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Duncan, James Bryan. "Literary labor : reform and resistance in American literature, 1936-1945 /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3181097.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-265). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Al-Abbood, Muhammed Noor. "The cultural politics of resistance : Frantz Fanon and postcolonial literary theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310373.
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Johnson, Dawnielle. "Authors and Facism: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Literary Resistance in Italy and Spain." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/773.
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França, Junior J. L. "Verses, subverses and subversions in contemporary postcolonial poetry : the arts of resistance in the works of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego Rampolokeng." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11910.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-141).This dissertation seeks to analyse insubordination and resistance manifested in postcolonial and post-apartheid poetry as ways of subverting dominant Western discourses. More specifically, I focus my analysis on textual strategies of resistance in the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego Rampolokeng. The syncretistic quality in the oeuvres of both poets is related to diaspora, hybridity and crealisation as forms of writ[h]ing against (neo)colonially-based hegemonic discourses. Postcolonial critiques at large will frame this analysis of strategies of domination and resistance, but some discussions from the domain of history, sociology and cultural studies may also enter the debate. In this regard there is a great variety of theories and arguments dealing with the contradictions and incongruities in the question of power relations interconnecting domination and resistance. This study is arranged in three pivotal debates. There is firstly an in-depth discussion of underpinning theories that deal with strategies of domination and resistance in the postcolonial domain This is a threefold task carried out by scrutinising (a) the origins of colonial discourse and its binarist tendencies, (b) the pitfalls of anticolonialist resistance based on dualistic opposites, and (c) the hybrid and insubordinate nature of resistance as an efficient alternative to transcend such binaries. Afterwards I seek to investigate how strategies of diasporic resistance and cultural hybridism employed in the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson can contribute to moving away from the limitations of dichotomies and also subvert hegemonic power. And finally, I look at crealisation, mockery and insubordination as strategies of resistance in the postapartheid poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng. Besides that, this project is concerned with the increasing importance of academic studies on postcolonial literatures. The present research aims therefore to analyse postcolonial and post-apartheid poems as strategic techniques to decentre dominant Western rhetoric that tries to naturalise inequalities and injustices in the relations between power holders and the powerless in both local and global contexts.
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MacDonald, Deneka C. "Locating resistance/resisting location : a feminist literary analysis of supernatural women in contemporary fantastic fiction." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5344/.
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In this thesis I examine the ways in which feminist and human geographies intersect with contemporary women-centred fantasy fiction. In particular, I consider space and place to be significant to female characters in their role as a physical presence as well as an intangible location. Thus I explore the forest, the body and the mind as territories occupied by the supernatural women. These various spatial themes, I suggest, outline distinctive locations for supernatural female characters and enable them to engage in a position of resistance from patriarchal ideologies. Through a spatial analysis of selected fiction, I reflect on challenges to notions that construct identity, gender and sexuality as well as conflict among women. I argue that the supernatural woman in fiction has been frozen in one-dimensional representation within traditional male-centred texts. This one-dimensionally, I suggest, hinges on the juxtaposition of the overly simplistic good/bad binary that has often illustrated female characters within fantasy fiction. As fantasy is a genre typically more concerned with worlds than characters, the women-centred fantasy text is unique in its exploration and pursuit of the literary character. Given the contemporary and interdisciplinary nature of this thesis, I have drawn upon filmic adaptations of texts at times to illustrate a further level of cultural awareness. The main emphasis is, however, on literary texts and, thus, reference to film is meant to supplement my textual analysis.
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Dantas, Ana Luiza Libânio. "The autonomous sex female body and voice in Alicia Kozameh's writing of resistance /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1212634746.
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Dunn, Jennifer Erin. "Ambiguous and ambivalent signatures : rewriting, revision, and resistance in Emma Tennant's fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6a4e8319-422a-48b9-8e43-cd05d742450f.
