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Coughlin, Steven. "Another City." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1363951384.
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Hickman, Gretel Young. "The Past is Another Country: A Folkloric Interpretation of Marriage and Courtship Narratives From the 1930s to the Present /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487929745336314.
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Wu, Xu. "Another collision how mainstream Chinese and American newspapers framed the Sino-US spy plane collision /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE1001194.
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DeBrock, Jacob. "Behind Every Curtain is Another Trick:Narrative, Magic, and Trauma in In the Lake of the Woods." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1513273387030866.
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Woodworth, Griffin Mead. ""Just another one of God's gifts" Prince, African-American masculinity, and the sonic legacy of the eighties /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1779835241&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Oray, Patrick B. "Another layer of blackness: theorizing race, ethnicity, and identity in the U.S. black public sphere." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5033.
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While many studies of U.S. immigration highlight the diversity within other racial and ethnic groups, scholarly attention to the significance of ethnicity among black people in this country is still sorely underdeveloped. This dissertation project explores how black identities are constructed not only through the prism of race in the U.S. context, but also through other social dynamics that operate "in the shadow of race," such as differences in class, color, country of origin, and circumstances of migration. Instead of a singular black identity fueled by our political discourses and popular culture, my project treats "blackness" as a floating signifier that is constructed both within the racial organization of the U.S. nation-state and among the peoples of the black diaspora within its borders. In short, blackness is a matter that has become national, international, and transnational in scope.
Ethnicity and its implications for how we think about black identity and group representation in U.S. society is the other "layer of blackness" this dissertation addresses. The formation and reshaping of American identity among various immigrant groups have historically involved complicated relationships between race and ethnicity, two concepts scholars have used to articulate group identities in the U.S. The history of U.S. racial and ethnic relations reveals the complicated processes through which some social groups have been able to establish their place in the American mainstream by adapting to the cultural and institutional norms established by mainstream white society. Non-white immigrant groups have been forced to find their American identities on the margins of U.S. society because of their purported inability or unwillingness to assimilate to established cultural and institutional norms. Sometimes this alienation from the American mainstream takes on a purely racial dimension. At other times, the prejudices of U.S. society are directed at particular ethnic groups.
But in spite of the status ascribed to them, these immigrants have also proven to be empowered agents in their implicit and explicit critiques of the U.S.'s social order. Historically, non-white immigrants in the U.S. have demonstrated the power to question, disrupt, and resist cultural and institutional forms of discrimination even as they are incorporated into them.
My interrogation of black ethnic identity and what it brings to bear on how we define blackness in the U.S. begins by asking what cultural capital black immigrants bring with them in their sojourn to America rather than assuming what is lost in the process of their incorporation into U.S. race relations. Patterns of immigration, return migration and circular migration that have come to characterize the experience of many foreign-born blacks in the U.S., as well as the circulation of ideas, culture, and history between sending and receiving countries are all issues germane to the process of black immigrant incorporation and black ethnic identity in the U.S. As such, the argument I proffer in my dissertation project is this: because of the myriad processes at play in formulating black racial and ethnic identities in America (i.e., historically established structures of race as well as an unprecedented surge in foreign-born black migration this country)-how we define blackness in the U.S. context is more fruitfully theorized as a matter that is at once national, international, and transnational in scope. It is at the nexus of these fronts that the historical and cultural constructions of blackness are currently defined among the diversity of black people in the U.S.
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Binks, Gwendolyn Dale. "Taking another look at women and gender in Hemingway's works." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1969.
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This project supports the contrary argument that Hemingway provided a voice for the post-Victorian woman, a woman exercising her strength within relationships, her sexuality, her femininity, and her freedom from oppression during the twentieth century women's movement.
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Wells, Sherah Kristen. "'Another world,/its walls are thin' : psychosis and Catholicism in the texts of Antonia White and Emily Holmes Coleman." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2292/.
