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Within the field of film theory/film analysis, transculturing is the adaptation of a literary work into historically and culturally colonised contexts before being transformed into something new. For example, Akira Kurosawa 's Throne of Blood (1957) recontextualised Macbeth (written in the early 17th century) to the Japanese civil war of the ...
Madeleine Leininger (July 13, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was a nursing theorist, nursing professor and developer of the concept of transcultural nursing. First published in 1961, [1] her contributions to nursing theory involve the discussion of what it is to care.
In comparative cultural studies, selected tenets of comparative literature are merged with selected tenets of the field of cultural studies (including culture theories, (radical) constructivism, communication theories, and systems theories) with the objective to study culture and culture products (including but not restricted to literature, communication, media, art, etc.).
Mary Louise Pratt (born 1948) is a Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.She received her B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto in 1970, her M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1971, and her PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1975.
Transculturation is a term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1940 [1] to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures. Transculturation encompasses more than transition from one culture to another; it does not consist merely of acquiring another culture (acculturation) or of losing or uprooting a previous culture (deculturation).
Djelal Kadir (born 1946 in a shepherds' village on the island of Cyprus) is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where he teaches literatures of the Americas, modernism, postmodernism, world literature, and classical and modern theory, and where he has been the recipient of departmental teaching awards and the College ...
Transcultural may refer to: Transcultural psychiatry, also known as Cross-cultural psychiatry Transculturation , the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures
The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism (NATC) is an anthology of literary theory and criticism written in or translated to English that is published by the W. W. Norton & Company, one of several such compendiums. The first edition was published in 2001, with a second edition published in 2010 and a third in 2018.