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Romances of the self: single women, neoliberalism and the nationalist imaginary in Indian chick litCarvalho, Charmaine Austin 04 July 2018 (has links)
In the mid-2000s, novels written by Indian women featuring a single woman's adventures in work and romance joined a transnational genre of writing called "chick lit" epitomized by novels such as Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding 1996) and Sex and the City (Bushnell 1997). While chick lit has garnered some scholarly attention (Ferriss and Young 2006; Gill 2007; Harzewski 2011), studies remain largely focused on Anglo-American writing even while acknowledging the genre's global spread. There has been no in-depth analysis of chick lit written by Indian women in India, and it is this lacuna that this study seeks to fill.;The emergence of chick lit in India roughly a decade after economic liberalization makes the novels a useful lens through which to observe the formation of a new feminine neoliberal subjectivity - "the Indian singleton". I argue that the discourse of singleness in Indian chick lit novels is deployed not so much to solve the problem of being unmarried, but to resolve the tension between the demands of "Indian tradition" on urban, middle-class, young women and their desire for a selfhood inflected by transnational, neoliberal discourses of autonomy. By shifting my analytical focus away from the protagonist and her romantic partner to the mother-daughter relationship in the novels, I show how "tradition" and "modernity" are crystallized through discourses of food, fashion and the body. While "tradition" and "modernity" are conceptualized in these narratives as a binary, the protagonists seem to be attempting to articulate a selfhood that merges the two poles without having to pick a side. I draw on postcolonial, poststructuralist and feminist theory to argue that in their refusal to conform to ideas of Indian selfhood wherein individualism is circumscribed by community, the single women in Indian chick lit present, if not entirely represent, the idea of synthesis.
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Nationalism in the Poetry of Gerard Manley HopkinsPocs, John A. January 1961 (has links)
No description available.
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Afrikanerskap as literêre motief 'n studie in teorie en praktyk met spesifieke verwysing na Afrikaanse tekste uit die veertiger- en tagtigerjareJacobs, Aletta Maria 11 1900 (has links)
Text in Afrikaans / Die doel van hierdie studie was om vas te stel hoe die Afrikaner in literere
tekste van die veertiger- en tagtigerjare uitgebeeld word, en of 'n vaste beskouing
oor die begrip Afrikanerskap by die skrywers van die verskillende
tekste bestaan. Omdat die verhouding tussen die gekose tekste en die geskiedenis
telkens ondersoek is, is die Nuwe Historisistiese benadering as geskikte
teoretiese model gevolg. Waar hierdie benadering die klem op die realiteit
plaas, stel die lmagologie die beeld voorop, en die lmagologiese werkswyse
is dus aanvullend gevolg. Omdat die tekste van veertig hoofsaaklik as
koloniale literatuur beskou kan word, en die tekste van tagtig as postkoloniaal
van aard, is die koloniale en postkoloniale literatuur in Afrikaans
kortliks ondersoek. Die studie het verder gepoog om deeglik verkenning van
die begrippe Afrikaner en Afrikanerskap te doen aan die hand van verskillende
narratiewe tekste wat nie noodwendig literer van aard is nie. Alhoewel daar
by die herlees van die vier en twintig literere tekste van die veertigerjare gevind
is dat die tekste hoofsaaklik nog as koloniale literatuur beskou kan word, is die
interessante insig verwerf dat sekere tekste wat nie deel van die kanon vorm
nie, 'n ander realiteit oor die Afrikaner en oor Afrikanerskap aan die leser
voorhou as wat tradisioneel die geval was. So is byvoorbeeld bevind dat die
strukture wat die Afrikanermaghebber sedert die veertigerjare geskep het, die
belange van die Afrikanerdom moes dien. Deur die herlees van die tekste kon die gegewe opnuut ge'interpreteer word en kon nodige aanpassings dus by
aanvaarde opvattings gemaak word. Die ondersoek het verder aan die lig gebring
dat veral die tekste uit die tagtigerjare verruimend ingewerk het op
bestaande, geykte opvattinge oor die Afrikaner en Afrikanerskap en dat sulke
opvattinge deur die tekste ondermyn, ontluister of bloot ontken word. Ten
slotte het dit duidelik geword dat daar geen eensydige of stabiele betekenis oor die begrippe Afrikaner en van Afrikanerskap uit die verskillende tekste afgelei
kon word nie / The purpose of this study was to determine how the Afrikaner was depicted in the
literary texts of the forties and the eighties, and to determine whether the authors
of the different texts expresses fixed views of the concept Afrikanerskap. As the
relationship between the chosen texts and history had been investigated several
times, the New Historisistic approach was adopted as a suitable theoretical model.
