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Thomas, Elizabeth. "An investigation of colonialism in the novels of Nadine Gordimer and Anita Desai." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2089.

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Thesis (PhD. (English Studies)) --University of Limpopo, 2002.<br>The purpose of this study is to investigate colonialism in the novels of Nadine Gordimer and Anita Desai. A further purpose is to introduce these two major writers to a wider audience, thereby illuminating not only their work but also the artistic, social and moral assumptions on which it rests. A comparative study of the novels of Gordimer and Desai shows how these writers, from socially and culturally different countries, reflect and explore colonialism. By locating this phenomenon of world history in Post-Colonial Lite

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Dalsfoist, Kayla. "Monsters From Within and Madness From Without: Manifestations of Identity Fragmentation as a Result of Postcolonialism in Filipino American Theatre." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/267.

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This thesis explores the way in which it is possible to undermine dominant colonial power structures through the figure of the organic intellectual. In the context of this work, the figure of the organic intellectual is the Filipino American playwright, who creates characters and worlds that expose the fragmented identities of the postcolonial condition following both Spanish and American occupation. This thesis focuses on Han Ong and Ralph Peña, two Filipino American playwrights who are well suited to the role of instigating change because they embrace the cracks and fissures brought on from

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Selby, Don. "Bridging the gap? : a critical reading of Bhabha, Said and Spivak's postcolonial positions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0001/MQ43947.pdf.

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Hamilton, Grant A. R. School of English UNSW. "Beyond representation : Coetzee, Deleuze, and the colonial subject." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22310.

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This thesis concerns the colonial subject, subjectivity, and resistance in postcolonial theory and literature. It argues that contemporary attempts within the practice of postcolonial theory to retrieve a colonial subject from a representation that issues from a dominating colonial discourse can only be met with failure. Thus, this thesis follows Spivak's claim that the colonial subject is merely a production of positions granted by its very representation, which is to say, a given. However, this thesis also recognises that Spivak's assertion cannot account for moments of resistance to colo

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McCarthy, Bridie Clare, and bridiecmccarthy@yahoo com au. "At the limits: Postcolonial & Hyperreal Translations of Australian Poetry." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2006. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070329.093702.

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This dissertation employs the methodologies of postcolonial theory and hyperreal theory (following Baudrillard), in order to investigate articulations of identity, nation and representation in contemporary Australian poetry. Informed by a comparative analysis of contemporary Latin American poetry and cultural theory (in translation), as a means of re-examining the Australian context, this dissertation develops a new transnational model of Australian poetics. The central thesis of this dissertation is that contemporary Australian poetry engages with the postcolonial at its limits. That is, a

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Holgate, Ben. "Porous borders : the amorphous nature of magical realist fiction in Asia and Australasia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:32abdfeb-baa7-40ee-b721-89b66bc74043.

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This thesis aims to broaden the scope of magical realism by examining contemporary fiction in Asia and Australasia, regions which have been largely neglected in critical discussion of the narrative mode. My research seeks to modify and expand our collective conception of magical realism through key texts that challenge not only how we read the narrative mode, but also our expectations of it. My analysis involves a dual intervention in the fields of postcolonial studies and world literature. I supplement existing scholarship of magical realism with new paradigms of critical thought, such as epi

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Nyoni, Triyono Johan. ""It's the Englishness" : Bildung and Personality Forming as Postcolonial Criticism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95354.

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Through a close reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, this essay shows the key links between the novel and Frantz Fanon’s major works. In addition to providing a deeper understanding of Dangarembga’s narrative as a whole, it takes into particular consideration the embedded criticism of colonialism in the text. The psychological conditions implied by the title play a central role: the essay shows how these conditions relate to the colonial situation and how refusing to consent to subjugation can be understood as radical criticism of colonial, Christian, as well as patriarchal sup

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Giuliana, Chiara. "Negotiating home spaces : spatial practices in Italian postcolonial literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9764.

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Anandan, Prathim. "Child/subject : children as sites of postcolonial subjectivity and subjection in post-Independence South Asian fiction in English." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711768.

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Lu, Tsung Che. "Constructing Taiwan: Taiwanese Literature and National Identity." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248416/.

