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11	Animal-Like and Depraved: Racist Stereotypes, Commercial Sex, and Black Women's Identity in New Orleans, 1825-1917 Dossie, Porsha 01 August 2014 (has links) My objective with this thesis is to understand how racist stereotypes and myths compounded the sale of fair-skinned black women during and after the slave trade in New Orleans, Louisiana. This commodification of black women's bodies continued well into the twentieth century, notably in New Orleans' vice district of Storyville. Called "quadroons" (a person with Â¼ African ancestry) and "octoroons" (1/8 African ancestry), these women were known for their "sexual prowess" and drew in a large number of patrons. The existence of "white passing" black women complicated ideas about race and racial purity in the South. Race as a myth and social construct, or as Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham explains in her essay, African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race, a "metalanguage" exposes race not as a genetic fact, but rather a physical appearance through which power relations and status were to be conferred. My methodology uses race and gender theory to analyze primary and secondary sources to understand and contextualize how population demographics, myths, and liberal 18th century colonial laws contributed to the sale of black women's bodies. The works of Emily Clark, Walter Johnson, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and other historians who utilize Atlantic history have been paramount in my research. Emily Clark has transformed the "white-black" women from a tragic, sexualized trope into a fully actualized human being, while Hall has tackled the racist underpinnings inherent in the neglect of black women's history. The writings of bell hooks, particularly her essay Eating the Other, establishes the modern day commodification of black women vis-Ã -vis their representation in media, as well as through the fetishism of their bodies by a white patriarchal system. During slavery plantation owners could do virtually anything they wanted with their property, including engaging in sexual intercourse. By depicting black women as hypersexual jezebels, they could justify their rape, while establishing their dominance and place in the white male hegemony of that time period. For the right price a white male of a lesser class could achieve the same thing at a brothel down in Storyville at the turn of the twentieth century, for as Emily Clark argues in her book, The Strange History of the American Quadroon, these brothels were a great equalizer, allowing all white men to experience "â€¦sexual mastery enjoyed only by elite planters before the Civil War." By democratizing white supremacy, the quadroon and others like her forged solidarity that bridge across all classes, while upholding whiteness and oppressing people of color at the same time. History United States History
12	Nerval fantaisiste / Nerval fantaisiste Kekus, Filip 18 December 2015 (has links) La postérité a considéré de manière privilégiée l’œuvre de Gérard de Nerval comme celle d’un poète sinon fou, du moins irrémédiablement mélancolique, en faisant peu de cas de son inspiration fantaisiste. Bien que parfois évoquée, cette facette de l’œuvre n’a à ce jour jamais fait l’objet d’une synthèse d’envergure. C’est à cette lacune quelque peu surprenante que notre étude ambitionne de répondre. Remettre à l’honneur la fantaisie de l’auteur des « Chimères » et d’Aurélia ne revient nullement à nier la folie nervalienne, mais plutôt à penser cette dernière en relation avec une fantaisie investie des aspirations romantiques les plus hautes, à remettre en question des traditions de lecture qui ont conclu à un isolement de l’œuvre au détriment d’une volonté de lucidité sans cesse réaffirmée par l’écrivain. Interroger la fantaisie nervalienne, c’est interroger les enjeux esthétiques, socio-politiques et éthiques d’une œuvre empreinte d’un enjouement fantasque qui s’est toujours voulue en prise directe sur l’actualité et soucieuse de refonder une communication littéraire alors en crise. / The works of Gérard de Nerval have mainly been regarded as the output of an irremediably melancholic, if not insane poet. However strongly established by his contemporaries, his fanciful inspiration, though occasionally mentioned, has never been subjected to thorough investigation. The ambition of this study is to rectify this rather intriguing omission. Delving into the fancy of the author of « Les Chimères » and of Aurélia, rather than denying Nerval’s madness, consists in assessing its connection with a fancy expressive of the highest romantic aspirations, as well as challenging customary interpretations that concluded in the isolation of an author’s writings, in spite of his own repeated assertions of lucidity. Probing Nerval’s fancy amounts to questioning the aesthetic, socio-political and ethical stakes of works imbued with whimsical cheerfulness, always bent on facing reality and eager to re-establish a literary communication that was then going through a critical period. Gérard de Nerval Romantisme Fantaisie Écoles et débats littéraires Presse et littérature Formes comiques Poésie Gérard de Nerval Romantism Fancy Literary schools and debates Press and literature Comical forms Poetry
