Thesis (D. Min.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1998. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-198).

Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABTRACT: In recent years, original and exciting developments have been taking place in Nigerian literature. This new body of literature, collectively referred to as the ―third generation‖, has lately received international acclaim. In this emergent literature, the negotiation of a new, contemporary identity has become a central focus. At the same time, recent Nigerian literary texts are articulating responses to various developments in the Nigerian nation: Nigeria‘s current political and socio-economic situation, diverse forms of cultural hybridisation, as well as an increasing trans-national consciousness, to mention only a few. Three 21st-century novels – Chimamanda Nogzi Adichie‘s Purple Hibiscus (2004), Sefi Atta‘s Everything Good Will Come (2004) and Chris Abani‘s GraceLand (2005) – reveal how new avenues of identity-negotiation and formation are being explored in various contemporary Nigerian situations. This study tracks the ways in which the Bildungsroman, the novel of self-development, serves as a vehicle through which this new identity is articulated. Concurrently, this study also grapples with the ways in which the articulation and negotiation of this new identity reshapes the conventions of the classical Bildungsroman genre, thereby establishing a unique and contemporary Nigerian Bildungsroman for the 21st century. The identity that is being negotiated by the third generation is multi-layered and inclusive, as opposed to the exclusive and unitary identities which are observable in Nigerian novels of the previous two generations. Such inclusivity, as well as the hybrid environments in which this identity is being negotiated, results in a form of ―identity layering‖. Thus, the individual comes into being at the point of intersection, overlap and collision of various modes of self-making. Such ―layering‖ allows the individual, albeit not without challenge, to perform a self-styled identity, which does not necessarily conform to the dictates of society. At the same time, the identity is negotiated by means of an engagement, in the form of intertextual dialoguing, with Nigeria‘s preceding literary generations. The most prominent arenas in which this new identity is negotiated include silenced domestic spaces, religo-cultural traditions, constructs of gender and nation, as well as in multicultural and hybrid communities. The investigation conducted in this thesis will, consequently, also focus on such areas of Nigerian life, as they are portrayed in the focal texts. Various theories of literary analysis (some of which specifically focus on Nigeria), Bildungsroman theory, theories of allegory, (imaginative) nation formation, feminism, gender and performativity, as well as theories of cultural identity and cultural exchanges, will form the critical and theoretical framework within which this investigation will be executed. Chapter One explores how Purple Hibiscus‘s protagonist, Kambili Achike, negotiates her gender identity and voice in order to constitute herself as an independent, self-authoring individual. Chapter Two, which focuses on Everything Good Will Come, investigates the dialectic relationship between Enitan Taiwo‘s national and personal identity, which inevitably leads to her quest to reconceive her gender identity, since national identity, as she finds out, is always an engendered construct. In its analysis of GraceLand, Chapter Three turns to the difficulties that Elvis Oke faces when he attempts to negotiate an alternative masculine identity within a rigid patriarchal system and between the cracks of a fraudulent African modernity. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die afgelope paar jaar was daar opwindende, oorspronklike ontwikkelinge in Nigeriese literatuur. Hierdie nuwe literatuurkorpus, wat gesamentlik bekend staan as die ―derde generasie, het onlangs internasionale erkenning ontvang. In hierdie opkomende literatuur, kry die soeke na 'n nuwe, kontemporêre identiteit ‘n sentrale fokus. Terselfdertyd reageer onlangse Nigeriese literêre werke met verskeie ontwikkelinge in die Negeriese nasie: Nigerië se huidige politieke en sosio-ekonomiese situasie, diverse vorme van kultuurverbastering asook 'n toenemende trans-nasionale bewustheid, om maar ‘n paar te noem. Drie 21ste eeuse romans – Chimamanda Nogzi Adichie se Purple Hibiscus (2004), Sefi Atta se Everything Good Will Come (2004) en Chris Abani se GraceLand (2005) – onthul hoe nuwe kanale van identiteidsonderhandeling en –vorming in verskeie kontemporêre Nigeriese situasies ondersoek word. Hierdie studie ondersoek die maniere waarop die Bildungsroman, die roman van