Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-243). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 331-341). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in English. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 315-337). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ99152

Orientador: Antonio Celso Ferreira / Banca: Daniela Mantarro Callipo / Banca: Célia Regina da Silveira / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por objetivo principal analisar historicamente Mon coeur balance e Leur âme, duas peças de teatro escritas em francês por Oswald de Andrade e Guilherme de Almeida, em 1916, à luz das relações políticas, sociais e culturais em São Paulo da época. Tais obras, quando observadas pela ótica do simbolismo, abrem uma gama de possibilidades analíticas que são ampliadas quando contrastadas com as fontes jornalísticas - principalmente O Pirralho, semanário irreverente de Oswald de Andrade e que contava com publicações de Guilherme de Almeida. Esta pesquisa buscou comprovar a hipótese de que, ao contrário do que acreditam diversos críticos contemporâneos de renome, tais obras não se resumem a uma arte mundana e de entretenimento burguês, mas apresentam críticas sociais muito bem definidas, embora não explícitas, por trás de citações de autores europeus, músicas, óperas, quadros, etc. Com esta intenção, foi possível reconstruir um panorama das transformações pelas quais passavam São Paulo da virada do século XIX ao século XX, tanto nos aspectos físicos da cidade quanto nos psicológicos da população. Seguindo por essa linha, são analisados os sentidos que o nacionalismo assume em diversos setores sociais e literários, assim como quais deles os autores carregam ao longo de suas carreiras, em geral, e nas duas peças, especificamente, como é o caso da paulistanidade. Este sentimento de pertencimento nacional paulista está incutido em uma sociedade já afrancesada desde os tempos coloniais e cuja valorização do cosmopolitismo ajuda a completar o quadro que se compõem as teias intelectuais paulistanas do início do século XIX. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa remonta, desde os tempos coloniais, a presença francesa no Brasil, identifica quais obras e quais autores foram importantes para a construção... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This dissertation aims to analyze historically Mon coeur balance and Leur âme, two plays written in French by Oswald de Andrade and Guilherme de Almeida in 1916 looking political, social and cultural relations in São Paulo at the time. These plays, when viewed from the perspective of symbolism, open a range of analytical possibilities that are magnified when contrasted with journalistic sources - mainly O Pirralho, irreverent periodical by Oswald de Andrade that had Guilherme de Almeida's publications. This research sought to prove the hypothesis that unlike of what many renowned contemporary critics believe such plays are not limited to a worldly art and bourgeois entertainment but they show very well defined social criticism behind European authors' mentions, songs, operas, paintings, etc., though they are not explicit. With this intention, it was possible to reconstruct a picture of the transformations São Paulo was passing in the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, both in the physical aspects of the city as the psychological aspects of the population. Following this line, the ways that nationalism takes in various literary and social sectors are analyzed, as well as what the authors carry from them throughout their careers, in general, and in the two plays, specifically, as in the case of paulistanidade. This feeling of São Paulo's national belonging is instilled in a society already Frenchified since colonial times and whose appreciation of cosmopolitanism helps to complete the picture that make up the São Paulo's intellectual webs in the early nineteenth century. In this sense, this research dates from colonial times the French presence in Brazil, identifies what works and authors were important for the construction of the plays, how Guilherme and Oswald and used them to recreate and criticize... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art. / This study demonstrates the relationship between nationalism and identity formation by exploring the ways in which Zimbabwean writers have constructed identities within the context of a nationalist struggle for independence. By focusing on the predominant themes of disease, alienation and disintegration, it explores how these identities emphasise difference and heterogeneity in response to the homogenising discourses of colonialism and nationalism. The disparity between the ways in which nationalism articulates itself and is apprehended, and the ways in which nationalism allows for the foregrounding of particular identities is illustrated by reference to the idea of a pact or alliance - an agreement reached on the basis of the necessity of defeating colonialism. WhiIe motivations are often disparate, this common goal allows for a show of unity, often mistaken as homogeneity. The achievement of independence entails a shift in priorities, where those differing identities that previously seemed homogenous, come to the fore precisely to emphasise their difference. / Andrew Chakane 2019

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 236 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-236).

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A protean doctrine, claiming cultural pride and demanding self-expression for those who espouse it, nationalism yet casts its defining symbols and reserves its privileges and powers according to gendered criteria. Nationalism, if seen as symbolically constructed, may be interpreted as a gendered discourse in which subjects in history and also in literature are assumed to be male. Especially in the Manichean worlds of colonial and newly post-colonial societies, nationalist narratives - such as those produced at the time of African independence - read as family dramas in which honour and duty are patrilineally bequeathed, and national sons honour iconic mothers. The invisibilities in nationalist discourse, often left obscure in the interests of an ironic 'liberation', may be redressed both through the displacement of dominant subject positions in literature - where 'non-nationals' tell their own fictions - and through the remoulding of inherited tropes and symbolic scenarios. In this way new plots are written into history; nationalist romances give way to literary fictions. An investigation of the status of nationalism as symbolic language of gender, this thesis concentrates first on the inscription of nationalist icons in post-colonial African literature and on the gendered tropic patterns which govern that inscription. Writers considered include Peter Abrahams, Leopold Senghor, Camara Laye, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The iconic role of artist as nationalist hero is explored in particular in a discussion of essays and plays by Wole Soyinka. In its latter half, the thesis looks at African women's writing - novels by Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Mariama Bâ and Bessie Head - and the work of a second generation of African writers, considering the ways in which this literature has begun to rescript the dramas of nationalism, to redream its visions of wholeness and healing.