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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Conjuration"”.
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Identification d'un genre : définition du journal intime. Le journal intime en Belgique francophone de 1930 à nos jours : une double conjuration de la désidentité
Le mémoire vise à mettre au jour et à analyser les journaux intimes publiés par les auteurs belges d'expression française. Sont en outre étudiés des journaux intimes inédits communiqués par des anonymes.
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Making Home : (Re)Writing Motherhood and Identity in African American Women’s Fiction
… Afrocentric cultural traditions within the home, conjuration and spirit work as domestic rituals, and the transmission of ancestral knowledge along motherlines. T he methodological framework incorporates the maternal scholarship of Patricia Hill Collins, Sara Ruddick and Andrea O’Reilly, and the …
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“BELIEF IN MAGIC IS OLDER THAN WRITING”: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN-BASED BELIEF SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1928-1988.
… Hurston’s Mules and Men, Harry Hyatt’s Hoodoo Conjuration Witchcraft Rootwork, and fiction by authors Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and Gloria Naylor. By tracing the ways in which representations of African-based beliefs have been constructed across formal and disciplinary …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
This thesis examines the influence of beliefs about King Solomon on the depiction of magic in early modern drama. I explore the extent to which would-be magicians could use Solomon as a role model for their own endeavours, drawing upon sources which attributed magical powers to the biblical king. …