The thesis paper provides an analysis of the means in which The Rawiya Collective, as the first collective of all female photojournalists, use their photography to create hybrid spaces “in-between”...Show moreThe thesis paper provides an analysis of the means in which The Rawiya Collective, as the first collective of all female photojournalists, use their photography to create hybrid spaces “in-between” physical and virtual locations. Through the analysis of various exhibitions curated by The Rawiya Collective, this thesis examines the extent to which photography has helped the collective give back a voice to the misrepresented and the oppressed. Since its assemblage in 2009, The Rawiya Collective’s photography has given back a voice to local culture and become the spoken word of media platforms today. As theoretical pillars to this thesis, Spivak’s thinking on the subordinated gender and more specifically the notion of constructed masculinities, is used to guide the first chapter of analysis on Countering Hegemonic Powers. The latter half of the analysis draws from Bhabha’s Location of Culture, providing a structural base for an analogy between his notion of the “in-between” spaces and The Rawiya Collective’s recreation of their own Third Space. Recent literature and research on gender identity is employed to provide a contemporary approach to Spivak’s notion of the gendered subaltern. Recent works from various scholars in media, communications and human geography is used to put into context the notion of a Third Space in today’s world, allowing for a discussion concerning virtual platforms as new spaces for cultural representation. It is through an analysis of what the subordinated gender and its allocated location for existence within The Rawiya Collective’s work, that an understanding of how Spivak and Bhabha’s theories can be applied to a contemporary context.Show less
The thesis studies the Angolan novel Os Papéis do Inglês (2000), by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho. The approach to the novel will consider that the hybridity of the postcolonial space is transformed into...Show moreThe thesis studies the Angolan novel Os Papéis do Inglês (2000), by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho. The approach to the novel will consider that the hybridity of the postcolonial space is transformed into structural element and method of constructing the narrative. This hybridism is present in different levels: in the construction of characters, in narrator’s voice, in the styles and genre of the writings. It is a result mainly of the overlap of elements which are normally seen as opposites, like Fiction and History, Literature and Science. By bringing such elements together, Ruy Duarte deconstructs central ideas and categories of the Western thought and draws attention to different forms of seeing and understanding the world. This work will study two conceptual deconstructions that can be found in the novel: first the ideas which distinguish literature and scientific writings, mainly regarding the realm of anthropology and ethnography, showing how those polarities are entangled in the postcolonial universe; and in second place the concept of a linear chronological time, focusing on the idea of spectral presences and hauntings which disrupt the borders between past and present. Lastly, I will consider how those deconstructions work in the context of the Angolan literary project, as to assess how the book engages in a literary debate regarding the ideas of nation and identity, so important in the context of postcolonial states. Therefore, by subverting some paradigms of European thought, Ruy Duarte seems to be proposing alternative ways in which the Western world can relate to non-western areas.Show less
Tom Lanoye's play Koningin Lear is an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Not only is it a radical modernization of the plot, it is also a translation from English to Dutch. In adapting and...Show moreTom Lanoye's play Koningin Lear is an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Not only is it a radical modernization of the plot, it is also a translation from English to Dutch. In adapting and translating King Lear, Lanoye uses for his play Koningin Lear elements from the original combined with new elements, resulting in hybridity. This hybridity is a dual hybridity since there is hybridity in both the play as a translation and as an adaptation.Show less
