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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação- Dráulio Carvalho Assis - 2015.pdf: 1556498 bytes, checksum: 98cc49a2be356c4b243600a891407196 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-28 / This dissertation seeks to reveal through the poetry of James Douglas Morrison, best known for becoming a myth as lead singer of the American band The Doors in the sixties, the dilemma of its historic man of conflicts and man mythological in his tragic search cross to the other side, so, a different view of the hegemonic vision of society, a reconciliation as historical subject. Bring to light some thinkers who reflect on time, memory, myth, tragic and poetry that we have to tell us to outline as man sees the flow or interiority that time in your consciousness. Jim Morrison's poetry becomes a revelation that moment in which consciousness sees the flow of time in its interiority and shows continuity in anguish and identities. The revelation of a transcendent term becomes an illumination which aims to immanence, that is, the eternal now and what it can reveal itself in its duration. The historical reality is loaded and then builds images with mythological content profiling dreamily walking and the progress of actions, therefore, poetry imbued with allegorical images the capture and visualize, breaking standards and implementing utopian conceptions, opening doors and can outline a new ethos. Within this allegorical conception to Walter Benjamin, the historian has hidden the awakening of gift of the past with the now knowledgeability in an immediate correspondence with the redemption of history. According to Marcelo Marques myth acts ethically in human existence by its poetic force, the human making it possible thus demystify Jim Morrison in his poetry that reveals his anguish, show a more human face who sought redemption through poetry. Understanding this search on your "moment of now" at this intersection and past his poetic recall the world is opening doors to redemption of history, as glimpsed like lightning in the dark night the connection of past and present experiences in the eternal now. In his tragic poetry Jim Morrison reveals their looks, conflicts, unreasonable and his misfortune that are contemporary, as in Baudelaire, Rimbaud and other artists, with the gift of modern society. Poetry as crossing times becomes the wild eye and the tragic awareness that awakens the instant of now, allowing the redemption of continuity identities and anguish in the heart of the story. / Essa dissertação busca revelar através da poesia de James Douglas Morrison, mais conhecido por ter se tornado um mito como vocalista da banda norte-americana The Doors na década de sessenta, o dilema de seus conflitos de homem histórico e homem mitológico em sua busca trágica de atravessar para outro lado, ou seja, uma visão diferenciada da visão hegemônica da sociedade, em uma reconciliação como sujeito histórico. Trazemos à tona um pouco dos pensadores que refletem sobre o tempo, memória, mito, trágico e poesia. O que têm a nos dizer para delinearmos como o homem encara o fluxo ou interioridade desse tempo em sua consciência. A poesia de Jim Morrison se torna uma revelação desse instante em que a consciência encara o fluxo do tempo em sua interioridade e mostra sua continuidade em angustias e identidades. A revelação de um termo de transcendência passa a ser uma iluminação que se propõe à imanência, ou seja, ao eterno agora e o que ele em si pode nos revelar em sua duração. A realidade histórica se carrega e se constrói então de imagens com teor mitológico que perfilam oniricamente o caminhar e o desenrolar das ações, portanto a poesia imbuída de imagens alegóricas as capturam e as visualizam, quebrando padrões e implantando concepções utópicas, abrindo portas, podendo delinear um novo ethos. Dentro dessa concepção alegórica, para Walter Benjamim, o historiador tem o dom de despertar o escondido do passado com o agora da cognoscibilidade em uma correspondência imediata com a redenção da história. De acordo com Marcelo Marques o mito atua eticamente na existência humana pela sua força poética, tornando possível o humano, assim desmitificar Jim Morrison em sua poesia que revela suas angustias mostrando um rosto mais humano que buscou sua redenção através da poesia. Compreender essa busca em seu “instante do agora”, no cruzamento do presente e passado em sua rememorização poética do mundo é abrir portas para redenção da história, pois vislumbrou como relâmpago na noite escura a ligação de vivências do passado e do presente no eterno agora. Em sua poesia trágica, Jim Morrison revela seus olhares, conflitos, desmedidas e seu infortúnio que são contemporâneos, como em Baudelaire, Rimbaud e outros artistas, com o presente da sociedade moderna. A poesia como cruzamento de tempos torna-se o olho selvagem e a consciência trágica que desperta no instante do agora, possibilitando a redenção da continuidade de identidades e da angustia no coração da história.

