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16. There is no there there anymore : The representation of collective and cultural trauma in Tommy Orange's There There
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : In this essay, the aim is to analyse the representation of collective and cultural trauma within the narrative of Tommy Orange's novel There There, as well as how the novel is redressing the experience of traumatisation, leading a way towards healing. To do this, the essay will focus on six of the novel's characters as well as the title, prologue and interlude. LÄS MER
17. Digesting the Pan-African Failure and the Role of African Psychology : Fanonian understanding of the Pan-African failure in establishing oneness and ending disunity/xenophobia in South Africa
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Sammanfattning : The study insists on understanding the miscarriage of “Pan-Africanism” and the role of “African” mentality with the help of Fanon’s psychoanalysis “Black Skin, White Mask,” exemplifying the immense colonial, slavery, and apartheid psychological damages experienced by Black individuals resulting Blacks/Africans self-hate and a desire to be “white” throughout the domain of Western culture, ideology, and language. To provide accurate analysis of the “Pan-African” failure to solve increasing blacks-hate-against-blacks/xenophobia in South Africa, concepts othering, mimicry, subaltern from the critical theory (postcolonialism) were applied. LÄS MER
18. Understanding Locke & Key: A Semiotic and Intertextual study of the Collective Unconscious and some of its Archetypes in Locke & Key
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierSammanfattning : This thesis’ focus will be on the comic book series Locke & Key in a semiotic and an intertextual reading through a psychoanalytical framework. The comic series is described as a “psychological horror” and a main theme running across the six volumes is good versus evil, and a lot of the narrative is helped by magical keys. LÄS MER
19. Three Times Trauma : A literary analysis of NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and its potential in the EFL classroom
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This thesis argues that events in the postcolonial novel We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo can be viewed as traumatic based on three different aspects; witnessed trauma, transgenerational trauma and cultural trauma. In addition, the thesis provides pedagogical implications and analysis of the novel’s usefulness in the Swedish EFL classroom. LÄS MER
20. Community beyond capitalism : self-actualising women imagining sustainable worlds in Budapest
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiSammanfattning : The present research seeks to understand interviews I have conducted with selected individuals in Budapest, Hungary. Through an analysis based on well-established feminist theory I analyse what the dimensions of quality and character of life can be like for those committed to an environmentally conscious lifestyle, and ultimately gives credence to the notion that there might be deeper psychological dimensions of self-development to such a lifestyle, rather than characterising them solely as antagonistic to an established capitalist economic order and plagued with anxiety due to climate change. LÄS MER
