Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Afghan women suddenly gained high visibility all over the world. Since then, representations of Afghan women in the Western media and notably in the U.S. news media provide a critical concern to scholars. Much of the relevant literature on this topic speaks to the fact that the dominant portrayal of Afghan women in the Western media has shown them as passive victims of war and violence, to be liberated only by the Western military intervention. However, the question remains as to how the popular fictional narratives, as another vivid source of information, represent Afghan women to the Western readers. To address this question, A Thousand Splendid Suns, as a popular novel authored by Khalid Hosseini, an Afghan novelist, was selected. Bormannian fantasy theme analysis of this novel conveys the passivity of women in the context of Afghanistan. The findings reveal that the portrayals of Afghan women in the novel correspond with the images of Afghan women in the Western media. Moreover, an examination of a sample of book reviews of the novel unveils the important contribution of Khalid Hosseini to the Orientalist discourse.

Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Afghan women suddenly gained high visibility all over the world. Since then, representations of Afghan women in the Western media and notably in the U.S. news media provide a critical concern to scholars. Much of the relevant literature on this topic speaks to the fact that the dominant portrayal of Afghan women in the Western media has shown them as passive victims of war and violence, to be liberated only by the Western military intervention. However, the question remains as to how the popular fictional narratives, as another vivid source of information, represent Afghan women to the Western readers. To address this question, A Thousand Splendid Suns, as a popular novel authored by Khalid Hosseini, an Afghan novelist, was selected. Bormannian fantasy theme analysis of this novel conveys the passivity of women in the context of Afghanistan. The findings reveal that the portrayals of Afghan women in the novel correspond with the images of Afghan women in the Western media. Moreover, an examination of a sample of book reviews of the novel unveils the important contribution of Khalid Hosseini to the Orientalist discourse.

Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Afghan women suddenly gained high visibility all over the world. Since then, representations of Afghan women in the Western media and notably in the U.S. news media provide a critical concern to scholars. Much of the relevant literature on this topic speaks to the fact that the dominant portrayal of Afghan women in the Western media has shown them as passive victims of war and violence, to be liberated only by the Western military intervention. However, the question remains as to how the popular fictional narratives, as another vivid source of information, represent Afghan women to the Western readers. To address this question, A Thousand Splendid Suns, as a popular novel authored by Khalid Hosseini, an Afghan novelist, was selected. Bormannian fantasy theme analysis of this novel conveys the passivity of women in the context of Afghanistan. The findings reveal that the portrayals of Afghan women in the novel correspond with the images of Afghan women in the Western media. Moreover, an examination of a sample of book reviews of the novel unveils the important contribution of Khalid Hosseini to the Orientalist discourse.

Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Afghan women suddenly gained high visibility all over the world. Since then, representations of Afghan women in the Western media and notably in the U.S. news media provide a critical concern to scholars. Much of the relevant literature on this topic speaks to the fact that the dominant portrayal of Afghan women in the Western media has shown them as passive victims of war and violence, to be liberated only by the Western military intervention. However, the question remains as to how the popular fictional narratives, as another vivid source of information, represent Afghan women to the Western readers. To address this question, A Thousand Splendid Suns, as a popular novel authored by Khalid Hosseini, an Afghan novelist, was selected. Bormannian fantasy theme analysis of this novel conveys the passivity of women in the context of Afghanistan. The findings reveal that the portrayals of Afghan women in the novel correspond with the images of Afghan women in the Western media. Moreover, an examination of a sample of book reviews of the novel unveils the important contribution of Khalid Hosseini to the Orientalist discourse.

