Sökning: "“Englishness”"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade ordet “Englishness”.

1. 1. "It's the Englishness" : Bildung and Personality Forming as Postcolonial Criticism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

   Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Johan Nyoni Triyono; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Tsitsi Dangarembga; Nervous Conditions; Frantz Fanon; Homi K. Bhabha; Colonialism; Postcolonialism; The mirror stage; The master and slave dialectic; Identity formation; Zimbabwe; Rhodesia;

   Sammanfattning : Through a close reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, this essay shows the key links between the novel and Frantz Fanon’s major works. In addition to providing a deeper understanding of Dangarembga’s narrative as a whole, it takes into particular consideration the em­bedded criticism of colonialism in the text. LÄS MER

3. 2. An Englishman in Paris : A Study of Katherine Mansfield's Construction of Englishness in Je Ne Parle Pas Français

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Simon Adam Almqvist; [2016]
   Nyckelord :Englishness; Otherness; identity; Mansfield; empire;

   Sammanfattning : The author discusses the construction of Englishness in Katherine Mansfield’s short story Je Ne Parle Pas Français using previous accounts for Englishness, Otherness and the context of modernism –primarily featuring imperialism. The author concludes that there is an English identity portrayed in Je Ne Parle Pas Français, but that it is to a greater extent associated with imperialism than other identifiable cultural traits. LÄS MER

4. 3. National Identity in Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Jens Westin; [2015-02-16]
   Nyckelord :National identity; Nationality; Englishness; German-ness;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the essay is to argue that Patrick Hamilton´s The Slaves of Solitude could be seen as conscious criticism of the prevalent notions of British national identity in the 1940s. Based on the premise that national identity is a constructed phenomenon subject to negotiation, the conceptual uses of national identity in cultural senses are analysed. LÄS MER

5. 4. Happy Multicultural Land? Reading Zadie Smith’s "White Teeth" as a Critique of Multiculturalism as an Ideology

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Suzana Abrahamsson; [2013-04-16]
   Nyckelord :Postcolonial; Multiculturalism; Immigration; Identity; Ethnicity; “Race”; “Englishness”;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores the portrayal of multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth in order to show how Smith, rather than as an ideology, depicts it as a reality. Through its characters’ experience as immigrants of different generations and various ethnic backgrounds in London – one on the most “multicultural” cities in the world – the novel effectively questions the utopian idea of a “Happy Multicultural Land”, that is to say a trouble-free harmonious society. LÄS MER