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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Quicksand"”.
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Art as information: Re-reading quicksand
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Art as information: Re-reading quicksand
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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An Intersectional Analysis of Nella Larsen's Quicksand
… intersectional analysis of Nella Larsen's Quicksand in order to shed light on this complicated and often misunderstood novel and also to show the value of a truly intersectional framework for literary analysis. In addition, I aim to develop an interdisciplinary intersectional methodology …
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Black women as monuments in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
… every day life. I use Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand as an example of how men and masculine-centered forces attempt and, ultimately fail, to monumentalize living women, specifically women of color, who face a unique set of constraints on their sexuality and identity within society. With …
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Turning quicksand into bedrock : understanding the dynamic effects of disease-focused global health aid on health systems
This thesis asks one basic question: how do "vertical" disease- or intervention-focused global health programs impact the underlying health systems of the nations they serve? Vertical programs-health aid focused on a particular disease, such as HIV, or type of intervention, such as …
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Zur Problematik von Herkunft, Geschlecht und Identitätsfindung in den beiden Romanen von Nella Larsen "Quicksand" (1928) und "Passing" (1929)
… und Gender. Die beiden hier besprochenen Romane „Quicksand“ und „Passing“ von Nella Larsen zeigen Hauptprotagonistinnen mit interrassischen Identitäten, die auf einer schwarzen und weißen Elternschaft beruhen und sich damit an den bis in die späten 1970er Jahre in den USA tatsächlich existierenden …
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Whiteness and the Movement of Signification: Toward a Deconstruction of Ontologies of Absolute Difference
… Lord Jim, Jean Toomer’s Cane, and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing. Lord Jim critiques the actions of white people in a way that relies on presuppositions of absolute difference. In this way, Lord Jim anticipates critical whiteness studies. Cane demonstrates how conceptualizing whiteness as …
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The Fallacy of Cultural Authenticity: The Simulacra and Cultural Appropriation in the Free Market through the Lens of Literature
… <em>Ragtime</em> and Nella Larsen’s <em>Quicksand</em></p> <p>II. ‘Buying’ Into Culture: The Effect of Commoditization on the Cultural Artifact in Willa Cather’s <em>The Professor’s House</em></p> <p>III. Selling Experience: The Fallacy of Memory & Influence of Late Capitalism on the …
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Aesthetic detail in the works of Nella Larsen
In the novellas Quicksand and Passing, Nella Larsen uses the often maligned detail to explore issues of gender, race, and sexuality. Female body parts, women's clothing, and skin color are particularly reiterated and fetishized. These evocative descriptions function symbolically and at times act as …
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"The Thing Became Real": New Materialisms and Race in the Fiction of Nella Larsen
… Wrong Man” and “Freedom” (1926), and her novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). I argue that Larsen mobilizes concepts of misrecognition and misrepresentation through characters’ encounters with materiality in order to challenge ideologies of race and gender. Significantly, Larsen’s stories …
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Black Biracial Crossings: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Literature and Culture
… less confining racial scripts. Nella Larsen's Quicksand, Michelle Cliff's Abeng, Danzy Senna's Caucasia, James McBride's The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, and Rebecca Walker's Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self along with popular culture …
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
… the nexus of talk, taste, and identity in *Quicksand* (1928). I argue that small talk in *Quicksand* is a mode of attritional suspension between identification and rejection, resembling a kind of aesthetic self-fashioning, but mortally precarious. The thesis concludes with a coda reflecting …
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How Time Becomes (Mise En) Obsolete
… then the more you know you don’t know, it’s like quicksand as soon as the gaps are filled in more keep appearing. Also that intense thinking can benefit from an encounter with the ridiculous. Key words: sensation, illusion, obsolescence, arte povera, mise en abyme, ‘pataphysics, fully automated …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… Home to Harlem, Native Son, Invisible Man, Quicksand, and Their Eyes Were Watching God are distinctly picaresque. The genre continues a tradition begun with the trickster tales of Africa (Anansi, the Spider and others), then transformed by Blacks in the American South into stories of the …
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The Sociopolitical Construction Of Race And Literary Representations Of The Biracial Subject
… and biracial protagonists in Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) in order to explore the texts' representations of systems of hegemonic power that create racial labels and categories. I discuss the binary sociopolitical construction of race in the United States …
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Foundational Integration Verification of Diverse Software and Hardware Components
… by a long-standing tradition of building on quicksand. Even the most venerable and critical systems have a history of serious bugs and security vulnerabilities. Human fallibility continues to prevail. Computer-checked mathematical proofs of software correctness have emerged as a promising …
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After Fragmentation: Mental Health and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature
… ever-wandering Helga Crane of Larsen’s Quicksand, the institutionalized young mother protagonist of Coleman’s The Shutter of Snow, and the dejected, alcoholic Sasha Jansen of Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight, I assert that these authors found in fragments an experimental aesthetic and …
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Illegible Subjects: Knowledge and American Modernity, 1898-1985
… porous. Next, I interrogate how Nella Larsen’s Quicksand suggests that the production of sustaining forms of collective life depends upon the suspension of the coercive demand that subjects exchange their radical opacity for identitarian legibility. My third chapter explores how the essays of …
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“Quality is everything” : rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement in interwar women’s literature of England, Ireland and the United States
… the third chapter, on Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand examines in detail by comparing birth control and African-American racial uplift rhetoric. Crossing the Atlantic, the fourth chapter looks at the influence of the English birth control movement on Irish novelist Kate O’Brien’s 1931 Without …
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“Quality is everything” : rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement in interwar women’s literature of England, Ireland and the United States
… the third chapter, on Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand examines in detail by comparing birth control and African-American racial uplift rhetoric. Crossing the Atlantic, the fourth chapter looks at the influence of the English birth control movement on Irish novelist Kate O’Brien’s 1931 Without …
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