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1. 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… (more)

▼ 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 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 (16^th Edition):

Genette, Adriane. “Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 17, 2020. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320655/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Genette, Adriane. “Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction.” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Genette A. Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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

2. Rivas, Araceli. Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the.

Degree: 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… (more)

▼ 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. (Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rivas, Araceli. “Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the.” 2006. Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rivas, Araceli. “Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the.” 2006. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Rivas A. Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the. [Internet] [Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2006. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Rivas A. Postcolonial analysis of educational research discourse: creating (Mexican) American children as the. [Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2006. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3310

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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… (more)

▼ 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 (16^th Edition):

Gui, Weihsin. “Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 17, 2020. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:157/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Gui, Weihsin. “Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures.” 2008. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Gui W. Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2008. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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/

California State University – Chico

4. 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

► 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… (more)

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

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Spangler, Erica A. “Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue .” 2011. Thesis, California State University – Chico. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.4/341.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Spangler, Erica A. “Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue .” 2011. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Spangler EA. Using Postcolonial Literature in the Field of Composition: A Cross-Discipline Dialogue . [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University – Chico; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

5. 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… (more)

▼ 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 (16^th Edition):

Jafor, Md Abu. “Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan.” 2014. Masters Thesis, University of North Dakota. Accessed January 17, 2020. https://commons.und.edu/theses/1665.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Jafor, Md Abu. “Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan.” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Jafor MA. Pleas For Partition In Train To Pakistan. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of North Dakota; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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

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

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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… (more)

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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 (16^th 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 17, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2014REN20049.

MLA Handbook (7^th 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. 17 Jan 2020.

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 2020 Jan 17]. 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… (more)

▼ 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 (16^th 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 17, 2020. etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Krassenstein, Stephanie Jean Osburn. “Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

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 2020 Jan 17]. 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

University of Georgia

8. Gachanja, Peter Mwaura. Ousmane Sembene: the aestheticization of memory and history.

Degree: PhD, French, 2014, University of Georgia

URL: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/gachanja_peter_m_201405_phd

► This dissertation examines the aesthetics of memory in five of Sembene’s texts: Le Dernier de l’Empire (a novel), Vehi-Ciosane (a novella) and three films (Ceddo,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: INDEX WORDS: Postcolonial

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Gachanja, P. M. (2014). Ousmane Sembene: the aestheticization of memory and history. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/gachanja_peter_m_201405_phd

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Gachanja, Peter Mwaura. “Ousmane Sembene: the aestheticization of memory and history.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Georgia. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/gachanja_peter_m_201405_phd.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Gachanja, Peter Mwaura. “Ousmane Sembene: the aestheticization of memory and history.” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Gachanja PM. Ousmane Sembene: the aestheticization of memory and history. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Georgia; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/gachanja_peter_m_201405_phd.

Council of Science Editors:

Gachanja PM. Ousmane Sembene: the aestheticization of memory and history. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Georgia; 2014. Available from: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/gachanja_peter_m_201405_phd

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”… (more)

▼ 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 (16^th Edition):

Mascorro, Karina. “Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the Afro-Italian Diaspora.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 17, 2020. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:419549/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mascorro, Karina. “Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the Afro-Italian Diaspora.” 2015. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Mascorro K. Experimental/Experiential Voices: Unheard Stories from the Afro-Italian Diaspora. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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 Debrecen

10. 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… (more)

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

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Réti, Zsófia. “The In-Between Man .” 2013. Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed January 17, 2020. 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 (7^th Edition):

Réti, Zsófia. “The In-Between Man .” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Réti Z. The In-Between Man . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Cornell University

11. Vartolomei Pribiag, Ioana. Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political .

Degree: 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… (more)

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 . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Vartolomei Pribiag, Ioana. “Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political .” 2014. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Vartolomei Pribiag, Ioana. “Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political .” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Vartolomei Pribiag I. Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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Vartolomei Pribiag I. Beyond The Consensus Of Incompatibility: Francophone Poetry And The Question Of The Political . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38826

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Miami

12. 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,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial Women; Land

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Ramlagan, M. N. (2011). (Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Miami. Retrieved from https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/596

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ramlagan, Michelle N. “(Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Miami. Accessed January 17, 2020. https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/596.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ramlagan, Michelle N. “(Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse.” 2011. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Ramlagan MN. (Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Miami; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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

13. 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

None

Bibliography p. 203-224

Advisors/Committee Members: Purakayastha, Dipankar.

Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonial fiction

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Chakraborty, S. (2013). Constructing home: space and identity in selected 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 (16^th Edition):

Chakraborty, Sumana. “Constructing home: space and identity in selected postcolonial fiction.” 2013. Thesis, Assam University. Accessed January 17, 2020. 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 (7^th Edition):

Chakraborty, Sumana. “Constructing home: space and identity in selected postcolonial fiction.” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Chakraborty S. Constructing home: space and identity in selected postcolonial fiction. [Internet] [Thesis]. Assam University; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/14014.

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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

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

14. 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… (more)

▼ 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 (16^th 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 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50537.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hsiao, Hui-Lien. “Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges.” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

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 2020 Jan 17]. 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

University of Newcastle

15. 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

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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… (more)

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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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Aisbett, J. (2014). Emotional orientalisms: a postcolonial study of emotions in HIV and aids development work in PNG. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Newcastle. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055221

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th 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 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055221.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Aisbett, Jack. “Emotional orientalisms: a postcolonial study of emotions in HIV and aids development work in PNG.” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

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 2020 Jan 17]. 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

Rice University

16. 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… (more)

▼ 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 (16^th Edition):

Adkins, Alexander Bryant. “Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Rice University. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/96613.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Adkins, Alexander Bryant. “Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times.” 2016. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Adkins AB. Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rice University; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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

Addis Ababa University

17. 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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FIKADU, K. (2012). THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS . (Thesis). Addis Ababa University. Retrieved from http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3597

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

FIKADU, KENENISA. “THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS .” 2012. Thesis, Addis Ababa University. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3597.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

FIKADU, KENENISA. “THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS .” 2012. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

FIKADU K. THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN SITUATIONS . [Internet] [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3597.

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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

Universiteit Utrecht

18. 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… (more)

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 (16^th 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 17, 2020. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/21842.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Helsloot, Alina. “Reflections in a Postcolonial Mirror: a Comparative Analysis of Hella Haasse's "Oeroeg" (1948) and "Sleuteloog" (2002).” 2007. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

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 2020 Jan 17]. 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

Louisiana State University

19. Miskowiec, Nadia. Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante.

Degree: PhD, French and Francophone Language and Literature, 2016, Louisiana State University

URL: etd-06012016-151746 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/93

► Morocco was under French protectorate between 1912 and 1956 when it gained its independence. This colonization left traces in literature, notably the beginnings of a… (more)

▼ Morocco was under French protectorate between 1912 and 1956 when it gained its independence. This colonization left traces in literature, notably the beginnings of a Moroccan literature written in French. However, while written in French these works include specifically Moroccan features that reflect the diversity and complexity of that nation. I argue that the works written by Moroccan authors such as Abdellatif Laâbi, Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, Mohammed Choukri, Mohammed Leftah, Ahmed Sefrioui and Tahar Ben Jelloun, post-independence, have significantly contributed to building a decolonized identity for Moroccans. By focusing on the literary tools deployed by these authors the research highlights aspects previously overshadowed when concentrating on the post-colonial context in which they were written. My dissertation research briefly overviews the historical and sociolinguistic context in which Post-independence literature was written. The first chapter presents the process undergone by authors in Morocco, after the independence, to rebuild a literary discourse free of colonial influence. It highlights the role of the journal Souffles, created by Abdellatif Laâbi, in paving the way for future authors. The second chapter details the authorial strategies deployed to renew styles of writing. These strategies include translation, the use of folklore and oral cultural heritage. Drawing from these sources has allowed Moroccan authors to create original works that are hard to categorize following western literary genres and disrupt western rhythms of writing. The final chapter illustrates the subversive nature of these works, in part because they present an alternative image of Morocco. By focusing on the literary attributes of Moroccan works the research highlights its significance for Morocco, as well as for research in the Post-colonial field in general. This focus draws light upon the importance of Amazigh culture and oral literature in making Moroccan literature a decolonized literature. It also draws attention to the importance of understanding Moroccan works as deeply marked by intertextuality. This work explores the role literature has played in stimulating a political conversation about national identity and cultural future, thus addressing the trauma of colonial occupation in a cathartic way. This work opens avenues of studies that move away from the Post-colonial paradigm to concentrate on the cultural project countries such as Morocco envisioned for themselves.

Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial identity; litterature francophone; Maroc

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Miskowiec, N. (2016). Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante. (Doctoral Dissertation). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-06012016-151746 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/93

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Miskowiec, Nadia. “Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Louisiana State University. Accessed January 17, 2020. etd-06012016-151746 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/93.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Miskowiec, Nadia. “Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante.” 2016. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Miskowiec N. Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: etd-06012016-151746 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/93.

Council of Science Editors:

Miskowiec N. Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2016. Available from: etd-06012016-151746 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/93

Clemson University

20. Nugent, Gabrielle. The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination.

Degree: MA, English, 2018, Clemson University

URL: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2868

► This paper argues that focusing on seascapes in Danticat’s fiction unsettles former land-sea relations and, in turn, generates fluid conceptual alternatives to rigid colonial histories,… (more)

▼ This paper argues that focusing on seascapes in Danticat’s fiction unsettles former land-sea relations and, in turn, generates fluid conceptual alternatives to rigid colonial histories, hierarchies, and temporal scales. Investigating how the water in Danticat’s fiction upends cultural narratives of colonial progress and modernization’s processes also yields considerations of how Danticat’s novels entail a widening of the customary aperture of ecocritcism. Thinking about Danticat’s fiction environmentally raises the stakes for how we may think about the links between “the local” and contexts of planetary reach on an “ecoglobal” scale. Foregrounding these concerns when reading Danticat’s work bears directly on contemporary pairings between literary studies and the environmental humanities. An attention to Danticat’s seascapes thus enriches ecocritical approaches to not only Danticat’s fiction, but also offers a narrative point of intersection in which two previously divergent schools of thought may be paired. Braiding postcolonial perspectives with ecocritical critiques outlines how literature’s imaginative capacities can galvanize forces for not just social, but also global environmental change. Thus, this paper, in coalescing an analysis of the ubiquity of water in Danticat’s work with questions of how the narrative itself takes up tidal patterns of circulation, is primarily concerned with how the forms of Danticat’s fiction articulate and circulate reflections on empire, American foreign policy, what Rob Nixon terms “slow violence,” and methods of resistance. I contend here that Danticat’s aesthetic strategy mediates socioenviornmental transformation through the trope of water. Water, this essay claims, as both a natural resource and source of history, offers us innovative ways of thinking about how it can initiate possibilities for prompting socioenvironmental change—and reflects what is at stake if we don’t. Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Angela Naimou, Co-Committee Chair, Dr. Walt Hunter, Co-Committee Chair, Dr. Michael LeMahieu, Committee Member.

Subjects/Keywords: ecocritical; edwidge danticat; postcolonial; water

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Nugent, G. (2018). The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination. (Masters Thesis). Clemson University. Retrieved from https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2868

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Nugent, Gabrielle. “The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Clemson University. Accessed January 17, 2020. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2868.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Nugent, Gabrielle. “The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination.” 2018. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Nugent G. The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Clemson University; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2868.

