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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Conjure"”.
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Conjuring as a Critique of Medical Racism in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
… language, audience, and cultural forms. The The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales has often been considered Chesnutt's most influential work and has attracted great interest from readers and scholars alike. Though Chesnutt scholarship often focuses on new ways of reading the works or the …
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“THE HOODOO YOU KNEW”: AN AFROCENTRIC (RE)LOCATION OF CONJURE AND HOODOO COSMOLOGY
This study contributes to the ongoing discourse on African spirituality and its contemporary relevance to African peoples in the Diaspora by exploring Hoodoo through an Afrocentric lens. By adopting this perspective, the researcher aims to normalize Hoodoo as a living spiritual system and shed …
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Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure
… to address the recent advent of slavery. <em>The Conjure Woman</em> was a publication of seven frame narratives that employed the traditional style of a former slave telling tales of “the old days,” and though Chesnutt's work may have mirrored such authors as Thomas Nelson Page, the tales broke …
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Doves Don't Fly Here
… dreams of its main character, Giselle, to conjure and test the boundaries between dreams and reality and what it means to be haunted.</p>
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Entropy and cycles
… symbols, and imagery I am attempting to conjure this realization and come to a better understanding of the concept, and to ultimately echo a similar response in an audience.
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When Suddenly the Limb Did Quiver
… objects and imaging technologies in order to conjure such imperceptible presences into a state of emergence through an intuitively-led practice of art. The material products of this research include objects and images that are assembled in my thesis exhibition When Suddenly the Limb Did …
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Hearing Existenzspeak: An Existential Response to Millennial Angst
… ultimately, hearing our own Existenzspeak might conjure an atmosphere of thought and communication predicated on freedom and re-enchantment with the mysteries of existence that, however subtly, call out to us through channels both familiar and strange.
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Sue
… </em>exploits the multivalence of language to conjure a dense field of meaning, meant to capture the undecidability of language noted by philosopher Jacques Derrida. This collection also employs several vectors of derivation, including erasure of text lifted from the 2002 strategy video game …
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"I only love them" : Dorothy Scarborough and the supernatural in literature.
… influence on Scarborough's writing, particularly Conjure and other occult traditions. World War I also constituted a significant influence on her work, as well as her views on supernatural literature in general. Although elements of the supernatural are present in all of Scarborough's work, her …
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Solving the ‘Mystery’ of Blackness through African American Detective Fiction: Pauline Hopkins’ and Rudolph Fisher’s Intervention in a White Tradition
… Hagar’s Daughter and Rudolph Fisher’s The Conjure-Man Dies, and the ways in which these writers intervene in a white-dominated tradition to expose constructions of race. As these writers work from and modify models of detective fiction, to use Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s term, they “signify” …
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The Mirrored Walls Of Reality:a Journal Of Shattered Reflection
… performance is without equal in its ability to conjure visible truth from the reflection man sees everyday and hopelessly fails to recognize. Ultimately, theatre demands that man see himself without the masks of excuse, ignorance, or makeup. It is the vision of this journey to honor theatre's …
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Cape Mongo
… through various cityscapes, their journeys conjure up imagery relating both to my childhood as well as to several of the historical trajectories that have lead up to the endemic inequality2 and social alienation which characterise present day Cape Town.
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Reframing as Reclamation: Trauma Theory, African Spiritualism, and Ecocriticism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
… African-based spiritualism and female-centric conjure work in the family line, whereas the second section analyzes how trauma shapes black masculinity and how repression perpetuates transgenerational trauma. These two sections work together to prove how Ward’s novel engages with the transfer of …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… speeches provided musical metaphors to conjure social and political ideals. Why did music arouse such a widespread interest in this significant period of French history? This dissertation engages with this question using a large body of sources, including print, patents, paintings and …
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Intracorporeal Entanglement, and other provocations of the gestating body
… the material quality of transparency to conjure a sense of the ambiguity between the body of the gestating woman and that of the conceptus. I developed a methodological approach of making art in-situ as a parallel to the experience of the gestating woman, who is creating an organism that …
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Intracorporeal Entanglement, and other provocations of the gestating body
… the material quality of transparency to conjure a sense of the ambiguity between the body of the gestating woman and that of the conceptus. I developed a methodological approach of making art in-situ as a parallel to the experience of the gestating woman, who is creating an organism that …
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Stephen Downing
… sequences and patterns. Overall the piece should conjure the image of slowly evolving abstract shapes that morph with the gradually shifting patterns in the music. The article, entitled “Composing Memory: Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Unremembered”, examines the thirteen-movement song cycle and how it …
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Novelty in goal-oriented machines using a thread memory structure
… situations from diverse viewpoints allows it to conjure many techniques to accomplish the same goal, and hence recover elegantly when one method fails. In the context of goal-oriented machines, this thesis presents a system that finds substitutes for the typical physical resource used to …
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Land, Water, and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literature
… thesis demonstrates how decolonial love might conjure attraction, intimacy and care, which colonialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism have damaged. The second section explores the significance of stars and constellations for unfolding relationality in novels by Anishinaabe …
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The Influence and Subversion of the Southern Folk Tradition in the Novels of William Faulkner
… the rapacity of Flem Snopes. I also examine the conjure tales of Charles Chesnutt. Uncle Julius exemplifies black folk wisdom being used to outsmart the white northerners, demonstrating how many use folk culture to further their own ends. The third chapter examines the grotesque, through an …
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