Na África francófona muitos intelectuais usaram a literatura e o cinema como veículos de exaltação aos valores culturais da terra, de transformação social e política. O escritor e cineasta Sembène Ousmane pode ser considerado um destes intelectuais, uma vez que por meio de uma vasta produção literária e cinematográfica abordou temas recorrentes à sociedade na qual pertencia, fazendo dessas duas artes importantes aliadas no seu percurso de militante. A presente pesquisa visa estudar de que maneira a novela e o filme homônimo La noire de... exprimiram a visão do escritor e cineasta sobre de identidade cultural do Senegal. Para tanto, discutiremos o projeto literário e cinematográfico de Sembène, levando em consideração o contexto político do Senegal e da França. Além disso, discutiremos também o conceito de pós-colonialismo, por entender que esse campo teórico é imperativo para se pensar a identidade cultural senegalesa. / In Francofone Africa lots of intellectuals used literature and film-making as means of exaltation to the lands cultural values, social and political transformation. The writer and film-maker Sembène Ousmane can be considered one of these intellectuals, once through a vast literary and film production brought current issues about the society he belonged to, allying these two important pieces of art in his millitant path. The present research aims to study in which way the novel and the eponymous film La noire de... expressed the vision of this writer and director about the cultural identity of Senegal. Therefore, the literary and film Project of Sembène will be discussed, taking into consideration the political context of Senegal and France. Furthermore, we will also discuss the post-colonialism concept, for understanding that this theoretical field is highly importante to think about the Senegalese cultural identity.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-26T13:44:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1029376 bytes, checksum: 943aa48697547d5f7c1c2db18bd53bef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-12 / The 20th Century is marked as a time when The Tempest (1610) by Shakespeare drew the attention of postcolonial writers as a cultural capital that highlights the inequalities of the colonial period and confronts its contemporary effects. By embracing this play, these writers engage in a politicized practice involving power-related issues. The character Caliban, in especial, has been adopted as a cultural icon of the colonized native populations. One of these writers is Augusto Boal, a famous Brazilian playwright and founder of the method The Theater of the Oppressed, a new way of acting whereby the spectator becomes a participant in the dramatic action ( spect-actor ). It establishes that a play must inspire the discussion of themes related to all types of oppression, fostering critical thinking and rehearsal for social change. Following the principles of The Aesthetics of the Oppressed, Boal makes an appropriation of Shakespeare s The Tempest, while in exile in 1979, during the military dictatorship period in Brazil, a fertile ground to retrieve Caliban as a symbol of oppression. Thus, this work aims to propose, in the light of the post-colonial theory, a comparative study on the oppressed as depicted in The Tempest of Shakespeare, and in its appropriation by Boal, with the same title. Recognizing that this appropriation denotes a more questioning inter-textual relation, in view of the critical approach it aims to adopt, we consider it a resistance against the conventional analyses of the Shakespearean text, as well as a privileged alternative to discuss the problems of oppression. / O século XX marca uma época em que escritores pós-coloniais despertam interesse por A Tempestade (1610), de Shakespeare, como capital cultural para destacar as desigualdades do encontro colonial e enfrentar os seus efeitos contemporâneos. Ao se apropriarem dessa peça, tais escritores se ocupam de uma prática politizada e atenta a questões relativas ao exercício do poder. Especialmente a personagem Caliban tem sido adotada como um ícone cultural, sendo considerada um emblema das populações nativas colonizadas. Um destes escritores é Augusto Boal, célebre dramaturgo brasileiro e criador do método do Teatro do Oprimido, que propõe uma nova maneira de fazer teatro, segundo a qual o espectador se transforma em sujeito da ação dramática ( spect-ator ). Em vista disso, uma peça de teatro, então, deve despertar o indivíduo para discutir temas relacionados a todo tipo de opressão e ensaiar ações que possam, efetivamente, modificar a vida em sociedade. Aos moldes da Estética do Oprimido, Boal se apropria d A Tempestade, de Shakespeare, e a reescreve, no exílio, em 1979, época de ditadura militar brasileira e momento bastante fecundo para retomar Caliban enquanto representante das opressões advindas deste encontro colonial. Em virtude disso, a presente dissertação se propôs a fazer um estudo comparativo, à luz da teoria pós-colonial, da figura do oprimido em A Tempestade, de Shakespeare, e na apropriação de mesmo título, realizada por Boal. Reconhecendo que a apropriação denota uma relação intertextual mais questionadora, em virtude da prática crítica que visa adotar, tomamos o texto de Boal como uma resistência às leituras convencionais do texto de Shakespeare, além de retomar um espaço textual privilegiado para abordar o problema da opressão.

