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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"re-membering"”.
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Re-membering the colonial present : Jimmie Durham's serious dance
… on both community and international levels, before returning to art practice in the 1980s. An articulate, astute writer, as well as cultural producer, Durham offers a nuanced theorization of present conundrums of multiculturalism and identity politics. Underlying much of Durham's visual …
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"Unorthodox Conduct": Re-membering Queer Africa in Literature and Film
<p>"'Unorthodox Conduct'" explores positive representations of sexual and gender minorities in African literatures and film from the 1970s to 2010s that dismantle heterosexist notions of African sexuality and work towards what Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o calls "re-membering." I interrogate how literary and …
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
Holocaust memory is at a critical juncture. The intersection of anxieties about survivors and firsthand witnesses growing fewer and frailer, the ever-growing importance and ongoing boom in popular media representations of the Holocaust across the last four decades, and the contemporary threat of …
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(RE)MEMBERING THE SUBJECT: NOMADIC BECOMING IN CONTEMPORARY CHICANO/A LITERATURE
This study explores representations of subjectivity in three seminal texts within the genre of Chicana/o Literature. It considers Tomás Rivera’s …And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1971), Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), and Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came …
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Visually Re-membering the Eastside: Trajectories of Belonging and Displacement in Austin
Historically the home to predominantly Black and Chicanx communities, the Eastside of Austin, Texas is being confronted with the distinct pressures of the city’s rapid growth. Residents of the Eastside are experiencing significant losses of the physical spaces in the communities of the Eastside, …
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(Re)membering history: performative disinterment in post-TRC South African theatre-making
With the socio-political and even the theatre landscape in South Africa being fraught with questions of identity, ownership, memory and self-representation, I’m often struck by the implications of representing the self, while noting that the ‘self’ is never and can never be fully removed from some …
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Acts of re-membering: representations of the past in Irish and Basque literature
… to unravel the complex narratives animating the remembrance of Ireland’s and the Basque Country’s tumultuous past as represented in contemporary literature. Scholarly interest in Irish and Basque literature has been largely limited to nation-centered approaches, emphasizing the particularity of …
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Re-Membering Our Nations: Indigenous Custom Adoption and Determining Belonging Beyond the Indian Act
… beyond colonial confines. I draw on literature on Indigenous nationhood and peoplehood to develop a framework that outlines pathways for belonging that are embedded within networks of kinship and relationality, rather than the arbitrary boundaries of colonial legislation. Throughout the …
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USING NARRATIVE AND RE-MEMBERING CONVERSATIONS IN A BEREAVEMENT GROUP WITH STUDENTS IMPACTED BY SUICIDE
<p>To date, there have been no studies utilizing a narrative bereavement model for students impacted by suicide, in a group counseling setting. The present project intends to fill a gap in the literature. We sought to answer the research question, “Do narrative lines of inquiry, specifically …
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Black girl gaze: A visual (re)membering of black girlhood as an act of resistance
… of Black girls in American schools, they are still thought to be loud, deviant, hypersexual, violent and needing to be saved (Brown, 2009; 2013). The influence of these stereotypes about Black girls coupled with historical inequities in the education of Black students (Chatelain, 2015; …
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Making “Quare” Spaces: Re-membering Childhood as a Queer Practice of Indigenous African Place-making
Queers of colour are in real and constant danger as they are not seen to belong neatly to either Western queer culture (due to their blackness) or African culture (due to their queerness). This discursive violence legitimizes actual violence on black queer bodies. This research project uses …
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Grey Milk & Lost Kin Re-sounding, Re-visioning and Re-membering Trauma in the Scottish Nawkin Archives
Recent scholarship has begun to address the violence of colonial legacies that erase Indigenous and local knowledge systems, cultural heritage, and collective identity. Yet Scottish Nawkin communities from the southwest borderlands remain absent from these conversations. Situated in radical …
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Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice
This study attempts to ‘re-member' the post-slave South African female body through personal performance practice. It addresses re-membering both as an embodied activity of Recalling erased memory and as a recuperation of the dis-membered post-slave female body. Through reflecting on two examples …
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Tonal Landscapes: Re-membering the interiority of lives of apartheid through the family album of the oppressed
This research seeks to be a methodological contribution to the fields of visual and memory studies. It enters these conversations through the family photograph found in the home of forcibly removed ex-residents of Roger Street, District Six, Cape Town in an attempt to think about ways of living …
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GEOGRAPHY HESITANT AND AFRICAN ASCENDANT: ADDICTION, DEBT, AND OTHER BIOSOCIAL BARRIERS TO (RE)MEMBERING—A CASE FOR BLACK SPACE AND AFRICANA GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
Africana Studies addresses fundamental though insufficiently considered Human Geography questions of existence, namely: what unique ways of knowing can African people offer humanity to ensure our collective survival on Earth? Less explored are the foundational assumptions being made about who does …
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(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces: A Critical Qualitative Study of Spanish as a Foreign Language Educators’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners in Mixed Classrooms
… Gloria Anzaldúa has been an integral part of research on hybrid identities and consciousness. In an increasingly multicultural and multilingual school system, educators of Spanish as a foreign language are faced with a different audience to the ones they were trained to teach: students who …
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Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition
The thesis explores the making of nationhood, and its contestation, in narrative representations of women during the South African transition. This temporal span extends across the first decade of democracy and the first two terms of governance following the historic 1994 elections. The transition …
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Healing violence in South Africa: A textual reading of Kentridge's 'Drawings for Projection'
While the literature appears to understand trauma and violence as experienced singularly, and as effecting intrapsychic changes or reactions, latterly there has been a recognition that this understanding of the term 'trauma' may not be adequate to describe violence suffered over a prolonged period …
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Moving-voicing-remembering resonating embodied memory through performance as research
… MA journey which, through Practice- as-Research (PaR), has explored how the body remembers knowledge within an intentional cultivation of resonance. The emphasis on the textural and aural experience within my own performance practice, offered an opportunity to engage embodied memory as …
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