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Genette, Adriane.
Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South
African Fiction.
Degree: PhD, English, 2013, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320655/
► Debates in Postcolonial and South African studies have long centered on the relative value of two different approaches to literature, which Benita Parry has categorized…
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Postcolonial and South African studies have
long centered on the relative value of two different approaches to
literature, which Benita Parry has categorized as "discourse
analysis" and "historical materialist analysis." This
methodological difference has generated enduring scholarly
conflicts such as the one between Jacques Derrida, Anne McClintock,
and Rob Nixon about how to theorize the word "apartheid." In a 1986
issue of Critical Inquiry, Derrida contests McClintock and Nixon's
claim that the methodology of deconstruction divorces the language
and discourse of apartheid from its historical reality. The
exchange between Derrida and his interlocutors McClintock and Nixon
exemplifies an ongoing methodological challenge in
Postcolonial
Studies. Critics who are committed to a sociological perspective on
literature argue that the most dominant strains in
Postcolonial and
South African studies privilege "discourse analysis" over
"historical materialist analysis," thereby neglecting the social,
economic, and political contexts of
Postcolonial fiction. In this
dissertation, I argue that the most productive readings of South
African fiction begin by thinking beyond the materialist /
textualist divide. This hybrid approach has been advocated by
critics such as Edward Said, whose work draws equally on
Foucaultian discourse analysis and the Marxist concept of hegemony.
Inspired by Said's dual orientation to language and history, text
and context, my project combines the synchronic approach favored by
poststructuralists with the diachronic focus of materialist
criticism. My argument is twofold. First, I suggest that the
vocabulary of modernism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism can
be useful for understanding how authors such as Nadine Gordimer,
Zoë Wicomb, Rayda Jacobs and Darryl Accone use form and narrative
to theorize space and identity in their novels. Second, I stress
that the forms and styles of their texts are nevertheless
contingent on, and entangled with, the particularities of cultures,
histories, and geographies. In this way, I demonstrate the ways in
which the writers allow us to see that the textual is powerful as
text not because it transcends the historical, but because it
incorporates and mediates the historical.
Advisors/Committee Members: George, Olakunle (Director), Kim, Daniel (Reader), Chow, Rey (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial
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Genette, A. (2013). Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South
African Fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320655/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Genette, Adriane. “Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South
African Fiction.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320655/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Genette, Adriane. “Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South
African Fiction.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Genette A. Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South
African Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320655/.
Council of Science Editors:
Genette A. Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South
African Fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320655/

Texas A&M University
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Rivas, Araceli.
Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the.
Degree: PhD, Educational Psychology, 2006, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310
► Research is a modern practice whose production of knowledge needs to be critically and continually examined. The pursuit of knowledge is not a neutral and…
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▼ Research is a modern practice whose production of knowledge needs to be
critically and continually examined. The pursuit of knowledge is not a neutral and
objective endeavor; it is a socially situated practice that is embedded within
power/knowledge/culture configurations. Historically, research discourses have labeled
and positioned minority groups to an inferiority/superiority matrix, illustrating how
research can create an oppressive otherness/alterity. Thus, the general purpose of this
study was to critically critique research from the
postcolonial perspectives of alterity and
colonial discourse. In particular, the study sought to deconstruct the conceptual systems
that create the alterity of (Mexican) American children within research discourse.
The study was in part guided by Said's (1978) analysis of the colonial discourse
in Orientalism. There were two parts to the study that analyzed one hundred and
nineteen research documents from 1980-2004. Phase I identified the discursive themes
that construct that alterity of (Mexican) Americans by employing a qualitative content
analysis method. Phase II employed a discourse analysis method to deconstruct theconceptual systems and sites of power in the production of knowledge that position
(Mexican) Americans as objects of research.
The analysis disclosed that the conceptual systems that construct the alterity of
(Mexican) Americans are structured by modern and colonial research structures that
project a hegemonic Westernized vision of research, education, and human existence.
Under these conceptual structures, there are multiple levels of alterity ascribed to
(Mexican) Americans that continue to (re)inscribe positions of inferiority; as objects of
research, they are constantly placed in a comparative framework against the dominant
cultural norms. Some of the key sites of power in the production of knowledge about
(Mexican) Americans are illustrated by the researcher (as author) and the university (as
a privileged location). The conclusions problematized research as an apparatus that
reconstructs hierarchical differences and reinscribes colonial relationships where the
Other is defined only from a Western and culturally dominant perspective of
separateness.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ash, Michael (advisor), Cannella, Gaile (advisor), Anhalt, Karla (committee member), Saenz, Rogelio (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial
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Rivas, A. (2006). Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rivas, Araceli. “Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the.” 2006. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rivas, Araceli. “Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the.” 2006. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Rivas A. Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2006. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310.
Council of Science Editors:
Rivas A. Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2006. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310
3.
Gui, Weihsin.
Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone
Literatures.
Degree: PhD, English, 2008, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:157/
► My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as…
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▼ My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national
consciousness in
postcolonial and contemporary British literatures.
Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and
culture as mutually exclusive and absolute terms. These theories
project a heterogeneous, decentered global culture that transcends
insular national boundaries. In contrast, I argue that contemporary
literatures reconfigure nationalism as an ongoing negotiation
between politics and culture, and emphasize the mutually
constitutive relationship between transnational flows and national
formations instead of their binary opposition. My first chapter
provides a theoretical framework using classical European theories
of nationalism,
postcolonial theory, and the cultural criticism of
Raymond Williams and the Frankfurt School. I argue that the older
opposition of national identity against imperialism has shifted to
a configuration of residual nationalism (as political consciousness
and cultural critique) against globalization. Chapter Two shows how
Kazuo Ishiguro's novels The Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled
reshape literary conventions of Britishness, such as the
"condition-of-England" narrative and the romance of the archive, by
pushing these tropes of identity to their limit. Ishiguro
illustrates how Britishness is commodified and consumed by official
multiculturalism and the burgeoning heritage industry. In Chapter
Three I argue that Derek Walcott's poetry and essays challenge the
dominant perspective of the Caribbean as a postnational hybrid
culture that exemplifies our globalized world. Through his
representations of Caribbean and European figures who complement
nationalism with culture in "The Schooner Flight" and "The
Fortunate Traveller," Walcott shows us how diasporic subjectivities
are produced in conjunction with national consciousness rather than
by opposing nationalism to diaspora. In Chapter Four, I argue that
the writing of Shirley Geok-lin Lim, who is regarded as both an
Asian American and a Southeast Asian writer, interrogates
state-sponsored national allegories of globalization and
multiculturalism by reconfiguring dominant concepts of race and
nation. Lim focuses on the sensuality and particularity of women
and literature to imagine an alternative community of women that
challenges and rethinks the nation without transcending
it.
Advisors/Committee Members: George, Olakunle (director), Bewes, Timothy (reader), Chow, Rey (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial
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Gui, W. (2008). Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone
Literatures. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:157/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gui, Weihsin. “Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone
Literatures.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:157/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gui, Weihsin. “Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone
Literatures.” 2008. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Gui W. Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone
Literatures. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2008. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:157/.
Council of Science Editors:
Gui W. Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone
Literatures. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2008. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:157/
4.
Jafor, Md. Abu.
Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan.
Degree: MA, English, 2014, University of North Dakota
URL: https://commons.und.edu/theses/1665
► Pleas for Partition in Train to Pakistan Most readers and critics of fictional works about the Partition of British India (that is the division…
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▼ Pleas for Partition in Train to Pakistan
Most readers and critics of fictional works about the Partition of British India (that is the division of British India into India and Pakistan upon independence from the British in 1947) agree that writers tend to paint religious differences as the root cause of the communal conflict that eventually led to Partition. This tendency to blame Partition on religion is also found in critics who study Khushwant Singh's novel Train to Pakistan. In contrast, this thesis will demonstrate that instead of blaming communal diversity (in other words "difference of religion") as the root cause of Partition, Singh blames Partition on self-interested politicians. Singh's novel does not show any dissatisfaction among the different ethnic groups in India before Partition. Rather, it portrays communal harmony with individuals enjoying the full freedom of their religious rights.
Singh accomplishes this portrayal largely through focusing on a microcosm of India in the fictional small village of Mano Majra on the India and Pakistan borders where inhabitants of different faiths live like brothers. In fact, the citizens of the village openly resist the decision of Partition by expressing their intentions to fight against external forces to protect their neighbors if attacked in the name of religious differences. Instead, by showing communal harmony and showing violence as coming from the top down – instead of from the people – Singh's novel blames Partition on Indian politicians, who create all kinds of conflicts and contradictions among the common people of India in order to promote their self-interest.
This thesis will explore Singh's shift in blame by focusing on three aspects of his portrayal – religion, violence, and economic deprivation with forced migration – that together paint a portrait of greedy and manipulative politicians causing the violence of Partition to force migration. The first chapter on religion shows how Singh portrays religious harmony and how his characters resisted Partition. The second chapter on violence focuses on how ethnic groups are divided and led into conflict by politicians. The final chapter on forced migration examines how Singh portrays the followers of different religions as compelled and motivated to leave all of their wealth and possessions as well as their birthplaces where they have been living for generations with the promise of wealth in the hope of being financially better off. Overall, the thesis suggests that Singh was motivated in this depiction of Partition attempt to heal the still sensitive cultural divisions in India and Pakistan.
Advisors/Committee Members: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower.
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial Literature
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Jafor, M. A. (2014). Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan. (Masters Thesis). University of North Dakota. Retrieved from https://commons.und.edu/theses/1665
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jafor, Md Abu. “Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan.” 2014. Masters Thesis, University of North Dakota. Accessed January 16, 2021.
https://commons.und.edu/theses/1665.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jafor, Md Abu. “Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Jafor MA. Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of North Dakota; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: https://commons.und.edu/theses/1665.
Council of Science Editors:
Jafor MA. Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan. [Masters Thesis]. University of North Dakota; 2014. Available from: https://commons.und.edu/theses/1665

