Essays about: "Tim Löfstedt"

Found 2 essays containing the words Tim Löfstedt.

  1. 1. Scars on Screen : How Is Maoist China Depicted on Film?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kinesiska

    Author : Tim Löfstedt; [2011]
    Keywords : film; china; chinese film; maoism; cultural revolution; jiang wen; xie jin; hibiscus town; in the heat of the sun; memory; scar literature; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : After the end of the Cultural Revolution, restrictions on art production in China eased considerably, and alternative accounts of life under Mao emerged, conflicting earlier official accounts of life in Maoist China. Since then, a number of films depicting the so-called decade of turmoil and the years preceding it have been produced. READ MORE

  3. 2. "To Conquer and Subdue" - Okonkwo's Masculinity in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Tim Löfstedt; [2008]
    Keywords : Chinua Achebe; Things Fall Apart; Afica; Afrika i litteraturen; Nigeria; Igbo; gender; masculinity; maskulinitet i litteraturen; manliness; tradition; family; identity; identitet i litteraturen; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay examines the masculinity of Okonkwo, the protagonist of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and how it brings about his undoing, despite the fact that he lives in a conservative society where masculinity is revered.... READ MORE