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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"national imaginary"”.
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Post-Soviet women writers and the national imaginary, 1989-2009
… fiction that engages the questions of gender and national identity in the post-Soviet space. The dissertation examines the writings and paths to literary recognition of several by now established Ukrainian women authors who first appeared on the literary scene in the late 1980s (Oksana Zabuzhko, …
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Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze
… during much of the 1920s-1930s, despite a national discourse upholding compulsive heterosexuality. However, as this project demonstrates, the pansy craze unique to Chicago's "Black Belt" neighborhoods lasted well into the 1940s. This project applies an intersectional lens to the Black pansy …
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Beyond nostalgia: a walking guide to American small-town literature, 1940-1960
… authors writing about the small town used this national-imaginary model as a way of critiquing the strengths and weaknesses of the American experiment. My analysis is arranged spatially. Each location in the small town—Main Street, the church, the courthouse, the outskirts and the graveyard—are …
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American made: The homegrown terrorist and 9/11 myths in the contemporary US novel
This study charts the imaginary of the "homegrown terrorist" in post-2010 literature to determine whether contemporary novels provide a critique of the national myths reinvigorated in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. To understand how contemporary literature …
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EL IMAGINARIO NACIONAL EN LAS "TRADICIONES PERUANAS" DE RICARDO PALMA, AMBIENTADAS ENTRE 1820 Y 1885
The following study analyzes the national imaginary that emerges from the Tradiciones Peruanas, written by Peruvian Ricardo Palma (Lima, 1833-1919). The selected set of traditions is based on historical reference ranging between the years of 1820 to 1885. The research is organized into four …
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So That All Shall Know: Memory Activism & Epistemic Authority in Guatemala
… of structural exclusion from the Guatemalan national community. I investigate two sets of questions about memory activism and epistemic authority. First, I interrogate local meanings ofmemoria históricaand ask why it came to inspire activism in the post-conflict era. For most of Guatemala's …
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Cross-Cultural Filmmaking in New Zealand National Cinema
… the output and the very notion of New Zealand national cinema. Although the culture of commercialism in transnational financial partnerships is volatile and, therefore, the degree to which authorial control and cultural ‘veracity’ are compromised remains unpredictable, a great deal of …
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Trafficking in the Spaces of Poverty: Reading the Post-War Wars of American Literature and Culture
… fetishized and as fetishes enables a readjusted national imaginary and new ideological configurations of freedom and home, race, masculinity, motherhood, and the child.
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What the Tides May Bring: Political "Tigueraje" Disposession and Popular Dissent in Samaná, Dominican Republic
… of this African Diasporic community into the national imaginary through forceful sociocultural, political, economic and infrastructural manipulations. This interdisciplinary project seeks to explore the contradictory ways the Dominican state represents itself, and excavate the economic and …
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From Victim Hierarchies to Memorial Networks: Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial to Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
… So began a new phase of contestation – a national memorial project at its centre – over the so-called uniqueness of the (Jewish) Holocaust, and the moral and political responsibility of the newly reunified German state for genocide committed against Jewish and “other” victim groups. This …
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Mapping the Assembly of Muslim Exceptionality and Exceptional Muslims in Colonial Modernity. Ismaili Muslim Encounters through Discourses, Bodies and Space in the Canadian Colonial Nation
… part of the nation whilst others outside of the national imaginary. This is particularly important in the nation-building project of Canada in retaining a tolerant, liberal and multiculturally celebrated society. This critical feminist ethnography makes visible the encounters and present …
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Psychonalysis, Fantasy, Postcoloniality: Derivative Nationalism and Historiography in Post-Ottoman Turkey
… historiography in the recuperation of Turkish national imagery, as well as the pitfalls of this sort of remembrance. While doing so, I draw upon the psychoanalytically-inspired concept of fantasy and postcolonial theory to demonstrate how the fantasy of Ottoman tolerance as a melancholic …
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Saudades de Arcoverde: nostalgia and the performance of origin
… place as a reservoir of folklore within the national imaginary. As the two groups gain recognition outside of the semi-arid backlands of the Northeast, they access festival stages and recording studios, entering the circuits of government sponsorship of culture and the entertainment industry. …
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En Busca Del Macho Y Otras Ficciones: Representaciones Contemporáneas De Masculinidades Latinoamericanas.
… the connection between modernity, masculinity, nationalism and power, rejecting “the masculine” as a universal category defined by the cohesion of discourse and action, heteronormativity, and the confrontation with a spectrum of femininity. My dissertation consists of four chapters. In the first …
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Netizenship Politics: Youth, Anti-Americanism, and Rhetorical Agency in South Korea's 2002 Candlelight Vigils
… I study arguments, styles, and underlying national imaginaries of relevant Internet discourse. The chapters in this study are organized chronologically. In the aftermath of the deadly incident in June 2002, South Korean Internet users constructed the girls' deaths as a ""national tragedy"" …
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SOUNDING SALVADORAN: POPULAR MUSIC AND POSTWAR IMAGINARIES OF SALVADORAN IDENTITY IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. METROPOLITAN AREA
… music genres in constructing and enacting an imaginary of national and diasporic community among the Salvadoran diasporic community in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Two music genres with rich transnational histories, rock de las buenas épocas and cumbia salvadoreña, are central to the …
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God and the Novel in India
… the divine in the daily, whereas the more international novelists formally distance themselves from the felt enchantment of the first order they struggle to represent. Another way to view that bifurcation: as the disenchanted, statist worldview comes to prevail in the national imaginary at …
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Sites of memory: Soviet myths in post-Soviet culture
… speaks of the 1990s as a moment of a loss of national identity, of emasculation of Russian culture. Mikhail Epstein argues that the end of socialism created a loop in the time of national history, whereupon the Soviet future (communism) became the post-Soviet past. Aleksei Yurchak has shown …