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This thesis seeks to destabilize many of the hierarchical boundaries established by the recent critical projects surrounding “female modernism” and “middlebrow” fiction by highlighting two authors, Antonia White and Emily Holmes Coleman, who have been neglected precisely because their works challenge the boundaries of these literary classifications. The thesis suggests that White’s and Coleman’s texts seemingly defy this categorization specifically through the portrayal of psychosis, the threat and experience of which permeates their texts and the way in which this impacts the construction of female subjectivity. “Female modernism”, “middlebrow” fiction, and “fictions of madness” often appear to be at odds with one another, but a close examination of White’s and Coleman’s texts suggests that these boundaries are not impermeable. Chapters One and Two seek to contextualize White’s and Coleman’s texts within these critical arguments and gesture towards the following chapters which demonstrate the extent to which these texts are specifically concerned with testing and exploring boundaries in the formation of female subjectivity, specifically through the experience of psychosis. It is their alternating acceptance of and challenge to these boundaries which contributes to the mis-placement of their texts within literary classifications. Chapters Three, Four, and Five explore the fortification and dissolving of the boundaries of female subjectivities as represented in White’s and Coleman’s texts. Chapter Three examines the relationship between mother and daughter in the texts specifically through the process of maternity. It argues that the process of maternity challenges female subjectivity in such a way that is best understood if it is contextualized within Julia Kristeva’s conception of the abject. Chapter Four addresses the textual representation of psychosis as a dissolution of subjectivity which is analysed using the theories of Luce Irigaray. Chapter Five acts as a counter-balance to this by exploring the ways in which female subjectivity is positively constructed in the texts, specifically through the presentation of Catholicism. In combination, each of these thematic elements which explore and test various boundaries result in a body of texts which defy the boundaries of “female modernism”, the “middlebrow”, and “fictions of madness”. The thesis concludes by suggesting that it is those texts which were written in the 1950s and therefore contain elements which are characteristic of the culture of that decade which present the greatest problem for the categorization of these texts. It suggests that the literature of this decade, particularly literature written by women, deserves greater consideration to separate it more fully from the existing literary classifications which struggle to contain it.
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Kovacik, Gracen Lila. "Tell Sir Thomas More We've Got Another Failed Attempt: Utopia and the Burning Man Project." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5831.
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Burning Man, a weeklong experience in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, has become an oasis for those looking to escape the corporatized grasp of modern culture. Burning Man serves as a reprieve from judgment and allows participants to embrace and perform their inner identities. The intensions of Burning Man have been widely debated, from scholars concentrating on the rejection of consumerism to analyzing sacred space and religious connectivity for festivalgoers. What deserves further analysis, however, is the utopian nature of the event. I will explore previous utopian attempts--literary, political, etc.--and define what characteristics from those societies were present during the inception and following early years of Burning Man. Using the work of Ernst Bloch I will establish Burning Man as a not-yet-conscious utopia, a product of Larry Harvey's vision, and define the increasingly imminent threats to the event's utopianism. The segregation of ideas at Burning Man, between veteran Burners and newcomers, is attributed to the perpetual struggle to balance and create meaning within a society designed to provide autonomy for its citizens. I will look at how changes in popularity and population have transformed the once utopian retreat into an amalgam of conflicting ethos. I argue that this once thriving counterculture is facing an extreme shift away from the original structure of the event in terms of meaning, experience, and understanding.
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Gontovnik, Monica. "Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female ColombianArtists." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106.
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Jünke, Sarah Lynne. ""Take Another Look At 'Em": Passing Performances of Gender in the Junior-Freshman Weddings of Florida State College for Women, 1909-1925." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3177.
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Junior-freshmen weddings were all-female mock weddings that were performed as annual traditions on college campuses throughout the U.S. in the early part of the twentieth-century. In the weddings, college women played both the men's and women's roles, and were joined as husband and wife by their college administration. This thesis focuses on the junior-freshman weddings of Florida State College for Women during the years 1909-1925 and argues that the weddings expressed the conflicted cultural contexts that college women in the Progressive Era confronted, but that, significantly, this expression was done through passing performances of gender. The women's choice of passing performances in the junior-freshman weddings allowed them to appropriate metaphors of masculinity as their own, thereby challenging a dominant gender ideology that limited their roles within society and their relationship with structures of power. In their performances of gender, play is the language they used to express this challenge.
