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481	Where's the Roda?: Understanding Capoeira Culture in an American Context Humphrey, Ashley Renee 13 December 2018 (has links) No description available. Music Music Education African Studies Dance Ethnic Studies History Latin American History Latin American Studies Capoeira Sports Martial Art Martial Arts Afro-Brazilian Africana African Diaspora Music Ethnomusicology Popular Culture Popular Music Media Studies Brazil North America Game Dance Post-Colonial Studies
482	Subversive Representations of Education in Francophone Novels of the Colonial Maghreb Bevill, Whitney 01 January 2011 (has links) (PDF) Much work exploring alterity and hybridity in the Maghreb ignores representations of education which confront seminal formative experiences, specifically education. French colonial education was problematic because it granted access to the colonizer’s culture, yet it also created a rupture in self-identity for Maghrebi students. In this thesis, I interrogate the literary representations of sites and sources of education by analyzing how these representations discuss the tension between formal French education and informal Maghrebi education. My thesis begins with a historical overview of colonial education in the Maghreb. I then discuss literary methods of negotiating identity, contrasting Arab and Western autobiography especially. Furthermore, I compare writing practices informed by a French education and a North African upbringing. Next, I compare formal and informal sites of education—the school, home and community—which articulate sources of alterity experienced during colonial childhood. Writers interrogate formal settings, including the school, classrooms, teachers, and examinations, and gaze upon the normative space and dominant culture which contradict that of the home. Conversely, informal settings provide subversive sources of education that resist the power structures of colonial France. These sites, including parents, the home, and community, provide an oppositional education and a means of resistance to rejected systems of power. Both settings represent spaces of cultural confrontation that serve as both a means of betrayal as well as benefit to students. The texts I consider discuss the dynamic end of the French colonial period yet were written over a period of time that allowed for personal reflection by the authors as well as for contributions by literary critics and historians that affected the perception and comprehension of the volatile period at the end of French colonialism and the fall of the Fourth Republic. Maghreb colonial education North Africa representations Francophone novel Arts and Humanities Curriculum and Instruction Education French and Francophone Literature International and Comparative Education Other Education Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
483	Intervention of the United States in Nicaragua since 1909 Floyd, Louise 01 January 1927 (has links) (PDF) The twentieth century is revealing a steady increase in the influence of the United States in the Caribbean region, both in politics and economic development. The arm of America has been gradually forcing out the European nations. Counting colonies and protectorates, the United States has under its supervision a greater Caribbean population than the population of the thirteen colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence. In trade the United States is the best customer of Central America and the West Indies. The region is one of the chief sources of our raw-materials imports. The majority of the citizens of the United Statesdo not recognize the importance of the Caribbean to us. They are unaware of the manner in which the United States is increasing its power and influence. It is a distinct shock to many to learn of our imperialistic policy. The purpose of this paper is to trade one specific example of the intervention of the United States in the Caribbean. Nicaragua has been chosen largely because of recent troubles there and because it affords an excellent example of a virtual though unrecognized American protectorate. The difficulties in the way of a careful study of the country are very great. Historical works are especially unsatisfactory. The colonial period is much more ably treated than the recent period. The most satisfactory book on the subject is "The Five Republics of Central America" by Dana G. Munro. The thread of this paper is largely taken from the material of this one book supplemented by other shorter accounts. A large part of the material is taken from government documents, magazine articles and pamphlets of the Pan-American Union. Much of the magazine material is difficult to use because of ignorance of the ulterior motives of the writers, but there is enough of value to reveal the broad tendencies of political development. The economic development is more obscure. Data concerning the condition of the country at the present time is almost totally lacking due to the unreliability of newspaper accounts. Diplomacy prevents the giving out of material by members of the Consular service. United States Foreign relations Nicaragua History Arts and Humanities Economic History Economics History International and Area Studies International Relations Latin American History Latin American Languages and Societies Latin American Studies Latina/o Studies Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences United States History
484	Anti-colonial Resistance and Indigenous Identity in North American Heavy Metal Thibodeau, Anthony 10 April 2014 (has links) No description available. American Studies Music Native American Studies Native Americans Hispanic American Studies Cultural Anthropology Popular Music Popular Culture Native American studies Indigenous Studies Post-colonial Studies Metal Studies heavy metal punk rock Mexica Movement resistance indigenous identity American Indian Chicano Studies Gathering of Nations Powwow
485	Imagining India from the Margins: Liberalism and Hybridity in Late Colonial India Ghimire, Bishnu 25 July 2012 (has links) No description available. Aesthetics Asian Literature Asian Studies British and Irish Literature Comparative Literature Literature Modern Literature South Asian Studies Post colonial late colonial India the Raj liberal humanism hybridity irony Forster Anand Hosain Rorty Bhabha representation culture nationalism identity politics critique of essentialism cosmopolitanism metropolitan margin
