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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Pierre Nora"”.
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Aesthetic Shapes of Holocaust Literature and Pedagogical Applications
… other trauma and memory theorists: Cathy Caruth, Pierre Nora, Maurice Halbwachs, and Marianne Hirsch to offer a close rhetorical and structural analysis of each text analyzed through a traumatic theoretical lens.</p> <p>This thesis discusses the intersection of pedagogy and theory, highlighting …
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Recovering evicted memories : an exploration of heritage policies, intangible heritage, and storytelling in Vancouver, BC
… to the locations where they originated (what Pierre Nora (1989) calls milieux de mémoire). My recommendations include a formal integration of intangible heritage projects with the established heritage conservation program and suggest opportunities to achieve this integration. These …
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Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans
… Cohen-Cruz, Sonia Kuftinec, Paul Connerton, and Pierre Nora to approach these performances. The act of making community visible to itself through the vehicle of story unleashes a performative power in these performances that follows conceptualizations of memory as embodied, connected to the …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
… of memory studies, in particular the work of Pierre Nora, Eric Hobsbawn, Andreas Huyssen, Michael Kammen, and Alison Landsberg. In chapter one, I track the reception of Gone with the Wind among white American audiences and define the phenomenon as rooted in Benedict Anderson's conception of …
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Remembering Omagh : aesthetics, ethics and ownership in the performance of memory in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… where I grew up. Drawing upon the theories of Pierre Nora, who states that our propensity to design and fix memory prevents us from experiencing real and ever-changing memory within ourselves, I investigate the concept of oral history performance as a counter-memorial, utilising and …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
<p>This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' <em>Balún-Canán</em> and Rudolfo Anaya's <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow …