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Literary Responses to Migration Myths in Post-World War Two Britain: The 'Windrush Generation' and East European Migration After 2004
Borit, Cornel ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Sommer, Roy (referee) ; Schülting, Sabine (referee)
Literary Responses to Migration Myths in Post-World War Two Britain: The 'Windrush Generation' and East European Migration after 2004 Abstract This thesis examines the negotiation of nativist migration myths in literary texts dealing with two major periods of migration into Britain after the Second World War: Windrush Generation migration between 1948 and the late 1960s and Eastern European migration after 2004. The thesis explores this topic because during the post-war period migration myths have significantly influenced the way many British people think about and relate to migration. The Brexit debate stimulated a substantial production of research on migration myths within social sciences; yet, in literary studies, this theme remains largely unexplored, despite a considerable number of migration literature texts that deal with it. This study explores a corpus of seventeen novels focusing on how they negotiate the function migration myths have in the emergence of nativism in Britain in relation to the two major moments of mass migration mentioned above. It first establishes a typology of migration myths that recurrently appear in nativist discourses of the periods in focus, then literary techniques and strategies are examined to capture, discuss, and question the effects of migration myths on interactions...
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Know yourself: write yourself! Queer subjects and the constructions of gender and sexual identity at the turn of the 19th century
Kolářová, Kateřina ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Mergenthal, Silvia (referee) ; Schülting, Sabine (referee)
1 Kateřina Kolářová Department of English and American Studies Anglo-American Literary Studies (English Resumé) Know Yourself: Write Yourself! Queer Subjects and the Constructions of Gender and Sexual Identity at the Turn of the 19th Century The thesis examines the normative structures that shape and pre-determine the construction of the gender and sexual identities at the turn of the nineteenth century in the British context. The focus of the study is the critical investigation of the binary - heteronormative - logic that governs the formation of these identities. The concern with gender intelligibility (and the "matrix of intelligibility") reflects the thesis's critical engagement with the technology that subjects the possibilities of identification, and in fact forms of subjectivity, to logic of specific governance. The second overarching concern of the thesis represents the attempt to encompass the diversity of the practices that the individual queer selves devise in the process of self-writing and making sense of themselves. Bringing together three diverse case studies - based upon the autobiographic texts of John Addington Symonds (1840-93), 'Michael Field' [Katherine Bradley (1849-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)], and Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) - the thesis explores the strategies of (gendered)...
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Know yourself: write yourself! Queer subjects and the constructions of gender and sexual identity at the turn of the 19th century
Kolářová, Kateřina ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Mergenthal, Silvia (referee) ; Schülting, Sabine (referee)
1 Kateřina Kolářová Department of English and American Studies Anglo-American Literary Studies (English Resumé) Know Yourself: Write Yourself! Queer Subjects and the Constructions of Gender and Sexual Identity at the Turn of the 19th Century The thesis examines the normative structures that shape and pre-determine the construction of the gender and sexual identities at the turn of the nineteenth century in the British context. The focus of the study is the critical investigation of the binary - heteronormative - logic that governs the formation of these identities. The concern with gender intelligibility (and the "matrix of intelligibility") reflects the thesis's critical engagement with the technology that subjects the possibilities of identification, and in fact forms of subjectivity, to logic of specific governance. The second overarching concern of the thesis represents the attempt to encompass the diversity of the practices that the individual queer selves devise in the process of self-writing and making sense of themselves. Bringing together three diverse case studies - based upon the autobiographic texts of John Addington Symonds (1840-93), 'Michael Field' [Katherine Bradley (1849-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)], and Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) - the thesis explores the strategies of (gendered)...
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