486	“An Odd Monster”: Essays on 20th Century Literature Hempstead, Susanna 16 September 2022 (has links) No description available. African Literature American Literature British and Irish Literature Caribbean Literature Literature Modern Literature Postcolonial post-colonial colonialism british british imperialism imperialism british literature colonial literature postcolonial literature american literature southern american literature the american south virginia woolf jean rhys tayeb salih william faulkner feminist literature caribbean literature
487	Altered States of Rurality: Cultural Forays into Southern Ontario Country Walden, Riisa 10 1900 (has links) <p>This dissertation examines contemporary cultural representations of rurality in southern Ontario. It demonstrates how literary and cultural texts construct, support and/or expand our understandings of the social composition and character of rural culture. Examining various literary forms (drama, life narrative, and the novel), music, and photography, my research and analysis responds to Chris Philo’s pivotal call in the field of rural geography “to pay more careful attention to ‘the multiple forms of otherness’ present in . . . rural areas” (“Neglected” 199) and to foreground what he identifies as “neglected rural geographies.” I argue that dominant literary and cultural representations of rural southern Ontario overwhelmingly mobilize and rarely contest white heteromasculinist rural discourses that support rural cultures of sameness and exclusion. As a means of exposing the motivations for and deleterious effects of these discourses, I draw attention to alternative representations of the region’s rural social geography that expand the imaginative scope circumscribed by hegemonic conceptualizations of what it means to be rural in southern Ontario. As such, my project responds to Philo’s call in three ways: first, it repositions southern Ontario as a rural locale of critical relevance; second, it addresses a gap in Canadian literary and cultural studies by taking up new and evolving approaches in rural studies, with respect to rural “others,” being developed in disciplines like geography, sociology, history and political science; third, it intervenes in dominant socio-spatial discourses currently circulating in Canadian literary and cultural studies that eagerly address issues of gender, sexuality, race and class in Canada’s urban environments while too often neglecting how they intersect with discourses of rurality.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) rurality southern Ontario multiculturalism critical race studies gender and sexuality studies Canadian literature and culture Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Literature in English, North America Modern Literature Other Music Visual Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
488	An Oblique Blackness: Reading Racial Formation in the Aesthetics of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, and Wayde Compton Haynes, Jeremy D. 10 1900 (has links) <p>This thesis examines how the poetics of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand and Wayde Compton articulate unique aesthetic voices that are representative of a range of ethnic communities that collectively make-up blackness in Canada. Despite the different backgrounds, geographies, and ethnicities of these authors, blackness in Canada is regularly viewed as a homogeneous community that is most closely tied to the cultural histories of the American South and the Atlantic slave trade. Black Canadians have historically been excluded from the official narratives of the nation, disassociating blackness from Canadian-ness. Epithets such as “African-Canadian” are indicative of the way race distances citizenship and belonging. Each of these authors expresses an aesthetic through their poetics that is representative of the unique combination of social, political, cultural, and ethnic interactions that can be collectively described as racial formation. While each of these authors orients her or his own ethnic community in relation to the nation in different ways, their focus on collapsing the distance between citizenship and belonging can be read as a base for forming community from which collective resistance to the racial violence of exclusion can be grounded.</p> / Master of English Canada blackness race gender class African-Canadian poetry poetics critical race theory postcolonial theory multiculturalism nationalism belonging aesthetics blues jazz hip hop baptist Africa slave trade abolition community racial formation African American Studies Ethnic Studies Ethnomusicology Modern Literature Other English Language and Literature Reading and Language African American Studies
489	Cumulative Grief Pham, Xuan 18 December 2020 (has links) (PDF) A written thesis to accompany the M.F.A. Exhibition Cumulative Grief, in which the artist's personal and familial narrative explores the complexity and nuances of racial grief. Racial Melancholia Psychoanalysis Grief Immigration Plants Hy-Bi Art and Design Art and Materials Conservation Arts and Humanities Asian American Studies Asian History Ceramic Arts Environmental Studies Fine Arts History Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Migration Studies Multicultural Psychology Psychology Race and Ethnicity Sculpture Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology Theory and Philosophy
490	A reinterpretation of urban space in Pretoria Van der Klashorst, Elsa 2013 February 1900 (has links) Various potential modes of interpreting the urban space in the inner city of Pretoria is evaluated in this study with the purpose of expanding discourse around spatial production in the city. Production of meaning through formal and structural means produced a city that served as administrative capital and ideological base for Afrikaners until the arrival of a democracy in 1994. The contemporary urban space is produced by people through everyday life, as theorised by Henry Lefebvre, rather than through formal means such as name changes. This study evaluates the way that identity and belonging is created by referring to everyday life practices, rhythmanalysis and daily activities as performances. Urban space is evaluated from a phenomenological perspective through the eyes of an artist and resident and expressed in an art exhibition. The way artists Julie Mehretu and Franz Ackermann dealt with urban space in their art is also referenced. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / Master of Visual Arts African city Afrikaner Art and city De Certeau Deleuze & Guattari Everyday life Lefebvre Performance Performativity Post-Apartheid city Post-colonial Pretoria Rhythmanalysis Social space Tshwane Urban geography Urban space 704.94468227 Public spaces in art Architecture -- South Africa -- Pretoria Cities and towns in art Pretoria (South Africa) -- In art Art, South African Pretoria (South Africa) -- In art

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