock om Snövits skönhet och om drottningens avundsjuka. Snövit och de sju dvärgarna är Disneys första färglagda långfilm och Frost är en av de senaste. Förändringen av prinsessorna är stor. Snövit är passiv och klarar sig på grund av andra. Elsa är en självständig kvinna som klarar sig på egen hand, vilket speglar hur kvinnosynen förändrats.
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Schnyder, Bernadette. "Angst in Szene gesetzt : zur Darstellung der Emotionen auf der Bühne des Aischylos /." Tübingen : G. Narr, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399215126.
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Nilsson, Andreas. ""Allt levande hörer samman" : Det kusliga som förenande kraft i Maria Gripes Tordyveln flyger i skymningen och Agnes Cecilia - en sällsam historia." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-55137.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur det kusliga kan skapas och användas i litteraturen. De litterära verk som analyseras är Maria Gripes Tordyveln flyger i skymningen och Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia. Analysen utgår från tankar om det kusliga som huvudsakligen återfinns i Sigmund Freuds essä ”Das Unheimliche” (”Det kusliga”) från 1919. Även Viktor Sklovskijs främmandegöringsbegrepp används för att analysera Gripes texter. Studien visar att romanerna främmandegör bland annat naturen och tiden för läsaren, medan det kusliga i dem – som inledningsvis kan uppfattas som hotfullt och farligt – visar sig peka i positiv riktning, mot förening och försoning. Slutsatsen är att det kusliga i Tordyveln och Agnes Cecilia används på okonventionella sätt, vilket leder till en främmandegöring av det kusliga i sig självt.<br>The purpose of this essay is to examine how the uncanny can be created and used in literature. This is done by analyzing Maria Gripe’s novels Tordyveln flyger i skymningen and Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia. The analysis is based on thoughts pertaining to the uncanny that mainly can be found in Sigmund Freud’s essay “Das Unheimliche” (“The Uncanny”) from 1919. Viktor Sklovskij’s theory on defamiliarization is also used to analyze Gripe’s texts. Among other things the study shows that the novels defamiliarize nature and time for the reader. At the same time the uncanny – which initially can be perceived as threatening or dangerous – turns out to be pointing in a positive direction, toward unification and reconciliation. The conclusion is that the uncanny in Tordyveln and Agnes Cecilia is used in unconventional ways, which leads to a defamiliarization of the uncanny in itself.
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Johansson, Sara. "Starka barn med "jävlar anamma" : En analys av grit i klassisk barnlitteratur." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67676.
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Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka och skapa djupare förståelse för hur begreppet grit framställs som motiv i klassisk barnlitteratur. Grit kan definieras som "the disposition to pursue long-term goals with sustained interest and effort over time" (Duckworth et al, 2014, s. 2). Analysens utgångspunkt är bland annat Angela Duckworths teorier om grit och Ethan Ris diskursanalys av grit. Undersökningen har ett litteratursociologiskt perspektiv och begagnar sig av speglingsteorin, som handlar om hur litteraturen speglar samhället. Det här är ett examensarbete som skrivs inom lärarprogrammet, därför studeras också vilken koppling grit har till studier i litteraturen. De frågor som ställs är hur grit framställs i persongestaltningen av karaktärerna, samt vilka samband som finns mellan grit, social klass och genus i texterna. De klassiska barnböcker som analyseras är Huckleberry Finns äventyr, Huset vid Plommonån, En liten prinsessa och Kulla-Gulla. Resultatet av analysen är att klassikerna har didaktisk användbarhet, både i skolans värdegrundsarbete och för att inspirera till grit. Motivet grit tycks dyka upp som mest när karaktärerna brottas med fattigdom och gestaltas ofta som ett utövande av självkontroll. Skönlitteraturen innehåller även oväntade och intressanta skildringar av strategier för grit.<br>The purpose of this study is to investigate and create a deeper understanding of how the concept of grit is portrayed as a motif in classical children's literature. Grit can be defined as "the disposition to pursue long-term goals with sustained interest and effort over time" (Duckworth et al, 2014, p. 2). The analysis is, among other things, based on Angela Duckworths theories on grit and Ethan Ris' analysis of the discourse of grit. The study has a perspective of literary sociology and applies the mirror theory, which describes how literature mirrors society. This is a thesis written within the teacher's education and therefore the literary connection between grit and academic studies will be investigated as well. The questions asked are how grit is portrayed in the forming of the characters, and what the connections are between grit, social class and gender in the texts. The classical children's books analyzed are the following: Huckleberry Finn, On the Banks of Plum Creek, A Little Princess and Anna All Alone. The result of the analysis is that the classics have didactic usefulness, both in the school's work with core ethical values and in order to inspire grit. The motif grit seems to appear the most when the characters struggle with poverty and is often portrayed as an exercise of self-control. The fiction also contains unexpected and interesting depictions of strategies for grit.
