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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"performative strategies"”.
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Performing Union: Walt Whitman, Participatory Democracy, and Antebellum Performance Culture
… (Chapter One). It shows how Whitman employs performative strategies borrowed from theatre (Chapters Two and Three) and mesmerism (Chapters Four and Five) in order to achieve a radically intimate union with his readers. This project highlights the importance of the reader to Whitman's poetry …
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Battle of the Bains: Tactical Bathing in Two Expository Texts, One Film and a Novella
… this paper focuses on the space as a loci of performative strategies and tactical moves, which abet social resistance. I argue that one can posit the hammam, and acts of shared bathing in two expository texts, a film and a novella as riposte: Le bain turc is as a pool of resistive, not …
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Playing with Anger: Lessons from Contemporary Black Feminist Dramas
… surveillance. I also trace the literary and performative strategies through which these plays communicate anger. Ultimately, I argue that anger operates as a dramaturgical orientation and an affective pedagogy—one that reframes emotion, reshapes spectatorship, and generates new narratives …
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The production and consumption of hospitality space
… understandings (myths) are produced through performative and semiotic strategies inside and outside the hospitality contexts. These myths act as the ideological focal points around which potential participants gather but are also part of exclusionary practices that reflect social positions …
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The Performance of Intersectionality on the 21st Century Stand-Up Comedy Stage
… is driven by a central question: what performative strategies – defined throughout as ways in which comics structure the content, delivery, and space of their performances in specific ways that convey meaning – do stand-up comedians use to invite audiences to see them as intersectional …
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Regnbågsungar: Familj, utbildning, fritid
In this thesis, rainbow children’s experience in private, institutional and public spaces is examined. More specifically, the aim is to explore if and how social conflict arises on the basis on their queer kinship structure. 28 interviews were conducted with informants that share the experience of …