California State University – Chico
5.
Spangler, Erica A.
Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue
.
Degree: 2011, California State University – Chico
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.4/341
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▼ ABSTRACT
USING
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE IN THE FIELD OF
COMPOSITION: A CROSS-DISCIPLINE DIALOGUE
by
?? Erica A. Spangler 2011
Masters of Arts in English
California State University, Chico
Spring 2011
This thesis analyzes, discusses, and extends the cross-discipline dialogue between
the fields of composition and
postcolonial studies. Both fields of study examine how
power relations shape and construct identity. Composition scholars examine how the
academy shapes composition student identity, and
postcolonial scholars examine how
colonization shapes identity. This thesis extends the cross-discipline dialogue to suggest
uses for
postcolonial novels to both train composition instructors and to teach
composition courses. This suggested approach incorporates composition pedagogy and
identity theories; such an approach raises relevant questions about how power relations
within the academy shape student identity. This thesis also suggests how using
postcolonial novels in a composition course can help students to form a language to
discuss identity. Such a discussion, then, should help students to begin their own inquiry
projects.
Advisors/Committee Members: Burton, Rob (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial Literature
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Spangler, E. A. (2011). Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue
. (Thesis). California State University – Chico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.4/341
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Spangler, Erica A. “Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue
.” 2011. Thesis, California State University – Chico. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.4/341.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Spangler, Erica A. “Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue
.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Spangler EA. Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue
. [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University – Chico; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.4/341.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Spangler EA. Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue
. [Thesis]. California State University – Chico; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.4/341
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
6.
Le Gallic, Jeanne.
L’immigration algérienne sur la scène théâtrale française (1972-1978) : d’une lutte postcoloniale à l’émergence d’une reconfiguration historique et temporelle : Algerian immigration on the French theatre scene (1972-1978) : from a postcolonial fight to the emergence of a historical and temporal reconfiguration.
Degree: Docteur es, Arts du spectacle, 2014, Rennes 2
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2014REN20049
► Cette thèse de doctorat, s’inscrivant dans le champ des études postcoloniales, s’intéresse à l’émergence du théâtre de l’immigration durant la décennie 1970 dans la continuité…
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▼ Cette thèse de doctorat, s’inscrivant dans le champ des études postcoloniales, s’intéresse à l’émergence du théâtre de l’immigration durant la décennie 1970 dans la continuité de luttes qui marquent l’apparition d’un discours critique sur la colonisation et ses effets. Le théâtre est y utilisé comme une arme de combat, une poursuite de l’activité politique et militante, permettant de démanteler les mécanismes d’aliénation et d’exploitation auxquels sont soumis les immigrés en contexte contemporain. Il est en effet désormais impossible de penser l’immigration sans penser les résultats d’une histoire qui a débuté avec la colonisation. Les indépendances, loin de consacrer une rupture dans les modes de domination établis pendant la colonisation, semblent au contraire en perpétuer certaines pensées et pratiques dans une expression renouvelée : c’est notamment à travers la figure de l’immigré algérien, excroissance à rebours de la colonie française qu’était l’Algérie, que des modes de traitement, d’encadrement et de surveillance de l’immigration, hérités en partie de la période coloniale, perdurent dans la période postcoloniale. Ces mécanismes de domination et d’exploitation des travailleurs immigrés seront violemment dénoncés durant la décennie, qui voit l’apparition à la fois d’une nouvelle subjectivité politique et l’émergence d’un théâtre immigré dont la pratique illustre les théories anglo-saxonnes sur la colonisation et ses conséquences dans le jaillissement de nouvelles formes discursives et esthétiques. Le poids de l’héritage colonial, en particulier celui lié à l’Algérie, permet ainsi de mobiliser les travailleurs autour d’une identité contextuelle et de développer un théâtre qui repose idéologiquement et esthétiquement sur l’examen panoramique d’une réalité qui s’inscrit dans une temporalité et une territorialité complexes, liées au mouvement.
This doctoral dissertation, falling in the field of postcolonial studies, investigates the emergence of an immigration theatre during the decade 1970 in the continuation of fights that characterise the development of a critical discourse regarding colonisation and its effects. In this context, theatre is used as a weapon, a prolongation of the political and militant activism, permitting to dismantle the mechanisms of alienation and exploitation to which immigrants are subject in contemporary environment. Indeed, it is now impossible to consider immigration without considering outcomes of a history initiated with colonisation. Independences, far from consecrating a rupture in the modes of domination established during colonisation, instead seem to perpetuate some beliefs and practises in a renewed expression: it is in particular through the Algerian immigrant figure, backward excrescence of the French colony Algeria was, that methods for processing, supervising and monitoring immigration, in part inherited from the colonial era, persist during postcolonial times. These domination and exploitation mechanisms directed toward immigrant workers will be fiercely denounced…
Advisors/Committee Members: Page, Christiane (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Théâtre postcolonial; Immigration; Postcolonial theatre; Immigration; 792
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Le Gallic, J. (2014). L’immigration algérienne sur la scène théâtrale française (1972-1978) : d’une lutte postcoloniale à l’émergence d’une reconfiguration historique et temporelle : Algerian immigration on the French theatre scene (1972-1978) : from a postcolonial fight to the emergence of a historical and temporal reconfiguration. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rennes 2. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2014REN20049
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Le Gallic, Jeanne. “L’immigration algérienne sur la scène théâtrale française (1972-1978) : d’une lutte postcoloniale à l’émergence d’une reconfiguration historique et temporelle : Algerian immigration on the French theatre scene (1972-1978) : from a postcolonial fight to the emergence of a historical and temporal reconfiguration.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Rennes 2. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://www.theses.fr/2014REN20049.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Le Gallic, Jeanne. “L’immigration algérienne sur la scène théâtrale française (1972-1978) : d’une lutte postcoloniale à l’émergence d’une reconfiguration historique et temporelle : Algerian immigration on the French theatre scene (1972-1978) : from a postcolonial fight to the emergence of a historical and temporal reconfiguration.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Le Gallic J. L’immigration algérienne sur la scène théâtrale française (1972-1978) : d’une lutte postcoloniale à l’émergence d’une reconfiguration historique et temporelle : Algerian immigration on the French theatre scene (1972-1978) : from a postcolonial fight to the emergence of a historical and temporal reconfiguration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rennes 2; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2014REN20049.
Council of Science Editors:
Le Gallic J. L’immigration algérienne sur la scène théâtrale française (1972-1978) : d’une lutte postcoloniale à l’émergence d’une reconfiguration historique et temporelle : Algerian immigration on the French theatre scene (1972-1978) : from a postcolonial fight to the emergence of a historical and temporal reconfiguration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rennes 2; 2014. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2014REN20049

Louisiana State University
7.
Krassenstein, Stephanie Jean Osburn.
Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.
Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2014, Louisiana State University
URL: etd-04032014-120538
;
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988
► The goal of this dissertation is three-fold: to mount a comparison of Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, arguing that the two poets actually share much…
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▼ The goal of this dissertation is three-fold: to mount a comparison of Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, arguing that the two poets actually share much in common, particularly in their use of the pastoral mode; to argue that the pastoral mode offers a provocative, even radical platform for postcolonial writing and thinking; and to argue that reading Heaney and Muldoon, and Ireland in general, as postcolonial offers much for critics and scholars. This project looks particularly at Heaney’s use of gender in landscape to argue that Heaney relies on an abject pastoral mode, one which is dominated by excess fertility and dangerous maternity, to portray an Irish landscape that is both colonially scarred and potentially radically anti-colonial. These readings stretch from Heaney’s early pastoral poems to his famous sequence of bog poems and through to his much more recent eclogues, and in each instance this project seeks to bring a discussion of gender to the fore—thus making an intervention into the existing scholarship, which often overlooks or elides these concerns. The latter chapters focus on Paul Muldoon’s poems, arguing that Muldoon’s pastoral poems use the pastoral as a platform for writing about Irish cultural tropes and stereotypes. This project divides Muldoon’s pastoral poems into two groups: the first, his pastoral performances, are marked by his use of the pastoral as a setting from which to play with stock characters and commodified Irish culture in a way that both mocks and celebrates such tropes; the second, his “water poems,” use bodies of water as a form of landscape writing that enables Muldoon both to ground his identity to Northern Ireland and to take flight, embarking on transatlantic crossings from Northern Ireland to America to the Amazon and back again. In these readings of Muldoon, this project seeks to establish a reading of Muldoon that explores and celebrates his roots in the rural and the natural—a perspective that is often lost in Muldoon scholarship, which traditionally has been much more concerned with global, urban, and cosmopolitan concerns.
Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial literature; postcolonial poetry; ecocriticism; abjection
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Krassenstein, S. J. O. (2014). Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. (Doctoral Dissertation). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Krassenstein, Stephanie Jean Osburn. “Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Louisiana State University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Krassenstein, Stephanie Jean Osburn. “Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Krassenstein SJO. Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988.
Council of Science Editors:
Krassenstein SJO. Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2014. Available from: etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988

