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31	Mediation and the indirect metafiction of Randolph Stow, M. K. Joseph, and Timothy Findley Ingham, David Keith January 1985 (has links) In order to explore the range of indirect metafiction as presented in three exemplary novels, this dissertation begins by examining how the assumptions of "realism" on the one hand and "postmodernism" on the other relate to the paradigmatic triad of story-teller, story, and audience. From this context emerges the view that the range of metafiction is determined by how it reveals the processes and nature of fiction according to a spectrum of mediation: that of the writer between his "raw materials" and the text, that of the text between writer and reader, and that of the reader between the text and his interpretation. Indirect metafiction (or "pretend realism") mediates between realism and postmodernism, revealing without breaking the illusions of realism. Each of the next three chapters, after initially placing the key novel within the context of the author's work as a whole, discusses in detail a novel whose metafictional focus is on one of the three mediations. Accordingly, Chapter II focusses on Randolph Stow's The Girl Green as Elderflower (1980) and on the way it reveals the mediation of the author by presenting a writer's fiction as a synthesis of his personal and literary experiences. Chapter III notes how M. K. Joseph's A Soldier's Tale (1976) reflects the mediation of the reader by depicting a writer's interpretation and literary redaction of an oral tale. And Chapter IV shows how Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words (1981) demonstrates the mediation of the text by presenting a writer whose text "crystallizes" the illusions of fiction, then undercuts and exposes them. The analyses of the key texts employ both postmodern and traditional critical approaches, demonstrating them to be complementary; by noting the interpenetration of metafictional and traditional import and significance, the analyses also highlight the mediary nature of indirect metafiction. The fifth chapter draws theoretical conclusions from ideas in the practical chapters: from metafictional revelations through the paradigm of mediation comes an "anatomy" of fiction, delineating its elements; from a sense of how the mind "structures" experience through "fictional" representations of both "reality" and fictional texts comes a "physiology," a sense of how fiction works through language. This discussion leads to definitions of realistic, unrealistic, and self-conscious fiction, and of metafiction, both direct and indirect; the dissertation concludes by remarking on the inter-relations of language, "fiction," and "reality." / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate Fiction -- Technique
32	Publishing Freedom: African American Editors and the Long Civil Rights Struggle, 1900-1955 Fraser, Rhone Sebastian January 2012 (has links) The writings and the experience of independent African American editors in the first half of the twentieth century from 1901 to 1955 played an invaluable role in laying the ideological groundwork for the Black Freedom movement beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The anti-imperialist writings of Pauline Hopkins who was literary editor of the Colored American Magazine from 1900 to 1904 celebrated revolutionary leaders, and adopted an independent course that refused partisan lines, which prompted her replacement as editor according to a letter she writes to William Monroe Trotter. The anti-imperialist writing of A. Philip Randolph as editor of The Messenger from 1917 to 1928, raised the role of labor organizing in the advancement of racial justice and helped to provide future organizers. These individuals founded the Southern Negro Youth Congress an analytical framework that would help organize thousands of Southern workers against the Jim Crow system into labor unions. Based on the letters he wrote to the American Fund For Public Service, Randolph raised funds by appealing to the values that he believed Fund chair Roger Baldwin also valued while protecting individual supporters of The Messenger from government surveillance. The anti-imperialist writing of Paul Robeson as chair of the editorial board of Freedom from 1950 to 1955 could not escape McCarthyist government surveillance which eventually caused its demise. However not before including an anti-fascist editorial ideology endorsing full equality for African Americans that inspired plays by Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry that imagined a world that defies the increasingly fascist rule of the American state. This thesis will argue that the Black Freedom Struggle that developed after the fifties owed a great deal to Hopkins, Randolph, and Robeson. The work that these three did as editors and writers laid a solid intellectual, ideological, and political foundation for the later and better known moment when African American would mobilize en masse to demand meaningful equality in the United States. / African American Studies African American Studies A. Philip Randolph Black Freedom Struggle Black Press Pauline Hopkins Paul Robeson Periodical Editors
33	La thérapie par polarité : recherche exploratoire sur les fondements et la cohérence d'une médecine douce Simard, Benoît-Luc 15 June 2021 (has links) Ce mémoire a comme but de mettre en évidence les fondements et la cohérence interne d'une médecine douce : la Thérapie par Polarité. Il s'amorce par un survol historique permettant de dégager les principaux facteurs qui ont contribué à l'émergence des médecines douces en général et de la Thérapie par Polarité en particulier. Le deuxième chapitre brosse un portrait de cette thérapie en utilisant le modèle d'analyse médical sous-jacent aux quatre vérités bouddhiques. La partie suivante présente le mouvement Radhasoami dont l'auteur, Randolph Stone, a fait partie et dont il s'est inspiré pour mettre au point son système de soins. La dernière partie propose une analyse des principales composantes de la Thérapie par Polarité fondée sur l'énoncé des dix principes présentés par Stone. L'exposé des ressemblances et des différences de cette thérapie avec les enseignements des Radhasoami, de la science et de l'ésotérisme débouche sur un exemple concret de l'application de cette thérapie. BR20.5 UL 1999 S588 Stone, Randolph, 1890- Polarité (Thérapie) Radhasoami Satsang.