The aim of this study is to describe how pupils in fourth grade talk about their attitude of reading fictional narratives in school and on their spare time, their motives to read and how the school promotes fictional experiences.   The study is based on interviews with 18 pupils from the same class, divided in four groups. The interviews were analyzed from a literature reception theory.   The result shows that some pupils are very engaged in reading fictional narratives, while others more or less, are forced in to reading, because their teacher wants them to. All the interviewed pupils would like to read exciting, interesting books, but they feel that they don’t get the right support neither from their teacher, parents nor their friends. They describes that they don’t discuss the meaning of reading or things that the reader can read between the lines. One important conclusion that shows is that it’s important to choose literature that has a point of contact with the pupil and that the text is on the right level. / Studiens syfte är att beskriva hur elever ur årskurs fyra berättar om läsupplevelser i skolan och på fritiden, vad som motiverar dem att läsa samt hur skolan bidrar till att ge eleverna skönlitterära upplevelser.   Studien bygger på fyra kvalitativa gruppintervjuer med totalt 18 elever, ur samma klass. De svar som jag har fått har analyserats utifrån ett receptionsteoretiskt perspektiv.   Resultatet visar att en del elever är väldigt engagerade och älskar att läsa, medan andra mer eller mindre känner sig tvingade att läsa för att läraren säger att de ska läsa. Alla intervjuade elever skulle vilja läsa spännande, intressanta böcker, många känner dock att de inte får någon hjälp eller inspiration från varken sina lärare, föräldrar eller kamrater. De elever som jag har intervjuat beskriver att de aldrig diskuterar böckernas budskap med varandra, vad som sägs mellan raderna och inte heller begrepp de inte förstår. En viktig slutsats visar på att det är viktigt att välja litteratur som knyter an till eleverna och att den befinner sig på rätt textnivå för dem.

Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2017-10-31T20:56:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2012_Claudia Wanessa Rocha Poletto.pdf: 16523173 bytes, checksum: e1ddf66afac5f484a429c24eabcc8ea8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-12-15T14:58:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2012_Claudia Wanessa Rocha Poletto.pdf: 16523173 bytes, checksum: e1ddf66afac5f484a429c24eabcc8ea8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-15T14:58:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2012_Claudia Wanessa Rocha Poletto.pdf: 16523173 bytes, checksum: e1ddf66afac5f484a429c24eabcc8ea8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-27 / CAPES / As relações entre o Brasil e a Índia são conhecidas há séculos ao mencionarmos as rotas mercantis entre Europa, Américas e Ásia em tempos coloniais. Este trabalho busca analisar indianidades nos fluxos turísticos entre Brasil e Índia na contemporaneidade.Os fluxos provocam mobilidades e circulação de pessoas, artefatos, ideias e informações. Esboçamos nesta pesquisa, a noção de indianidades que pode ser compreendida como uma gama de repertórios que tenta fixar e disseminar predicativos inerentes à Índia apropriada pela indústria do turismo. Ressaltamos que indianidades também está associada a uma abordagem política de movimentos identitários dentro e fora da Índia. Este trabalho explora a pertinência temática por meio de quatro dimensões: 1) propagandas de pacotes turísticos comercializados por agências de viagens brasileiras; 2) relatos de viagens à Índia por turistas viajantes brasileiros; 3) narrativas ficcionais que abordam incidentes de viagens à Índia e aos Estados Unidos, país que acolhe uma expressiva diáspora indiana; 4) objetos de viagens trazidos como souvenirs ou mercadorias. Sinalizamos que a yoga atravessa toda a dissertação de forma fluida, tanto como um repositório de informações sobre a Índia, como uma prática que vem sendo transnacionalizada, impulsionando turistas de todo o mundo em busca do berço da yoga. / The relationship between Brazil and India is known for centuries when mentioned as mercantile rote among Europe, Americas and Asia in the colonial times.This resource seeks to analyse indianess in touristic capabilities between Brazil and India. The flow provoke motion and circulation of people, craft creation, ideas and information. We may added to this source the consistency of indianess which can be comprehended as one gram of repertoires that try to fix up as well as exterminate some values ineherent in India through the tourism industry.It’s important to say that indianness also is associated into a politic discussion related to an indentity circulation movements inside and outside of India. This resource explore the relevance thematic through four dimenssion point of view: 1) advertising of comercial turistic packages by brazilian travel agencies; 2) reports by brazilian tourists people who travel to India; 3) Fiction narrative related to incidents that happen in India and United States, which country embrace a significant Indian population; 4) Travel objects brought as souvinirs or markets. It’s blatant that yoga cross this statement in some way smoothly, as a reserve of information about India, as well as a kind of pratice that has becoming a transnationalized attracting a large number of tourists from all over the world those who are looking for the headquarters of the yoga.

