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Flynn, Eugene E. "Reading our way: An Indigenous-centred model for engaging with Australian Indigenous literature." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227811/1/Eugene_Flynn_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis proposes an Indigenous-centred approach to reading Australian Indigenous literature that extends beyond traditional western literary norms. It uses Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing as a framework for reading five texts written by Australian Indigenous women and non-binary people, generating new understandings of the works and synthesising an expanded model for reading. This thesis makes a critical intervention within the Australian literary sector and especially the academy, arguing for a shift of power from the majority non-Indigenous Australian literary sector to Indigenous writers and their communities.
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Hunt, Kevin T. Salgado María Antonía. "Beyond indigenismo contemporary Mexican literature of indigenous theme /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,805.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish-American)." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.
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Van, Vuuren Kathrine. "A study of indigenous children's literature in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21491.
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Bibliography: pages 151-159.Whilst an accepted area of investigation in most other English speaking countries, indigenous children's literature is a relatively new area of academic study in South Africa. Traditionally, South Africa children's literature has been targeted for a white middle class audience. In addition, most of the fiction for children that was available in South Africa, with the exception of fiction in Afrikaans, tended to be imported children's literature, which meant that there was little by way of indigenous children's literature being produced. However, since the mid-1970s there has been a considerable increase in the local production of children's literature, much of which in the last five years has been intended for a wider and more comprehensive audience and market. This study considers various issues relevant to the field of children's literature in South Africa, through both traditional means of research as well as through a series of interviews with people involved in the field itself The focus of this dissertation is a sociological study of the process whereby children's literature is disseminated in South Africa. International theories of children's literature are briefly considered in sq far as they relate to indigenous children's literature. Of particular interest to this study are current thoughts about racial and gender stereotypes in children's literature, as well as the recently developed theory of 'antibias' children's literature. The manner in which people's attitudes to and about children's literature are shaped is explored in detail. Traditional methods of publishing and distributing children's literature, as well as the current and uniquely South African award system are considered. The need to broaden the scope of current publishing methods is highlighted and the ways in which publishers foresee themselves doing this is considered. The limitations of current methods of distribution are highlighted, and some more innovative approaches, some of which are currently being used in other parts of Southern Africa, are suggested. The gap between the 'black' and the 'white' markets are considered, and possible methods of overcoming this divide are considered. The indigenous award system is considered in relation to international award systems, and criticisms of the South African award system are discussed. The issue of whether or not children should read indigenous children's literature is considered. The debate about this issue centres around a belief in the importance of children having something with which to identify when they read, as opposed to a belief in the culturally and ideologically isolating effects of providing children with mainly indigenous children's literature to read. Finally, the current belief in children's literature as a means of bridging gaps in South African society is considered through a study of three socially aware genres- namely, folktales, historical fiction and socially aware youth fiction. By way of conclusion, some of the issues raised in the body of this study are highlighted and discussed.
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Watson, Kayla Jean. "Branding the Native: The Indigenous Condition in Contemporary Peruvian Literature." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/22019.
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Latin American literature can be characterized by its narrative styles and literary techniques to expose political instability, subversive movements and human rights violations. In South America, specifically in Peru, contemporary narrative and film depicts the guerra interna between the subversive movement, Sendero Luminoso, and the Peruvian government and its impact on the developing country. This study focuses on three texts --Mario Vargas Llosa\'s Lituma en los Andes (1993), Iván Thays\' Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro (2008), and Santiago Roncagliolo\'s Abril rojo (2006)-- and two contemporary films --Claudia Llosa\'s Madeinusa (2006) and La teta asustada (2009). These works stay within the broader trajectory of Peruvian narrative and film\'s portrayal of the guerra interna. However, these works deviate from the norm by focusing on the indigenous populations\' involvement and subsequent consequences. This study examines how language, spirituality and violence dehumanizes the Peruvian indigenous during Peru\'s efforts at modernization.Master of Arts
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Arroyo, Roberto. "Retrato y Autorretrato Literario Indígena: Resistencia y Autonomía en las Américas." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18718.
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This dissertation examines how the indigenous subject has been constructed in the Americas and explores the interests of individuals, power groups, and institutions behind these characterizations. Two notions are proposed: literary portrait and self-portrait, as opposing tendencies configuring the indigenous subject. The portrait starts as a Hispanic colonial creation that kidnaps indigenous memory, pillages natural resources and is the basis of stereotypes that still endure. Next, creoles and mestizos' portrait at the birth of Latin American nations shows the indigenous as barbarians or noble savages, enabling territorial and mental occupation of indigenous spaces and attempting to assimilate the indigenous to the new nations. A portrait of indianism emerges, idealizing and accepting the "indian" under the mestizo category, dissociated from a culture, assumed as dead or a relic of the past. The final representations are the portraits of indigenism, where the indigenous are social subjects without protagonism, and of neo-indigenism, where they are represented with a religious wisdom and power to fight against foreigners that destroy the sacred circle of nature.
In radical contrast, the self-portrait defies all previous representations. Authors Enrique Sam Colop (Maya K'iché), José Luis Ayala (Aymara) and Elicura Chihuailaf (Mapuche) recover indigenous literary autonomy. Vito Apüshana (Wayúu), Briceida Cuevas (Maya Yucateca) and Natalia Toledo (Zapotec) consolidate the self-portrait at the end of the XXth and the beginning of the XXIst centuries. Self-portrait is built from tradition and reinvention of the culture, recovering indigenous agency, burying centuries of the seizure of indigenous memory and witnessing from a plural "I" their historical resistance to old and new colonialisms. This literary self-portrait accompanies the struggles for political, economic, cultural and ecological autonomy; recovers the indigenous languages as a tool for resistance, knowledge and aesthetic; uses the dominant foreign languages to form a multicultural reader; defends the notion that nature possesses a language that can be decoded; emphasizes the power of words; uses poetry as a tool for decolonization, fighting racism, and demanding equality; and values of the concept of Buen Vivir. These concepts proclaim a deep cultural transformation that is now underway.
This dissertation is written in Spanish.
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Washburn, Kathleen Grace. "Indigenous modernity and the making of Americans, 1890-1935." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1666151831&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Cowden, Stephen. "The search for an indigenous white identity in Australian literature 1885-1945." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298164.
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Dakin, Alana E. "Indigenous Continuance Through Homeland: An Analysis of Palestinian and Native American Literature." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340304236.
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Potter, Emily Claire. "Disconcerting ecologies : representations of non-indigenous belonging in contemporary Australian literature and cultural discourse." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php865.pdf.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 313-325) Specific concern is the poetic, as well as literal, significance given to the environment, and in particular to land, as a measure of belonging in Australia. Environment is explored in the context of ecologies, offered here as an alternative configuration of the nation, and in which the subject, through human and non-human environmental relations, can be culturally and spatially positioned. Argues that both environment and ecology are narrowly defined in dominant discourses that pursue an ideal, certain and authentic belonging for non-indigenous Australians.
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Ament, Gail R. "The postcolonial Mayan scribe : contemporary indigenous writers of Guatemala /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8307.
