Essays about: "David Malouf"
Found 4 essays containing the words David Malouf.
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1. Can the Subaltern Be Silent? : Silence as Resistance to Colonialism in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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2. Can the Nonhuman Speak? : A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay explores the representation of nonhuman nature in David Malouf’s postcolonial novel Remembering Babylon. By applying a postcolonial ecocritical framework to the narrative the essay shows how nonhuman nature, including the animalised human “other”, is subject to Western ideologies that see them as resources or services to be exploited. READ MORE
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3. Maxime Miranda in Minimis: Reimagining Swarm Consciousness and Planetary Responsibility
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This essay explores Swarm Consciousness in relation to the novels Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Remembering Babylon by David Malouf, and the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki. Through these novels, Swarm Consciousness can be reimagined in order to challenge the ways insects have previously been considered in literature. READ MORE
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4. Language in Transformation : Postmodern Notions in David Malouf's An Imaginary Life
University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOLAbstract : This essay focuses on a postmodern reading of An Imaginary Life by David Malouf. It argues that language is a central theme in the novel and that Ovid’s transformation corresponds to his changing attitude towards different languages. According to Karin Hansson, Ovid’s transformation is divided into three stages. READ MORE