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The aim of this research entitled Narrative Strategies in Selected Amharic Novels from 2000 until 2010 was to shed light on the relationship among form, meaning (content) and social milieuin establishing the textual and contextual features of fictional narratives. It mainly contends that it is possible to unravel the textual and contextual qualities of fictional narratives by studying form as a narrative strategy. In this research, form, when understood as a narrative strategy, is not only considered as a textual construct which motivates textual meaning but also regarded as a product of the social milieu from which the text emerges. Having this conception, form as a narrative strategy is investigated in selected Amharic novels published from 2000 until 2010 in view of expounding the artistic and thematic features of contemporary Amharic novels, endeavouring to fill the knowledge gap in Amharic literary scholarship about their literary features. The present research applies narratological approaches that range from classical to post-classical narratology. However, it dominantly uses post-classical conceptions of narratology as guidelines for its discussion. The dissertation comprises six chapters. The first one is an introductory chapter in which the research problems, goals and assumptions are explicated. Chapter two deals with the theoretical framework where the theoretical insight the research utilizes as a guideline is outlined and methodological issues are specified. The following three chapters focus on the analysis. In the third chapter, story is investigated as a narrative strategy in Yeburqa Zemeta (Burka’s Silence) (2000); in the fourth one, focalization is treated as a narrative strategy in Gerač.a Qač.eloč (Grey Bells) (2005), and in the fifth chapter, characterization is studied as a narrative strategy in Dèrtogada (Dertogada) (2010). The dissertation concludes with a chapter in which independent findings in the three analysis chapters are summed up and generalizations on the textual and contextual features of the present day Amharic novels are made. / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / D. Litt. et Phil. (Theory of Literature)

The aim of this research entitled Narrative Strategies in Selected Amharic Novels from 2000 until 2010 was to shed light on the relationship among form, meaning (content) and social milieuin establishing the textual and contextual features of fictional narratives. It mainly contends that it is possible to unravel the textual and contextual qualities of fictional narratives by studying form as a narrative strategy. In this research, form, when understood as a narrative strategy, is not only considered as a textual construct which motivates textual meaning but also regarded as a product of the social milieu from which the text emerges. Having this conception, form as a narrative strategy is investigated in selected Amharic novels published from 2000 until 2010 in view of expounding the artistic and thematic features of contemporary Amharic novels, endeavouring to fill the knowledge gap in Amharic literary scholarship about their literary features. The present research applies narratological approaches that range from classical to post-classical narratology. However, it dominantly uses post-classical conceptions of narratology as guidelines for its discussion. The dissertation comprises six chapters. The first one is an introductory chapter in which the research problems, goals and assumptions are explicated. Chapter two deals with the theoretical framework where the theoretical insight the research utilizes as a guideline is outlined and methodological issues are specified. The following three chapters focus on the analysis. In the third chapter, story is investigated as a narrative strategy in Yeburqa Zemeta (Burka’s Silence) (2000); in the fourth one, focalization is treated as a narrative strategy in Gerač.a Qač.eloč (Grey Bells) (2005), and in the fifth chapter, characterization is studied as a narrative strategy in Dèrtogada (Dertogada) (2010). The dissertation concludes with a chapter in which independent findings in the three analysis chapters are summed up and generalizations on the textual and contextual features of the present day Amharic novels are made. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / D. Litt. et Phil. (Theory of Literature)