selfontwikkeling, as ‗n medium dien waardeur hierdie nuwe identiteit geartikuleer word. Terselfdertyd sal hierdie studie ook worstel met die maniere waarin die artikulasie en soeke na hierdie nuwe identiteit die konvensies van die klassieke Bildungsroman genre hervorm, en daardeur 'n unieke en kontemporêre Nigeriese Bildungsroman vir die 21ste eeu vestig. Die identiteit wat ontwikkel deur die derde generasie is veelvlakkig en inklusief en staan teenoor die eksklusiewe, eenvormige identiteite wat in Nigeriese romans van die vorige twee generasies opgemerk word. Hierdie inklusiwiteit, sowel as die hibriede omgewings waarin hierdie identeite ontwikkel word, lei tot die vorming van identiteitslae. Die individu kom dus tot stand by die kruising, oorvleueling en botsing van verskillende metodes van selfvorming. Hierdie vorming van lae laat die individu toe, alhoewel nie sonder uitdagings nie, om 'n selfgevormde identiteit te hê wat nie noodwndig aan die eise van die gemeenskap voldoen nie. Terselfdertyd word hierdie identiteit onderhandel deur ‗n skakeling met Nigerië se voorafgaande literêre generasies in die vorm van intertekstuele dialoog. Die mees prominente omgewings waar hierdie nuwe identiteit onderhandel word, sluit stilgemaakte huishoudelike spasies, religieus-kulturele tradisies, konstrukte van gender en nasie, sowel as multi-kulturele en hibriede gemeenskappe in. Die ondersoek wat in hierdie tesis uitgevoer sal word, sal daarom ook fokus op hierdie areas van Nigeriese lewe, soos deur die fokale tekste voorgestel. Verskeie teorieë van literêre analise (sommige wat spesifiek op Nigerië fokus), Bildungsromanteorie, teorieë van allegorie, (denkbeeldige) nasievorming, feminisme, gender en performatiwiteit, sowel as teorieë van kultuuridentiteit en -uitruiling, vorm die kritiese en teoretiese raamwerk waarbinne hierdie ondersoek uitgevoer sal word. Hoofstuk een ondersoek hoe Purple Hibiscus se protagonist, Kambili Achike, haar genderidentiteit onderhandel en uitdrukking gee om haarself as onafhanklike, self-skeppende individu te vorm. Hoofstuk twee, wat fokus op Everything Good Will Come, ondersoek die dialektiese verhouding tussen Enitan Taiwo se nasionale en persoonlike identiteit, wat onvermydelik lei tot die herbedenking van haar genderidentiteit, aangesien nasionale identiteit, soos sy uitvind, altyd 'n gekweekte konstruk is. In sy analise van GraceLand, draai Hoofstuk drie om die moeilikhede wat Elvis Oke in die gesig staar wanneer hy probeer om ‘n alternatiewe manlike identiteit te onderhandel in 'n rigiede patriargale sisteem tussen krake van 'n bedrieglike Afrika-moderniteit.

This thesis offers an account of children's lived experiences in Rwanda (1930s-2016) in four key domains: kinship, education, economic transitions, and marriage. Based on historical and ethnographic fieldwork in rural and urban Rwanda from 2012 to 2014, this work explores how three generations of young people have experienced and navigated childhood and coming of age at the interface of 'traditional' and 'modern' institutional systems. Rather than focusing narrowly on 'crisis' childhoods, individual agency, or exogenous forces, as studies of young Africans and social change tend to, this work examines young people's 'everyday' actions - intentional and unintentional, individual and collective, compliant and non-compliant - and locates them within their broader historical, relational, and institutional environment. By focusing on the intensely reproductive period of childhood and coming of age, on Rwanda's unexceptional majority rather than its exceptionally vulnerable minority, and on children's everyday actions rather than the strategic actions of elites, this thesis shows us how children shape the institutions of childhood and marriage and, in so doing, influence how society is reproduced and changed. Theoretically, this thesis explains how children and their institutional environment are mutually constituting: it examines how and why young people experience rapid change and structural violence differently and it traces how they reproduce and change these structural conditions as they engage with institutional mechanisms in (un)intended ways. The research reveals that children in central Rwanda navigate constraints and opportunities by drawing on established kinship relationships and institutions while also opportunistically engaging with modern institutions and their actors. However, in this context of 'institutional multiplicity', traditional and modern institutional systems each need Rwanda's young majority to reproduce their institutions over others', and as intended, to achieve their power-distributional goals. This makes children's actions particularly consequential and demands that we redefine what political action - and political actors - look like.

