Essays about: "Hybrid-identity"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the word Hybrid-identity.

  1. 6. Becoming a Creative Performer - How creative workers endure in a business-oriented world

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Ellen Brantberg; Anna Loverus; [2020]
    Keywords : Creative workers; Accounting; Foucault; Hybrid-identity; Cross-functional teams;

    Abstract : In this thesis we examine how creative workers manage their performance at work, and how they are affected by the tensions between creativity and accounting. By drawing on a cross-sectional interview study we aim to provide a comprehensive understanding for how the creative worker is involved in accounting for creative performance. READ MORE

  3. 7. The Evolution of Changez' Identity : Hybridity and Culture in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Tove Hermansson; [2020]
    Keywords : hybridity; fractured identity; culture; orientalism; the East; the West; Pakistan; America;

    Abstract : This essay explores the concept of hybridity and its relation to cultural identity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Changez' identity is analysed by using postcolonial theory and its notion of hybrid identities. READ MORE

  4. 8. MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE TRAUMAS OF APARTHEID A Psychoanalytical Reading of Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Nansi Soulakeli Johansson; [2019-09-10]
    Keywords : Wicomb; Mental Illness; Psychoanalysis; Trauma;

    Abstract : Zoë Wicomb’s novel Playing in the Light (2006) critically examines the perilous times of apartheid in South Africa through the condition of play-whites. This thesis particularly focuses on the psychological unrest and traumatic experiences of two characters – Marion Campbell, and her mother, Helen Charles – whose disarrayed mental state is believed to be emblematic of the destructive ramifications of apartheid and the play-white act on the human psyche. READ MORE

  5. 9. Euro-Islamic identity?: An example of hybrid identities in contemporary Europe

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Payam Ghiaci; [2016-09-22]
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    Abstract : In-mass presence of Muslims in Europe dates back several decades ago, after Second World War; a presence which has been intricate since the beginning. After many years, Europe-born generations of Muslim immigrants are yet facing the very same question as their parents: How to identify themselves in Christian/secular European societies; how to be neither submissive nor self-alienated as a Muslim in contemporary Europe. READ MORE

  6. 10. Across Borders: Migrancy, Bilingualism, and the Reconfiguration of Postcolonialism in Junot Díaz’s Fiction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Laura Fennell; [2015]
    Keywords : migrancy; migration; bilingualism; postcolonialism; Junot Díaz; other; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Equipped with Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and his collections of short stories Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), this thesis interprets the fundamentals of migrant literature, studies Díaz’s tools of migrant depiction, and examines contemporary postcolonial and migrant discourse. This is performed in three integral segments of study. READ MORE