Cornell University
8.
Vartolomei Pribiag, Ioana.
Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political.
Degree: PhD, Romance Studies, 2014, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826
► This dissertation discusses the problems that emerge when poetic language is essentialized, when it is treated as entirely separate from other linguistic or social practices…
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▼ This dissertation discusses the problems that emerge when poetic language is essentialized, when it is treated as entirely separate from other linguistic or social practices or as uniquely capable of revealing a certain kind of truth, political or otherwise. I show that key twentieth century theorists of both literary autonomy and literary engagement agree that poetic language and political action are incompatible. I examine the ways in which this "consensus of incompatibility" persists in the works of philosophers such as Theodor Adorno and Jacques Rancière, who, on the surface, seem to champion a crucial politics of the aesthetic. By contrast, I argue that poetic works point toward the limits of autonomy just as much as they also extend beyond any ideological or moral position, and beyond politics. In this light, my work examines a multiplicity of relationships between poetic language and the sociopolitical, focusing especially on
postcolonial thought and Francophone literature. I propose multidimensional readings of Aimé Césaire, René Depestre, Michèle Lalonde and Gaston Miron that highlight the political context, thought and action of poetic works and their poeticity. Along the way, I create novel theoretical and intertextual dialogues, juxtaposing Jacques Rancière and Homi Bhabha, reading Lalonde together with 1960s American television and billboard ads, Depestre along with Langston Hughes, and Miron in parallel with lyrical passages of Frantz Fanon.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dubreuil, Laurent (chair), Berger, Anne Emanuelle (committee member), Klein, Richard Jay (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Poetry; Postcolonial; Francophone
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Vartolomei Pribiag, I. (2014). Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Vartolomei Pribiag, Ioana. “Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Vartolomei Pribiag, Ioana. “Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Vartolomei Pribiag I. Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826.
Council of Science Editors:
Vartolomei Pribiag I. Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826
9.
Mascorro, Karina.
Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the
Afro-Italian Diaspora.
Degree: PhD, Italian Studies, 2015, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:419549/
► This dissertation examines the interplay between experimental and experiential writing in postcolonial Italian novels. It focuses on the representation of the “colonial and postcolonial experience”…
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▼ This dissertation examines the interplay between
experimental and experiential writing in
postcolonial Italian
novels. It focuses on the representation of the “colonial and
postcolonial experience” of women writers within the “
postcolonial
diaspora,” a perspective that coincides with the emergence of an
interstitial discursive space (semi-ethnographic, semi-fictional)
in which issues of individual and collective memory are reframed
from a post national hybrid identity perspective. I define
postcolonial Italian literature as an experimental literary medium
for self-reflexive representations of localized and contextualized
knowledge: a critical knowledge that engages, in narrative form,
with the history and the socio-cultural aftermath of Italian
colonialism in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Libya. To illustrate
this critical and dialogical style, I compare and contrast such
representative novels as Erminia Dell’Oro’s L’abbandono: Una storia
eritrea (1991), Luciana Capretti’s Ghibli (2004), Gabriella
Ghermandi’s Regina di fiori e di perle (2007), Cristina Ali Farah’s
Madre piccola (2007), and Igiaba Scego’s Oltre Babilonia (2008).
The work of these writers integrates autobiographical experiences,
biographical accounts, historical records, individual and
collective memories, documentation of oral sources, real letters
exchanged between family members, and fiction. These heterogeneous
source texts make it nearly impossible to determine where fact ends
and fiction begins, rendering the status of the novel in the
postcolonial Italian condition highly ambiguous, as it defies
specific, pre-established genre conventions. These authors create
an interstitial discursive space by combining different
disciplinary methodologies that blend fictional narrative
techniques with semi-ethnographic frameworks to provide counter
narratives and alternative approaches to representing the past. I
contend that by challenging preconceived ideas of the colonial
period,
postcolonial Afro-Italian women writers contribute to the
formation of an intellectual transnational paradigm that stresses
the influences of cultural intersections, overlaps, and
multiplicities implied by the different instantiations of a common
postcolonial Italian condition—a perspective currently developing
in the field. My aim is to show how the literary expression of such
a condition is useful in understanding the complexity and
specificity of any
postcolonial discourse and, especially in its
self-reflexive forms, as expressions of "situated
knowledge."
Advisors/Committee Members: Riva, Massimo (Director), Fruzzetti, Lina (Reader), Di Maio, Alessandra (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial Italian Literature
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Mascorro, K. (2015). Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the
Afro-Italian Diaspora. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:419549/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mascorro, Karina. “Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the
Afro-Italian Diaspora.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:419549/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mascorro, Karina. “Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the
Afro-Italian Diaspora.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Mascorro K. Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the
Afro-Italian Diaspora. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:419549/.
Council of Science Editors:
Mascorro K. Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the
Afro-Italian Diaspora. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2015. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:419549/

University of Miami
10.
Ramlagan, Michelle N.
(Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse.
Degree: PhD, English (Arts and Sciences), 2011, University of Miami
URL: https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/596
► “(Re)Placing Nations: Postcolonial Women’s Contestations of Spatial Discourses” reads the proliferation of literary representations of landscapes in recent work by Jamaica Kincaid, Shani Mootoo,…
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▼ “(Re)Placing Nations:
Postcolonial Women’s Contestations of Spatial Discourses” reads the proliferation of literary representations of landscapes in recent work by Jamaica Kincaid, Shani Mootoo, Edwidge Danticat, Yvonne Vera, Monica Arac de Nyeko and Toni Morrison as a trope for rethinking the nation as a space with physical boundaries. In this project I make the distinction between space as an ideological construct and place as a physical entity. Both place and space are connected to ideologies yet have specific implications for constructions of gender and sexuality. My project considers the dual yet dialectically related processes of creating physical space and identity formation. Recent frames for engaging questions of citizenship and belonging have more sought to be broadly diasporic. This analysis re-centers these debates in more localized spatial discourses. I argue that writers examined in my project revise literary forms such as the pastoral, cartographic tropes, garden writing and the peasant novel in order to deconstruct various national divisions of space and place that exclude women, ethnic minorities and rural citizens. My project posits that contemporary African and African diaspora women’s literature constructs these places as open and evolving in a dialectical relationship with communities whose
subject formation is intimately connected to their physical environments. By insisting on these distinctions, formerly rigid boundaries that separated the public from the private, the rural from the urban, the migrant from the rooted are challenged along with the implicit geography of power that scaffolds these separations.
Advisors/Committee Members: Patricia J. Saunders, Brenna Munro, Timothy Watson, Supriya Nair.
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial Women; Land
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ramlagan, Michelle N. “(Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Miami. Accessed January 16, 2021.
https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/596.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ramlagan, Michelle N. “(Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Ramlagan MN. (Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Miami; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/596.
Council of Science Editors:
Ramlagan MN. (Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Miami; 2011. Available from: https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/596