As this approach places the emphasis on reality, and the lmagology sees the image
as the most important, lmagological procedures were used additionally. Because the
texts of the forties can be seen as mainly colonial of nature and the texts of the
eighties as post colonial, the colonial and post colonial literature in Afrikaans was
briefly investigated. The study further attempted to thoroughly investigate the concepts
Afrikaner and Afrikanerskap with reference to different narrative texts which
are not necessarily literary of nature. Although the rereading of twenty four literary
texts of the forties confirms that the texts could mainly be seen as colonial literature,
the interesting conclusion was made that certain texts not included in the
canon gave the reader another reality of Afrikaner and Afrikanerskap than was traditionally
the case. It was found, for example, that structures created by Afrikaner
authorities since the forties were created to serve the needs of the Afrikanerdom.
The rereading of these specific texts led to new interpretations and the necessary
adaptations could be done to previously accepted views. The research further indicated
that texts from the eighties especially had a broadening effect on existing hackneyed conceptions of Afrikaner and Afrikanerskap and that such views are
undermined, clouded or simply ignored by the texts. In conclusion it became clear
that no onesided or static interpretation of the concepts Afrikaner and Afrikanerskap
could be derived from the different texts / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / D. Litt. et Phil. (Afrikaans)
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The search for nation: exploring Sinhala nationalism and its others in Sri Lankan anglophone and Sinhala-language writingRambukwella, Sassanka Harshana. January 2008 (has links)
published_or_final_version / English / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
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Restaging Ireland : the politics of identity in the early drama of W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge /Cusack, George Thomas, January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003. / Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-309). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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La Société littéraire norvégienne à Copenhague, 1772-1813 son oeuvre littéraire : le développement du nationalisme en Norvège /Frøen, Bredo Baard, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Doctorat)--Université de Paris. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 324-340) and index.
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Restaging Ireland : the politics of identity in the early drama of W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge /Cusack, George Thomas, January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-309). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Mis(s) Education: Narrative Construction and Closure in American GirlPerez, Sonja Zepeda January 2015 (has links)
While American Girl markets itself as a brand that teaches girls about our nation’s history and empowers girls to "stand tall, reach high, and dream big," this dissertation, "Mis(s) Education: Narrative Construction and Closure in American Girl" challenges this widely held belief. The American Girl Historical Character Series (hereafter AGHC series) is a textual site that writes a history that relies more on national myths of freedom, independence, and the pursuit of the American Dream through struggle. To dig deeper into this book series, I analyze how intersections of power in particular, nation, gender, race, and consumerism are constructed within the pages of the AGHC series. I assert that these books create a narrative construction and closure within the series. In place of a dialogic history that allows the reader to question historical and/or contemporary issues of power, a dominant narrative of history-one that relies on national myths prevails. While AG prides itself as a brand that first and foremost celebrates and empowers girls to become their very best, the historical series also imposes traditional gender roles for girls. It is this "rhetoric of empowerment" that this dissertation uncovers. Such an imagined empowerment is infused with ambivalence. AGHC series readers are also constructed as consumers who are being taught to celebrate consumerism and the Almighty Dollar.