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Lennartz, Klaus. "Non verba sed vim : kritisch-exegetische Untersuchungen zu den Fragmenten archaischer römischer Tragiker /." Stuttgart : Teubner, 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=uHJfAAAAMAAJ.
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Stanzel, Karl-Heinz. "Liebende Hirten : Theokrits Bukolik und die alexandrinische Poesie /." Stuttgart : B. G. Teubner, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370962455.
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Frisdal, Milotte. "Motivation och ihärdighet : En studie om elevers attityder till att lära sig svenska som andraspråk." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Svenska som andraspråk, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30052.
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Motivation är en förutsättning för lärande och utveckling. Utan framgångar vad gäller studieresultat hotas elevernas inlärning och deras måluppfyllelse, och sålunda i förlängningen deras möjligheter att välja sin framtid – till exempel möjligheterna att studera vidare eller att välja ett önskat arbete. Motivation påverkar därmed indirekt elevers livschanser och framtid. Syftet med studien är att undersöka attityderna bakom motivationen att lära sig svenska hos några elever som studerar svenska som andraspråk på Språkintroduktionsprogrammet med betygsmål åk 9 på en gymnasieskola i en större stad i Sverige. Attityder som undersöktes var inställningen till målspråket svenska, målspråkstalarna och målspråkskulturen, såväl som elevernas syn på sig själva som målspråkstalare i framtiden. Slutligen studeras också elevernas uppfattning om sin arbetsinsats och ihärdighet att utsätta sig för svenskspråkigt inflöde. Samtliga 14 elever fyllde skriftligt i en enkät utifrån syftet med studien och med fyra elever fördes därefter fördjupande intervjuer. Resultatet sammanställdes utifrån studiens fyra frågeställningar. Som slutsats drogs att eleverna hyste till största delen positiva attityder till målspråket svenska, målspråkstalarna och målspråkskulturen. Eleverna drevs framåt av både en önskad och en fruktad framtida bild av sig själva som målspråkstalare. Avslutningsvis upptäcktes även en diskrepans mellan hur motiverade eleverna upplevde sig vara och den ihärdighet som de faktiskt lade ner på att lära sig svenska och att utsätta sig för svenskspråkigt inflöde.
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Soldan, William R. "In Just the Right Light." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1491431274838911.
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Funk, Sophia G. I. "Simply Genre Films: Extracting “King Lear” from “House of Strangers” and “Broken Lance"." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1632.
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The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate and refute Yvonne Griggs’ claims that the films “House of Strangers” (1949) and “Broken Lance” (1954) are as Griggs deems “genre-based adaptations” of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” I argue that the films, although they have some essential elements of “King Lear,” lack intentionality and reception, pivotal components in determining viability as a Shakespearean film adaptation. Using Griggs’ book as my critical background, I will show that these films are better classified under their respective genre categories, Western and film noir, not as “King Lear” genre adaptations. I will also suggest criteria for determining the level of canonicity of a “King Lear” film adaptation. Popularity of films does not determine validity, and a film does not need purported Shakespearean provenance to validate its ratings. Some films, like these, merely reference or pay homage to Shakespeare through use of essential elements of “King Lear”; here, I deem such affinities to be more unintentional than intentional.
