Research master thesis | Literary Studies (research) (MA)
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In this thesis I want to create an intersectional, queer intervention in animal studies taking previous animal, critical race studies and queer theory intersections – ecofeminism, material feminism...Show moreIn this thesis I want to create an intersectional, queer intervention in animal studies taking previous animal, critical race studies and queer theory intersections – ecofeminism, material feminism and queer ecology – into account within the context of literary studies and cultural analysis. Therefore, I want to ask: In what way do intersectional alliances – both theoretical and artistic – formed from an animal and queer studies perspective, affirmatively (re)imagine (material) queer intimacies human-nonhuman relations to contribute to an nonanthropocentric framework? To answer this question, I want to employ the term/concept queer as both a critical and productive tool that enables transgression of disciplines and even the academy itself, into the material reality of non-human animals to examine human-animal relations and intimacies.Show less
A brief analysis of two books written by authors who were children during the independence war and nakba of 1948. The two are compared in the way that they present nationalism to children.
In the last few decades, there has been an emergence of feminist texts that relate themselves to Homer’s renowned myths, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Inspired by these feminist narratives that...Show moreIn the last few decades, there has been an emergence of feminist texts that relate themselves to Homer’s renowned myths, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Inspired by these feminist narratives that revolve around the centring of the female characters within a myth, this thesis poses an analysis of the emergence and importance of mythmaking by women writers. In my research, I have focused on Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls Madeline Miller’s Circe, two of the most recent examples of feminist mythmaking. Both Barker and Miller are able to give a voice to women that have often been silenced in ‘classic’ myths: Briseis and Circe. The texts foreground the complexity of their female protagonists by relating their stories to the patriarchal world surrounding them. Building onto this, both texts reflect on mythmaking and storytelling on an overarching level, thereby offering us a subtle critique on the way myths have been written and read in the past. Strikingly, scholars have recently studied these feminist mythmakings as mere ‘rewritings’ or ‘fictionalisations’ of Homer’s ‘classics’. The effect is a limiting analysis in which the true intertextuality of the stories gets lost in a restricting methodology. In this thesis, I propose a new way to analyze these mythmakings in an appropriate and respectful way, by using the concept of ‘mosaic mythmaking’.Show less
In deze scriptie staat de kwestie centraal of de bewerker(s) van een roman voor het theater erin slagen om de prangende (politiek-maatschappelijke) kwesties, die in romans gethematiseerd worden,...Show moreIn deze scriptie staat de kwestie centraal of de bewerker(s) van een roman voor het theater erin slagen om de prangende (politiek-maatschappelijke) kwesties, die in romans gethematiseerd worden, overtuigend voor het voetlicht te brengen in een bewerking voor toneel? Blijft de complexiteit van de roman ook bewaard in die bewerking, of wordt de roman gereduceerd tot zijn actuele thema? Wat is, kortom,het politieke effect van de toneeladaptatie van romans in het Nederlands theater? Voor het beantwoorden van deze vraag wordt de roman Het Hout van Jeroen Brouwers vergeleken met de gelijknamige bewerking en theateropvoering ervan in de regie van Michiel van Erp geproduceerd door International Theatre Amsterdam/ Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Aan de hand van deze casestudy wordt blootgelegd welke ingrepen in de bewerking van Het hout gedaan zijn en wat de consequenties daarvan zijn voor de betekenis van het, op het toneel gebrachte, kunstwerk, vergeleken met de brontekst. De hypothese van deze scriptie is dat de politieke betekenis van de roman Het Hout in de toneeladaptatie gereduceerd is. De enscenering blijkt ongevoelig voor ambiguïteit en werkt eerder taboebehoudend dan taboedoorbrekend.Show less