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Carta, Giorgia. "The other half of the story : the interaction between indigenous and translated literature for children in Italy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50279/.
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This thesis shows to what extent the study of Italian children's literature can benefit from an attentive analysis of the parallel corpus of translated works and of the interaction between the two. The first chapter argues that ignoring translated literature means we are telling only half of the story, since translations have had a strong impact not only on the development, but also on the formation of Italian literature for children. The second chapter disputes the assumed internationalism which suggests children's classics can cross linguistic and cultural boundaries 'naturally', employing research tools offered by Translation Studies: the mechanisms of transfer which can be observed when classics for children move from one culture into another reveal the many changes and adaptations that these books have undergone in order to be accepted in the target cultures, and also their transformation over time within their own source cultures. The third chapter explores links between translation, women's writing and children's literature by looking at the work of a limited number of significant Italian women translators of children's literature, whose contribution to Italian literature is still largely ignored. The historical period of Fascism provides a context for the observation of norms applying to literature for children in the fourth chapter. The idea that children would be much more ideologically pliable than adults led the regime to try to impose on children's books a set of norms conforming to its political aims. Following a broadly chronological line brings us, in the last chapter, to look at the way in which the penetration of innovative literary models and ideas through translation greatly influenced the development of indigenous children's literature in post-war Italy, as well as at the impact of globalisation from the 1980s onwards, both on Italian production and on imported children’s books, their distribution and reception.
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Davis, Jennifer Kay. "Achieving Cultural Identity in "Winter in the Blood" and "Ceremony"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625978.
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Rasevych, Peter. "Reading native literature from a traditional indigenous perspective, contemporary novels in a Windigo society." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60865.pdf.
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Davidovic, Marko. "Reading Red Power in 1970s Canada: Possibility and Polemic in Three Indigenous Autobiographies." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35514.
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The reorientation of federal state policy on Canada's relation to Indigenous peoples that occurred in the years 1969-1974, although heralded as progressive, inaugurated not so much an age of liberation, restititution, and reconciliation as a bureaucratic and institutional framework for perpetuating settler-colonial processes of dispossession and assimilation. This was a period of intense struggle both within and without Indigenous politics, as activist dissidents to the increasing institutionalization of negotiation with the colonial state were branded as pathological and dangerous "Red Power" militants and phased out from mainstream political discourse.
As they lived through the contradictions of these processes, three such militants turned to writing autobiographies that would become foundational influences upon the development of Indigenous literature in Canada: Maria Campbell's Halfbreed, Howard Adams's Prison of Grass, and Lee Maracle's Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel. These autobiographies, which explicitly spoke to the writers' political and activist experiences and positions, occupy a complicated position in Indigenous literary history. Often relegated to a bygone moment of polemic, bitterness, and resentment, they have been more or less systematically misread or dismissed as works of literature by literary critics. This thesis proposes that considering these works in their formal and narrative specificity, as well as constituting a literary-critical and literary-historical end in itself given the dearth of scholarly attention paid to this period of Indigenous/Canadian history in general and these works in particular, can open up productive theoretical and critical insights into two ongoing disciplinary concerns: dismantling ongoing scholarly investments in colonial premises about and usages of narrative, subjectivity, and history; and envisaging possible relations between Indigenous literature(s) and literary study and anti-colonial political processes, especially processes of activism and movement-building toward decolonization.
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Hearne, Joanna Megan. ""The Cross-Heart People": Indigenous narratives,cinema, and the Western." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290072.
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The Cross-Heart People': Indigenous Narratives, Cinema, and the Western examines cycles of cinematic and literary production, public interest, and Federal Indian policy; redirects critical considerations of the "frontier myth" in the Western; and calls attention to indigenous participation and activism in the genre from the silent era onward. To this end, my study maps changing configurations of Native American and cross-racial homes in the "Indian drama" and other visual and textual forms. Such reciprocal generic influences have lent fictional narratives the authority of documentary "truth" while infusing ethnographic image-making with the conventions of frontier melodramas. I argue that indigenous filmmaking began more than half a century before most film histories acknowledge, and that intertextual relationships between early films by native directors and genres such as the ethnographic documentary and the Western were central to the development of contemporary indigenous media. Stories of cross-racial romance intersect with policies of institutional intervention in native families throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and frequently address the societal consequences of adoption, boarding school, military service, and incarceration. Individual chapters of the dissertation focus on the cinematic re-visions of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans between 1909 and 1992; the influence of Edwin Milton Royle's 1906 stage play The Squaw Man on the silent Westerns of James Young Deer, D. W. Griffith, and Cecil B. De Mille; the invention of the "pro-Indian" Hollywood film in the context of indigenous experiences in WWII and shifting Federal Indian policies; and, in the last two chapters, the development of indigenous media through the filmmaking practices of N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Victor Masayesva, and Zacharias Kunuk in the context of revisionist representations by non-native directors, from Edward S. Curtis's In the Land of the War Canoes (1914) to Tom Laughlin's Billy Jack (1973). The reflexive gestures in recent native-directed films--their reclaiming of tradition and their focus on the historical associations between social disruption and the manipulation of indigenous images through photographs, documentaries, and Hollywood films--critically assess and re-appropriate the colonizing logic of preservation and the primitivist tropes of the "Indian drama."
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Ogechi, Nathan Oyori. "Publishing in Kiswahili and indigenous languages for enhanced adult literacy in Kenya." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91659.
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This paper argues a case for the preparation of reading materials in Kiswahili and other African languages in order to enhance adult education in Kenya. Adult education clientele are defined as those aged over 15 who (a) were either never enrolled in primary schools or dropped out before completing and (b) `graduated` and currently participate in community extension services. Cognisance of mothertongues as the best languages to begin basic literacy is taken. However, since the literacy so acquired should be useful to the individual at both local and national levels, one needs Kiswahili for wider communication. Therefore, reading materials, especially for post literacy and adult literacy teacher training should be in Kiswahili. This will not only guard against relapsing to illiteracy and misinformation but will also alleviate the scarcity of reading materials in the face of hard economic times in Kenya.
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Grossman, Michèle 1957. "Entangled subjects : talk and text in collaborative indigenous Australian life-writing." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5269.
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Ntentema, Phakamani. "The challenges in the intellectualisation of indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa: what will it take to give the indigenous languages a directive in the implementation and monitoring of language policy in South Africa?" Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33940.
