Essays about: "cultural hybridization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words cultural hybridization.

  1. 1. Hybridization of the Self, Colonial Discourse and the Deconstruction of Value Systems : A Postcolonial Literary Theory Perspective of Literature inculpating Colonialism

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Brian Burns; [2021]
    Keywords : Postcolonialism; Postcolonial Literary Theory; Hybridization; Walker; Malouf; Phillips; Achebe; Freud; Nietzsche; Bhabha; Siad; McLeod; Barry;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to provide a perspective on literature inculpating colonialism using postcolonial literary theory and method. The subject material incorporates four novels studied during the literature modules for the English course at Högskolan Gävle (HIG). READ MORE

  3. 2. Portrait mummies in context

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Alexandra Boender; [2021]
    Keywords : Portrait mummy; Egypt; Hellenistic; Roman; cultural hybridization; mortuary traditions;

    Abstract : The present thesis aims to expand and acquire new knowledge on the emergence of portrait mummies during the Roman period in Egypt and their socio-religious status. The emergence and decorative program of these mummies are commonly understood as an artistic expression of Hellenistic Greek and Roman settlers in Egypt. READ MORE

  4. 3. Eastern Nigeria at the Crossroads of Culture : Cultural Hybridity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Micheline Grönlund; [2020]
    Keywords : cultural hybridity; pre-colonialism; colonialism; post-colonialism; essentializing; alternating; converting; hybridizing;

    Abstract : This paper analyzes the four initial stages in the process of cultural hybridization as put forward by Chan Kwok-bun in his book Cultural Hybridity: essentializing, alternating, converting and hybridizing. These stages are examined in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart through a mapping to show how a cultural hybrid is formed. READ MORE

  5. 4. Deconstructing the “Low Other” in the First Wave of Sex Hygiene Films (1914-1919)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Maria Cârstian; [2019]
    Keywords : Early cinema; sex hygiene film; Low Other; Damaged Goods; The Black Stork; The End of The Road; venereal disease film; sex education film; eugenics; transgression; hybridization; Progressive Era.;

    Abstract : The present thesis investigates the commercial sex hygiene films produced between the years 1914 and 1919 in the United States, during the last years of the Progressive Era. Rejected and prohibited as soon as five years after their apparition, the sex hygiene films’ position within the industry, as well as the cinematic techniques they incorporated, will be analysed through the concept of the Low Other. READ MORE

  6. 5. Culture in motion : Material culture in the inventory of Catherine Jagiellon’s dowry from 1562 and its analysis from culture transfer perspective

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Urszula Frick; [2019]
    Keywords : Catherine Jagiellon; Poland; Sweden; inventory; dowry; renaissance; material culture; culture transfer; culture hybridization;

    Abstract : On the 4th of October 1562, the Polish princess Catherine Jagiellon married the Swedish prince and duke of Finland Johan Vasa. Leaving Poland, Catherine Jagiellon was equipped with a very rich dowry and followed by an entourage of nearly 50 people. READ MORE