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Siamardi, Tahereh; Deedari, Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The focus of the present study is to demonstrate traces of Homi k. Bhabha's notion of identity in V. S. Naipaul's "A House for Mr. Biswas" (1961). As a prominent postcolonial figure, Bhabha has contemplated over the formation of identity in the colonizing circumstances. He discusses on what happens to the colonizer and the colonized…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Policy, Novels, Sociocultural Patterns
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Biswas, Banani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper involves a study on Aphra Ben's "Oroonoko" (1688) which is considered by many as the first black narrative of English literature, an abolitionist text, while observed by some others as extremely colonialist. The objective of this study is to examine why the novella accommodates such contradictory readings. It assumes that it…
Descriptors: Blacks, English Literature, Novels, Sociocultural Patterns
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Chen, Joanna – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Within the frameworks of Sociocultural theory, particularly Vygotskian sociocultural theory and ZPD, Lave and Wenger's CoP, and contemporary sociocultural theory, this paper seeks to examine the unfavourable scholarly portrayal of learners and their identities based on learners' behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs about the social element of…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction