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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Cultural Texts"”.
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Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019
<p>This study explores a diverse array of cultural texts, from literary representations to live performances, from the antebellum period to the contemporary moment,that highlight African-American women singer-celebrities navigating entertainment industries in the United States. Focusing on …
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Ethnographic Criticism and Native American Fiction: Cultural Texts, Textual Culture in the Novels of James Welch
My project examines the processes of discipline formation in studies of Native American fiction using the first three novels of the widely acclaimed writer James Welch---Winter in the Blood (1974), The Death of Jim Loney (1979), and Fools Crow (1986). Through Welch's diverse works, I attend to two …
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Sites of resistance: language, intertextuality, and subjectivity in the poetry of Diane Wakoski
… the interconnectedness of language and related cultural texts and women’s subjectivity. The poststructuralist feminist enterprise of examining and critiquing language and signifying practices for the ways in which they impose social values and of interrogating and undermining the fixity of …
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Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture
… Almada, my chapters examine explicit and oblique cultural engagements with topics such as the political assassinations of the 1990s, the dispossession brought on by the neoliberal restructuring of the economy, and the violence prompted by the so-called ‘War on Drugs’. The cultural texts I examine …
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Igbobuagu: An Exploration of Performance Practices, Aesthetics, and Symbolism in Igbo Traditional Instrumental Music
… perspective that treats musical elements as cultural texts, the research demonstrates how Igbobuagu ’s rhythms, instrumentation, and symbolic layers function as dynamic cultural texts that balance formal structure with lived experience. Practical implications include strategies for cultural …
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Appropriate Articulations of Taste: The (re)production of gender in contemporary youth taste cultures
… page was a created as a means of capturing the cultural texts young people like and dislike, and a series of focus groups were also undertaken where collective meanings were foregrounded. The richness of empirical evidence and its careful analysis has revealed the significant role that taste …
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Emerging identities: New subjects within gay adoption
… late twentieth and early twenty-first century cultural texts, I apply a Foucaultian perspective to analyze how controversies over gay adoptions articulate shifts in contemporary American discourses of homosexuality and the family. Identities available to homosexuals have shifted since the …
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Keeping the money under the soap : constructions of the English and English migrants in Australian nationalist texts
… English migrants, in a variety of Australian cultural texts, including film, television, newspapers and academic publications. Underlying this investigation are two major research questions: What are the factors informing the ambivalent place accorded 'Englishness' in Australian cultural …
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The Contemporary Shakespearean Actor as the Site of Adaptive Encounter
This thesis investigates the cultural uses and implied signifying practices of the work of actors who are popularly and frequently described as 'Shakespearean.' Though ubiquitous figures within culture, there is a dearth of criticism which questions what qualities are invoked in the use of the term …
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Performative Riffing: Theory, Praxis, and Politics in Movie Riffing and Embodied Audiencing Rituals
… text-reading practices, and the roles mediated cultural texts play in the lives of readers have long been at the center of enduring debates among Critical, Cultural, Performance, and Rhetorical Studies scholars. One salient ongoing dialogue among scholars and critics questions the degree to …
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From the DSM to Ophelia: Teenage Girls and the Psychological Complex
… on three different yet interrelated sites of cultural activity: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual's political reverberations; the construction of teenage girls as modern-day Ophelias; and the notion of ""girl power"" as a recuperative moment for teenage girls. A variety of cultural texts …
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Gaming narratives : Chinese culture in digital mediums
… contemporary Chinese games function as curated cultural texts: they negotiate ideological boundaries, satisfy market requirements, and offer international audiences vivid, and at times selective encounters with Chinese tradition, thereby extending China’s soft-power reach through interactive …
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Badnaam Women of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics of Item Songs in India
… imagery of dancing women, as a crucial cultural artefact reflecting the gender and sexual uneasiness in India. Sex avoidance is a common theme in Bollywood films and in the country, where media and people are heavily censored and policed by anti-Romeo squads under the Modi …
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Division of the earth : gender, symbolism and the archaeology of the southern San
… : feminine is commonly used to structure other cultural contrasts, and that the representation of this opposition in cultural products is in turn implicated in the cultural construction of gender content. This bidirectional problematic, supplementing the more limited critique of gender 'bias' …
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Look who's pulling the trigger now : a study of girls'/women's relationship with video games
Video Games are rich social and cultural texts, often dismissed by academics as children's toys not worth much study. However, they are starting to be taken seriously for several reasons. First, they account for a fast increasing share of children's leisure time, especially that of boys. Secondly, …
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Now you see me: the invisibility of older lesbians
… so, why. I go on to ask, if older lesbians are culturally / discursively invisible, what are the circumstances which can enable them to be seen? and what could be gained from that visibility? By analysing a range of cultural texts I demonstrate that, although the visibility of women and of …
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Inventing the Sacred Nation: Saint Edmund of East Anglia and English Identity in Medieval Text and Image
… pinpoints particular vitae and other cultural texts, produced between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, to determine what they suggest about national identity vis-a-vis Edmund, whether it is the creation of a monastic kingship, the retrofitting of events to prophesy English history, …
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Incongruent subjects: crisis narratives in Argentina and Spain (2001-2012)
… and Spain in the last decades, focusing on the cultural construction and representation of the recent financial and political crises and its effects on middle class citizens. In the analysis, crisis narratives are examined to conceptualize the reactions to these severe financial defaults by …
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Intersecting Axes: Narrative and Culture in Versions of the Lizzie Borden Story (A Performative Approach)
… relationship between individual versions and the cultural constructs they enact while purporting to describe. Moving away from symptomatic reading and its psychoanalytic underpinnings to focus upon the interpretive frames by which our understandings of Lizzie Borden versions (and of …
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Grassy Knoll-Edges: Conspiracy Theories and Political Rationality in the 1990s
… of conspiracy theories by prominent cultural texts and institutions. Mainstream journalism (major newspapers, weekly magazines, and television broadcast news programs), alternative press organs (especially Left and liberal news magazines), and popular cultural media (television dramas …
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