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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"historical discourse"”.
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Elizabeth Catlett's I Am the Negro Woman: Emerging from the Margins
… D.C., only to be largely marginalized by the art historical discourse of the following twenty-five years; however, during the Civil Rights Movement, a renewed interest in Catlett and her works began to develop. Later Feminist and Post-colonial art historians, seeking to widen the narrow …
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Exploring the value of 'The Rwandan genocide Film' as a pedagogical tool for raising awareness
… is a complex subject that even works of written historical discourse struggle to explain. Previous filmic studies have primarily focused on three well known Rwandan genocide films, Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs and Sometimes in April; this thesis expands its focus to nine feature films. Genocide …
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Sandra Cisneros as Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories in Caramelo
… the ways in which Sandra Cisneros makes historical claims from a Chicana perspective by telling fictional family stories in Caramelo. Not only have Chicanas traditionally been marginalized ethnically by the Anglo mainstream, they have also suffered disenfranchisement as women in their own …
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Der Umgang mit sensiblen Objekten kolonialer Kontexte in der DDR 1973-1985
… to cultural foreign policy of the GDR, a historical discourse analysis of archive material is presented. It can be shown that there was a specific way of dealing with the restitution requests as well as the international debate, largely substantiated by the creation of a narrative that …
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Weak nerves in China: Neurasthenia-depression controversy as a window on psychiatric nosology
… a diagnostic category in the context of a long historical discourse of “nerves” and “nervousness,” but that SJSR became a salient conceptual category in the absence of any such historical discourse. As such, it became a temporally, geographically, and culturally specific mode of manifesting …
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Constructing an alternative language: Historical revision in the fiction of Bessie Head
… however, Head contends that South African historical discourse has obliterated the historical identity of black South Africans. The imaginative freedom that fiction allows provides Head with a radical means for reinscribing an alternative historical identity. Through four interrelated …
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History in Australian popular culture : 1972-1995
… projects. Rather, I examine the role played by historical discourse in popular cultural practices, and how those practices contest and modify public debate about history; I take 'historical discourse' to include argument about as well as representation of the past, and so to involve a rhetorical …
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Constitutive rhetoric reexamined: the case of Scottish nationalist discourse
… Charland's notion of the origins of identity in discourse has not been significantly challenged since he first described constitutive rhetoric as a process. At the same time, the reemergence of nationalist causes has suggested that we might return to the theory in order to understand the …
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ReHABit : claiming endangered structures in Washington DC to rethink subsidized housing
… of subsidized housing that differs from the historically large scale, myopic solutions of the last century by attempting to claim under-used buildings in Washington that have the potential to re-invigorate the city. Endangered structures throughout Washington sit dormant while inherently …
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Women of the big house families in Ireland and marriage, 1860-1920
… women, who have been largely omitted from Irish historical discourse, in both mainstream Irish histories as well as in the more, specialised field of Irish women's history. It attempts to place women from big house families at the centre of an historical analysis, allowing for a collective and …
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The Rhetoric and Philosophy of Education: Finding Whole Learning in an Age of Mechanistic Pedagogy
… about education, as a post-industrial body of discourse deeply embedded in historical ideals for a mass system of public education. In challenging the crisis-centered narrative, this work seeks to identify historical discourse strands that have shaped thinking and action in the construction of …
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The Value of Value-Added: Science, Technology, and Policy in Educational Evaluation
… study of the theoretical, technical, historical and political dimensions VAA. Theoretically, the assumptions that underlie value-added diverge significantly from the observed operations of the schools and classrooms these models are supposed to evaluate. Technically, even if the …
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"A singular person": Portraits of subjectivity in the poetry and prose of Matilda Betham
… material, this thesis uses feminist and New Historical critical methods to examine Betham's contribution to British Romanticism. It offers a biography of Betham and a historically contextualised analysis of her own construction of women's role in civic affairs. Betham's political …
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Los Angeles Artists and Revisionist Historiography: A Diasporic Intervention
… contribute to a project that decenters dominant discourses, by shifting absent or marginal narratives to the center, modeling a process of writing history that goes beyond merely inserting peoples of diverse backgrounds into the history of art, but revisions history from a more equitable …
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Creating the Present From the Ideological Margins of Society: Pseudo -Autobiographies in Post -Dictatorship Spain
… which contributed to the rise of the new historical novel in Spain. To comprehend the rise of pseudo-autobiography, Chapter one reviews recent theories of historical discourse, the historical novel, and autobiography itself. Chapter two notes that Azana is the first pseudo-autobiography of …
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Stepping over the threshold of time: The Brezhnev era and the rise of the heritage temporality (1964-1982)
… the Soviet 1960s to 1980s. The thesis offers a historical discourse analysis based on visitor guidebooks and brochures related to three museums dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, settings its findings in contrast with the wider literature on the Brezhnev period. Noting that a rise of concern for …
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Rewriting the "Great Man" Theory: Historiographic Critique in Spanish American Literature
This dissertation is a survey of postmodern historical fiction in 20th and 21st century Spanish American literature. It has diverse manifestations, but the defining characteristic of this kind of historical fiction is a rejection of any rigid distinction between historical and fictional discourse. …
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"""Lines of Spiritual Motion"": The Realization of American Catholic Fiction, 1845-1965"
… literature, far from being an escape from the historical to the spiritual, revises major literary forms as negotiates American culture and doctrinal orthodoxy to create an American Catholic community. My research in Catholic print culture suggests, on the contrary, that religious writers …
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Discovering Towneley Park : a digital and multimethod approach to understanding the effects of a digital heritage interpretation of a Lancashire park
… digital heritage is affected by socio-cultural discourses around digitalmedia.The thesis explores traditional ideas of heritage as generally informed by historical discourse(Samuel 2012) as well as everyday heritage meanings. These alternative perspectives,identified by Smith (2006) as …
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You Can’t Have Black Power without Green Power:The Black Economic Union
… communities. This dissertation will add to the historical discourse on the Civil Rights/Black Power era, by exploring a lesser-known Black political strategy; namely, the endorsement of capitalism as a means of Black liberation. This study focuses on the Negro Industrial and Economic Union …
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