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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Lorde"”.
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St. Thomas More's Treatice to Receave the Blessed Body of Our Lorde: An Edition
<p>It is far from amazing that Saint Thomas More should have written as one of his last works, A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Sacrament. That the subject was dear to his heart was attested to by a life of devotion to this Sacrament as a private Englishman and also as a public controversialist. …
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"""A house of difference"": Constructions of the lesbian poet in Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen"
… activists and lesbians, the poets I read--Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen--are accorded very different literary status. In examining the processes, literary and cultural, that place them as poets, my dissertation contends that literary recognition, whether from feminist critics …
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"Our skins sing in complementary keys": Literary Crip Kinship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Geraldine, Fanny Burney, and Audre Lorde
… as a literary crip kinship with Audre Lorde, Fanny Burney, and, surprisingly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Geraldine. These literary figures, and my own experience, have raised many of the same questions in my mind—of betrayal, of a sense of foreboding evil. How do my own experiences with …
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Living in the Margins of Life: The Intersectionality of Identity, Race, and Sexuality in the Selected Works of Audre Lorde
<p>For Lorde, identity rests in the power of one’s voice; in that having a voice gives one the agency not only to confidently reaffirm one’s personal identity, but to speak against oppressors who endeavor to keep voices silent. In Lorde’s poetry, she addresses those who stand at the margins of …
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An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care
… Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care”, hypothesizes that we can conceive a practice of self-care using an abolitionist lens to examine the writings and performances of three Black feminists Maya Angelou, …
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Isililo sikaNandi: imagining dithyrambic dirge to performatively score the precarity of blackwomnhood
… ‘creative re-visioning' (2010:1) and what Audre Lorde defines as ‘autobiomythography' (Lorde, 1996). In order to do this, the study employs a Practice as Research approach to explore alternative ways of staging heterogeneous experiences of blackwomnhood using the plurality of voice as a …
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The "Self" in Crisis: A Study of Audre Lorde's <i>The Cancer Journals</i>
… on The Cancer Journals and explore how Audre Lorde articulates the chaos followed by breast cancer in her life: what is the nature of the crises? What aspects of her life are largely affected by it? How it unsettles her understanding of time and place, how her daily life, work, relationships, …
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Blood Quantum “A Pūrākau approach to understanding the impact of ‘Blood Quantum’ in Māori Identity”
… tools will never dismantle the master’s house” (Lorde, 1984, p.94) This thesis begins and ends with being Ngāi Tahu, the two fundamental questions that generated this topic are: Who determines Indigenous legal identity? Who defines tribal membership and affiliation? Although the idea of defining …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
… Diaspora. The journeys of Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Willard Motley, and Elizabeth Catlett to Mexico illustrate an intricate web of rhizomatic connections spanning the Black Atlantic, the Caribbean Ocean, the Mississippi River and the Rio Grande. This dissertation examines the history of …
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Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness
… noticing or caring about the destruction,” Audre Lorde tells us in her 1980 “mythobiography” Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. This quality, Lorde says, “according to one popular definition of mental health, makes me mentally unhealthy.” In rejecting psychological self-possession as a sign of …
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Revolutionary style : parrēsia and the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis.
… between Davis, Michel Foucault, and Audre Lorde, I question how Davis navigates the rhetorical quagmire of writing an explicitly political autobiography while avoiding the interpellation of her personal narrative into a heroic account of legal triumph. To this end, I examine two modes of …
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O trono do pop em jogo: tensionamentos discursivos entre crítica, fãs e haters sobre divas pop no metacritic
… com maior nota geral na plataforma em 2017, Lorde e seu álbum Melodrama, com a que obteve a menor pontuação geral na plataforma, Katy Perry e o álbum Witness, lançado no mesmo ano.
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A sturdy Black bridge : a symbolic connection among three generations of Black female poets.
… poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Ai, and many others have used their poetry to enhance the history and literature of Black people. One major focus of this study is upon a core group of African-American female poets born during the Great Depression. These poets use their …
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Escrita autoral e poder erótico: a experiência do Núcleo de Mulheres Negras – O amor cura na periferia sul de São Paulo
… the concept of Erotic Power, developed by Audre Lorde ([1978] 2019), to analyze the epistemologies of black and decolonial feminism, present in the practices and written production of peripheral black artists and activists, members of the Núcleo de Mulheres Negras – O amor cura, a feminist care …
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Orifice of Return
… are commingled, but wrestling forces. As Audre Lorde declares, there are many kinds of open, the poems of this collection are orifices, textual portals, spatial and temporal fissures, and entryways into Black past, present, and future. These poems use received forms (the ghazal, the ode, the …
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Understanding Distancing Behaviors in Social Justice Activism and Organizations: An Interpretive Descriptive Study
… members (Crenshaw, 1991; Dzodan, 2011; Lorde, 1998; Smith, 2006). Recent studies and theoretical frameworks support the idea that marginalization and shame contribute to diminished participation in social justice movements (Brown, 2007; Greene & Britton, 2015; Jordan, 2018; Kim, Kendall, …
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Becoming
… entitled Becoming. Using James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and Zora Neale Hurston as departure points, both the photo series and this academic explanative seeks to explore the question of what does it mean to become? Or in other words, what is the imperative to be who you are, to actualize within a …
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Acting out: a performative exploration of identity, healing, and wholeness
… engagement with Black feminists (see hooks 2004; Lorde 1984) offers for both author and reader a chance to find love, affirmation, and create whole and boundless self-identities.
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Documentary filmmaking as an ethical practice: looking for life stories
… of feminists such as bell hooks (1994), Audre Lorde (1984), Patricia Hill Collins (2000) and Ursula Le Guin (1988) who theorised power and representation. It also draws from the scholarship and projects of practitioners such as Thalhofer (2017) and Cizek (2019), seeking to challenge traditional …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… the protest poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Audre Lorde, whose justice elegies embody a maternal literary tradition of mourning that resists racial and sexual hegemonic violence? Is it inclusive of communal bodies and spaces as in Sonia Sanchez’ communal elegy for the Philadelphia Osage Street …
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