Thesis (D.M.A.)--Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 1997. Graduate Programme in English. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 273-286). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ22896.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 19, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis considers the musical response of the American composer, Miriam Gideon to political events during the McCarthy era. It examines the interrelationships between politics, society and culture and considers how these are reflected in two works, Epitaphs from Robert Burns (1952) and Altered Steps to Altered States (1953) that Gideon composed during this period. Specifically, this thesis focuses on Gideon’s transition from teaching and composing music within an academic setting to preparing for life in a musical world, without support from mainstream academic institutions. Following the Introduction, Chapter 2 documents the rise of anti-communist practices on campus at Brooklyn College and City College, New York City where Miriam Gideon held music teaching posts. It reconstructs the personal events that led to the loss of both of these appointments and examines how and why this occurred. It is argued that Gideon entered a period of ‘inner exile,’ and this concept and its consequences for Gideon are explored in Chapter 3. An examination of her private diaries demonstrates that the effects of the McCarthy era were not only physical, but also psychological and social. Chapters 4-6 consider Gideon’s music through the perspective of inner exile and aim to show that the music that she wrote was a reflection of her experiences. Gideon’s return to academia in 1955 and her rehabilitation back into the academy are discussed in Chapter 7. A complete list of Gideon’s compositional output is included and is organised chronologically, alphabetically and by genre. This thesis examines new documents not previously available to scholars, and includes interviews conducted by the author with Gideon’s former students and colleagues.

This dissertation analyses the autobiographies of Miriam Makeba, Joe Mogotsi and Hugh Masekela. The story of these formerly exiled musicians' lives as musicians who embodied the urbanising and eclectic black musical ethos of the 1950s onward has been integral to the music historiography on this era. The exilic trajectory of their story also has political resonance, as it parallels the shifts in structures of power characteristic of apartheid South Africa. Popular discourses that construct and narrate an incrementally conscientizing South African populist culture through this period have therefore also represented the musicians, through written and visual material, with this political resonance in mind. The musicians' autobiographies, however, articulate discourses of the nation from positions other these. These other positions are interanimated by literary, musical and socio-political discourses that already pervade the South African historical sphere. This informs the dialogic interplay of time, space and character in their texts, which I examine using the literary figure of the chronotope as a perceptual tool for their reading. Through analysis, I unpack how time becomes symbolically charged and space becomes mythologized in the autobiographies, how departure and eventual exile are narrated, and how the subsequent chronotopic rupture created by exile affects narration of home. Reading the struggle for authorship and authority evident in the texts' vacillation between biographical and autobiographical 'truth', the possible significances towards which this struggle points for a (re ) interpretation of South Africa's (hi)story of exile permeates the subject and process of this research. / Thesis (M.Mus.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.

Thesis (M.A.)--Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, 2006. / Printout. Abstract in Spanish and English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-92).

Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2006.

This paper examines how the Mennonite theology of pacifism has enacted, perpetuated, and allowed for violence against particularly marginalized groups such as women and the LGBTQ+ community. Through studying contemporary Mennonite literature, this paper attempts to discover how this literature reveals this violence, shows it to be working, and attempts to redeem the Mennonite faith and pacifism itself as positive in the world. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-04-26T19:47:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 miriancristinadossantos.pdf: 1163812 bytes, checksum: ec37c6222f8aa4b7e2b4d3ca8aead284 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-04-27T11:23:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 miriancristinadossantos.pdf: 1163812 bytes, checksum: ec37c6222f8aa4b7e2b4d3ca8aead284 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-27T11:23:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 miriancristinadossantos.pdf: 1163812 bytes, checksum: ec37c6222f8aa4b7e2b4d3ca8aead284 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-23 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho propõe discutir o papel da mulher negra enquanto intelectual engajada na luta pela transformação da sociedade brasileira, a partir de narrativas negrofemininas contemporâneas. Nessa investigação, ao longo da pesquisa, analiso as obras Mulher Mat(r)iz (2011) e Bará na trilha do vento (2015), de Miriam Alves; Becos da Memória (2006) e Olhos d’água (2014), de Conceição Evaristo; e Espelhos, Miradouros, Dialéticas da Percepção (2011) e O Tapete Voador (2016), de Cristiane Sobral. Para isso, o referencial teórico desta pesquisa compreende teorias sobre “o papel do intelectual” (SAID, 2005) e, mais especificamente, sobre a intelectual negra (hooks, 1995), bem como questões relativas às peculiaridades da literatura negrofeminina (FIGUEIREDO, 2009), às “políticas do cotidiano” (hooks, 1995), ao feminismo negro (CARNEIRO, 2003), entre outras, considerando também a fortuna crítica quanto às escritoras negro-brasileiras, em geral, e às escritoras supracitadas, em particular. Em seus livros, Miriam Alves, Conceição Evaristo e Cristiane Sobral abordam as principais demandas da mulher negra na contemporaneidade, dão visibilidade às culturas africanas e afro-brasileiras, denunciam a condição marginalizada e subalternizada do negro e fazem dessa literatura escrita por mulheres local de força, resistência, afirmação e denúncia. Sendo assim, mais do que analisar as peculiaridades da escrita feminina negra, esta pesquisa empreende uma discussão sobre o papel da escritora negra enquanto intelectual contemporânea. Intelectual que vem à esfera pública construir um espaço de intervenção na realidade social e, ainda mais, atuando para transformar as relações sociais e culturais assimétricas e iníquas que têm perpetuado divisões de gênero e étnico-raciais ao longo da história do Brasil. / The present work proposes to discuss the role of the black woman as an intellectual engaged in the struggle for the transformation of the Brazilian society, from contemporary black women narratives. In this investigation, I analyze the works Mulher Mat(r)iz (2011) and Bará na trilha do vento (2015), by Miriam Alves; Becos da Memória (2006) and Olhos d’agua (2014), by Conceição Evaristo; and Espelhos, Miradouros e Dialéticas da Percepção (2011) and O Tapete Voador (2016), by Cristiane Sobral. For this, the theoretical reference of this research includes theories about "the role of the intellectual" (SAID, 2005) and, more specifically, about the black intellectual (hooks, 1995), as well as questions related to the peculiarities of black woman literature (FIGUEIREDO, 2009), to "everyday politics" (hooks, 1995), to black feminism (CARNEIRO, 2003), among others, also considering the critical fortune about Brazilian black women writers in general and about the women writers mentioned above. In her books, Miriam Alves, Conceição Evaristo and Cristiane Sobral address the main demands of black women in contemporary times, give visibility to African and Afro-Brazilian cultures, denounce the marginalized and subalternized condition of the black and make this literature written by women a local of force, resistance, affirmation and denunciation. Thus, more than analyze the peculiarities of black female writing, this research proposes to undertake a discussion about the role of the black woman writer as a contemporary intellectual. Intellectual that comes to the public sphere to build a space of intervention in social reality and, even more, acting to transform the asymmetrical and wicked social and cultural relations that have perpetuated gender and ethnic-racial divisions throughout Brazilian history.

Diss. Stockholm : Univ., 2004.