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The language of an individual is another skin in ways that are many, a natural possession of any normal person we use to communicate our ideas and hopes, convey our beliefs and thoughts, explore our traditions and experiences, and improve the community of ours as well as the laws that regulate it. In the Bill of Rights, the right of official language selection was recognized, and the Constitution recognizes that the indigenous languages are a resource that has not been exploited. This study has been carried out to elevate the use and uplift the status of indigenous languages by examining the challenges of intellectualizing the indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa. The language choice in South Africa does not favour the indigenous languages. The South African government lacks the political will to practically implement the language policies. The gab is in the lack of monitoring the process of language policy and implementation. Some South African higher education institutions have clear plans to implement the language policies, and some do not. The English language dominance in the higher education system has negatively impacted the indigenous students and denigrated the indigenous language use and intellectualization. There is also a gap between the indigenous speakers and the language policy implementers. This study focused on youth from the indigenous speaking background. This study was carried out to get the voices of the indigenous youth regarding lack of implementation of language policies that are placed to develop and uplift the status and use of indigenous languages all domains and how that disadvantaged them from their point of view. This study has applied the qualitative methodology to collect the data. This study also applied the Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Language Awareness theories to analyse the findings. These theories have awakened the indigenous speakers about the power dynamics that influences the lack of implementation of language policies. This study utilized the Interpretation-focus coding strategy to analyse the data. This study explored whether languages could provide access to change, social and material conditions of its speakers and the study found that the lack of implementation of indigenous languages correlates to the delay in development of the material conditions of the indigenous speakers and languages provide access to economic, social, material, and economic changes. Multilingualism is a way forward in resolving the language issue as South Arica is a multi-lingual nation. The limitations of the study were that it was carried out during the COVID-19 era and the hard South African lockdown.
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Medley, Evan Scott. "The death of Crazy Horse anti-Indianism and indigenous survivance /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1317324681&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Attwell, David. "Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7591.
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Bibliography: leaves 219-229.This dissertation attempts to examine the social meanings of anglophone African literary criticism as an ideological discourse. It begins by engaging with Marxist critical traditions, with particular reference to two areas of debate: the question of the epistemological relationship between literature and criticism, and the question of criticism's being a discourse which, in its articulation with a given social context, relies on the resources of a particular critical heritage. The basis of the second and central chapter is the interrelationship between the context and heritage of anglophone African criticism. The dominant themes of this discourse are seen as being shaped by ideological affiliations with the modern nation-state, and by the legacy of the empirical and organic traditions of metropolitan criticism. It is argued that in the situation of neo-colonial social stratification, anglophone African criticism faces a crisis of legitimacy. In the third to fifth chapters I attempt to illustrate and refine the central argument in relation to a selection of critical texts. The chapter on two works by Eldred Jones examines his reliance on orthodox British critical assumptions and its consequences in his treatment of the writing of Wole Soyinka. The chapter on West African traditions examines a range of critical operations which are used in the construction of organic traditions based on oral or traditional cultures. These operations rely on mythopoesis, formalism and the sociology of literature. The final chapter on East African political readings investigates the internal, discursive tensions in the work of two critics who, in attempting to politicize their reading of literature, have not been able to achieve a conceptual break from the legacies of idealism.
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Ojinmah, Umelo R., and n/a. "Post-colonial tensions in a cross-cultural milieu : a comparative study of the writings of Witi Ihimaera and Chinua Achebe." University of Otago. Department of English, 1988. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070619.113620.
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In many former British colonies independence from colonial rule has produced a myriad of post-colonial tensions. Increasingly, writers from the indigenous race in these former colonies have felt moved to respond to these tensions in their imaginative fiction. This study has undertaken a comparative cross-cultural analysis of the works of two writers from such societies whose indigenous cultures share common assumptions, to explore the underlying impetus of these tensions, and the writers� proposals for resolving them.
Chapter One assesses Witi Ihimaera as a writer, and explores his concept of biculturalism, with particular emphasis on the distinctly Maori point of view which informs his analysis of contemporary social problems.
Chapter Two assays Ihimaera�s pastoral writings, Pounamu Pounamu, Tangi, and Whanau, tracing in them the development of his concept of biculturalism, and also the changes in Ihimaera�s writing that culminated in The new Net Goes Fishing, with the hardening of attitude that it expresses.
Chapter Three looks at the revisionism of Ihimaera�s view of New Zealand history from a Maori viewpoint. It uses Ihimaera�s The Matriarch not only as a means of exploring this revisionist Maori perspective, but also as evidence of the radicalisation of Ihimaera�s views, and the broadening of the concept of biculturalism to embrace not only cultural, but social and political matters.
Chapter Four considers Ihimaera�s The Whale Rider as a feminist restatement of earlier views and highlights the growing dilemma he faces concerning the concept of biculturalism.
Chapter Five focuses on Achebe, the writer, and his view of the role of the African writer in contemporary society. It argues that Achebe views himself as a seer, a visionary writer who has the answer that could regenerate his society.
Chapter Six analyses Achebe�s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, and argues that contrary to accepted views of Okonkwo, this character is not actually representative of his society but a deviant. It further argues that the post-colonial African societies� affictions with irresponsible leaders were already manifest in the colonial period, through characters such as Okonkwo and Ezeulu, whom Achebe sees as guilty of gross abuses of power and privilege.
Chapter Seven looks at both No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People, and argues that the failure of the first indigenous administrative class stems both from their having an incomplete apprehension of all the aspects of their heritage and the responsibility which power imposes on those who exercise it, and also from lack of restraint in wielding of power. It further argues that the unbridled scramble for materialism has resulted in the destruction of democratic principles.
In the context of contemporary New Zealand society, Ihimaera sees the solution for Maori post-colonial tensions as bicultural integration, but he is having problems with the concept in the face of increasing radical activism from Maoris who see it as little better than assimilation. Achebe, however, has opted for re-formism, having discarded traditionalism because it is inadequate for people in the modern world.
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Quinlivan, Natalie. "Disputed Territories as Sites of Possibility: Kim Scott's Writing and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21738.
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Kim Scott was the first Aboriginal author to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2000 for Benang, an award he won again in 2011 for That Deadman Dance. Yet despite these national accolades, Scott interrogates the very categories of Australian and Indigenous literatures to which his work is subjected. His writing reimagines, incorporates and challenges colonial ways of thinking about people and place. This thesis reveals the provocative proposal running through Scott’s collected works and projects that contemporary Australian society (and literature) should be grafted onto regional Aboriginal languages and stories as a way to express a national sense of “who we are and what we might be”. Scott’s vision of a truly postcolonial Australia and literature is articulated through his collected writings which form a network of social, historical, political and personal narratives. This thesis traces how Scott’s writing and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project (Wirlomin Project) reconfigure colonial power relationships in the disputed territories of place, language, history, identity and the globalised world of literature. Ultimately, Scott intends to create an empowered Noongar position in cross-cultural exchange and does so by disrupting the fixed categories inherent in these territories; territories constructed during the colonising and nationalising of Australia. Due to the range of the disputed territories identified in this thesis, there is an engagement with a variety of theoretical frameworks including Val Plumwood’s ecopoetics, Bakhtinian dialogic, Linda Hutcheon’s historiographic metafiction, David Damrosch’s world literature, Martin Nakata’s cultural interface and, importantly, Scott’s own writing on regional Noongar literature. Each of these approaches to Scott’s writing and the Wirlomin Project analyses how Scott begins a process of decolonisation, finding sites of Noongar empowerment, truth-telling and reciprocity in areas of cross-cultural dispute. Scott’s writing problematises the concept of a bound and unified nation in a constructive way. This thesis is broken into seven chapters that chronologically examine each of Scott’s texts within a particular disputed territory and critical framework. The first chapter performs an ecocritical reading of Scott’s short fiction and poetry (these works span the period from 1985 to 2015) and is followed by analyses of language and True Country, history and Benang, Noongar identity in Kayang and Me, the globalised world of literature and That Deadman Dance, Noongar empowerment through the Wirlomin Project, and a revisiting of these key areas in relation to Taboo. Increasingly, the Wirlomin Project becomes the nexus of Scott’s creative, personal and political trajectories and this thesis argues that, through the community-run project, Scott seeks to position an empowered Noongar heritage at the heart of a conflicted country and its stories.
