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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Hegemonic narratives."”.
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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
… especially rich opportunities for subverting hegemonic narratives that would devalue the meaning of bodily expression and the diversity of bodily experience. It also argues, however, that superhero comics possess especially sophisticated tools for negating such subversion, routinely mobilizing …
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Mythic Contexts and Marginalized Figures: Unveiling Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Poetics
… She also uses myth to question gender roles in hegemonic narratives. Through close readings I examine how Ní Chuilleanáin depicts women as missing or silenced in traditional myth and also how she amalgamates male mythic characters and marginalized female figures to deconstruct gender binaries …
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"All violence is not equal"; Adrienne Rich's Post-9/11 Poetry and the Precarious Life
… the tactics Rich employs to challenge dominant, hegemonic narratives and awaken readers to the precariousness they share with the marginalized lives that they habitually ignore.
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(In)humans: Shifting Narratives of Race And Species In Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
… to tell stories that both critique and reinforce hegemonic narratives of race. I begin with an overview of the fantasy genre's thorny history with race, tracing the timeline from the early days of what is recognizable as the 'modern' fantasy genre (largely beginning with Tolkien) all the way to …
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My hart kry swaar: reconsidering patriarchy through queer abstraction, phenomenology and the haptic
… classification, as well as imagining new narratives of desire and belonging. The project is situated within the fluctuating temporal boundaries of queer narratology, referencing theorists such as Florian Zitzelsberger, Sara Ahmed, Jack Halberstam, David Getsy, José Esteban Muñoz, Laura …
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Anti-Racist Video Activism: Framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project
… identity), social injustice in general, dominant hegemonic narratives, and, most importantly, the struggles of migrants and refugees. In doing so, it makes significant contribution to knowledge by proposing three unique typologies to demonstrate how the contemporary hegemonic post-truth narratives …
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
… African American history through a white, hegemonic lens. In Parks’ The America Play, Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, these authors comment on historical representation through such symbols as iconic figures like Abraham Lincoln, photographs, and elevators …
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A feira é o mundo : a branquidade do Estado e a luz negra do Zumvi na Feira de São Joaquim
… exclusion can be identified in public policies, narratives, and state conceptions in our country. This dynamic manifests itself through the “whiteness of the state.” In Salvador, this logic is expressed in historical processes of pathologization and criminalization of racialized spaces such as …
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Towards Dark Fecundity - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology
… Black, female subjectivities within speculative narratives of the future. It proposes a new term, Dark Fecundity, which seeks to describe and integrate the radical potentiality of repositioning Darkness as a synonym for Blackness within constructions of the future, alongside the reproductive …
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Memorialising White Supremacy: The Politics of Statue Removal: A Comparative Case Study of the Rhodes Statue at the University of Cape Town and the Lee Statue in Charlottesville, Virginia
… Two years later, fierce contestation over the hegemonic narrative told through the American South’s symbolic landscape erupted over the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, resulting in the deaths of multiple people in Charlottesville, Virginia. Increasing research …
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Counter-hegemonic poetics in the work of Isabel Allende
… an influence resolutely at odds with the hegemonic values of bestselling fiction. The argument that Allende's fiction makes use of Marxist insight and argumentwhich I term "counter-hegemonic poetics" - is sustained in chapters four and five. These chapters explore Allende's critique of the …
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New Frontiers in Islamic Feminism: How Islamic Feminism is Being Shaped by Digital Media
… North American context, what factors shape the narratives of faith that Muslim women bloggers espouse and how so? Addressing question 1, Muslim women primarily draw on Quranic verses, Hadith (Prophetic sayings) and Sunnah (Prophetic practices) to reclaim religious authority and derive feminist …
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Dena Ongi Dabil! ¡Todo Va Dabuten!: TensiÓN Y Heterogeneidad De La Cultura Radical Vasca En El LÍMite Del Estado DemocrÁTico (1978-...)
… Culture emerges as an exodus away from that hegemonic struggle without an abandonment of politics (such as other youth "movidas" proposed in the Spanish State at the time). On the contrary, Basque radical youths, through self-organization and opposition to hegemonic mores, created a space on …
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Expansive Hybridity: Multilingual and Visual Poetics in Contemporary Experimental Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry
… erasure of indigenous language and culture, hegemonic narratives of history, and representations of the racial Other. This dissertation argues that their poetry demonstrates an expansive hybridity in which multilingual and mixed-media practices serve as the very means by which they negotiate …
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From father to feminist : "Call her daddy" and the rhetorical function of imperfect feminism.
… I explore three related aspects of the podcast: hegemonic trope presentation, parasocial relationship impacts, and feminist apologia rhetoric. Situating these aspects of the podcast within its broader media ecology, it is evident that imperfect feminism functions as affective activism. This …
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Elastic Solidarity: UK solidarity with Palestine and the production of knowledge
… intellectuals who seek to unsettle and agitate hegemonic narratives. I explore the relationship between these three sets of organic intellectuals in their efforts to generate epistemic good sense on Palestine/Israel and the struggle for solidarity in the UK. In pulling together various strands …
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The chronotope of walking in the films of Andrea Arnold
… that articulates their combined resistance to hegemonic narratives of exclusion and deprivation. Furthermore, by examining its chronotopicity, the function of walking as a discrete element is analysed to reveal its narrative, aesthetic, and contextual significance. Whilst previous studies of …
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Haḍimbā Becoming Herself: A Himalayan Goddess in Change
… that aim to challenge, if not subvert, the hegemonic narratives that are promoted in the region by outside forces. Thus, by highlighting Haḍimbā's Mahābhārata associations they offer a new kind of epic frame for national and religious identity; by insisting on the performance of animal …
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Walking backwards in high heels: narratives of women’s (non)representation in corporate leadership in the UK and Germany
… It identifies and interrogates five culturally hegemonic stories that circulate in business, academia and the public sphere: first, the story that men and women are “naturally” different and biologically suited for different destinies; second, the story that success wears high heels as …
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Democratic Transition and Digital Media Activism in Africa: A Zimbabwean Case Study
… to create communicative ecologies for counter hegemonic narratives. There was a general consensus among the respondents on the potential of digital media activism in Zimbabwe as a communicative site of struggle for democratisation and social change. Most respondents noted the significant gains …
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