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11	Context matters: An exploration of identity at the intersection of education and relationships Boards, Alicia 06 June 2023 (has links) No description available. Secondary Education postsecondary decision making figured worlds youth participatory action research Audre Lorde noncognitive college readiness relationships
12	I'm Every Woman: Audre Lorde's Creation of an Interior Community in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Manes, Caralynn January 2017 (has links) No description available. Literature African American Studies Gender feminism feminist audre lorde community home queer lesbian gay lgbt black african american
13	Re-Calling the Past: Poetry as Preservation of Black Female Histories Miller-Haughton, Rachel 01 January 2017 (has links) This paper discusses the poetry of Audre Lorde and Natasha Trethewey, and the ways in which they bring to attention the often-silenced histories of African American females. Through close readings of Lorde’s poems “Call” and “Coal,” and Trethewey’s “Three Photographs,” these histories are brought to the present with the framework of the words “call” and “re-call.” The paper explores the ways in which Lorde creates a new mythology for understanding her identity as “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” in her innovative, intersectional feminist poetry. This is used as the framework for understanding modern poets like Trethewey, whose identity as a biracial black woman from the American South colors her lyric, more formal work. Lorde uses the vocal, oral tradition of calling as Trethewey relies on visual, gaze-focused recall. Recall is memory and re-call means bringing the hidden past into the future. The paper concludes by saying that all black female writers may participate in their own ways of calling out the truth and remembering what should be forgotten. Audre Lorde Natasha Trethewey Black Poets Female Poets History Call African American Studies Literature in English, North America
14	"Rough Text: Women's Experiments in Undoing The Autobiographical Subject" Finck, Shannon 12 August 2014 (has links) Studies of women’s experimental narrative in the twentieth century have often been fixed to political interests in the recovery of women’s artistic practices for inclusion in the canons of literary modernism and formal postmodernism. Concurrent trends in philosophy and critical theory, however, propose the interrogation of the limits of subjectivity itself, suggesting that the most provocative assertions about human experience eschew the very categorical delimitations, like gender, on which such recovery projects depend. This dissertation traces the literary investments of women, particularly queer women, whose experiments in life-writing reconfigure the boundaries of human subjects without relinquishing claims to the material or political conditions that shape their lives. “Rough Text” examines writing that queers or complicates autobiography by featuring self-referential protagonists whose lives illustrate the explosive consequences of both gender and genre manipulation. Writing themselves by unfastening themselves textually, temporally, and spatially, these authors do a liberating violence to their own coherence that shakes, and then rethinks, the grounds of their ontologies in ways that offer alternatives to the “psychological squalor” Fredric Jameson describes as the postmodern condition. Life-writing Autobiography Women Subjectivity Corporeality Postmodernism Modernism Gertrude Stein H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Audre Lorde Kathy Acker Intertextuality Gender Sexuality Feminism
15	"Rough Text: Women's Experiments in Undoing The Autobiographical Subject" Finck, Shannon 12 August 2014 (has links) Studies of women’s experimental narrative in the twentieth century have often been fixed to political interests in the recovery of women’s artistic practices for inclusion in the canons of literary modernism and formal postmodernism. Concurrent trends in philosophy and critical theory, however, propose the interrogation of the limits of subjectivity itself, suggesting that the most provocative assertions about human experience eschew the very categorical delimitations, like gender, on which such recovery projects depend. This dissertation traces the literary investments of women, particularly queer women, whose experiments in life-writing reconfigure the boundaries of human subjects without relinquishing claims to the material or political conditions that shape their lives. “Rough Text” examines writing that queers or complicates autobiography by featuring self-referential protagonists whose lives illustrate the explosive consequences of both gender and genre manipulation. Writing themselves by unfastening themselves textually, temporally, and spatially, these authors do a liberating violence to their own coherence that shakes, and then rethinks, the grounds of their ontologies in ways that offer alternatives to the “psychological squalor” Fredric Jameson describes as the postmodern condition. Life-writing Autobiography Women Subjectivity Corporeality Postmodernism Modernism Gertrude Stein H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Audre Lorde Kathy Acker Intertextuality Gender Sexuality Feminism