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Anderson, Joshua Tyler Anderson. "The Bodies Belong to No One: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Men in Literature and Law, 1934-2010." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531047437469823.
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Dearhouse, Renae Watchman. "Fictionalizing the indigenous in German travel literature (1772-1834) : the expeditions of Chamisso, Forster, Humboldt, and Maximilian /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Konik, Inga. "Whither South Africa – neoliberalism or an embodied communitarian indigenous ethic?" Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21656.
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This thesis offers a critique of neoliberal transformation in South Africa, which process results in growing social inequality and political apathy among citizens. Many scholars have made political-economic and historical analyses of the neoliberal transition, emphasizing structural changes at work at a ‘macro’ level. However, little attention has been paid to changes that have taken place in South Africa at the ‘micro’ level – changes to individual subjectivity and gender codes. That said, the thesis opens by summarizing the above mentioned political-economic accounts of neoliberalism in South Africa, because such works are indispensable to understanding how the regime is embedded within and buttressed by major global institutions. Yet, to achieve a holistic grasp of ‘neoliberal South Africa,’ more is needed. A sociological investigation into the impact of neoliberalism on ordinary people’s self-identification uncovers deep cultural reasons for the continued perpetuation of this unjust political-economic system. Only if it can be understood why people comply with the system in the face of suffering, can effective counter-measures be proposed and implemented over time. This thesis is inherently transdisciplinary. The approach rejects the privileging of one discipline over others, and likewise cautions against collapsing or dissolving disciplines into one another. Instead, recognizing the valuable contribution that each discipline can make to critical scrutiny of a particular issue, a form of methodological transversalism is used to bring different disciplines into dialogue with one another. Following this interplay of structural and subjective analysis, the thesis uncovers the role that consumerism plays in the political neutralization of South Africans. Consumer culture, tied as it is to profitable accumulation, instigates the neoliberal ‘values’ of economistic calculation, competition, and social atomization. This ethos is inculcated in individuals, both at work and during leisure hours. Moreover, consumerism derives much of its power from its ‘sexual sell,’ the creation of fashionable and ‘exemplary’ models of masculinity and femininity. In South Africa, these hegemonic gender models serve to instill competitive individualism while derogating indigenous values. The thesis proposes that in order to counter neoliberal hegemony in South Africa, and begin reclaiming the cultural autonomy of its peoples, it is important to invigorate indigenous communitarian practices and norms. The original contribution of this thesis consists in placing the African ethos of ubuntu in transversal dialogue with global ecological feminist voices. Both political perspectives reinforce a liberatory alternative vision for a future based on principles of embodied relationality, care giving and protection of community.
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Campoi, Juliana Flávia de Assis Lorenção. "A literatura brasileira em nheengatu: uma construção de narrativas no século XIX." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-06112015-154228/.
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Os estudos que registram a Amazônia na passagem dos séculos XIX-XX representam um significativo material documental linguístico-antropológico, por sua motivação de registrar os costumes e os valores dos povos indígenas por meio da construção literária, nesta Língua Geral ou Nheengatu, à época deixando de ser a mais falada na região. Carregados de informações científicas, de espaço e de memória, esses textos influenciaram a partir de uma literatura de informação a construção de uma literatura nacional, que corroborou na constituição de uma intencional identidade brasileira. Literatura esta que amplia o universo dos ideais românticos e contribui para o entendimento de um processo de contato de forças e culturas diversas. Busca-se, assim, tratar esse registro documental a partir de questionamentos e comparações acerca do percurso e presentificação da memória, individual e coletiva, dessas sociedades indígenas, por meio dos mitos e narrativas com os ritos e toda sua simbologia do passado integrada à do presente que remetem tanto a diferentes esferas da verdade quanto a diversas concepções de tempo-espaço, e quanto à própria formação da identidade. As narrativas aqui representam esse ciclo em que rupturas e reconfigurações são interpretadas como a formação de uma nova humanidade, porém sem a descontinuidade da ancestralidade a partir da memória. Buscamos traçar um pouco de uma ruptura, a chegada da civilização e suas consequências, a povos milenares por meio de um arcabouço literário construído por intermediários, ou seja, autores que concretizaram a passagem de uma tradição, baseados quase completamente em fontes anteriores, produzindo pesquisas contemporâneas, manuais, dicionários que apresentavam informações dos saberes e cultura dos povos amazônicos.The studies that register the Amazon in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century represent an expressive linguistic and anthropological material due to the intention of register the habits and values of the indigenous people by the literary construction in Língua Geral (General Language) or Nheengatu, that no longer was the most spoken language in the period. Loaded of memories, landscapes and scientific information, these texts have influenced the construction of a national literature, though the perspective of the literature of information, that corroborated the construction of Brazilian identity formation. This literature expands the universe of romantic ideals and contributes to the understanding of a contact process of various forces and cultures. Therefore, the intention of this documentary record through questions and comparisons about the course and presentification of memory, individual and collective, of indigenous societies, through the myths and narratives that reveal the rites and all symbolism of the past integrated to the present referring to different perspectives of true as to different conceptions of time and space, and the own identity formation. The narratives here represent this cycle where ruptures and reconfigurations are interpreted as the formation of a new humanity, but without the discontinuity of ancestry from memory. We search to draw a rupture, the arrival of civilization and its consequences, to the ancient people through a literary framework constructed by intermediaries, i.e. authors who realized the passage of a tradition, based almost entirely on ancient sources, producing research contemporary, manuals, dictionaries presenting information of the knowledge and culture from Amazon peoples.
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Kwon, Kyounghye. "Local Performances, Global Stages: Postcolonial and Indigenous Drama and Performance in Glocal Circuits." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1259760023.
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Estrada, Gabriel S. "In nahui ollin, a cycle of four indigenous movements: Mexican Indian rights, oral traditions, sexualities, and new media." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280008.
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Pre-existing more hegemonic theories of Cultural Studies, Hispanic Studies, Media Arts, and Queer Studies, Nahuatl cosmologies offers an evolving political grounding for Native scholars. A Nahuatl cosmology of four directions represents a circle of masculinity, elders, femininity, and youth and forms the epistemology by which one can view Nahuatl and Xicana/o culture. In the east, Indigenous Rights directly relate to the hegemonic oppressions such as war, prison, and heterosexism that many Indigenous men face. Indigenous peoples fight those hegemonies with international legal concepts and through expressing their different epistemologies. In the north, the Caxcan oral tradition of my family contrasts with the homophobic and genocidal narratives more common in Chicano histories. I show how contemporary writers can rely more upon oral traditions and revisions to colonial records for their historical treatments of Indigenous peoples. To the west, postmodernism and feminism offer partial but incomplete analysis of Nahuatl cultures that Nahuatl women articulate in their own literatures and cosmological relations. In particular, Leslie Silko's stories are more than capable of critiquing postmodernism and ethnography, including those that describe Raramuri peoples. To the south, I demonstrate that gay Nahuatl and Xicano men can embody the social Malinche in keeping with Nahuatl beliefs. I use the idea of the gay social Malinche to critique Troyano's film, Latin Boys Go to Hell. Alternative internet sources tend to facilitate the ideas of the Social Malinche more. Together, all four movements comprise ollin, a social and cosmic movement that embraces different sexualities and generational changes in evolving aspects of dynamic social movements. Interweaving Western thought into the basic cosmology of Indigenous peoples, two-spirit social Malinches can open a path to political and social movement to improve their various relations.
