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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"History-Memory"”.
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Tayeb Salih: Culture, History, Memory
Each episode, especially the long narratives, is a comment on the period in the life of the Arab nation during which it was written. Salih's main narrator is constantly engaged in recollection, reorganization, and interpretation of the past. What he remembers and what he forgets, what he …
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16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature
16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature The thesis considers the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy during the German occupation of 1943-45, which took place in Rome on 16 October 1943. It examines Italian cultural memory of the Roman round-up through the perspective of …
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Making Victims: History, Memory, and Literature In Japan's Post-War Social Imaginary
… literature becomes a mediator between history and memory.</p> <p><em>Fires on the Plain</em>, <em>Black Rain</em> and <em>Grave of the Fireflies</em> all serve important and specific functions in creating a victim's consciousness during the post-war period. By separating the common man …
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Shifting Grounds: History, Memory and Materiality in Auckland Landscapes c.1350–2018
… embedded in each place, the thesis examines how history, memory and materiality have evolved in these three places. While New Zealand historians have explored relationships between people and their material worlds in wilderness and rural areas, relatively little work has been done on urban …
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"The father of the revolution": history, memory and the FNLA veterans of Pomfret
… to this day. By making use of concepts such as memory, myth, as well as senses of place, belonging and identity, this thesis will examine these two divergent narratives, and will posit that the respondents' reflections on the FNLA are ultimately tied to their present identities as forgotten and …
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The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005
… become sites for far-reaching discussions about history, memory, space, and identity in the city, and indeed the nation. The debates about the graves should be seen as invoking ethico-juridical questions about memory, forgetting and memorialisation. These are questions that are potent in the …
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Video, memory and identity : my body, my history
… the past and the relationship of these images to history, memory and the present. Because some of these relationships are problematic, alternative ways of looking at memory and familial images through the medium of video are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the idea of a more visceral …
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Colorado Stories: Interpreting HIstory for Public Audiences at the History Colorado Center
Interpreting cultural conflict at History Colorados communities exhibit, Colorado Stories, created a three-way dialogue between scholars, museum audiences, and community stakeholders. Four communities, Amache, Sand Creek, Lincoln Hills, and the Latino borderlands of southern Colorado required …
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The Dramaturgy of Evocation: A visual dramaturgical framework
… past and present by inves:ga:ng the aspects of history, memory, presence, and intertextuality. The work unpacks strategies of scenographic visuality that allow theatre-makers to engage the audience, s:mulate reflec:on, and elicit a powerful emo:onal reac:on, eventually strengthening the …
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The St. Francis Dam Disaster: An Experiential Memorial Landscape
… of memorials as spatial expressions of culture, history, memory, life, and death. Memorials have traditionally been monumental in form, but there is a growing shift in landscape architecture towards designing experiential memorial landscapes that allow for healing, reflection, and active …
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The nature of appropriation: Eric Linklater's 'Juan in America'
… – which Beaty states to be influences from history, memory, and culture – can also be appropriated for satirical purpose. These elements will be investigated using concepts from the disciplines of autobiography, history and anthropology. Finally, Linklater was influenced by various literary …
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WRITING THE REAL: THE COLLAGES OF HANNELORE BARON
… is in relation to the body as a coalition of history, memory, corporeality and the psyche is not only significant to contemporary understandings of identity and subjectivity, but also makes it possible to propose an ethical dimension concerned with a feminine understanding of difference.
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Representations of Trauma in Contemporary American Literature and Film: Moving from Erasure to Creative Transformation
… here has an interesting relationship to cultural history and historic events - including the Holocaust, 9/11, and slavery - challenging a variety of accepted social narratives. After an introduction outlining the theoretical frameworks, the first chapter considers Cuban-American author Cristina …
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Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transitions: the Tsitsikamma community renewable wind farm story
… from Moore's (2003) world-ecology framing - history is part of rather than separate from the web of life - a non-dualist version of world history. In the research, a multi-sited ethnography was used and included tracing the relationships that recognised land history, memory (patterns of …
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Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transitions: The Tsitsikamma Community Renewable Wind Farm Story
… from Moore's (2003) world-ecology framing - history is part of rather than separate from the web of life - a non-dualist version of world history. In the research, a multisited ethnography was used and included tracing the relationships that recognised land history, memory (patterns of …
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Singing knowledge: aesthetics, authority and gender in Skyrian music (Greece)
… modes of music-making on Skyros engage local history, memory and identity, singers use their performances at Carnival, festivals, and other events as metaperformative commentaries on the nature of community belonging, such that singing constitutes a claim to social, political, and musical …
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World War Commemoration and the Politics of the Union in the British Isles, 1994-2016
… asymmetries in ‘national’ forms of history, memory and identity. It also overlooks the existence of distinctive experiences and legacies of war that inform commemoration in England, Scotland, Wales and the island of Ireland. Additionally, since 1994 the UK has undergone a series of …
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"In the blank of mere possibility": liminal transformations in the poetry of Christina Rossetti
… helps them to acquire (or re-gain) personal history, memory and a voice. I proceed to explore the conflict between the seen and the unseen, revelation and illusion, in Rossetti’s work, paralleling this with photographic experiments by Lady Hawarden. This enables me to trace the use of the …
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Online and brick-and-mortar museums in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-present)
… from four areas of research. The politics of history – the ways in which the past is used for present-day goals – has been studied by historians and political scientists, but most of their work has a national focus and omits museums. Museologists have engaged with the social and political …
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