Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Postcolonial literary theory'
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Al-Abbood, Muhammed Noor. "The cultural politics of resistance : Frantz Fanon and postcolonial literary theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310373.
Full textAl, Janabi Hazam K. A. "Postcolonial nationalism and contemporary literary theory : Algerian and Iraqi novels from 1962 to the present." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/43044.
Full textBurns, Brian. "Hybridization of the Self, Colonial Discourse and the Deconstruction of Value Systems : A Postcolonial Literary Theory Perspective of Literature inculpating Colonialism." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35112.
Full textAlvandi, Nazanin. "Literary Theory in Upper Secondary School : Should It Be Used Before Higher Education?" Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44612.
Full textSvärd, Helena. "“Och här är det man finner det man söker.” : En stilistisk analys av fyra miljöskildringar i Selma Lagerlöfs Jerusalem." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Svenska/Nordiska språk, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-154169.
Full textHollertz, Julia. "What am I, what are you? : A pedagogical analysis on how C.N Adichie's novel "Americanah" comments on the postcolonial features; alterity, identity, and racial prejudice, and their use in the EFL classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-71808.
Full textDean, Andrew. "Foes, ghosts, and faces in the water : self-reflexivity in postwar fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4c2e3b07-2454-457a-bf9f-a3f0734c89ba.
Full textSantos, Carolina Correia dos. "Às margens: um estudo ao redor de Os Sertões, Native Son e Cidade de Deus." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-30012014-101011/.
Full textThis dissertation looks at the work of Euclides da Cunha\'s Os Sertões (1902), Richard Wright\'s Native Son (1940) and Paulo Lins\'s Cidade de Deus (1997). It seeks to be a creative reading of the books and their critical fortune by way of a comparative approach, ultimately allowing new aspects, such as hegemonic and counter-hegemonic elements, to come to the fore. The basis of this study is that literary and critical texts are all inserted in a greater political field. This research draws upon neighboring disciplines and theorists such as: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ranajit Guha, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jacques Derrida.
Francis, Toni P. "Identity Politics: Postcolonial Theory and Writing Instruction." Scholar Commons, 2007. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/711.
Full textJohansson, Stephanie. "Decolonising Literature : Exclusionary Practices and Writing to Resist/Re-Exist." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148985.
Full textOsseo-Asare, Philomena Abla. "Postcolonial theory and early literacy development for 4-8 year-olds : a life history study of Ghanaian teachers." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18355/.
Full textYousef, Viyan. "”Var kommer du ifrån? Egentligen.” : En postkolonial feministisk litteraturanalys om mellanförskap och identitet i antologin Sverige – en (o)besvarad kärlekshistoria." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-71729.
Full textRibeiro, Giselle Rodrigues. "Caminhos teóricos para a leitura literária de práticas de resistência subalterna." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-27092010-162632/.
Full textBy recognizing that the voices of subaltern characters were often overlooked in the study of literary texts, we decided to carry out a theoretical work that could assist the student of literature to structure his/her literary analysis by following a decolonized perspective. We wanted the scholar of literature to transcend the focus on the characterization of the oppression that marks the subaltern existence by paying more attention to the strategies of resistance carried out by marginalized individuals in a way to ensure the necessary conditions for their survival. Thus, we decide to consider the Bakhtinian perspective of the other; the concepts of Relation and of Creolization, considered by Edouard Glissant; the concepts of homo situs and of symbolic sites of belonging, developed by Hassan Zaoual, and the idea of a cosmopolitan reason, as it is proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. This was done because the intellectual consensus revealed in these texts, regarding the existence, the capacity and the value of the role of subaltern people was adequate to the theoretical model that we wanted to propose. It is also important to mention that the development of this work contributed to the diffusion of the concept of subaltern existence, remarkably crafted by Spivak in 1980s, and recently surpassed by Latin American researchers, when they stick to the examination of the coloniality of power and of a geopolitics of knowledge, and by Portuguese intellectuals when they tend to consider the studies and the resistance movements developed from the South.
Chetty, Raj G. "Versions of America : reading American literature for identity and difference /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1528.pdf.
Full textHuggins, Valerie. "International study visits and the promotion of intercultural capabilities : an exploratory study." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3359.
Full textWatt, Diane P. "Juxtaposing Sonare and Videre Midst Curricular Spaces: Negotiating Muslim, Female Identities in the Discursive Spaces of Schooling and Visual Media Cultures." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19973.
Full textBundu, Malela Buata. "L'Homme pareil aux autres: stratégies et postures identitaires de l'écrivain afro-antillais à Paris, 1920-1960." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210803.
