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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"origin stories"”.
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My Kinship with the Trees
… The separation of women from nature through origin stories, science, religion, language, and advertisement will be discussed. Examples from the graphic memoir Running without Moving are employed to emphasize this philosophy, including first person accounts.</p>
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Reinforcing and destabilizing myths of origin: Storytelling and biopolitical communities in contemporary theater in French
… of biopolitics and analyses of the ways in which stories are told. In close readings of major theatrical works in French after 1968, I reveal how two different notions of community have been represented on stage both in France and abroad. In particular, I read plays by Aimé Césaire, Bernard-Marie …
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"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum": Reproduction and Resistance in Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and the Alien Series
… I argue that Octavia Butler rewrites Western origin stories in order to put woman and people of color at its center, which provokes a redefinition of the essential woman. In chapter two, I examine how Margaret Atwood criticizes both patriarchal and feminist ideologies in a satirical, …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… gender system, and Luce Irigaray’s critique of origin stories, I ask how transgender experience requires a rethinking of foundational continental, queer, feminist frameworks such as self-creation, disciplinary normalization, the sex/gender distinction, and the intersection of gender and race. I …
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Embodying The Hyphen: An Ethnography On Korean Adoptees
… in a white, American family. These participants’ stories and experiences of belonging, fitting-in, experiencing racism within and outside the family, embracing their chosen identity, and reflections on their adoption origin stories show how Korean adoptees differ from Korean-Americans within the …
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Listening to our stories in dusty boxes: Indigenous storytelling methodology, archival practice, and the Cherokee Female Seminary
… sustained through storytelling can recover the histories in our discipline by opening up our boundaries framed by dominant origin stories. Building on the work of decolonial and indigenous scholars, this dissertation asserts that indigenous storytelling encourages researchers to re-tool dominant …
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Little Egypt: A Critical Biography
… as a biography, this thesis investigates the origins of Little Egypt—a stage name assumed by multiple women performing either the <em>danse du ventre</em> or the hoochie-coochie—and considers the character’s cultural legacy. The work draws on nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers, …
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Ethnicized displacements: Urban lives of Afghan Pashtuns and Afghanistani Hazaras in Quetta, Pakistan
… homogenize displaced populations by national origin or legal status. My findings are informed by qualitative data, including ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, conducted over a seven-year period. I use an intersectional framework to trace the process through which ethnicized …
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Authoring Authority: The Apostle Paul and the Prophet Joseph Smith--A Critical Comparison of Texts and Power in the Generation of Religious Community
… and recharacterizes the heroes and origin-stories of the dominant (and my own) tradition to force important questions about scholarly perspectives, interests and deferences (protection, exceptionalization), self-reflexivity, and politics. The project's critical orientation deploys …
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Safeguarding from Scrutiny: Toward a Critical Consciousness of Organizational Culture in Humanitarian NGOs
… continue reconciling with their colonialist origin stories from the Global North. Alongside a shrinking British foreign aid budget, and mounting pressures for proving value for money, HNGOs face a record number of natural disasters, energy crises, armed conflicts, and other major emergencies …
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Betwixt the Popular and Academic: The Histories and Origins of Memetics
In this thesis I develop a contemporary history of memetics, or the field dedicated to the study of memes. Those working in the realm of meme theory have been generally concerned with developing either evolutionary or epidemiological approaches to the study of human culture, with memes viewed as …
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Fertilizer dreams: Peruvian and Chilean culture of the guano and nitrate eras
… Resource Extraction,” which present allegorical origin stories for the extractive industries of Chile and Peru. Chapter One analyzes nineteenth-century tales of buried Incan treasure that I call “Precious Metal Melodramas.” Focusing on three texts written by Juana Manuela Gorriti, the chapter …