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In this work, I trace and reconstruct Taiwan's nation-formation as it is reflected in literary texts produced primarily during the country's two periods of colonial rule, Japanese (1895-1945) and Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) (1945-1987). One of my central arguments is that the idea of a Taiwanese nation has historically emerged from the interstices of several official and formal nationalisms: Japanese, Chinese, and later Taiwanese. In the following chapters, I argue that the concepts of Taiwan and Taiwanese have been formed and enriched over time in response to the pressures e

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Chiu, Man-Yin, and 趙敏言. "Written orders: authority and crisis in colonial and postcolonial narratives." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29812902.

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Almquist, Karin Marie 1966. "Works of mourning: Francophone women's postcolonial fictions of trauma and loss." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8337.

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x, 215 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT PQ149 .A56 2004<br>This dissertation project seeks to connect the thematic concerns of Francophone women's post-colonial fiction to broader issues of breaking cycles of violence and resisting the negative effects of globalization. An important part of the study will be a discussion of the historical trend towards the mechanization of nature to account for an ideology of domination that the West has exported to its colonies. Borrowing especially from Carolyn Merchant and the Frankfurt

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Holoch, Adele Johnsen. "Beyond the bon sauvage : questioning Canada's postcoloniality in Nancy Huston's Plainsong and Thomas King's Green grass, running water." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98542.

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This thesis approaches the question of Canada's postcoloniality through two novels, Nancy Huston's Plainsong and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water. Published in 1993, both novels problematize a postcolonial articulation of marginality in Canada, suggesting that it reduces the complexities of otherness to binary divisions of center and margin, colonizer and colonized. While Plainsong imagines the restrictive consequences such a reading may have on the others with which it engages, Green Grass, Running Water pushes past those boundaries to affirm the complex nature of alterity in contempo

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Duce, Cristy Lee. "In love and war : the politics of romance in four 21st-century Pakistani novels." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English, 2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3127.

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Writers of fiction have long since relied on love, romance, and desire to drive the plots of their work, yet some postcolonial authors use romance and interpersonal relationships to illustrate the larger political and social forces that affect their relatively marginalized experiences in a global context. To illustrate this literary strategy, I have chosen to discuss four novels written in the twenty-first century by Pakistani authors: Tbe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan, The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam, and Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. With the ge

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Ellis, Jeanne. "Past (pre)occupations, present (dis)locations : the nineteenth century restoried in texts from/about South Africa, Canada, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96012.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the 'restorying‘ of British settler colonialism in a range of texts that negotiate the intricacies of post-settler afterlives in the postcolonial contexts of South Africa, Canada, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. In this, I do not undertake a sustained, programmatic comparative reading in order to deliver a set of answers based on insights achieved into the current state of post-settler colonial identities. Rather, I approach the study as an open-ended exploration by reading a combination of texts of va

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Tay, Eddie, and 鄭竹文. "Not at home: colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37898139.

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Hugo, Pieter Hendrik. "Between wilderness and number : on literature, colonialism and the will to power." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1947.

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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.<br>The eras of colonial expansion and the era designated the modern have been both chronologically and philosophically linked from the commencement of the Renaissance period and Enlightenment thought in the 15th century. The discovery of the New World in 1492 gave impetus to a new type of literature, the colonial novel. Throughout the development of this genre, in both its narrative strategies and the depiction of the colonist’s relationship with the foreign land he now inhabits, it has been both informed and formed by the prevailing phi

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Garisch, Margaret Isabel. "Consuming pasts : imaging food as Identity and (post)memory in post-apartheid South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018556.

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This mini-thesis interprets the convergence of food and memory and explores dialectical processes associating food, identity and (post)memory, particularly in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Considering works by prominent South African Artists Berni Searle and Churchill Madikida as well as my own artistic practise and usage of food as conceptual medium, this study considers the converging effects of food, identity and memory, together with the materiality of food, from a fine arts perspective, as particularly rich and developing arena for memory work

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Fonkoue, Ramon Abelin. "Esthetique et ethique de l'agentivite dans le roman antillais." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10204.

