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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"hauntings"”.
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Hauntings
This thesis is a representation of my work in the creative writing program at the University of Alabama from 2006-2010.
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holiness and other hauntings
holiness and other hauntings is a poetry collection that seeks to understand other people. Armstrong uses her poems to track herself back through time to her cousins, her parents, her grandparents, her teachers, and friends. Her work explores queerness and Catholicism, family fraught and family …
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The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings From the Home to the Colonial Landscape
This dissertation explores how hauntings can refer to a troubling national and colonial history that goes beyond original conceptions of the haunted home in the Gothic genre. I look at the tradition of the Gothic genre in U.S. literary history, acknowledging its significance to first-wave feminist …
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Hauntings: Juliet's Elegy for Past in Alice Munro's Chance, Soon and Silence
<p>The three connected stories, “Chance,” “Soon” and “Silence” in Alice Munro’s collection, Runaway, form the core of the collection, thematically and structurally. Munro tells the story of Juliet and her feelings of regret over the loss of her parents, her husband Eric, her friend Christa, and, …
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Hauntings: Juliet's Elegy for Past in Alice Munro's Chance, Soon and Silence
<p>The three connected stories, “Chance,” “Soon” and “Silence” in Alice Munro’s collection, Runaway, form the core of the collection, thematically and structurally. Munro tells the story of Juliet and her feelings of regret over the loss of her parents, her husband Eric, her friend Christa, and, …
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New media hauntings : digital aesthetics of haunting, context collapse, and networked spectrality
… spectrality’ to theorise depictions of new media hauntings. Ghost stories often include the latest technologies to establish the realistic setting, but technological advance also affords new opportunities to depict ghost stories. I argue that the early twenty-first-century technologies that are …
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Marina Carr's Hauntings: Liminality and the Addictive Society On and Off the Stage
This thesis is an examination of the trapped lives of Marina Carr's female protagonists and their relevance to contemporary Irish women. In her six plays from The Mai to Woman and Scarecrow, each of Carr's female protagonists is trapped either in a liminal state, defined by Victor Turner as a phase …
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Humayun Ahmed and Archival Hauntings: The Subaltern Experience of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh as Portrayed in Debi
<p>In this paper, I argue how Humayun Ahmed's <em>Debi </em>offers insight into the function that archives play in creating radical nationalism in a country like Bangladesh; how these archives work to consolidate political power for a select few, and how they further subjugate and silence the …
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THE HIDDEN HAUNTINGS OF THE OPIOID & OVERDOSE CRISIS: A POLICY REVIEW OF HARM REDUCTION AND SAFE INJECTION SITES IN VANCOUVER, OTTAWA, TORONTO, LONDON, AND WINDSOR.
The drug and opioid overdose crisis have led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people. As such, harm reduction and safe injection sites have been making their appearances throughout Canada, specifically within British Columbia and Ontario. The policies held in Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, …
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Haunted homes and restless ghosts : (in)visible structures of power and violence in American haunted house films
… haunted house horror films and considers how hauntings can draw attention to systems of power and violence in our real world. Through textual analysis of The Amityville Horror (1979), Poltergeist (1982), THIR13EN Ghosts (2001), and The Amityville Horror (2005), I argue that an intersectional, …
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The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color"
… by critical theory that deals with ideas of hauntings, eruptions, and ghosts. My work intends to delineate the ways in which the racial violence, inequality, and unrest surrounding the South’s past refuses to ever be fully a part of the past – rather images and ideas surrounding these horrors …
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Daughters and Their Countries: Nostalgia and Ambivalence in Transnational Feminist Practice
… through past experience; and in confronting the hauntings of self through sexual and national identities, these texts inscribe the complex emotions and subjectivities generated by their ""fixation"" on past homes. The narrative practices that generate these inscriptions suggest the possibility of …
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Surety
… kind of lyric movement: how impressions— poetic hauntings—become a place, and how correspondences between <em>I</em> and <em>you</em> inform and direct readerly inhabitation of the poem.</p>
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Under the hanging tree: everyday life and historical memory in Central Namibia
… places as spaces of both primary and secondary hauntings: visceral encounters with spectral histories and their ritual, oral, and cinematic mediations. Ultimately, the Otjinene and Okandjira cases have the power to deepen our understanding of Herero historiography, showing how matrilineal …
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Reframing as Reclamation: Trauma Theory, African Spiritualism, and Ecocriticism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
… American texts that engage with ghosts and hauntings, such as Toni Morrison’s <em>Beloved</em> (1987). Often, these ghosts are symbolic of transgenerational trauma in fictional works. While this association is apparent in Ward’s novel, this thesis applies the aforementioned modes of …
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Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art
… fabulations, fragmentations, rememories, hauntings, gossip, ancestral and embodied knowledge, rituals, or oral tales. The study and use of these methods, and their incorporation into a broader art history, helps create a more diverse and equitable archive of knowledge. Interrogating and …
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Disrupting Memory: Trauma and Fictions of the ‘War on terror’
… marred by suffering, the depiction of ghosts and hauntings— that reveal a ‘war on terror’ and a violent American hegemony that is underpinned by an exclusionary but influential memory discourse in America and other Western nations.
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The Media of Memories: Argentine and Brazilian Transitional Justice as Seen on TV
… as the respect for silence, gaps and hauntings inherent in remembering mass atrocities? And finally, 3) What alternative spaces for advocacy, if any, are opened up by these television programs? In the end, my project contends that television programs, in the Argentine and Brazilian …
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Seven ways of reading : the House of the Seven Gables
… the vestigial ghosts of an alternate set of hauntings.
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