University of Debrecen
11.
Réti, Zsófia.
The In-Between Man
.
Degree: DE – TEK – Bölcsészettudományi Kar, 2013, University of Debrecen
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/169766
► The aim of this study is to reveal a number of features of postcolonial and diaspora identity, primarily through the works of Adam Zameenzad. This…
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▼ The aim of this study is to reveal a number of features of
postcolonial and diaspora
identity, primarily through the works of Adam Zameenzad. This author, although
mostly unknown to the (Eastern European) academic audience, has managed to create a
coherent system of symbols, which, while continuously shifting and changing,
represents a remarkable version of diaspora identity. In Zameenzad’s works, diaspora
identity appears as a coreless, fragmented thing, in which the only unquestionable
feature is never-ceasing change.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bényei, Tamás (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial;
diaspora;
identity
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Réti, Z. (2013). The In-Between Man
. (Thesis). University of Debrecen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2437/169766
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Réti, Zsófia. “The In-Between Man
.” 2013. Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2437/169766.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Réti, Zsófia. “The In-Between Man
.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Réti Z. The In-Between Man
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/169766.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Réti Z. The In-Between Man
. [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/169766
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Namibia
12.
Lunga, Hlumelo D.
A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
.
Degree: 2020, University of Namibia
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11070/2869
► The main focus of the study was to comparatively analyse The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy and Half of a Yellow Sun…
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▼ The main focus of the study was to comparatively analyse The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from a postcolonial ecofeminist perspective. Postcolonialism focuses on issues pertaining to power, culture, and religion in relation to humanity, whilst ecofeminism explores the links between the environment and women, connecting women to the epistemological understanding of nature. The research aimed at exploring the plight of women and the environment in a wartime postcolonial era through the literary lens. The application of postcolonialism and ecofeminism to the analysis of the texts necessitated the consideration and inclusion of themes such as; hybridity, gender trauma, subjugation, relationships and beliefs. The study is a desktop qualitative research and it employed content analysis in the interpretation and analysis of the two novels. Women were portrayed as destitute who stay in subservient conditions, at the mercy of patriarchal societies, with no voice; sex objects for the husband’s pleasures and that can be exchanged for material wealth. Nature is used as an agent of resistance in The God of Small Things (1997). For instance, Ammu uses the Meenachal River as an escape from patriarchal entrapment and psychological imprisonment where she goes to find peace and listen to her transistor. In Half of a Yellow Sun, Kainene profits from the civil war in the beginning, later becoming conscientious to the needs of the less fortunate and women are subjugated by both white and black male counterparts through exploitation by both the mercenaries and Biafra soldiers. Contrariwise, Roy and Adichie depict women as perceptive and sensible thinkers. In The God of Small Things, Ammu is protective of her naïve children because she is well aware of the evils of this world, most of which she herself has been a victim of. The study found that by reading The God of Small Things (1997) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) as contemporaries, there can be testament to some wealthy accounts as the novels provide a coherent shape of the realistic operations of postcolonial ecofeminism in totality. The thrust of this study is to draw interconnections between men’s domination of nature and the subjugation and dominance of women as depicted in the selected creative works. The study concluded that future studies need to consider the use of ecofeminism as a theory in the analysis of novels; merging ecofeminism with other theories in other genres such as poetry, drama and genocidal literature in the analysis of different literary works.
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial ecofeminist;
Fiction
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Lunga, H. D. (2020). A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
. (Thesis). University of Namibia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11070/2869
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lunga, Hlumelo D. “A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
.” 2020. Thesis, University of Namibia. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11070/2869.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lunga, Hlumelo D. “A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
.” 2020. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Lunga HD. A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Namibia; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11070/2869.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lunga HD. A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
. [Thesis]. University of Namibia; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11070/2869
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of New South Wales
13.
Arong, Marie Rose.
Situating the Philippines in the postcolonial landscape: narrative strategies of Filipino novels in English (1946-1980).
Degree: Arts and Media, 2017, University of New South Wales
URL: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/57838
;
https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44995/SOURCE02?view=true
► The Philippines’ double-colonization at the hands of Spain (1565-1898) then America (1898-1946) has produced a distinctive type of postcolonial writing in English. Despite this unique…
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▼ The Philippines’ double-colonization at the hands of Spain (1565-1898) then America (1898-1946) has produced a distinctive type of
postcolonial writing in English. Despite this unique
postcolonial situation, there is a lack of substantial and sustained critical work assessing Philippine literature in
postcolonial studies. In order to address this neglect, this thesis shows how a culturally specific formalist approach provides new opportunities to interrogate the distinctive
postcolonial themes and issues raised in six Filipino novels: Bienvenido Santos' You Lovely People (1955), N.V.M. Gonzalez's The Bamboo Dancers (1960), N.V.M. Gonzalez's A Season of Grace (1956), Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961), Kerima Polotan's The Hand of the Enemy (1962), and Edith Tiempo's His Native Coast (1979).The period in which these novels were published (between the 1950s and the 1970s) has usually been considered by scholars such as Soledad Reyes (1994) and Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo (2008) as the turning point of Philippine writing in English because of the authors’ innovative use of narrative techniques. However, despite all these observations, there is a lack of substantial and sustained critical work assessing the implications of these technical strategies, specifically in
postcolonial studies. This thesis argues that the thematic concerns of the novels need to be related more productively to their formal innovations. It suggests that a contextual examination of the various narrative strategies and techniques deployed in the novels can help shed light on the authors’ respective projects of engaging with the consequences of both the American-endorsed narrative of Philippine modernity and development and the nationalists’ quest for the authentic Filipino. This thesis, thus, demonstrates the relationship between narrative structure and the modes of interrogation (or resistance, such as the case of Joaquin's novel) of
postcolonial issues in the Filipino novels in English.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dawson, Paul, Arts and Media, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW, Ashcroft, Bill, Arts and Media, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW.
Subjects/Keywords: Filipino novel; Postcolonial
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Arong, M. R. (2017). Situating the Philippines in the postcolonial landscape: narrative strategies of Filipino novels in English (1946-1980). (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New South Wales. Retrieved from http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/57838 ; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44995/SOURCE02?view=true
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Arong, Marie Rose. “Situating the Philippines in the postcolonial landscape: narrative strategies of Filipino novels in English (1946-1980).” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New South Wales. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/57838 ; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44995/SOURCE02?view=true.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Arong, Marie Rose. “Situating the Philippines in the postcolonial landscape: narrative strategies of Filipino novels in English (1946-1980).” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Arong MR. Situating the Philippines in the postcolonial landscape: narrative strategies of Filipino novels in English (1946-1980). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New South Wales; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/57838 ; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44995/SOURCE02?view=true.
Council of Science Editors:
Arong MR. Situating the Philippines in the postcolonial landscape: narrative strategies of Filipino novels in English (1946-1980). [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New South Wales; 2017. Available from: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/57838 ; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44995/SOURCE02?view=true

Universiteit Utrecht
14.
Helsloot, Alina.
Reflections in a Postcolonial Mirror: a Comparative Analysis of Hella Haasse's "Oeroeg" (1948) and "Sleuteloog" (2002).
Degree: 2007, Universiteit Utrecht
URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/21842
► This thesis focuses on the way in which literature informs, criticizes and constructs the collective memory of the colonial past. The images that constitute the…
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▼ This thesis focuses on the way in which literature informs, criticizes and constructs the collective memory of the colonial past. The images that constitute the Dutch collective memory of the colonial era manifest themselves in a wide range of social constructs and cultural products, such as art and literature. Literature can be regarded as a site where the collective memory of a country is represented or reflected. However, a literary work is also an active agent in constructing the images that inform collective memory, and must therefore be studied as both a product as well as a producer of that memory.
Within the larger context of Dutch writing on the East Indies, the relationship between representation and colonial reality will be discussed: how did the Dutch represent their colonial past in literary and other forms of writing from the sixteenth century onwards? How did these representations contribute to images of the East Indies that still linger on today? Within the smaller context of my analysis, I will focus specifically on two literary novels by an author for whom the former Dutch colony of the East Indies is a defining theme: Hella Haasse. Haasse’s work deals with the issues of history, memory and representation. The novels that I have chosen for my analysis, Oeroeg (1948) and Sleuteloog (2002), address the same overall theme (the East Indies), but were written with more than half a century of time difference between them, creating a relevant case study for my research.
Advisors/Committee Members: Medeiros, Paulo de.
Subjects/Keywords: Letteren; postcolonial; Hella Haasse
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Helsloot, A. (2007). Reflections in a Postcolonial Mirror: a Comparative Analysis of Hella Haasse's "Oeroeg" (1948) and "Sleuteloog" (2002). (Masters Thesis). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/21842
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Helsloot, Alina. “Reflections in a Postcolonial Mirror: a Comparative Analysis of Hella Haasse's "Oeroeg" (1948) and "Sleuteloog" (2002).” 2007. Masters Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/21842.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Helsloot, Alina. “Reflections in a Postcolonial Mirror: a Comparative Analysis of Hella Haasse's "Oeroeg" (1948) and "Sleuteloog" (2002).” 2007. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Helsloot A. Reflections in a Postcolonial Mirror: a Comparative Analysis of Hella Haasse's "Oeroeg" (1948) and "Sleuteloog" (2002). [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2007. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/21842.
Council of Science Editors:
Helsloot A. Reflections in a Postcolonial Mirror: a Comparative Analysis of Hella Haasse's "Oeroeg" (1948) and "Sleuteloog" (2002). [Masters Thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2007. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/21842

