Essays about: "HISTORICAL TOPICS"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 essays containing the words HISTORICAL TOPICS.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

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

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  3. 2. Racial Prejudices as Societal Norms: Utilizing Genre Pedagogy to Help Students Work with William Shakespeare’s 'Othello'

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Malek Habejbek; [2023]
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    Abstract : This essay examines racial attitudes in Elizabethan England to re-read Shakespeare’s Othello with an emphasis on the characters Roderigo, Iago, Brabantio, the Duke of Venice, and Emilia. It also looks at the historical background of blackface and how it contributed to racism. READ MORE

  4. 3. Begravningsplatsen som plats för kontemplation och rekreation : gestaltningsförslag för Kvidinge kyrkogård

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Tim-Theodor Jakobsson; [2023]
    Keywords : begravningsplats; kyrkogård; gestaltningsförslag; Kvidinge kyrkogård; gravskick; askgrav; minneslund; askgravlund; ceremoniplats;

    Abstract : Examensarbetet Begravningsplatsen som plats för kontemplation och rekreation - Gestaltningsförslag för Kvidinge kyrkogård är ett gestaltningsförslag för delar av Kvidinge begravningsplats. Arbetet tar avstamp i en förfrågan från Kvidinge församling om att rita om delar av ett gravkvarter på begravningsplatsen. READ MORE

  5. 4. Climate Action, Now? : A Comparative Case Study of Protests from the Early Dutch Environmental Movement to Protests from the Contemporary Dutch Environmental Movement

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Annelou Snippe; [2023]
    Keywords : The Netherlands - Environmental movements; Social movement theory; collective action frames; repertoire;

    Abstract : This study compares repertoire and framing between two protests in the early Dutch environmental movement and two protests in the modern Dutch environmental movement. The aim of the study is to find differences and similarities between the two time periods the protests take place in. READ MORE

  6. 5. An Hibernian Tale – Representations of Identity in the Irish Big House Novel

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Ludvig Bertilsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Big House; Irish Literature; Castle Rackrent; The Real Charlotte; Maria Edgeworth; Somerville and Ross; Irish History; Irish Identity; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The genre of the Irish “Big House” novel is one deeply entrenched in historical context. To be unaware of the setting, and the significance of identity within it, lessens the understanding and impact of character, motivations, and conflict in the text. READ MORE