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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"marginalized bodies"”.
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We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty
… and Eudora Welty depict the ways in which marginalized bodies are socially regulated and punished. By using Michel Foucault’s theories about power and knowledge, I explore how each of these works uses surveillance to regulate social behavior and what happens to marginalized bodies that …
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Power and Perfection in Karen Finley's <em>The Constant State of Desire</em>: Creating a New Discourse.
… that neither are adequate for representing marginalized bodies of postmodern culture.</p>
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Classically black
… the archives and 2) mitigate silences imposed on marginalized bodies in her essay, “Venus in II Acts.” This work contributes to public musicology because it impacts the way scholars interact with musicians who are historically othered. Through attention to the lives and works of Philippa Schuyler, …
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Music and Madness: Three Critical Case Studies
… the stigmas surrounding historically marginalized bodies.</p>
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The whole is in every part: A working-class woman’s experiences in academia
… remain unsafe for many individuals who come from marginalized communities. Through the critical autoethnographic method, this research investigates the personal experiences of one working-class woman in a university and connects her experiences to broader sociological phenomena. Much like a …
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Brujería and the Boundaries of Power: Transgression and Punishment in Fernanda Melchor's <em>Hurricane Season</em>
… invoked as a symbol of resistance for those marginalized by colonial, patriarchal, and gendered violence. However, in Fernanda Melchor’s <em>Hurricane Season</em>, acts of brujería do not offer a clear path to empowerment or freedom. Instead, the novel reveals how brujería is entangled with …
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Black women as monuments in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
… hegemonic forces that structure societies. Thus, marginalized bodies are often not inscribed within this narrative. Women’s bodies, however, are used to convey these hegemonic, masculine-centered ideologies in the form of monuments. Because this phenomenon is so present in the American …
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Decolonising the body in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
… which are used to understand and control their bodies. Instead, they use the experience of their own bodies as a knowledge system through which they can understand the world around them. In the analysis, the theory of “affective embodied encounters” by Sara Ahmed is brought together with the …
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Queering Addiction
… knowledge that regulates, controls, and manages marginalized bodies, both ideologically and materially. I will further reflect on the multi-layered manifestations of power and emotion, or affect, that comprise the experience of the addict’s embodiment. Weaving together a personal narrative of …
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Resisting aggression : Graphic re-presentations for other bodies
… of a community "body" that is embracing of those bodies culturally precluded from subjective empowerment. My attention is specifically focused on the remediation of the once "derelict" land and "polluted" waterways of East Perth, to the "pristine" condition of what is now an exclusive corporate …
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
… There are other practitioners, not of marginalized identities, who are not heretical and instead deploy magic to reinforce the existing power symbolic/social order. Like Covino (2000), I dub the latter magi as “sorcerers, and they are markedly different than their witch counterparts. …