Search for dissertations about: "Post-Colonial Literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words Post-Colonial Literature.

2. 1. Sports of culture : Writing the resistant subject in South Africa (readings of Ndebele, Gordimer, Coetzee)

   Author : Stefan Helgesson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; African literature; Homi Bhabha; catachresis; ethics; Frantz Fanon; Emmanuel Lévinas; mimicry; post-colonial theory; South African literature; Gayatri Spivak; subaltern; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis interrogates the post-colonial and ethical implications of three works of fiction published in South Africa between 1983 and 1987, namely Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele, A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer and Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee. READ MORE

4. 2. "Forming the Subject".Post-Colonial Strategies of Njabulo Ndebele and Nadine Gordimer

   Author : Stefan Helgesson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

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5. 3. Decolonizing the Viking Age 1

   Author : Fredrik Svanberg; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death rituals; burial; grave; society; post-colonial; nationalism; deconstruction; Orientalism.; Arkeologi; Archaeology; community; Scandinavia; Viking Age;

   Abstract : Decolonizing the Viking Age 1 argues that the Scandinavian “Viking Age” can be seen as a system of knowledge constructed in the late 19th century and in its basic structures maintained up to the present day. This system of knowledge was heavily influenced by the nationalistic and evolutionary ideas of its time of making and may be described as a colonialism of the past. READ MORE

6. 4. Female Quest in Christina Stead's For Love Alone

   Author : Nilsson Mathilda; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; post-colonial journey; feminism; archetypes; intertextuality; Christina Stead; female quest; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : One of the conspicuously recurrent motifs in Christina Stead's novels is the quest. The present study centres on For Love Alone, the novel in which the prominence of this motif culminates in the depiction of Teresa Hawkins' successful quest, which contains both social and spiritual elements. READ MORE

7. 5. Att skriva andras liv eller sitt eget. En studie av Jan Myrdals Rapport från kinesisk by och Maja Ekelöfs Rapport från en skurhink" ("Writing the Lives of Other's or One's Own. Jan Myrdal's Report from a Chinese Village and Maja Ekelöf's Rapport från en s

   Author : Annika Olsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jan Myrdal; Maja Ekelöf; post-colonial; feminist; litteratur-sociologi; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : ”Writing the Lives of Others or One’s Own” is part of Annika Olsson’s larger study ”Att ge den andra sidan röst. En litteratursociologisk och könsteoretisk studie av den svenska rapportboken mellan 1960-1980” [”Giving Voice. A Sociological Studie With Gen.. READ MORE