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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Afterlives"”.
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
… by nostalgic notions. Tracing the audiovisual afterlives of these artists through contemporary television soundtracks, which have preserved the legacy of twentieth century musicians, we can glean moments where a soundtrack of liberal nostalgia begins to form. Drawing on sound studies, gender …
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Afterlives: Translations of German Weltliteratur Into Yiddish
My dissertation examines the Yiddish translation and reception of canonical German texts to trace the changes in the cultural value placed on German language and literature in Yiddish discourse at significant points of historical transition between 1876 and 1966. I compare German literary texts …
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Spectral futurity: The performative afterlives of mourning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war
[W]hile the image of the SADF as a heinous perpetrator of Apartheid violence is undeniable, it is being complicated by the emergence of a range of recent cultural productions. Using Jacqui Thompson’s collection of SADF memoirs, An Unpopular War: From Afkak to Bosbefok (2006), and the revival of …
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Necropolis: burial & afterlives in Cape Town
Necropolis is a proposal for a public burial and memorial park in Cape Town for obliterated (cremated, aquamated etc) and bone remains. It explores an architecture for the final farewell to the body and spirit of the deceased, and for personal and collective remembrance. In contrast to other South …
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AFTERLIVES: (Gender)queer Photographic Self-Representation and Reenactment
This thesis consists of a suite of photographic self-portraits and a critical introduction to the history of queer photographic self-representation through performative reenactment. The critical introduction theorizes that queer self-representation has a vested interest in history and its …
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Permanence/Transience: The Afterlives of Ann Hamilton's Installations
… (1994), and human carriage (2009)—and their afterlives as seen in a table; a grouping of a hat, chair, and sheet; balled threads of text referred to as book/balls; and book fragments, respectively. I concluded that when re-exhibited, the objects are cut off from the viewer and are presented …
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Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and its Queer Afterlives
This dissertation examines the afterlives of violence in queer Asian/American and diasporic visual and performance culture. As a broad response to the conjuncture of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the renewed attention to anti-Asian violence, this project rethinks violence beyond its familiar terms …
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The Lives and Afterlives of the Mauthausen Subcamp Communities
Concentration camp scholarship has been impacted by an ‘island syndrome’: most research limits itself to one site, focuses either on its life or afterlife, and overlooks interactions among functionaries, inmates, and local people. Central themes connected to the camps thus remain shrouded in …
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Antimalarial Afterlives: Medicine for a Planetary Age from Madagascar
… to pharmaceuticals with attention to drugs’ “afterlives” as therapeutic entities for novel diseases. I further suggest the frame of drugs’ afterlives can make clear how drug-making is also place-making, as artemisia stems become village building materials and important substances like firewood …
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Wounds in time: the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
My dissertation, “Wounds in Time: the Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution,” departs from the traditional historicist approach to the Cultural Revolution, contributing instead an investigation of the Cultural Revolution through its aesthetic afterlives. This study crosses disciplines and …
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Spirit and economy: Pentecostalism and the afterlives of Max Weber
This thesis investigates the historical intersections between Pentecostalism and Weberian sociology, beginning with the simultaneous publication of Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the emergence of Pentecostal spirituality at the Azusa Street Revival, and culminating in an analysis of recent claims …
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A map of this place: Memory and the afterlives of removal
This dissertation centers the category of indigeneity to reframe questions of place, space, movement, and belonging articulated in transnational and transcultural memory studies. To that end, I develop a connective study of how memories of dispossession and removal travel across time, generations, …
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The Afterlives of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-c. 1700
… This thesis probes the nature of the diverse afterlives of the dissolution between 1536 and c. 1700. On one hand, it seeks to account for the persistence of the narratives of monastic corruption and the expediency of suppression propagated by the Henrician regime in the 1530s, which have …
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The Many Afterlives of the Second World War in the Indian Northeast
… and enduring strands of the contemporary afterlives of the war in the region: a preoccupation with wartime objects, or ‘things’ of war, and its use as an evidentiary antidote to the region’s absence in the broader narratives of the Second World War (chapter 1); the representations of the …
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Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States
Long extinct animals have a powerful hold on the American popular imagination. Dinosaurs, in particular, have been iconic and pervasive representatives of a planetary past for much of the twentieth century. While natural history museums are the most obvious spaces in which to encounter extinct …
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Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Pedagogies in Black Education
… as a step to-ward repair. Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Ped-agogies in Black Education examines how Black students and their teachers in an urban charter school on the South Side of Chicago navigate the neoliberal considerations and challenges of a …
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Prison and its Afterlives: Haunting and the Emotional Geographies of Formerly Incarcerated People’s Reintegration Experiences in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Kingston is undeniably a prison town. As the venue for Canada’s first prison and current home to nearly twenty percent of the nation’s federally incarcerated people in seven penitentiaries around the city, prisons undoubtedly influence the economic, political, and social life of Kingston. While …
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‘Poeta che mi guidi’: Dantean afterlives in the poetry of Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni and Mario Luzi
This study explores the enduring influence of Dante Alighieri’s Commedia on Italian literature and culture by focusing on episodes of readerly engagement and literary appropriation in the practices of four middle-generation poets (Moliterni 2021), all born between 1912 and 1914: Giorgio Caproni, …
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