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1	Playing patsy: film as public history and the image of enslaved African American women in post-civil rights era cinema Mitchell, Amber N. 12 1900 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis / The goal of this thesis is to understand the relationship between the evolving representations of African American women in post-Civil Rights era films about the Transatlantic slave trade; the portraits these images present of black women and their history; and how these films approach the issues of difficult heritage and re-presenting atrocity in entertainment. Film shapes the ways in which we understand the past, leaving a lifelong impression about historical events and the groups involved. By analyzing the stories, directorial processes, and the public responses to four films of 20th and 21st centuries focused on the controversial historical topic of American chattel slavery and its representation of the most underrepresented and misunderstood victims of the Peculiar Institution, this work will argue that, when supplemented with historiography and criticism rooted in historical thinking, cinematic depictions of the past make history more accessible to the public and serve as a form of public memory, shaping the way the public thinks about our collective past. Public history Black feminist theory Film history Cinema Representation African American women American Chattel Slavery Quentin Tarantino Hallie Gerima Steve McQueen Oprah Winfrey
2	`Can't nothing heal without pain' : healing in Toni Morrison's Beloved Du Plooy, Belinda 31 January 2004 (has links) Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104). / English / M.A. (English) Healing American chattel slavery Historical embodiment Healing practices Maternal infanticide Non-dualism Foucaultian hermeneutics Two Bodies Mary Douglas John Caputo Michel Foucault Toni Morrison Beloved 813.54 Morrison, Toni -- Beloved Douglas, Mary Healing in literature
3	`Can't nothing heal without pain' : healing in Toni Morrison's Beloved Du Plooy, Belinda 31 January 2004 (has links) Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104). / English / M.A. (English) Healing American chattel slavery Historical embodiment Healing practices Maternal infanticide Non-dualism Foucaultian hermeneutics Two Bodies Mary Douglas John Caputo Michel Foucault Toni Morrison Beloved 813.54 Morrison, Toni -- Beloved Douglas, Mary Healing in literature

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