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16. Native Americans on Screen in 1939 and 2015 : A Postcolonial Study on the Portrayal of the Indigenous People of America in Films and How to Adapt it into the EFL Classroom
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Sammanfattning : The essay originates from the idea that the United States has a history of racism evidenced in the displacement and discrimination of Native Americans and that the representation of Native Americans in films reflects the changing views of the indigenous population in the surrounding society. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the Native American characters are portrayed in western films. LÄS MER
17. Sundown and Problems of Anti-Development in Petro-Modernity
Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeSammanfattning : This essay takes the novel Sundown (1934), written by Native American writer John Joseph Mathews in the context of the Osage oil boom, as a literary source in order to address the question of how oil projects expectations of a glorious future, but actually prevents development in a colonial context. In this paper modernity is seen as a process of creation and destruction, able to create new ways of living and destroying the previous order, able to cause problems, but also find solutions in its never-ending movement. LÄS MER
18. Transcultural Zone: Hybridity and Frontier Theory in Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest.
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeSammanfattning : The terms “Indian” and “Native American” do not only signify the indigenous peoples of America, but also includes stereotypical features and descriptions that are created by the Euro-Americans. The aim of this essay is to investigates what Indian identity is in Alice Callahan’s novel Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1981), and whether it promotes Indian stereotype or not. LÄS MER
19. Teaching History through The Last of the Mohicans
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : This essay explores how effective literature can be when used to teach history utilizing James Fenimore Cooper‟s The Last of the Mohicans, in order to teach students two specific historical events, as well as historical gender roles and norms. It does this by first looking at how literature has been employed by others to teach history with pedagogical goals in mind, followed by examining gender roles from the period the novel has as its setting, including the period the novel itself was written in. LÄS MER
20. History Unchained, the visual representation of Slavery in mainstream Hollywood Cinema
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierSammanfattning : Through Hollywood film history there have been several, mostly inconvenient topics, that have been kept away from public conscience through the film industry and governmental censorship. Amongst the genocide on Native Americans and homosexuality, the topic of american slavery has been underrepresented in mainstream Hollywood. LÄS MER