13	Énergie et mélancolie : les entrelacs de l'écriture dans les Notebooks de S.T. Coleridge Volume 1, 2 et 3 Page-Jones, Kimberley 13 September 2013 (has links) Durant toute sa vie, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poète et philosophe romantique anglais, a consigné ses pensées et ses réflexions sous forme de fragments dans des Notebooks, aujourd’hui regroupés dans cinq volumes. Derrière cette écriture mosaïque se dessine l’histoire d’un esprit nourri d’une insatiable curiosité pour le monde naturel et la psyché humaine. Libre de toute contrainte de structure et de genre, l’espace des Notebooks est peut-être celui qui s’ajuste le mieux au rythme si particulier de la pensée du poète. Ces textes se donnent ainsi à lire comme le reflet d’une pensée en constante évolution, qui sans cesse digresse, explore des possibles, ouvre des voies inexplorées. Cette thèse se propose donc de tenter d’en saisir les variations par une approche rythmanalytique du corpus d’étude. L’écriture des premiers carnets est essentiellement nomade, elle témoigne d’un plaisir de pérégriner, de s’ouvrir à la texture du monde. Elle se nourrit de l’énergie d’un corps en mouvement et d’une volonté d’habiter poétiquement l’espace. Toutefois, au fil du temps, le regard du poète semble peu à peu substituer le diffus et le nocturne à l’espace géopoétique ; l’écriture des Carnets se replie sur l’intime de l’être et se teinte de mélancolie. L’écriture de la mélancolie ne serait-elle pas dès lors l’envers sombre de l’écriture nomade, une écriture qui se nourrit de l’énergie du désir et de l’angoisse, et qui ne cesse de s’enrouler sur elle-même pour tendre vers ce point obscur ? Néanmoins, la mélancolie des Carnets n’est jamais synonyme d’effondrement ou de néant, elle n’appelle pas le vide mais, bien au contraire, trouve sa source d’inspiration dans une formidable vitalité pour faire advenir au jour de la parole ce qui ne se donne à voir que dans l’obscurité de la nuit. / During all his life, the English poet and romantic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge secretly kept his thoughts and reflections in his Notebooks, which have been published in five volumes. This mosaic writing tells the story of a mind fed on an insatiable appetite and curiosity for the natural world and the human mind. Freed from any structural or generic constraint, the Notebooks certainly offered the poet a scriptural space well-suited for the rhythm of his thought. These texts can thus be read as the reflection of a mind constantly evolving, digressing, exploring new areas and opening new vistas. This work is an attempt to seize the variations of the Coleridgian thought by approaching rhythmically the first three volumes of the Notebooks. The writing of his first notebooks is essentially nomadic and asserts the pleasure of wandering through the natural world and delving into its texture. It feeds upon the energy of a body exploring space and of a mind struggling to inhabit the world poetically. Yet, as time passes, the poet’s gaze seems to linger more on the nocturnal sky than on the natural space. The writing of the Notebooks is then no longer the poetic substrate of the early days; it turns inward, loaded with melancholy. The writing of melancholy could therefore be seen as the darker side of the nomadic writing, one that feeds upon the energy of desire and anxiety, that takes a circumvoluted path towards this “dark spot”. Nevertheless, melancholy does not mean the annihilation of the self nor does it call for hollowness. Its source of inspiration resides in the vital force of creation which strives to bring to the light of speech that which can only be glimpsed at in the darkness of the night. Écriture de soi Journal intime Carnet Romantisme Entrelacs Errance Recueil Relation Rhyzome Polype Lieu Espace Géopoétique Marche Nomadisme Rythme Polyrythmie Rythmanalyse Imagination Énergie Désir Descriptif Spirale Image Mélancolie Acédie Vortex Fancy Nocturne Writing of the self Diary Notebook Romanticism Interlacing Wandering Collection Relation Rhizome Polypus Place Space Geopoetic Walk Nomadism Rhythm Polyrhythm Rhythmanalysis Imagination Energy Desire Descriptive Eddy Image Melancholy Acedia Vortex Fancy Nocturnal
