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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Memory and History"”.
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Between memory and history: Shimon Attie's art of remembrance
… traveled to the former Jewish quarter of Berlin and wondered “Where are all the missing people?” With this question in mind, Attie embarked on a two year project that involved converting black and white archival photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Berlin into slides and projecting them onto the …
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Between memory and history: the restoration of Tulbagh as cultural signifier
… critically accessing the precursors, proponents and processes of the Tulbagh restoration. This research is focused on understanding the reasons why and how, after the earthquake of 1969, Church Street was reinstated to its 'historic' 18/19th century appearance. This reconstructive restoration is …
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Traumatic Family Narratives in a Cosmopolitan World: Identity in American Third Generation Holocaust Survivors
… generations. Considers transmission processes of memory and history. Specifically focuses on identity of adult (age 18-40) grandchildren of Holocaust survivors in America juxtaposed with identity of adult Jewish Americans whose families were not directly impacted by the Holocaust. Original …
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IRRADIATED PLAYGROUND: THE GEORGIA NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT LABORATORY AND THE LEGACY OF THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR PROJECT
… with as a place of exploration, learning, and an unofficial memorial to the past. Over the course of my research I utilized archival documents, photographs I took during site visits, and internet discussions to analyze the way that modern visitors interact with the site and complicate the …
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The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
… 1990's was marked by a significant reworking of memory and history in South Africa. WHilst the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was involved in its hearings on amnesty applications and gross human rights violations, new museums were emerging and older ones began reshaping their displays. …
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Telling History Through the Stories of Women: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé
… <em>In the Time of the Butterflies</em> (1994) and <em>In the Name of Salomé</em> (2000) are revolutionary texts contesting traditional, male dominated history and redirecting historical and communal foci to the lives of Dominican women. I employ Walter Benjamin's theories found in his essays …
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Chivalric Lieux De Memoire: Nostalgia, Communal Memory, And The Burden Of Historical Consciousness In Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
… period. To start, I establish the political and social climate of fifteenth-century England, drawing on the work of historians to demonstrate the disequilibrium of communal institutions, particularly during the Wars of the Roses. Utilizing the work of Johan Huizinga I argue that the troubling …
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The Significance of "Dwelling Place" Through Representations of Memory in the Carter Family Fold
This is an interpretive oral history project that relies upon the methods of ethnographic fieldwork (interviews, participant observation, and library/archival research) in order to understand how the Carter Family Fold (CFF) functions rhetorically as a site/sight of memory and history. Moreover, …
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Constructing Tiananmen Square as a realm of memory: national salvation, revolutionary tradition, and political modernity in twentieth-century China.
To study the history of Tiananmen (The Gate of Heavenly Peace) Square is to study the history of Chinese political modernity from the late nineteenth century to the present. While exploring the on-going process through which Tiananmen Square has been constructed as the symbolic center of …
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Relocating the Female Body: "Queering" as Routes for Agency
… body throughout literature has a complicated history. My thesis attempts to restructure the historical narrative of the female body through a regional narration. The region is a site for collective experience, it allows for different places, spaces, memories, and histories to form as a …
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Teaching humanity: Placing the Cape Town Holocaust Centre in a post-apartheid state
… the period of political transition to democracy and the two decades after apartheid. The history of placing the Holocaust in post-apartheid South Africa shows the dynamics and tensions of identity construction by the state, communities and individuals as the country emerged from a history of …
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Persistence of Memory: Revision, Nostalgia, and Resistance in Contemporary American Drama
<p>This dissertation focuses on the usages of memory in contemporary American drama. Analyzing selected mainstream and alternative dramatic texts, The Persistence of Memory is a study of personal and communal reflections of the past within contemporary plays. The introduction provides examples from …
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Architecture as connector : insertions, ruins, and additions at Pier 26, San Francisco
… one of few remaining pieces of San Francisco's grand maritime heritage. With the city's vision of changing its unused industrial waterfront into a recreational zone, the thesis focuses on the conditions affecting the reuse of the site to achieve this vision. The goal is to investigate how …
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The scent of a new world novel: translating the olfactory language of Faulkner and García Márquez
Both William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez introduce the olfactory as a focal element in their writing, producing works that challenge the singular primacy of sight as the unrivaled means by which the New World might be understood. As they translate experiences of the New World into language, …
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Tethered
… individual's family originates, both physically and historically. Not long after discovering that part of my family was almost completely annihilated during the Holocaust, I produced Tethered as visual documentation of the long-term effects of families of survivors. The exhibition is also …
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Between Two Motherlands: Struggles for Nationhood Among the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1906--1949
… examines the Greek community in Bulgaria and its transformation from a prominent minority into a marginalized refugee population after resettlement in Greece. Its history illustrates the tension between nationality as a form of cultural affinity and national ideology as a political …
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Rekindling histories : families and British polar exploration
… thesis examines the roles that families played, and continue to play, in sustaining British polar exploration. It uses polar exploration as a case-study to investigate the ways in which people maintain or revive particular histories in public and in private, and probes the intersection between …
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Reading Speculative Subjectivities: The Second Generation and the Afterlife of Migration
… takes a transethnic, transnational, relational, and comparative approach to literature about the children of immigrants, the second generation. It argues that second generation is a distinct subject position that is shaped but not wholly defined by race, ethnicity, and nation and, as such, ought …
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Childhood and Christianity from Paul to the Council of Chalcedon.
… is a study of the interaction between children and the rituals practices of antique Christianity. The thesis is framed firmly as a piece of cultural . - - history and it takes as its evidence the writings of the church fathers, complemented by antique Christian art. It has sought to show that …