Because there were no existing scholarly studies of junior-freshmen weddings, it was necessary to comparatively examine analyses of other types of mock weddings. Through this examination it was possible to elucidate a working definition of what mock weddings are, which helps to understand not only junior-freshmen weddings, but also provides a framework from which to investigate the many other types of mock weddings that are as of yet unstudied.
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Sekaran, Shanthi N. "The prayer room : a novel, and, The salt of another earth : a critical study of food and culinary practice in Indian-American narratives of the immigrant experience." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1233.
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This dissertation examines, creatively and critically, the role of gastronomy in Indian- American literature. The creative element consists of a novel entitled The Prayer Room. The critical component is titled The Salt of Another Earth: The Role of Food and Culinary Practice in the Indian-American Narrative of the Immigrant Experience. The Prayer Room tells the story of a married couple, George and Viji Armitage, both immigrants to Sacramento, California, individually tracing each protagonist’s immigrant experience. George, a native of Nottingham, finds himself in an anti-climactic version of the America he once idolised, and grows increasingly lackadaisical in his professional and personal lives. Viji, a Tamil Hindu, struggles to gain control over her domestic realm, and makes a personal refuge of her prayer room. Here, she displays pictures and statues of Hindu deities, and portraits of deceased loved ones. She compartmentalises her past successfully enough to manage her present, until the arrival of her English father-in-law, Stan Armitage. Stan’s presence challenges the integrity both of George and Viji’s marriage, and of their decision to migrate. The critical portion of this thesis analyses, alongside The Prayer Room, two immigrant-centred novels by Indian authors: Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting. Each novel features an Indian immigrant protagonist who leaves a native collective for life in the United States and, in the process, experiences a rebirth of the individualism which their collectives have silenced. This reawakening is reflected by each author’s treatment of culinary preparation and consumption. The Prayer Room’s culinary practice provides distinct commentary on the immigrant experience, but has been influenced by its literary predecessors. The aim of this dissertation is to explore how the commonality and divergence of culinary incidence in the three chosen texts reflect upon the nature of the Indian immigrant experience.
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Mattingly, Jane. "The Trumpery: Another Play About Whatever America is Right Now." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5318.
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The Trumpery is a play script inspired by Euripides’ The Bacchae, and is an exploration of contemporary American society in the wake of the presidential election of Donald J. Trump. The performance text features the iconic Ancient Greek blind prophet Tiresias as well as Dionysus, the Greek god of theatre, and how they might navigate 2016 America. The script includes contemporary characters living in New York City as well as in rural Kentucky, and features choral interludes that reflect twenty-first century aesthetic qualities and popular entertainment. The themes that the script attempts to examine are those of division and humanity. This document details the author’s writing process, the research and dramaturgical material to support it, an analysis of the script, and the performance text itself.
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Olson, Ted. "Recording Review of Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1143.
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López-Portillo, García-López José-Juan. "'Another Jerusalem' : political legitimacy and courtly government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568)." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8545.
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My research focused on understanding how viceregal authority was accepted in Mesoamerica. Rather than approaching the problems from the perspective of institutional history, I drew on prosopographical techniques and the court-studies tradition to focus on the practice of government and the affinities that bound indigenous and non-indigenous political communities. In Chapters two and three I investigate how particular notions of nobility informed the ‘ideals of life’ of the Spanish and indigenous elites in New Spain and how these evolved up to 1535. The chapters also serve to establish a general context to the political situation that Mendoza faced on his arrival. Chapters four to seven explore how the viceroys sought to increase their authority in New Spain by appropriating means of direct distribution of patronage and how this allowed them personally to satisfy many of the demands of the Spanish and indigenous elites. This helped them impose their supremacy over New Spain’s magnates and serve the crown by ruling more effectively. Viceregal supremacy was justified in a ‘language of legitimacy’ that became increasingly peculiar to New Spain as a community of interests developed between the local elites and the viceroys who guaranteed the local political arrangements on which their status and wealth increasingly depended. I conclude by suggesting that New Spain was governed on the basis of internal arrangements guaranteed by the viceroys. This led to the development of what I define as a ‘parasitic civic-nobility’ which benefitted from the perpetuation of the viceregal system along with the crown. The internal political logic of most decision making and a defined local identity accompanied by increasingly ‘sui generis’ ‘ideals of life’ qualify New Spain to be considered not as a ‘colony’ run by an alien bureaucracy that perpetuated Spanish ‘domination’ but as Mexico City’s sub-empire within the Habsburg ‘composite monarchy.
