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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A theoretical model for the design of a transcultural visual communication system in a posthuman condition

Nawar, Haytham January 2016 (has links)
This dissertation follows an interdisciplinary approach that weaves practice and theory in the disciplines of visual communication, semiotics, cultural studies, linguistics, and new media art. The research methodology is practice-based located within a historical and contemporary context that allows for artistic experimentation and new knowledge to be generated through reflected creative practice This research proposes a context within which society can develop a transcultural means of communication with the objective of gaining completely unambiguous forms of understanding. This research explores the possibility of an open source scaffold for pictorial language that fosters self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The dissertation explores research strategies and visual practice in relationship to a proposed global use of a common system of visual semantic decoding that would allow for visual synthesis by individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. It is proposed that a shared collective knowledge of signs, symbols, and pictographs, supported by the advancement of future communication and information systems, can lead to a visual communication system that will be universally accepted. There is a historic, on-going and collective consensus on the need for a universal language in the near-future posthuman condition. In answer to this need, this dissertation contextualises and goes on to explore a realised case study of a practice-based solution for a universal pictorial communication system. The system may at times seem ambitious and abstract, however, it aims to include all cultures of the world, seeking to establish a direction that identifies and locates cultural similarities over cultural difference. This practice-based enquiry proposes a direction that should maintain coherence, logic, and veracity in order to develop a pictographic communication system that is a valid representation of the human experience in a posthuman condition.
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A Ficção asiático-canadense de Joy Kogawa e gurjinder Basran: O bildungsroman no espaço transcultural