14	O off-line e a fantasia na comunicação instantânea via internet / The off-line and fancy in the instant messaging through internet Rodolfo, George Henrique Merino 14 July 2006 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GEORGE VERSAO FINAL p.pdf: 600430 bytes, checksum: 113989051c5b690930efb907ab67cfb6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-07-14 / nenhum / The present work has the objective to make an analysis on the process of Instant Messaging through Internet, searching an intrinsic vision of the way, the internet users, the processes and its surroundings. An historical vision of the evolution of process of this tool to have a clear notion of its use and usefulness in differentiated occasions. Moreover, internet users were analyzed in a social-demographic vision in order to get a panorama of this new type of emissary/receptor of text, raising all the thematic one of the chats in details. On the other hand, it was argued the possibility of the existence of the fancy through the creation and experimentation of alternative identities, beyond considerations on the existence of virtual communities. It is conclude that the instantaneous communication by Internet is a difficult platform of virtual sociability, although not to hinder, the exercise of the fancy by means of the construction of alternative identities. Also it is verified that this model of communication disfavors the formation of virtual communities widely / O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de fazer uma análise sobre o processo de comunicação instantânea via Internet, buscando uma visão intrínseca do meio, dos internautas, dos processos e sua abrangência. Buscou-se uma visão histórica de todo o processo evolutivo desta ferramenta, a fim de que se pudesse ter uma clara noção de seu uso e serventia em ocasiões diferenciadas. Além disso, analisou-se o internauta numa visão sócio-demográfica a fim de se obter um panorama desse novo tipo de emissor/receptor de texto, levantando toda a temática dos bate-papos em detalhes. Por outro lado, discutiu-se a possibilidade da existência da fantasia através da criação e experimentação de identidades alternativas, além de considerações sobre a existência de comunidades virtuais. Conclui-se que a comunicação instantânea via internet é uma plataforma de sociabilidade virtual que dificulta, apesar de não impedir, o exercício da fantasia por meio da construção de identidades alternativas. Também se verifica que este modelo de comunicação desfavorece amplamente a formação de comunidades virtuais Comunicação instantânea Off-line Fantasia Criação de identidades alternativas Comunidade virtual Internet Redes de computadores Comunicacoes digitais Comunidades virtuais Instant messaging Off-line Fancy Creation of alternative identities Virtual community CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA
15	O off-line e a fantasia na comunicação instantânea via internet / The off-line and fancy in the instant messaging through internet Rodolfo, George Henrique Merino 14 July 2006 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GEORGE VERSAO FINAL p.pdf: 600430 bytes, checksum: 113989051c5b690930efb907ab67cfb6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-07-14 / nenhum / The present work has the objective to make an analysis on the process of Instant Messaging through Internet, searching an intrinsic vision of the way, the internet users, the processes and its surroundings. An historical vision of the evolution of process of this tool to have a clear notion of its use and usefulness in differentiated occasions. Moreover, internet users were analyzed in a social-demographic vision in order to get a panorama of this new type of emissary/receptor of text, raising all the thematic one of the chats in details. On the other hand, it was argued the possibility of the existence of the fancy through the creation and experimentation of alternative identities, beyond considerations on the existence of virtual communities. It is conclude that the instantaneous communication by Internet is a difficult platform of virtual sociability, although not to hinder, the exercise of the fancy by means of the construction of alternative identities. Also it is verified that this model of communication disfavors the formation of virtual communities widely / O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de fazer uma análise sobre o processo de comunicação instantânea via Internet, buscando uma visão intrínseca do meio, dos internautas, dos processos e sua abrangência. Buscou-se uma visão histórica de todo o processo evolutivo desta ferramenta, a fim de que se pudesse ter uma clara noção de seu uso e serventia em