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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American violence"”.
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Storytelling, Myth, and the Dreams Therein: A Critical Analysis of the Intertextuality of Christianity, Capitalism, and Americanism
… dissertation, while dealing with many aspects of Americanism, argues that the hegemonic history of Christianity in America and the centrality of capitalism in national ethos have contributed to an impulse in the national psyche towards illusion. I argue that due to this impulse and privileging of …
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Haunted homes and restless ghosts : (in)visible structures of power and violence in American haunted house films
This thesis explores depictions of suffering in American haunted house horror films and considers how hauntings can draw attention to systems of power and violence in our real world. Through textual analysis of The Amityville Horror (1979), Poltergeist (1982), THIR13EN Ghosts (2001), and The …
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Shared Words, Divided Worlds: Moral Language and the Struggle for Meaning at the Claremont Colleges During the Vietnam War, 1965-1969
… of responsibility and conscience to critique American violence and demand global moral obligation, while prowar students reimagined those same ideals as imperatives of loyalty, discipline, and national unity. The administration, in turn, translated moral contestation into procedural …
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The Discursive Commons: The Establishment, "Outside Agitators," And "Communist Subversives" In Gadsden's Depression-Era Political Environment
… were used by the establishment to incite violence against United Rubber Workers union organizers who came to Gadsden to enlist members in the 1930s and early 1940s. It is my contention that these discursive formations had affective power over the people who committed acts of violence …
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The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings From the Home to the Colonial Landscape
… landscape that is rooted in a history of American violence often predicated upon notions of vulnerable white women. This project therefore comments on the shift from a genre that is invested in the home as site of gendered repression to a genre that comments on the generational, collective …
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The Beautiful Struggle: an Analysis of Hip Hop Icons, Archetypes, and Aesthetics
… and events within the context of African American and American folk and popular culture traditions and link them to developments within hip hop culture, discourse, and aesthetics. Because hip-hop emerged as an American phenomenon, I examine pre-hip hop American popular culture in the …
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This Is Our Land: Osage Territoriality and Borderland Violence, 1763-1803
… social and political factors that explain Osage violence by identifying the geographic locations of territorial expressions of violence employed by the Osage against their neighbors. Using specific primary source documentation of Osage aggressions from 1763-1803, this study lists and maps their …
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Walking the line of fire: violence, society, and the war for the Kentucky and Trans-Appalachian Frontier, 1774-1795
… numerous Indian tribes, the British, and the American government. More than a border war, the battle for Kentucky and the trans-Appalachian west came to define the communities which grew up in its midst, altering world views, attitudes, and compounding prejudices. It is the purpose of this …
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Poder absoluto violencia política en tres novelas de la dictadura Latinoamericana.
… ha sido una constante de la realidad latinoamericana moderna, con frecuencia asociada a regímenes políticos dictatoriales que han infringido sistemáticamente en los derechos básicos de los ciudadanos. Como fuerza equilibradora, aparece la actuación de la Iglesia, aunque en muchas ocasiones …