Essays about: "postcolonial perspective"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 109 essays containing the words postcolonial perspective.

1. 21. Challenges of Intersectionality in terms of Honour-Related Violence

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : Zahra Darvishpour(Bagherishad); [2022]
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   Abstract : This study illustrates how postcolonial researchers and activists who deal with the issue of honour-related violence from an intersectional feminist perspective have experienced a hard treatment by researchers, activists and other actors based on some other discourses on honourbased violence issues. Moreover, it is discussed whether polarization in debates between the cultural and intersectional perspectives on honour-related violence has been increased in Sweden following the growth of negative attitudes and polarization in public opinion towards refugees, diversity and immigration - and especially towards groups coming from Islamic countries. READ MORE

3. 22. Ralph Ellison and the Postcolonial Identity of Black Invisibility

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Victoria Wendel; [2022]
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   Abstract : 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

4. 23. The Dream Interpreter : A Historical and Postcolonial Analysis of the Development of Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Nathalie Pontén; [2022]
   Keywords : Wide Sargasso Sea; Jean Rhys; Jane Eyre; Colonialism; Patriarchy; Orientalism; Edward Said;

   Abstract : This essay will discuss Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea from a postcolonial and historical perspective, to show how Rhys’s recreation of Bertha Rochester’s past (Charlotte Brontë’s madwoman in Jane Eyre) can make her end appear triumphant. The analysis will be based on a combination of aspects from the novel’s contemporary English and Caribbean societies and Edward Said’s thoughts about Orientalism, mainly the binary opposition between Europe and the Orient and the creation of Orientalist knowledge. READ MORE

5. 24. The Other from a Colonial and a Postcolonial Perspective : Comparing Othering in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise.

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Åke Steinwall; [2022]
   Keywords : Othering; racism; colonialism; Paradise; Heart of Darkness; xenophobia; fear;

   Abstract : In this essay the use of othering in the novels Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah is compared. The comparative reading is carried out through the lens of a postcolonial framework comprising thoughts and ideas of, among others Edward Said and Ania Loomba. READ MORE

6. 25. Before the Law: A postcolonial analysis of credibility in the Danish asylum process

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Lærke Vinther Christiansen; [2022]
   Keywords : postcolonialism; credibility; asylum; Denmark; knowledge; Orientalism; Foucault; volunteers; assessors; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study explores credibility assessment in the Danish asylum determination system, through the perspective of advisors to asylum seekers. These advisors are either lawyers, aid workers, or volunteers, but are all people who have experience supporting asylum seekers through the bureaucratic process of the Danish asylum system. READ MORE