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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"reconstructing history"”.
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Did it Work? Re-enacting the maternal body as a site for ancestral memories: photography and oral history as vehicles for reconstructing history in the re-embodiment of Black Matrilineage
… reflective, respecting the nature of my family’s history and my mother’s body as the archive of this history. By defining the components of Black matrilineage, I engage in a process that asserts photography and the oral tradition as repositories of history that can be engaged within this form. I …
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Questioning Horatio Greenough's thought on architecture
… of 19th century architectural theory and the history of functionalism as a discourse. Thus, this study aims to re-contextualize Greenough's work to understand his thoughts on architecture. His writings and his sculpture are viewed in the light of his ideological position with reference to its …
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Telling History Through the Stories of Women: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé
… texts contesting traditional, male dominated history and redirecting historical and communal foci to the lives of Dominican women. I employ Walter Benjamin's theories found in his essays "The Storyteller" (1936) and "On the Concept of History" (1940) to assist my exploration of Alvarez's …