Leite, Maria do Rosário Silva 29 May 2015 (has links)
Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-14T13:12:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2452775 bytes, checksum: 90b59391db598d0ed4ca581e373d1e40 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-14T13:12:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2452775 bytes, checksum: 90b59391db598d0ed4ca581e373d1e40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / O presente estudo analisa, pelo viés comparativo, os romances Obasan (1981), de Joy Kogawa, e Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), de Gurjinder Basran, escritoras canadenses inseridas na diáspora asiático-canadense, enfocando os impactos da exclusão e discriminação que permeiam essas narrativas das escritoras selecionadas para compor nosso corpus literário. Entendemos as escritas de ambas autoras como tentativas literárias de “quebrar o silêncio” imposto pelo privilégio branco, promovendo uma releitura de caráter pós-colonial e contra hegemônico do Canadá contemporâneo. Desenvolvemos, assim, uma revisão do contexto histórico, literário e cultural canadenses, lançando um olhar mais aprofundado sobre a escrita da minoria asiático-canadense (mulheres de cor), parte da produção significativa dos povos asiáticos que migraram para aquele país e que expõe frequentemente as memórias do passado e as experiências do presente. Após isso, desenvolvemos uma necessária compreensão do contexto de um país tão múltiplo, através da discussão do conceito de transculturação (ou transculturalidade) que muito nos auxilia na leitura das narrativas em tela, apontando a intensidade com a qual esses textos são cortados por referências linguísticas e culturais diversas. Por fim, enfocamos e problematizamos os tradicionais conceitos de Bildungsroman, ou romance de formação, trazendo vozes críticas atreladas ao feminismo e à critica literária em sentido mais amplo, a fim de destacar quais as inovações que o Bildungsroman transcultural produzido por mulheres traz para as análises da literatura contemporânea no contexto canadense. Dessa forma, os romances escolhidos se abrem às experiências de negociação propostas pelo transculturalismo e que tem no gênero – Bildungsroman – o espaço adequado para formulações alternativas no que se refere às personagens, principalmente as femininas. Defendemos, assim, que o Bildungsroman, nesse contexto, cria um novo espaço às literaturas das minorias, sendo o lócus apropriado para apresentar os conflitos e negociações entre a cultura ancestral e a de chegada, aqui contempladas pelas etnias nipônica e indiana. / This dissertation analyzes, through a comparative bias, the novels Obasan (1981) by Joy Kogawa, and Everything Was Good-Bye (2010) by Gurjinder Basran, both Canadian writers inserted in the Asian Canadian diaspora. Our study focuses on the impacts of exclusion and discrimination that permeate the threads of the narrative warp of the selected writers to compose our literary corpus in attempt to “break with the silence” imposed by the White Privilege, thereby promoting a rereading of post-colonial and counter-hegemonic features of contemporary Canada. Developed as a review of the historical, literary and cultural Canadian context, casting a closer look at the writing of Asian Canadian minority (women of color), part of the significant production of Asian peoples whom migrated to that country and often bring to light memories of the past and experiences of the present. Furthermore, we present a necessary understanding of such a multiple country as Canada by discussing the concept of transculturation (or transculturality) that greatly assists us in reading the analyzed narratives, highlighting the intensity through which these texts are crossed by linguistic and various cultural references. Finally, we focus on and confront the traditional concepts of Bildungsroman, or novel of development, which brings to discussion critical voices mainly linked to feminism and literary criticism in the broadest sense, in order to highlight what innovations the transcultural Bildungsroman produced by women brings to the analysis of contemporary literature in the Canadian context. Thus, the chosen novels are open to experiences marked by transculturalism and so this genre - the Bildungsroman - becomes the appropriate space for alternative formulations with regard to the characters, especially to female characters. We argue, therefore, that the Bildungsroman, in this context, creates space to minority literatures, here connected to Japanese and Indian ethnicities, as the locus for presenting the conflicts and negotiations between ancestral and after contact cultures. / Cette étude analyse, par le biais de comparaison, les romans Obasan (1981), de Joy Kogawa, et Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), de Gurjinder Basran, écrivains canadiens insérés dans la diaspora canado-asiatique, en se concentrant sur les répercussions de l'exclusion et de la discrimination qui imprègnent ces récits d'écrivains sélectionnés pour composer notre corpus littéraire. Nous comprenons les écrits des deux auteurs comme des tentatives littéraires pour briser le silence imposé par le privilège blanc, promouvant une relecture de caractère post-coloniale et contre hégémonique du Canada contemporain. Nous développons, ainsi, une révision du contexte historique, littéraire et culturel canadiens, en jetant un regard de plus près à l'écriture de la minorité canado-asiatique (femmes de couleur), une partie de la production significative des peuples asiatiques qui ont migré vers ce pays et qui exposent souvent les mémoires du passé et les expériences du présent. Après cela, nous avons développé une compréhension nécessaire du contexte en tant que pays diversifié en discutant le concept de transculturation (ou transculturalité) qui nous aide grandement à la lecture des récits concernés, montrant l'intensité avec laquelle ces textes mélangent des références linguistiques et culturelles diverses. Enfin, nous nous concentrons et confrontons les concepts traditionnels de Bildungsroman, ou roman de formation, en ramenant les voix critiques liées au féminisme et à la critique littéraire dans le sens le plus large, afin de mettre en évidence les innovations que le Bildungsroman (Roman d'apprentissage) transculturel produit par des femmes apporte à l'analyse de la littérature contemporaine dans le contexte canadien. Ainsi, les romans choisis s’ouvrent aux expériences de négociation proposées par la transculturalité existant dans le genre - Bildungsroman - un espace adéquat à des formulations alternatives en ce qui concerne les personnages, surtout les femmes. Nous soutenons, par conséquent, que le Bildungsroman, dans ce contexte, créé un nouvel espace à la littérature des minorités comme un lieu approprié pour présenter les conflits et les négociations entre la culture antique et celle d’arrivée, ici envisagée par les ethnies nippone et indienne. / O presente estudo analisa, pelo viés comparativo, os romances Obasan (1981), de Joy Kogawa, e Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), de Gurjinder Basran, escritoras canadenses inseridas na diáspora asiático-canadense, enfocando os impactos da exclusão e discriminação que permeiam essas narrativas das escritoras selecionadas para compor nosso corpus literário. Entendemos as escritas de ambas autoras como tentativas literárias de “quebrar o silêncio” imposto pelo privilégio branco, promovendo uma releitura de caráter pós-colonial e contra hegemônico do Canadá contemporâneo. Desenvolvemos, assim, uma revisão do contexto histórico, literário e cultural canadenses, lançando um olhar mais aprofundado sobre a escrita da minoria asiático-canadense (mulheres de cor), parte da produção significativa dos povos asiáticos que migraram para aquele país e que expõe frequentemente as memórias do passado e as experiências do presente. Após isso, desenvolvemos uma necessária compreensão do contexto de um país tão múltiplo, através da discussão do conceito de transculturação (ou transculturalidade) que muito nos auxilia na leitura das narrativas em tela, apontando a intensidade com a qual esses textos são cortados por referências linguísticas e culturais diversas. Por fim, enfocamos e problematizamos os tradicionais conceitos de Bildungsroman, ou romance de formação, trazendo vozes críticas atreladas ao feminismo e à critica literária em sentido mais amplo, a fim de destacar quais as inovações que o Bildungsroman transcultural produzido por mulheres traz para as análises da literatura contemporânea no contexto canadense. Dessa forma, os romances escolhidos se abrem às experiências de negociação propostas pelo transculturalismo e que tem no gênero – Bildungsroman – o espaço adequado para formulações alternativas no que se refere às personagens, principalmente as femininas. Defendemos, assim, que o Bildungsroman, nesse contexto, cria um novo espaço às literaturas das minorias, sendo o lócus apropriado para apresentar os conflitos e negociações entre a cultura ancestral e a de chegada, aqui contempladas pelas etnias nipônica e indiana.
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Transmigrants: weaving a new American landscape