ocasiões diferenciadas. Além disso, analisou-se o internauta numa visão sócio-demográfica a fim de se obter um panorama desse novo tipo de emissor/receptor de texto, levantando toda a temática dos bate-papos em detalhes. Por outro lado, discutiu-se a possibilidade da existência da fantasia através da criação e experimentação de identidades alternativas, além de considerações sobre a existência de comunidades virtuais. Conclui-se que a comunicação instantânea via internet é uma plataforma de sociabilidade virtual que dificulta, apesar de não impedir, o exercício da fantasia por meio da construção de identidades alternativas. Também se verifica que este modelo de comunicação desfavorece amplamente a formação de comunidades virtuais Comunicação instantânea Off-line Fantasia Criação de identidades alternativas Comunidade virtual Internet Redes de computadores Comunicacoes digitais Comunidades virtuais Instant messaging Off-line Fancy Creation of alternative identities Virtual community CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA
16	Todos somos brasileiros: políticas, sensibilidades e representações estabelecidas no período Vargas (1937-1946) Mastroeni, Rosana Eva Eksterman 27 November 2009 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:32:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosana Eva Eksterman Mastroeni.pdf: 40076733 bytes, checksum: a88c35cc59b41e9404c8e648f712bbda (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work has as its main objective to question the interpretations of the Vargas period in light of the construction and meaning of Getúlio in public fancy, elaborated between years 1937 to 1946. Although the timeline is somewhat long, its length is due to the fact that this work is seeking to question both the construction of the ideology of the New State by means of the speeches of Getúlio Vargas, as well as the construction of his image through the speeches of Alexandre Marcondes Filho broadcast by the radio, as well as the forms in which the population responded to these elaborations by means of correspondence coming from various Brazilian regions intended for Vargas. The purpose is to answer questionings like: How was it possible the construction of such a popular representation as of a public figure? How is the relationship between public and private articulated in the imaginary constructions? / Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo problematizar as interpretações do período varguista à luz da construção e da significação de Getúlio no imaginário social, elaboradas entre os anos de 1937 a 1946. Embora o recorte temporal seja um tanto longo, a sua extensão se deve ao fato de este trabalho procurar problematizar tanto a construção da ideologia do Estado Novo por meio dos discursos de Getúlio Vargas, como também a construção de sua imagem via os discursos de Alexandre Marcondes Filho difundidos pelo rádio, bem como as formas com que a população respondeu a estas elaborações por intermédio de correspondências oriundas de diversas regiões brasileiras destinadas a Vargas. O que se objetiva é responder a questionamentos como: Como foi possível a construção de uma representação tão popular a partir de uma figura pública? Como se articula a relação entre público e privado nas construções imaginárias? Era Vargas Identidade Imaginário coletivo Marcondes Filho, Alexandre -- 1892-1974 Vargas, Getulio -- 1883-1954 Identidade social -- Brasil Identity Collective fancy CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
17	Shozo Ohmori’s 'Fancy' : A Third Mode of Awareness Lagelius, Robin January 2019 (has links) This thesis is an investigation into the phenomenon which Shozo Ohmori (1921-1997) considered “a peculiar manner of awareness”, and to which he attributed the term ‘fancy’. The objective is to achieve an approximate understanding of Ohmori’s theory of ‘fancy’, as it relates to awareness of entities in three-dimensional space, and the extensions mentioned in his only publication in English: “Beyond Hume’s Fancy” (1974). This objective will be realized by asking three questions. The first question is how we are to understand the demarcation of the different phenomena of awareness which Ohmori identifies. The second question that this thesis asks is what applications that the phenomenon ‘fancy’ mentioned in Ohmori’s account have, as Ohmori saw it. Having answered these questions, I will then make an assessment of another salient consideration: how does Ohmori’s employment of the term ‘fancy’ relate to Hume’s employment of the same term (seeing as the name of Ohmori’s article makes such a reference). As we shall see, Ohmori is attempting to identify a more specific phenomenon than the widely discussed issue of thinking about something that is not