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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Imperial Narratives"”.
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Visions of Possibilities: (De)Constructing Imperial Narratives in Star Trek: Voyager
… dissertation, I argue that contemporary cultural narratives are infused with ongoing ideologies of Euro-American imperialism that prioritizes Western bodies and ways of engaging with living and nonliving beings. This restriction severely hinders possible responses to the present environmental …
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From Self-Determination to Decolonization: How American Indian Activism Reshaped Museum Spaces
… and museums historically reinforced colonial and imperial narratives that positioned American Indians as federally dependent, scientific specimens. Through exhibition analyses, I show how activist principles of cultural sovereignty influenced museums to shift from sites reinforcing colonial and …
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A Gentleman's Burden: Difference and the Development of British Education at Home and in the Empire During the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries
… ideology alongside Britain's domestic and imperial development. Key innovations in educational ideology are considered alongside the core moments of educational change during this period, specifically the major policies and reforms that shaped British state-funded education at home and …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… and individual—as inevitably stunted by both imperial narratives of Irish disability and the equally oppressive nationalist narratives that came to replace them in the Irish postcolonial imaginary. By reading postcolonial Irish narratives through the framework of disability, I venture beyond a …
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Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century Science Fiction Novels
… geology and paleontology play a role in imperial ambitions of countries and characters in science fiction novels. Two novels are analyzed—<em> Journey to the Centre of the Earth </em>by Jules Verne and <em>The Lost World </em>by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—using the theories of Edward Said and …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… century. Most scholars assume that these narratives reinforce the conventional rhetoric of Latin brutality that justifies U.S. imperialism, but my dissertation reveals that an array of writers told such stories to undermine state power, contest military intervention, and to urge American …