Browsing by Subject "nationalism"
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Control and Cooptation in Mexican Politics
(2015-07-21)The authors identify a structure of widely-shared,interrelated goals, including political stability, economic growth, public welfare, and economic nationalism in contemporary Mexico. They relate those goals to the contemporary ... -
Globalism and Nationalism in Transnational Japanese Literature
(2015-09-22)During the Meiji Era, when Japan finally opened its borders after centuries of isolation, Japanese writers began to look outwards towards countries like the United States. At the same time, the West gained greater awareness ... -
Historia, Nación y Género: La representación de la historia en El ataúd de uso y No pertenezco a este siglo de Rosa María Britton
(2010-07-14)The novel, as a genre, has been nourished since its inception by history. In this vein, literary production in Latin America has not been an exception. From the time of the conquest to the beginnings of the republican era, ... -
"In dreams begins responsibility:" the role of Irish drama and the Abbey Theatre in the formation of post-colonial Irish identity
(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This research does not hope to give a finalized portrait of Ireland and its vast and diverse people. Instead, it hopes to add one more piece to the complicated mosaic that is an honest depiction of Irish personal and ... -
Margaret Fuller and the Rhetoric of Transcendental Nationalism
(2018-08-07)In this project, I track the development of Margaret Fuller’s rhetoric of transcendental nationalism within the context of the Roman revolution in 1848. My central purpose is to situate the legacy of Margaret Fuller in the ... -
The National and Plurinational Community: Necessary and Impossible
Traditional renditions of the idea of community have faced many new critiques in the face of our increasingly globalized world that has come to be organized into national communities, or nation-states. Following a ... -
Red House of Cards: Communist and Post-Communist Hungary as Political Religions
This analysis investigated the effects and implications of Hungary’s Communist legacy in the context of Hungarian socio-political landscapes during and after Communism. For this investigation, I relied upon Emile Durkheim’s ... -
Reimagining the nation: gender and nationalism in contemporary U.S. women's literature
(2009-05-15)This dissertation discusses contemporary U.S. women’s literature in the context of women’s struggles with nation and nationalism, examining how Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Naylor, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Nora Okja Keller ... -
Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics
(2016-11-28)The Scottish Jacobite tradition spans a tumultuous arc of history in which imagery of Highland dress — tartan and kilts — was used to portray Highland Scots as enemies of the British state and as heroes of the British ... -
Speaking England: nationalism(s) in early modern literature and culture
(2009-06-02)This dissertation explores conceptions of nationalism in early modern English literature and culture. Specifically, it examines multiple definitions of nation in dramatic works by William Shakespeare (Cymbeline), John ... -
The Art of Cookery: A Culinary Search for Cultural and National Identity in Great Britain, 1750-1850
(2014-04-23)This thesis discusses how published cookbooks reflect the complicated attitudes toward identity in Great Britain between 1750 and 1850. Focusing on cookbooks produced as commercial products, we are able to see how gender, ... -
The Voice of Ukraine: Mediating Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
(2019-04-18)Popular culture and content of TV broadcasts are strongly related to national identity, and local audiences expectations and tastes. Franchised TV talent shows, such as The Voice, are a significant part of the global TV ... -
“What Kinship Should Mean:” An Examination of the Ethnic and Nationalist Themes Within Beowulf Adaptations
(2017-04-24)The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine Beowulf adaptations for moments in which the adapter chooses to emphasize themes of a community drawn along ethnic or national lines. These authorial choices reveal how ...