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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony

Abstract

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This thesis explores the intersections between practices of epistemic production and distribution and material violence. Following the work of Sylvia Wynter, a framework of "genre" is engaged to provide an account of intersectional social identities, disproportionately distributed hegemonic violence (including both state and non-state actants), and the traditions and technologies of anti-colonial theoretical modeling, material praxis, and political work engendered by the rich, interdisciplinary body of Black Feminist thought. To address the continued practices of social, political, and material violence which sustain the Wynterian onto-epistemological "Overrepresentation of Man," an emergent archipelagic politics of heterogenous coalition-building presents a viable path of becoming for liberatory political projects.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Political Science
Department dc:contributor.department
Political Science
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2019

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Fallon, Jordan Keats
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Daggett, Cara New
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Faulkner, Brandy S.
  • Baldwin, Andrea N.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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vt_gsexam:20451
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/91389

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Fallon, Jordan Keats. Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91389