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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"CULTURAL NARRATIVE"”.
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TRAUMATIZED WIVES AND THE TRANSATLANTIC NOVEL: UNVEILING THE CULTURAL NARRATIVE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MARITAL SUFFERING
… the traditional marriage plot, in terms of both narrative and form, identifying a gradual shift in the way marriage was fictionalized. I argue that incremental revisions to the marriage plot reconstruct positive representations of female marital experience into negative depictions that transform …
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Towards culturally appropriate speech-language and hearing services : exploring the cultural narrative in initial consultations with Xhosa-speaking patients
… health providers aspire. This move towards more culturally and linguistically appropriate services is in line with the worldwide trend away from the biomedical to a more biopsychosocial and patient-centered approach to health care. Within the field of Speech-Language and Hearing Therapy (SLHT), …
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The Work and the Glory: Historical Fiction and Cultural Narrative in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
… Saints. In applying a theoretical framework of cultural narrative and collective identity to this case study, this thesis brings Lund’s historical fiction into a larger academic conversation about how authors use historical fiction to represent mass atrocities. This project shows that, although …
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Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry into Language, Culture, and Identity Development of Three High School Female Immigrant Students and Their Mainstream Schooling Experience in Atlanta, Georgia
… in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. I used a cross-cultural narrative inquiry method (He, 2003) to examine how these students' experiences of exclusion, marginalization, and neglect impact their school success. Cross-cultural narrative theory, which is grounded in the works of Clandinin and Connelly …
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Threatening Discourse: Cultural and Contextual Challenges to Constructing Antiracist Narrative and Practice Among One Elementary School Staff
This research particularly highlights the cultural struggle for narrative as it was played out in Woodson's STAR. By focusing on how twenty-four members of Woodson School's professional staff resisted, co-opted, transformed, and adopted antiracist counter narrative, this research informs the extant …
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Ser Americano: The Cost of Being American
… media, speeches, and artwork, Dreamers use the cultural narrative of the "American Dream" to create the boundaries of their American identity. Traditionally, American Identity is studied through 4 schools of thought: ethno-culturalism, liberalism, civic republicanism, and incorporationism. I …
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Using Inquiry Learning to Shift Towards a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Elementary Social Studies
… studies instructional practices towards a more culturally sustaining pedagogy. Elementary social studies instruction has traditionally been teacher-centric and rooted in a mono-perspective of historytelling that represents a dominant cultural narrative that often alienates and subtracts students …
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From Within the Abyss: Drug Users in Areas of Rural Poverty
… brought into questions as new concepts, such as: cultural narrative of addiction, master sociality, slave sociality, and Derridity." "Crushing. Cheating. Changing. Am I deaf or dead? Is this constricting construction or just streets with rusty signs of something violent coming?" (Manson, 2012)</p>
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Elegant Complexity: The Presence of Cold War Game Theory In Postmodern American Fiction
… combining readings of postwar literature and the cultural and historical narrative of game theory. Recently described by Steven Belletto as an under-examined cultural narrative that promised "scientific redemption" during the Cold War, game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that originated …
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Roads of Rebellion: Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation
<p>"Roads to Rebellion: Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation" explores female members of a subculture that mythologized the road as a space for escaping Cold War containment. This project begins by redefining Cold War "containment," typically identified as the strategy for …
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Deconstruction of American Exceptionalism in the Collaborative Works of John Adams and Peter Sellars
… both adapt history and mythologize it into a cultural narrative; both respond to their own historical moments in order to make statements about American culture; both elicit meaningful questions about American ideologies and traditions. In this project, I focus on the ways that these operas …
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The Child-Soldier Deject: Abjection, Subjectivity, and Systemic Marginalization in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah Is Not Obliged
… ideological system at the intersection of law, cultural narrative, social norms, collective ethics, and personal morality. Its lofty ideals are in direct challenge to the everyday forces of destruction and chaos that threaten order, which Julia Kristeva, in The Powers of Horror, claims is the …
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Creating New Suns: Early Examples of Afrofuturist Literature
… <p>This dissertation, then, constructs a cultural narrative from laws, print media, novels, and archival research. The interdisciplinary nature of this inquiry presents a picture of the societal ills being highlighted, critiqued, and re-imagined in early Afrofuturist texts and speculative …
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"""Starvation...is Who I Am"": From Eating Disorder to Recovering Identities Through Narrative Co-Construction in an Internet Support Group"
This dissertation examines narrative activity within an Internet-based support group for women with anorexia and bulimia, alt.support.eating-disord. (ASED), focusing on identity co-construction. Through micro-level discourse analysis, I trace ways in which support group participants portray …
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Comics and/as Documentary: the implications of graphic truth-telling
… an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. In so doing, it aligns with debates and questions raised by recent academic work around animated documentary. Shared concerns include conventions, truth-claims and trust, and the limitations of …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… intensely mediated and vicariously experienced cultural trauma. A central argument within existing studies of 9/11 and its cultural impact is that, in the immediate aftermath at least, the dominant interpretation of the events often relied on crude and simplistic notions of national identity and …
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Towards Public Housing: Architecture as (Prop)aganda
… to adopt propaganda as a method to rewrite the cultural narrative where single-family homeownership antagonizes public housing. We need to shift paradigms from homeownership to home-usership. This thesis proposes collaborations with tenant advocacy groups to create propaganda in the form of …
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The formation of Mic 1-3 : from the eighth century to the exile.
… (oral and written) became part of the larger cultural narrative. Tradents at Mizpah added the third phase material during the exile as a commentary on the effectiveness of Hezekiah's reforms.
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Towards a New Understanding: Complex Familial Constructs of Autism
… used the medical model or the institutional narrative to interpret how autism is understood in families. More recently, a counter-narrative has emerged resisting this medical model. Both narratives, however, simplify the intricate nature of the disability construct within families. …
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