Mississippi State University
15.
Hogan, Carolyn Ellen.
"Shadow of my mind": women and nationalism in James Joyces fiction.
Degree: MA, English, 2014, Mississippi State University
URL: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04042014-142643/
;
► My thesis analyzes James Joyces engagement with Catholic-nationalist Irelands (mis)understanding of women in <i>Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>, and…
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▼ My thesis analyzes James Joyces engagement with Catholic-nationalist Irelands (mis)understanding of women in <i>Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>, and <i>Ulysses</i>. I argue that, while Joyce shows both men and women struggling against the constraints of Catholic-nationalist gender roles, he implies that neither can be free from those constraints until Irish artists seek to more thoroughly understand women. After explaining how Catholic-nationalist rhetoric influenced the Irish understanding of women, I argue that Joyce not only recognizes and engages with Irish gender oppression but also believes that Irish art both constructs and is constructed by this oppression. With analyses of some of Joyces female characters, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, I demonstrate how Joyce critiques Irish cultures concept of women and Irish arts representation of them, and then establishes a new paradigm of artistic representation.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Kelly Marsh (chair), Dr. Robert West (committee member), Dr. Lara Dodds (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: cognitive; feminist; post-colonial; postcolonial
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Hogan, C. E. (2014). "Shadow of my mind": women and nationalism in James Joyces fiction. (Masters Thesis). Mississippi State University. Retrieved from http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04042014-142643/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hogan, Carolyn Ellen. “"Shadow of my mind": women and nationalism in James Joyces fiction.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Mississippi State University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04042014-142643/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hogan, Carolyn Ellen. “"Shadow of my mind": women and nationalism in James Joyces fiction.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hogan CE. "Shadow of my mind": women and nationalism in James Joyces fiction. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Mississippi State University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04042014-142643/ ;.
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Hogan CE. "Shadow of my mind": women and nationalism in James Joyces fiction. [Masters Thesis]. Mississippi State University; 2014. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04042014-142643/ ;

Cornell University
16.
Reyes, Michael.
The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934.
Degree: PhD, Romance Studies, 2014, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124
► This dissertation examines the lasting consequences of the anticolonial, antislavery discourses of the Haitian Revolution on the way in which postcolonial Haitians understood the narrative…
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▼ This dissertation examines the lasting consequences of the anticolonial, antislavery discourses of the Haitian Revolution on the way in which
postcolonial Haitians understood the narrative structure of their national history from Independence (1804) to the end of the American Occupation of Haiti (1934). In this study Haitian intuitions of historical time are apprehended through an analysis of nineteenth and early twentieth century Haitian literary and historical works. These texts are scrutinized with respect to (a) formal narrative features such as truncation, ellipsis, elision, prolepsis and analepsis which reveal an implicit understanding of the disposition of the metahistorical categories of "past," "present," and "future" and (b) the analysis of the explicit reflections on history provided by narrators or authors. This dissertation argues, primarily, that the event of the "Haitian Revolution" (17911804) was fundamental to Haitian understandings of the emplotment of the whole of Haitian history. Chronologically "past" and "future" events were transformed so that they would be legible as analogical "recurrences" of the revolutionary past; when such manipulations proved difficult, the recent past was sometimes elided altogether. This was possible, in part, because Haitian postcolonialism was imagined as immanently precarious and thus remained dependent on revolutionary discourses of anticolonialism and radical antislavery. Also important was the analeptic, explicitly anticolonial fantasy of historical erasure in "restoring" the Amerindian name of "Haiti" to what had been the French colony of "Saint-Domingue." The national history thus came to be underwritten by an impossible anachronistic return to the time of the fifteenth century Amerindians at the moment of Independence. This dissertation alleges that Haitian historical time depended upon, and remained largely bound by, this significant anticolonial contradiction. Drawing upon this metahistorical analysis, I ultimately argue both that Haitians' experiences of time in this period are not compatible with "modernity" as it is understood by conceptual historiography, and that the accepted accounts of the historical development of nationalism cannot explain the rise of this sentiment in Haiti.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dubreuil, Laurent (chair), Vallois, Marie-Claire (committee member), Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Haitian Literature; Postcolonial Literature; Modernity
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Reyes, Michael. “The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Reyes, Michael. “The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Reyes M. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124.
Council of Science Editors:
Reyes M. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124
17.
Chakraborty, Sumana.
Constructing home: space and identity in selected
postcolonial fiction.
Degree: English literature, 2013, Assam University
URL: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/14014
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial fiction
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postcolonial fiction. (Thesis). Assam University. Retrieved from http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/14014
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chakraborty, Sumana. “Constructing home: space and identity in selected
postcolonial fiction.” 2013. Thesis, Assam University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/14014.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chakraborty, Sumana. “Constructing home: space and identity in selected
postcolonial fiction.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Chakraborty S. Constructing home: space and identity in selected
postcolonial fiction. [Internet] [Thesis]. Assam University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/14014.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Chakraborty S. Constructing home: space and identity in selected
postcolonial fiction. [Thesis]. Assam University; 2013. Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/14014
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Leiden University
18.
Hashi, Asma.
Money Talks: Power Imbalances between the EU, Turkey and Somalia in Development Aid.
Degree: 2020, Leiden University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/85589
► The development cooperation landscape is changing, with more actors and new approaches coming to the fore. However, less is sometimes more: there seems to be…
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▼ The development cooperation landscape is changing, with more actors and new
approaches coming to the fore. However, less is sometimes more: there seems to be a
clear division between the principles and methods of traditional donors and non-
traditional donors, also known as South-South Cooperation (SSC) partners. Whilst
traditional donors are claimed to reproduce inequality and dependency in recipient
states through their policies, SSC partners are believed to show solidarity with these
states through horizontal partnerships. In order to discover the accuracy of these
statements, this thesis will examine the relations between traditional donors, SSC
partners and recipient states from a
postcolonial perspective. The thesis will focus on
the European Union (EU) as a traditional donor; Turkey as a South-South Cooperation
partner; and Somalia as a recipient. The hypothesis that will be tested in this thesis is
as follows: “Turkey is a more egalitarian development aid donor than the EU.”
The thesis concludes that this hypothesis is correct. The EU is involved in Somalia to
address its own interests, namely its security and migration concerns. Moreover, by
using political conditionality, the EU imposes its values on Somalia by incentivizing
aid. Turkey also seeks to benefit from engaging with Somalia. Its interests lie in its
international status as well as its economy. However, Turkey has engaged with Somalia
from a demands-driven approach, taking Somalia’s needs and considerations as the
foundation for its policies. This makes them a more egalitarian partner than the EU.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bellucci, Stefano (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Developmeny aid; postcolonial theory
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Hashi, A. (2020). Money Talks: Power Imbalances between the EU, Turkey and Somalia in Development Aid. (Masters Thesis). Leiden University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1887/85589
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hashi, Asma. “Money Talks: Power Imbalances between the EU, Turkey and Somalia in Development Aid.” 2020. Masters Thesis, Leiden University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/85589.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hashi, Asma. “Money Talks: Power Imbalances between the EU, Turkey and Somalia in Development Aid.” 2020. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hashi A. Money Talks: Power Imbalances between the EU, Turkey and Somalia in Development Aid. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Leiden University; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/85589.
Council of Science Editors:
Hashi A. Money Talks: Power Imbalances between the EU, Turkey and Somalia in Development Aid. [Masters Thesis]. Leiden University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/85589

University of Newcastle
19.
Aisbett, Jack.
Emotional orientalisms: a postcolonial study of emotions in HIV and aids development work in PNG.
Degree: PNG). The methods used are several forms of critical discourse analysis applied to: mainstream development research; development policy (at several levels, 2014, University of Newcastle
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055221
► Research Doctorate - PhD Human Geography
This thesis is a call for greater reflexivity on the role of emotions in development. It argues that emotions…
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▼ Research Doctorate - PhD Human Geography
This thesis is a call for greater reflexivity on the role of emotions in development. It argues that emotions are integral in both reproductions of Orientalisms and in producing resistances to Orientalisms. The framework for this research is a combination of Postcolonial Studies and Emotional Geographies, and a case study of HIV and AIDS development work in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The methods used are several forms of critical discourse analysis applied to: mainstream development research; development policy (at several levels); in-country experience; and the middle ground between policy and policy enactment. The data sources were: 30 mainstream HIV and AIDS development research articles; 4 policy documents; 20 in depth interviews; and a free writing journal documenting 3 months of participant observations in a PNG HIV and AIDS development organisation. Results reveal evidence of emotions, of attempts to avoid unpleasant emotions, and of attempts to elicit emotions in others in all aspects of the development process. In the case of PNG HIV and AIDS Development work, it seems that emotions, or the attempts to influence emotions, have the potential to promote or resist Orientalisms. Of particular note are feelings of uncertainty, confusion and disorientation. If one is reflexive, these emotions may be powerful in generating resistance to Orientalisms, but without reflexivity they can reproduce them in powerful ways. I conclude this thesis by claiming that a reflexive understanding of the roles of emotions can uncover covert and persistent forms of Orientalisms in development work. Emotional reflexivity can also help find new ways of thinking and being that can move the ‘West’ beyond Orientalisms. In particular, I call for more reflexive ways of embracing and accepting the uncertainty that in inherent in the development process.
Advisors/Committee Members: University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & IT, School of Environmental and Life Sciences.
Subjects/Keywords: emotional geography; postcolonial studies; orientalisms
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Aisbett, Jack. “Emotional orientalisms: a postcolonial study of emotions in HIV and aids development work in PNG.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Newcastle. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055221.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Aisbett, Jack. “Emotional orientalisms: a postcolonial study of emotions in HIV and aids development work in PNG.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Aisbett J. Emotional orientalisms: a postcolonial study of emotions in HIV and aids development work in PNG. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Newcastle; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055221.
Council of Science Editors:
Aisbett J. Emotional orientalisms: a postcolonial study of emotions in HIV and aids development work in PNG. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Newcastle; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055221