Council of Science Editors:

Nugent G. The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination. [Masters Thesis]. Clemson University; 2018. Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2868

University of Manchester

21. 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… (more)

▼ 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 (16^th 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 17, 2020. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:123686.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tavares, Maria. “Women who Give Birth to New Worlds: Three Feminine Perspectives on Lusophone Postcolonial Africa.” 2011. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

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 2020 Jan 17]. 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

Montana Tech

22. Ely, Adrianna C. The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead.

Degree: MA, 2012, Montana Tech

URL: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983

► This thesis explores the tropes of the garden and technology in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead, and identifies… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: ecocriticism; gardens; postcolonial; Silko; technology

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Ely, A. C. (2012). The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead. (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ely, Adrianna C. “The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed January 17, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ely, Adrianna C. “The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead.” 2012. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Ely AC. The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983.

Council of Science Editors:

Ely AC. The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 2012. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983

California State University – Chico

23. Connelley-Stanio, Trinity. "Altes Ehepaar": a postmodern postcolonial perspective on Anna Wuhrmann's colonial photography of the Bamum .

Degree: 2014, California State University – Chico

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/122855

► The purpose of this study is to examine the photographic collaboration between Anna Wuhrmann and the Bamum people. Wuhrmann was a Swiss teacher and a… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: postmodern postcolonial Anna Wuhrmann photography

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Connelley-Stanio, T. (2014). "Altes Ehepaar": a postmodern postcolonial perspective on Anna Wuhrmann's colonial photography of the Bamum . (Thesis). California State University – Chico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/122855

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Connelley-Stanio, Trinity. “"Altes Ehepaar": a postmodern postcolonial perspective on Anna Wuhrmann's colonial photography of the Bamum .” 2014. Thesis, California State University – Chico. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/122855.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Connelley-Stanio, Trinity. “"Altes Ehepaar": a postmodern postcolonial perspective on Anna Wuhrmann's colonial photography of the Bamum .” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Connelley-Stanio T. "Altes Ehepaar": a postmodern postcolonial perspective on Anna Wuhrmann's colonial photography of the Bamum . [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University – Chico; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/122855.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Connelley-Stanio T. "Altes Ehepaar": a postmodern postcolonial perspective on Anna Wuhrmann's colonial photography of the Bamum . [Thesis]. California State University – Chico; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/122855

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Adelaide

24. 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.… (more)

▼ 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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Velautham, L. (2015). Voice and representation: a postcolonial approach to higher education promotional media and the international postgraduate student experience. (Thesis). University of Adelaide. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106783

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th 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 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106783.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Velautham, Lalitha. “Voice and representation: a postcolonial approach to higher education promotional media and the international postgraduate student experience.” 2015. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

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 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106783.

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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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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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 (16^th Edition):

Csapó, Kinga. “Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children .” 2013. Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2437/173654.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Csapó, Kinga. “Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children .” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Csapó K. Magic Realism and the Politics of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Cambridge

26. 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… (more)

▼ 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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Balasubramanian, A. (2019). Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291158

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Balasubramanian, Aditya. “Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 17, 2020. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291158.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Balasubramanian, Aditya. “Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70.” 2019. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Balasubramanian A. Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. 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 Arizona

27. Thomas, Susan J. Hideous Progeny: Postcolonial Fiction and the Gothic Tradition .

Degree: 2014, University of Arizona

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/344423

► Hideous Progeny: Postcolonial Fiction and the Gothic Tradition explores the vexed relationship between postcolonial fiction and the Anglo-European-American Gothic mode. Gothic motifs figure abundantly in… (more)

