Sökning: "blackness"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet blackness.

  1. 1. The Untimely-Image : On Contours of the New in Political Film-Thinking

    Författare :Jakob Nilsson; Astrid Söderbergh-Widding; Tom Conley; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film-thinking; film-philosophy; political film; the untimely; Deleuze; The Wire; Badiou; Jameson; the new; novelty; advanced capitalism; cognitive mapping; blackness; Greek tragedy; aesthetics; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study creates and develops a concept called the untimely-image including two sub-concepts called contours of the new and the untimely-site. The untimely-image concerns the clearing for and the expression of figures of “potential” in thought in the form of moving-images. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Black males and white masculinity in four Renaissance tragedies of blood

    Författare :Anna Fåhraeus; Gunilla Florby; Georgia E. Brown; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Renaissance; tragedies of blood; blackness; whiteness; masculinity; race; discourse; Faucoult; Koselleck; honour; ambition; sarcasm; drama;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to look at how the black North African man is repre-sented in relation to white men in four Renaissance tragedies of blood: Shake-speare?s Titus Andronicus, the multi-authored Lust?s Dominion, William Rowley?s All?s Lost by Lust, and Thomas Rawlins? The Rebellion. While previous studies have traced the most common racist tropes in 16th and 17th century lit-erature, such as the demonization trope and the animality trope (e. LÄS MER

  4. 3. What colour is the red house? Perceived colour of painted facades

    Författare :Karin Fridell Anter; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :Colour; architecture; perception; facade; exterior;

    Sammanfattning : Architects and others choosingfacade colours using colour samples face difficulties whichprevious research has not addressed. This work aims to aid suchcolour design by exploring three main questions: 1. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Black and Swedish: Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in

    Författare :Lena S. Sawyer; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social sciences; Black diaspora; Cultural politics; Belonging; Stockholm; Sweden; Racialization;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation looks at how racial discourses are used in contemporary Swedes' practices of belonging, their sense of their incorporation into Swedish society. I analyze verbal accounts and narratives of people "of African ancestry" living in Stockholm and those positioned in the normative and racially-unmarked category, "Swede. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The "New Negro" in the Old World : culture and performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen

    Författare :Lena Ahlin; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; Europe in African-American literature; Nella Larsen; Jessie Fauset; James Weldon Johnson; minstrelsy; whiteness; performance; cultural authenticity; New Negro; Harlem Renaissance; African Americans in Europe;

    Sammanfattning : I denna avhandling studeras europaskildringarna i James Weldon Johnsons The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fausets There Is Confusion (1924) och Nella Larsens Quicksand (1928) och hur dessa speglar afrikansk-amerikanernas roll i den västerländska civilisationen. I 1800-talets afrikansk-amerikanska litteratur figurerar Europa ofta som symbol för frihet och kultur. LÄS MER