A presente tese pretende estabelecer as confluências entre romances de três autoras distintas. Partindo de um viés womanista, dois romances de cada escritora foram analisados e suas similaridades enfocadas, principalmente no que concerne ao tratamento dado às personagens femininas. A tese é composta de cinco capítulos. O primeiro lida com conceitos e temas subjacentes ao debate em torno das literaturas produzidas pelas chamadas minorias. Já o segundo, mergulha no universo literário de Conceição Evaristo, nossa autora afro-brasileira. O terceiro segmento aborda a literatura da afro-americana Toni Morrison. No quarto capítulo, enfocamos a obra da moçambicana Paulina Chiziane. A costura do texto é alinhavada no quinto capítulo, quando tecemos considerações finais sobre as semelhanças e particularidades de cada autora / The present thesis intends to establish the confluences between novels by three distinct authors. From a womanist perspective, two novels by each author were analyzed and their similarities were highlighted, especially concerning the treatment provided to the female characters. The thesis is made up of five chapters. The first one deals with concepts and themes underlying the debate about the literatures produced by the so-called minorities. The second chapter dives into the literary universe of our Afro-Brazilian writer, Conceição Evaristo. The third segment of the thesis focuses on the literature of the Afro-American Toni Morrison. The fourth sheds light on the works of the Mozambican Paulina Chiziane. The sewing of the text receives its finishing touches in the fifth chapter, where we elaborate final considerations on the similarities and peculiarities of each author

Submitted by Elesbão Santiago Neto (neto10uepb@cche.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-04-03T19:57:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Maria Eduarda de Andrade e Sousa.pdf: 63325585 bytes, checksum: 7f551556521eeedc1bde5a1557a3cc05 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-03T19:57:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Maria Eduarda de Andrade e Sousa.pdf: 63325585 bytes, checksum: 7f551556521eeedc1bde5a1557a3cc05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-02 / CAPES / This thesis addresses the issue of transnational land acquisitions – henceforth land grabbing or land grabs – which have expanded and gained visibility in the context of the food, financial and energy crises that have arisen between 2007 and 2008. The present thesis analyzes the current wave of transnational land acquisitions in Mozambique from the perspective of Post-colonialism in order to shed light on the dynamics of domination and resistance engendered by land grabbing. For this purpose, a literature review and documentary research were carried out, based on the information collected in the Land Matrix database and in specialized publications. As a result, the paper presents an overview of current transnational land acquisitions around the world followed by a post-colonialist re-interpretation of land grabs, with the aim of identifying the key features of postcolonial domination inherent in land grabbing legitimation discourse, along with the main forms of local and global resistance to these processes. For a better understanding of land grabbing dynamics, this thesis has focused on the case of Mozambique, one of the African countries which have been most engaged in attracting foreign investment into the agricultural sector in recent years. / Esta dissertação aborda a questão das aquisições transnacionais de terra – doravante land grabbing ou land grabs – que se expandiram e ganharam visibilidade a partir de 2008, no contexto das crises alimentar, financeira e energética que eclodiram no biênio 2007-2008. A presente dissertação analisou a atual onda de aquisições transnacionais de terra na África Subsaariana, com ênfase para o caso de Moçambique, sob o prisma das perspectivas pós-colonialistas a fim de lançar luz sobre as dinâmicas de dominação e resistência engendradas pelo land grabbing. Para tanto, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica e documental, ancorada nas informações colhidas na base de dados Land Matrix e nas publicações especializadas. Nesse sentido, o trabalho apresentou o panorama atual das aquisições transnacionais de terra no mundo seguido de uma releitura pós-colonialista dos land grabs, cujo objetivo foi identificar as principais manifestações da dominação pós-colonial presentes nos discursos de legitimação das apropriações de terra, juntamente com as principais formas de resistência local e global a esses processos. Para uma melhor compreensão dos processos de land grabbing, foi selecionado o caso de Moçambique, considerado pertinente por ser um dos países que mais têm atraído investimentos estrangeiros no setor agrícola nos últimos anos.