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Camara, Samba. "Recording Postcolonial Nationhood: Islam and Popular Music in Senegal." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1510780384221502.
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Plazenet, Laurence. "L'ébahissement et la délectation réception comparée et poétiques du roman grec en France et en Angleterre aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles /." Paris : H. Champion, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/39196578.html.
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Marcoux, Jean-Philippe. "In The Circle : jazz Griots and the Mapping of African American Cultural Memory in Poetry." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3546.
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Ma thèse de doctorat, In the Circle: Jazz Griots and the Mapping of African American Cultural History in Poetry, étudie la façon dont les poètes afro-américains des années 1960 et 1970, Langston Hughes, David Henderson, Sonia Sanchez, et Amiri Baraka, emploient le jazz afin d’ancrer leur poésie dans la tradition de performance. Ce faisant, chacun de ces poètes démontre comment la culture noire, en conceptualisant à travers la performance des modes de résistance, fût utilisée par les peuples de descendance africaine pour contrer le racisme institutionnalisé et les discours discriminatoires. Donc, pour les fins de cette thèse, je me concentre sur quatre poètes engagés dans des dialogues poétiques avec la musicologie, l’esthétique, et la politique afro-américaines des années 1960 et 1970. Ces poètes affirment la centralité de la performativité littéraire noire afin d’assurer la survie et la continuité de la mémoire culturelle collective des afro-américains. De plus, mon argument est que la théorisation de l’art afro-américain comme engagement politique devient un élément central à l’élaboration d’une esthétique noire basée sur la performance. Ma thèse de doctorat propose donc une analyse originale des ces quatre poètes qui infusent leur poèmes avec des références au jazz et à la politique dans le but de rééduquer les générations des années 2000 en ce qui concerne leur mémoire collective.<br>My doctoral dissertation, In the Circle: Jazz Griots and the Mapping of African American Cultural History in Poetry studies the ways in which African American poets of the 1960s and 1970s, Langston Hughes, David Henderson, Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka employ jazz in order to ground their poetry in the tradition of performance. In so doing, each poet illustrates how black expressive culture, by conceptualizing through performance modes of resistance, has historically been used by people of African descent to challenge institutionalized racism and discriminatory discourses. Therefore, for the purpose of this dissertation, I focus on four poets who engage in dialogues with and about black musicology, aesthetics, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s; they assert the centrality of literary rendition for the survival and continuance of the collective cultural memory of Black Americans. In turn, I suggest that their theorization of artistry as political engagement becomes a central element in the construction of a Black Aesthetic based on performance. In the Circle: Jazz Griots and the Mapping of African American Cultural History in Poetry thus proposes an original analysis of how the four poets infused jazz and political references in their poetics in order to re-educate later generations about a collective black memory.
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Kaschula, Russell H. "Imbongi and griot: toward a comparative analysis of oral poetics in Southern and West Africa." 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59379.
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This article takes up the challenge of comparative research in Africa by analysing and comparing the oral art of West African griots and Southern African iimbongi or oral poets. Similarities and differences between these performers and their respective societies are highlighted through the use of an ethnographic methodology. A distinction is drawn between the more traditional performers such as Thiam Anchou and D.L.P. Yali-Manisi, and the more modern performers such as M’Bana Diop, Bongani Sitole and Zolani Mkiva. The rich use of genealogy and history in the more traditional performances is highlighted. In comparing the work of the more contemporary, urban poets such as M’bana Diop of Senegal and Zolani Mkiva from Southern Africa, similarities are found in their performances on post-independence leaders such as Senghor and Mandela. Political pressures which have been brought to bear on the performer are also discussed. This article explores the continuity between the past and the present in relation to aspects such as the following: how performers gain recognition, their continued survival, their relationship with politics and religion, the orality- literacy debate, and the stylistic techniques used by these performers. Wherever possible, examples of performers and their work are provided.