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Korp, Maureen. "The sacred meaning of East another look at ancient Ameridian burial sites in the Mississippi Valley." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5092.
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Ascher, George P. "Looking back in order to reach out an experiment in ministry to aid one culture in reaching another with the Gospel /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Jansson, Emelie. "...believing in fusion of worlds to make another one. : A fusion of wear from 19th century America and the Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-13029.
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This work explores the opportunities of working with multiplicity in fashion. This provides the freedom ofcombining inspiration from different times, places and cultures. At the same time, it is important that the viewerunderstands the fusion and that the work shows relevance to the current time in fashion. The selected parts inthis fusion are costumes from 19th century America and garments from the Russian designer GoshaRubchinskiy. The focus of this work is a fusion of these two worlds with the aim to find a new way of dressing.By finding methods that explore the complexity of Worldmaking, it led to a better understanding of theimportance of finding the balance between multiplicity and reduction. The materials from these two worlds arebased on items from websites relating to the origin worlds. These items are then developed with inspirationfrom both pleasure and insight. This collection started with two worlds that resulted in a lineup of seven looks. These looks have come torepresent another world, but still contain fragments that can be derived from its origins. This ”another world” isa young concept and eager to continue the creation of a new culture of fashion.
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Pavani, Monica <1968>. "In the skin of another : Anne Michaels', Sujata Bhatt's and Adrienne Rich's dramatic monologues as embodiments of painter Paula Modersohn-Becker." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1159.
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This research aims at exploring the reasons for a multiple fascination: why does German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) after her death haunt Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) as a ghost that can find no peace in the hereafter? and, what is more, why does her experience as a woman artist go on haunting three women poets of the present time – Canadian Anne Michaels (1958), Indian Sujata Bhatt (1956) and American Adrienne Rich (1929) – who have written dramatic monologues giving voice to her?
The reasons for an obsession cannot be grasped in rational terms. The three poets let Becker speak in the first person so as to explore her life devoted to painting but constantly undermined by a sense of failure. Through the use of different devices but urged by a similar need, their poetry courts a form of ‘embodiment,’ aimed at finding a new way of seeing and of giving voice to Paula’s deepest yearnings at a time when to be a woman and an artist represented an inner conflict far from easy to resolve.<br>Questa ricerca intende indagare le ragioni di una fascinazione multipla: perché la pittrice tedesca Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) dopo la sua morte perseguita Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) come un fantasma che non trova pace nell’aldilà? E ancora, perché la sua esperienza di artista continua a perseguitare tre poetesse contemporanee – la canadese Anne Michaels (1958), l’indiana Sujata Bhatt (1956) e l’americana Adrienne Rich (1929) – che hanno scritto dei monologhi drammatici per darle voce?
Le ragioni di un’ossessione non si possono afferrare razionalmente. Le tre poetesse fanno parlare la Becker in prima persona per esplorare la sua vita dedicata alla pittura ma continuamente minata da un senso di fallimento. Con l’utilizzo di diverse strategie ma mossa da simile urgenza, la loro poesia persegue una forma di ‘incarnazione’, nel tentativo di trovare un nuovo modo di vedere e di dare voce ai desideri più profondi di Paula, in un’epoca in cui essere donna e artista rappresentava un conflitto interiore di non facile soluzione.
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Comboy, Bethany. "Trade relations between Southern U.S. cities and Latin America: A study of how the port cities New Orleans, Houston, and Miami fare against one another amid increasing competition for trade with Latin America." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/485.