Submitted by Elesbão Santiago Neto (neto10uepb@cche.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-05-07T20:39:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Murilo Mesquita Melo e Silva.pdf: 46412607 bytes, checksum: ee09611d76ad0dbbfe935355448b9f56 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-07T20:39:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Murilo Mesquita Melo e Silva.pdf: 46412607 bytes, checksum: ee09611d76ad0dbbfe935355448b9f56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-01 / CAPES / This Dissertation aims to analysis the formation and utilization of state taxonomies weak states and rogue states, according to their political instrumentalization. The hypothesis is that happened a conceptual and taxonomic restructuring from weak to rogue states since the securitization of underdevelopment of the weak states and of political instrumentalization of rogue states taxonomy. The analysis of hypothesis is based on postcolonial approaches as theoric-methodologic substratum. In analysis of weak states the aim is to contextualize the beginning of construction of this taxonomy, since of underdevelopment securitization process. In analysis of rogue states the aim is verified the process of construction of rogue taxonomy and how maintains this process itself. As final considerations, there is not a conceptual and taxonomic restructuring so unanimous. If the assumptions of Rational Modern State were accepted, some States may be considered weak, but not rogue, while another may be called rogue, but not weak. It was found, however, the political exploitation of state's taxonomies, according to the diagnoses made by outside actors of state to be cataloged, especially by the United States. / Essa dissertação tem por objetivo analisar a formação e utilização das taxonomias estatais weak states e rogue states à luz da instrumentalização política das mesmas. A hipótese é que houve uma reestruturação conceitual e taxonômica dos weak para rogue states a partir da securitização do subdesenvolvimento dos weak states e da instrumentalização política da taxonomia rogue states. Na análise da hipótese foram utilizadas as abordagens pós-coloniais como substrato teórico-metodológico. Na análise dos weak states o objetivo é contextualizar o início do processo de construção da taxonomia weak, desde o processo de securitização do subdesenvolvimento. Na análise dos rogue states o objetivo é verificar o processo de construção dessa taxonomia e como ela se sustenta. Por fim, considera-se que não há uma reestruturação conceitual e taxonômica de forma unânime. Se, se aceitar as premissas do Estado Racional Moderno, alguns Estados podem ser considerados weak, mas não rogue, enquanto outros podem ser rogue, mas não weak. O que se verifica, no entanto, é a instrumentalização política das taxonomias, segundo os diagnósticos elaborados por atores externos ao Estado a ser catalogado, principalmente pelos Estados Unidos.

Teria sido Marx um pensador inescapavelmente eurocêntrico? Como Marx pensou o colonialismo? Qual sua análise a respeito de formações sociais ditas periférias? Esta dissertação pretende propor algumas respostas para estas questões. Para isso, acompanhamos as idas e vindas do autor em textos sobre a colonização britânica na Índia, na China e Irlanda. Como ponto de partida de nossa análise, seguimos o princípio metodológico de observar como as lutas sociais impactaram o filósofo alemão. Mostramos que seu pensamento político está intimamente ligado a seu contexto histórico. Marx é interpelado pelas lutas dos povos periféricos e responde a elas. Sua reflexão se constitui, assim, em um pensamento-luta. Com efeito, a alcunha também serve para descrever outra face do filósofo: seu profundo engajamento com essas mesmas lutas. Se Marx se deixou contaminar por elas foi porque ele se encontrava envolvido, seja diretamente no caso da Irlanda , seja indiretamente no caso de Índia e China, se solidarizando com a luta do povo oprimido. Nessa chave, observar o percurso da análise do filósofo a respeito do colonialismo implica um olhar duplo: por um lado, teremos de percorrer suas inflexões teóricas que se manifestam em suas análises conjunturais; por outro, é preciso observar sua mudança de postura para com os povos outros todos aqueles com os quais Marx não se identifica a princípio, sejam indianos e chineses (orientais), russos (eslavos) ou irlandeses (celtas). Espera-se, com isso, evidenciar algumas mudanças na visão do autor, que irá, progressivamente, se des-europeizar, assumindo uma concepção de história multilinear e estabelecendo uma crítica contumaz do colonialismo. Destacamos no decorrer da pesquisa alguns momentos-chave dessas mudanças: 1857-1858 para a Índia e a China, 1867 para a Irlanda e os textos do fim da vida, sobre a Comuna Russa. Estes, considerados uma espécie de culminação desta nova visão de Marx sobre a história, são analisados