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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Audre Lorde"”.
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"""A house of difference"": Constructions of the lesbian poet in Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen"
… as activists and lesbians, the poets I read--Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen--are accorded very different literary status. In examining the processes, literary and cultural, that place them as poets, my dissertation contends that literary recognition, whether from feminist …
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"Our skins sing in complementary keys": Literary Crip Kinship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Geraldine, Fanny Burney, and Audre Lorde
… have experienced as a literary crip kinship with Audre Lorde, Fanny Burney, and, surprisingly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Geraldine. These literary figures, and my own experience, have raised many of the same questions in my mind—of betrayal, of a sense of foreboding evil. How do my own experiences …
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Living in the Margins of Life: The Intersectionality of Identity, Race, and Sexuality in the Selected Works of Audre Lorde
<p>For Lorde, identity rests in the power of one’s voice; in that having a voice gives one the agency not only to confidently reaffirm one’s personal identity, but to speak against oppressors who endeavor to keep voices silent. In Lorde’s poetry, she addresses those who stand at the margins of …
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An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care
… “An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care”, hypothesizes that we can conceive a practice of self-care using an abolitionist lens to examine the writings and performances of three Black feminists Maya …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
… Diaspora. The journeys of Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Willard Motley, and Elizabeth Catlett to Mexico illustrate an intricate web of rhizomatic connections spanning the Black Atlantic, the Caribbean Ocean, the Mississippi River and the Rio Grande. This dissertation examines the history of …
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The "Self" in Crisis: A Study of Audre Lorde's <i>The Cancer Journals</i>
… I focus on The Cancer Journals and explore how Audre Lorde articulates the chaos followed by breast cancer in her life: what is the nature of the crises? What aspects of her life are largely affected by it? How it unsettles her understanding of time and place, how her daily life, work, …
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Revolutionary style : parrēsia and the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis.
… conversation between Davis, Michel Foucault, and Audre Lorde, I question how Davis navigates the rhetorical quagmire of writing an explicitly political autobiography while avoiding the interpellation of her personal narrative into a heroic account of legal triumph. To this end, I examine two modes …
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Escrita autoral e poder erótico: a experiência do Núcleo de Mulheres Negras – O amor cura na periferia sul de São Paulo
… of the concept of Erotic Power, developed by Audre Lorde ([1978] 2019), to analyze the epistemologies of black and decolonial feminism, present in the practices and written production of peripheral black artists and activists, members of the Núcleo de Mulheres Negras – O amor cura, a feminist …
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Orifice of Return
… are commingled, but wrestling forces. As Audre Lorde declares, there are many kinds of open, the poems of this collection are orifices, textual portals, spatial and temporal fissures, and entryways into Black past, present, and future. These poems use received forms (the ghazal, the ode, …
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Becoming
… series entitled Becoming. Using James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and Zora Neale Hurston as departure points, both the photo series and this academic explanative seeks to explore the question of what does it mean to become? Or in other words, what is the imperative to be who you are, to actualize …
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Documentary filmmaking as an ethical practice: looking for life stories
… the work of feminists such as bell hooks (1994), Audre Lorde (1984), Patricia Hill Collins (2000) and Ursula Le Guin (1988) who theorised power and representation. It also draws from the scholarship and projects of practitioners such as Thalhofer (2017) and Cizek (2019), seeking to challenge …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… in the protest poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Audre Lorde, whose justice elegies embody a maternal literary tradition of mourning that resists racial and sexual hegemonic violence? Is it inclusive of communal bodies and spaces as in Sonia Sanchez’ communal elegy for the Philadelphia Osage …
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New Orientations: Touch in Women's Experimental Writing
… throughout the experimental works of Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Kathy Acker, arguing that experimental writing facilitates an affective language of touch and sensation that resists and moves beyond societally gendered, racialised, and compulsory …
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Isililo sikaNandi: imagining dithyrambic dirge to performatively score the precarity of blackwomnhood
… ‘creative re-visioning' (2010:1) and what Audre Lorde defines as ‘autobiomythography' (Lorde, 1996). In order to do this, the study employs a Practice as Research approach to explore alternative ways of staging heterogeneous experiences of blackwomnhood using the plurality of voice as a …
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Toward feminist aesthetics: feminist provocations to German idealist aesthetics
… about play and common sense, and one between Audre Lorde and Friedrich Schiller about feeling, thinking, and the erotic. These dialogues are connected by the following thesis: the German idealist aesthetic tradition begins with an attempt to understand the incomprehensibility of certain …
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Becoming identities: The philosophical subject, intersectionality, and assemblage
… politics. Through the work of María Lugones, Audre Lorde and Luce Irigaray, I assert that philosophy needs to think through what legal theorist Kimberlè Crenshaw Williams first termed “intersectionality.” This allows me to interrogate philosophy’s conception of the subject, especially where it …
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A sturdy Black bridge : a symbolic connection among three generations of Black female poets.
… perspective, poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Ai, and many others have used their poetry to enhance the history and literature of Black people. One major focus of this study is upon a core group of African-American female poets born during the Great Depression. These poets use …
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GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
… with broad applicability. My project focuses on Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, and Alice Walker along with four local activist-writers in Eastern North Carolina, examining connections between identity and writing as a way to better understand genre-fluid rhetorical practices. The organization …
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The oppositional gaze: contemporary image-making practice and the implications of skin colour ideals
… and the belief in the power of the erotic (Audre Lorde 1984), to enable new ways of thinking through black and white women’s positions within these debates. This thesis uses the processes of personal image-making practice within a body of original artworks using video and photography, to …
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
… resilience informed by the works of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and others. Significantly, this case study of black feminist postcolonial narratives makes theoretical contributions to the fields of black feminist studies and transformative learning. The intended outcome of this research for black …
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