Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Universität Bonn, 1992. / Bibliogr. p. 423-441. Index.

This master’s report presents an examination of hybridic religious practices, ritual and iconography as depicted in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters and Ana Castillo's So far from God. In particular, it treats the role of religious hybridity--the imbrication of folkloric, indigenous and secular traditions with orthodox Catholicism--as an important source of cultural, political and social resistance within postcolonial Chicana/o and Filipino communities that are still dealing with, or attempting to escape their colonial pasts. / text

The ideology of the Islamic State in Indonesia did not emerge in an abrupt manner, but was the product of a long development. The ideology was one outcome of the role that Islam had played (through the Islamic movement) in the struggle of the Indonesians for the political independance of their country. According to the nationalist point of view this struggle began with the creation of the Budi Utomo in 1908, but the Islamic group consider 1905, the date of the establishment or the Sarekat Dagang Islam, as the starting point. [...]

This dissertation makes an investigation of two short story collections by the pioneering IsiZulu writers in this genre, W M B Mkhize and M J Mngadi with particular reference to exposition, characterisation, style and themes. The theoretical framework that has been used has been mainly the structuralist approach though others such as historical biographical and moral philosophical, Marxist or formalism and new criticism have also been used. This study consists of six chapters; the first chapter serves as the general introduction to the whole dissertation. The authors' biographical sketches have been given. The discussion of the methodology, definition of the important concepts, parallel works in isiZulu short stories, the chapter outline, theoretical framework and the conclusion make up the rest of the chapter. Chapter 2 focuses on exposition. Different kinds of expositions as used by authors have been dealt with and the effects they have on the readers. The different expositions have been discussed as the authors use them. These include the variety of dialogues and monologues. The others are character, event and nature type of expositions. Chapter 3 deals with characterisation. Naming, plausibility of characters, different kinds of characters and the educative value they have on the readers has been studied. Major and minor characters have been discussed in this chapter. Chapter 4 concerns itself with style. This includes diction, phrases and sentences, the use of proverbs and figures of speech have been analysed. Precise word selection and symbolism have been investigated in the authors' works. Chapter 5 in this research has to do with themes. The study of themes as covered by authors has been covered. The research has confined itself to general, specific and presentation of themes as the serious concern of writers in sending messages to the readers. Chapter 6 deals with general conclusion. It has finalised the evaluation and given the final overview and conclusion. Lastly it has given suggestions for some further research on the study of Mkhize and Mngadi's short stories. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.

With the progress of globalization, it is becoming increasingly evident that there lies within it a Westernizing thrust that forms a part of the European colonial legacy. Postcolonial theorists, exemplified by Homi K. Bhabha, Edward W. Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, have, over the last twenty years, produced some of the most influential discourse-analysis of colonialism, and critiques of neocolonialism. Their works, committed to various streams of poststructuralism, nonetheless exhibit some debilitating epistemological problems this thesis demonstrates by recourse to Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard. In conclusion it offers an alternative approach to globalization derived from Kierkegaard's dilemma of first principles in Either/Or, and Wittgenstein's discussion of language games in Philosophical Investigations .