em nossa conclusão, de modo a marcar a perspectiva marxiana final. Por fim, procuramos defender, a partir desta nova posição encontrada, a possibilidade de um diálogo mais profundo entre a obra de Marx e o chamado pós-colonialismo. Dado que a posição de Marx com relação ao colonialismo e ao capitalismo irá se modificar no decorrer de sua vida, movendo-se em um sentido mais crítico, indagamos se não haveria a possibilidade profícua de, por meio de um diálogo com a perspectiva marxiana, reconectar a teoria pós-colonial à crítica do capitalismo contemporâneo. / Had Marx been an inescapably Eurocentric thinker? How did Marx think colonialism? What is his analysis about so-called peripheral social formations? This dissertation intends to propose some answers to these questions. Thus, we follow the comings and goings of the author in texts on British colonization in India, China and Ireland. As a starting point for our analysis, we follow the methodological principle of observing how social struggles affected the German philosopher. We show that there is a connection between his political thinking and the historical context. When challenged by the struggles of the peripheral peoples, Marx responded to them and thence reelaborated his theories. His reflection thus constitutes a \"thought-struggle\". In fact, the label also serves to describe another face of the philosopher: his deep commitment to these same struggles. If Marx allowed himself to be contaminated by them, it was because he was involved, either directly - in the case of Ireland - or indirectly - in the case of India and China, in solidarity with the struggle of the oppressed people. For this reason, to observe the course of the philosopher\'s analysis of colonialism implies a double look: on the one hand, we will have to go through his theoretical inflections that show themselves in his conjuncture analyzes. On the other hand, it is necessary to observe the change of attitude towards the \"other\" peoples - all those with whom Marx does not identify at first, whether Indian or Chinese (\"oriental\"), Russian (Slavic) or Irish (Celtic). It is hoped, therefore, to point out some changes in the author\'s vision, which will progressively \"de-Europeanize\", assuming a multilinear conception of history and establishing a contumacious critique of colonialism. In the course of our research, we highlight some key moments of these changes: 1857-1858 for India and China, 1867 for Ireland and the texts of the end of his life, on the Russian Commune. These specifically are considered a kind of culmination of this new vision on history, and therefore are analyzed in our conclusion, in order to mark the final Marxian perspective. Finally, we try to defend, from this new perspective, the possibility of a more fruitful dialogue between Marx\'s work and the so-called post-colonialism. Since Marx\'s position on colonialism and capitalism will change over the course of his life, moving in a more critical sense, we ask whether there would be no fruitful possibility of, through a dialogue with the Marxian perspective, reconnecting postcolonial theory with the critique of contemporary capitalism.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The aim of this thesis is to probe how Mozambican people were represented or constructed in the colonial and post-colonial periods through the columns of the Portuguese newspaper, ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’. The study examines a corpus of 58, 070 tokens (consisting of 100 articles, 50 for colonial and 50 for postcolonial periods), which were systematically selected from the political, sport, letters to the reader and editorial domains published from 1970 to 1980. The analytical framework for this study is threefold. It is informed by corpus linguistics (CL) as described by, amongst others, McEnery and Wilson (1996/2001) and Bennett (2010); critical discourse analysis (CDA), in particular the work of Van Dijk (1996; 2003), Wodak (1995; 2011) and Wodak and Meyer (2009) and multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) as used by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996; 1998; 2006), Kress (2010) and Machin and Mayr (2012)

