Sökning: "Ashleigh Harris"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Ashleigh Harris.
1. Peter Ackroyd and the Borders of Englishness
Sammanfattning : Since the dissolution of the British Empire, anxiety about the loss of Englishness has circulated at various sites of public discourse in Britain: politics, the media, education, culture and literature. This study investigates the configuration and representation of Englishness in Peter Ackroyd’s writing as exemplary of this anxiety. LÄS MER
2. The Woke Franchise : Representing and Co-opting Resistance in Young Adult, Superhero, and Speculative Fiction
Sammanfattning : In the last decade, U.S. popular literary culture has been under increasing pressure to include more racially and other marginalized groups. LÄS MER
3. Intimacies : Ethics and Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Writing
Sammanfattning : This study investigates Virginia Woolf’s configurations of intimacy in her experimental inter-war novels Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves. It focuses on the ethical and political positioning enabled by Woolf’s aesthetic delineation of moments of interiority in which distinctions between self and other are suspended. LÄS MER
4. They Will Call Me the Black God : Imaging Christianity and the Bible in African Film
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the ways in which African filmmakers have historically addressed Christianity and the Bible on the continent. It begins with the premise that on the African continent, marked political films (Mazierska) are embedded in transnational dynamics involving movements of economic and symbolic capital, ideas, discourses and multiple publics. LÄS MER
5. “The Pathos of Past Time” : Nostalgia in Anglo-Arab Literature
Sammanfattning : This study explores the theme of nostalgia in contemporary Anglo-Arab literature from the 1990s to the present. Examining the implications of nostalgic tropes in Anglophone novels by Arab writers, the study makes the case that nostalgia is a key strategy used by these writers in their critical engagement with national historiographies and diasporic identities. LÄS MER