Essays about: "hybridity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 85 essays containing the word hybridity.

  1. 1. "I'LL SPEAK FOR BOTH SIDES": Coloniality and Hybridity in Identity Construction in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Filippa Kakavand; [2024-03-21]
    Keywords : Leslie Marmon Silko; Ceremony; postcolonialism; coloniality; hybridity; magical realism; identity; storytelling; Indigenous; Native American literature;

    Abstract : This study explores the complex relations between coloniality and hybridity in identity construction for the Native American community in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. The study aims to examine how these literary techniques contribute to the protagonist's construction of identity, specifically focusing on his mixed-race identity and the way in which coloniality influences his experience. READ MORE

  3. 2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nimrod Numan; [2023]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

    Abstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hackneyed Phrases : Intertextual and Linguistic Migrations in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to The North

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

    Author : Adnan Mahmutovic; [2023]
    Keywords : Tayib Salih; migration; language; hybridity; postcolonial;

    Abstract : Tayeb Salih’s world-literary classic Season of Migration to The North (1967) has been read widely in Arabic as well as multiple world languages. Primarily examined in terms that pertain to the postcolonial field of study, it showcases all the well-rehearsed topics such as coloniser- colonised, identity, nationality, culture, hybridity, literature, language, gender, sexuality, historiography, and most importantly for this thesis: migration. READ MORE

  5. 4. “We must be their voices!” : exploring Danish-Iranian women’s emotional engagement with the Woman Life Freedom movement on Instagram and beyond

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Therese Thim; [2023]
    Keywords : civic engagement; diaspora; social media; emotions; affect; politics; sense of belonging; Woman Life Freedom movement; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The present study explores how Danish-Iranian Women living in Copenhagen witness and take part in the connective Woman Life Freedom movement, online and from afar. It seeks to investigate their emotional engagement with Instagram, their political participation and their sense of belonging in this process. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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)

    Author : Céline Nasim Valentina Ragus; [2022]
    Keywords : Iran; Post-Colonialism; Literature;

    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