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While existing criticism of Emma Tennant's work emphasizes its feminist agenda, less attention has been paid to her rewriting of different narratives and discourses. Tennant's career has centered on challenging literary values as well as generic categories, realist conventions, and gender stereotypes. Contrary to implications that rewriting is "re-vision," an "act of survival" that corrects or subverts earlier texts, this thesis argues that Tennant's characteristic resistance to categories also extends to the work of rewriting and revision. Her texts suggest that the act of "writing back" is not as straightforward as it may seem, but deeply ambiguous and ambivalent. Developing theories of the "signature" that return the writer-as-agent to the otherwise anonymous field of intertextuality, this thesis traces Tennant's figurations of writing, metafictional devices, and intertextual allusions to show how these relate to themes in the fiction. Examining groupings of the texts from different critical perspectives, each chapter shows how Tennant's rewritings destabilize notions of originality, identity, and agency, and represent political discourses and social progress in an ambivalent way. While this thesis offers very specific insights into Tennant's work, the close readings also encompass broader themes, such as feminism and postmodernism, the gothic, myths of home and exile, and the ventriloquistic techniques of pastiche and biofiction. The arguments centered on her work contribute to the larger discourse on rewriting in two ways. First, in problematizing assumptions that rewriting inherently strives toward progress or correction, this thesis argues that rewriting can dramatize the ambiguity and ambivalence that haunt acts of resistance. Second, in advancing challenges to the idea that intertextuality functions anonymously, it argues that rewriting can return agency to the text by offering representations of authorship that engage with literary and cultural history.
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Nicholas, Alice Lynn. "LIBERATORY EXPRESSIONS: BLACK WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND THE CODED WORD, AN AFRICOLOGICAL EXAMINATION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/564310.
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African American StudiesPh.D.
Word coding can be traced to the ancient Kemetic practice of steganography (referring to hiding place or hidden message). Unless the reader is aware of the meaning, the Coded Word can often appear as just art. Afrocentric scholarship however, also incorporates the idea of functionality. Aesthetics, throughout African history, and to this day, serve a purpose. The beautiful quilts sewn by enslaved Black women served dual functions, as bed coverings and as symbols of resistance and liberation. The decorative wrought-ironwork found on gates and doors throughout the United States serves as a Sankofic reminder and protector. The highly coded language in the aesthetics of the Black Power/Black Arts Movement, shifted paradigms. Though the practice of word coding remains an active part of contemporary Black culture, there is a disconnection between the action and the aim (or function); a direct result of the destructive efforts of colonization. Today’s racially charged and oftentimes dangerous climate calls for a reexamination of word coding as a liberatory tool. I created the theory of the Coded Word to analyze three novels by Black women who are unique in their forms of word coding, just as they are characteristically distinct in their forms of expression. The findings for the three novels have resulted in the first three entries into the Glossary of the Coded Word, a resource to be used by Black people in resistance to oppression and in the struggle for liberation of all Black people.
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Borilot, Vanessa. "Feminine strategies of resistance comparative study of two XIXth century French literary pieces and two XXth century French Caribbean writings /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 111 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885467531&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun Harris Trudier. "The black maternal heterogeneity and resistance in literary representations of black mothers in 20th century African American and Afro-Caribbean women's fiction /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1736.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.
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Battle, ShaDawn D. "''Moments of Clarity'' and Sounds of Resistance: Veiled Literary Subversions and De-Colonial Dialectics in the Art of Jay Z and Kanye West." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479820190751642.
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Cullhed, Christina. "Grappling with Patriarchies : Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Miriam Tlali's Writings." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Uppsala universitetsbibliotek [distributör], 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6762.
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Blakley, J. Ted. "Incomprehension or resistance? : the Markan disciples and the narrative logic of Mark 4:1-8:30." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/566.
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Gros, Emmeline. "The Southern Gentleman and the Idea of Masculinity: Figures and Aspects of the Southern Beau in the Literary Tradition of the American South." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/64.
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The American planter has mostly been presented as the epitome of the romantic cavalier legend that could be found in the fiction of John Pendleton Kennedy to Thomas Nelson Page: a man of chivalric manners and good breeding; a man of good social position; a man of wealth and leisure (Concise Oxford Dictionary). A closer scrutiny of the cavalier and genteel ethos of the time, however, reveals the inherent ideological inconsistencies with the idea of the gentleman itself, as the ideal came to be more and more perceived as an illusion and as challenges to traditional gender stereotypes came to redefine the nature and role of the Southern Gentleman. This study hopes to complicate the traditional delineation of hegemonic manhood with the aim to better understand how precisely the Old South’s masculine ideals were constructed and maintained over time, especially in times of crisis, and how southern elite males (re)defined, enacted, and/or maintained a distinctive Southern model of masculinity while others resisted, modified, or flouted those ideals. The work undertaken by this dissertation can thus be situated within the broad rubric of masculinity studies and its central axiom—the interrogation of the structures of power, domination, and hierarchy. Enriching masculinity studies of the Old South, this critical study of Southern American fiction attempts to respond to the invitation of historians like Stephen Berry or Craig Thompson Friend in striking a commendable balance between conceptualizing larger historical questions and narrating the intimacies and complexities of Southern men’s individual lives. Taken collectively, these novels continue to explore this fertile field by moving outside the “confines and confidences of elites” (Peel 1). Because it complicates any simple equation between honor, mastery, and manliness, and because it seeks to revisit traditional conceptualisations of gender, I hope that this study will open new ways of thinking about the privileges and wounds of a masculinity that has been considered by most as the normative, invisible, and unquestioned referent from which to measure marginalized others—foreigners, women, or non-whites.
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Peeters, Erik Christian. "Resistant misfit subjectivities in selected postcolonial literary texts." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439582.
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Rosier, Marie-Pierre. "Résistance et mémoire dans les premières œuvres d’Alicia Kozameh, Sara Rosenberg et Nora Strejilevich." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO20096/document.
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Nous avons choisi de nous intéresser aux premières œuvres d’Alicia Kozameh ( Pasos bajo el agua), Sara Rosenberg (Un hilo rojo) et Nora Strejilevich ( Una sola muerte numerosa). Ces trois écrivaines ont subi la violence politique argentine des années 1970. Elles ont toutes été emprisonnées et ont voulu témoigner de cette expérience dans leurs ouvrages. Nous proposons donc de donner un aperçu de l’histoire violente de l’Argentine qui a conduit à la dictature de 1976. L’un de nos objectifs sera de montrer que la fiction facilite l’expression d’une expérience traumatique telle que l’enfermement, la torture ou la disparition. Les signes autobiographiques sont présents dans ces trois œuvres et nous tenterons tout d’abord de déterminer à quel genre de l’écriture du soi elles appartiennent : roman autobiographique, roman témoignage, témoignage fictionnel ou bien une figure hybride ? Nous travaillerons aussi les caractéristiques du témoignage que nous mettrons à l’épreuve des textes de notre corpus. Nous nous proposons de travailler les textes depuis l’angle de la résistance ou des résistances. En effet, ce concept que nous tenterons de définir est très présent dans les textes choisis. Notre travail prendra ensuite une autre direction, celle de la mémoire, indissociable de l’évocation du passé. En somme, nos axes convergerons vers un même objectif : la création artistique est une forme de résistance qui permet de transformer une expérience traumatique et de quitter le lieu de victime. Elle participe aussi à la construction de la mémoire collective qui est la somme de toutes les histoires et de toutes les identités ayant subi le terrorisme d’Etat argentin. Toutes ces raisons font que les textes que nous nous proposons d’analyser permettent de révéler la vérité de l’Histoire et de ce fait, de participer au travail de justice entamé depuis de nombreuses années par les organisations populaires argentines, tâche qui est maintenant soutenue par le gouvernement argentinWe will analyse the first book of three argentine writers: Alicia Kozameh (Pasos bajo el agua), Sara Rosenberg (Un hilo rojo) et Nora Strejilevich ( Una sola muerte numerosa). They all suffer the political violence during the 70’s in Argentina. They all suffer prison and they wanted to testify about this experience. We first propose to speak about violent history of Argentina that conduced to the 1976 dictatorship. One of our goals is to show that fiction is a good way to write a traumatic experience like prison, torture or disappearance. However, autobiographical signs are present in these three books and we will try to determinate the literary genre of each one. We will also work on the characteristics of testimony and compare them with our writer’s works.We also want to analyse these texts from the angle of resistance and memory because we will demonstrate that artistic creation is a form of resistance that allow to transform a traumatic experience and not to be a victim. Creation also participates to the construction of collective memory that is the sum of all histories and identities that suffered state terrorism. We will show that these texts are enabling to give away the truth of history and to participate to the work began a long time ago by a lot of Argentinean organisations that claim for justice
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Jehl, Florian. "« – À la fin jaillira l’homme de pure lumière. » Pour une anthropologie d’André Frénaud." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040097.
