Sökning: "homeland narratives"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden homeland narratives.
1. Tyskar i Kalmartrakten : En etnologisk studie av berättelser om historia, identitet och tillhörighet
Sammanfattning : The study deals with the life stories of six women and four men who were born in Germany and who now live in Sweden. Its purpose is to examine the histories of those who grew up in Germany during and after the Nazi era, their descriptions of their lives and experiences during childhood and adolescence, and how they regard their encounters with Swedish people, and the ways in which these encounters have affected their ways of describing the growth of their attachment to this country. LÄS MER
2. We belong to them : Narratives of belonging, homeland and nationhood in territorial and non territorial minority settings
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores what happens with ethnic and national identifications buiit on the same ethnocultural grounds, but under different socio-economic circumstances. Territorial and nonterritorial minorities have traditionally been considered non-comparable because it was assumed that groups organized on different grounds were distinctively separate phenomena. LÄS MER
3. From Frontline to Homefront : The Global Homeland in Contemporary U.S. War Fiction
Sammanfattning : Criticized for providing a simplified depiction of a post-9/11 United States, contemporary American “War on Terror” fiction has been largely neglected by critical discourse. In this dissertation, I argue that this fiction offers a vital engagement with how the War on Terror is waged, and how the fantasies and policies of the Global Homeland inform it. LÄS MER
4. Roots and Routes : Life stories of exiled Hungarian women in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyses the narrated life stories of Swedish Hungarian women, sharing the numerous values and experiences of Hungarian exiles. With the help of interview transcripts of five women from the first generation of Hungarians living in exile in southern Sweden, the study presents seldom-discussed angles of ascertained membership in the Hungarian nation, moving beyond traditional definitions of ethnic belonging, official census figures, and organizational categorizations. LÄS MER
5. Deterritorializing Conflict, Reterritorializing Boundaries : Diaspora and Conflict in the "Homeland"
Sammanfattning : Ethnicized armed conflicts are usually studied in their territorial dimension and analyzed through the patterns of involvement of different direct and indirect actors. Mostly the focus lies on the multiple ways these direct and indirect actors affect the processes and outcomes of such conflicts. LÄS MER
