"2002." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-239). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

DORIS est un système français d'orbitographie précise. Il a été l'un des éléments clés du succès de la mission franco-américaine d'altimétrie satellitaire Topex/Poseidon produisant une avancée significative dans le domaine encore rapidement évolutif de l'océanographie spatiale. Le but de ce document est de présenter les résultats obtenus en géodésie, en expliquant certains problèmes actuels d'estimation en réseau libre et en s'interrogeant sur les limitations actuelles de la précision. En particulier, l'utilisation du système DORIS pour la maintenance du système de référence terrestre (géocentre, échelle) est analysée. Certains exemples récents d'applications géophysiques sont aussi présentés (détection de mouvements co-sismiques). Finalement, nous nous interrogerons sur le rôle que peut jouer à l'avenir le système DORIS comme composante du nouveau système global d'observation géodésique (IGGOS) en tenant compte de la nouvelle dynamique issue de la création récente de l'International DORIS Service (IDS).

Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking position; under colonialism, what they want to say cannot be said. Lessing's first-person stories differ from her more distant third-person works, which show how white settlers either refuse to recognize their own complicity within the colonial system or accept living a compromised life. Her younger narrators are as yet innocent; the stories often focus on the character's discovery of her own responsibility as a member of the white ruling class. However, these girls have varying levels of self awareness; some seem unaware of the implications of their stories, while others catch glimpses of their own complicity, yet are unable to act. Although Lessing herself is highly critical of colonialism, her stories sometimes risk textually replicating and thus reinforcing the values she criticizes. Dangarembga's first-person novel Nervous Conditions (1988) portrays Tambu, a girl from a poor African family, and her more modern cousin Nyasha. Tambu narrates the story as an adult, Although Nyasha resents colonialism and her patriarchal family, Tambu proceeds with her education, attempting to ignore the injustice around her. Because of the use of an adult narrator, the reader sees what Tambu the child cannot see. Nyasha is unable to voice her concerns; her protest surfaces as anorexia. Both Lessing's and Dangarembga's characters have difficulty speaking because colonialism does not include a space for what they want to say; even if they spoke, their words could make little difference. Lessing' s characters can "speak" only by leaving the country, as Lessing herself did. Dangarembga's Tambu may or may not have "escaped" her situation; by the book's publication, Rhodesia had overcome white rule, and it may be this political change that allows Tambu to tell her story. / Graduation date: 2002

ABSTRACT A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SENSE OF BELONGING AS A PART OF IDENTITY OF THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED IN THE GRASS IS SINGING AND MY PLACE Cansu G&ouml / ktan M.A., in English Literature Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Margaret S&ouml / nmez May 2010, 205 pages This thesis investigates how two loosely autobiographical works unveil the effects of colonization on their major characters in terms of their identities and senses of belonging. The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing, a second-generation member of the colonizer, and My Place by Sally Morgan, a third-generation hybrid Australian Aborigine, are selected because both novels essentially deal with colonial issues by depicting their major characters in a process of maturation within a colonial and post-colonial framework, the former using a semi-autobiographical narrative tone and the latter using an Aboriginal version of autobiography, which integrates oral tradition and storytelling. These two books reveal that a sense of identity is closely related to a sense of belonging and that both are fundamentally affected by the colonial situation. The effects of a sense of identity and a sense of belonging, which boil down to the demise or survival of the individual, interacts with family and society, physical environment, and race issues that the thesis investigates by dedicating a chapter to each. The method used in this point-by-point comparative analysis is to approach the issues of sense of belonging and identity in a colonial context with a close reading of the two works, to find out what the texts say for themselves regarding the effect of family and society, environment, and race as depicted in The Grass Is Singing and My Place. The theoretical background that is most relevant to this study is post-colonial literary theory, although here it is taken as secondary to the close reading that is the thesis&rsquo / s primary approach to these works. Keywords: Doris Lessing The Grass Is Singing, Sally Morgan My Place, Colonial and Post-colonial Literature

