Sep 2026· Journal of Language and Politics· 0 citations· 33 references
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This research examines the reception of J. H. Pierneef’s art in Afrikaner press articles between 1912 and 1938 to
shed light on the interpretation of his depictions of the South African landscape as social and political symbols of identity and
entitlement amid emergent Afrikaner nationalism. The research investigates the historical intersections between art and
nationalism and the nature of the early twentieth-century Afrikaner press in relation to Afrikaner nationalism, before employing
the Discourse Historical Approach to analyse the discursive construction of Pierneef’s landscapes as what Anthony Smith terms
“ethnoscapes”, i.e. poetic and “authentic” renditions of the landscape serving as a unifying symbol of ethnic identity and a
naturalisation of belonging and ownership. The research maps recurrent themes in the corpus of press articles and identifies
underlying topoi through which the poeticised landscape is rendered an expression of national identity and ownership.
This paper intends to provide some historical and philosophical insights to reflect upon the enduring impact of group experiences which, since the post-war period, have constituted an important peculiarity in the landscape of contemporary arts. We will reconstruct some of the reasons that have led artists to seek new p...
Diletta Caimmi· Phenomenology and Mind· 0 citations
This article contends that religion remained central to understanding ‘nationalism’ in Britain and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This proposition will be demonstrated in concrete form through reading, and cross-reading, three interpretations of the Revolt of 1857: John Kaye’s A History of the S...
R. Govind· Studies in People's History· 0 citations
This article examines representations of the East in American literary and journalistic discourse through Ernest Hemingway's China experience and selected scholarship on Asian American literature. It asks how representational change relates to the position of the speaking subject, genre, historical context, and cultura...
Susanbar Aghamaliyeva· Global Spectrum of Research...· 0 citations
The current research is aimed at investigating the crucial importance of women as a literary subject in the poetic works by Mahmoud Darwish, as in his poetry, women transcend simple personal feeling to signify the sacredness of homeland and national identity. On the basis of analysis of images in Darwish's poetry, the...
Mais Alhasani· مجلة مدارات الحكمة للعلوم ال...· 0 citations
This study examines the representation of female identity and its relationship to the concept of work in twentieth-century Greek popular song from a media and communication studies perspective. Although structural and legal advancements throughout the twentieth century gradually redefined women’s position in Greek soci...
Michael Tsangaris· Cultural Arts Research and D...· 0 citations
This article analyzes the denominational newspaper A Palavra as a symbolic interface of moral regulation and territoriality within the religious press of Belém do Pará in the early 20th century. The objective is to examine how the ecclesiastical press acted beyond the dissemination of institutional news, constituting a...
Heliane Monteiro da Costa, Andrew Wallace Palheta Varela· Revista de Estudos Interdisc...· 0 citations
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