Cette thèse porte sur l'émergence des sciences de l'atmosphère comme discipline scientifique au Canada dans l'après-guerre. La période 1945-1975 est marquée non seulement par une croissance rapide de la recherche et de la formation, mais aussi par la constitution d'un corps de chercheurs canadiens, un groupe social qui se démarque des premiers chercheurs dispersés, peu organisés et souvent ne disposant pas de leurs propres institutions scientifiques. Nous insistons sur la politique scientifique et les institutions dominantes dont l'évolution donne lieu à des moyens formels pour la promotion de la discipline. C'est ainsi que les élites scientifiques taillent une place pour les sciences de l'atmosphère à l'intérieur des institutions bureaucratiques fédérales, à travers les universités canadiennes, et au sein du champ scientifique mondial. La recherche en sciences de l'atmosphère se démarque alors des travaux routiniers en météorologie et en climatologie dans le laboratoire gouvernemental, tandis que, dans le milieu universitaire, elle cesse d'être sous la tutelle de la physique et de la géographie. En même temps, la communauté des chercheurs en sciences de l'atmosphère se distance de leurs collègues américains et britanniques, et leurs réseaux se renforcent à l'échelle régionale et à l'échelle nationale. Nous faisons ressortir les dynamiques des institutions dominantes en analysant notamment la correspondance et les rapports produits par les élites scientifiques, en faisant usage de méthodes bibliométriques et en examinant des documents scientifiques produits durant cette époque. Notre approche synchronique nous permet de traiter plusieurs aspects du développement des sciences de l'atmosphère en milieu universitaire et en milieu gouvernemental, notamment à travers les interactions avec les milieux politiques, scientifiques et militaires. Nous montrons comment les circonstances locales et les agencements d'intérêts politiques et scientifiques permettent aux sciences de l'atmosphère de se développer à plusieurs endroits au pays. La discipline s'adapte en fonction des priorités socioéconomiques régionales et nationales, des ressources mises en disponibilité par les militaires, ainsi que de la popularité croissante des enjeux environnementaux. En replaçant la production des connaissances dans des espaces disciplinaires, institutionnels et géographiques précis, cette thèse fait la lumière sur certains volets de l'évolution des sciences de l'atmosphère durant la guerre froide que l'historiographie de cette discipline avait peu abordés. Par exemple, bien que les chercheurs de ce domaine au Canada conservent une certaine autonomie vis-à-vis les institutions militaires canadiennes et américaines, ils en tirent de puissants bénéfices, directs et indirects. En décrivant la science gouvernementale en termes de « services de recherche » et en insistant sur les élites qui circulent à travers différents milieux institutionnels, notre étude nous permet de saisir les modalités de développement de ce secteur d'activités scientifiques, en analysant notamment les tensions entre recherche fondamentale et recherche appliquée ainsi que les négociations entre la communauté scientifique et la sphère bureaucratique. Cette analyse nous permet ainsi de faire de la science gouvernementale un élément central de l'histoire de sciences au Canada dans l'après-guerre. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Canada, histoire des sciences, météorologie, climatologie, sciences de l'atmosphère, gouvernement fédéral, universités

Submitted by Aelson Maciera (aelsoncm@terra.com.br) on 2017-09-12T17:24:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissMOC.pdf: 1554165 bytes, checksum: ded3a4f8e36f089b3b6f15f543feb428 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-09-25T12:23:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissMOC.pdf: 1554165 bytes, checksum: ded3a4f8e36f089b3b6f15f543feb428 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-09-25T12:23:55Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissMOC.pdf: 1554165 bytes, checksum: ded3a4f8e36f089b3b6f15f543feb428 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-25T12:31:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissMOC.pdf: 1554165 bytes, checksum: ded3a4f8e36f089b3b6f15f543feb428 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-17 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / This thesis presents the final results of the research developed between March, 2013 and July, 2015, reflecting upon the connection between the poets Oliverio Girondo (1891–1967) and Néstor Perlongher (1949 – 1992). In the introduction it is possible to find the three theoretical guidelines that support the research: from Borges (1951), the tradition of the reader's perspective; from Claudia Lemos (1998), the signification as a reading procedure that contemplates poetry. From Roland Barthes (1973) and Georges Bataille (1957), the relation between the pleasure of reading and erotism as a function that is detached from reproduction. Regarding these notions Perlongher is discerned as Girondo's reader. The option to approach each poet was made from the idea of circulation, Girondo's giros and Perlogher's yiros, which are associated with the Baudelarian flâneur. Such idea is unfolded in three instances, which are, indeed, indivisible: the first one regards the relation of these poets to the city. The second concerns the erotic investment from the persona who “flâneurs”. The third refers to the linguistic procedures that support this theoretical erotic dimension. Thus, one goes to the analysis and comparison of two distinct instances in which Perlongher is acknowledged as Girondo's reader, the first being Girondo's essay "El sexo de las chicas"(1984), and the second being two poems that explicitly mention Girondo: “Anales”, from the book Austria-Hungría (1980) and “El deshollinador”, from Parque Lezama (1990). To sum up, it is observed and commented on how Perlongher makes Girondo yire, i.e., how the first approaches the second and puts him into circulation. / Esta dissertação apresenta os resultados finais da pesquisa desenvolvida entre março de 2013 e julho de 2015, sobre a relação entre os poetas Oliverio Girondo (1891 – 1967) e Néstor Perlongher (1949 – 1992). Na introdução, encontramos as três noções teóricas que nos apoiam para desenvolver a pesquisa: tomamos de Borges (1951) a tradição pela perspectiva do leitor; de Claudia Lemos (1998), a significação como um procedimento de leitura que considera a poesia; e de Roland Barthes (1973) e de Georges Bataille (1957), a relação entre o gozo da leitura e o erotismo como um funcionamento que independe da reprodução. A partir dessas noções, tomamos Perlongher como leitor de Girondo. Optamos por abordar cada poeta a partir da ideia de circulação, os giros de Girondo e os yiros de Perlongher, que associamos ao flanar baudelairiano. Essa ideia se desdobra em três aspectos, que em realidade são indissociáveis: o primeiro diz respeito à relação desses poetas com a cidade, o segundo concerne ao investimento erótico do eu-lírico que flana, e o terceiro se refere aos procedimentos linguísticos que sustentam essa dimensão erótica. Assim sendo, passaremos à análise e comparação de duas instâncias distintas nos quais reconhecemos Perlongher como leitor de Girondo, a primeira é o seu ensaio sobre Girondo, intitulado “El sexo de las chicas” (1984), e a segunda são dois poemas que fazem menção explícita a Girondo: “Anales”, do livro Austria-Hungría (1980) e “El deshollinador”, do Parque Lezama (1990). Para concluir, buscamos observar e comentar como Perlongher faz com que Girondo yire, isto é, como aquele se apropria deste e coloca-o em circulação.

En esta investigación realizo un recorrido por el concepto de ‘matria’ y la teorización que éste ha recibido. El objetivo es re-situarlo desde la crítica literaria feminista para aplicarlo a análisis de textos de autoras latinoamericanas. La finalidad principal es contar con herramientas analíticas provenientes de ámbitos competentes en los aspectos de género, para, de este modo, visualizar de qué forma las mujeres se han dicho a sí mismas mediante la literatura en textos que presentan las características de lo que hemos denominado ‘matria’. Las características de la ‘matria’ que he obtenido como resultado de esta investigación y que planteo como propuesta desde la crítica literaria feminista son: 1) representación heterogénea de las mujeres y las madres; 2) presencia de ‘políticas maternales’; 3) hacer de la maternidad algo que le pertenece a las madres y no al patriarcado; 4) utilización de un lenguaje que escape a los códigos canónicos de representación; 5) técnicas narrativas teorizadas como ‘tretas del débil’1 ; 6) relación con tópicos de la tierra y la patria; 7) mestizaje como mezcla y/o contaminación; 8) idealización del tiempo y la comunidad indígena previos a la conquista, 9) espacio que posibilita la escritura a modo de cuarto propio. En la segunda parte de la investigación, se aplica el concepto de ‘matria’ a la novela Por la patria de Diamela Eltit y se aprecia que las características que he teorizado aparecen en su totalidad en esta novela. La ‘matria’ viene a ser símbolo de la crisis de los sistemas patriarcales, tanto a nivel literario (personajes femeninos y escritura femenina) como de sociedad. La crisis de la nación-estado, cuya destrucción observamos en Por la patria, da paso a una nueva comunidad ‘matria’, que reúne adjetivos siempre relacionados con lo múltiple y heterogéneo, rompiendo así con el binarismo patriarcal e instalando una lógica que representa mucho más el pensar y sentir de nuestras mujeres artistas.

