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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Imagined geographies."”.
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Country of Illusion: Imagined Geographies and Transnational Connections in F. Scott Fitzgerald's America
The two decades between World Wars I and II were a remarkably isolationist, xenophobic period in the history of American politics and culture. In the era’s literature, however, some US authors repurposed regional writing as a medium for rethinking conservative nationalism and for imagining their …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
Published in 1936, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind achieved massive literary success before being adapted into a motion picture of the same name in 1939. The novel and film have amassed numerous accolades, inspired frequent reissues, and sustained mass popularity. This dissertation analyzes …
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The Labors, Infrastructures and Plastics of Mumbai's Waste Flows
… in Mumbai, India. I examine the material and imagined geographies of plastic discard and collection; the labors through which these different kinds of plastics move; and the infrastructures, spaces and relations that shape the rhythms and subjectivities of waste discard and work. I think with …
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
… by one's culture (what Edward Said calls imagined geographies), these authors, in unique and various ways, aim to foster mental hospitality, a concept that appeared in liberal Christian teaching that is prerequisite to practicing republican hospitality. Fuller uses encounters with remnants …
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The Improvised Expert: Performing authority after Fukushima (2011-2018)
… has been narrated in relation to the disaster’s imagined geographies. In particular, I examine how the common notion of Japan’s public debate as a battle against the irrational fear of radiation – to be fought by experts, who are to teach the public to “fear correctly” (tadashiku kowagaru) – is …
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Contested nationhood: Literary Geographies of contemporary Italian Alpine borders
… Italian-language literary production and the imagined geographies created by it. Texts provide insights into the geographical spaces they represent, while geography, in turn, influences the textual representation of place and spatial identity. Employing a geo-literary approach developed at the …