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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Cultural Trauma"”.
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
… of a female predecessor - to address massive traumas that have been repressed by, but which continue to affect, modern cultures. Argues that, in each case, the text "acts out" the repressed cultural trauma underlying its narrative through the heroine's narcissistic over-identification with a …
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The Role of Collective Memory and Cultural Trauma in Arab American Identity Formation
In this thesis, I explore the cultural traumas and memories that shape Arab American identity in the US, and how such events influence their interactions and relationships with other Arab and non-Arab Americans. Drawing on memory and trauma literature, this study highlights the impact of collective …
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Ties out of bloodshed: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of Timothy McVeigh
… a social institution is called upon to mediate cultural trauma and cultivate collective memory more consciously.
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Remembering the Cultural Trauma Legacies of Slavery: African American Young Adult Perceptions on Racism, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Socialization
… of this research investigation is to explore cultural trauma theory on African American young adult development. Cultural trauma theory asserts the adverse cross-cultural encounter, North American slavery, reproduces intergenerational psychosocial legacies for contemporary African Americans. …
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WITH SLABS, BONES, AND POLES: DE/CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES OF HURRICANE KATRINA IN JESMYN WARD’S SALVAGE THE BONES, NATASHA TRETHEWEY’S BEYOND KATRINA, AND SELAH SATERSTROM’S SLAB
This thesis incorporates literary trauma theory, social theory, and cultural trauma theory in an examination of three texts about Hurricane Katrina: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011), Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina (2010), and Selah Saterstrom’s Slab (2015). The texts are arranged by form, …
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Innovative representations of trauma: trauma in popular culture
This thesis investigates the representation of trauma in late twentieth- and early twenty-first century popular culture. Dominant cultural trauma theory tends to focus on high cultural avant-garde works. However, more recent studies increasingly examine trauma representation in popular culture. …
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The Rhetorical Criteria of Kennedy's Camelot
… rhetoric. Moreover, the collective memory of cultural trauma following Kennedy's assassination suggests a promising continuation of the Camelot myth. Because the four rhetorical categories (visual, campaign, crisis, and collective memory) worked in tandem, all were essential for creating …
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Archiving the trauma diaspora: Affective artifacts in the higher education arts classroom
… describes what I uniquely term the “diaspora of trauma” as it emerges in the higher education arts classroom. Through extended case study, and arts based autoethnography, I develop a framework for the analysis and archiving of creative artifacts as part of a diasporic trauma archive, and identify …
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Memory and postmemory in the writing of North American writers of Lithuanian descent /
… and challenge aspects of Lithuanian historical trauma (the Holocaust) and Lithuanian cultural trauma (deportations to Siberia, World War II, the postwar experience, the refugee experience, immigration). They consider the impact of those historical events on their ancestors, themselves, and their …
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Atmintis ir postatmintis Šiaurės Amerikos lietuvių kilmės rašytojų literatūroje /
… and challenge aspects of Lithuanian historical trauma (the Holocaust) and Lithuanian cultural trauma (deportations to Siberia, World War II, the postwar experience, the refugee experience, immigration). They consider the impact of those historical events on their ancestors, themselves, and their …
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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
… the Aum Affair. I propose ‘collective trauma’ as a revised theory of ‘cultural trauma’ to describe an event which is represented as harmful and indelible to collective memory and identity. In contrast to ‘cultural trauma’, which stresses the importance of symbolic representations of …
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Dispatch
… globally (colonialism, witness/documentation, cultural trauma/memory) while the final section shifts to consider some of these same issues locally (family trauma, memory, identity, place).</p>
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Socialinės ir kultūrinės traumos atspindys muziejaus ekspozicijoje /
SUMMARY REFLECTION OF A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TRAUMA IN AN EXHIBITION OF A MUSEUM By Vitalija Moisaitė-Žilinskienė First of all, museums are meant to satisfy visitors’ curiosity and their needs of information, aesthetics and education. It is not an easy task. So, what has to be done in order to meet …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
… representations of black women’s historical trauma linked to colonialism and slavery. Through comparative readings of contemporary fiction by black women writers from two continents, I explore the intimate links between the historical traumas of colonialism and slavery and the identity of …
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Rummaging Through the Wreckage: Geographies of Trauma, Memory, and Loss at the National September 11th Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center
… Pentagon 9/11 Memorial, my research examines how cultural memory is mediated through the establishment of `places of memory' within the built-environment. Here, I argue, the preservation of place acts as a repository of national memory by safeguarding the history of 9/11 for future generations. …
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OUR FATHERS, OUR BROTHERS, OURSELVES: ILLUSORY PATTERN PERCEPTION AND THE PROGRESSION OF TRAUMA THEORY
The dissertation argues that depictions of cultural trauma in literature are a natural progression from depictions of individual trauma by tracing the development of trauma studies from its roots in Freudian psychoanalysis to its current position as an interdisciplinary field of study. It …
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SCREENING THE APOCALYPSE: ZOMBIES, VISUAL ART AND THE GROTESQUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF SOCIAL TRAUMA
… the zombie’s status and function as an artistic traumatic grotesque within the 2000s. Coined as a grotesque “stream” by art historian Frances S. Connelly, the traumatic grotesque interrupts established visual norms by presenting contemporary social anxieties in monstrous form. Though a …
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Disrupting Memory: Trauma and Fictions of the ‘War on terror’
… centralising 9/11 as an instance of unique trauma and wilfully excluding the historical and ongoing experiences of Afghans and Iraqis under Western—and mainly American—hegemonic violence. I employ recent developments in trauma studies to understand the ways in which dominant frameworks for …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
This thesis proposes a concept of the trauma aesthetic in order to make sense of the ways in which particular texts have responded to the events of 9/11 as an intensely mediated and vicariously experienced cultural trauma. A central argument within existing studies of 9/11 and its cultural impact …
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Kink in Flux: BDSM theory and sexual praxis
… “kinksters” as well as those with histories of trauma are beginning to explore BDSM and kink as forms of self-transcendence as well as transformation.</p> <p>In this dissertation, I consider the material and historical aspects of BDSM and move, with queer and feminist theories as my guide, into …
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