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Showing 1 to 20 of 330 for “"memoirs"”.
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Black Eyez: Memoirs of a Revolutionary
<underline> Black Eyez: Memoirs of a Revolutionary </underline> engages in an investigation of the performative relationship between race and color. It offers a review of the genesis of race as a political invention, to articulate the intersubjective relationship between Black Power ideology and …
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Memoirs of an American Indian house
Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Technicolor Memoirs of Miss Gene Lily Richardson
<p>Technicolor Memoirs is a one person show about a star: Miss Gene Lily Richardson. She sits down to finally tell her life story to an interviewer. These stories are actual stories from my life that have been changed to fit with the time-period with only slight embellishment. The fictional Miss …
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Returning to Childhood: Memoirs of Childhood Reading
… and reread stories from childhood. I argue that memoirs of childhood reading or bibliomemoirs temporarily fuse childhood and adulthood through the act of rereading, which produces emotional responses, and writing a memoir. By rereading childhood stories, memoirists identify with their child self …
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"That Weeping Constellation": Navigating Loss in Women's Memoirs of Textured Recovery.
… a sub-genre of the grief memoir which I call "memoirs of textured recovery. " What sets them apart is the performance of complex "recovered" selves that show how "recovery," ambiguous and shifting in nature, calls for more complicated theories of mourning able to accommodate an understanding of …
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The unsettled settler: personal and discursive tragedy in Alexandra Fuller's memoirs
Alexandra Fuller's memoirs detail the lives of white settlers in Southern Africa (specifically Zimbabwe) from white-rule to post-independence. Her memoirs illustrate how the settler colonial dream of the promised land in Africa would ultimately fail to be fully realised and maintainable. Yet, …
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Identity, Reality, and Truth in Memoirs from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
… as a compass to guide him through intricate memoirs written by his contemporaries. Beginning with a creative preface which details one night during his own combat experience, Martin reveals how dealing with the lingering effects of combat led him to research the words of others to better …
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Cio-cio-san no yuutsu: memoirs of magnetogenesis and turbulent dynamo theory
The origins of cosmic magnetic fields are not as yet well understood. In this dissertation we investigate, via direct numerical simulation, the temporal evolution and behaviour of magnetic fields that are generated from absolute zero initial conditions via a thermal battery term in the Induction …
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Cio-cio-san no Yūutsu: memoirs of magnetogenesis and Turbulent Dynamo Theory
The origins of cosmic magnetic fields are not as yet well understood. In this dissertation we investigate, via direct numerical simulation, the temporal evolution and behaviour of magnetic fields that are generated from absolute zero initial conditions via a thermal battery term in the Induction …
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The diary and memoirs of William Wright Anderson, Oregon pioneer and forty-niner
… were to be included in the study.The diary and memoirs were purposely to be kept as nearly as possible to their original state as not to lose the historical value and flavor of the manuscript. However, a minimal amount of editing was necessary to insure clarity.Findings1. It was determined that …
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Occupational adaptation and relationship to narrative in memoirs of adults with acquired disability
… & Schkade, 1992, 1997) were present in the memoirs of adults who had acquired disability. The final purpose was to develop theory about the relationship of Occupational Adaptation and narrative. Such questions are best answered by narrative analysis, a subset of qualitative research methods. …
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Doorway to the Deep: Memoirs of Enduring Endometriosis and Embracing Life After Loss
<p>No one is spared grief. Yet while it is universal in nature, it is painfully specific in experience. Many people describe grief in terms of water, and often refer to it as coming in waves, while others have drifted so far from the proverbial shore that they are drowning in it.<em> Doorway to the …
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Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia
… a subgenre known as graphic medicine. These memoirs, known as graphic pathographies, are written from those who interact with disease in various capacities from patient, to doctor, to caregiver. This project closely examines three graphic pathographies written about the eating disorder …
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Memoirs of the Persecuted: Persecution, Memory, and the West as a Mormon Refuge
<p>The memory of past violence in Missouri and Illinois during the 1830s and 1840s shaped how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Latter-day Saints or Mormons) saw themselves, their persecutors, and the states and the nation where the violence occurred. This thesis explores …
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING The Autobiographical Subject in the Drama and Memoirs of Ronald Duncan
… with popular cultural codes, these and his memoirs are chosen to convey how his texts centralise the idea of authenticity but also manipulate the idea using subjects and characters caught between idealism and despair, the textual and the historical. Consequently, my approach to Duncan's work …
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"From backburner to forefront: Critical recollection and commitment to literary community in women beat memoirs"
… of memoir. I have chosen to examine their four memoirs written after the rise of the Beats: diPrima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik and Frazer’s Troia: Mexican Memoris, (both published in 1969), Johnson’s Minor Characters (1983), and Jones’ How I Became Hettie Jones (1990). These works spand decades and …
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Memoirs of My Vulva: An Exploration of Female Genitalia as Figures in Autobiographical Graphic Narratives
This doctoral research embarks on a multidisciplinary inquiry into the representation of female genitalia within the realms of feminist visual arts and autobiographical graphic narratives. Anchored in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) and drawing upon the phenomenological …
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James Hogg's the Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Background, Text, and Analysis
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:39:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7013334.pdf: 10378599 bytes, checksum: b33563aa7183fa0667fa55416bff42a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Detached from Our Bodies: Representing women's mental health and well-being with graphic memoirs
… textual, and discourse analyses of three graphic memoirs by women that challenge pathological mental health discourses: Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green, Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder by Nadia Shivack, and My Depression by Elizabeth Swados. Using an interdisciplinary and …
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