1.Non-sequential Narrative The God of Small Things is not written in a sequential narrative style in which events unfold chronologically. Instead‚ the novel is a patchwork of flashbacks and lengthy sidetracks that weave together to tell the story of the Ipe family. The main events of the novel are traced back through the complex history of their causes‚ and memories are revealed as they relate to each other thematically and as they might appear in Rahel’s mind. Although the narrative voice is omniscient
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Postcolonial Nations‚ Islands‚ and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on fictions of insularity and intactness‚ which the island and island tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the ideal replica of the nation‚ and tourist practices promise
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Chapter 33: Postcolonialism and Beyond: Latin America‚ Africa‚ Asia‚ and the Middle East 1. Beyond the Postcolonial era i. Postcolonial societies experienced four stages in the relationship to the industrial European and Europeanized nations: the influence of Cold War rivalries on the new states‚ the economic effects of globalization‚ progress in the spread of the ideals of civil society and participatory government‚ resurgence of cultural and religious traditions. 2. Latin America since 1945
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Critical Social Policy http://csp.sagepub.com/ Capitalist globalization‚ corporate social responsibility and social policy Leslie Sklair and David Miller Critical Social Policy 2010 30: 472 DOI: 10.1177/0261018310376804 The online version of this article can be found at: http://csp.sagepub.com/content/30/4/472 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Critical Social Policy can be found at: Email Alerts: http://csp.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:
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all other besetting terrors nothing and no one can avoid trial by space. (Lefebvre in Burgin‚ 1996: 23) Space and its recontextualisation‚ its metaphoric representations and political remappings have always preoccupied the theorists of postcolonialism who tried to find new ways of reading its physical and metaphorical coordinates. A relativisation of both space and time was long ago operated so that territories were reshaped‚ boundaries retraced in an attempt to reconfigure reality according
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Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives Learning Objectives • To differentiate between gender and sex. • To explain the processes societies use to construct gender. • To learn about gender as a social institution that privileges men over women. • To become familiar with how social institutions‚ like medicine‚ contribute to the construction of gender. • To become familiar with intersexual and transgender experiences. • To understand how various structures and unjust
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Crawford Young (12/07/2004)‚ Revisiting Nationalism and Ethnicity in Africa‚ James S. Coleman African Studies Center‚ UCLA‚ (Academic article‚ http://escholarship.org/uc/item/28h0r4sr ). . Arif Dirlik (2002)‚ Rethinking Colonialism- Globalizatio‚ Postcolonialism‚ and the Nation‚ University of Oregon‚The International of Postcolonial Studies‚ RoutledgeTaylor and Francis Group‚ USA. (Academic Article) . Robert Stock (2004)‚ Africa South of the Sahara- A Geographical Interpretation (Second Edition)‚ The
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A similar gender dynamic‚ but this time within the white community‚ is shown in the final part of MacInnes’ Absolute Beginners. It is during part IV of the novel that the reader gains an insight into the Notting Hill riots and the anxiety surrounding topics such as race and immigration. In John McLeod’s Postcolonial London‚ he points out “MacInnes was already writing Absolute Beginners when the riots occurred‚ and events came to preoccupy his fiction and political activities.” It was towards the
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Implicating empire: globalization and resistance in the 21st century world order‚ Basic Books. Dascal‚ M. (1991) Cultural Relativism and Philosophy: North and Latin American Perspectives‚ Leiden: BRILL. Krishna‚ S. (2008) Globalization and postcolonialism: hegemony and resistance in the twenty-first century‚ Rowman & Littlefield. Lechner‚ F. (2004) The globalization reader‚ Wiley-Blackwell. Macionis‚ J. & Plummer‚ K.‚ 2012‚ Sociology: A Global Introduction. 5th Edition‚ Harlow: Pearson Education
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THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS By: Nathaniel Hawthorne Presentation by: Perry Nowak‚ and Maggie Smith The Hollow of Three Hills The Author’s Purpose is to show that no matter how much you try to run away from your problems‚ they always follow. Often multiplying along the way and leaving the ones you left behind with your burden as well. Authors Purpose. Historical Context The story was written in 1830‚ during that time witchcraft was still being persecuted in the North America‚ leading the story
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