Full textPour ce faire, notre démarche s’articule en deux temps :(1) examiner les conditions de possibilité d’un champ littéraire afro-antillais à Paris (colonisation française et ses effets, configuration d’un champ littéraire pré-institutionnalisé, etc.) ;(2) analyser les processus de consolidation du champ, ainsi que les luttes internes qui opposent deux tendances émergentes représentées d’abord par Senghor et Césaire, ensuite par Beti et Glissant, dont les prises de position littéraires mettent en œuvre des « modèles empiriques » ;ceux-ci régulent et unifient leurs rapports au monde et à l’Afrique.
This study relates to afro-carribean literature in colonial period (1920-1960). We want to examine the strategies of agents like René Maran, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant and Mongo Beti ;and we want to understand how they invente literary and social identity.
Our approach is structured in two steps: we shall analyse (1) the conditions for an afro-carribean literary field to appear in Paris (french colonialism and its consequences, configuration of literay field.) ;(2) the consolidation of this field and the internal struggles between two tendances represented by Senghor and Césaire, by Glissant and Beti whose literary practice shows the “empirical model” that regularizes and consolidates their relation with the world and Africa.
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation langue et littérature
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Ciobanu, Calina. "Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/9955.
Full textThis dissertation explores how the contemporary Anglophone novel asks its readers to imagine and respond to disposable life as it emerges in our present-day biopolitical landscape. As the project frames it, disposable life is not just life that is disposed of; it is life whose disposal is routine and unremarkable, even socially and legally sanctioned for such purposes as human consumption, scientific knowledge-production, and economic and political gain. In the novels considered, disposability is tied to excess--to the "too many" who cannot be counted, much less individuated on a case-by-case basis.
This project argues that the contemporary novel forces a global readership to confront the mechanisms of devaluing life that are part of everyday existence. And while the factory-farmed animal serves as the example of disposable life par excellence, this project frames disposability as a form of normalized violence that has the power to operate across species lines to affect the human as well. Accordingly, each chapter examines the contemporary condition of disposability via a different figure of disposable life: the nonhuman (the animal in J. M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals and Disgrace), the replicated human (the clone in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go), the woman (in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy), and the postcolonial subject (the victim of industrial disaster in Indra Sinha's Animal's People and political violence in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost). Chapter by chapter, the dissertation demonstrates how the contemporary novel both exposes the logic and operations of disposability, and, by mobilizing literary techniques like intertextual play and uncanny narration, offers up a set of distinctively literary solutions to it.
The dissertation argues that the contemporary novel disrupts the workings of disposability by teaching its audience to read differently--whether, for instance, by destabilizing the reader's sense of mastery over the text or by effecting paradigm shifts in the ethical frameworks the reader brings to bear on the encounter with the literary work. Taken together, the novels discussed in this dissertation move their readership away from a sympathetic imagination based on the potential substitutability of the self for the other and toward a form of readerly engagement that insists on preserving the other's irreducible difference. Ultimately, this project argues, these modes of reading bring those so-called disposable lives, which are abjected by dominant social, economic, and political frameworks, squarely back into the realm of ethical consideration.
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Kalua, Fetson Anderson. "The collapse of certainty: contextualizing liminality in Botswana fiction and reportage." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1886.
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Glisson, Silas Nease. "Cultural nationalism and colonialism in nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16852.
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Ryvolová, Karolína. "Komparační studie čtyř romských životních příběhů." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-336108.
Full text(8850251), Ghaleb Alomaish. "“DOUBLE REFRACTION”: IMAGE PROJECTION AND PERCEPTION IN SAUDI-AMERICAN CONTEXTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY." Thesis, 2020.
Find full textThis dissertation aims to create a scholarly space where a seventy-five-year-old “special relationship” (1945-2020) between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States is examined from an interdisciplinary comparativist perspective. I posit that a comparative study of Saudi and American fiction goes beyond the limitedness of global geopolitics and proves to uncover some new literary, sociocultural, and historical dimensions of this long history, while shedding some light on others. Saudi writers creatively challenge the inherently static and monolithic image of Saudi Arabia, its culture and people in the West. They also simultaneously unsettle the notion of homogeneity and enable us to gain new insight into self-perception within the local Saudi context by offering a wide scope of genuine engagements with distinctive themes ranging from spatiality, identity, ethnicity, and gender to slavery, religiosity and (post)modernity. On the other side, American authors still show some signs of ambivalence towards the depiction of the Saudi (Muslim/Arab) Other, but they nonetheless also demonstrate serious effort to emancipate their representations from the confining legacy of (neo)Orientalist discourse and oil politics by tackling the concepts of race, alterity, hegemony, radicalism, nomadism and (un)belonging.
Hiebert, Luann E. "Encountering maternal silence: writing strategies for negotiating margins of mother/ing in contemporary Canadian prairie women's poetry." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31201.
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