The thesis examines representations of the matriarch in three Chinese Canadian texts: SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children. The matriarch is the female head of the Chinese household who is able to gain substantial power by manipulating the assets granted to her in a patriarchal system. Dislocated from her home in China, she serves in these texts as the focal point for the collision between the New World, Canada, and the Old World, China. Confronted by a new environment, the matriarch must decide whether she will choose conformity or identity experimentation. The thesis is concerned with the way Chinese Canadian writers negotiate multiple identities through narrators who must come to terms with the divided loyalties of the women of the past. The analysis of the matriarch's identity shifts is informed by the work of the feminist theorists, Elspeth Probyn and Moira Gatens, who explore the productive potentials of rebelling against binary codes. The thesis is divided into three chapters that discuss how the texts come close to embracing identity fluidity, but cannot overcome the need to reach a coherent representation of the matriarch. The first chapter is devoted to Disappearing Moon Cafe, and argues that Lee's narrator sacrifices her female characters, albeit reluctantly, in order to privilege feminism over her Chinese heritage. The second chapter turns to The Jade Peony and discusses how Choy's child narrators give in to binary thinking by relegating Poh-Poh, the Old One, to the realm of memories to make room for the New Ways. The final chapter on The Concubine's Children explores Chong's desire to redeem a grandmother who wreaked havoc on the family when she defied traditional gender roles. The thesis concludes by determining that Lee, Choy, and Chong are reaching for a multi-voiced reading of the past, but cannot yet articulate a way out. The uncertainty of their representations of the matriarch signals their efforts to move beyond binaries to a state of coexisting identity categories.

Notre thèse tente de dégager une structure globale, un espace de la mort en lien avec l’écriture du deuil qui serait propre à la poésie québécoise telle qu’elle est représentée par Anne Hébert (1916-2000), Fernand Ouellette (1930 –), Jacques Brault (1933 –) et Denise Desautels (1945 –). La notion d’hétérotopie de Michel Foucault constitue le cœur de notre approche théorique parce qu’elle fait le pont entre un lieu localisable et un lieu non localisable dans le réel. Nous l’utilisons pour montrer l’« espace imaginaire de la mort » (Michel Ragon) de chaque poète. Deux notions bachelardiennes – le retentissement et la résonance – guident notre compréhension des images poétiques dans l’écriture de la perte. La mort n’étant pas un sujet ni un thème comme les autres, en faire un concept nous permet de tenir compte de sa particularité philosophique puisqu’il « vise à dégager l’essence d’une notion d’abord perçue comme noyée dans une gangue de contingences multiples » (Claude Bremond). D’un poète à l’autre, l’hétérotopie révèle le passage d’un imaginaire utopique de la mort à une thématisation plus axée sur la problématique de la dépouille. C’est ainsi que la traversée des ténèbres entreprise par Anne Hébert pour naître à la parole vivante ouvre la porte à l’angoisse d’une fin définitive que Fernand Ouellette apaise par sa foi en un au-delà. Son espace de la mort rejoint la notion d’horizon de Michel Collot. De son côté, Jacques Brault thématise la mort comme la fin d’un chemin marqué de nombreux deuils que seule la mémoire peut surmonter. Quant à Denise Desautels, ses poèmes-cimetières sont de petits théâtres construits d’objets et de voix qui rompent la solitude de cet être de langage qu’est la mort.

