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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Caribbean diaspora"”.
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Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora
… the music and history of Grenada and the African Caribbean diaspora provided inspiration for compositions featuring a seventeen piece orchestra with an emphasis on form, structure, harmony, rhythm, melody and dynamics. This research includes four original musical compositions, tailored …
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Exploring the Mental Health Experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black Youth in London, Ontario
… the mental health experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) youth in London, Ontario, investigating how the factors of race, gender, culture, and place have shaped their perceptions and experiences of mental health. The data collection and analysis were conducted using a …
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Self-Reclamation through Death: Attaining Creoleness in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother and In Praise of Creoleness by Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant
… of identity formation in which specifically Caribbean identity features blend together in a fluid and complex way, the process of creolization. The essay, In Praise of Creoleness, can be seen as the manifesto of creolization, while Kincaid’s Xuela in The Autobiography of My Mother is the …
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Decolonising the body in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
… master’s thesis examines the literature of the Caribbean diaspora and investigates how it subverts colonial paradigms. Therein, the use of the material body as a subaltern knowledge system is read as an act of decolonial resistance. The analysis focuses on two English-language novels by …
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Evoking Belonging: Enlivening Ubuntu As Social Sculpture for Cultural Transformation towards Ecological Citizenship in Sustainable City Making
… experience and embodied knowledge of African-Caribbean migrant communities in the UK. The three research questions are: 1) How can I work with Ubuntu to enliven a sense of belonging as a cultural practice? 2) How can I work with embodied migration experiences of African-Caribbean diaspora …
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Vers une représentation textuelle du déplacement et du voyage dans la littérature francophone antillaise et guyanaise: l’exemple de Joseph Zobel, Guy Tirolien et René Maran
… founded on displacement; the experience of the Caribbean subject is thus axiomatically one of travel, exile, and scission. While postcolonial studies are increasingly turning to transnational paradigms, translocal discourses produced by Caribbean and Guyanese writers from the first waves of …
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Functions of Gender in Soca: An Historical and Lyrical Analysis of St. Lucian Soca
… as calypso) did not develop similarly in every Caribbean island. Soca actually exemplifies a pan-Caribbean phenomenon that is regionally as well as gender specific. St. Lucia illustrates this phenomenon as it has a markedly different calypso history from Trinidad, which has long been called the …
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Through the Body: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Empathy in Contemporary American Art
<p>This dissertation considers the relationship between embodied experience, subjectivity, and empathy expressed in artworks created and exhibited in New York in the early 1990s and linked with identity politics. I focus on works that represented or evoked bodies and elicited viscerally somatic …
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Decolonizing Transnational Subaltern Women: The Case of Kurasoleñas and New York Dominicanas
<p>This project explores the racial and gender decolonization of New York and Curaçaoan women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn …
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The Black Oneness Church in Perspective
… an anti-colonial examination of the Afro-Caribbean Oneness churches to understand how it functioned in the formation and defense of the emerging Black communities for the period 1960-1980. This project is based on qualitative interviews and focus groups conducted with Black Clergy and …