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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"performing identity"”.
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Reluctant Germans: performing identity abroad
… multiple connectedness implies a transnational identity as described by various authors. The particularity of these respondents' performance of national identity in Cape Town is based on both their perception of, and attitudes towards, Germany as well as the impact of their new surrounding. The …
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I tell myself : performing identity in a digital public sphere
… this report)—have convinced me that much of the identity-construction potential found in art forms such as live autoperformance and written memoir is also found in Internet confessionals and other contemporary filmic forms which, on the surface, may appear to be largely solipsistic. I show that …
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MAKING AUSTRIAN: CULTURAL MEMORY, NATIONALISM, AND PERFORMING IDENTITY POLITICS IN LATE IMPERIAL VIENNA
Since Carl Schorske’s seminal Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, an explosion of scholarship has focused on the capital city’s years leading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s collapse. While the veritable Petrie dish of nationalism in the city has been commonly addressed in scholarship, the interplay between …
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… an outside observer. In addition, I describe an identity, which I call 'German agrarianism,' and contend that this rural self-image migrated to the Midwest when German farmers moved westward. German agrarianism had several important features including the association of morality with family-based …
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The gallant six hundred: performing the Light Brigade into a heroic icon
… cultural ethos as an icon of heroic and national identity. The dissertation focuses on various types of dissemination: public records, newspaper articles, published personal journals, paintings and lithographs, music, and theatrical entertainments. The written document is composed of five …