Most research into Bergson's influence to date has failed to take enough account of the philosopher's interest in the spiritual of meta-physical dimension of life. In seeking to interpret Bergson's thought many have focused upon 'la durée réelle' or 'l'élan vital' as the key concepts in his whole philosophy. If, instead, one were to begin with Bergson's main continuing preoccupation at first inchoate and only later more fully developed with spiritual activity in life, then the whole philosophy hangs together as a tapestry of one harmonious piece. Not only can it be clearly seen why Bergson opposes Kant and the positivists so vehemently, but it can also be understood why he eventually set his sights upon The two sources of morality and religion. In the eyes of many critics this work, far from completing a natural progression of thought, stands outside the main body of work as something ill-fitting and almost cavalier. This thesis attempts to redress the balance by demonstrating how the spiritual and religious interpretation of life is central to Bergson's thought. Having established this, I have assumed it likely that a lively Catholic interest in Bergson is something quite logical and natural. This proved to be the case. After all, the Catholics in France stood to gain or lose most by the introduction in intellectural circles of a new philosophical 'spiritualism'. They would obviously themselves have a vested interest in the discrediting of materialist and positivist philosophies. However, scholars have not seen the connection between Bergson and Christian thought very clearly and no detailed research into this particular field has been undertaken. I have consequently attempted to review both the general field of Catholic reactions in a largely chronological way and also the detailed ways in which Bergson's thought had on impact upon Catholic writers. My main conclusion from this research is that Bergson's work lent itself to adaptation and alteration to something more orthodox in Catholic terms. However it was some time before it was viewed in a favourable enough light for anything like this to be attempted. Much prejudice and misinterpretation surrounded Bergson for some years. Eventually, however, his theories made deep inroads into the mainstream of Catholic thought. His theories of perception and intuition, of movement and change, of static and dynamic religion, helped bring about a significant change in the development of twentieth century religious thought.

O tema central deste trabalho é a política cambial. Seu objetivo básico é analisar a condução da política cambial no Brasil entre 1945-1973, que compreende a vigência do Acordo de Bretton Woods, identificando as principais medidas adotadas e seus efeitos sobre algumas das principais variáveis econômicas. Ainda que o Acordo de Bretton Woods tenha estabelecido o dólar norte-americano como base do sistema monetário mundial, de forma que cada país deveria adotar uma taxa fixa de câmbio em relação ao dólar-norte americano, verificou-se, especialmente após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a utilização freqüente de alternância de instrumentos de política cambial pelo governo brasileiro. Dessa forma, ficou evidenciado que durante o período mencionado, a política cambial, esteve em grande parte, subordinada à gestão de freqüentes estrangulamentos cambiais, decorrentes da necessidade de equilibrar as contas externas ou de fornecer divisas à importação dos bens de produção necessários à continuidade do desenvolvimento industrial. Tais fatos, levavam o governo brasileiro a adotar medidas intercaladas de controle cambial, ora austeras, ora mais flexíveis, para fazer frente a tais desequilíbrios. Em 1973, o Acordo de Bretton Woods ruiu e desta forma o sistema monetário internacional passou a adotar taxas de câmbio flexíveis. No entanto, o Brasil já vinha praticando uma política cambial mais flexível desde 1968, com base em minidesvalorizações cambiais, levando em consideração a variação da paridade do poder de compra. À guisa de conclusão, evidenciou-se que a política cambial teve importância crucial, constituindo-se num marco decisivo no processo de desenvolvimento econômico do país, durante o período analisado, procurando, em conjunturas específicas, compatibilizar a estabilidade econômica com os compromissos desenvolvimentistas assumidos pelos governos do período.