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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Southern studies"”.
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Before Me, After Me, Through Me: Stories Of Food And Community In Eastern Kentucky
… of 2016 as a part of a Master of Arts thesis in southern studies. The interviews were conducted with people specifically connected to food, farming, and community activism in and near Letcher County, Kentucky. The interviews explore such topics as: past and present food traditions, seed saving, …
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Reenactments: Embodied Encounters with the U.S. Southern Past
… now? Working at the intersection of theatre studies, performance studies, cultural studies, and American studies, this dissertation responds to contemporary national conversations around race, region, cultural memory, and political ideology through an examination of four distinct performance …
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The South According To Quentin Tarantino
… Quentin Tarantino’s portrayal of the South and southerners in his films Pulp Fiction (1994), Death Proof (2007), and Django Unchained (2012). In order to do so, it explores and explains Tarantino’s mixture of genres, influences, and filmmaking styles in which he places the South and its …
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Impression, Storm
… on queer theory, environmental literature, southern studies, fine art criticism, and feminist scholarship, <em>Impression, Storm</em> takes a multidisciplinary approach to the art of storytelling. The scope of the narrative follows not only the imminent arrival and aftermath of a hurricane …
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Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker
… thesis inverts the comreading model in literary studies of reading Third World writers through First World theorists. Instead, beginning with Anzaldúa, I propose to reverse this process and assert a new reading methodology of reading First World writers through Third World theorists. The trope of …
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The language and politics of place: autobiographical curriculum in the American South
… identification and inquiry. This study explores southern place autobiographically, historically, and theoretically in order to illuminate the subjective and social dimensions of place and to promote progressive conversation in the region. My inquiry is interdisciplinary. It draws on …
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In A Foreign Land: Stories Of African Immigrants And Their Children In Jackson, MS
… community and its connections to the larger Southern region of the United States. African community in Jackson, MS develops through the shared experiences of African immigrants who now share the geographical space of the Jackson metropolitan area. This research will show how African members …
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Imagined space in Sacred Harp singing
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South
… autobiographical writings by formerly poor white Southern women, who are rarely considered as a group and are more typically studied with “rough South” male writers, which would suggest that few women have contributed their own gendered experience to discussions of class, race, and sexuality …
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The Blues Is Alright: Blues Music as a Root for Cultural Tourism and Public History
… of an American art form with distinctly Southern roots. However, there are few successful examples of blues music tourism that combine historic accuracy with financial progress. In most instances, the blues have been commodified to suit a specialized market, and the blues image is …
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I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus
… representational and lived southern culture, and specifically how queer and “white trash” embodiments are both legible in terms of fatness, much in the way that gravy thickens in Allison’s writing to envelop and signify simultaneously lack and excess, shame and ecstasy, …
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Sookie's Place(s): New Roadways Into The South Of The Southern Vampire Mysteries
… bestselling paranormal romance series, the Southern Vampire Mysteries is only beginning to be understood as more than a cultural phenomenon, but rather as a highly politicized and critical work of fiction that shines through genre designations such as romance, mystery, and fantasy. Much of …
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Untold Stories and Silenced Voices: Lives Inside a North Georgia Elementary School
… is an inquiry into the lived experiences of Southern, white, female teachers who teach their overwhelmingly Southern, white student populations in a rural/suburban North Georgia elementary school. I explore the obstacles and challenges they face as they experience the negative and crippling …
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A Historical Analysis of Living Blues Magazine
This thesis examines Living Blues magazine and its history through its stated cultural focus on African American music.
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MANNING THE TVA: WHITE MASCULINITIES AND ENGINEERING AT THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, 1933-1953
This dissertation seeks to address the use of gender and race in constructing U.S. engineering identity. It analyzes individual and institutional identities at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) between 1933 and 1953 through a model of multiple white masculinities. Predominantly drawing on oral …
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Mississippi Breakdown: a New Look at the Mississippi Old Time Fiddle Music Traditions
<p>This is a cultural study that focuses on the fiddle music of Mississippi. It includes both Anglo and African American roots. Also, the white blues fiddle traditions of Mississippi are examined and analyzed.</p>
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Nonviolent Bodies and the Experience of Breakdown in the American Movement for Civil Rights
This thesis examines the experience of personal breakdown in the American Civil Rights Movement. It proposes that breakdown was triggered in individuals by the practice of nonviolence and contends that breakdown precipitated the Movement's shift away from nonviolence toward the more self-protective …
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