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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"memorializing"”.
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Memorializing Wartime Rape During the Second World War
<p>Memorials are connected to the geographical and historical moment during which they were built. Despite the myriad of monuments and memorials created in the wake of World War II, the widespread rape of women, has been largely absent from this commemorative landscape. Now that rape is considered …
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‘Memento Mori’… Remember You Will Die: Memorializing the Dead in the Digital Age
… within the lineage of historical practices for memorializing the dead, particularly in the context of technological advancement, I make that case that in eras of ‘emergent scientism’ (Lutz, 2011), curiosity over the meaning of life, death, and the ability to ‘see beyond the veil’ is piqued. …
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“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin
<p>This thesis documents four distinct post-WWII North American writers and artists—the poet John Berryman, the poet John Ashbery, the classicist and writer Anne Carson, and the photographer Nan Goldin—who expanded traditional definitions and practices of portraiture. Their works—<em>The Dream …
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Silence Descends: Lynchings and Their Aftermath in Lafayette and Union Counties, Mississippi
… has recently been memorialized. The process of memorializing Higginbottom’s lynching and what it has meant to the family is compared to the continuing silence around Ivy. In addition, the development of a MFA project incorporating an experimental “illustrated audio” piece and website is …
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The monumental turn: metonymic synergy between the Statue of Liberty and 'The New Colussus"
… ability to offer multiple meanings for public memorializing, its gendered structure and voice, and the role of the sonnet in generating a “turn” in how Americans understand the statue.</p>
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Mourning men : the elegiac in James Merrill and Richard Howard
… study exposes motifs and themes particular to memorializing a gay ADDS death. The study begins by establishing some parameters of pre-AIDS gay elegiac form by discussing Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover (1982); it then moves on to an examination of the elegies in Merrill's The Inner …
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Circulation, exchange and race in Ralph Clarkson's 'Nouvart Dzeron, a daughter of Armenia'
… against the Armenian cause and the painting’s memorializing effect lessened.
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Widows' Breath: Grief Fractures
… vacillate through past and present thinking, memorializing the lost one while struggling toward a new identity, grieve sexuality without the partner, fight addiction, relive child trauma, and limp through mental illness they exist in breath-by-breath survival. </p> <p>The intended audience is …
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Blue road : what is a music museum
… in Seattle, illustrate the steady interest in memorializing music and its innovative creators. But these memorials, lavishly adorned with classic memorabilia and exuberant imagery, rely solely on formal and aesthetic qualities to honor the musical culture they are trying to describe. What if …
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Parasocial Grief and Humor: Coping with Death Through the Internet’s Native Language
… coping mechanisms like shock, love, sadness, memorializing, reminiscing, anger, and religious coping. However, they shared these ideas through the comedic techniques of parody, absurdity, coincidence, deceitful behavior, being “caught out,” puns and wordplay, memes, and conceptual surprise. I …
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Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness
… Sites System in 1967, Somerset was dedicated to memorializing the planter, Josiah Collins III; the enslaved rarely made it into the site's narrative at all, and if they did it was as objects rather than subjects. In the final decades of the twentieth century, Somerset Place began to celebrate the …
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Paul R. Williams at Work in Photographs: Tarrying With Cites/Sights/Sites of Trouble
… in the work of myth making, legacy building, and memorializing, to counter the threat of social death.</p>
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"Aesthetics as resistance: rasa, dhvani, and empire in Tamil ""Protest"" drama"
… and modernity that governs the spectator’s memorializing process. The culturally-determined aesthetic “lens” of Tamil spectator necessitates a culture-specific messaging system by anticolonial playwrights that links the dramatic outcome with feelings of nationalism and patriotism. More …
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Making Their Mark: World War I Memorial and Commemoration Formation by Veterans in Johnson City, TN, 1922-1935
… became a central component of the city, so did memorializing the conflict.
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Examining Institutional History Narratives Through a Critical Whiteness Framework
… building names and statues on college campuses memorializing people who supported slavery or were members of hate groups. These events coupled with the lack of truth-telling around the roles of Black and African American people and other minoritized communities within the development and …
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"""Circle more before you land"": An ethnography of feminist leader Dr. Charlotte West"
… (NASSH), Earle Zeigler gave a keynote address memorializing and then criticizing the trend of the organization away from its roots in physical education. Charlotte West is an example of one of those lost physical educators of whom Dr. Zeigler spoke. West’s story is interesting and little known …