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xii, 185 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>This dissertation examines the intersection between aesthetics and politics in the French Caribbean novel. The major argument of this work is that French Caribbean novels pursue a political agenda. I contend that in this literature, unlike in that of any other part of the contemporary world, theoretical considerations take precedence over aesthetic concerns in writers' works. I call this an "aesthetics of rupture." Considering works by authors such as

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Perwak, Lindsay H. "Gritos en el Desierto: Denuncia y Resistencia en las Obras de las Escritoras Wayuu Estercilia Simanca Pushaina y Vicenta María Siosi Pino." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3001.

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The way we read and interpret literature is frequently influenced by factors that operate beyond the scope of the average reader's awareness. In this thesis, selected works by two Wayuu writers, Estercilia Simanca Pushaina and Vicenta Maria Siosi Pino, are analyzed and interpreted in an attempt to unveil some of these behind-the-scenes agents and issues, as well as explore how the stories' classification in the children's literature genre reveals a deep-rooted colonial tendency to infantilize indigenous individuals in contemporary Colombia. Despite the fact that the two authors, both mestizo w

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Lee, Deng-Huei. "The Evolution of Yeats's Dance Imagery: The Body, Gender, and Nationalism." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4312/.

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Tracing the development of his dance imagery, this dissertation argues that Yeats's collaborations with various early modern dancers influenced his conceptions of the body, gender, and Irish nationalism. The critical tendency to read Yeats's dance emblems in light of symbolist-decadent portrayals of Salome has led to exaggerated charges of misogyny, and to neglect of these emblems' relationship to the poet's nationalism. Drawing on body criticism, dance theory, and postcolonialism, this project rereads the politics that underpin Yeats's idea of the dance, calling attention to its evolution and

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Yorke, Stephanie. "Disability, normalcy, and the failures of the nation : a reading of selected fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:50a3e631-419f-490a-9995-f0fa511e5688.

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This thesis is a study of representations of disability in a selection of Anglophone Indian literature written between 1981 and 2006. In this thesis, I argue that, in fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga, disability often takes on positive symbolic value as it represents the potential for the postcolonial polis to survive and thrive, but that the ultimate death or medical normalisation of disabled characters in many of these narratives is tied to a loss of political optimism. While these texts in many instances disturb norms surrounding able-bodiedness and

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Comberiati, Daniele. "Ecrire dans la langue de l'autre: la littérature des immigrés en Italie, 1989-2007." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210477.

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Dans ce travail on essaye de donner une définition et une historicisation de ce qu’on appelle « littérature italienne de la migration ». Il y a tout de suite une distinction à faire entre les écrivains étrangers qui écrivaient en italien avant le grand flux migratoire des années ’80 et ceux qui sont issus de cette vague, dont la thèse s’occupe dans une manière plus spécifique (années 1989-2007). Les changements sociaux et culturels que les nouveaux immigrés ont apporté, ont transformé l’Italie de pays d’émigration en pays d’immigration. Au niveau littéraire ces écrivains ont d’abord utilisé un

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Schneider, Stefanie Maria. "Gegen-Stimmen/Gegen-Blicke : Zeitgenössische literarische (De-)Konstruktionen deutsch-afrikanischer Identitäten." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86404.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates counter-voices, counter-gazes and (de-)constructions of German-African identities in contemporary German literature. In extended application of postcolonial concepts it examines the way in which post-colonial views and counter-views on Germany and Africaare produced and how in the process alternative identities are created and negotiated. Analyzing poetry, short stories and novels by Black German authors (May Ayim, Ika Hügel-Marshall, ManuEla Ritz and Olumide Popoola) as well as by African literary

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Ikobwa, James Meja Lusava. "Gedachtnis und Genozid im zeitgenossischen historischen Afrika-Roman." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79894.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Remembrance and Genocide in the Contemporary German historical Africa-Novel In view of the role that literature plays in the remembrance of the Holocaust and in consideration of postcolonial approaches to interpreting the present in relation to the past, this study investigates the questions of remembrance and genocide in the contemporary German historical novel set in Africa. For this purpose, five historical novels will be analyzed. Three of them portray the colonial extermination of the Herero and Nama in German South-West

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Kim, Joanne S. "Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523659373305353.