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Here is queer : nationalisms and sexualities in contemporary Canadian literaturesDickinson, Peter 05 1900 (has links)
This dissertation explores the relationship between the regulatory discourses of
nationalism and sexuality as they operate in the cultural production and textual
dissemination of contemporary Canadian literatures. Applying recent studies in
postcolonial and queer theory to a number of works by gay and lesbian authors
written across a broad spectrum of years, political perspectives, and genres, I seek
to formulate a critical methodology which allows me to situate these works within
the trajectory of Canadian canon-formation from the 1940s to the present. In so
doing, I argue that the historical construction of Canadian literature and Canadian
literary criticism upon an apparent absence of national identity—us encapsulated
most tellingly in the "Where is here?" of Frye's "Conclusion"—masks nothing so
much as the presence of a subversive and destabilizing sexual identity—"queer."
The dissertation is made up of eight chapters: the first opens with a
Sedgwickian survey of the "homosocial" underpinnings of several foundational
texts of Canadian literature, before providing an overview—via George Mosse,
Benedict Anderson, and Michel Foucault—of the theoretical parameters of the
dissertation as a whole. Chapter two focuses on three nationally "ambivalent" and
sexually "dissident" fictions by Timothy Findley. A comparative analysis of the
homophobic criticism accompanying the sexual/textual travels of Patrick
Anderson and Scott Symons serves as the basis of chapter three. Chapter four
discusses the allegorical function of homosexuality in the nationalist theatre of
Michel Tremblay, Rene-Daniel Dubois, and Michel Marc Bouchard. Chapter five
examines how national and sexual borderlines become permeable in the lesbian-feminist
translation poetics of Nicole Brossard and Daphne Marlatt. Issues of
performativity (the repetition and reception of various acts of identification) are
brought to the fore in chapters six and seven, especially as they relate to the
(dis)located politics of Dionne Brand, and the (re)imagined communities of
Tomson Highway and Beth Brant, respectively. Finally, chapter eight revisits
some of the vexed questions of identity raised throughout the dissertation by
moving the discussion of nationalisms and sexualities into the classroom.
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Yeats and national identity.Murphy, Jaron Lloyd. January 2008 (has links)
In this thesis I set out WB Yeats' s conception of Irish national identity as a non-essentialist, inclusive, and imaginative construct. I do so against the backdrop of Edward Said's construction of Yeats, within the field of postcolonial theory, as a poet of decolonization who stops short of imagining Ireland's full political liberation from colonial rule. I propound that, on the contrary, Yeats does imagine full liberation in proposing his Doctrine of the Mask as a method for the creation of what, I argue, is an emphatically 'postcolonial' national identity. What this identity entails is elucidated by an examination of key issues of 'nation-ness' explored by various theorists, particularly Benedict Anderson; the historical contextualization of Yeats in the Ireland of his times; and a close reading of particularly Yeats's two major 'occult' works: Per Amica Si/entia Lunae and A Vision. Overall, I make several important contributions to 'postcolonial' Yeats scholarship - a far from exhausted field of study. Firstly, I demonstrate that the incorporation of the modernist Yeats's 'occult' dimension - a dimension disparaged and dismissed by Said - into Said's construction of Yeats as a 'postcolonial' figure serves to bolster rather than undermine this construction. Secondly, I demonstrate that, while Said claims Frantz Fanon goes further than Yeats in imagining full liberation in the colonial context, there are in fact striking parallels between Fanon's narrative of liberation in particularly The Wretched a/the Earth and Yeats's 'occult' works, particularly A Vision. The comparison with Fanon, I show, underlines that Yeats does indeed imagine full liberation, especially at the level of Irish national identity. Thirdly, I demonstrate the link, heretofore unnoted by Yeats critics, between Matthew Amold' s defining of the Irish as racially inferior and Yeats's liberationist discourse in Per Amica Silentia Lunae and A Vision. I show that Yeats subversively mobilises Arnold's terms to debunk Amold and buttress a distinctly Yeatsian conception of Irish national identity. Lastly, I highlight the 'Yeatsian' complexion of the contemporary South African context, arguing that the consideration ofYeats's conception of Irish national identity may assist South Africans in forging a nonessentialist, inclusive national identity and national unity. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2008.
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