Relevant de l’intérêt renouvelé de l’histoire sociale pour la période des « années 1968 », ce travail cherche à comprendre à la fois les conditions de possibilité de la création d’une institution telle que le « Centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes » et comment celle-ci a été initialement façonnée par les investissements pratiques et les projections de ses concepteurs, fondateurs et premiers acteurs. A la croisée de la sociologie des politiques publiques éducatives et de l´histoire sociale des champs intellectuels, la socio-histoire de cette expérience universitaire participe de la connaissance des effets de la crise symbolique sans précédent de Mai 68, et offre une voie d´entrée à l´histoire des idées qui prend en compte simultanément les acteurs mobilisés et mobilisables que sont les étudiants et les enseignants, et leurs négociations avec le pouvoir politique. A l’échelle macro-sociologique, cette recherche s’attache à éclairer les logiques qui président au développement morphologique et symbolique de l´Université depuis les années 50 et participe de la connaissance du fonctionnement de l’Etat et du pouvoir politique en conjoncture de crise. A l’échelle micro-sociologique, elle se veut attentive aux logiques d’action des acteurs sociaux et aspire à comprendre comment et pourquoi, suivant quels représentations, dispositions et intérêts, les acteurs (individuels et collectifs) investissent leurs rôles et « métiers » (de hauts fonctionnaires, responsables politiques, « intellectuels », enseignants-chercheurs, étudiant), sans sous-estimer les contraintes qui pèsent sur eux. Ce travail s’appuie sur des matériaux complémentaires (archives, entretiens, biographies, statistiques) qui permettent de mettre en perspective « données quantitatives » et « données qualitatives », et de renseigner les deux échelles d’analyse. / Building on social history renewed interest for the “long 1968” period, this work seeks to understand both the conditions of possibility of an institution such as the “Experimental University of Vincennes” (Centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes) and the way it was initially shaped by the practical concerns and projections of its planners, creators and first actors. Between a sociology of education policies and a social history of intellectual fields, the history of this university experiment adds to our knowledge of the symbolic crisis of May 1968, and paves the way for a history of ideas which simultaneously takes into account the mobilized and mobilizable actors that are students and professors, and their negotiation with the political power.On a macrosociological scale, this research aims to shed light on the logics that led to the morphological and symbolic development of the University since the 1950s and adds to our knowledge of the functionning of the state and policial power in a context of crisis. On a microsociological scale, it focuses on the logics of action of social actors and seeks to understand how and why, according to which representations, dispositions and interests, actors (both individual and collective) assume their roles and “professions” (of high-civil servants, political leaders, “intellectuals”, professors, students), without underestimating the constraints that are imposed on them. This work is based on complementary materials (archives, interviews, biographies, and statistics) which put in perspective “quantitative data” and “qualitative data”, combining two scales of analysis.

[pt] Apesar do acentuado crescimento do uso de dispositivos móveis no contexto de viagens, muitas lacunas de pesquisa ainda estão presentes. A tese se propõe a medir a influência dos traços de personalidade (introversão, abertura a experiências, instabilidade emocional, necessidade de excitação) sobre os construtos dos modelos de aceitação de tecnologia (utilidade percebida, facilidade percebida de uso, confiança e risco percebidos), além da conectividade ubíqua percebida. Buscou-se também verificar os possíveis efeitos de moderação das gerações sobre algums relações do modelo proposto com equações estruturais. Uma fase qualitativa exploratória foi conduzida com 15 entrevistados, que forneceram indicações para composição de uma survey aplicada a 912 respondentes. Na amostra da geração X (N igual a 587), a abertura a experiências apresentou efeito significativo sobre a utilidade utilidade percebida e risco. Já a necessidade de excitação apresentou efeito significativo sobre a confiança. Tanto a utilidade apresentou efeito significativo sobre a atitude, quanto também a facilidade de uso, a confiança e a conectividade ubíqua percebida. A conectividade ubíqua percebida também apresentou efeito significativo sobre a utilidade e sobre a facilidade de uso percebida. Já a atitude apresentou efeito significativo sobre a intenção de compra. Como resultados da amostra da geração Y (N igual a 312), dos traços de personalidade, apenas a necessidade de excitação apresentou efeito significativo sobre a confiança. Semelhante à amostra da geração X, tanto a utilidade apresentou efeito significativo sobre a atitude, quanto também sobre a facilidade de uso e confiança. Na geração Y, a conectividade ubíqua percebida também apresentou efeito significativo sobre a utilidade e sobre a facilidade de