Addis Ababa University
20.
FIKADU, KENENISA.
THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS
.
Degree: 2012, Addis Ababa University
URL: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3597
Subjects/Keywords: MODERNITY;
POSTCOLONIAL
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. (Thesis). Addis Ababa University. Retrieved from http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3597
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
FIKADU, KENENISA. “THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS
.” 2012. Thesis, Addis Ababa University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3597.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
FIKADU, KENENISA. “THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS
.” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
FIKADU K. THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3597.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
FIKADU K. THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS
. [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3597
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of South Africa
21.
Dlamini, Nobuhle Judith.
The impact of the intersection of race, gender and class on women CEO's lived experiences and career progresson : strategies for gender transformation at leadership level in corporate South Africa
.
Degree: 2014, University of South Africa
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13828
► The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of the intersection of race, gender and social class on women leaders’ work experience and…
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▼ The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of the intersection of race, gender and social class on women leaders’ work experience and career progression in order to come up with strategies for gender transformation at leadership level in corporate South Africa. The problem statement of this research study concerns the indication in the annual report of the Commission for Employment Equity (Department of Labour 2012) that there is under-representation of women, especially African and Coloured women, at top management level relative to the economically active population. The Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill was published in the Government Gazette No. 37005 of 6 November 2013. This Bill aims to enforce compliance with the stipulated minimum representation of women at senior levels in both the private and public sectors. This study, with its objective of reaching an understanding of the impact of the intersection of race, gender and social class on women’s career progression, is therefore timeous. Getting the perspective of woman CEOs across race and class on how to transform gender at leadership level could add an important voice to transformation and could be of benefit to decision makers in business and in government. Based on this problem statement the following research questions were formulated:
- To what extent does the intersection of race, social class and gender impact on women CEOs’ experience in their work roles and career progression?
- How might an understanding of women leaders’ experiences in their roles assist with strategies to transform gender at leadership level in corporate South Africa?
Qualitative research methodology was chosen as the appropriate methodology and grounded theory was employed. Purposive, snowball and theoretical sampling methods were used to identify fourteen participants (13 CEOs and one chairman).The life story method was employed for in-depth semi-structured interviews from which rich descriptive data was collected and which was analysed using grounded theory. Findings confirmed that the intersection of race, gender, age and class does have an impact on women’s career progression and their life experiences. The dominant social identity was race for blacks and gender whites; class and age were the overlay. In terms of strategies for gender transformation, first-order constructs from the participants were related to abstract second-order constructs from the literature, which led to the formulation of the WHEEL Theoretical Model. The theoretical model is an integration of different elements required for the formulation of strategies for gender transformation at leadership level. The different elements were women themselves; domestic and family support; the organisation; society and government.
Despite some limitations that were encountered, the aim of the study was achieved by making a contribution not only to the development of theory related to strategies for gender transformation at leadership level, which other scholars can build from, but also to the…
Advisors/Committee Members: Mnguni, Peliwe (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Transformation;
Social class;
Intersection;
Postcolonial
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. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of South Africa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13828
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Dlamini, Nobuhle Judith. “The impact of the intersection of race, gender and class on women CEO's lived experiences and career progresson : strategies for gender transformation at leadership level in corporate South Africa
.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of South Africa. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13828.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Dlamini, Nobuhle Judith. “The impact of the intersection of race, gender and class on women CEO's lived experiences and career progresson : strategies for gender transformation at leadership level in corporate South Africa
.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Dlamini NJ. The impact of the intersection of race, gender and class on women CEO's lived experiences and career progresson : strategies for gender transformation at leadership level in corporate South Africa
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Africa; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13828.
Council of Science Editors:
Dlamini NJ. The impact of the intersection of race, gender and class on women CEO's lived experiences and career progresson : strategies for gender transformation at leadership level in corporate South Africa
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of South Africa; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13828

University of Manchester
22.
Tavares, Maria.
Women who Give Birth to New Worlds: Three Feminine
Perspectives on Lusophone Postcolonial Africa.
Degree: 2011, University of Manchester
URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:123686
► This thesis aims at analysing comparatively the literary production of three African female authors – the Cape Verdean Dina Salústio (1941), the Mozambican Paulina Chiziane…
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▼ This thesis aims at analysing comparatively the
literary production of three African female authors – the Cape
Verdean Dina Salústio (1941), the Mozambican Paulina Chiziane
(1955) and the Angolan Rosária da Silva (1959) – so as to observe
the authors’ cultural construction of their complex
postcolonial
nations from a female-focalized point of view and their
representation of the women of these nations interacting with the
transcultural contexts of each analysed country. Their works
demonstrate the importance of thinking nationalism and national
identity through gender, simultaneously highlighting the potential
of situated gender analysis for the understanding and contestation
of the power networks that consolidate the supremacy of hegemonic
discourses. Hence, the main argument that this thesis develops in
three distinct chapters (each one devoted to the literary
production of each author) and in the light of a particular
theoretical framework is that the building of the post-independence
nations under analysis is structured through gender
differentiation. The point of departure for this project is the
work developed by specific
postcolonial theorists who analyse and
deconstruct hegemonic discourses of identity. Hence, Benedict
Anderson’s understanding of the nation as an “imagined political
community” (1991) is explored and widened by Homi Bhabha’s
theorization of the dynamics of national discourse (1990), whose
instability comes from the friction between its pedagogical and
performative dimensions. This emphasis on empowering marginality
takes us to Edward Said’s reflections on exile (2001). For Said,
the condition of exile represents an irrecoverable displacement of
the human being as regards her/his own homeland, a state which
she/he will permanently try to revoke. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera
(2001) uses the term insílio to emphasise the psychological and
emotional dimensions of this state, which precedes the actual
physical exile. Reflections on the active involvement of the
displaced in the renegotiation of the nation are also at the core
of Mary Louise Pratt’s theorization of contact zones,
autoethnography and transculturation (1991). The emphasis on the
disruptive potential of autoethnography is recaptured in Graham
Huggan’s study of the Post-Colonial Exotic (2001), focusing
specifically on the potential of what he called “celebratory
autoethnography”. Nonetheless, considering that these approaches
are largely gender blind, the study questions their premises
further by incorporating
postcolonial feminist theories and
feminist theories from sociology. Anne McClintock (1995) and Nira
Yuval-Davis’s (1997) important proposal of the analysis of
nationalism through the lens of a theory of gender power gave
access to multiple experiences of the nation. Amina Mama’s (2001)
proposal of the analysis of individual and national identity
through gender with a view to understanding and dismantling the
power structures in operation adds to these strong theorizations.
Considering that the three examined countries had one-party…
Advisors/Committee Members: DE CASTRO ROCHA, JOAO JC, Owen, Hilary, De Castro rocha, Joao.
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial; Lusophone; Africa; Gender; Nationalism
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Tavares, M. (2011). Women who Give Birth to New Worlds: Three Feminine
Perspectives on Lusophone Postcolonial Africa. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:123686
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tavares, Maria. “Women who Give Birth to New Worlds: Three Feminine
Perspectives on Lusophone Postcolonial Africa.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:123686.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tavares, Maria. “Women who Give Birth to New Worlds: Three Feminine
Perspectives on Lusophone Postcolonial Africa.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Tavares M. Women who Give Birth to New Worlds: Three Feminine
Perspectives on Lusophone Postcolonial Africa. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:123686.
Council of Science Editors:
Tavares M. Women who Give Birth to New Worlds: Three Feminine
Perspectives on Lusophone Postcolonial Africa. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2011. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:123686

