Search Results - Colonization

The poetics of colonization from city to text in archaic Greece / by Dougherty, Carol

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Colonizing nature the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / by Tobin, Beth Fowkes

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Colonizing the realm of words the transformation of Tamil literature in nineteenth-century South India / by Ebeling, Sascha

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Brazil and the dialectic of colonization / by Bosi, Alfredo

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Semi-detached empire suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / by Kuchta, Todd, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Semi-detached empire -- Reverse colonization in The War of the worlds -- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Anglo-Indian -- Outposts of progress: Joseph Conrad's suburban speculation -- Beyond the abyss: degeneracy and death in the Edwardian suburb -- Ressentiment and late-imperial fiction -- George Orwell and the road to West Bletchley -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin."…”
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Writing colonisation : violence, landscape and the act of naming in modern Italian and Australian literature / by Sestigiani, Sabina, 1970-

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The professional ideal in the Victorian novel the works of Disraeli, Trollope, Gaskell, and Eliot / by Colón, Susan E.

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Legendary Hawai'i and the politics of place tradition, translation, and tourism / by Bacchilega, Cristina, 1955-

“…Hawaii Colonization.…”
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Orientalists, propagandists, and ilustrados Filipino scholarship and the end of Spanish colonialism / by Thomas, Megan C. (Megan Christine), 1970-

“…Philippines Colonization.…”
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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema : Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age / by García Blizzard, Mónica

Table of Contents: “…Idealized pre-Colombian womanhood -- Taming the Tehuana -- Revolutionary politics, colonized aesthetics -- Reframing Mestizaje: white, Myans, Indigenous spirituality, and Cenote suicides -- María Isabel: a white Indita for modern Mexico -- Indios, desire, and the white Mexican woman.…”
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Approaching recent world history through film : context, analysis, and research / by Bailey, Scott, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: World history through film -- Historical biographical films and world history -- Filmic approaches to global conflict and war: Japanese wartime experiences -- Comparative approaches to colonization and decolonization on the screen -- Film and global migration, immigration, and mobility -- Mass violence, oppression, and global conflict on film -- Problems of political economy on film -- World history films as a basis for research and writing.…”
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Triangulations narrative strategies for navigating latino identity / by Vázquez, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Notes on triangulation: navigating Latina/o identity -- Zigzagging through history: Ernesto Galarza, Jesús Colón, and the development of insurgent consciousness -- Crazy for the nation: Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, and the urban outlaw -- Remaking the insurgent vision: John Rechy, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the limits of nationalist morality -- I can't be me without my people: triangulating historical trauma in the work of Julia Alvarez -- New millennial triangulations.…”
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The Columbia guide to American Indian literatures of the United States since 1945

Table of Contents: “…Elliott -- Cannons and canonization: American Indian poetries through autonomy, colonization, nationalism, and decolonization / Kimberly M. …”
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New world, known world shaping knowledge in early Anglo-American writing / by Read, David, 1956-

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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / by Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.…”
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Mongrel nation diasporic culture and the making of postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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Mongrel Nation : Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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From fidelity to history film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century / by Scholz, Anne-Marie

Table of Contents: “…Adaptations in Cold War West Germany: 1950-1963 -- "Eine revolution des films": The third man (1949), the Cold War, and alternatives to nationalism and "coca-colonization" in Europe -- The bridge on the River Kwai (1957) revisited: combat cinema, American culture and the German past -- "Josef K von 1963": Orson Welles' "Americanized" version of the the trial and the changing functions of the "Kafkaesque" in Cold War West Germany -- Postfeminist relations between "classic" texts and Hollywood film adaptations in the United States in the 1990s: Introduction. …”
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Literature in exile of East and Central Europe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Agnieszka Gutthy -- Twentieth century Russian literature in exile / Mabel Greta Velis Blinova -- Language and memory in Nabokov's "Revolution" / Kristin Reed -- Andrei Sinyavsky, wisdom and exile / Carolyn Kraus -- Catcher in the rye: Georgy Efron's Tashkent exile / Olga Zaslavsky -- Polish literature in the Great Emigration of 1830: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Zygmunt Krasiński / Fernando Presa González -- Living on the margins and loving it: Gombrowicz and exile / Klara Lutsky -- Still life: the anti-nostalgia of Adam Zagajewski / Karen Bishop -- Kundera's reception in the West / Klara Lutsky -- Vor(text)ual time: the agency of being-in-time and Milan Kundera's The unbearable lightness of being / Susanlynne Beckwith -- Open wounds, the phenomenology of exile and the management of pain: Dubravka Ugrešić's The ministry of pain / Vedrana Velickovic -- Grief can only be written in one's mother tongue: exile and identity in the work of David Albahari / Tatjana Aleksić -- Klaus Mann: The teufelskind doubly exiled / Timothy Nixon -- Inescapable colonization: Norman Manea's eternal exile / Mihai Mîndra.…”
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Francophonie and the Orient : French-Asian Transcultural Crossings (1840-1940) / by Kang, Mathilde, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The affirmation of the French presence in Asia; 'Paris of the East'; Guangzhouwan: the colonies' colony; Modes of colonization in Asia; III. French offshoots: the case of China; Genesis of the first Francophones in Asia; Francophone manifestations; The gestations of a literature of cohabitation; IV. …”
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