uso percebida, assim como a atitude apresentou efeito significativo sobre a intenção de compra. Foi verificado efeito moderador significativo das gerações sobre algumas das relações propostas no modelo principal e nos modelos alternativos. Os traços de personalidade não se mostraram como antecedentes tão cruciais para se prever relações com os construtos de adoção de tecnologia (facilidade de uso, utilidade confiança e risco), atitude e intenção de compra. No entanto a conectividade ubíqua e o efeito das gerações sobre alguns elementos da compra via dispositivos móveis, parecem ser elementos importante para serem incluídos em análises gerenciais que venham a ser realizada no contexto dos turismo mediado por dispositivos móveis. / [en] Despite the sharp growth in the use of mobile devices in the context of travel, many research gaps are still present. The thesis brings as innovation the combination of constructs of technology acceptance models, personality traits and the moderation effect of the generations, aiming to propose and test a new model with structural equations. A qualitative exploratory phase was conducted with 15 interviewees, who provided indications for the composition of a survey applied in 912 respondents. Personality traits (introversion, openness to experiences, emotional instability, need for excitement) with internal aspects of the system (perceived utility, perceived ease of use, perceived trust and risk), and perceived ubiquitous connectivity were proposed. Finally, other relationships between the internal aspects of the system were proposed with the attitude when making purchases through mobile devices and the intention to purchase tourist products and services. A possible moderating effect of the generations on these relationships was also tested. In the generation X sample (N equal to 587), the openness to experiences had a significant effect on perceived utility and risk. The need for arousal had a significant effect on trust. Utility had a significant effect on attitude, as well as on perceived ease of use, trust and perceived ubiquitous connectivity. Perceived ubiquitous connectivity also had a significant effect on utility and on perceived ease of use. On the other hand, the attitude had a significant effect on purchase intention. The results on generation Y sample (N equal to 312) revealed that of all the personality traits tested, only the need for arousal had significant effect on trust. Similar to the generation X sample, utility had a significant effect on attitude, as well as on pereceived ease of use and trust. In the Y generation, perceived ubiquitous connectivity also had a significant effect on utility and on perceived ease of use, as well as attitude had a significant effect on purchase intention. In addition a few significant moderating effect of the generation was verified over some of the relationships proposed. Personality traits did not evidence to be so crucial in order to predict relationships with technology adoption constructs (e.g. ease of use, trust, risk, and usefulness), attitude, and purchase intent. However, the ubiquitous connectivity and the effect of generations on some elements of mobile devices purchase seem to be important elements to be included in future managerial analyzes in the context of mobile tourism.

This study seeks to evaluate how aspects of religion, culture, political context, education and class, amongst others, impact on the manner with which Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo residents make sense of media messages which explore issues of homosexuality, as encountered in the soap opera Generations. This is against the backdrop of Zimbabwean legislation, such as the Sexual Deviancy Act, which criminalises homosexuality and the state victimisation of gays and lesbians in this country. The inclusion of homosexual liberties was rejected by all political parties and both public and private media in the recent drafting of a new rule of law. The legislation, including gay rights exclusion in the new constitution, and state action has perpetuated an impression that Zimbabwe is a deeply homophobic society. As a starting point the study examines the claims of the media imperialism thesis which supposes an all-consuming power of western media and next examines Straubhaar’s thesis of ‘cultural proximity’ which argues that there is often a preference for regional media, which is proximate to viewers’ local culture, language and identity. The study explores the prominence of South Africa as a regional media player and that proximate identities with some cultures in that country have played a role in drawing some Bulawayo viewers to South African television, as they feel slighted by Zimbabwean media. Utilising qualitative research methods, the study explores whether or not the representation of gay images on this South African soap opera provides viewers with opportunities for ‘symbolic distancing’. The concept highlights that when people have insight into lifestyles that are different from their own, they use that as a resource to critically analyse their own lives and cultural understandings. The study evaluates if Bulawayo viewers’ sentiments towards homosexuality has been challenged and changed through their interface with the soap opera, Generations.

