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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Refigure"”.
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"Maybe home is an uneasy place": Dionne Brand's uneasy home-spaces
… failings, dismantle its borders, and ultimately refigure the concept of home as what I term Brand's uneasy homespaces - sites where provisional reterritorializations sign and enable agency, open the possibility of connection through negotiation, and retain uneasiness as a reminder of necessary …
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Storied objects: design thinking with time
… for object-story-construction. These are used to refigure a recorded history to project an object-centric perspective. Our principles and method suggest a new class of objects that could be present in future spaces. Situating point of view, experiential compression of time, and the privileging of …
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Yogic Agency: The Yoga in Composition and Rhetoric
… the writing classroom, I extract, analyze, and refigure the yogic philosophy and practice as always and already underlying scholarship of composition and rhetoric. My dissertation integrates yogic and rhetorical perspectives into one. I aim to sharpen and clarify of the role of yoga, as well as …
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Citizenship, Gender, and Intimacy: First Ladies in the Television Age
… politics were on the rise, and worked to refigure definitions of citizenship to be more concerned with the health and prosperity of individuals and families, and less concerned with collective struggle against structures of injustice. For women, this privatized and atomized regime of …
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The Newfoundland Diaspora
… as always from elsewhere, and that threatens to refigure experiences of racism as a problem of integration rather than of systemic, institutionalized racism. I examine several important literary works of the Newfoundland diaspora, including the poetry of E.J. Pratt and Carl Leggo, the drama of …
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Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness
… They turn to emergent genres and forms to refigure wellness as a generative relation to difference – a relation that, in Lorde’s Black feminist framework, is always bound up with the pain of others. Specifically, I read Lorde’s genre-bending memoir <em>The Cancer Journals</em>; the …
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Critical Climates: <i>Stimmung</i>, Voice and Mythopoesis in German Literature from 1950–1989
… that focuses on <em>Stimmung</em> as a way to refigure literary studies beyond cultural studies and poststructuralism, as well as work that analyzes social phenomena in terms of atmosphere to make sense of affect’s political importance. This study, however, differs somewhat from these …