University of Adelaide
23.
Velautham, Lalitha.
Voice and representation: a postcolonial approach to higher education promotional media and the international postgraduate student experience.
Degree: 2015, University of Adelaide
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106783
► Non-Western postgraduate students are increasingly targeted by Western universities through a variety of promotional media designed to assist in their selection of a foreign institution.…
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▼ Non-Western postgraduate students are increasingly targeted by Western universities through a variety of promotional media designed to assist in their selection of a foreign institution. This media offers institutional representations of the international postgraduate student based on a range of prescriptive, often stereotypical notions of particular cultural groups. In this thesis, I argue that although the internationalization of higher education (HE) has resulted in the embedding of intercultural elements across various sectors of the university, the discourses and images used do not offer international postgraduate students a productive space to convey their identities as active participants of the overseas study experience. Drawing on the promotional media from one Western university, I illustrate how these students are portrayed as the passive but fortunate recipients of an international education and how the university claims its own institutional identity. With the growing demand for international education, media representations of international students and the university has become an important area of study. To date, the study of HE promotional media has consisted of pure textual analyses of student prospectuses or perspective studies related to the overseas study experience of undergraduate students. Although international postgraduate students are important to university rankings and collaborative research partnerships, there has been limited investigation into the representation of this cohort and the university in HE promotional media. Additionally, the perspectives of these students on their representation and the overseas study experience remain unexplored. Drawing on the work of
postcolonial theorists such as Said, Spivak and Bhabha, I critically examine how international postgraduate students from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds are represented in HE promotional media and the creative ways in which they reinvent themselves. The analysis of participant narratives reveals that their expectations of the overseas study experience are influenced by ideas of institutional prestige, English Language mastery, staff expertise, creative advertising, quality education and warm human relationships. However, the reality of their overseas study experience is often tempered with isolation and alienation leading to a deeper reflection of their burgeoning identities as global scholars. This inner journey is conveyed through a series of photographs which highlight themes of the restorative powers of Nature, mobility in a new city, cultural life, finding an identity, creating a community, coping with loneliness and embracing freedom. To locate patterns within the discourses and images related to international postgraduate students and the university in a selection of HE promotional media, I refer to the work of critical discourse theorists such as Fairclough and Van Djik. The analysis of university web pages reveals that the university claims its institutional identity through an alignment with its…
Advisors/Committee Members: Pugsley, Peter C. (advisor), Picard, Michelle Yvette (advisor), School of Humanities (school).
Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial; higher education; media
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Velautham, Lalitha. “Voice and representation: a postcolonial approach to higher education promotional media and the international postgraduate student experience.” 2015. Thesis, University of Adelaide. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106783.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Velautham, Lalitha. “Voice and representation: a postcolonial approach to higher education promotional media and the international postgraduate student experience.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Velautham L. Voice and representation: a postcolonial approach to higher education promotional media and the international postgraduate student experience. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Adelaide; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106783.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Velautham L. Voice and representation: a postcolonial approach to higher education promotional media and the international postgraduate student experience. [Thesis]. University of Adelaide; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106783
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University of Cambridge
24.
Balasubramanian, Aditya.
Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Cambridge
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291158
► This thesis is a history of economic ideas about the rise and fall of India’s Swatantra Party between 1940 and 1970. Reframing the history of…
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▼ This thesis is a history of economic ideas about the rise and fall of India’s Swatantra Party between 1940 and 1970. Reframing the history of economic thought around politicians and publicists from landed and mercantile communities in southern and western parts of the country, it presents an alternative history of the political Right in India.
Chapter One provides an overview of the macroeconomic changes unleashed by wartime state expansion and decolonisation. It identifies how India’s socialist planning strategy resulted in the formation of new economic interests and challenges by the Second Five-Year Plan Period (1956-61) that drove the emergence of the Swatantra Party. Chapter Two provides an alternative intellectual genealogy of the Right through a careful study of the ideas, networks, and genres of communication adopted by a small Indian libertarian movement in Bombay. It demonstrates how demands for ‘free economy’ and ‘English as the lingua franca of India’ emerged from a web of connected thinkers operating periodicals and associations in urban India. Chapter Three shows how the ageing Tamil statesman C. Rajagopalachari took up this demand and brought it to the centre of his project of theorising a conservative opposition party for India. He cast ‘free economy’ as a negative vision of freedom from the ‘permit-and-licence raj,’ an oligarchic coalition of big business, bureaucrats, and the dominant Congress Party. Chapter Four by contrast reconstructs the multiple positive visions of ‘free economy’ put forth by three key leaders of the Swatantra Party. It shows how the scales of community, region, and world informed the alternative political economies they conceived. Chapter Five shows how these ideas of ‘free economy’ were reworked and to construct a politics for the ‘middle class.’ This final chapter unpacks both strategies of communication and reception to understand the extent and limitations of ‘free economy’ in practice.
The wider aim of this dissertation is to revise the history of the Right in India and broaden the understanding of the Nehruvian era.
Subjects/Keywords: India; economic history; postcolonial
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Balasubramanian, Aditya. “Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 16, 2021.
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291158.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Balasubramanian, Aditya. “Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Balasubramanian A. Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291158.
Council of Science Editors:
Balasubramanian A. Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291158

University of Debrecen
25.
Csapó, Kinga.
Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
.
Degree: DE – TEK – Bölcsészettudományi Kar, 2013, University of Debrecen
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/173654
Magic realism in Midnight's Children serves as a mode of representing the complexity of the postcolonial experience and delivers a powerful political message: a plea for freedom and democracy as opposed to autocracy and dictatorship.
Advisors/Committee Members: Györke, Ágnes (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: magic realism;
postcolonial literature
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Csapó, K. (2013). Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
. (Thesis). University of Debrecen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2437/173654
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Csapó, Kinga. “Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
.” 2013. Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2437/173654.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Csapó, Kinga. “Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Csapó K. Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/173654.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Csapó K. Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
. [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/173654
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Rice University
26.
Adkins, Alexander Bryant.
Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times.
Degree: PhD, Humanities, 2016, Rice University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/96613
► Following post-1945 decolonization, many anticolonial figures became disenchanted, for they witnessed not the birth of social revolution, but the mere transfer of power from corrupt…
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▼ Following post-1945 decolonization, many anticolonial figures became disenchanted, for they witnessed not the birth of social revolution, but the mere transfer of power from corrupt white elites to corrupt native elites. Soon after, many
postcolonial writers jettisoned the political sincerity of social realism for satire—a less naïve, more pessimistic literary genre and approach to social critique. Satires about the
postcolonial condition employ a cynical idiom even as they often take political cynicism as their chief object of derision. This dissertation is among the first literary studies to discuss the use of satire in
postcolonial writing, exploring how and why some major Anglophone global writers from decolonization onward use the genre to critique political cynicisms affecting the developing world. It does so by weaving together seemingly disparate novels from the 1960s until today, including Chinua Achebe’s sendup of failed idealism in Africa, Salman Rushdie’s and Hanif Kureishi’s caricatures of Margaret Thatcher’s enterprise culture, and Aravind Adiga’s and Mohsin Hamid’s parodies of self-help narratives in South Asia.
Satire is an effective form of social critique for these authors because it is equal opportunity, avoiding simplistic approaches to power and oppression in the
postcolonial era. Satire often blames everyone—including itself—by insisting on irony, hypocrisy, and interdependence as existential conditions.
Postcolonial satires ridicule victims and victimizers alike, exchanging the politics of blame for messiness, association, and implication. The satires examined here emphasize that we are all, to different degrees, mutually implicated subjects, especially in the era of global capitalism. This dissertation thus contests critics who argue that the subgenre engages in victim blaming, indulges in colonial-era stereotypes about the developing world, and supports political nihilism.
Postcolonial satirists cut a path between the optimism expected of them and the fatalism they are accused of by offering a third path between that stifling dichotomy: a mutually implicating, humorous form of social critique that nuances neocolonial forms of power—including cynicism itself.
Advisors/Committee Members: Joseph, Betty (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial literature; Satire; Cynicism; Neoliberalism
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Adkins, A. B. (2016). Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rice University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1911/96613
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Adkins, Alexander Bryant. “Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Rice University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1911/96613.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Adkins, Alexander Bryant. “Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Adkins AB. Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rice University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/96613.
Council of Science Editors:
Adkins AB. Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rice University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/96613

Princeton University
27.
Decker, Robert William.
Topographies of Time: The Spatiohistorical Imagination in Caribbean Narrative
.
Degree: PhD, 2020, Princeton University
URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016m311s25d
► Topographies of Time: The Spatiohistorical Imagination in Caribbean Narrative addresses the inscription of the concepts of space and time in historical narratives of the francophone…
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▼ Topographies of Time: The Spatiohistorical Imagination in Caribbean Narrative addresses the inscription of the concepts of space and time in historical narratives of the francophone Caribbean. Spatiotemporal thought plays a fundamental role in the politics, aesthetics, and epistemological premises of Caribbean letters and manifests in the latent tension between universality and particularity, concepts that motivate and orient this literature from before the rise of Negritude in the 1930s up to the present day. Close attention to this conceptual history demonstrates that the dominant understanding of Antillean literary history in the twentieth century, which can be summarized as a shift from the anticolonial concept of Negritude to that of the
postcolonial concept of créolité, obfuscates a more intricate and dynamic history.
Part one, “The Caribbean Stage of Universal History,” examines the historical narratives of two Caribbean historians, C. L. R. James and Léonard Sainville. These authors work within a model of universal history to position the Caribbean as the central stage on which a globalizing modernity develops. In part two, “Emplacing History: from the Discontinuities of Time to the Poetics of Place,” I consider two novels by Édouard Glissant and Vincent Placoly that exemplify the transition, in the 1960s through the 1990s, towards a theoretical and narratological engagement with the concept of particularity. They turn away from the universalizing rhetoric of Pan-Africanism and look toward the geographic and cultural specificity of their native Martinique. The final part, “Antilleans Abroad: The Caribbean Author in a
Postcolonial World,” offers a reading of two Haitian authors, Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferrière. In addition to negotiating the perils and problematics of migration itself, Laferrière and Danticat must contend with the expectations of the transnational and
postcolonial literary marketplace, one which exerts specific pressures on the writers it encompasses. This focus on individual experience (including that of the transnational author) results in a return to the linear narratival forms of the first phase of universality. This dissertation challenges the boundaries between theoretical and historicist approaches to literature and proposes an alternative to the common dualistic framework in francophone studies between the colonial and
postcolonial.
Advisors/Committee Members: Nesbitt, Nick (advisor), Benhaïm, André (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Caribbean;
Francophone;
Historiography;
Narrative;
Postcolonial
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. (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016m311s25d
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Decker, Robert William. “Topographies of Time: The Spatiohistorical Imagination in Caribbean Narrative
.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016m311s25d.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Decker, Robert William. “Topographies of Time: The Spatiohistorical Imagination in Caribbean Narrative
.” 2020. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Decker RW. Topographies of Time: The Spatiohistorical Imagination in Caribbean Narrative
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016m311s25d.
Council of Science Editors:
Decker RW. Topographies of Time: The Spatiohistorical Imagination in Caribbean Narrative
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2020. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016m311s25d

