Essays about: "Homi K. Bhabha"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Homi K. Bhabha.
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1. A Captor held Unconsciously Captive: Postcolonial Iranian Identity and its Narration in Man of my Time
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This project aims to investigate the presentation of identity in Dalia Sofer’s novel Man of My Time with concepts coined by Homi K. Bhabha and further discussed by Stuart Hall and David Huddart. READ MORE
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2. Ralph Ellison and the Postcolonial Identity of Black Invisibility
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : 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
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3. "It's the Englishness" : Bildung and Personality Forming as Postcolonial Criticism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Through a close reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, this essay shows the key links between the novel and Frantz Fanon’s major works. In addition to providing a deeper understanding of Dangarembga’s narrative as a whole, it takes into particular consideration the embedded criticism of colonialism in the text. READ MORE
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4. Postcolonial Identity in Ireland: Hybridity, Third Space, and the Uncanny : in Hugo Hamilton’s THE SPECKLED PEOPLE A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood and THE SAILOR IN THE WARDROBE
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : This essay explores and investigates post-colonial identity in Ireland in Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood (2003) and The Sailor in the Wardrobe (2006). Relying primarily on Homi K. READ MORE
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5. No (Wo)man's Land - The Making of a Room of One's Own in Monica Ali's Brick Lane
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In this essay, I uncover and examine a number of different strategies applied toward self-realization in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003). I filter Ali’s modern day bildungsroman through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s understanding of self-realization as a gendered process as well as through Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory. READ MORE