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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"Beloved"”.
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Building the Beloved Community: Designing Technologies for Neighborhood Safety
… easier to love one another, easier to build a Beloved Community.
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UNCAGING CICADAS: Lover, Beloved, and Reader in Contemporary Love Poetry
… […] boundary of flesh and self between [the beloved] and [the lover]” by placing the lover – ontologically and at times physically – in the beloved, then in turn placing the beloved in the lover, each internalizing their other. Additionally, I argue that the lover-poet integrates the reader …
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The politics of visuality in Beloved and The Colour Purple
… factors. This dissertation considers two works, Beloved and The Color Purple, by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker respectively, authors who write against the template of slave narratives by offering intimate and subjective points of view to inform the story-making process. Drawing on visual theory, …
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Wading into semantic depths : a poststructuralist approach to Toni Morrison's Beloved
Fil: Cicero, Karina R. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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“White ink”: the body and écriture féminine in Toni Morrison's Beloved
<p>In her novel Beloved, Morrison seeks to tell a story that is difficult to tell using conventional literary techniques: the story of freed, forgotten former slaves. Through her use of techniques such as Cixou's ecriture feminine, as well as her own literary devices, including ideas of …
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Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved
… genre twenty-five years after the publication of Beloved with A Mercy in 2008. With these two texts, Morrison offers her readers one story that shows the descent into slavery and one that shows progression towards freedom. The purpose of this thesis is to place Morrison’s two neo-slave narratives, …
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Poetic Anatomy of the Numinous Creative Passages into the Self as Beloved
This research is shaped by the actual experience of practice: as painter and writer. My preoccupation is with the nodal moment when conscious awareness is suspended, and both the corporal and psychic involvement in realising the work almost transport one to another zone of effectiveness. This zone, …
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THE BELOVED COMMUNITY IN SHAW: CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE IDENTITY IN THE ANTI-GENTRIFICATION MOVEMENT
… Specifically I examine the power of the beloved community narrative as an organizing force in the anti-gentrification movement.
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Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects: Building Bridges between Picture Books and the Tangible World
<p>"Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects" examines how pedagogical theories prioritizing objects and direct sensory experiences in early childhood can be applied to the creation of picture book illustrations. In doing so, it positions picture books as educational tools, and advocates for the …
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Be loved from the other side: Amy Denver's influence in Toni Morrison's Beloved
… Sethe's youngest child in Toni Morrison's Beloved, while often dismissed by the scholars of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, deserves more attention. Dismissing the importance of Amy Denver's narrative in the novel presents a danger; the opening epigraph of Beloved, in fact, defines the …
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Critiquing Atomistic Individualism in Law: Rosenzweig's Beloved Soul as Open and Relational Subject
… the project explores how Rosenzweig's "beloved soul" invites us to understand human individuality as open and relational, which might help pivot the law away from its current myopic focus on rights-based justice and the often unjust zero-sum modality that rights-based justice produces. …
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"Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts": Ghosts and Memory in Hamlet and Beloved
… William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Toni Morrison's Beloved employ ghosts as symbols of man's archetypal desire to hide his past. A careful examination of the texts in these ghost stories, of the cultural folklore included, and of the ghosts' influence on individual characters reveals both writers' …
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Themes of Exodus and Revolution in Ellison's Invisible Man, Morrison's Beloved, and Doctorow's Ragtime
… American literature. I show that Invisible Man, Beloved, and Ragtime not only employ the motif of the Exodus journey; they also perpetuate the silent revolution begun by the Israelites while held captive in Egypt. This dissertation consists of six chapters. Chapter One provides the introduction …
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Dogs and Technology: Our Most Beloved Companions in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century America
<p>Since the suburban rush and steep rise in household technological devices in the mid-twentieth century, Americans have drawn apart from each other, a shift that has coincided with a rise in both dog ownership and the adoption of handheld mobile devices. This paper argues that these phenomena, …
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"Projections of the Not-Me": Redemptive Possibilities of the Gothic within Wuthering Heights and Beloved
… Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Toni Morrison’s Beloved share a similar concern for the monster within. I first locate these texts within their Gothic traditions, revealing a preoccupation with the body, and the known world, that unites these texts. I then turn to the ways that Gothic tropes are …
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How Might Jesus’ Relationship with the Beloved Disciple Affirm LGBTQ+ Christians in the Twenty-First Century?
… the loving relationship between Jesus and his Beloved Disciple, as portrayed in John’s Gospel. It will focus on the various passages in which the Beloved Disciple becomes a major character in the Johannine narrative: his engagement with Jesus at the Last Supper (Jn 13:21-30), the Crucifixion …
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"No matter what, I got everybody's back" : planning for beloved community in the inner-ring suburbs
… to action, and given courage by the vision of a "beloved community." This thesis posits that urban planning fields, too, should take this vision seriously as a guide for designing community development strategies that create more opportunities for active love and relationship across deep social …
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