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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"ancestral memory"”.
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Imagination and Ancestral Memory in Memorial Drive and the Halsey Family Archive
This thesis explores how memory, specifically in the context of Black women's narratives, is not merely preserved and documented but engaged with through imagination, shaping memory as dynamic. Engaging Saidiya Hartman's concept of critical fabulation, this project examines how archival absences, …
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Visible Dead: Ancestral Landscapes in Prehistory between the Mediterranean and the Near East
… at different mobility scales to embed their ancestral memory within the natural landscape. The main objective that it will try to achieve is the definition of a theoretical and methodological approach to the holistic and transcultural study of funerary sites lacking textual and associated …
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
… of hybridity and performance of cultural memory, I trace a “pathway” to feminist recovery and reclamation of ancestral memory and spirituality in Valerie Martin’s A Recent Martyr, Rebecca Wells’ Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Brenda Marie Osbey’s All …
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
… of interiority, states of consciousness, memory, voice, and more broadly, the parallel socio-political and spiritual realities of contemporary America and the late Roman Empire.</p> <p>Central to Augustine’s legacy is the Cartesian mind/body split’, explored from the perspective of a …
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Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved
… the necessary components—maternal nurturance, ancestral connection, and communal interaction—that must come together to help Morrison’s characters learn to love and see themselves as their “own best thing.” The repercussions that self-love’s absence has for both individual characters and their …