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Lee, Charles Jason Peter. "Madness and the savage : indigenous peoples of the Americas and the psychology of the observer in U.S. feature films (1975-1996)." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241660.
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Barros, Ivanilde de Lima. "O desejo de navegar e as âncoras na tradição : memória e identidade de Daniel Munduruku." Universidade Federal de Roraima, 2014. http://www.bdtd.ufrr.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=182.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorO propósito deste trabalho é analisar como se dá a ressignificação da memória nas obras Meu vô Apolinário: um mergulho no rio da (minha) memória e Você lembra, pai?, de Daniel Munduruku, buscando compreender em que medida intervém nas representações das identidades que buscam referendar-se na tradição e na ancestralidade. Munduruku é o escritor indígena de maior renome no cenário literário brasileiro da atualidade, com 45 obras publicadas, é representante de uma escrita indígena que, embora em estágios diferentes, vem conquistando espaço e sendo cada vez mais publicada no Brasil, abrindo um novo leque para culturas pouco representadas nas obras de ficção sob o ponto de vista do próprio indígena. A voz dantes silenciada pelo colonizador constitui-se, em esfera literária, na representação do que é ser indígena. Esse dizer-se se estabelece por meio da navegação no rio da memória, e busca na ancestralidade um norte que aponte aspectos culturais que possam sustentar um ideal identitário indígena, tendo a diferença como marca contrastante e constituinte. Ao olhar o passado para explicar o presente, as âncoras da embarcação literária são lançadas em determinados pontos, descontinuando o movimento nas águas da memória. Essas questões serão abordadas neste estudo de caráter essencialmente qualitativo, cujas bases estão fundamentadas na pesquisa interdisciplinar de referencial teórico sobre identidade-representação-memória, na qual foram envolvidos conhecimentos de Sociologia, Antropologia e Psicologia Social, situando-se na busca pela compreensão das influências do que é rememorado nas obras indígenas, e das representações sociais que predominam como marcas identitárias, ou como a própria identidade.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how is the redefinition of memory in the Daniel Munduruku‟s works Meu vô Apolinário: um mergulho no rio da (minha) memória e Você lembra, pai?, seeking to understand the extent to which intervenes in the representations of identities that seek to ratify the tradition and ancestry. Munduruku is the most renowned Indian writer in the Brazilian literary scene today, with 45 published works, is representative of an indigenous writing that, although at different stages, is conquering space and increasingly being published in Brazil, opening up a new range for cultures underrepresented in fiction from the point of view of indigenous own. The voice silenced before the colonists constitutes, in the literary sphere, the representation of what is being indigenous. This tell if states by navigating the river of memory, and search in a North ancestry that point cultural aspects that can sustain an indigenous identity ideal, taking the difference as contrasting and constituent brand. When looking at the past to explain the present, the anchors of literary craft are launched at certain points, discontinuing the movement in the waters of memory. These issues will be addressed in this study essentially qualitative, whose foundations are based on the theoretical framework of interdisciplinary research on identity-memory-representation, in which were involved knowledge of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Psychology, standing in the quest for understanding the influences what is recollected in indigenous works, and social representations that dominate as identity marks, or the identity.
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Osaghae, Esosa O. "Mythic reconstruction : a study of Australian Aboriginal and African literatures /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070928.143608.
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Ellison, Elizabeth Rae. "The Australian beachspace : flagging the spaces of Australian beach texts." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63468/1/Elizabeth_Ellison_Thesis.pdf.
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The Australian beach is a significant component of the Australian culture and a way of life. The Australian Beachspace explores existing research about the Australian beach from a cultural and Australian studies perspective. Initially, the beach in Australian studies has been established within a binary opposition. Fiske, Hodge, and Turner (1987) pioneered the concept of the beach as a mythic space, simultaneously beautiful but abstract. In comparison, Meaghan Morris (1998) suggested that the beach was in fact an ordinary or everyday space. The research intervenes in previous discussions, suggesting that the Australian beach needs to be explored in spatial terms as well as cultural ones. The thesis suggests the beach is more than these previously established binaries and uses Soja's theory of Thirdspace (1996) to posit the term beachspace as a way of describing this complex site. The beachspace is a lived space that encompasses both the mythic and ordinary and more.
A variety of texts have been explored in this work, both film and literature. The thesis examines textual representations of the Australian beach using Soja's Thirdspace as a frame to reveal the complexities of the Australian beach through five thematic chapters. Some of the texts discussed include works by Tim Winton's Breath (2008) and Land's Edge (1993), Robert Drewe's short story collections The Bodysurfers (1987) and The Rip (2008), and films such as Newcastle (dir. Dan Castle 2008) and Blackrock (dir. Steve Vidler 1997).
Ultimately The Australian Beachspace illustrates that the multiple meanings of the beach's representations are complex and yet frequently fail to capture the layered reality of the Australian beach. The Australian beach is best described as a beachspace, a complex space that allows for the mythic and/or/both ordinary at once.
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Haining, Anna. "Sexual health for New South Wales Aboriginal people: A literature review." Thesis, Indigenous Heath Studies, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5695.