34	Book Review of Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times by Cynthia A. Kierner Mayo-Bobee, Dinah 25 October 2013 (has links) Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times. By Cynthia A. Kierner. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 281.) biography Cythia a. Kierner daughter of Monticello female protagonists historical women history life Martha Jefferson Randolph History Political History United States History
35	"It is a new kind of militancy": March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946 Lucander, David 01 May 2010 (has links) This study of the March on Washington Movement (MOWM) investigates the operations of the national office and examines its interactions with local branches, particularly in St. Louis. As the organization's president, A. Philip Randolph and members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) such as Benjamin McLaurin and T.D. McNeal are important figures in this story. African American women such as Layle Lane, E. Pauline Myers, and Anna Arnold Hedgeman ran MOWM's national office. Of particular importance to this study is Myers' tenure as executive secretary. Working out of Harlem, she corresponded with MOWM's twenty-six local chapters, spending considerable time espousing the rationale and ideology of Non-Violent Goodwill Direct Action, a trademark protest technique developed and implemented alongside Fellowship of Reconciliation members Bayard Rustin and James Farmer. As a nationally recognized African American protest organization fighting for a "Double V" against fascism and racism during the Second World War, MOWM accrued political capital by the agitation of its local affiliates. In some cases, like in Washington, D.C., volunteers lacked the ability to forge effective protests. In St. Louis, however, BSCP official T.D. McNeal led a MOWM branch that was among the nation's most active. David Grant, Thelma Maddox, Nita Blackwell, and Leyton Weston are some of the thousands joining McNeal over a three-year period to picket U.S. Cartridge and Carter Carburetor for violating the anti-discrimination clause in Executive Order 8802, lobby Southwestern Bell Telephone to expand employment opportunities for African Americans, stage a summer of sit-ins at lunch counters in the city's largest department stores, and lead a general push for a "Double V" against fascism and racism. This study of MOWM demonstrates that the structural dynamics of protest groups often include a discrepancy between policies laid out by the organization's national office and the activity of its local branches. While national officials from MOWM and National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People had an ambivalent relationship with each other, inter-organizational tension was locally muted as grassroots activists aligned themselves with whichever group appeared most effective. During the Second World War, this was often MOWM. A. Philip Randolph Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Double V March on Washington Movement Pacifism World War II African American Studies
36	A Misguided Quest for Legitimacy: The Community Relations Department of the Southern Organizing Committee of the CIO During Operation Dixie, 1946-1953 Sloan, Michael Andrew 09 June 2006 (has links) This thesis is a study of the Community Relations Department of the Southern Organizing Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations during the CIO’s Southern Organizing Drive, often referred to as “Operation Dixie.” The Community Relations Department was primarily interested in improving relations between organized labor and organized religion, in the hopes that improved church-labor relations would produce a situation more conducive to labor organizing, and reduce attacks on the CIO from religious leaders. This thesis examines the methods utilized by the CRD to achieve this end, and presents an analysis both of their efficacy and of their implementation. Specific programs that are explored are the CRD’s compilation, and publication, of various religiously themed pamphlets, the formation of Religion and Labor Fellowship groups, and the CRD’s relations with various anti-labor newspapers that made use of religious arguments to attack the CIO and Operation Dixie. Religion and Labor Fellowship Labor Southern Religion Militant Truth David Burgess Labor unions Billy Graham Operation Dixie Congress of Industrial Organizations Southern Organizing Committee John Ramsay Lucy Randolph Mason History
37	Randolph Stone et la thérapie par la polarité : analyse d'une médecine holistique Simard, Benoît-Luc 13 April 2018 (has links) Cette thèse de doctorat peut être considérée comme une étude de cas qui du point de vue de la méthode s'apparente à une analyse de contenu. C'est à partir de cette méthode que l'oeuvre écrite de Randolph Stone, le fondateur de la Thérapie par polarité, a été analysée de manière systématique et approfondie afin de rendre compte des éléments propres à cette médecine en particulier et aux médecines holistiques en général en dehors des opinions émises par les thérapeutes, les bénéficiaires de soins et les chercheurs. On retrouve dans cette thèse une revue de littérature qui montre les limites du savoir actuel sur les médecines holistiques, une mise en contexte historique de l'oeuvre de Stone, une analyse complète de la littérature que cet auteur a produite, une mise en