16	Herstory: female artists' resistance in The Awakening, Corregidora, and The Dew Breaker Schaefer, Mercedez L. 06 1900 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / For women in patriarchal societies, life is stitched with silence and violence. This is especially true for women of color. In a world that has cast women as invisible and voiceless, to create from the margins is to demand to be seen and heard. Thus, women’s art has never had the privilege of being art for art’s sake and instead is necessarily involved in the work of articulating and (re)writing female experience. When women seek, through their work and art, to feel deeply and connect with other women, they tap into what Audre Lorde has famously termed “the power of the erotic.” Lorde suggests that to acknowledge and trust those deepest feelings within our bodies is a subversive power that spurs social change. In the following work, novels by Kate Chopin, Gayl Jones, and Edwidge Danticat are linked by their female characters who seek the erotic via their art of choice and, in doing so, resist disempowerment and explore the life-giving nature of female connection. Furthermore, because the authors themselves are engaged in rendering the female experience visible, the novels discussed actively converse with their respective waves of feminism and propel social activism and feminist discourse. Hence, this project provides both a close reading of The Awakening, Corregidora, and The Dew Breaker, and a broader contention on the role of women’s literature in social justice. The Power of the Erotic Audre Lorde Kate Chopin Gayl Jones Edwidge Danticat The Awakening Corregidora The Dew Breaker art for the people's sake resistance social justice via literature
17	Buddhist Teacher Responses to Sexual Violence: Race, Gender, and Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism Buckner, Ray Moishe January 2020 (has links) No description available. Womens Studies Gender Studies Religion Anger Against the Stream American Buddhism Audre Lorde Noah Levine Not-Knowing MeToo Rape Sara Ahmed Sexual Assault
18	The Transformation of Silence into Storytelling: An Analysis of Meaning and Structure in Narratives About Mastectomy Grande, Dana Maria-Lucia 26 January 2022 (has links) No description available. African American Studies American Literature Black Studies Gender Studies Glbt Studies Health Care Literature Medicine Rhetoric Social Research Womens Studies mastectomy cancer narratives narratology Audre Lorde Frances Burney Arthur Frank reformation bioethnography
19	Tystnaden: Makten, rösten och talet : En analys av tystnaden som kontrollinstrument i Vegetarianen och brun flicka drömmer / Silence: Power, voice and speech : An analysis of silence as an instrument for control in The Vegetarian and brown girl dreaming Guldbacke Lund, Linnéa January 2018 (has links) Silence, voice and power are the main themes in this essay. The purpose is to analyze how the silence is used as an instrument for control, and how it can be used strategically to take power, but also as a resistance against the power. The novel The Vegetarian by Han Kang and the autobiography novel on verse, brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson are the core of this essay. This essay focuses on how the characters break the silence, and how they use the silence strategically to find their voice in a society that systematically works to keep women, children and men silent. The silence works in specific ways in all kinds of situations, to explore the complexity of the power dimensions a comparative analysis allows the themes to emerge and enlighten each other’s diversity. With help from Rebecca Solnit in Alla frågors moder, Audre Lorde in Your silence will not protect you and Michel Foucault’s Diskursens ordning, among other voices, the essay aims to search for how the silence can work as a strategy and what it means to speak. The essay shows how the oppressing silence is broken in brown girl dreaming, and how the voice becomes the power, but also how the silence was used in the African-American Civil Rights Movement as an act of resistance. The essays also analyze the female main character in The Vegetarian, who makes a journey from an oppressed woman where the patriarchal men violate her silence and forcing her to speak, to an existence where silence, life and growth thrives. The silence has its own language and sometimes, it’s louder than words. Silence Voice Power Strategy brown girl dreaming The Vegetarian Rape Abuse Become silent Oppression Postcolonialism Gender studies Foucault Rebecca Solnit Audre Lorde bell hooks African-American Civil Rights Movement Resistance Break the silence Uprising Revolt Silent protest Nonviolent Power structure Master suppression technique Vegetation Growth Existence Life Death Freedom Speech Tystnad Makt Strategi Röst Kontrollinstrument Redskap brun flicka drömmer Jacqueline Woodson Vegetarianen Han Kang Självbestämmande Maktspel Våldtäkt Övergrepp Tystna Förtryck Postkolonialistisk teori Genusteori Diskurser Foucault Rebecca Solnit Audre Lorde bell hooks Medborgarrättsrörelsen Bryta tystnaden Uppror Tyst demonstration Tal Tysta Maktmedel Motstånd Härskartekniker Växtlighet Frihet Liv Döden Återfödelse Makten Talet Tystnaden Rösten Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier
20	Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism Benavente, Gabriel 30 March 2017 (has links) This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for a movement that does not romanticize the environment as heteronormative, but a space where queers can flourish. Just as queer and environmental justice movements are codependent on one another, feminist movements cannot be separate from black and transgender liberation. This thesis will demonstrate how writers, such as Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, and Janet Mock, help establish a feminism that resists the erasure of black and transgender people. ecocriticism contemporary literature speculative fiction science fiction queer theory feminism english octavia butler janet mock toni morrison audre lorde climate change environmental justice african american activism transgender parable of the talents queer ecology African American Studies American Literature American Politics American Studies Arts and Humanities Continental Philosophy Ecology and Evolutionary Biology English Language and Literature Environmental Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Feminist Philosophy Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Religion

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