Copley, Alexandra 11 September 2008 (has links)
No description available.
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„Nichts ist verschwunden“ : Eine Analyse des Zusammenwirkens von Dokumentarischem und Literarischem in Martin Jankowskis Roman Rabet oder Das Verschwinden einer Himmelsrichtung / “Nothing has vanished” : An analysis of documentary and literary aspects in Martin Jankowski’s novel Rabet oder Das Verschwinden einer Himmelsrichtung

Rödholm Siegrist, Helena January 2021 (has links)
Diese Analyse von Martin Jankowskis Roman Rabet oder Das Verschwinden einer Himmelsrichtung untersucht die Konstruktion einer literarischen Fiktion, die durch die dokumentarische Schilderung der friedlichen Revolution in Leipzig 1989 einen korrigierenden Beitrag zum Erinnerungsdiskurs leistet. Im Aufsatz werden Themen beschrieben, die durch das Fiktive, Metaphorische und Dialogische der Romanerzählung für die Gegenwart relevant gemacht werden. Dazu wird die Anwendung von literarischen Stilmitteln wie Metaphern, Ironie, Verschweigen, intertextuellen Referenzen und Transformationen analysiert. Neben der Interpretation des fiktionalen Erzählens, werden im Roman hervorgehobene und angedeutete Vorkommnisse untersucht, die noch heute sowohl auf gesellschaftliche Prozesse als auch auf private Beziehungen einwirken. / This analysis of Martin Jankowski’s Rabet oder Das Verschwinden einer Himmelsrichtung explores the construction of a literary fiction, which consists of a documentary and corrective contribution to the remembrance discourse of the Peaceful Revolution in the German Democratic Republic in 1989. Along with a description of themes which gain relevance through the fictional, metaphorical and dialogical features of the narration, the study undertakes an analysis of stylistic devises such as metaphors, irony, concealment, intertextual references and transformations. Besides an interpretation of the literary narration, the study examines the novel’s emphasis on the influence of past events on contemporary society and private relationships.

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