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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"abjection"”.
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Transmisogyny and the Abjection of Girlcock
… through the material and metaphorical abjection of trans women on the screen, and through discourses created around the media. Finally, I turn to a documentary pornographic film the portrays a BDSM Dominant/submissive relationship as an example of media that sublimes a trans woman's …
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Racism and Abjection in the (Post) Colony
This study examines Kristeva’s notion of abjection to understand the workings of colonial racism. Given the limitations of her Eurocentric standpoint, reference will also be made to the critiques and engagements with abjection by various other scholars. Abjection, when appropriately rethought, …
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Abjection in the novels of Marlene Van Niekerk
… with the focus on the representation of abjection in the texts under discussion.The theoretical point of departure of this study is Julia Kristeva's essay Powers of horror (1982), which addresses, in particular, the notion of abjection and how certain abject elements play a pivotal role …
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Pretty gross : aestheticized abjection in feminist video art, 1996-2009
This thesis examines the work of three video artists -- Pipilotti Rist, Marilyn Minter, and Mika Rottenberg -- who all make work that is simultaneously mesmerizing and repulsive. While Immanuel Kant has argued that beauty and disgust are opposed, these works complicate this binary, as does my …
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Spectacular Subjects: Embodiment, Abjection & Imagined Community in Contemporary South Asian Fiction
<p>Through Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, this dissertation examines textual representations of the human body in contemporary South Asian fiction, arguing that such representations encode authorial responses to the incipient violence involved in the construction and assignment of subaltern …
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SCIENCEFRICTION: OF THE POSTHUMAN SUBJECT, ABJECTION, AND THE BREACH IN MIND/BODY DUALISM
… and technological is interrupted--here abjection is key because the binary between abjection and gadgetry gives multiple meanings to other binaries, including male/female. Using David Cronenberg’s <em>Videodrome</em> and <em>eXistenZ</em>, I argue that multiple readings arise because of …
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Paradigms of refuse: waste abjection and rejection in contemporary Italian literature and cinema
“Paradigms of Refuse” explores Italy and the Mediterranean as landscapes of crisis, sites where environmental threats, social inequalities, and geopolitical turmoil converge. These landscapes are increasingly being transformed into dumping sites where the material as well as the human excess of our …
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Making the private public: (life) writing, shame and the abjection of homosexual sex in Wales
This literary analysis explores shame in Wales’s queer community through the literary works of John Sam Jones. By examining the intersections of homosexual shame, public sexual spaces and sexual trauma in contemporary Welsh literature, this study analyses queer narratives in Jones’s literary works …
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From "The Dead Center Of This Place That Is No Place": The Novel Of Abjection
… Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood as examples of abjection in the novel form. This subgenre, termed the Novel of Abjection, exemplifies Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection as occurring after a distinct separation from social norms and a movement toward destruction, violence, and insanity. This …
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Interconnected In-Between: On the dynamics of abjection, animism, temporality and location in nomadic art practice
… Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytical notion of abjection is a frame of reference through which I develop methodological tools. In this research, I situate this psychoanalytical, Eurocentric and rather limited notion in more anthropological and extended fields of relationships, especially in …
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Masculinity and shell shock in the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon: soldier of trauma and poet of abjection
This dissertation assesses potential links between masculinity and shell shock, explored through a psychoanalytic perspective in the First World War poetry of Siegfried Sassoon. I suggest that Sassoon, through his poetry, critiques the idea of a heteronormative, hypermasculinity that was propagated …
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Image selling: how depictions of power relations, plasticity, and abjection in high-fashion advertisements construct terrifying social narratives
… related to power struggles, plasticity, and abjection. In creating these types of images, high-fashion advertisers send explicit messages to their viewers regarding the ways they should engage with the depicted social narratives, ranging from objectification to violence to death. Through a …
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Magic is might?: Uncovering abjection in Shakespeare's The Tempest and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
… selfhood. This thesis employs the theory of abjection to uncover how a social structure is able to function when its existence is built on the inability to remove the threat to the order. The abject is defined as what we have cast out from ourselves in order to define the boundaries and …
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The malady lingers on : the abject and contemporary Asian horror cinema
The aim of this study is to bring together abjection theory, as elaborated in Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror and other relevant works (particularly, the establishment of “symbolic” and “semiotic” realms), with contemporary Asian horror cinema, in order to construct a detailed and effective …
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The Child-Soldier Deject: Abjection, Subjectivity, and Systemic Marginalization in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah Is Not Obliged
… is filtered through a narrator who embodies abjection himself. The introduction provides a framework for understanding human rights literatures through the lens of Kristeva’s theory of abjection, and the chapters that follow are in-depth character studies of the two texts’ narrators and their …
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
… both undergo the same, repetitive process of abjection, in particular, with the abject monstrous-feminine. Barbara Creed, drawing on Julia Kristeva's <em>Powers of Horror</em> and Lacanian psychoanalytic thought, uses the term "monstrous-feminine" to investigate abject, monstrous females in …
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In the Voices of Men, Beasts, and Gods: Unmasking the Abject Persona in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry
… examines the dramatic use of personae of abjection in the works of contemporary and postwar Japanese women poets Ishigaki Rin: 1920-2004), Tomioka Taeko: b. 1935), Yoshihara Sachiko: 1932-2002), It├┤ Hiromi: b. 1955), and Isaka Yok├┤: b. 1949). Recognizing the strong sense of abjection …
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Scrounge
… is a poetic excavation of rural abjection and the enduring consequences of the death of the American Dream in the post-industrial Midwest. Drawing from Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection, the collection explores life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where generations have …
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