currently perceivable in our perceptual field. The third and final question that this thesis asks is whether there are any salient issues with Ohmori’s theory of ‘fancy’ and, if so, whether those issues can be resolved. When we are aware of entities in three-dimensional space, we are subject to various mental processes. Our awareness, seemingly, uses different modes of interpretation and orientation. In other words, our ‘point of view’ (which is something that not only pertains to the use of our visual sensory organs) determines both our place and relation towards other entities. One salient issue when considering the notion of awareness is how and by which order awareness emerges. Impressions, as David Hume would call them, seemingly precede our ideas. Sense-data, as Shozo Ohmori phrased it, is unquestionably inseparable from conceptions. Our conceptions, in turn, seem to inform our perceptions with expectations and predictions of how things are. When we perceive an entity, we are ready to make judgements about its being at this moment. When we see the front of a desk, we are ready to claim awareness of said desk-front as part of a desk (which entails the ontology of a desk, namely, being a three-dimensional construction of a particular variety). In everyday situations we simply speak of such an awareness as ‘perception’ when in actuality, all we see (which constitutes the sense-data or content of a perception) is the front of a desk. It seems we cannot regard our awareness of a desk (a three-dimensional entity) as a perception simpliciter. Of course, by having a notion of what a desk is, our awareness is pregnant with a ‘conception’ in the form of an idea that is informing our awareness of said desk. But our conceptual understanding of the notion of something being a desk is not enough to explain what our awareness of a desk-at-this-moment is. At least, that is what Ohmori thought. Awareness Fancy Perception Conception Perceptual Conception Three-Dimensional Three-Dimensional Objects Three-Dimensional Space Three-Dimensionality Monism of Emergence Shozo Ohmori Shōzō Ōmori Japanese Philosophy Asian Philosophy David Hume Contrary-to-Fact Conditional Cases Dispositional Terms Other Minds Historical Horizon Atomic Conception of Time Against Atomic Conception of Time Awareness Natalis Awareness Pluralis Awareness in Motion Awareness Compromised Epistemological Concerns Japansk filosofi asiatisk filosofi Philosophy Filosofi
18	George MacDonald's Christian fiction : parables, imagination and dreams Kreglinger, Gisela Hildegard January 2008 (has links) The relationship between the Bible and literature is long-standing and has received increasing attention in recent years. This project investigates the interface between the Bible and literature by focusing on the genre of “parable”. The influence of the Bible on Western literature is considerable, and yet in the case of George MacDonald’s writing it is often overlooked. The “parabolic” is a helpful way to focus our discussion as it is an important genre both in Jesus’ proclamation of the Kingdom of God and more subtly in MacDonald’s fantasy and fairytale writing. It is remarkable that approximately a third of Jesus’ teaching about the Kingdom of God comes in the form of parabolic speech. Rather than serving as a nice illustrative story to a theological point made elsewhere, the actual form of parabolic speech is crucial for the message it seeks to convey. Form and content work together in Jesus’ parables in a unique way to break open the reality depicted in parable. This thesis attempts to investigate a specifically biblical view of “parable” for understanding certain aspects of MacDonald’s fantasy literature. MacDonald developed a decidedly theological understanding of story as having the capacity to refresh the revelatory nature of Scripture. It is by the imagination that a poet is able to find new forms to recast and recover old and forgotten truths. By designating the poet as a finder rather than a maker, MacDonald resists Coleridge’s idealist inclinations to elevate the poet to a creator. His employment of story and more particularly the “parabolic” is then not only an aesthetic but also a theological choice. MacDonald’s last fantasy romance, Lilith, will serve as our test case to demonstrate this. Considering the “parabolic” in Lilith sheds significant light on the meaning of Lilith and offers up a decisive answer to the important question of whether MacDonald moves in his fantasy and fairytales from a decidedly Christian perspective to a more polyvalent view of reality. This argument shall be further substantiated by bringing to the light the important influence of Novalis on Lilith. 820.9008

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