THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARXISM TO THE STUDY OF LITERARY CRITICISM It is evident that Marxism has made great contribution in the study and criticism of Literature‚ there is need to explain a little bit on Marxism before we discuss its contribution. Marxism is a social and political theory based on the works of Karl Marx and his followers‚ associated with the socialist and communist movements‚ these works mainly are Manifesto of the Communist Party and the German Ideology. It should be understood
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AN OVERVIEW OF PHILIPPINE CULTURE Introduction Before the coming of the Spaniards the Filipinos had a civilization of their own. The various aspects of this civilization doubtless came partly from the Malays who settled in the country and partly from a response to the new environment. The customs and traditions‚ the government and mode of living have‚ to a great extent‚ come down to the present and may be found in remote rural areas which have so far succeeded in resisting the impact
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Post-colonialism "Post-colonialism" designates a set of theoretical approaches which focus on the direct effects and aftermaths of colonization. It also represents an attempt at transcending the historical definition of its primary object of study toward an extension of the historic and political notion of "colonizing" to other forms of human exploitation‚ normalization‚ repression and dependency. Post-colonialism forms a composite but powerful intellectual and critical movement which renews the
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Commonwealth of Australia Copyright Act 1968 Notice for paragraph 1 35ZXA (a) of the Copyright Act 1968 Warning This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of the UniversityofWestern Sydney under Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act). The material in this communication may be subj ect to copyright under the Act. Any further reproducti on or communication of thi s material by you may be the subj ect of copyright protecti on under the Act. Do not remove
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Slavery and its Impact in Latin America Vs the United States Slavery originally started in Latin America and the West Indies by the French‚ Spanish‚ and Portuguese after the conquest‚ to replace the depopulated labor of the Indigenous people. Shortly after‚ slavery became a profitable enterprise for the capitalistic driven United States. Some of the principal laws and systems of slavery were the same in both regions‚ but others were later changed. It brought about many changes‚ with respect
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Identify and assess the main strengths and weaknesses of Simone de Beauvoir’s book‚ The Second Sex. Christopher Jacobi To some extent The Second Sex (1949) successfully conceptualises womanhood as a social structure and offers a „strikingly original theory of female subjectivity under patriarchy‟ (Okely‚ 1986: 20). Beauvoir‟s1 statement that „one is not born a woman‚ but becomes one‟ (1949: 295) draws attention at the difference between biological sex and gender; this distinction can be used
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U N I V E R S I T Y O F L A G O S D E P A R T M E N T O F E N G L I S H M . A . L I T E R A T U R E C O U R S E W O R K: M O D E R N N I G E R I A N D R A M A : S O C I O - C U L T U R A L A N D W E S T E R N I N F L U E N C E S N A M E : A G B A M U A G H O G H O M A T R I C U L A T I ON N U M B E R : 1 0 9 0 1 3 0 4 6 C O U R S E : M O D E R N N I G E R I A N D R A M A E N G 8 5 6 QUESTION: HOW HAS MODERN NIGERIAN DRAMA BEEN INFLUENCED
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CHAPTER ONE: Before History IDENTITIES: Complex Society Paleolithic Venus Figurines Metallurgy Social Class/Social Structure Lucy Neolithic Lascaux Cave Paintings Neolithic Revolution Agricultural Revolution MAP: Olduvai Gorge Neander Valley Catal Huyluk Lascaux CHAPTER TWO: Early Societies in SW Asia and Indo-European Migrations IDENTITIES: The Epic of Gilgamesh Sargon of Akkad Hammurabi’s Codes/Laws Stele Assyrians Economic
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CHAPTER: 3 INTOLERANCE TOWARDS VEIL : ROOTS IN RACISM AND FRENCH COLONIALISM. INTRODUCTION “It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the Negro who creates negritude. To the colonialist offensive against the veil‚ the colonized opposes the cult of the veil”1—Frantz Fanon. " Our attitudes are not racist; they are based in fact. These people are animals‚ they are not Christians‚ your blacks are Christian. The Arabs don ’t live in real houses but in huts‚ in holes in the ground;
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Caribbean Crucible: History‚ Culture‚ and Globalization Kevin A. Yelvington In the present age of globalization‚ it is often forgotten that these world-encompassing processes were initiated with European expansion into the Caribbean beginning more than five hundred years ago. We now see the proliferation of overseas factories enabling owners‚ producers‚ and consumers of products to be in widely distant locales. It seems to us that in the search for profits‚ commercial activity has recently spread
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