Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Subject "Race"
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Constructing Englishness: War, race, and the empire in Enid Blyton's fiction
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-16)This thesis studies the British children’s author Enid Blyton’s (1897-1968) writing from 1926 to twenty-first century modified editions of her books and series. I argue that Blyton’s twentieth-century fiction constructs a ... -
"Extraordinary Debilities": Disability in the works of Samuel Beckett, 1928-45
(2018-02-16)This thesis considers the importance of Samuel Beckett’s representations of disability in the first half of the twentieth-century. It suggests that the innovations of form that Beckett brings to modernism are inextricably ... -
In their own words. Factors impacting on the higher education (HE) experiences of black and minority ethnic (BME) students in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2017-09-30)This study examines the experiences of black and minority ethnic (BME) groups in Irish higher education (HE). While the HE and wider experiences of this group are the focus of research and policy internationally, this study ... -
Performing scalar interculturalism: Race and identity in contemporary Irish performance
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-07)This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of race and identity in contemporary Irish performance. Using the Irish case study and looking at theatre, sport and dance, it develops an intersectional framework of ...