Search for dissertations about: "Stefan Helgesson"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words Stefan Helgesson.

2. 1. "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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4. 2. 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

5. 3. J.M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child

   Author : Charlotta Elmgren; Stefan Helgesson; Pieter Vermeulen; David Attwell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J.M. Coetzee; poetics; Agamben; Arendt; child; childhood; truth; innocence; ethics; natality; education; pedagogy; play; infancy; impotentiality; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure. READ MORE

6. 4. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

   Author : Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

   Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE

7. 5. Articulable Humanity : Narrative Ethics in Nuruddin Farah's Trilogies

   Author : Hilda Härgestam Strandberg; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Annie Gagiano; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; African literature; Nuruddin Farah; narrative ethics; ethical criticism; precariousness; vulnerability; human dignity; Emmanuel Lévinas; Adriana Cavarero; Judith Butler; postcolonial theory; feminism.; engelska; English;

   Abstract : Fokus för avhandlingen, Att uttrycka det mänskliga: narrativ etik i Nuruddin Farah’s trilogier, är de nio romaner publicerade mellan 1979 och 2011 som tillsammans utgör Nuruddin Farah’s tre trilogier: ”Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship,” bestående av Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), Sardines (1981), Close Sesame (1983); “Blood in the Sun,” bestående av Maps (1986), Gifts (1993), Secrets (1998); samt “Past Imperfect,” bestående av Links (2003), Knots (2007), Crossbones (2011). Tematiska och stilistiska skillnader till trots så är dessa trilogier och romaner märkbart sammanhängande i sitt fokus. READ MORE