Essays about: "hybridity"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 85 essays containing the word hybridity.

  1. 11. Estonian-Russian Identities in the Conflict Zone : Postcolonial Readings of Andrei Ivanov’s “Untermensch: the part of me that is torn to pieces”

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Slaviska språk

    Author : Evelin Tamm; [2022]
    Keywords : Russophone identities; contemporary Estonian literature; Andrei Ivanov; Estonian Russian minority; Baltic postcolonialism; hybridity; русскоязычная идентичность; современная эстонская литература; Андрей Иванов; русское меньшинство в Эстонии; балтийский постколониализм; гибридность; ryska identiteter; estnisk samtidslitteratur; Andrei Ivanov; den ryska minoriteten i Estland; baltisk postkolonialism; hybriditet;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the changing identities of the Estonian Russophone minority based on the literary works of Estonian Russophone writers. It analyses Andrei Ivanov’s short novel Untermensch: the part of me that is torn to pieces applying the concepts of Baltic postcolonial identities and hybridity. READ MORE

  3. 12. Mirroring Gender Diversity: is Reporting a Reflection ofthe TMT? : A Quantitative Study of Gender Diversity Disclosure in Swedish State-Owned Enterprises

    University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Stina Karlsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Gender Diversity Disclosure; Visual Disclosure; Upper-echelons Theory; Top Management Team; State-owned Enterprises; Institutional Logics; Hybridity;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explain how the gender diversity of the top management team affects the disclosure strategy regarding gender diversity, in state-owned enterprises. The study, in addition, tests if hybridity, conceptualized as conflicting institutional logics, has a moderating effect on this relationship. READ MORE

  4. 13. Kambili’s Journey to Dignity, and Self-empowerment : A Womanist Approach to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Nicky Nahida Lindecrantz; [2022]
    Keywords : change; Christianity; dignity; identity; Igbo tradition; interaction; liberal- and radical feminism; mimicry; Nigeria; patriarchal violence; postcolonialism; self-empowerment; womanism;

    Abstract : Using womanist theory as a theoretical framework, this study has analyzed identity formation and self-empowerment. Adichie is considered a feminist writer, but her ideals and ideas are very different from Western ideals and aim to survive and challenge patriarchal culture. READ MORE

  5. 14. Ralph Ellison and the Postcolonial Identity of Black Invisibility

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Victoria Wendel; [2022]
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    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyse the postcolonial identity of black ‘invisibility’ in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952). It conceptualizes and explains the extended metaphor over the novel, of black identity and how black people are made invisible by historical and cultural factors. READ MORE

  6. 15. Hybrid identities in The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon : A character analysis of the two characters Moses and Galahad.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Sofia Backlund; [2022]
    Keywords : Hybridity; Racism; Identity; Language;

    Abstract : This essay reads and analyses the novel The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon through the lens of postcolonial theory. It examines the West Indian migrants who migrated to Britain in the 1950s, searching for a better life. They had been indoctrinated by the colonizers for decades of the prosperous life awaiting them in the Motherland. READ MORE