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Samwanda, Biggie. "Postcolonial monuments and public sculpture in Zimbabwe." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006825.

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The study critically examines public art in postcolonial Zimbabwe‘s cities of Harare and Bulawayo. In a case by case approach, I analyse the National Heroes Acre and Old Bulawayo monuments, and three contemporary sculptures – Dominic Benhura‘s Leapfrog (1993) and Adam Madebe‘s Ploughman (1987) and Looking into the future (1985). I used a qualitative research methodology to collect and analyse data. My research design utilised in-depth interviews, observation, content and document analysis, and photography to gather nuanced data and these methods ensured that data collected is validated and/or

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Manirambona, Fulgence. "Africanité et mondialisation à travers la production romanesque de la nouvelle génération d'écrivains francophones d'Afrique noire." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209947.

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Le roman africain de la nouvelle génération s’élabore au carrefour des langues et des cultures. Dans son orientation théorique et paratextuelle, le discours romanesque de la nouvelle génération se résume en une « modernité universalisante », lieu de l’articulation dialectique entre l’africanité et la mondialisation. Le contexte idéologique de création de cette littérature et le questionnement identitaire nous amènent à considérer l’africanité comme une notion dynamique et la mondialisation littéraire comme une ouverture à la concurrence et à la légitimité littéraire. Le discours péritextuel, c

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Roux, Marie. "Koloniale en postkoloniale ontmoetings : representasie en identiteit in die romans Eilande (Dan Sleigh) en Pelican Bay (Nelleke Noordervliet)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2897.

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Thesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))—University of Stellenbosch, 2007.<br>This study investigates the way in which the representation of history and of the "other" coheres with the construction of the identity of the characters in Eilande (2002) by Dan Sleigh and Pelican Bay (2002) by Nelleke Noordervliet. Initially the research contextualises the authors and their novels by means of a short biographical introduction on the two authors and their different oeuvre’s, as well as an outline of the reception history of the two chosen postcolonial novels. The theoretical background which follows,

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Costantini, Dino. "Per l'anamnesi di una malattia europea : il "nuovo discorso coloniale" francese e suoi critici." Paris 8, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA082819.

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La particularité de la tradition politique française voudrait se résumer dans sa vocation à l'universel. L'analyse du discours colonial des années '30 met en lumière le rôle décisif joué par la référence à cette vocation - et au concept de civilisation (occidentale) - dans la légitimation du colonialisme français. Cette légitimation s'appuie sur les idées complémentaires de mission civilisatrice et de mise en valeur, idées qui renvoient à la primauté française et occidentale dans la complexe taxonomie de cultures qui composerait le globe. La réponse postcoloniale - A. Césaire, A. Memmi et F. F

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Sousa, Marcella Oliveira de. "Vozes indígenas do Canadá e da Austrália: autobiografia, identidade e (hi)estórias em Halfbreed de Maria Campbell e My place de Sally Morgan." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=235.

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Essa dissertação tem como objetivo analisar as autobiografias de Maria Campbell, Halfbreed, e Sally Morgan, My Place, levando em consideração aspectos de cunho histórico, político, étnico e social do Canadá e da Austrália. Além disso, a dissertação aborda a busca das escritoras por suas identidades indígena canadense e aborígine australiana, respectivamente. Para investigação do tema escolhido realizo um estudo sobre autobiografia destacando seu contexto histórico, sua relação com o sujeito autobiográfico com base em questões de gênero e etnia. Para análise das questões de gênero uso a teoria

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Patchay, Sheenadevi. ""The struggle of memory against forgetting" contemporary fictions and rewriting of histories." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002253.

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This thesis argues that a prominent concern among contemporary writers of fiction is the recuperation of lost or occluded histories. Increasingly, contemporary writers, especially postcolonial writers, are using the medium of fiction to explore those areas of political and cultural history that have been written over or unwritten by the dominant narrative of “official” History. The act of excavating these past histories is simultaneously both traumatic and liberating – which is not to suggest that liberation itself is without pain and trauma. The retelling of traumatic pasts can lead, as is po

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Yang, Hsiao-tzu, and 楊孝慈. "The Metamorpheses of Derridean Deconstruction: Dialogues with Literary Criticism, Feminism, and Postcolonialism Since 1966." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82374512174353626467.