Utah State University
28.
Spencer, Patricia Annamaria.
Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948).
Degree: MA, History, 2013, Utah State University
URL: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463
► The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale…
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▼ The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale agricultural projects required a workforce that Malaya did not have. South Indian peasants from the untouchable Madrasi caste were taken to Malaya, initially, as indentured servants. When indenture was abolished, they were engaged as contract workers. Inferiority and backwardness were common colonial perceptions that were held against them. These laborers were exploited by the British as they had no bargaining power or the ability to demand more than a meager wage.
World War II redefined the way these laborers started to view the British. Having suffered defeat in the hands of the Japanese, the colonial power retreated meekly. This was a significant development as it removed the veil of British dominance in the eyes of a formerly docile people. When the British returned to Malaya after the war, it was a more defiant Indian labor community who greeted them. These wanted more concessions. They wanted citizenship, better wages and living conditions. They wanted a future that did not retain them on the rubber estates but one where they could finally shed their subaltern roots and achieve upward mobility.
This new defiance was met with antagonism by the colonial power whose main concern was to get the lucrative but stalled rubber industry up and running again. The destitution and impoverishment suffered by the Indians during the war was ignored as they were rounded up like cattle to be put to work again on the estates.
When their demands were not met, Indian laborers joined forces with the heavily Communist influenced Chinese migrant community to go on strikes, the strongest weapon they had at their disposal. The creation of the All Malayan Rubber Workers' Council, a predominantly Indian trade union, is essential in showing how Indian labor became a threat to the British that they eventually had to retaliate with draconian military suppression through the imposition of the Emergency in 1948.
Archival material from the Malaysian National Archives, The National Archives of the United Kingdom, the Labor History and Archive Study Center at the People's History Museum in the United Kingdom, and the Hull History Center in the United Kingdom, were analyzed to present an alternate narrative as opposed to the colonial narrative, in recognizing and attributing a modern spirit and agency amongst this formerly docile labor diaspora. This work presents the events of 1945-1948 as a time when Indians rejected the colonial perception of them as an inferior people, and challenged the colonial power. However, their efforts were subverted by the British and by doing so, the British ensured the maintenance of a labor diaspora that would continue to be exploited by those who ruled over them.
Advisors/Committee Members: Edward Glatfelter, James Sanders, Colleen O'Neill, ;.
Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial; subaltem; Asian History; History
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Spencer, P. A. (2013). Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948). (Masters Thesis). Utah State University. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Spencer, Patricia Annamaria. “Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948).” 2013. Masters Thesis, Utah State University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Spencer, Patricia Annamaria. “Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948).” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Spencer PA. Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948). [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Utah State University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463.
Council of Science Editors:
Spencer PA. Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948). [Masters Thesis]. Utah State University; 2013. Available from: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463

University of Ottawa
29.
Mourad, Fatima.
Anti-Systemic Departures in Lebanese-Canadian Writing: Mouawad and Hage.
Degree: MA, Arts, 2020, University of Ottawa
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25483
► This thesis examines the antisystemic writing of Wajdi Mouawad and Rawi Hage, two of the most compelling authors to emerge out of the Lebanese-Canadian diaspora.…
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▼ This thesis examines the antisystemic writing of Wajdi Mouawad and Rawi Hage, two of the most compelling authors to emerge out of the Lebanese-Canadian diaspora. In their Canadian setting, the writers’ politics of unbelonging serves a countercultural purpose by rearticulating the race, class, and gender disparities eschewed in multicultural discourse. As writers of a growing Lebanese diaspora, they recall the collective injuries sustained during the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) and which remain underexamined by Lebanese society and government. In this way, Mouawad and Hage assume a subversive position in both the Lebanese and the Canadian contexts by reinscribing histories and experiences that risk erasure.
In my analysis of Mouawad’s play Scorched and Mouawad’s novels De Niro’s Game and Cockroach, the differential allocation of precarity and grievability proves the common thread that runs through all three texts. Mouawad and Hage’s representation of their character’s disproportionate exposure to harm and suffering coincides with the broader claims of antisystemic politics. My intervention brackets these texts’ thematic concerns with the critical theories that best explain some of Mouawad and Hage’s more radical depictions of immigrants under duress.
Advisors/Committee Members: Von Maltzahn, Nicholas (supervisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial literature; Arab-Canadian literature
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Mourad, F. (2020). Anti-Systemic Departures in Lebanese-Canadian Writing: Mouawad and Hage. (Masters Thesis). University of Ottawa. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25483
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mourad, Fatima. “Anti-Systemic Departures in Lebanese-Canadian Writing: Mouawad and Hage.” 2020. Masters Thesis, University of Ottawa. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25483.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mourad, Fatima. “Anti-Systemic Departures in Lebanese-Canadian Writing: Mouawad and Hage.” 2020. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Mourad F. Anti-Systemic Departures in Lebanese-Canadian Writing: Mouawad and Hage. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25483.
Council of Science Editors:
Mourad F. Anti-Systemic Departures in Lebanese-Canadian Writing: Mouawad and Hage. [Masters Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2020. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25483

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
30.
Hsiao, Hui-Lien.
Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges.
Degree: PhD, 0215, 2014, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50537
► Learning Chinese as a foreign language is becoming popular in the United States with the growing Chinese economy and influence. In this qualitative case study…
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▼ Learning Chinese as a foreign language is becoming popular in the United States with the growing Chinese economy and influence. In this qualitative case study I have followed a native Chinese teacher who took up citizenship in the United States, Dr. Lin, and the Mandarin Chinese language program she created in a Midwestern elementary school. Three research questions guided the investigation: (1) How were Dr. Lin’s identities constructed, re-formed and evolve, and how did the power structures within the school influence her identities? (2) How did Dr. Lin’s identity influence her teaching and shape her students’ perceptions of Chinese language learning? (3) How did Dr. Lin engage student thinking and facilitate student understanding of Chinese text, expression, and narrative in the activities she used in the classroom, and what computer and internet resources were used in the classroom and at children’s homes after school?
Using case study and ethnography methodologies to structure this study and the theoretical frameworks of identity, sociocultural, and post-colonial theory and cultural imperialism to analyze the data, I found Dr. Lin had multiple identities in the environment she worked and lived in with many existing simultaneously. Dr. Lin’s teacher identity was influenced by her Chinese heritage as well as her teaching experiences at Shady Prairie Elementary School. Dr. Lin experienced various social, cultural and other challenges in working with students, faculty, staff and parents. Some frustrations stemmed from her lack of knowledge of the school’s, the student’s, and the community’s cultures before attempting to design a language program for the school. The focus of the Mandarin Chinese curriculum was placed on cultural awareness of China, while parents expectations demanded higher achievement in reading and writing the language. The tacit cultural knowledge Dr. Lin represented through her curriculum was engaged and reproduced by the students. Dr. Lin’s application of the computer and internet resources was limited and she did not have much support at school or in the district.
The social and cultural challenges that Dr. Lin experienced impacted her personal and professional identities and created certain power dynamics at Shady Prairie Elementary School. Lacking familiarity with the school culture and socialization habits with faculty and administrators, Dr. Lin occupied a “colonized” position with school administrators as “colonizers.” Flipped over, her strong teacher-centered teaching style made her a colonizer of the students, reluctantly accepted by them, the colonized. In the multi-layers of colonization, Dr. Lin was becoming acculturated through mimicking the behavior and language of her American colleagues and friends at work and in life. She continued to become “the hybrid,” with mixed characteristics shaped by multiple social and cultural influences.
Advisors/Committee Members: Osborne, Margery (advisor), Osborne, Margery (Committee Chair), Stake, Robert E. (committee member), Johnston-Parsons, Marilyn A. (committee member), Huang, Wen-Hao (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: identity; postcolonial theory; sociocultural theory
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Hsiao, H. (2014). Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50537
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hsiao, Hui-Lien. “Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50537.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hsiao, Hui-Lien. “Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hsiao H. Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50537.
Council of Science Editors:
Hsiao H. Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50537
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