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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"self-making"”.
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A Realist Argument for the Self: Emotions and Consciousness in Self-Making
The question of the self, of what the self is (or even if there is a self) has been one that has grown alongside humanity, one that has haunted humanity, throughout our collective history. It is the purpose of this study to add to that questioning, and to attempt a small contribution to a field …
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Performing the self : Making/Remaking White Male Identities in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-139).
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Da' art of story tellin' : black masculine literacies and a rhetoric of self-making
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Rhetoric and Writing, 2010
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Toward an Integrated Self: Making Meaning of the Multiple Identities of Gay Men in College
… influences during college on their meaning-making process? Seventeen gay men attending three universities in a metropolitan city in Southern California participated in this constructivist grounded theory study (Charmaz, 2006). Data collection included two in-depth interviews for each …
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The Art of Self-Making: American Modernist Fiction and the Performances of Identity and Authorship
… relatedness of the authorial desire for textual self-representation visible in many works of American modernist fiction and the modern myth of the self-made man. I contend that the historical and cultural forces which shaped both phenomena in the latter half of the 19th and the first half of the …
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SUBJECT FORMATION AND SELF-MAKING IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF STATELESS SHAN PEOPLE IN THE THAI-BURMESE BORDERLAND
… is an ethnographic work, in which I immersed myself in stateless Shan people’s social lives in the setting of the Thai-Burmese borderland. From my ethnographic research, I suggest that the notion of subjectivity formation should not be understood through state power and state discourse alone, …
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Patches: The EP and Text
Self-reflection can aid in unpacking the complex layers of navigating the intersectionalities of identities. By exploring these layers, we gain a deeper understanding of the societal structures that influence our lives and find ways to navigate them. This creative project, created imperfectly over …
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Examining Chinese International Secondary School Students in Transnational Spaces: Becoming Flexible Citizens?
… and not-so-flexibly engage in their learning and self-making in their transnational spaces. This research is a qualitative ethnographic field study conducted in and around a Canadian international secondary school in Ontario. It follows 11 international students from mainland China in their …
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Exiled nostalgia and musical remembrance: songs of grief, joy, and tragedy among Iraqi Jews
… dissertation examines a practice of private song-making, one whose existence is often denied, among a small number of amateur Iraqi Jewish singers in Israel. These individuals are among those who abruptly emigrated from Iraq to Israel in the mid twentieth century, and share formative experiences …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity and nationhood in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity and nationhood in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To …
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Conditions, Contestations, and Pockets of Belonging: Youth Citizenship in Small Town America
… Drawing on an intersectional subjectification (“self-making” and “being-made”) framework, this dissertation advances three arguments. First, I contend belonging in Riverton for the youth is conditional on their positions in racial, class, and gendered hierarchies of belonging. Secondly, I …
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
… to fashion and refashion their own rituals of self-making. From marriage and menstrual pollution to urban religious festivals and community-building, the following dissertation will highlight how rituals are simultaneously being reinvented and reinforced in contemporary south India via an …
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Racialization, sexualization, and resistance: a “subtle” look at Our Nig and “a subtlety”
… Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, and Tavia Nyong’o’s The Amalgamation Waltz, as essential frameworks for my analysis that follows of sexualizations and racializations of black women in literature and visual culture, to understand both …
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism
… Skeptical of the great American myth of self-making, such writers as Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Nathanael West, and Langston Hughes invented ways of representing individuals not by stable inner qualities but by their fascinating--and, often, gendered and …
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Voices of selves : the lives of six older lesbians and gay men and their negotiated making of the self
… that growing older has had on the sense of self of three older lesbians and three older gay men. The research project upon which it is based involved multiple in-depth interviews that were undertaken in a two year period from 2005.<br></br><br></br> The stories that were told to me indicate …
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<em>¡¿Y Que?!</em>: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture
… it, can navigate their own identification and self-making. These Latinx characters affiliate themselves with these predominately Anglo, suburban, and outsider music subcultures to access the potential power of hybridization to develop new lexicons and modes of being that challenge patriarchal, …
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Scrapbooking cultures in twentieth-century Britain
… I reveal how scrapbooking was a novel self-making practice, uniquely reliant on print media and ephemera. Rooted in the visual and the tactile, scrapbookers overcame the conventions associated with other forms of life writing, embracing the genre’s imaginative and fantastical potential. …
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Conor Cruise O'Brien, public intellectuals, and politics in twentieth-century Ireland
… criticism, this thesis analyses Cruise O’Brien’s self-making as an intellectual, the construction of his public persona, what he had to say about society, and the media through which he intervened in public debate. The main argument is that his ‘positioning’ as a ‘courageous’ figure helped to …
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Everyday citizenship: people, place and politics in Philippi
… their homes through auto construction, and self-making, in the post-apartheid city (Caldeira, 2017). This is evident in spaces like Philippi, where areas of Neoliberal planning practices remain as exclusionary imaginaries of city and citizenship that promote collective amnesia (Miraftab, …
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