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Yang, Xiao-Ci, and 楊孝慈. "The Metamorpheses of Derridean Deconstruction: Dialogues with Literary Criticism, Feminism, and Postcolonialism Since 1966." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07590765332780532880.

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Fulela, Brian. "(Post)colonialities and deconstructions :bon some heterogeneous (mis)takes, double-binds, and the always already non-present perhaps." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1572.

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In this thesis I explore three key debates within postcolonial theory. I argue for the efficacy of deploying deconstructive readings in postcolonial contexts. I closely analyse the debates in order to identify a number of important questions for the theorisation of postcoloniality. My discussion of the first debate between Gayatri Spivak and Benita Parry focuses on the problematics of representation, through an analysis of the questions of subalternity, native agency/resistance/insurgency, and, crucially, the question of the political positionality of the postcolonial intellectual as investiga

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Chang, Walis Chiou-hsioung. "A convocation house (Prrngawan) biblical interpretation and TYCM tribal postcolonial concerns reading Genesis 2:4b~25 with TYCM ordinary tribal readers." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9063.

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The thesis is concerned about the postcolonial context of the minority tribal people, the Taiwan Yuen-Chu-Min (台灣原住民, TYCM), in Taiwan. The argument of this thesis includes two parts: Part one provides the background to develop the foundation for the contextualization of the TYCM tribal people’s colonized experience and postcolonial discourse in light of their contextual concerns－tribal mother tongue, tribal texts, and ordinary tribal people; Part two draws connections between these TYCM tribal people’s postcolonial concerns and biblical interpretation, which is called “TYCM Tribal Bibl

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Mokgoatsana, Sekgothe Ngwato Cedric. "Identity : from autobiography to postcoloniality : study of representations in Puleng's works." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2130.

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Fotheringham, Christopher. "History's flagstones: Nuruddin Farah and Italian postcolonial literature." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20715.

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Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Translation Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 2015<br>This study presents an argument for considering the works of Nuruddin Farah translated into Italian as core texts in the body of postcolonial Italian literature. The study focusses on Farah’s first two trilogies: Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship and Blood in the Sun. It is shown in this study that the translated versions of the novels making up these two trilogies, the former in particular, provide rare

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MacLeod, Lewis. ""The way a man does do things" : epic masculinity, grand narrative and ideological discourse in selected twentieth century novels /." 2002.

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Schleppe, Beatriz Eugenia. "Empowering new identities in postcolonial literature by Francophone women writers." Thesis, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3116178.

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Kiambi, Julius Kithinji. "Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1207.

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For those who have the courage to doubt, it can be said that the Bible which is highly regarded in Africa is not only an innocent book but also a guilty one because of the many social, political and religious evils that have bedevilled Africa from time to time and which it has condoned and has been used to sanction. Using postcolonial biblical criticism, and as a way of demonstrating that the entire Bible is another text of the empire, this thesis argues that imperial ideology promoted in Luke's socio-economic parables has contributed to another social evil i.e. the gap between the rich and th

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Jones, Stephen Matthew. "Postcolonial Welsh modernisms : ethnic performativity in Welsh writing of the late 19th and 20th centuries." 2013. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1738935.

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This project explores the ways in which several Welsh writers, and English writers of Welsh descent, respond to and reconstruct the related notions of Britishness and Welshness during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Saunders Lewis, David Jones, and Kate Roberts each reveal nuances in perspective during this period in which the British Empire reached its peak and required popular justification for doing so. Each author also participates in a form of Modernism, whether mainstream or specific to literary trends in Wales; in each case, such Modernisms are defined by an emb

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Human, Matthys Philippus. "Karolina Ferreira en Landskap met vroue en slang (deur Lettie Viljoen) in 'n postkoloniale konteks." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7521.