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Globalization has affected decentralization and greater centralized control and management within governments traditionally unconstrained by international change, city governments. City governments must be increasingly active internationally to survive in a politically decentralized global environment, especially in international trade. Trade is important to cities because it affects growth, jobs and standard of living among other contributors to local economies. The effects of globalization at the local level are manifested in three Southern U.S. cities with business-generating ports linked to Latin American and world markets: New Orleans, Houston, and Miami. This comparative case study considers the competition among New Orleans, Houston and Miami to capitalize on their complex transportation networks and increase trade with Latin America. Several variables contribute to increased trade and investment between the cities and Latin America, including local autonomy from state governments, business influence on local government policy, size of firms, and international trade policy and investment.
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Gignac, Patrick Joseph. "Oppressive relationships/related oppressions ethnicity, gender, and sexuality and the role of gay identity in James Baldwin's Another country and Hubert Fichte's Versuch über die Pubertät /." Connect to this title online, 1996. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63422.pdf.
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Orias, Vargas Maria Alejandra. "La littérature migrante hispano-américaine d'expression française depuis les années 1960." Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UPASK002.
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Cette thèse a pour objet l´étude de la littérature migrante hispano-américaine d'expression française, de 1960 à nos jours. Langue de communication et langue de culture, le français est aussi langue de création au-delà de ses zones linguistiques. Il est ainsi devenu la langue d'adoption d'écrivains européens en dehors des pays francophones, comme ce fut le cas pour l'Irlandais Samuel Beckett ou le Roumain Emil Cioran. On sait moins que certains écrivains hispano-américains ont aussi fait le choix du français pour leur œuvre littéraire. Cette étude entend mettre en lumière ledit phénomène à compter des années 1960. Elle s'inscrit au carrefour de deux orientations de recherche. Elle fait d'abord fond sur l'histoire des représentations de la littérature et de la culture françaises en Amérique latine et entend contribuer à l'enrichir d'apports contemporains grâce à un corpus d'auteurs récents : les Argentins Silvia Baron Supervielle et Hector Bianciotti, le Cubain Eduardo Manet et le Chilien Luis Mizón. Elle se veut aussi une analyse croisée de ces écrivains hispano-américains qui, non contents d'être installés en France, en ont employé la langue dans une démarche littéraire. Ces deux axes sont requis pour mieux appréhender ce type de littérature migrante qui s'intéresse à l'expérience de l'exil et au processus de déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation. Au cœur de celui-ci surgit un espace de l'entre-deux pour repenser et négocier le rapport entre le territoire et l'identité suite au déplacement qui a réaligné les frontières. Cette démarche a permis aux auteurs du corpus de dissocier la langue de l'identité nationale pour opérer leur passage au français. Ce dernier ne révèle ni une assimilation à la langue et à la culture du pays d'accueil, ni un renoncement à la culture d'origine, ni un abandon de la langue maternelle. Le français donne lieu à la création d'une langue singulière qui ne peut être assignée à un champ littéraire déterminé. Le seul espace auquel appartient cette langue est la marge : un espace vierge né entre la langue française et la langue espagnole<br>This thesis aims to study the French language that emerged from Hispano-American migrant literature from 1960 to the present. As a language of communication and culture, French is also a language of creation beyond its linguistic boundaries. It has thus become the language of adoption for European writers besides French-speaking countries, as was the case for the Irishman Samuel Beckett and the Romanian Emil Cioran. Crucially however, the fact that some Spanish-American writers have also chosen French for their literary work is less well known. This study sheds light on this phenomenon from the 1960s onwards considering two lines of research. Firstly, we build on the history of representations of French literature and culture in Latin America to enrich it with contemporary contributions through a corpus of recent authors: the Argentinians Silvia Baron Supervielle, Hector Bianciotti, the Cuban Eduardo Manet and the Chilean Luis Mizón. Secondly, we propose a cross-analysis of these Spanish-American writers who, going beyond being settled in France, have used French language in a poetic approach. These two axes are necessary to better understand this type of migrant literature, which focuses on the experience of exile and the process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. At the central point of this process is the emergence of an in-between space in which both to rethink and negotiate the relationship between territory and identity due to displacement have realigned borders. This process enabled the authors to dissociate language from identity in order to make the transition to French, which differs from assimilating the language and culture of the host country or denying their own culture, let alone abandoning their mother tongue. French becomes the material for creating a new language that cannot be assigned to a specific literary field. The only space to which this language belongs is a virgin space born between French and Spanish
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Silvera, Makeda. "Another kind of vision : women of color in publishing - resistance, transgression and transformation /." 2004.