The aim of this thesis was to clarify the reasons of the formal diversity that can be observed in selected films by director Jim McBride. The hypothesis is based on the fact that these movies are characterized by different tendencies of independent American cinema in the 50s and 60s. The aim of the work was to prove that similar diversity of stylistic devices was accepted and even supported in the ecosystem of American underground. The starting point for historical research and analysis was a poetics of cinema approach outlined by David Bordwell in Poetics of Cinema. From this perspective, the thesis examines the immanent and distant factors that may have influenced McBride's works. After an introduction of these theoretical starting points, working hypotheses connected with individual films and with the creative ecosystem were defined. Formal heterogeneity was demonstrated on Shirley Clarke's work and in Marie Menken's film Notebook. The chapters are followed by an analysis of three McBride's movies. A closer analysis of selected categories of film form confirmed the hypothesis that the films are really distinct and that their director interacted with various traditions and norms.

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The central project of this dissertation concerns itself with the port city, a recurrent setting of the modernist novel. It also seeks to investigate what lies behind the fact that the setting of the port city often coexists with the telling of stories about a malleable or exchangeable self or personal identity. Beginning with an understanding of modernity as a destructive whirlwind, I proceed to trace the various literary modernists who have used the port city as a space that might let one gain some shelter--or even benefit--from that storm. This dissertation begins with the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer before moving through Pound's translation of that poem and Melville's Moby-Dicky. It looks also at Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet as key examples of the modernist port city novel. These texts occupy a broad swath of chronology and their settings cover a wide area geography. When combined with the diverse national backgrounds of these authors, this range of time, place, and cultures intends to demonstrate both the pervasive nature of the crisis modernity provokes in our sense of identity and the persistent appeal of the port city as a space in which to grapple with this crisis.

Socialite Laura Penrose and a group of wealthy businessmen founded the New Orleans Chapter of the American Red Cross in 1916. The Chapter expanded in 1917 with the addition of two black Auxiliary Branches chartered by nurses Louise Ross and Sarah Brown. Although Jim Crow dictated the division between the Chapter and its Branches within the mostly female organization, racial barriers did not prohibit them from uniting for the cause of national relief. The American Red Cross differed from other forms of biracial Progressivism by the very nature of public relief work for a national charity. American Red Cross relief work brought women into public spaces for the war effort and pushed biracial cooperation between women in the Jim Crow South in a more public and patriotic direction than earlier efforts at social reform. Black women, in particular, used the benefit of relief work to promote racial uplift and stake a claim on American citizenship despite the disenfranchisement of their men.

Oral history’s purposes have metamorphosed from a record of lifeways and stories of the elite to a means of healing for minority communities oppressed by trauma. This dissertation focuses on the power of oral history to catalyze the restorative justice process of moral repair for victims—in this case the Mexican Americans of Texas—who were traumatized by the Jim Crow laws and practices prior to 1965. I researched the racial, socio-cultural history of Texas from its colonial days up to the Jim Crow historical era of 1876-1965 and utilized archival, legal, and historical sources for my study. Additionally, I explore theories and frameworks of trauma, structural violence, and restorative justice, and analyze twenty-eight oral histories from the Voces Oral History Collection (University of Texas, Austin). Lastly, I apply oral history methodology to collect seventeen oral histories for my own project, Project Aztlan. My findings reveal a community suffering from structural violence—a theory that argues unjust laws harm individuals as much as physical violence. The oral histories unearth several issues: first, both groups of narrators were victims of structural violence as a result of traumatic racism. I anticipated finding traumatic racism, but not on such a broad scale. The results reveal it occurred in all four corners of Texas. Second, these Jim Crow laws and practices targeted members individually and collectively through racially restrictive housing covenants, segregation of schools/public facilities, job discrimination, and disfranchisement or poll taxes. Thirdly, the oral histories demonstrate and legitimize the fact that the Mexican American community deserves atonement, apology and reparation from historically guilty institutions. The State of Texas battered them with mass lynchings, disfranchisement, racially restrictive housing covenants, school segregation, and discrimination, oppressing them for over 100 years. My dissertation concludes that the oral history process helps victims attain moral repair because, similar to moral repair, it also allows them the space to voice their stories of injustice. In turn, the oral historian validates their claims and reconciliation occurs when narrators received vindication through this reparatory process. This acknowledgment fuses broken moral bonds by equalizing members of society. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Though many scholars have explored the memory of slavery in Southern literature, my project expands these readings through a hybrid critical methodology from the fields of trauma studies, African American studies, historiography, and psychoanalysis to articulate how texts about the antebellum past enable later Southern authors to imagine present and future race relations in the South. I analyze how the particularities of the myriad afterlives of slavery – particularly in the economic, social, and political subjugation and terrorization of African Americans – are expressed or repressed in literature about the antebellum past, and argue that these texts demonstrate the varying processes by which white supremacy is enacted in the Jim Crow era. I argue in my first chapter that the plantation fictions of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris commingle ideologies of antebellum paternalism and contemporary white supremacy to cast the future South as one founded on the reimagining of black subservience. My second chapter examines how black authors Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt revise plantation romance, their techniques of masking and doubling enabling them to create an alternative collective memory that exposes the trauma of slavery and the fictive constructs of paternalism. Nonetheless, their lack of success outside this accommodationist genre exposes the limitations of black voice. My third chapter considers the portrayal of race and racism in white Southern women’s writings about the Civil War; Margaret Mitchell and Caroline Gordon explore the idea of modern white female freedom as contingent upon the continued subjugation of African Americans. I argue that Mitchell’s and Gordon’s novels displace the history of slavery –in fact, erase its very presence –as a kind of fantasy of white supremacy in the 1930s. In my fourth chapter, I analyze how William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished fluctuates between anxiety about and aggrandizement of the antebellum past, thereby demonstrating the difficulties of modifying white Southern collective memory. The conclusion reads Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God through her protagonist’s constitution of a storied self, one which enables her to recuperate the traumatic past of slavery.

This thesis investigates why an alternative visual art and arts infrastructure developed in Indonesia during the 1990s. Initially alternative exhibition spaces developed in response to a lack of outlets through the existing commercial galleries and in reaction to the cultural hegemony of Suharto???s regime, which failed to provide infrastructure for modern art. ???Alternative??? will be extended here to describe an art and an arts infrastructure that became an influential system of power, the gatekeeper for the Indonesian arts community to the international art forum. The background of Alternative art is considered, its sources being in the protest of the New Art Movement, Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru, in the 1970s and an on-going art student rebellion against the modern and decorative art taught in the art academies. Contemporary artists sought content that reflected the many issues confronting Indonesian society, and rejected that art focusing on formal properties particularly in painting, which, by avoiding contention, served the purposes of Suharto???s regime. Particular examples are explored to define the lines of power that evolved: firstly the alternative gallery, Cemeti, and secondly the curator, Jim Supangkat and his theoretical justification for Indonesian contemporary art for the international forum. Finally the career structure of Heri Dono is examined to identify the mechanisms for artistic success through international contacts. This investigation concludes that power and influence became dependent on recognition in the international forum. Western and later Asian institutions, in selecting work for the high profile survey exhibitions proliferating in the 1990s, worked almost exclusively with this network. Their preference was for installation art that reflected the socio-political context in which it was made, and the few artists who were selected developed careers very different from their colleagues in Indonesia, some becoming nomadic art stars. This relationship between the Indonesian and the international art network has gained recognition for Indonesian contemporary art and an outlet for suppressed issues and marginalised people, but did not provide a fully balanced representation of Indonesian culture and reiterated the systems and paradigms of the West in relation to Asian art.

ABSTRACT Joseph Echols Lowery, a key founding member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, led the organization for twenty years. This study explores how Lowery, who took over during an era when many considered the civil rights movement dead, reenergized the SCLC, became a leading black spokesman who challenged Congress, presidents and the Justice Department around issues of voting rights and social justice, while consistently questioning U.S. hegemonic international and domestic policies around jobs and poverty. This research further investigates how Lowery fought for the continuation of affirmative action in the midst of an oftentimes hostile environment and waged campaigns against multi-national companies that discriminated against blacks and minorities. This qualitative empowerment study examines how and why Lowery and the SCLC became the leading non-Muslim influence on the 1995 Million Man March and his role in affirming women leaders and their initiatives.

Thesis (M.A.)--Universisty of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves : [78]-79).