Search for dissertations about: "historical narration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words historical narration.

2. 1. Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers : A Sudy of the Relational Self in Four Life Stories

   Author : Martin Shaw; David Mayall; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; life story; relationality; habitus; narration; Gypsy; Traveller; United Kingdom and Northern Ireland; embodied subjectivity; Post- and internal colonialisms; violence s ; self-domination; domination; English language; Engelska språket;

   Abstract : To say that Gypsy and/or Traveller and/or Romany life stories have existed on the periphery of literary studies can be considered an understatement. In this study of the relational self, Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers, examines the discursive and structural complexities involved in the practices of writing and speaking in the production process and narrative trajectories of the life stories of Gordon Sylvester Boswell (1970), Nan Joyce (1985), Jimmy Stockins (2000), and Jess Smith (2002 and 2003). READ MORE

4. 2. Conflict in Colours : A comparative study of republican and loyalist murals in Belfast

   Author : Fredrika Larsson; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nordirland; Historiska perspektiv; Northern Ireland; the Troubles; Historical Narrative; Cultural violence; Symbolic landscapes; Loyalism; Republicanism; Dissident republicanism; Cultural trauma;

   Abstract : Republican and Loyalist Murals in Belfast Abstract Conflict in Colours is a book about the role of cultural violence in maintaining and transferring conflict situations by investigating republican and loyalist murals in Belfast during the Troubles and the Northern Irish peace process. During several decades, the people of Northern Ireland have endured warlike situations before the peace agreement in 1998. READ MORE

5. 3. From Putsch to Purge. A Study of the German Episodes in Richard Hughes’s The Human Predicament and their Sources

   Author : Ivo Holmqvist; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Weimar Republic; Documentary novel; English historical fiction; The Wooden Shepherdess; The Fox in the Attic; 1900-1976; Hughes; Richard; Rise of Nazism; Hitler portraits in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : The two last novels by Richard Hughes (1900-1976), the first in his planned The Human Predicament series, are partly set in Germany in the years between the First and the Second World War. Much of the action in The Fox in the Attic (1961) takes part in and around Munich, culminating in a fictional reconstruction of the so-called Hitler Putsch on November 8-9, 1923, the future dictator's aborted early bid for power. READ MORE

6. 4. Reel Socialism : Making sense of history in Czech and German cinema since 1989

   Author : Sune Bechmann Pedersen; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Socialism; cinema; communism; history culture; film; memory; Germany; Czech Republic; East Germany; Czechoslovakia; 1989; revolution; retro; nostalgia; Ostalgie; coming to terms with the past;

   Abstract : This thesis is a comparative study of the communist past as depicted in Czech and German feature films since 1989, or ‘reel socialism’. It is the first detailed study of post-1989 Czech history films and the first comparative study of German post-reunification cinema. READ MORE

7. 5. Black Lives, White Quotation Marks : Textual Constructions of Selfhood in South African Multivoiced Life Writing

   Author : Jenny Siméus; Maria Olaussen; Stefan Helgesson; Meg Samuelson; Ashleigh Harris; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antjie Krog; collaborative autobiography; collaborative life writing; Elsa Joubert; Jonathan Morgan; Kopano Ratele; Margaret McCord; multivoiced life writing; Nosisi Mpolweni; selfhood; South Africa; Zoë Wicomb; English literature; Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on South African multivoiced and collaborative life writing. The analysed primary texts are The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1980) by Elsa Joubert, The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa (1995) by Margaret McCord, Finding Mr Madini (1999) by Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spiderwriters, David’s Story (2000) by Zoë Wicomb, and There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), co-written by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele. READ MORE