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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves195-202). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11894
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"Another face of empire: Bartolome de Las Casas and the restoration of the Indies." Tulane University, 1994.
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In 1514, at the age of thirty, the Spanish cleric Bartolome de Las Casas underwent a profound spiritual transformation that caused him to 'condemn the repartimientos or encomiendas as unjust and tyrannical and to leave his Indians and renounce them to the governor.' From that moment on he emerged as the most unrelenting and abrasive defender of the Indians in the history of Latin America. Las Casas' legacy is complex and difficult to evaluate in absolute terms. As a uniquely multifaceted individual, Las Casas is remembered as a priest, writer, politician, theologian, prophet and jurist among other things. For his efforts on behalf of the Indians, Las Casas is variously depicted as a savior of the Indians, an apostolic prototype of love, piously fanatic, the creator of the 'Black Legend' of the Spanish conquest, or as an 'authentic expression of the true Spanish conscience.' This study of Las Casas attempts to re-interpret his life and work from the perspective that he was a benevolent and paternalistic representative of Spanish imperialism in America rather than the unblemished larger-than-life hero depicted by his admirers. Perhaps one of the most revealing and significant examples of the Las Casas' role as another face of Spanish imperialism can be found in the similarity between some of his early proposals, and those put in practice by viceroy Francisco de Toledo in Peru in the late sixteenth-century. Whereas Las Casas had suggested his policies to the crown as a benevolent form of systematizing the exploitation of the land and its inhabitants and as a measure to prevent the decimation of the Indians, Toledo's application of his own policies were designed to increase the imperial sphere of influence and while they resulted in a considerable increment in profits for the crown, they also brought about a significant decrease of the indigenous population In order for Las Casas to be fully understood, he must be seen not only in the context of defender of the Amerindians, but as a full, active and willing participant in the imperialist domination of the New World by Spain, and perhaps the best known representative of benevolent Spanish imperialism in our continent<br>acase@tulane.edu
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"White Dreams, Another World: Exploring the Racial Beliefs of White Administrators in Multicultural Settings." Doctoral diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8901.
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abstract: Although racial minorities are heavily represented in student bodies throughout the United States, school administrators who work with minority children have been overwhelmingly White. Previous research by race scholars has demonstrated that systems of racial dominance in the larger society are often replicated in schools. However, the role of White school administrators in perpetuating or disrupting racism has not been documented. This study examined the racial attitudes and resulting professional practices of White school administrators who worked in a unique environment. These administrators lived and practiced their profession in towns that lay just outside the borders of the Navajo Nation, a large Indian reservation in the Four Corners region of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Termed border towns, these communities were populated by a large majority of Native Americans, with a heavy representation of Hispanics. This placed White school administrators in the uncommon position of living and working in a place where they were a numeric minority, while simultaneously representing the majority culture in the United States. Twelve White border town administrators in four different communities agreed to participate in the interview study, conducted over a two-month period in 2010 and 2011. Using a semi-structured interview format, the researcher gathered data on participants' racial attitudes and analyzed responses to find common themes. Common responses among the interviewees indicated that there were clear racial hierarchies within border town schools and that these hierarchies were sometimes atypical of those found in mainstream American society. These racial hierarchies were characterized by a dichotomy of Native American students based on residence in town or on the reservation, as well as deferential treatment of White administrators by Native American constituents. The intersectionality of race and socioeconomic class was a key finding of the study, with implications for school administrators' professional actions. Racial attitudes also impacted White border town administrators' actions and sometimes reinforced institutionally racist practices. Finally, results of the study supported several established models of race relations and White identity formation.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Ed.D. Educational Administration and Supervision 2011
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Nora, Amanda Marie. "Fusion of dance forms in the United States of America original + original = fused hybrid; or, fusion + fusion = another fused hybrid /." 2005. http://www.oregonpdf.org.
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