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M.A.<br>With the possible exception of the much-lauded Karolina Ferreira, most of Lettie Viljoen's novels are (unfairly) regarded as very complex and even incomprehensible. The main reasons being the lack of a satisfactory evaluation framework that can be used to address the interpretation problems in her texts successfully and a resulting tendency to approach her novels with conventional reading strategies and expectations. By situating Viljoen's literary work in a postcolonial context, however, basic premises of postcolonial theory and criticism can be used to develop an instrument that will

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Ntita, Samuel Beya. "Le conflit des generations dans Sous l’orage de Seydou Badian et Le porte-parole du president de Marcel Khombe Mangwanda." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13833.

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Text in French<br>Observateur invétéré des réalités quotidiennes de son milieu natal, Seydou Badian a publié, en 1957, un roman intitulé Sous l’orage. Témoin oculaire des événements journaliers de son terroir natal, surtout ceux du milieu professionnel, Marcel Khombe Mangwanda a publié de son côté, en 2008, un ouvrage intitulé Le Porte-parole du président. Après une lecture méticuleuse des deux romans, on constate que ces deux écrivains africains ont examiné avec finesse, dans leurs productions littéraires respectives un thème commun, à savoir le conflit des générations. Qu’entendent-ils par

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Ntita, Samuel. "Le conflit des generations dans Sous l’orage de Seydou Badian et Le porte-parole du president de Marcel Khombe Mangwanda." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13833.

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Observateur invétéré des réalités quotidiennes de son milieu natal, Seydou Badian a publié, en 1957, un roman intitulé Sous l’orage. Témoin oculaire des événements journaliers de son terroir natal, surtout ceux du milieu professionnel, Marcel Khombe Mangwanda a publié de son côté, en 2008, un ouvrage intitulé Le Porte-parole du président. Après une lecture méticuleuse des deux romans, on constate que ces deux écrivains africains ont examiné avec finesse, dans leurs productions littéraires respectives un thème commun, à savoir le conflit des générations. Qu’entendent-ils par conflit des généra

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Muganiwa, Josephine. "Shifting identities: representations of Shona women in selected Zimbabwean fiction." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26875.

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Bibliography: leaves 215-230<br>This thesis uses a postcolonial framework to analyse the construction and representation of identities of Shona women in selected black and white Zimbabwean-authored fiction in English published between 1890 and 2015. The study traces meanings associated with Shona women’s identities as ascribed by dominant powers in every epoch to create narratives that reflect the power dynamics. The thesis argues that identities are complex, characterized by various intersections such as race, gender, class and ethnicity. Shona women have to negotiate their identities in vari

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Welgemoed, Leana. "Verset in dramas deur Deon Opperman : Donkerland, Kruispad, Ons vir jou en Kaburu." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13068.

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Die verhandeling ondersoek die wyse waarop Deon Opperman die versetmotief in sy Afrikanerdramas uitbeeld en vernuwe om die veranderende sosiale omgewing te weerspieël. Hoofstuk 1 verskaf ‘n oorsig oor verset as leefwyse en motief in die Afrikaanse drama. Hoofstuk 2 bied ‘n teoretiese ondersoek van The theatre of revolt (Brustein 1991), ’n bespreking van begrippe soos herskrywing, multikulturalisme, moderne diaspora en globalisasie sowel as ‘n kontekstuele studie van Deon Opperman se Afrikaanse oeuvre. Hoofstuk 3 (Donkerland) fokus op verset binne ‘n postkoloniale herskrywing van die Afrikaner

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Comber, Abigail E. "Cultural construction of monsters : The prioress's tale and Song of Roland in analysis and instruction." 2012. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1697788.

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This project begins by examining current trends in the study of medieval literature, particularly in the area of medieval literature dealing with religious conflict. Literary review demonstrates that since the late 20th century, critical examination of medieval literature has been dominated by postcolonial analyses. A dedication to postcolonial analyses, in effect, has stagnated the field of medieval literary analysis, particularly in regard to those texts representing religious differences. By focusing examination on two seminal medieval texts, "The Prioress's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's Th

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Sinyonde, Bright. "Travel Narrative: Examining selected Southern African text." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/897.

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"Mythic reconstruction a study of Australian Aboriginal and South African literatures /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070928.143608, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070928.143608.

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