Entre as preocupações e os estudos sobre o processo de envelhecimento, existe uma área que tem recebido grande atenção: a “feminização da velhice”. As mulheres possuem uma maior expectativa de vida, com isso, as projeções para o futuro apontam para um crescimento da população idosa feminina e um relativo decréscimo da masculina. Esses índices não apenas destacam uma superioridade numérica das mulheres na velhice, mas nos fazem refletir sobre as necessidades de conhecer e contemplar esse maior segmento da população idosa nacional. O presente estudo foi desenvolvido num contexto de famílias urbanas de um bairro de classe popular da cidade de Porto Alegre, a Vila Fátima, e teve como objetivo principal analisar as funções que as mulheres idosas deste bairro estão desempenhando hoje em suas famílias. Os objetivos secundários foram: o levantamento do perfil socioeconômico das famílias deste bairro; a análise da estrutura familiar e da rede social de apoio das famílias; e a compreensão da percepção que a mulher idosa tem de si mesma dentro de sua família e na comunidade onde vive. Participaram do estudo nove mulheres, com idades entre 66 e 93 anos, moradoras da Vila Fátima, integrantes do Grupo de Terceira Idade do Centro de Extensão Universitária da PUC-RS. Nesta pesquisa, de cunho qualitativo e caráter etnográfico, utilizaram-se como instrumentos de coleta de dados: entrevistas com perguntas abertas, gravadas e posteriormente transcritas, que foram realizadas no próprio domicílio das participantes; um diário de campo e anotações sobre o Grupo de Terceira Idade. O estudo mostrou que o processo de adoecimento crônico, a prisão ou a perda precoce do companheiro, seja por morte ou por separação, levou sete entre as nove entrevistadas a constituir unidades-mãe-filhos e a assumir o papel de provedoras de seus lares. Os vizinhos, as creches locais e o posto de saúde formam a rede social de apoio na comunidade. Com o envelhecimento, algumas delas continuaram a viver na forma de unidade-mãe-filhos, e outras passaram a constituir unidade-mãe-filhos-netos. Elas continuaram a desempenhar um papel central no funcionamento de suas famílias e sustento de suas casas. Muitas das idosas assumiram a responsabilidade de criar e educar seus netos e bisnetos. A sua principal fonte de suporte social hoje são seus filhos. A coresidência é uma realidade muito presente nesse contexto. Ela tem gerado um aumento da taxa de escolarização, uma redução do trabalho infantil e proporcionado trocas intensas e prolongadas entre as gerações. As trocas de carinho, o diálogo aberto com os netos e a disponibilidade de estar presente e ser uma referência são características marcantes nos discursos das idosas. A relação afetiva firmada com as gerações mais jovens possibilita aos idosos uma releitura crítica de suas trajetórias pessoais e a construção de um novo sentido de vida. / Among the concerns and studies on the aging process, there is an area that has been getting much attention, viz. the “femininization of poverty.” Women are living longer and consequently have a higher life expectancy. Estimates indicate that the female senior population will continue to grow in the future and the male senior population will undergo a relative decline. These indices not only reveal the existence of a larger number of women in old age, but also lead us to reflect on the need to get to know and to take into account the demands of this growing population segment. This research project was developed in a context of urban families in a low income neighborhood (“Vila Fátima”) of the city of Porto Alegre, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its main goal was to analyze the roles that senior women of that neighborhood are playing in their families in the present. The secondary goals were to identify the socio-economic profile of the families living in “Vila Fátima”, to analyze the family structure and the families’ social support network and to understand the senior women’s perception of themselves within their families and community. The study’s participants were nine women aged 66 to 93 who live in that neighborhood and are members of the Senior Citizens’ Group of the Extension Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. The study has a qualitative and ethnographic character and used the following data collection tools: interviews with open-ended questions (conducted at the participants’ homes), that were recorded and then transcribed; a field diary and notes on the Senior Citizens’ Group. The research project showed that the process of chronic illness, imprisonment or early loss of the spouse, either because of death or separation, led seven out of the nine interviewed women to constitute family units made up of mother and children and to become providers of their homes. Neighbors, local day care centers and the health care station are their social support network in the community. As they grew older, some of them continued to live in that form of family unit and others constituted family units made up of mother, children and grandchildren. They continued to play a central role in the functioning and support of their families. Many of the senior women took on the responsibility of raising their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Their children are their main source of social support today. Co-residence is common phenomenon in this context. It has led to an increase in the schooling rate, a reduction of child labor and the possibility of intensive and prolonged exchanges between the generations. The exchange of affection, open dialog with grandchildren and their availability as resource persons are outstanding features in the senior women’s utterances. The affective relationship with the younger generations enables the elderly to critically reread their life stories and to construct a new meaning in life.