This thesis traces the self-creation and autonomy of the woman artist figure in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, and Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye. The first chapter conveys the progression of autonomy and self-creation in Western-European philosophy through contemporary thinkers such as Charles Taylor, Robert Pippin, Alexander Nehamas, and Richard Rorty. This narrative culminates in a rift between public and private, resulting from the push--especially by Nietzsche--toward a radical, unmediated independence. Taylor and Rorty envision different ways to resolve the public/private rift, yet neither philosopher distinguishes how this rift has affected women by enclosing them in the private, barring them from the public, and delimiting their autonomy. The second chapter focusses on each woman artist's resistance to socially scripted roles, accompanied by theories about resistance: Woolf with Rachel Blau DuPlessis on narrative resistance, Lessing with Julia Kristeva on dissidence, and Atwood with Stephen Hawking and Kristeva on space-time. The third chapter contrasts the narratives of chapters 1 and 2 and reveals how the woman artist avoids the problematic public/private rift by incorporating the ethics developed within the private into her art; she balances her creative goals with responsibility to others. Drawing on the work of women moral theorists, this thesis suggests that women's self-creation and autonomy result in an undervalued but nevertheless workable solution to the public/private rift.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 304-315). / Microfiche. / x, 315 leaves, bound 29 cm

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Flinders University of South Australia, 2000. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 9, 2005). Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-379).

Esta pesquisa tem como tema a reflexão sobre práticas artísticas orientadas à especificidade de contextos – institucionais e políticos sobretudo – e sua articulação crítica no âmbito da instituição de arte. Trata-se de indagar sobre os limites e as possibilidades desse tipo de prática, quando comissionada por museus de arte, promover uma reflexão crítica em relação à instituição para a qual é pensada. Podem essas práticas aportar mudanças à instituição ou pelo menos articular reflexões que suscitem questionamentos capazes de incitar transformações? Para tanto, o estudo realiza uma revisão bibliográfica sobre práticas artísticas orientadas ao contexto dos anos 1960 à atualidade, relacionando a recente absorção desse tipo de prática por parte de programas curatoriais com o chamado retorno da crítica institucional na última década. Recorre-se, então, a dois estudos de caso: o primeiro sobre contemplação suspensa (2008), trabalho desenvolvido por Rubens Mano para a Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, e o segundo sobre Shibboleth (2007), obra realizada por Doris Salcedo para a Tate Modern, Londres. A análise aponta para a possibilidade de uma articulação crítica que se manifesta sobretudo no processo de trabalho dos artistas em proximidade – e em constante negociação – com a instituição. / This research investigates context-oriented artistic practices – the context taken in its institutional and political aspects mostly – and its critical articulation in the realm of an art institution. The idea is to enquire the limits and the possibilities of such practices, when comissioned by art museums, promoting a critical reflexion towards the institution they respond to. Can these practices bring any changes to the institution or at least articulate reflexions that might give rise to questionings able of provoking transformations? In orther to do that, the research undertakes a literature review on context-oriented artistic practices from the 1960’s until nowadays, putting in relationship the recent assimilation os such practices by curatorial programs with the so called return of institutional critique during the last decade. Therefore, the research seeks two study cases: one regarding contemplação suspensa (2008), an artwork developed by Rubens Mano to the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and the other about Shibboleth (2007), an art project conceived by Doris Salcedo to the Tate Modern, London. The analysis points to the possibility of a critical articulation that manifests itself mainly during the art process that happens in proximity – and in constant negotiation – with the institution.