▼ Hideous Progeny: Postcolonial Fiction and the Gothic Tradition explores the vexed relationship between postcolonial fiction and the Anglo-European-American Gothic mode. Gothic motifs figure abundantly in postcolonial works, but they are not always meant to be taken seriously; often they take a comic and ironic stance toward the subject matter. When horror does appear in these works, it is usually not situated in the abject Other (the pharmakos figure), but in the projecting mindset of the dominant culture. As the title Hideous Progeny implies, such postcolonial novels are the rebellious offspring of the Gothic canon; they can even be dubbed Frankenstein's monsters, created from the disjecta membra of the nineteenth-century Gothic tradition and reassembled into a newly vital, global Gothic literature. Or, to use a different metaphor, they function as inverted mirror images, as photographic negatives, of the nineteenth-century Gothic novel, neutralizing its familiar tropes with an injection of "magical realist" motifs from diverse cultural traditions. This study uses a psychoanalytic methodology to analyze the Gothic source echoes in selected novels by Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, and Salman Rushdie. Through the lens of post-Freudian theorists Nicolas Abraham, Maria Torok, and Julia Kristeva, in particular, these novels will be depicted as Gothic – suspended between a haunted past and a technologically disorienting present – and also anti-Gothic. If the Gothic novel explored the unconscious anxieties of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western culture, as many have suggested, the postcolonial Gothic novel explores the unconscious anxieties of an emerging global culture in the late twentieth century. Unlike its Anglo-American precursor, however, postcolonial Gothic fiction does not recoil from the unknown, but embraces the "liminal" zone, finding in it both "tiger and lady," both terror and potential renewal. Advisors/Committee Members: Monsman, Gerald (advisor), Hogle, Jerrold E. (committeemember), Aiken, Susan Hardy (committeemember), Monsman, Gerald (committeemember).

Subjects/Keywords: magical realism; postcolonial; English; Gothic

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Thomas, S. J. (2014). Hideous Progeny: Postcolonial Fiction and the Gothic Tradition . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/344423

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Thomas, Susan J. “Hideous Progeny: Postcolonial Fiction and the Gothic Tradition .” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/344423.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Thomas, Susan J. “Hideous Progeny: Postcolonial Fiction and the Gothic Tradition .” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Thomas SJ. Hideous Progeny: Postcolonial Fiction and the Gothic Tradition . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/344423.

Council of Science Editors:

Thomas SJ. Hideous Progeny: Postcolonial Fiction and the Gothic Tradition . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/344423

Cornell University

28. Reyes, Michael. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934.

Degree: 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… (more)

▼ 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: Vallois, Marie-Claire (committeeMember), Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committeeMember).

Subjects/Keywords: Haitian Literature; Postcolonial Literature; Modernity

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APA (6^th Edition):

Reyes, M. (2014). The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Reyes, Michael. “The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. ” 2014. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Reyes, Michael. “The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. ” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Reyes M. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Reyes M. The Gravity Of Revolution: The Legacy Of Anticolonial Discourse In Postcolonial Haitian Writing, 1804-1934. [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36124

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Melbourne

29. Storr, Anne Caithleen. Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law.

Degree: 2017, University of Melbourne

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190804

This thesis is a critical redescription of the changing status of Nauru in international law from 1888 to 1968. As Nauru’s status shifted from protectorate to mandate to trust territory to state, what occurred at the administrative level was an accretion of an imperial form established in the protectorate era.

Subjects/Keywords: international law; history; postcolonial states

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Storr, A. C. (2017). Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Melbourne. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190804

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Storr, Anne Caithleen. “Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190804.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Storr, Anne Caithleen. “Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law.” 2017. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Storr AC. Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190804.

Council of Science Editors:

Storr AC. Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190804

Vanderbilt University

30. Haynes, Justin. Carnival: Transformation, Performance and Play in Caribbean Festivals.

Degree: PhD, English, 2010, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-07252010-195524/ ;

► In this dissertation I examine the origins, influences and features of Caribbean carnivals as cultural festivals that developed and expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial studies; carnival; Caribbean studies

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Haynes, J. (2010). Carnival: Transformation, Performance and Play in Caribbean Festivals. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-07252010-195524/ ;

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Haynes, Justin. “Carnival: Transformation, Performance and Play in Caribbean Festivals.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed January 17, 2020. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-07252010-195524/ ;.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Haynes, Justin. “Carnival: Transformation, Performance and Play in Caribbean Festivals.” 2010. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

Vancouver:

Haynes J. Carnival: Transformation, Performance and Play in Caribbean Festivals. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 17]. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-07252010-195524/ ;.

Council of Science Editors:

Haynes J. Carnival: Transformation, Performance and Play in Caribbean Festivals. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2010. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-07252010-195524/ ;

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