Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. College of Music, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Sept. 14, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-73). Also issued in print.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2503. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 346-359).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 298-322).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 2008. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-89).

Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-89). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

梁嘉賢. / "2007年8月". / 論文(藝術碩士)--香港中文大學, 2007. / 參考文獻(leaves 46-48). / "2007 nian 8 yue". / Abstract also in English. / Liang Jiaxian. / Lun wen (Yi shu shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2007. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 46-48). / Chapter (一） --- 前言：一覺之間的疑 惑 --- p.1 / Chapter (二） --- 知覺：傳統的定義與印 象 --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- 神聖的規範 / Chapter 2.2 --- 印象與符號 / Chapter (三） --- 超越真實：傳統影像的再現與接 收 --- p.8 / Chapter 3.1 --- 眼前的傳統 / Chapter 3.2 --- 真實以外 / Chapter 3.3 --- 符號慣性 / Chapter (四） --- 相遇：當代藝術形態中的混雜模 式 --- p.17 / Chapter 4.1 --- 從二元到多元的混雜 / Chapter 4.2 --- 文化超市 / Chapter (五） --- 再探：從混雜藝術中重拾傳統的意 義 --- p.25 / Chapter 5.1 --- 傳統精神融合其他媒介，擴展傳統藝術思想 / Chapter 5.2 --- 以傳統元素審視傳統 / Chapter 5.3 --- 利用傳統的文化價値確立個人身分 / Chapter 5.4 --- 傳統作爲創作材料的一部分 / Chapter (六) --- 結論 --- p.40 / Chapter 6.1 --- 創作者的起點 / Chapter 6.2 --- 混雜藝術的位置 / Chapter 6.3 --- 危與機的邊緣 / 參考書目 --- p.46 / 附錄 --- p.49

This article explores the roles that porcelain portraits on grave markers play in identity construction and performance. Through semi-structured interviews, the biographies of five individuals are examined and then compared to determine norms or differences regarding their views on sepulchral photographs as a form of memorialization. While the decision to display a gravestone portrait could simply be a long-standing cultural practice, this interpretivist study indicates that the role of photo-tombstones is negotiated through a hybridization process involving religious syncretism, cultural convergence, or familial expectations. The role of photography as material culture is also examined, both as a metonymic replacement for the deceased and for its links to memory recall and remembrance.

Contemporary Canadian literature and drama that features racial hybridity represents the racially hybrid soma text as a unique form of embodiment and pays particular attention to the power of the racialized gaze. The soma text is the central concept I have developed in order to identify, address, and interrogate the signifying qualities of the racially hybrid body. Throughout my dissertation, I use the concept of the body as a text in order to draw attention to the different visual "readings" that are stimulated by this form of embodiment. In each chapter, I identify the centrality of racially hybrid embodiment and investigate the power of the racialized gaze involved in the interpellation of these racially hybrid bodies. I have chosen to divide my study into discrete chapters and to use specific texts to illuminate my central concepts and to identify the strategies that can be used to express agency over the process of interpellation. In Chapter One I explain my methodology, define the terminology and outline the theories that are central to my analysis. In Chapter Two, I consider the experiences of mixed race people expressing agency by self-defining in the genre of autobiography. In Chapter Three, I explore the notion of racial drag as represented in fiction. In Chapter Four, I consider the ways in which the performative aspects of racial hybridity are represented by theatrical means and through performance. My analysis of the soma text and racialized gaze in these three genres offers critical terms that can be used to analyze representations of racial hybridity. By framing my analysis by way of the construction of the autobiographical voice I suggest that insight into the narrative uses of racial hybridity can be deepened and informed by a thorough analysis of the representation of the lived experience of racial hybridity in a given context. My crossgeneric and crossracial methodology implicitly asserts the importance of the inclusion of different types of racial hybridity in order to understand the power of the racially hybrid body as a signifier in contemporary Canadian literature and drama. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate