Sökning: "Abject"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 36 uppsatser innehållade ordet Abject.

  1. 1. BODY NORMATIVITY AND THE HYPER(IN)VISIBILITY OF ABJECT BODIES Living with Oppression in the Body Liberation Movement

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Författare :Kristin Binder; [2023-04-06]
    Nyckelord :Hyper in visibility; body normativity; oppression; intersectionality; transgender; disability; fatness; body liberation movement; resistance;

    Sammanfattning : In feminist studies that attempt to theorize embodiment, fat bodies have largely been ignored and excluded from research even though scientific knowledge on weight-based stigma and discrimination shows the importance of studying fatphobia as a system of oppression. Hence, this thesis provides an analysis on the lived experience of fat bodies in relation to body normativity and visibility politics. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Living Dead: Securing the (Eu)ropean Border : Frontex’s problem representation of migration and its institutional expansion

    Kandidat-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Ivo Franz Hagström; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Frontex; EU; border control; migration; postcolonialism; feminism; corporeal research;

    Sammanfattning : Since the 2015 migration crisis, Frontex has expanded and increased its information-gathering on migrants. This has led to controversial activities post-2015 despite the Agency’s self-perceived humanitarian identity. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Otherness and The Abject in Alice Munro's "Dimensions" and "Child's Play"

    Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Sara Frigerio; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Otherness; Abjection; Critical Discourse Analysis; Lacan; Kristeva;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is aimed at investigating the concepts of otherness and the abject/abjection in the various characters' discourses in the two short stories "Dimensions" and "Child's Play" in Alice Munro's collection Too Much Happiness from a psychoanalytic perspective in conjunction with a Critical Discourse Analysis. Both texts share features of otherness which manifest in various forms in the characters. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Representations of gender in Wuthering Heights : An analysis of Masculinity and femininity and women as the abject

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Saga Vindelhag; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Feminist Literatur analys; Feminist litteraturs analysis. Wuthering Heights; female authors;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to analyse gender representations in Wuthering Heights byusing French literary criticism. French literary critics thought that the language ofliterature was predominantly phallocentric as male authors, who helped shape thatlanguage, dominated it. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Äta djävlar, föda ord : Om återkommande groteska motiv i Mikael Niemis romaner Kyrkdjävulen, Populärmusik från Vittula, Fallvatten och Koka björn

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Marie Östling; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Mikael Niemi; Niemi; Populärmusik från Vittula; Fallvatten; Koka björn; Kyrkdjävulen; grotesk; grotesken; Bachtin; karneval; Tornedalen; tornedalslitteratur; norrlandslitteratur; minoritet; minoritetslitteratur; Sara Ahmed; Kristeva; Freud; abjekt; det abjekta; det kusliga; das unheimliche; äckel; meänkieli; knapsu; ei se kannatte;

    Sammanfattning : This essay deals with recurring grotesque motifs in Mikael Niemi’s novels Kyrkdjävulen, Populärmusik från Vittula (Popular Music from Vittula), Fallvatten and Koka björn (To Cook a Bear). It aims to widen the academic understanding of Niemi’s works by focusing on their aesthetics in relation to previous studies, which have mostly been concerned with placing Niemi in a context of Tornedalian minority literature. LÄS MER