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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Resistance to Oppression"”.
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Juan Bobo, postcoloniality and Frantz Fanon's theory of violence
… written adaptations of the oral tales and stories about Juan Bobo political violence is generated against the Jibaros by colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial discourses that are still perpetuated in Puerto Rico through unaltered colonial attitudes, political, socioeconomic structures, …
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Cannibalizing the Victorians: Racial and Cultural Hybridity in the Brontes and Their Caribbean Rewritings
This is not to say, however, that my project discusses Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as paradigms of a colonialist perspective awaiting overhaul by timely postcolonial revisions. Rather, I offer historically grounded textual analyses of individual Bronte novels in order to challenge the dominant …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
… communications, and transnational history reside at the core this thesis. Methodologically indebted to actor network theory, critical theorizations of counterpublics and the public sphere, and transnational historiography, the thesis develops four main arguments. First, far from a …
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The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
… studies has overwhelmingly privileged subaltern resistance as a means for the subaltern to attain autonomy. While the group's project has made breakthroughs in rewriting Indian subaltern history, their emphasis on resistance to oppression has also essentialized what it means to create autonomy. A …
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LIBERATORY EXPRESSIONS: BLACK WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND THE CODED WORD, AN AFRICOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
Word coding can be traced to the ancient Kemetic practice of steganography (referring to hiding place or hidden message). Unless the reader is aware of the meaning, the Coded Word can often appear as just art. Afrocentric scholarship however, also incorporates the idea of functionality. Aesthetics, …
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Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency
My goal in this dissertation is to articulate an Arendtian conception of feminist agency, that is, agency that aims at resistance from within oppressive situations. There is a tendency in feminist literature to depict women in the global south as if they are passive victims of their oppression, …
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Specializing in the wholly impossible: A rhetorical analysis of phronesis and kairos in the writings of Nannie Helen Burroughs
This study examines the rhetorics employed by school founder and civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961). "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible" signifies the complexities and contradictions inherent in being black and female in America during the first decades of the twentieth …
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Tunisian Theater at the Turn of the Century: "Hammering the Same Nail" in Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi's Theater
… as two of the most influential actor-director-playwright pair in contemporary Tunisian theater. This is the first research that addresses the drama of Baccar and Jaïbi, a partnership that spans almost forty years, and is arguably the most significant force in North African Theater. …
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Black mothers and othermothers: Lived consequences and creative responses to the policing of space in Central City, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
… in the Central City neighborhood, I gathered stories from Black mothers of their everyday experience of policing and its impact on their families and social standing as mothers. Through their stories, these mothers reimagine their lived experiences in spite of state-sanctioned marginalization …