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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"African diasporic"”.
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TRANSNATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES: AURAL AESTHETICS AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC FICTION
… examines the influence of jazz and blues on African Diasporic fiction. While the influences of jazz and blues on African American cultural production have received critical attention for many decades, I contend that literary criticism neglects to recognize that jazz and blues are more than …
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“The Wilderness Within”: African Diasporic Religion in New Granada, 1690-1790
This dissertation examines African diasporic religions in New Granada in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In particular, it argues for the constitutive role of black mobility, space, and state institutions in their creation and circulation. Africans and their descendants—whether black …
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Dear Black Child: A Discussion on the Formation of Identity for African Diasporic Adolescents in the U.S.
… and music to depict the experiences of African diasporic youth in the United States. I will explore the white supremacist systems that contribute to the anxiety that comes with being a black child in America. In this project, I plan to discuss the ways in which African diasporic …
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Reconstructing the African and African diasporic woman: gender, race, class and the making of a constructive radical African feminist
<p>This dissertation analyzes the story of the African woman migration from a generational perspective. It discusses Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979) as the foundation of the African woman’s migration story and the evolvement in the female identity construction. It then uses Chimamanda Ngozi …
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Diasporic movement practices: African/Afro/Black embodied translineages and contemporary migrations in dance
… performers in the movement cultures of black/African diasporic dances. Furthermore, this dissertation contributes to critical discourse around identity from diasporic orientations, lived experiences of citizenship in the United States of America, and the intersections of labor, womanhood, …
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Voicing imperial subjects in British literature : a corpus analysis of literary dialect, 1768-1929
… project, to investigate how ventriloquizing African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian characters works with related forms of characterization to encode ideologies and relations of power. A related aim is to explore the emergence and evolution of these literary dialects over time and to compare …
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Renegotiating Resistance: African Diaspora Film and the Discourse of Third Cinema
… the discourse of Third Cinema with contemporary African diaspora film practices in a renegotiation of cinematic resistance. Proceeding from Gilles Deleuze's theory that the evolution of cinema from classical to modern materialized out of the historic rupture produced by World War II, my thesis …
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What the Tides May Bring: Political "Tigueraje" Disposession and Popular Dissent in Samaná, Dominican Republic
… of the community of the port city of Samaná. The African diasporic community of Samaná has actively constructed the local space throughout shifting political projects, while sustaining their collective voices against the waves of dispossession crashing on their shores. Using a combination of …
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"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
… black ecocritical study of the trope of water in African Diasporic Literature. Over the course of three chapters treating fiction, drama, and photography, in a study both multi-generic and interdisciplinary in scope, I illuminate the ways in which black literature recursively figures the problem …
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Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator
Tyler, The Creator (Tyler Gregory Okonma), is an African American rapper, music producer and entrepreneur who has been vigorously challenging tropes of black American masculinity. From chattel slavery to blackface minstrelsy, the African diasporic experience in the West is marked by a series of …
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Sonic Records: Listening to Early Afro-Atlantic Literature and Music, 1650-1850
… Records” explores representations of early African diasporic musical life in literature. Rooted in an effort to recover the early history of an influential arts movement, the project also examines literature and sound as interdependent cultural spheres. Increasingly, the disciplines of …
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The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
… the perspectives of cognitive aesthetics to African-American vernacular literary criticism. New methods of scansion, informed by literary and linguistic prosody, are developed to measure previously neglected or misclassified innovations in verse practice. Chapter 1 argues that the …
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Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance
… I will redefine and expand in these pages: African diasporic performance. With a multidisciplinary approach unified through transnational feminisms, I find that these works reveal the global through its impact on the local and—when set outside the United States—reveal the global through …
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Echoes of Africa: Cosmological Continuities in Contemporary Bahamian Junkanoo
… as a celebration imported from Africa. While its African origins and historical ritual foundations are well established, scholarly debate persists over whether contemporary Junkanoo is as secular cultural performance or whether it is still a spiritual rite. Expanding on this discussion, this …
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Empire Rules: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
… analyzes recent novels and poetry collections by African American, Native American, Latinx, and African diasporic writers to unmask the efforts of empire-building with the material effects on colonized, marginalized peoples. Reckoning with U.S. Empire within the literary space of contemporary …
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“THE HOODOO YOU KNEW”: AN AFROCENTRIC (RE)LOCATION OF CONJURE AND HOODOO COSMOLOGY
… study contributes to the ongoing discourse on African spirituality and its contemporary relevance to African peoples in the Diaspora by exploring Hoodoo through an Afrocentric lens. By adopting this perspective, the researcher aims to normalize Hoodoo as a living spiritual system and shed light …
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Ou Ayisyen? The making of a Haitian diasporic community in Chicago, 1933-2010
… from the more recognized and studied Haitian diasporic communities in New York and Miami and other African diasporic communities for three reasons. First, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a fur trader believed to have been from Haiti, founded the city around 1780 which highlights the initial …
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The Literary Reception of the Spirituality of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784): an Afrosensitive Reading
… background and eventual role as mother of African-American literature. Wheatley manipulates neoclassical Greek mythological images to subversively critique British-American racial hierarchicalism. Chapter 2 explains the meaning of an Afrosensitive hermeneutic, exploring the epistemological …
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An exploration of students from the African diaspora negotiating academic literacies
… of a group of university students with African diasporic connections, an under-researched group in UK HE. Building on the traditions of ideological and ethnographic approaches to academic literacies research, the thesis highlights power relations involved in a range of life experiences, …
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Theatres of migritude: towards a dramaturgy of African futures
… called migritude, developed largely in African diasporic literary circles and tracing its evolution from the Négritude movement. It will mobilize Shailja Patel's significant work to shape a new migritude that stands in continuation and in contestation with the older version of this …
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