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51	Threatening Immigrants: Cultural Depictions of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in Contemporary US America Schaab, Katharine 22 July 2015 (has links) No description available. Ethnic Studies Womens Studies Gender Studies American Studies immigration migration immigrant migrant undocumented gender sexuality class economics cultural racism race nation nationalism xenophobia security localism culture immigration policy discursive analysis visual analysis textual analysis
52	La ilustración como componente semiótico-discursivo de la novela corta (1900-1925). Análisis sociológico, artístico y literario. García Mínguez, Sebastiana 20 March 2007 (has links) La tesis que presentamos se centra en la importancia que la ilustración como categoría semiótico-discursiva establece en las colecciones literarias de novela corta, que triunfan en España en los años iniciales del siglo XX. En los cinco primeros capítulos, se plantean aspectos significativos del mundo de la imagen ilustrada: una aproximación al decurso histórico de la ilustración, a su consideración como medio de comunicación de masas, y a su relación con las disciplinas artísticas clásicas como pintura y la literatura. También se realiza un análisis generalizado del ámbito y el mercado en que tiene lugar el auge de las colecciones de novela corta en sus diferentes variantes. El capítulo VI se dedica a un estudio semiótico centrado en las consideradas siete grandes colecciones de novela corta: El Cuento Semanal, Los Contemporáneos, La Novela Corta, El Libro Popular, La Novela Semanal, La Novela de Hoy y La Novela Mundial. / The thesis that we defend is focused on the importance of the illustration, considered as a semiotic-discursive category, within the literary collections of short novel, those who had triumphed in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the first five chapters, we propose some significant aspects regarding the world of the illustrated image: an approach to the historic course of illustration, to its consideration as one form of mass media, and to its connection with the classic artistic disciplines such as painting and literature. Moreover, we carry out a general analysis of the cultural realm and market in which the different varieties of short novel collections reach their peak. Chapter VI is devoted to a semiotic study that is focused on the seven greatest short novel collections: The Weekly Tale, The Contemporaries, The Short Novel, The Popular Story Book, The Weekly Novel, Today's Novel and The Worldly Novel. The Worldly Novel The Weekly Novel Today's Novel The Popular Story Book The Short Novel The Contemporaries The Weekly Tale Illustrated image Semiotic-discursive analysis Short novel literary collections La Novela Mundial La Novela de Hoy La Novela Semanal El Libro Popular La Novela Corta Los Contemporáneos El Cuento Semanal Imagen ilustrada Análisis semiótico-discursivo Colecciones literarias de novela corta 74 8 80 82
53	Gangsterrap som barnkultur : En poststrukturalistisk diskursanalys av de subjektpositioner som unga människor antar inom svensk gangsterrap / Gangster rap as children’s culture Oliveira Martins von Zweigbergk, Jarcléa January 2021 (has links) The main intention with this study has been to analyze which social identities and versions of the world young people construct within Swedish gangster rap and how to see this from a child cultural perspective. In addition, my goal was to analyze what functions the rappers and their songs assume in relation to their young audience. The analysis shows that the positions young rappers occupy in the songs are strongly linked to their need to gain status within their group. In addition, it becomes a peer culture where they create and share their identities and versions of the world. It is also through music that they question the authority of adults. It can also be seen that their poor childhood means that crime becomes, apart from rap, the only way they perceive to rise economically and socially. But the price for these achievements is high. Gangster rap children's culture young people identity versions of the world subject position attitudes discursive analysis social psychology peer culture generation order Gangsterrap barnkultur unga människor identitet versioner av världen subjektposition attityder diskursanalys social psykologi kamratkultur generationsordning Cultural Studies Kulturstudier Musicology Musikvetenskap Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap Social Psychology Socialpsykologi Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
54	Constructions, negotiations and performances of gender and power in lobolo: an African-centred feminist perspective Makama, Refiloe Euphodia 11 1900 (has links) This study aimed to explore how gender is constructed, negotiated and enacted in the customary practice of lobolo. Lobolo, sometimes incorrectly referred to as bridewealth or dowry is a practice that centres around the transference of wealth from the groom or a groom’s family to the bride’s family towards the formalisation of marriage. Framed within an African-centred feminist approach I analyse, through narrative discursive analysis, how 27 men and women ages 27 -71, from Johannesburg and Cape Town account for gender and power dynamics in their narratives of participating in lobolo. The African-centred feminist approach I employ critically engages with historical as well as present-day reproductions of patriarchy, capitalism, heteronormativity and other mechanisms of exclusion that are perpetuated through the cultural practice of lobolo. I show how masculinities and femininities are constituted, negotiated and disputed in the narratives of men and women who have participated in lobolo. By employing an African-centered feminist approach I show how gendered dynamics within the practice are shaped