Search for dissertations about: "postmodern"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the word postmodern.

  2. 1. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition

    Author : Heidi Hansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; romance; postmodernism; dialogue; feminism; intertextuality; destabilised text; cyclical time; critical return; uncertain gender-construction;

    Abstract : This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, by A. S. READ MORE

  4. 2. Fleshing out the self : Reimagining intersexed and trans embodied lives through (auto)biographical accounts of the past

    Author : Marie-Louise Holm; Margrit Shildrick; Jens Rydström; Ailbhe Smyth; Ellen Feder; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; intersex; trans; autobiography; history; embodiment; selfhood; archives; Denmark; medico-legal contexts; psychiatry; rearticulation; liveability; lived experience; ethics; queer theory; postmodern; dialogical narrative analysis; micro-genealogical analysis; Danish Ministry of Justice; Danish Medico-Legal Council; intersex; trans; självbiografi; historia; förkroppsligande; subjektivitet; arkiv; Danmark; medicinsk-etiska sammanhang; psykiatri; omartikulation; levbarhet; livshistorier; etik; queerteori; postmodern; dialogisk berättande analys; mikrogenealogisk analys; Danska justitiedepartementet; Danska Medicinsk-etiska rådet;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how current ways of imagining possibilities for intersexed and trans embodied lives within medical contexts might be informed by and reimagined through the historical lived experiences of intersexed and trans individuals as they have been articulated in autobiographical accounts.Postmodern, queer, intersex, and trans researchers and activists have criticised existing standards of intersex and trans healthcare for limiting the possibilities for diverse embodied lives by articulating certain forms of embodiment and selfhood as more likely to enable a liveable life than others. READ MORE

  5. 3. Multiple Affiliations : Memory and Place in Autobiographical Narratives of Displacement by (Im)migrant US Women

    Author : Lena Karlsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; autobiography; im migration; United States; diaspora; locational feminism; history; memory; place; home displacement; body; postmodern; subjectivity;

    Abstract : Multiple Affiliations explores the autobiographical negotiations of memory and multilocality articulated by five (im)migrant women writers writing from, and being read (primarily) within, the US. Texts as diverse as Korean-American Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982), Polish (Jewish)-American Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989), Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980), Caribbean/African-American Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Pakistani-American Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989) highlight how various (cross-race and transnational) experiences of location, dislocation, and relocation resonate with each other and "immigrant America. READ MORE

  6. 4. A postmodern saint? - on motives for voluntarism

    Author : Ulla Habermann; Socialhögskolan; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; integration and sustainability.; identity; female care; narratives; altruism; Voluntarism; motives; Sociology; Social changes; theory of social work; teorier om socialt arbete; Sociala förändringar; Sociologi; altruism;

    Abstract : The theme of this thesis is motives for voluntarism - with particular focus on volunteering in social work compared to voluntary work in sports clubs and patient associations. It is based on a combination of different data sources and methodological approaches: surveys, analyses of letters from volunteers and literature studies. READ MORE

  7. 5. Narrative ethics and intuition of the infinite : E. L. Doctorow's gnostic hope for the postmodern era

    Author : Catharine Bergström Walker; Högskolan Väst; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Doctorow; E. L.; Etik i litteraturen; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

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