Blar i forfatter "Borit, Cornel"
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The identity conflict of the Csango minority from Romania
Borit, Cornel (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2006)<p>In the eastern province of Romania, also called Moldavia, lives a minority group of nearly a quarter of a million people named Csangoes, designated by the religious allegiance to the Roman-Catholic Church, and the use of Hungarian language as mother tongue by approximatively 60 000 people. The common literature of the last period has launched the idea that the Csangoes represent a mysterious ... -
The New Barbarians Are Coming? A Postcolonial Reading of the Hybrid Identity Construction of London Immigrants in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Rose Tremain’s The Road Home (2007)
Borit, Cornel (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-11-01)This thesis performs a comparative investigation of the identity reconfiguration of the immigrants to London coming from the former British colonies in the 1950s, and those coming from the Eastern European states after the European Union integration respectively. It uses Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Rose Tremain’s The Road Home (2007), novels that are contextually connected to these ... -
Representations of Colonialism in Three Popular, Modern Board Games: Puerto Rico, Struggle of Empires, and Archipelago
Borit, Cornel; Borit, Melania; Olsen, Petter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-10)With all its intricate processes, colonialism, both as an ideology and a historical period, has been a rich source of inspiration for contemporary popular culture, whether in the form of movies, novels, digital games, or analogue games. This article presents a critical analysis of colonial representations in three examples of the latter: <i>Puerto Rico</i> (2002), <i>Struggle of Empires</i> (2004), ...