Estudo antropológico sobre memórias familiares reordenadas a partir da realização das Festas de Família, vistas como rituais familiares contemporâneos, ora denominando-se Festa ou Encontro da Família "Tal". A pesquisa etnográfica foi realizada com famílias "em e de" diferentes cidades do Rio Grande do Sul entre os anos de 2004 a 2009. Compreende-se Festa de Família como um acontecimento que tem se tornado freqüente na sociedade brasileira contemporânea. O evento apresenta o aspecto ambíguo da busca dos indivíduos por sua ancestralidade em meio ao mundo moderno, no qual a valorização da individualização parece tornar as pessoas menos vinculadas a formas locais e fixas de solidariedade. Vistas como rito - que busca revivificar ou engendrar novas formas identitárias sob novos comportamentos, com as recomposições familiares requeridas pelas situações contemporâneas -, as Festas de Família podem ser percebidas como instrumento de aprendizagem, implicando, desse modo, a continuidade das gerações, dos grupos etários ou dos grupos sociais dentro dos quais elas se produzem. / Anthropological study on family memories that are reorganized with Family Parties, seen as contemporary family rituals, being called Party or Gathering of a given family. The ethnographical research was done with families "in and from" different cities in Rio Grande do Sul between 2004 and 2009. A Family Party is understood as a happening that has become frequent in contemporary Brazilian society. The event presents the ambiguous aspect of the individual's search for their ancestors amidst a modern world, in which the valorization of individualization seems to make people less connected to local and fixed forms of solidarity. Seen as a rite - which aims to revive or engender new forms of identity, with new behaviors, with the family rearrangements required by contemporary situations - the Family Parties can be seen as a learning instrument, implying the continuity of the generations, of the age groups or social groups in which they are produced.

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo abordar a História da História em Quadrinhos como sendo um ramo da História da Arte, analisando a produção estadunidense das décadas de 1930 a 1960, principalmente as correntes artísticas conhecidas como Era de Ouro e Era de Prata, segundo conceitos como o da Kunstwollen e da Escola de Viena de História da Arte. Tal trabalho tem como objetivo compreender tais movimentos artísticos a partir de suas características e convenções artísticas próprias e das relações que estabeleceram entre si, com outras linguagens e tradições artísticas e com o contexto social e político de seu tempo. Ainda, tem como intuito contribuir para a compreensão do desenvolvimento temático e estético dos estilos artísticos do período e o estabelecimento da História em Quadrinhos como uma linguagem artística autônoma que produziu em um conjunto de tradições estéticas e narrativas próprias. / This research intends to approach the History of Comics as an Art History branch, analyzing US production of the 1930s to 1960s, mainly artistic movements known as the Golden Age and Silver Age, according to concepts such as Kunstwollen and from the Vienna School of Art History. This work intends to understand these artistic movements from its specific features and artistic conventions and the relationships they have established between themselves, with other languages and artistic traditions and the social and political context of their time. Also this research intends to contribute to the understanding of the thematic and aesthetic development of the artistic styles of the period and the establishment of the Comics as an autonomous artistic language that established a set of aesthetic traditions and narratives themselves.

The Lyons group denoted by Ly is a Sporadic Simple Group of order 51765179004000000 = 28 37 56 7 11 31 37 67. It(Ly) has a trivial Schur Multiplier and a trivial Outer Automorphism Group. Its maximal subgroups are G2(5) of order 5859000000 and index 8835156, 3 McL:2 of order 5388768000 and index 9606125, 53 L3(5) of order 46500000 and index 1113229656, 2 A11 of order 29916800 and index 1296826875, 51+4 + :4S6 of order 9000000 and index 5751686556, 35:(2 M11) of order 3849120 and index 13448575000, 32+4:2 A5 D8 of order 699840 and index 73967162500, 67:22 of order 1474 and index 35118846000000 and 37:18 of order 666 and index 77725494000000. Its existence was suggested by Richard Lyons. Lyons characterized its order as the unique possible order of any nite simple group where the centralizer of some involution is isomorphic to the nontrivial central extension of the alternating group of degree 11 by the cyclic group of order 2. Sims proved the existence of this group and its uniqueness using permutations and machine calculations. In this dissertation, we compute the (p; q; t)-generations of the Lyons group for dis- tinct primes p, q and t which divide the order of Ly such that p < q < t. For computations, we made use of the Computer Algebra System GAP / Mathematical Sciences / M.Sc. (Mathematics)