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During the past 16 years I have worked in the area of needle and syringe programs 'harm minimisation' and sexual health strategies, targeting different populations of injecting drug users in the Canterbury and Redfern area. My expertise in the field was delivering safe sex education and safe using practices to people who were at risk of HIV or sexually transmitted infections due to their using or sexual choices. Because of the nature of their using, it was not appropriate to provide extensive safe sex and safe using education, as contact with clients was usually less than 5 minutes. In this situation, each worker had to develop short and precise safe sex messages to this population while they were virtually walking out the door. Sexual health for me is such an important part of peoples' lives no matter who they are or what they do, but, there is also a down side in this area of health as many individuals have, in the past experienced many barriers and stigmatization that has influenced them in accessing sexual health services. These barriers and stigmatization from health professionals include inappropriate comments and cultural ignorance towards Aboriginal people. During the first year of my employment as a sexual health worker, women from the local communities contacted me to discuss their concerns about the limited education that families have on sexual health. The women expressed the need and importance of having Aboriginal men and women's sexual health clinics in the area that would provide clinical, education and support to community, as there was a growing concern of young girls falling pregnant and dropping out of school. In addition, the women spoke about their past (usually, not very good) experiences in attending health clinics, and identified what they saw as the main barriers which disabled them from attending sexual health clinics. These were: lack of transport to Sexual Health Services; little cultural acceptance of Sexual Health Services; Aboriginal Workers in the service; lack of availability of culturally appropriate resources, such as men and women's business being separated; and the community's lack of awareness of sexually transmitted infections. Three important themes emerged from these talks: the need for indigenous Sexual Health clinics, male and female, in a Primary Health setting that take into account the diversity of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander's culture and protocols; the need for an increase of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Health Workers in Primary Health Care settings; and Holistic Health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. Central Sydney Area Sexual Health Service has now taken positive steps towards establishing culturally effective and efficient sexual health clinics for Aboriginal men and women. Funding has been approved and these clinics will commence in 2004. Thus, the choice of this topic for my literature review is a timely one. Undertaking this literature review will provide information that identifies the scope of Aboriginal sexual health issues and, in a broader sense, identifies those issues of main concern - all of which may help inform the establishment of culturally appropriate sexual health programs/projects in CSAHS. Identifying key concerns and recommendations that relate to Aboriginal sexual health will provide an appropriate framework for the formulation of a set of principles that may guide the sexual health planning, development and implementation of sexual health projects/programs in the Central Sydney Area Health Service. in addition, Central Sydney Sexual Health Services in partnership with the Aboriginal Health Service, Redfern are currently developing an Aboriginal Sexual Health Strategy for future men and women's sexual health clinics in this area. In summary, this chapter provides an overview of the future direction of the Central Sydney Area Sexual Health Services and how the findings of this thesis will help to provide a more supportive pathway to the establishing of Aboriginal men and women's sexual health clinics in the local communities.
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DiAngelis, Heather Nicole. "Determining Reliability in Indian Captivity Narratives." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626654.
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Berthoud, Julie. "Environmental Justice and Paradigms of Survival: Unearthing Toxic Entanglements through Ecofeminist Visions and Indigenous Thought." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1415283787.
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Phillips, Sandra Ruth. "Re/presenting readings of the indigenous literary terrain." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50838/1/Sandra_Phillips_Thesis.pdf.
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In this study I investigate the spectrum of authoring, publishing and everyday reading of three texts - My Place (Morgan 1987), Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance (Pedersen and Woorunmurra 1995) and Carpentaria (Wright 2006). I have addressed this study within the field of production and consumption, utilising amongst others the work of Edward Said (1978, 1983) and Stanley Fish (1980). I locate this work within the holism of Kombu-merri philosopher, Mary Graham's 'Aboriginal Inquiry' (2008), which promotes self-reflexivity and a concern for others as central tenets of such inquiry. I also locate this work within a postcolonial framework and in recognition of the dynamic nature of that phenomenon I use Aileen MoretonRobinson's (2003) adoption of the active verb, "postcolonising"(38). In apprehending selected texts through the people who make them and who make meaning from them - authors, publishers and everyday readers, I interviewed members of each cohort within a framework that recognises the exercise of agency in their respective practices as well as the socio-historical contexts to such textual practices. Although my research design can be applied to other critical arrangements of texts, my interest here lies principally in texts that incorporate the subjects of Indigenous worldview and Indigenous experience; and in texts that are Indigenous authored or Indigenous co-authored.
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Wilson, Rohan David. "The roving party & extinction discourse in the literature of Tasmania /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6811.
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The nineteenth century discourse of extinction – a consensus of thought primarily based upon the assumption that ‘savage’ races would be displaced by the arrival of European civilisation – provided the intellectual foundation for policies which resulted in Aboriginal dispossession, internment, and death in Tasmania. For a long time, the Aboriginal Tasmanians were thought to have been annihilated. However, this claim is now understood to be fanciful. Aboriginality is no longer defined as a racial category but rather as an identity that has its basis in community. Nevertheless, extinction discourse continues to shape the features of modern literature about Tasmania. The first chapter of this dissertation will examine how extinction discourse was imagined in the nineteenth century and will trace the parallels that contemporary fiction about contact history shares with it. The novels examined include Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World by Mudrooroo, The Savage Crows by Robert Drewe, Manganinnie by Beth Roberts, and Wanting by Richard Flanagan. The extinctionist elements in these novels include a tendency to euglogise about the ‘lost race’ and a reliance on the trope of the last man or woman. The second chapter of the dissertation will examine novels that attempt to construct a representation of Aboriginality without reference to extinction. These texts subvert and ironise extinction discourse as a way of breaking the discursive continuities with colonialism and establishing a more nuanced view of Aboriginal identity in a post-colonial context. Novels analysed here include Drift by Brian Castro, Elysium by Robert Edric, and English Passengers by Matthew Kneale.However, in attempting to arrive at new understandings about Aboriginality, non-Aboriginal authors are hindered by the epistemological difficulties of knowing and representing the Other. In particular, they seem unable to extricate themselves from the binaries of colonialism.
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Sales, Maria da Luz Lima. "A literatura infantil indígena como meio de promoção da educação multicultural: a intervenção didática em uma escola de Belém (Brasil)." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/24487.
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A pesquisa apresentou como tema central a Literatura Infantil Indígena como meio de
promoção da educação multicultural, em vista de haver no Brasil um contexto de violência e
discriminação contra povos indígenas que vivem neste país antes mesmo da colonização em
1500 pelos portugueses. De natureza qualitativa e naturalista, a investigação empregou
entrevistas semiestruturadas a discentes do quarto ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola
de Belém (Brasil) no primeiro semestre de 2017, compondo-se basicamente de duas partes e
com objetivos diferentes. Para a primeira, intentou-se conhecer, nos alunos, as atitudes e
concepções acerca das populações e culturas indígenas, percebendo sua receptividade em
relação à cultura e literatura indígenas. Na segunda parte, buscou-se alcançar o nível de
conhecimento dos discentes em relação a essa cultura, incentivando maior respeito pelo
nativo brasileiro bem como por sua cultura. Empregou-se, além de pesquisa em documentos e
observações colhidas em notas de campo, a intervenção em sala de aula, consubstanciada em
dez oficinas, nas quais foram aplicadas as histórias da Literatura Infantil Indígena narradas
tanto por escritores indígenas como por não indígenas e também inúmeros outros recursos
didáticos, como meio de inovar as práticas no ambiente escolar e, assim, minorar atitudes
preconceituosas e intolerantes em relação às sociedades indígenas e seu ethos, fazendo com
que estas possam ser respeitadas e valorizadas em plenitude. De modo conclusivo,
constataram-se pequenas modificações que se constituíram nas concepções dos sujeitoscrianças,
em relação à cultura indígena. Tais mudanças, conquanto não serem absolutas, dão
indícios de que ações didáticas como esta, junto a um trabalho constante e sistemático sobre a
literatura e a cultura indígenas, poderão contribuir sucessivamente para a mudança de atitude
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The research presented as a central theme the indigenous children's literature as the means of
propagation of the multicultural education, considering the Brazil as context of violence and
prejudice against indigenous peoples that live in this country even before the colonization in
1500 by the Portuguese. Of a qualitative and naturalist nature, the investigation used semi
structured interviews to students of the fourth year of elementary in a Belem's (Brazil's)
school on the first semester of 2017, composing basically of two parts and with different
objectives. At first, it was attempted to know on the students the attitudes and concepts about
the peoples and indigenous cultures realizing our reality in relationship to the culture and
indigenous literature. Second, it was attempted to achieve the level of knowledge of the
students in relationship to that culture, encouraging higher respect by the Brazilian native as
well as for their culture. Was used, in addition to the research in documents and observations
collected in field notes, the intervention in classroom, united on ten workshops in which was
applied the histories of children's indigenous literature narrated both as indigenous writers as
non-indigenous writers and also a lot of others didactic resources in order to innovate the
practices on the scholar environment and so decrease prejudiced attitudes and intolerant in
relationship to indigenous societies and their ethos, causing these can be respected and valued
in fullness. Conclusively, were found shorts modifications that compose the conceptions of
the child-subjects in relationship to the indigenous culture. Such changes, although aren't
absolute, indicate didactic actions like this, next to a constant work and systematic about the
literature and indigenous culture that may contribute successively for a change of position of
the society in relationship to the indigenous peoples.