Esta pesquisa tem como tema a reflexão sobre práticas artísticas orientadas à especificidade de contextos – institucionais e políticos sobretudo – e sua articulação crítica no âmbito da instituição de arte. Trata-se de indagar sobre os limites e as possibilidades desse tipo de prática, quando comissionada por museus de arte, promover uma reflexão crítica em relação à instituição para a qual é pensada. Podem essas práticas aportar mudanças à instituição ou pelo menos articular reflexões que suscitem questionamentos capazes de incitar transformações? Para tanto, o estudo realiza uma revisão bibliográfica sobre práticas artísticas orientadas ao contexto dos anos 1960 à atualidade, relacionando a recente absorção desse tipo de prática por parte de programas curatoriais com o chamado retorno da crítica institucional na última década. Recorre-se, então, a dois estudos de caso: o primeiro sobre contemplação suspensa (2008), trabalho desenvolvido por Rubens Mano para a Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, e o segundo sobre Shibboleth (2007), obra realizada por Doris Salcedo para a Tate Modern, Londres. A análise aponta para a possibilidade de uma articulação crítica que se manifesta sobretudo no processo de trabalho dos artistas em proximidade – e em constante negociação – com a instituição. / This research investigates context-oriented artistic practices – the context taken in its institutional and political aspects mostly – and its critical articulation in the realm of an art institution. The idea is to enquire the limits and the possibilities of such practices, when comissioned by art museums, promoting a critical reflexion towards the institution they respond to. Can these practices bring any changes to the institution or at least articulate reflexions that might give rise to questionings able of provoking transformations? In orther to do that, the research undertakes a literature review on context-oriented artistic practices from the 1960’s until nowadays, putting in relationship the recent assimilation os such practices by curatorial programs with the so called return of institutional critique during the last decade. Therefore, the research seeks two study cases: one regarding contemplação suspensa (2008), an artwork developed by Rubens Mano to the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and the other about Shibboleth (2007), an art project conceived by Doris Salcedo to the Tate Modern, London. The analysis points to the possibility of a critical articulation that manifests itself mainly during the art process that happens in proximity – and in constant negotiation – with the institution.

Esta pesquisa tem como tema a reflexão sobre práticas artísticas orientadas à especificidade de contextos – institucionais e políticos sobretudo – e sua articulação crítica no âmbito da instituição de arte. Trata-se de indagar sobre os limites e as possibilidades desse tipo de prática, quando comissionada por museus de arte, promover uma reflexão crítica em relação à instituição para a qual é pensada. Podem essas práticas aportar mudanças à instituição ou pelo menos articular reflexões que suscitem questionamentos capazes de incitar transformações? Para tanto, o estudo realiza uma revisão bibliográfica sobre práticas artísticas orientadas ao contexto dos anos 1960 à atualidade, relacionando a recente absorção desse tipo de prática por parte de programas curatoriais com o chamado retorno da crítica institucional na última década. Recorre-se, então, a dois estudos de caso: o primeiro sobre contemplação suspensa (2008), trabalho desenvolvido por Rubens Mano para a Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, e o segundo sobre Shibboleth (2007), obra realizada por Doris Salcedo para a Tate Modern, Londres. A análise aponta para a possibilidade de uma articulação crítica que se manifesta sobretudo no processo de trabalho dos artistas em proximidade – e em constante negociação – com a instituição. / This research investigates context-oriented artistic practices – the context taken in its institutional and political aspects mostly – and its critical articulation in the realm of an art institution. The idea is to enquire the limits and the possibilities of such practices, when comissioned by art museums, promoting a critical reflexion towards the institution they respond to. Can these practices bring any changes to the institution or at least articulate reflexions that might give rise to questionings able of provoking transformations? In orther to do that, the research undertakes a literature review on context-oriented artistic practices from the 1960’s until nowadays, putting in relationship the recent assimilation os such practices by curatorial programs with the so called return of institutional critique during the last decade. Therefore, the research seeks two study cases: one regarding contemplação suspensa (2008), an artwork developed by Rubens Mano to the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and the other about Shibboleth (2007), an art project conceived by Doris Salcedo to the Tate Modern, London. The analysis points to the possibility of a critical articulation that manifests itself mainly during the art process that happens in proximity – and in constant negotiation – with the institution.