Cette étude se propose d’analyser les relations entre le paysage, l’écriture et l’image dans les romans de Jane Urquhart afin de rendre compte des enjeux politiques et esthétiques des interrogations qui sous-tendent l’écriture paysagère dans son œuvre. En mettant en scène différentes manières de voir, de regarder et d’appréhender l’environnement, la romancière fait perdre son caractère d’évidence au paysage, défini comme une vue que le regard du spectateur embrasse. En effet, chez Urquhart, il n’y a pas du paysage, mais des paysages, le texte travaillant les cadres intertextuels et interpicturaux pour faire jouer les écarts entre les différentes formes que peut prendre le paysage. Il ne convoque pas l’image pour dire le paysage, mais pour mettre en lumière les limites de sa définition visuelle et esthétique. Ceci nous invite donc à repenser le lien entre visibilité et paysage. Refuser de dire le paysage par le biais de l’effet-tableau et de l’ekphrasis paysagère pour mieux le dissocier de sa définition picturale permet à Urquhart de réfléchir au rapport analogique entre le faire de l’image et l’épreuve paysagère. L’effacement du visible, par lequel le texte cherche à détacher le paysage et l’image de leur définition aspectuelle, est ainsi une problématique d’écriture. Si, dans tous les romans d’Urquhart, la langue s’affronte à un espace, ce qu’elle cherche à en dire et à mettre en œuvre varie. On peut rendre compte de cet infléchissement en faisant jouer l’ambivalence de l’expression « l’épreuve de l’écriture », expression dans laquelle l’écriture est à la fois matière et sujet. / This dissertation proposes to analyze the relations between landscape, images and text in the novels by Jane Urquhart in order to shed light on the political and aesthetic interrogations underlying her landscape writing. As Urquhart dramatizes different ways of seeing, representing and experiencing landscape, the very term no longer appears self-evident, which may prompt the reader to prefer the plural form: landscapes. Indeed, the interplay between the intertextual and interpictorial frames the novelist draws upon and displaces becomes a field of investigation. She does not conjure up the pictorial image to better describe landscape, but rather to probe the limits of its visual and aesthetic definition as “a view or prospect of natural scenery.” By doing so, she reconsiders the relation between visibility and landscape. Refusing to write about the latter through “painting-effects” or ekphrasis, she reflects upon the analogy between the efficacy of images and landscape as an event in the course of which the beholder is affected by his/her surroundings. The erasure of the visible provides her with a device to dissociate both the pictorial images and landscape from aspectual apprehension. While in each of her novels language is confronted with the challenge of representing space, one may read them as a series of reconfigurations which can be accounted for by considering what the text does in relation to landscape.

Climate change and global commodity demands have increased access to and feasibility of extracting natural resources in Arctic regions. As a result, Nunavut is now poised to compete on the global market for oil, gas, minerals, and precious metals. The impacts of increasing resource exploration and development activities on nearby communities therefore require study. In particular, new methodologies are needed to explore how adjacent communities can harness the economic potential of resource extraction toward goals of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and cultural continuity while minimizing the associated risks. Using the predominantly Inuit community of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, as a case study, this thesis uses an article format to introduce the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s ‘nation building’ conceptual framework, as well as a post-colonial theory to explore resource development in the Canadian Arctic context. The nation building framework is a well-established and validated approach to understanding economic development in Indigenous society that has been refined and used in hundreds of case studies over the past three decades. Based on interviews with residents and regional decision-makers, it was found that the community of Pond Inlet currently lacks the self-determination and effective institutions needed to implement local strategies for prosperity due to a number of complex factors, including educational and capacity deficiencies; infrastructure needs; as well as a centralized decision-making structure that poorly matches local culture and serves to alienate residents. As a result, the anticipated resource boom in Arctic Canada is in danger of indirectly repeating the colonial legacy of assimilation, this time justified by contemporary economic reasons, instead of providing the region with an inclusive, balanced economic development approach in line with local ideas for development and cultural continuity.This thesis follows the article format and is organized into four chapters: Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter. Chapter 2 is the first of two articles in the thesis titled: Community and Economic Development in Arctic Canada (CEDAC) – Understanding factors that contribute toward self-determined sustainable community development. Chapter 3 is the second of two articles in the thesis titled: Community and Economic Development in Arctic Canada (CEDAC) – Mining in Nunavut: A new path to prosperity or re‐paving old paths of colonial rule? Chapter 4 concludes the thesis.