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Folked, Funked, Punked: How Feminist Performance Poetry Creates Havens for Activism and ChangeKyser, Tiffany S. 19 July 2010 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / My thesis examines the ways in which female performance poets deliver their messages and how those messages inspire, affirm, and encourage their audiences. From the traditions of outsider art—Beat poetry, feminist poetry, jazz, folk, punk, and rap—feminist performance poets choose the public sphere as a platform to witness to social injustices. In naming inequality, these poets challenge patriarchal foundations of gender roles, question academia’s criteria as to what constitutes “good” poetry, and expose social injustices. In this thesis, I examine the work of feminist performance poets Ani Difranco, Alix Olson, Andrea Gibson, Ursula Rucker, and Jessica Care Moore as examples of a new way of reading. Their work is significant in that they continue the tradition of feminist poetry by challenging the patriarchal status quo through a re-socializing and accessible style. Their work allows audiences to commune together in shared experience and promotes social change by demystifying cultural norms and gender codes in order to expose the exclusivity in patriarchal ideologies. These poets draw on a woman-centered spirituality, subvert misogynistic feminine archetypes, pay homage to ancestors and foremothers, and address issues of the body—naming oppression yet making room for pleasure.
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Entre quehaceres conventuales y arrebatos místicos : el diario de Úrsula de Jesús, Lima siglo XVIIPignano Bravo, Giovanna María 09 April 2016 (has links)
La presente investigación estudia de qué manera Úrsula de Jesús (Lima, 1604-1666) negoció su condición de afrodescendiente en el monasterio de Santa Clara y en la sociedad colonial limeña del siglo XVII. En una época en donde la espiritualidad barroca estaba en su total efervescencia, ella se vinculó, como esclava domestica de la mística Luisa de Melgarejo (Tunja, 1578-Lima, 1651), a un nicho de misticismo limeño que se había conformado en la casa de su ama.
A la edad de trece años, Úrsula de Jesús ingresó como esclava de una religiosa al monasterio de Santa Clara de Lima. Allí, comenzó a negociar su condición, pues pasó de ser esclava a liberta y de liberta a donada, como consecuencia de la manifestación de una excepcional piedad religiosa y a ejemplares virtudes. Además de los éxitos logrados, utilizó creativamente el espacio de legitimidad que le brindaba el monasterio para iniciarse en la experiencia mística e inmortalizarla en la escritura de un texto místico, con ayuda de algunas compañeras clarisas. En el Diario Espiritual, escrito entre 1650 y 1661 y publicado en Lima en el 2004, la liberta, Úrsula de Jesús, reflexiona sobre la condición de los afrodescendientes en la tierra y en el cielo, y plantea un modelo de seguimiento espiritual que los sitúa como privilegiados para alcanzar la salvación.
Esta investigación se ubica en la intercesión de la historia social, la historia de género y la historia cultural y, propone una lectura del Diario Espiritual, que dialoga con el contexto mayor de la esclavitud en Lima del siglo XVII.
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Sex, Chastity, and Political Power in Medieval and Early Renaissance Representations of the ErmineCobb, Morgan B. January 2010 (has links)
No description available.
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Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang.Baumgarten, Joseph Ephraim 10 August 2005 (has links) (PDF)
In Günter Grass's Danzig Trilogy and novella, Im Krebsgang, an antagonistic female type makes a repeated appearance. She appears in the guise of Susi Kater and Luzie Rennwand in Die Blechtrommel, and as Tulla Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This antagonistic female type is not like other women in these works. A review of Le Deuxième Sexe by feminist Simone de Beauvoir reveals several crucial components contributing to woman's position in society. Most essentially, a woman's natural attributes and (dis)abilities and the conventions of society have enforced her historical submission to man. This thesis analyzes how the antagonistic female type, or villain, compares and contrasts with other female figures in these works by Grass, according to a paradigm derived from Beauvoir's description of woman. From this analysis, a better understanding of the female villain's nature emerges. Indeed, such a comparison demonstrates that certain female figures in the works of Grass transcend their historically oppressed or subdued status by refusing to submit to those natural handicaps and societal restrictions identified by Beauvoir, and thus become a threat to man's status or security as an antagonistic female type, or villain. However, the villain figure is not always inherently evil, but possesses the capacity to change. The villain and victim can reconcile their differences and may even form a friendly relationship. This evolving villain-victim duality becomes most clear in Grass's work, Im Krebsgang, and suggests the possibility of assuaging contemporary conflicts as educators sympathize with the experiences of both extremist groups and victimized parties and help them come to terms with their differences.
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Arboreal thresholds - the liminal function of trees in twentieth-century fantasy narrativesPotter, Mary-Anne 09 1900 (has links)
Trees, as threshold beings, effectively blur the line between the real world and fantastical alternate worlds, and destabilise traditional binary classification systems that distinguish humanity, and Culture, from Nature. Though the presence of trees is often peripheral to the main narrative action, their representation is necessary within the fantasy trope. Their consistent inclusion within fantasy texts of the twentieth century demonstrates an enduring arboreal legacy that cannot be disregarded in its contemporary relevance, whether they are represented individually or in collective forests. The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct a study of various prominent fantasy texts of the twentieth century, including the fantasy works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Robert Holdstock, Diana Wynne Jones, Natalie Babbitt, and J.K. Rowling. In scrutinising these texts, and drawing on insights offered by liminal, ecocritical, ecofeminist, mythological and psychological theorists, I identify the primary function of trees within fantasy narratives as liminal: what Victor Turner identifies as a ‘betwixt and between’ state (1991:95) where binaries are suspended in favour of embracing potentiality. This liminality is constituted by three central dimensions: the ecological, the mythological, and the psychological. Each dimension informs the relationship between the arboreal as grounded in reality, and represented in fantasy. Trees, as literary and cinematic arboreal totems are positioned within fantasy narratives in such a way as to emphasise an underlying call to bio-conservatorship, to enable a connection to a larger scope of cultural expectation, and to act as a means through which human self-awareness is developed. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)
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