Sökning: "binary oppositions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden binary oppositions.
1. Amasonen och jägaren : kön/genderkonstruktioner i norr
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with Late Iron Age/Early Medieval society and settlement in the coastal region of Västerbotten in northern Sweden. A contextual model using empirical archaeological data, place-names and ethno-historical sources is proposed for interpreting the ways people organized their lives in this landscape. LÄS MER
2. Fictons of (In)Betweenness
Sammanfattning : The study investigates how both fictional and theoretical texts engage in 'worrying the lines' between conceptions of home and exile. It analyzes the ways in which home and exile are problematized in novels by Louise Erdrich, J M Coetzee, and David Malouf, to bring them in contact and collision with similar reconceptualizations in the writings of Homi K. LÄS MER
3. Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
Sammanfattning : As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the linguistic rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation and nation-state building process in Turkey on the Kurdish-speaking community and the resistance engendered by the Kurdish intelligentsia in the European diaspora and in Turkey against the majority power delimiting the Kurdish linguistic rights. LÄS MER
4. Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd : Contemporary urban conditions with special reference to thai homosexuality
Sammanfattning : Major Asian cities like Hong Kong, Taipei and Bangkok have been constantly on the verge of rapid transformation, whether politically, socially, and particularly sexually, due to the process of capitalisation, modernisation, and globalisation over the last decade. In response to the impact of the transformation on the historical and traditional space of the city, the region's unique cultural and historical background has produced certain conditions of urban arrangements that may have put into disarray the traditional relationship between binary oppositions, whether tradition/modernity, old/new, global/local, heterosexual/homosexual, and the like. LÄS MER
5. In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers
Sammanfattning : The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). LÄS MER
