Sökning: "African literature"

Visar resultat 31 - 35 av 77 avhandlingar innehållade orden African literature.

1. 31. From Colonial Disruption to Diasporic Entanglements : Narrations of Igbo Identities in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chris Abani

   Författare :Snezana Vuletic; Stefan Helgesson; Ansgar Nünning; Susan Arndt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : With a general interest in Igbo identities, this study critically explores a set of questions which relate to the production, evolution and potential of ‘Igboness’ in literary fiction. The study approaches these questions while relying on two premises. LÄS MER

3. 32. A língua de Camões com Iemanjá : Forma e funções da linguagem do candomblé

   Författare :Laura Alvarez López; Lars Fant; Klaus Zimmermann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Brazilian Portuguese; Afro-Bahian culture and speech varieties; ethnography of communication; ethnolinguistic vitality; linguistic attitudes and ideologies; relationship to creolization; language and identity; lexicology; Romance languages; Romanska språk;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis addresses the relationship between the structure and social functions of language through the study of an Afro-Brazilian Portuguese speech community. The adopted methodological, analytical, and theoretical standpoints have their origin in linguistic anthropology, social psychology of language and discourse analysis. LÄS MER

4. 33. Visual Poetic Memory : Ekphrasis and Image-Text in Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Wopko Jensma

   Författare :Maria Ioana Zirra; Stefan Helgesson; Bo Ekelund; Stef Craps; Jahan Ramazani; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visual Memory; Ekphrasis; Image-text; 20th Century Anglophone Poetry; Seamus Heaney; Derek Walcott; Wopko Jensma; The Troubles in Northern Ireland; the Caribbean; Apartheid; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation traces ekphrastic and image-textual references to European, African and Caribbean visual memory in the work of the three Anglophone poets Seamus Heaney (Northern Ireland), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) and Wopko Jensma (South Africa). LÄS MER

5. 34. Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place

   Författare :Alice Sundman; Bo G. Ekelund; Tanja Staehler; Angelyn L. Mitchell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Toni Morrison; place; placial relations; writing; manuscripts; archive; Toni Morrison Papers; text and avant-texte; genetic criticism; phenomenology; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the writing of place in Toni Morrison’s fiction, focusing primarily on the novels Beloved (1987), Paradise (1998), and A Mercy (2008). It analyses particular instances of written places in these works in a twofold way, namely, how place is foregrounded through literary means in the text and how place has emerged in a process of shaping. LÄS MER

7. 35. Auditing the African State. International Standards and Local Adjustments

   Författare :Maria Gustavson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; audit; public administration; development; Africa; organizations; profession;

   Sammanfattning : Norms for how to create accountability within the public sector have long historic roots in organizing the democratic society, where auditors are particular public servants controlling the rest of the public sector performance. Significant divergent understandings of the establishment and development of such accountability mechanisms within states in Sub-Saharan African countries however exists within two different bodies of literature. LÄS MER