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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Master narrative"”.
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It’s Not What You (Don’t) Eat, It’s What Eats You: Countering the U.S. Eating Disorder Master Narrative
… to studying eating disorders is based on the master narrative of biomedicine. The present dissertation examines the existing master narrative by investigating the meaning that women themselves ascribe to their eating disorder experiences. Drawing upon notions of embodiment, the present …
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'Mastering the genocide narrative' : an analysis of the Rwandan Patriotic Front's official narrative of the Rwandan genocide
… the Rwandan Government's construction of their narrative ofthe Rwandan genocide be established? A frequent point of emphasis by scholars is that an official narrative usually is put forward by the dominant or ruling group to serve their interests: the contents and features oftheir narrative are …
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A Historical Analysis of Women Student Activities during the Inter War Years 1918 -1941
… of women by continuing to reinforce the master narrative of women in history. Acknowledging and confronting the master narrative within the history of higher education provides a useful endeavor by uncovering a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and educational …
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The politics of memorialisation in Namibia: reading the Independence Memorial Museum
… to in this research as the creation of a Swapo master narrative of liberation history. It is a selective and subjective re-telling of history which ultimately works to conflate Swapo with the Nation. As such, Swapo has been portrayed as the sole representative and liberator of the Namibian …
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Dramatism, Feminine Style and Women's Weblogs: Women Speaking in the E-Public
… an argument derived from each blogger's master narrative, while feminine style analysis revealed subtle differences among the women's persuasive tactics.
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Thalhimers Department Store: Story, History, and Theory
… and theory. It first introduces the intertwining narratives of the author's paternal family and the store's history, then shares the author's personal story of Thalhimers. The second half outlines the master narrative of the American department store then applies "fantasy-theme analysis" and the …
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The embedding of precarious employment in Ireland: stories of workers from the South-East
Real-life narratives of the precarious employment of 13 low-paid and insecure workers located in the South-East region of Ireland form the basis of this thesis. This study examines the relationship between EU and Irish policies of social inclusion and their application to workers in precarious …
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We Are Who We Think We Were: Updating the Role of Historiography in Christian Ethics
… bases his view of the Christian church on the master narrative, Constantinianism. He then uses this master narrative to derive meaning from Tertullian and his virtue of patience that accords less with Tertullian's textually discursive conditions and more with Hauerwas' own ideological …
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Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
Russian Symbolists struggled to write a counter-narrative to the prevailing master narrative of disintegration, degeneration, and social pathology advanced by the emerging fields of social science, psychology, and modern medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. The Symbolists invested their …
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"We met in a bar by happenstance": Master narratives in couples stories
… the underlying cultural assumptions, or Master Narratives, across four couples narratives that I elicited. I use Deborah Tannen's work and definitions to frame my analysis (2008). She identifies three narrative types: small-n narrative, the accounts of specific events or interactions that …
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Discursive change in Turkish strategic culture: changing narratives, roles and values
… culture, which is conceptualized as change in narratives. In the mainstream literature it has been customary to provide explanations about the change in Turkish foreign policy by applying existing theories which focus on the ideological differences between Kemalism, Islamism and Liberalism or …
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The Salzburger Story and its Legacy in Rincon, Georgia
… However, what is missing in the Salzburger narrative is what this legacy means to those descendants living near the site today. Visits to the New Ebenezer historical site, interviews with Salzburgers active at the site, and information gleaned from various web sites associated with New …
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Black Mosaic: The Assimilation and Marginalization of Afro -Peruvians in Post -Abolition Peru, 1854--1930
… participation, and popular religiosity. In the master narrative of post-abolition Peruvian history, their demographic demise has been exaggerated and their traditions and cultural expressions appropriated and subsumed in indigenous, mestizo, and creole culture. The central unifying analytical …
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Honor, Supremacy, and the Lynching of Henry Smith
… Hence, the author’s aim is not to re-write the master narrative, per se. Rather, this is an attempt to enhance the reader’s historical perspective, placing Henry Smith’s story against the backdrop of lynching in American memory. The ultimate objective is to address – at least in part – these …
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Over, Then Over Again, Over: A Poetics of Disorder
… acts and embodied, lived experiences. In a master narrative that characterizes disordered subjects as morally impure, while insisting upon femininity as safeguarding physical purity, the most ineffable identity might be “the madwoman.” Both rejected and romanticized, her diagnosis results …
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Endangered species: the hope for students in Mexican Chicago
… Mexican American male students complicates the master narrative of ""the Latino threat"" rhetoric that labels Mexican immigrants as ""dropping out of school, becoming gang members, and causing problems"" (Chavez, 2008, p. 38)."
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Stage(d) mothers: mother-daughter tropes in Twentieth-Century American drama
… to those messages. It is not intended as a master-narrative of the discourse on the mother-daughter relationship, but rather as an opening of that discourse to the world of theatrical and dramatic representation.
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… throughout his fiction. The women in Ngugi's narratives are thus located outside of an historical present, inasmuch as they represent either an idyllic past (prior to the colonial incursion) or an harmonious future utopia. Further, Ngugi' s gender representations enable the political vision of …
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The Wilderness in Medieval English Literature: Genre, Audience and Society
… of the landscape of England subverts the Norman master-narrative of political and social superiority. The final chapter of this study examines the earliest Middle English Robin Hood poems, arguing that they represent the voice of the English peasant and manifest a desire to regain control of the …
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