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Massa, Sara Mónica Furtado. "Diálogos absurdos : o silêncio traduzido em gritos pelos monstros de Samuel Beckett." Master's thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2606.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Comunicação e Cultura.<br>"[…]. […] ao longo de toda esta dissertação, navegaremos por áreas do conhecimento humano tão fascinantes quanto vastas, nomeadamente, pela Arte, pela Literatura, pela História, pela Filosofia, pela Cultura e pela Comunicação. À primeira vista, pode parecer um trajecto demasiado ambicioso de palmilhar. Reconhecemos que o seria; não fora o facto de escolhermos nos concentrar na obra literária de Samuel Beckett produzida num período relativamente curto do tempo – entre 1945 e 1950 – e de nela procurarmos escutar os avisos proferidos pelos seus monstros, aquelas palavras que encheram o silêncio depois do Holocausto. […]". (da Introdução)
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Jacob, Eliseo Josué. "The gritty city : representations of male youth in the works of Ferréz, Sacolinha, Junot Díaz and Ernesto Quiñonez." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/31001.
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This dissertation examines the ways in which Ferréz Sacolinha, Junot Díaz and Ernesto Quiñonez negotiate the global subordination of diasporic subjects in São Paulo and New York. Through a street aesthetic of the urban underworld, these four writers explore social inequalities tied to race and social class in the urban periphery. In São Paulo, Ferréz and Sacolinha use the public transit system to examine the contained mobility of residents of the periferia. Through encounters with criminality, Ferréz critiques the image of the criminoso associated with the marginal space of the periferia. Sacolinha analyzes systemic inequalities through the cobrador's use of the perua, which functions as a subversive tactic against governmental organizations. In New York, Junot Díaz and Ernesto Quiñonez address the marginalization of urban Latino youth on the streets of the inner city. Díaz complicates the fractured identity of Dominican American youth who experience stigma in relation to the U.S.'s black-white racial binary. By dissecting the relationship between crime and hegemonic social structures, Quiñonez traces Spanish Harlem residents' colonized, racialized status as Puerto Ricans in New York. In the literary works of the four authors, young protagonists roam the streets, maintaining a macho demeanor to conceal their insecurities and to appear to others -- and more importantly to themselves -- as tough individuals who will not crack under pressure. The aggressive, fearless attitude that they embody allows them to survive the inner city streets. They face an endless cycle of suspicion, racial discrimination and lack of resources, which limits their chances for social mobility.
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Nyhuis, Jeremiah E. ""A field lately ploughed" : the expressive landscapes of gender and race in the antebellum slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and William Grimes." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3628.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>The complicated state wherein ex-slaves found themselves, as depicted in the narratives of Bibb, Jacobs, and others, problematizes the dualistic relationship between North and South that the genre’s structural components work to enforce, forging an odyssey that, although sometimes still spiritual in nature, does not offer the type of resolutions that might easily persuade fellow slaves to abandon their masters and seek a similarly ambiguous identity in the so-called “free” land of the North. For blacks and especially fugitive slaves, such restrictive legal provisions provided an “uncertain status” where, writes William Andrews, “the definition of freedom for black people remained open.” In those slave narratives that dare to depict the limits of liberty in the North, this “open” status is particularly reflected in the texts’ discursive terrain itself, which portends a series of candid observations and brutal details that actively work to deconstruct any sort of mythological pattern associated with the slave narrative genre, thereby offering a more expansive view of the experience for most fugitive slaves.
