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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Erotics"”.
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Big Backed Black Femme Erotics
Big Backed Black Femme Erotics is a genre study of literary and real life spaces where queer Black femme sexuality is expressed. The dissertation focuses on Audre Lorde’s theories of the erotic and, at moments, how they are modified by the fat femme. Applying Lorde’s erotic to Black feminist …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… Haraway is a sustained focus on interspecies erotics as a cultural driving force, manifested in the panicked literary case studies I explore. Cumulatively, the texts I analyze show an American literature still threatened by Darwin’s radical intervention in the history of science. In its …
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Erotics Of Education: Queering Children In Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Boarding Schools
This dissertation explores productions of queer childhood in boarding schools established for marginalized populations in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North America: Native American boarding schools, reform schools, schools for children with disabilities, and African American …
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Overlapping Terrains: Orientalism, Indian Nationalism and the Erotics of Cross -Cultural Contact
… dissertation explores issues of cross-cultural erotics in twentieth-century narratives set in colonial India. It examines narratives by E. M. Forster, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi Devi and Rabindranath Tagore, which provide a romance setting for themes of East/West encounter. The necessity of …
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The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
"The Erotics of Race Suicide" examines the frequent representation of suicide in Progressive Era American literature in light of a widely proclaimed socio-political concept of the time: “race suicide.” Coined by the sociologist Edward Ross, the term “race suicide” nominates a nativist fear over the …
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
… of the female experience, employing disruptive erotics to challenge the medical and male gaze and their objectifying tendencies.</p> <p>The work presented aims to provoke thought about the mutable nature of identity in the digital age and to foster a deeper understanding of how art interacts …
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Species Sadness: Race, Gender, And Animality In Twentieth-Century Mexico And Central America
… the concept of species is central. Interspecies erotics, domestic intimacy with pets, and animal vulnerability, are all unusual, yet key narrative tools to push readers to think beyond the human and define an ethics that is attentive to alterity.
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Sexual tension : the imagined learner projected through the recontextualising of sexual knowledge into pedagogic communication in two curricula in South Africa and Ontario, Canada
… complemented by Louisa Allen’s discourse of erotics to recognise the discourses and strategic silences present and absent, it concludes that the imagined learner would have a sex negative, context independent orientation to meaning, be heterosexual and not yet be sexually active. The study …
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
… activism, Americana, science fiction, romance, erotics, and scientific writing. “Latent Destiny, Manifest Reversal: Journal Excerpts from the Clovis and Larch Expedition” explores the shadow-sides of Manifest Destiny through the consideration of a counter-venture to the notorious Lewis and Clark …
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
… activism, Americana, science fiction, romance, erotics, and scientific writing. “Latent Destiny, Manifest Reversal: Journal Excerpts from the Clovis and Larch Expedition” explores the shadow-sides of Manifest Destiny through the consideration of a counter-venture to the notorious Lewis and Clark …
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Transformational Festivals and the Enchantment Economy: Performance and Race in Neoliberal Times
… exchange. I outline how Envision utilizes an erotics of the Other to capitalize on the libidinal economy that attends festivalgoing in order to generate identity capital for White tourists. I also discuss the economic and social consequences of this culture mining, which offer up heritage as …
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Choreographing through an expanded corporeality
… I reveal a permeable, porous subjectivity and an erotics of connectivity. My position is that we are always already extended: we lean, touch, and absorb the surfaces surrounding us which can allow us to experience ourselves as dynamic, fluid identities. Throughout this thesis the process of …
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Backdoors and Trapdoors: The Trappings of Homo/Transsexuality in Artists’ Film, Video and Photography, c.1989-1999
… the temporality of queer theory’s racialised erotics and the animating place of sexual difference within cinematic theories of identification. In chapter two: I excavate queer and transgender’s relation under the foreclosures of the AIDS crisis via Tessa Boffin’s 1989 photographic series …
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Tryst Tropique: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities
… (Chapter Two). The next reading considers the erotics of male visibility legible across a number of Marquesan contact texts including Herman Melville's Typee (Chapter Three). Chapter Four discovers that the suspicion of sodomitical misconduct which clouded the career of William Yate, an early …
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Prose Rhythm and Queer Desire
… makes a case for an alternative queer textual erotics that maintains, rather than liquidates, a binaristic logic while preserving the liberatory potency embedded in the term ‘queer’. In doing so, this dissertation aims to bridge recent work in historical poetics and queer theory, arguing that …
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Faceless things: South Korean gay men, internet, and sexual citizenship
… promises new forms of pleasure and erotics while filtering and governing them through disciplinary norms around family, nation, consumption, and body. Together, such contradictions create a hybridized gay culture in South Korea that challenges and reworks the tropes of the “closet” …
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`Exploring relationships': a study of young people's (hetero)sexual subjectivities, knowledge and practices
… safer sex practices, but also a 'discourse of erotics'. The research illustrates this discourse by exploring what young people do and do not find pleasurable about sexual activity, along with details about their relationships. The 'sexualisation' of power within the context of a couple . …
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Structures of the Sensible: Smelling and Tasting the Text after World War I
The period following the First World War profoundly challenged the familiar structures of the human sensorium: the global aftershocks of the war and the mass production of new technologies of perception produced countless new sensations. The rise of synthetic chemistry exposed the nose and tongue …