Orientador: Marcia Maria Strazzacappa Hernandez / Acompanhado de DVD: A história encenada: narrativa videográfica das obras coreográficas / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T00:56:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vilela_LilianFreitas_D.pdf: 97085575 bytes, checksum: e1fa9c8dcb9662ae09225cbac88a53a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Este trabalho de pesquisa acadêmica de doutorado versa sobre a história de vida artística da bailarina brasileira Denise Stutz, em seus percursos de atuação cênica, no período de 1970 até os dias atuais. A investigação está centrada nas experiências vividas pela bailarina em seus diferentes projetos poéticos, intitulados como momentos de formação, transformação e afirmação na dança. Como procedimento metodológico foi adotada a seleção, com recorte analítico, de suas narrativas orais por meio da transcriação (MEIHY, 2005) de seus relatos de vida trazidos em depoimentos gravados em momentos de rememorações; e de suas narrativas cênicas extraídas de seis espetáculos escolhidos como obras de referência (Maria, Maria; Folia; Não Olhe Agora; Homo politicus; 3 solos em um tempo e Justo uma imagem: cartas e processos). As narrativas cênicas foram trazidas para o texto através dos procedimentos de análise de movimento e análise de espetáculos adaptados dos estudos de LABAN (1978) e PAVIS (2003) para esta pesquisa. Assim, a fala e os movimentos cênicos de Denise Stutz vão sendo revelados no decorrer da narrativa, contracenando voz e corpo na escrita textual e imagética de uma vida em dança. Observamos que o corpo desta bailarina foi formado por diversas referências estéticas como balé clássico, dança moderna, teatro de rua, butoh e improvisação; em momentos de pertencimento a grupos, companhias de dança, coletivos artísticos, além de momentos solo. Nestas trajetórias, foi possível perceber as opções estéticas e políticas adotadas por este corpo ao dançar, como também, refletir sobre a reorganização do ambiente da dança contemporânea em relação à cena, à movimentação do corpo, às funções do bailarino e às formas de criação. Tais transformações refletem a afirmação de Denise Stutz como bailarina e de sua dança como modo de produção de sentido e expressão de vida. / Abstract: The work presents several different axis of investigation performed by a doctoral research on the life of Denise Stutz, Brazilian dancer who remains actively performing since the 1970s until the present days. The perspective of this research focuses on the experiences of this ballerina throughout her multiple poetic paths - her moments of formation, transformation and affirmation through dance. The methodological procedure adopted was the selection, with an analytical approach, of oral narratives through the transcreation (MEIHY, 2005) of her stories that were brought to life in recorded statements at times of recollection, and through narratives drawn from six scenic spectacles chosen as reference works (Mary, Mary, Folia, Do not Look Now; Homo politicus; three soils at a time and a fair picture: Letters and processes). The speech and movements of Denise Stutz were revealed during the narrative opposing the voice with the body, resulting in written text and imagery of a life in dance. We observe that this ballerina's body was formed by extensive references - classical ballet, modern dance, street drama, butoh, improvisation - going from moments of belonging to groups, dance companies and art groups, as well as solo projects. By investigating this path one may realize the different aesthetic and political choices made by this body when dancing and also one can reflect on the reorganization of contemporary dance's environment in relation to the scene and to the assignment of roles and forms of creation. Denise Stutz's transformations reflect her self-affirmation as a ballerina and also present her dance as a form of production of meaning and expression of life. / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Mestre em Educação

Notre thèse tente de dégager une structure globale, un espace de la mort en lien avec l’écriture du deuil qui serait propre à la poésie québécoise telle qu’elle est représentée par Anne Hébert (1916-2000), Fernand Ouellette (1930 –), Jacques Brault (1933 –) et Denise Desautels (1945 –). La notion d’hétérotopie de Michel Foucault constitue le cœur de notre approche théorique parce qu’elle fait le pont entre un lieu localisable et un lieu non localisable dans le réel. Nous l’utilisons pour montrer l’« espace imaginaire de la mort » (Michel Ragon) de chaque poète. Deux notions bachelardiennes – le retentissement et la résonance – guident notre compréhension des images poétiques dans l’écriture de la perte. La mort n’étant pas un sujet ni un thème comme les autres, en faire un concept nous permet de tenir compte de sa particularité philosophique puisqu’il « vise à dégager l’essence d’une notion d’abord perçue comme noyée dans une gangue de contingences multiples » (Claude Bremond). D’un poète à l’autre, l’hétérotopie révèle le passage d’un imaginaire utopique de la mort à une thématisation plus axée sur la problématique de la dépouille. C’est ainsi que la traversée des ténèbres entreprise par Anne Hébert pour naître à la parole vivante ouvre la porte à l’angoisse d’une fin définitive que Fernand Ouellette apaise par sa foi en un au-delà. Son espace de la mort rejoint la notion d’horizon de Michel Collot. De son côté, Jacques Brault thématise la mort comme la fin d’un chemin marqué de nombreux deuils que seule la mémoire peut surmonter. Quant à Denise Desautels, ses poèmes-cimetières sont de petits théâtres construits d’objets et de voix qui rompent la solitude de cet être de langage qu’est la mort.

