Sökning: "the underground railroad"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden the underground railroad.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Nyckelord :antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Historieskrivning i den samtida historiska romanen : En läsning av Sarah Waters The night watch och Colson Whiteheads The underground railroad

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier

    Författare :Mikaela Ehn Svensson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :historiography; the historical novel; contempary literature; Sarah Waters; The Night Watch; Colson Whitehead; The Underground Railroad; Michail Bachtin; chronotope; time and space; historiografi; den historiska romanen; samtida litteratur; Sarah Waters; The night watch; Colson Whitehead; The underground railroad; Michail Bachtin; kronotop; tid och rum;

    Sammanfattning : It has always been important to study history. But what we can’t forget is that there’s more than one way of doing so. One of those is literature. In this thesis I will therefore study two contemporary historical novels: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Modellförsök avseende bergspänningars betydelse för spännvidd av valv

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Författare :Minna Larsson; Klara Skoog; [2020]
    Nyckelord :arch; arching; span of arch; rock stress; rock reinforcement; rock bolt; valv; valvbildning; spännvidd; bergspänning; bergförstärkning; bergbult;

    Sammanfattning : Tunnels and anthropogenic underground cavities are a very natural part of our everyday modern life. Especially in larger cities such as Stockholm where the infrastructure reaches far above ground level as well as deep below the surface. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Simulation of dynamic station dwell time delays on high frequency rail transport systems. : Representing dynamic station delays with opentrack.

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Trafik och logistik

    Författare :Christoph Krause; [2014]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : The railway simulation software solutions available today are increasingly used for other purposes than they initially have been created for. These software products aimed at first to recreate the operations on a normal railroad network, with often a schedule allowing for minor delays. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Plattformsdörrar som säkerhetshöjande åtgärd - en vägledning till kostnads-nyttoanalys med fokus på effektkvantifiering

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Brandteknik; Lunds universitet/Riskhantering (CI); Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Författare :Robin Haglund; Erik Isaksson; [2009]
    Nyckelord :plattformsdörrar; PSD; tunnelbana; förebyggande åtgärder; kostnads-nyttoanalys; självmord; luftkvalitet; brand; olyckor; Technology and Engineering;

    Sammanfattning : This work has three main goals and aims first to create a knowledge bank with focus of the area surrounding Platform Screen Doors. The knowledge bank was based upon a literature review. The work also aims to identify which effects that comes along with the platform screen doors. LÄS MER