The Life of William Grimes, a particularly frank and brutal diary of a man’s trials within and without slavery, is one such slave narrative, depicting a journey that, while more consistent with the general experience of ex-slaves in the antebellum U.S., often works outside the parameters of traditional, straight-forward slave narratives like Douglass’s. “I often was obliged to go off the road,” Grimes admits at one point in his autobiography, and although his remark refers to the cautious path he must tread as a fugitive slave, it might just as well describe the thematic and structural characteristics of his open-ended autobiography. Reputedly the first fugitive slave narrative, the publication of Grimes’s Life in 1825 initiated the beginning of a genre whose path had not yet been forged, which likely contributed to its fluid nature. At the time of his narrative’s publication, Grimes’s self-expressed testimony of injustice under slavery was about five years ahead of its time; it wouldn’t be until the 1830s that the U.S. antislavery movement would begin to consciously seek out ex-slaves to testify to their experience in bondage. Once this literary door was open, however, antislavery sentiment became for many early African American authors “a ready forum” for self-expression. Whereas in twenty years’ time Douglass would take full advantage of this opportunity by drawing inspiration from a number of already established narratives, Grimes as an author found himself singularly “off the road” and essentially alone in new literary territory, uncannily reflecting his sense of alienation and helplessness in the North after escaping from slavery aboard a cargo ship in 1815.
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Salvai, María Eugenia. "La invisibilización de la investigación científica sobre los estudios de mujer, género y feminismo : Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, entre 2000 y 2009." Bachelor's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11086/757.
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La investigación se propuso, luego de buscar en los catálogos de todas las bibliotecas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, analizar el estado de la producción científica elaborada desde la misma universidad, referida a estudios de mujer, género y feminismo entre los años 2000 y 2009. La hipótesis planteó que los documentos no resultan accesibles. La producción científica de estudios de mujer, género y feminismo elaborada en la U.N.C. su sistematización, registro, difusión, parecieran no haber sido objeto de investigaciones previas, por lo cual es difícil poder definir el nivel de accesibilidad que dicha temática presenta. Se analizan las posibles causas por las cuales la investigación sobre estudios de mujer, género y feminismo resulta invisibilizada.
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Brink, Malie Johanna. "Storie en sprokie : 'n ondersoek na die sprokiesmotief in enkele populere Afrikaanse romans." Diss., 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15991.
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Text in Afrikaans<br>In die verhandeling word die vergestalting van die sprokiemotief
in die tekste, Griet skryf 'n sprokie deur Marita van der Vyver
(1992) en Weerkaatsings - 'n sprokie deur Eleanor Baker (1984)
nagegaan. Die doel is om vas te stel op watter wyse hierdie
"kindgerigte" genre op die literere vlak van die volwasse leser
omvorm word. Om hierdie doel te bereik word eerstens 'n
begripsverkenning van die sprokie as epiese genre gedoen. In die
verkenning van die genre val die soeklig nie net op die Westerse
sprokie nie, maar daar word ook gefokus op die inheemse SuidAfrikaanse
sprokie.
Tweedens word aan die hand van hierdie teoretiese raamwerk 'n
noukeurige analise gemaak van die vergestalting van die
sprokiemotief binne die twee primere tekste. Die sprokieselemente
in Griet skryf 'n sprokie en Weerkaatsings - 'n sprokie word
uitgelig en die hantering daarvan vergelykend ondersoek<br>In the dissertation the manifestation of the fairytale motif in
the texts, Griet skryf 'n sprokie by Marita van der Vyver (1992),
and Weerkaatsings 'n sprokie by Eleanor Baker (1984) is
investigated. The purpose is to ascertain the manner in which
this "child-centred" genre is transformed on the literary level
of the adult reader. To achieve this goal, a conceptualization
of the fairytale as an epic genre is firstly undertaken. In the
exploration of the genre, the search light does not only focus
on the Western but also on the indigenous South African
fairytale.
Secondly, by means of this theoretical framework, a detailed
analysis is made of the manifestation of the fairytale motif in
the two primary texts. The elements of the fairytale in Griet
skryf 'n sprokie and Weerkaatsings - 'n sprokie are highlighted
and the handling thereof comparatively investigated<br>Afrikaans & Theory of Literature<br>M.A. (Afrikaans)