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Allen, Chadwick 1964. "Blood as narrative/narrative as blood: Constructing indigenous identity in contemporary American Indian and New Zealand Maori literatures and politics." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289022.
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Following the end of World War II and the formation of the United Nations organization, indigenous minorities who had fought on behalf of First World nations--including record numbers of New Zealand Maori and American Indians--pursued their longstanding efforts to assert cultural and political distinctiveness from dominant settler populations with renewed vigor. In the first decades after the War, New Zealand Maori and American Indians worked largely within dominant discourses in their efforts to define viable contemporary indigenous identities. But by the late 1960s and early 1970s, both New Zealand and the United States felt the effects of an emerging indigenous "renaissance," marked by dramatic events of political and cultural activism and by unprecedented literary production. By the mid-1970s, New Zealand Maori and American Indians were part of an emerging international indigenous rights movement, signaled by the formation and first general assembly of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP). In "Blood As Narrative/Narrative As Blood," I chronicle these periods of indigenous minority activism and writing and investigate the wide range of tactics developed for asserting indigenous difference in literary and political activist texts produced by the WCIP, New Zealand Maori, and American Indians. Indigenous minority or "Fourth World" writers and activists have mobilized and revalued both indigenous and dominant discourses, including the pictographic discourse of plains Indian "winter counts" in the United States and the ritual discourse of the Maori marae in New Zealand, as well as the discourse of treaties in both. These writers and activists have also created powerful tropes and emblematic figures for contemporary indigenous identity, including "blood memory," the ancient child, and the rebuilding of the ancestral house (whare tipuna). My readings of a wide range of poems, short stories, novels, essays, non-fiction works, representations of cultural and political activism, and works of literary, art history, political science, and cultural criticism lead to the development of critical approaches for reading indigenous minority literary and political activist texts that take into account the complex historical and cultural contexts of their production--local, national and, increasingly, global.
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Blackmore, Ernie. "Speakin' out blak an examination of finding an "urban" Indigenous "voice" through contemporary Australian theatre /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080111.121828/index.html, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080111.121828/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2007."Including the plays Positive expectations and Waiting for ships." Title from web document (viewed 7/4/08). Includes bibliographical references: leaf 249-267.
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Sanches, Rafaela Mendes Mano. "O indianismo sob a ótica de Gonçalves Dias e José de Alencar : tradição ou ruptura /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94163.
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Orientador: Susanna BusatoBanca: Luiz Gonzaga Marchezan
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Resumo: A partir das forças ideológicas, estéticas e literárias que constroem a convenção romântica brasileira no século XIX, estudaremos o modo como Gonçalves Dias e José de Alencar imprimem seus posicionamentos críticos e literários, e o modo como manifestam um olhar particularizado sobre a representação da cultura mítica do índio. Propomos elaborar um percurso analítico das afirmações românticas brasileiras, fundamentadas por princípios que se opõem à estrutura clássica. Por outro lado, levantaremos questões estéticas da tradição ocidental, considerando que as diretrizes citadas, as afirmações românticas e a tradição ocidental, alimentam as visões críticas e estéticas dos dois literatos abordados. Assim, as linguagens literárias de Dias e Alencar, vistas sob o trânsito de tensões clássicas e românticas, mapeiam caminhos para o registro de uma representação literária diferenciada. Entre tradição e ruptura, apontaremos, por meio de cartas, de prólogos e das "Poesias Americanas", de Gonçalves Dias, e por meio de cartas, de ensaios literários, e do romance O Guarani, de José de Alencar, a contribuição desses poetas para elaboração de uma língua brasileira e para a formação de uma literatura local. Nesse sentido, nosso objetivo é revisitar o romantismo brasileiro a fim de registrar a estrutura formal e temática das produções poéticas citadas, que se fundam em tensões que procuram abrir novas perspectivas para a literatura brasileira.
Abstract: This work deals with Gonçalves Dias and José de Alencar critical and literary position, including in an ideological, aesthetic and literary forces that forms Brazilian romantic convention in the 19th century. It will be also studied the way the authors manifest a different representation from the one manifested by the Indian mythical culture. The proposal is to elaborate an analytical pathway for the Brazilian romantic affirmation, based on principles that are opposed from classic structure. On the other hand, aesthetic questions about Western tradition will be raised, considering two directions guide: the critical and the aesthetic visions from both authors. Dias and Alencar literary texts, seen as classic and romantic tension, mapp different ways of literary representation. This work explores tradition and rupture in letters, prologue and "Poesias Americanas", by Gonçalves Dias, and also letters, literary essays, and the novel O Guarani, by José de Alencar, including the contribution from both poets to the Brazilian language and literature formation. Thus, the aim is to revisit Brazilian romanticism in order to register formal structure from the poetic productions above. Those productions engage themselves in tensions that seek to open new perspectives for Brazilian literature.
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Cappel, Morgan Morgan. "Indigenous Ghosts and Haunted Landscapes: The Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic Fiction of B.M. Croker and Alice Perrin." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524597175648086.
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Anderson, Robyn Lisa, and n/a. "The decolonisation of culture, the trickster as transformer in native Canadian and Maori fiction." University of Otago. Department of English, 2003. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070508.145908.
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The trickster is a powerful figure of transformation in many societies, including Native Canadian and Maori cultures. As a demi-god, the trickster has the ability to assume the shape of a variety of animals and humans, but is typically associated with one particular form. In Native Canadian tribes, the trickster is identified as an animal and can range from a Raven to a Coyote, depending on the tribal mythologies from which he/she is derived. In Maori culture, Maui is the trickster figure and is conceptualised as a human male. In this thesis, I discuss how the traditional trickster is contexualised in the contemporary texts of both Native Canadian and Maori writers. Thomas King, Lee Maracle, Witi Ihimaera, and Patricia Grace all use the trickster figure, and the tricksterish strategies of creation/destruction, pedagogy, and humour to facilitate the decolonisation of culture within the textual realms of their novels. The trickster enables the destruction of stereotyped representations of colonised peoples and the creation of revised portrayals of these communities from an indigenous perspective. These recreated realities aid in teaching indigenous communities the strengths inherent in their cultural traditions, and foreground the use of comedy as an effective pedagogical device and subversive weapon. Although the use of trickster is considerable in both Maori and Native Canadian texts, it tends to be more explicit in the latter. A number of possibilities for these differences are considered.