The thesis examines representations of the matriarch in three Chinese Canadian texts: SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children. The matriarch is the female head of the Chinese household who is able to gain substantial power by manipulating the assets granted to her in a patriarchal system. Dislocated from her home in China, she serves in these texts as the focal point for the collision between the New World, Canada, and the Old World, China. Confronted by a new environment, the matriarch must decide whether she will choose conformity or identity experimentation. The thesis is concerned with the way Chinese Canadian writers negotiate multiple identities through narrators who must come to terms with the divided loyalties of the women of the past. The analysis of the matriarch's identity shifts is informed by the work of the feminist theorists, Elspeth Probyn and Moira Gatens, who explore the productive potentials of rebelling against binary codes. The thesis is divided into three chapters that discuss how the texts come close to embracing identity fluidity, but cannot overcome the need to reach a coherent representation of the matriarch. The first chapter is devoted to Disappearing Moon Cafe, and argues that Lee's narrator sacrifices her female characters, albeit reluctantly, in order to privilege feminism over her Chinese heritage. The second chapter turns to The Jade Peony and discusses how Choy's child narrators give in to binary thinking by relegating Poh-Poh, the Old One, to the realm of memories to make room for the New Ways. The final chapter on The Concubine's Children explores Chong's desire to redeem a grandmother who wreaked havoc on the family when she defied traditional gender roles. The thesis concludes by determining that Lee, Choy, and Chong are reaching for a multi-voiced reading of the past, but cannot yet articulate a way out. The uncertainty of their representations of the matriarch signals their efforts to move beyond binaries to a state of coexisting identity categories. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

<p>The aim of this study is to analyse the sexual power relations in contemporary urban novels of Swedish female writers.</p><p>I have identified a discourse in these novels as a heteronormative matrix which power is ruled by norms and assumptions about normality in both the heterosexual and lesbian stories. For this purpose I have related to Ivar B. Neumanns theory that individuals always find a way to confront the discourse by three different strategies. These strategies are used in my study as tools to organise these novels, because it is possible to see that the protagonists find at least one of these strategy’s to her protest.</p><p>The first strategy I studied was the docile. Here I argument that the heroines in Alla vilda, Jag minns alla mina älskare och hur de brukade ta på mig, Inte enklare än så, Lögner and Att älska henne do not reject the discourse about sexual power relationships. The second strategy, named the oppositionist, implies the protagonists refusing to be left as victims. In one way or another, either by change the rolls of the sexes (Ta vad man vill ha) or by problematising the order of them (Ego girl) or find lesbianism as a way to reject the discourse (both the novels by Mian Lodalen: Smulklubbens skamlösa systrar and Trekant). The reluctant is the last strat-egy who is the creative one, which rejects some things and adapt to other. Here I place the heroines from Stjärnor utan svindel, Andra sidan Alex and Storlek 37.</p><p>The result of this study is that despite quite different strategies to oppose against the hetero-sexual power discourse and the normative femininity everyone relates to it and thereby con-firms it.</p>

Doctor of Philosophy / This arts-informed inquiry is grounded in the lived experiences of five self-proclaimed artists including the researcher, who have turned to careers in teaching at varying stages of their lives. The stories of their transitions and evolving identities as both artists and teachers provide the investigative focus for this study. Although this research is relevant to teachers more generally, it specifically focuses on those who have chosen to teach Visual Arts. Particularly suited to a postmodern, arts-informed inquiry, the diverse forms of knowing that create our everyday experiences are acknowledged. The researcher became the bricoleur who collaged the individual stories of the first year artist-teachers into an integrated work of art. This constructivist approach included the use of visual imagery to transcend linguistic description. Through artworks, photographs, a self-narrative and novelette, the multiple ways these early career Visual Arts teachers came to understand themselves and their journeys are explored. This study has the potential to inform novice teachers of the transitions they may experience as they enter the teaching profession. Possible challenges, including the recognition that idealised beliefs might be traded in for more realistic representations, are discussed along with the notions of teaching as an art and the concept of resilience.