by historical and contemporary social, political and economic factors which enable and constrain the exercise of power in various ways. By exploring lobolo through an African-centered feminist narrative approach I demonstrate how the process is more than simply a transference of wealth but rather a complex practice that is used as an apparatus to exercise and expand power in the different stages of the lobolo process. Within this African-centered feminist approach, I argue that lobolo functions to legitimise particular gender positions that can be adopted through marriage; but it can also be used to challenge and contest these roles. The findings of this study suggested that the different stages and process of lobolo reflect a gendered script, which determines the position that men and women are able to adopt, and that this script sets the parameters for the ways in which these roles may be enacted. I find also that the meanings and descriptions of lobolo are embedded within, and reproduce gendered identities but that these identities are not fixed but rather are constantly renegotiated. I conclude that lobolo is not only a custom for formalising marriages but also a tool used by men and women to perform a range of sometimes contradictory functions, including at times establishing and strengthening hegemonic masculinities and femininities but at other times challenging and dismantling these. / Psychology / Ph. D. (Psychology) African-centred feminism Masculinities Femininities Power Lobolo Lobola Magadi Roora Customary marriage African feminism Feminist psychology Narrative inquiry Narrative discursive analysis 392.50968 Bride price -- South Africa -- Cape Town Sex role -- South Africa -- Johannesburg Sex role -- South Africa -- Cape Town Equality -- South Africa -- Johannesburg Equality -- South Africa -- Cape Town Feminism -- Africa
55	The politics & poetics of Gulliver’s travel writing Cox, Philip 03 September 2019 (has links) Working at the intersection of narrative studies and political theory, this thesis performs an original critical intervention in Gulliver’s Travels studies to establish the work as an intertextual response to the hegemonic articulations of European travel writing produced between the 15th and 18th centuries under the discourse of Discovery. My argument proceeds through two movements. First, an archeology of studies on Gulliver’s Travels that identifies key developments and points of significance in analyses of the satire’s intertextual relationship with travel writing. Second, a discursive analysis of the role of Discovery generally, and travel writing specifically, in constructing European hegemony within a newly global context. Together these movements allow me to locate Gulliver’s Travels firmly within the discourse of Discovery and to specify the politics of the text and the poetics of its operations. For this analysis I adopt a conceptualization of hegemony elaborated by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985), which defines discourse as a structured totality of elements of signification, wherein the meaning and identify of each element is constituted by articulatory practices competing to fix the differences and equivalences between it and others within the discourse. An hegemonic discourse is one that successfully limits the possibility of novel articulations according to a particular governing logic. In the Age of Discovery, this governing logic, I argue, is a socio-spatial logic that constructed the “European” subject through its difference from the “Non-European,” the “civilized” subject through its difference from the “savage,” and the “free land” of the “savage” peoples through its difference from the occupied lands of the “civilized.” To conduct the concomitant critical analysis of Gulliver’s Travels, I draw upon Jacques Rancière’s conception of the “distribution of the sensible,” which refers both to the partitions determined in sensory experience that anticipate the distributions of parts and wholes, the orders of visibility and invisibility, and the relationships of address or comportment beneath every community; and to the specific practices that partake of these distributions to establish the “common sense” about the objects that make up the common world, the ways in which it is organized, and the capacities of the people within it. This enables me to establish travel writing as an articulatory practice that utilized a narrative modality to “reveal” the globe in a Eurocentric image dependent upon the logic of Discovery: a discursively constructed paradigm that I identify as what others have labeled “travel realism,” which organized the globe into a single field of discursivity predicated upon the “civilizational” and “rational” superiority of Europeans over their non-European Others. Gulliver’s Travels, I conclude, intervenes in this distribution of the sensible by utilizing the satirical form as a recomposing logic to upend the paradigm of travel realism and break away from the “sense” that it makes of the bodies, beings, and lands it re-presents. / Graduate Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift Ernesto Laclau Chantal Mouffe Carl Schmitt Jacques Rancière Richard Hakluyt Samuel Purchas Michel De Certeau Barbara Shapiro Felipe Fernández-Armesto Stephen Greenblatt hegemony and socialist strategy nomos of the earth distribution of the sensible politics of literature discovery doctrine of discovery inter caetera treaty of tordesillas international relations public law jus gentium europaeum jus publicum international law travel writing travel realism european history atlantic exploration travel grand tour exploration discourse theory early modern period medieval hegemony discourse of fact postcolonialism colonialism political theory narrative studies literary analysis metaphor discursive analysis

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