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Alves, Adriana de Carvalho. "Brasil e Argentina, mediação pela cultura: a contribuição dos indígenas ao projeto nacional à luz dos textos de José de Alencar e Domingo Faustino Sarmiento." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/84/84131/tde-22102012-114629/.
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O trabalho em questão tem por objetivo geral verificar quais visões acerca dos indígenas ficaram registradas nas narrativas do século XIX no Brasil e na Argentina. Para tanto, analisamos os textos Etnologia Americana, presente na obra Conflicto y armonias de las razas en América, de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, e o romance indigenista O Guarani, de José de Alencar. Utilizamos a metodologia da análise comparativa para compreendermos alguns aspectos sociais dos dois países que, apesar de apresentarem realidades distintas, fizeram parte de um complexo quadro político, cultural e social da América Latina no século XIX; os dois países procuravam constituir-se enquanto Nação, tendo que solucionar algumas demandas herdadas do período colonial. O esforço de elaboração de um projeto nacional passava pela construção e reconhecimento de um passado nacional que incluía a questão indígena. Essa especificidade, inerente aos países latino-americanos, moveu nosso interesse para a pesquisa, dirigindo o esforço filológico no sentido interpretar como os textos acima mencionados apresentavam os indígenas. Com a finalidade de ampliar nossa compreensão sobre o tratamento dado à temática indígena no século XIX, realizamos leituras interdisciplinares que nos auxiliaram no sentido de revelar como se dava a produção do pensamento social, elemento que fundamentava as visões que os textos nos apresentam.The work in question aims at general check which visions about the indigenous were recorded in the 19th century narratives in Brazil and in Argentina. To this end, we analyze the texts \"American Ethnology\", present in the work \"Conflicto y armonias de las razas en América\" by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the Indian novel O Guarani, by José de Alencar. We use the methodology of comparative analysis to understand some social aspects of the two countries which, although present distinct realities, they were part of a complex political, cultural and social framework of Latin America in the 19th century; the two countries sought to establish itself as a nation having to solve some inherited from the colonial period demands. The effort to develop a national project passed by construction and recognition of a national past that included the indigenous question. This specificity, which is inherent to Latin American countries, moved our interest for research, driving the philological effort to interpret how the texts mentioned above presented the natives. In order to broaden our understanding of the treatment given to indigenous issues in the 19th century, we conduct interdisciplinary readings that helped to reveal how was the production of social thought, the aim that justify the visions that the texts present us.
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Dewey-Montefort, Jamie Arlene. "Entre la Literatura Indianista y la Narrativa Neo-Indigenista: Identidad y Modernidad." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143410417.
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Allsup, Andrew. "Queer indigenous rhetorics: decolonizing the socio-symbolic order of Euro-American gender and sexual imaginaries." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20414.
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This thesis explores the rhetorical function of creative writing being written by queer/two-spirit identified indigenous authors. The rhetorical function being the way these stories politicize the various ways gender and sexuality were foundational tools of settler colonialism in de-tribalizing and assimilating indigenous folks. The literary perspective often elides politics in favor of deconstructing aspects of creative writing such as genre, syntax, and themes instead of the socio-political potential such works produce. The three works I examine all have something to teach rhetorical scholars about the need to politicize the socio-sexual and gendered imaginaries of settler colonialism in discourses of the founding fathers, manifest destiny, westward expansion, land purchase. statehood, American exceptionalism, democracy promotion, and many more. They fundamentally challenge rhetorics that posit static notions of American identity and/or purpose that represses the historical and ongoing genocide of indigenous culture and life. In this way, they intervene in the very notion of communicability itself within the socio-symbolic economy of settler colonialism and its attendant hetero-patriarchal gendered and sexual imaginaries.
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Espinoza, Hannah Brady. "The Sovereignty of Story: The Voices of Native American Women Continuing Indigenous Knowledge and Practice." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429270316.
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Elliott, Kim. "Women (re)writing history, constructing the case for a state-centered analysis of indigenous women's literature in South Africa and Israel/Palestine." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ36863.pdf.
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Lisbôa, Paulo Victor Albertoni 1989. "O escritor Jekupé e a literatura nativa." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279706.
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Orientador: Nadia FarageDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa é apresentar uma interpretação da produção literária de Olívio Jekupé, escritor Guarani. A sua atividade literária, que dependia inicialmente dos meios independentes de publicação, mudou profundamente desde a incorporação da literatura indígena contemporânea à categoria editorial de "literatura infantojuvenil", motivada pela formação do Núcleo de Escritores e Artistas Indígenas (NEARIN), em parceria com a Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil (FNLIJ), e pela legislação vigente. Nesse contexto, ganha relevo a defesa de Olívio Jekupé da consolidação de uma literatura nativa no Brasil que seja capaz de estabelecer uma narratividade outra, frente à sua percepção de que os narradores de histórias orais estão desaparecendo. Embora a compreensão do autor esteja centrada na escrita, suas narrativas literárias apresentam índices de oralidade e marcas composicionais de tradição oral que situam a sua literatura entre a letra e a voz. Por consequência, identificamos algumas das dimensões nas quais a oralidade e o letramento, a letra e a voz encontram-se inscritas nas suas narrativas: nos seus temas, nos seus personagens, na sua forma, na sua composição discursiva. Como pretendemos demonstrar, a literatura de Olívio Jekupé expressa seu hibridismo em várias dessas dimensões
Abstract: The aim of this work is to present an interpretation of Olívio Jekupé¿s literary production, a Guarani writer. His literary activity that was initially dependent of independent means of publication changed profoundly since the incorporation of the contemporary indigenous literature to the editorial category of "children's and youth literature", motivated by the formation of the Núcleo de Escritores e Artistas Indígenas - NEARIN (Center of Writers and Artists Indigenous), in partnership with the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil - FNLIJ (Foundation of Children¿s and Youth Book), and by the current legislation. In this context, Olívio Jekupé¿s defense of a consolidation of a native literature in Brazil which is able to establish another narrative before his perception that the narrators of the oral histories are disappearing becomes a highlighted one. Although the author¿s understanding is focused on writing, his literary narratives present rates of orality and compositional marks of oral tradition that place his literature between the letter and the voice. Consequently, we identified some dimensions in which orality and literacy, the letter and the voice meet one another in his narratives: in the themes, in the characters, in the form, in his discursive composition. As we intend to demonstrate, Olívio Jekupé¿s literature expresses its hybridity in several of those dimensions
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Davis, Andréa Diane. "The literacy event horizon: Examining orality and literacy in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2926.
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Applies James Gee's concept of Discourses to illustrate how literacy and orality thematically constitute hybrid identity in Silko's novel Ceremony. Then, applies Wallace Chafe's linguistic framework of integration and involvement showing that the novel is a linguistic hybrid, not just a text that thematically elevates hybridity. Unlike other Native American authors who create half-breed characters merely as bridges between two cultures, Silko creates her character Tayo as an embodiment of an emergent hybrid culture.