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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"historical representation"”.
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Black Girls Matter: The Impact of Historical Representation on Contemporary Education
<p>A long history of misogynoir and negative stereotypes about Black<br />girls and women can be found throughout the literature and popular <br />culture of the United States. These stereotypes inform the lived <br />experience of Black girls and women, and in particular interfere with <br …
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
… The Intuitionist, these authors comment on historical representation through such symbols as iconic figures like Abraham Lincoln, photographs, and elevators as starting points to explore the possibility of an independent space for African American history. Rather than remarking on just the …
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Archival Frictions: The Arab and Arab American as Image in Literature, Film, and Other Archives
… early 1900s and post-1967—of Arab discursive and historical representation and identity after a prolonged encounter with the west and western media in the twentieth century.
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Metamorphosis
… construction; I provoke viewers through a visual historical representation, unmasking illusions of precision and truth. By deconstructing and analyzing the way the historical record is fabricated, my work reveals the futile nature of preserving an accurate history. The contextualization of objects …
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Torture, Fiction and the Repetition of Horror: Ghost-writing the Past in Algeria and Argentina
… and French theorists with an interest in historical representation, as well as trauma, to both ‘realist’ and experimental accounts of the widespread oppression that occurred during the Algerian war of independence and later during the so-called ‘Dirty War’ in Argentina. The texts analysed …
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Remembering and Forgetting in the Archive : Instituting ‘Group Material’ (1979–1996)
… (2) A testing of both archiving practice and its historical representation is carried out in the arms of the larger investigation, the book, Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material (London: Four Corners, 2010 ISBN: 978-0956192813). Show and Tell demonstrates a primary analytic situation for …
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Gaming the past : designing and using digital games as historical learning contexts
In the last decades, digital games based on historical themes or settings have become an important form of historical engagement. In many ways, this new way of connecting with the past presents unique characteristics, setting the medium apart from previous forms of historical mediation. In spite of …
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Investigating the perceived effects of street art in Urban Regeneration, Gentrification and on the local community in Cape Town's Woodstock and Salt River
… However, it also revealed that cultural and historical representation in street art holds importance to long-standing communities and that government intervention and strategies should be explored to curb any gentrifying effect it may have.
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Il palcoscenico della guerra di Libia. Protagonisti, retorica, nazione, 1911-1912
This dissertation explores the historical representation of the Italian nation in regard to the narration of the Libyan War and its causes and implications in the consolidation of both state and society. The texts I examine were all published in contemporary newspapers and magazines, which span …
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Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne Carson
… poetry and knowledge. Through three critical and historical inflections, “Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne Carson” contextualizes Carson’s synthetic approach to poetry alongside the work of her significant influences and her significant peers. In following two diverging themes in Carson’s work, the …
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Visual Narrative: A Theory and Model for Image-Driven Digital Historiography based on a Case Study of China’s Boxer Uprising (c. 1900)
… instant access to vast numbers of archival, historical images, demands a new paradigm for the use of visual imagery in historical research. This thesis proposes a new form of historiography in the digital medium, an image-based narrative mode for authoring and reading history. I propose a …
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Through the Fog of History: The Nanjing Massacre through the Lens of Documentary Modes
… of the Nanjing Massacre documentary films: the historical representation and the construction of the collective memory through these documentaries. By following documentary forms across time, my research engages three modes － compilation films, expository mode, and oral history mode － to …
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Chasing blackness: re-investing value and Mexico's changing racial economy
… by grass root approaches to recognition and representation as witnessed by local activism and the tensions between state officials and community organizers over the means of production for self-representation. A phenomenon that I refer to as “implication”, suggests that invocations of …
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After The End Of The World: Poetics, Time, And Black Experimental Writing
… thus to the problem of political and aesthetic representation. Parks' work similarly makes representation-especially historical representation-into a thematic question through which she problematizes the notion of a unitary "black experience." Specifically concerned with poetry, Kamau Brathwaite …
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Disability representation and portrayal in selected South African soap operas: a content analysis
… Conversely, positive media portrayal and representation has the potential to challenge stereotypes and spread counter-narratives on a wide scale. This study was motivated by a perceived dearth of research into the representation of persons with disabilities in soap operas, which has been …
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The history writer’s tale : historical fiction and the depiction of identity in Michiel Heyns’s ‘the typewriter’s tale’ and ‘bodies politic’
This study investigates the relationship between historical fiction, history, and the portrayal of the identity of historical figures with specific reference to two novels by Michiel Heyns, namely: The Typewriter’s Tale (2005) and Bodies Politic (2008). Throughout the study the relationship between …
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Writing History Under Erasure: Radical Historiographical Practices in Lebanese Postwar Art
… truth-claims of history or the possibility of historical knowledge as such, but to reconfigure the task of historical inquiry as a process of critical reconstruction and interpretative disclosure. Accordingly, this dissertation considers how the above artists’ “radical historiographical …
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History in multimodal gameplay: A new language and model for constructing, experiencing, and studying the past
This doctoral study examines how historical gameplay constructs and provides ways of experiencing history within (historical) video games. Historical gameplay is examined and defined as an expression of history within historical games as it is the primary medium of representing or experiencing the …
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King Dingane : a treacherous tyrant or an African nationalist?
… treacherous tyrant in South Africa's Eurocentric historical databases and poses the question whether he should, instead, not be regarded as the forerunner of African nationalism. It also examines the roots of European imperialism in South Africa, as recorded in governmental, geographical, trade …