En observant le contexte architectural actuel, on note que les architectes s'intéressent davantage à faire valoir l'apparence de la surface de l'enveloppe extérieure de leurs bâtiments. Ce déplacement nous interpelle sur les raisons derrière ce type de changement au niveau conceptuel en architecture. L'examen de deux ouvrages récents nous révèle l'existence d'une tension entre l'aspect significatif et l'aspect matériel, ou pour le dire autrement, entre le signe et la matière. Notre objectif sera de faire l’histoire de cette dialectique afin de mieux saisir la nature de ce déplacement et comment cette opposition a pu déplacer la conception vers la surface et vers l'enveloppe extérieure. Notre étude montre que l'hypothèse de base de la dialectique du signe et de la matière se divise en trois parties. La première expose la dialectique existante, dans les années 1950 en Angleterre, du formalisme de Colin Rowe et Robert Slutzky et d'autre part, de l'image des matériaux trouvés comme tels des brutalistes promus par Reyner Banham. En deuxième partie, cette dialectique se développe aux États-Unis à partir des armées 1960 pour prendre une autre forme d'opposition entre le modèle sémiologique de Robert Venturi et de Denise Scott Brown et en contre partie le projet tectonique de Frampton basé sur son interprétation matériel et significatif de la construction. L'opposition actuelle entre les descriptions phénoménologiques de la surface et l'ambition d'une politicisation significative de l'enveloppe constitue le troisième moment de la dialectique du signe et de la matière. Avec chaque position, cette dialectique est reformulée par les modèles théoriques de chaque discours. Ainsi, l'introduction de la sémiologie a déplacé l'ambigüité perceptuelle par une ambigüité plus sémantique. Par la suite, les considérations phénoménologiques apportées à la matière ont introduit des notions sensorielles. La nouvelle opposition illustre une apparente incompatibilité de modèles et de sensibilités qui appelle une réconciliation dont 1'horizon n'est pas encore perceptible. Le développement de la dialectique du signe et de la matière à partir des années 1950 est donc l'explication que nous proposons au déplacement conceptuel du débat sur l'apparence et plus particulièrement au niveau de la surface et de l'enveloppe. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : façade, surface, enveloppe, théorie, conception, dialectique, opposition, matière, signe, construction, représentation, Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky, Kenneth Frampton, Reyner Banham, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, David Leatherbarrow, Alejandro Zaera Polo.

The aim of this study is to analyse the sexual power relations in contemporary urban novels of Swedish female writers. I have identified a discourse in these novels as a heteronormative matrix which power is ruled by norms and assumptions about normality in both the heterosexual and lesbian stories. For this purpose I have related to Ivar B. Neumanns theory that individuals always find a way to confront the discourse by three different strategies. These strategies are used in my study as tools to organise these novels, because it is possible to see that the protagonists find at least one of these strategy’s to her protest. The first strategy I studied was the docile. Here I argument that the heroines in Alla vilda, Jag minns alla mina älskare och hur de brukade ta på mig, Inte enklare än så, Lögner and Att älska henne do not reject the discourse about sexual power relationships. The second strategy, named the oppositionist, implies the protagonists refusing to be left as victims. In one way or another, either by change the rolls of the sexes (Ta vad man vill ha) or by problematising the order of them (Ego girl) or find lesbianism as a way to reject the discourse (both the novels by Mian Lodalen: Smulklubbens skamlösa systrar and Trekant). The reluctant is the last strat-egy who is the creative one, which rejects some things and adapt to other. Here I place the heroines from Stjärnor utan svindel, Andra sidan Alex and Storlek 37. The result of this study is that despite quite different strategies to oppose against the hetero-sexual power discourse and the normative femininity everyone relates to it and thereby con-firms it.

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