évidence des thèmes qui rendent possible la compréhension de son art de guérir, une recherche sur les sources d'inspiration et les influences que l'auteur a subies pour en arriver à élaborer son système de soins et enfin une réflexion sur l'apport de cette thèse à la recherche sociale et médicale actuelle. Cette thèse met en relief l'apport considérable de la philosophie religieuse des Radhasoami, groupe religieux du Nord de l'Inde, dans le développement des médecines holistiques et de la pensée occidentale depuis le XIXe siècle. L'ensemble de la thèse montre que le postulat de base sur lequel s'appuient les thérapies holistes consiste à dire que l'équilibre des énergies subtiles dont l'être humain est constitué correspond à la santé et que leur déséquilibre, causé principalement par des blocages dans leur parcours, provoque la maladie. La méthode utilisée pour rétablir cet équilibre est un art constitué de trois éléments interdépendants c'est-à-dire une connaissance adéquate des constituants de l'être humain, une maîtrise des techniques thérapeutiques et de l'inspiration. Les études actuelles sur les médecines holistiques ne tiennent pas compte du système de tripartition des énergies mis en lumière par Randolph Stone et sa Thérapie par polarité et font donc fausse route dans leurs protocoles de recherche quant à la façon d'étudier ces médecines BR 20.5 UL 2008 S588 Stone, Randolph, 1890- Polarité (Thérapie) Radhasoami Satsang Médecine holistique -- Aspect religieux Médecine holistique -- Histoire Art et société Sociologie religieuse
38	The Messenger and The Crisis during World War I and The Red Scare, 1917-21 Barton, Evan P. 26 July 2011 (has links) No description available. African Americans African American Studies Economic Theory History Journalism Labor Economics Labor Relations The Messenger The Crisis World War I Red Scare Du Bois A. Philip Randolph African-American Periodicals Socialism African-American Socialists NAACP
39	Unity, Justice and Protection: The Colored Trainmen of America's Struggle to End Jim Crow in the American Railroad Industry [and Elsewhere] James, Ervin 2012 August 1900 (has links) The Colored Trainmen of America (CTA) actively challenged Jim Crow policies on the job and in the public sphere between the 1930s and 1950s. In response to lingering questions concerning the relationship between early black labor activism and civil rights protest, this study goes beyond both local lure and cursory research. This study examines the Colored Trainmen's major contributions to the advancement of African Americans. It also provides context for some of the organization's shortcomings in both realms. On the job the African American railroad workers belonging to the CTA fought valiantly to receive the same opportunities for professional growth and development as whites working in the operating trades of the railroad industry. In the public sphere, these men collectively protested second-class services and accommodations both on and off the clock. Neither their agenda, the scope of their activities, nor their influence was limited to the railroad lines the members of the CTA operated within the Gulf Coast region. The CTA belonged to a progressive coalition comprised of four other powerful independent African American labor unions committed to unyielding labor activism and the toppling of Jim Crow. Together, they all worked to effectuate meaningful social change in partnership with national civil rights attorney Charles H. Houston. Houston's experience and direction, coupled with the CTA's dedicated membership and willingness to challenge authority, created considerable momentum in movements aimed at toppling racial inequality in the workplace and elsewhere. Like most of their predecessors, the CTA's struggle for advancement fits within a continuum of successive challenges to economic exploitation and racial inequality. No single person or organization can take full credit for ending segregation or achieving equality. Many who remain nameless and faceless contributed and sacrificed. This study not only chronicles the contribution of a relatively unsung African American labor organization that waged war against Jim Crow on two different fronts, it also pays homage to a few more individuals who made a difference in the lives of an entire race of people during the course of a bitterly contested, never-ending struggle for racial equality in the United States of America during the twentieth century. Colored Trainmen of America Labor Civil Rights History African American Gulf Coast Region American History Twentieth Century American Race Relations Jim Crow Black Labor Unions Charles Hamilton Houston Joseph C. Waddy A. Philip Randolph FEPC Double V. Campaign William H. Hastie 1960s American Railroad System Labor Law Labor Movement Industrial Unions Transportation Interstate Transport World War I World War II The Great Depression The New Deal Executive Order 8802 FDR Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower LBJ Richard Nixon Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
40	The Farmland Opera House : culture, identity, and the corn contest Wernicke, Rose January 2013 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Indiana Midwest small town entertainment community Farmland (Ind.) -- History Culture -- Philosophy -- History Farmland Opera House (Farmland, Ind.)

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