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L’œuvre d’André Frénaud (1907-1993) se ressent profondément des convulsions de l’histoire contemporaine – essor des régimes totalitaires en Europe, Seconde Guerre mondiale, découverte des camps de la mort –, qui paraissent remettre en cause la possibilité même d’une signification de l’histoire et de l’action humaine. La pensée anthropologique exprimée dans les poèmes défend la capacité de l’homme à discerner et à faire le bien, sans rien ignorer de ses pulsions mauvaises ni de son manque à être. Les poèmes déploient une pensée du sujet originale, nourrie de philosophie heideggérienne, de mystique et surtout de l’analyse avec André Green et de la lecture de Dostoïevski : les tréfonds du moi abritent un grouillement de pulsions antagonistes. Frénaud, après Kojève, place l’homme et l’Histoire sous le signe de la négativité. L’éthique frénaldienne maintient conjointement la conscience de « notre inhabileté fatale » et la nécessité d’agir. L’existence de Frénaud atteste la même exigence : ainsi s’expliquent le ton des poèmes engagés, qui causa de vifs débats avec Aragon et Guillevic, et son attitude dans la cité, mêlée d’engagement et de retrait, comme au Comité national des écrivains (CNE) ou à la Comunità Europea degli scrittori (COMES), aux côtés de Sartre, Ponge et Tardieu. Enfin, les poèmes mettent en question les frontières et l’unité de la condition humaine. Un anthropomorphisme généralisé et une veine épique et mythique originale assurent l’unité du questionnement. Mais la condition humaine n’a pas la cohérence du concept : elle s’offre à la méditation du lecteur sous la forme d’une multitude de figures singulières qui invitent à un véritable exercice spirituelAndré Frénaud’s anthropology is profoundly impregnated with the upheavals of modern history, from the rise of totalitarian régimes throughout Europe to WWII and the discovery of death camps, all of which seem to question the remote possiblity of giving any meaning to History and human action. The anthropological thought expressed in his poems defends man’s ability to identify what is good and act accordingly, without ever overlooking any of his bad drives or his failure to truly be. His poems display an original conception of the self, inspired by Heidegger’s philosophy, mysticism, and above all by psychoanalysis with André Green and the reading of Dostoyevsky. Indeed, the depths of the self are teeming with antagonistic drives. After Kojeve, Frénaud places mankind and History under the sign of negativity. Frénaud’s ethics support both the awareness of « our fatal inability » and the need to act. Frénaud’s life proves the same dedication, and the tone of his committed poems – which caused heated debates with Aragon and Guillevic – can thus be explained, as well as his public presence, a mix of commitment and reserve, e.g. at the Comité national des Écrivains (CNE) or at Comunità Europea degli scrittori (COMES) with Sartre, Ponge, and Tardieu. Finally, his poems question the limits and unity of the human condition, while a pervasive anthropomorphism and an original streak, both epic and mythical, hold the questioning together. The human condition, however, is not as coherent as the concept. It becomes available to the reader’s meditation in the form of a multitude of characters which lead one to a spiritual exercise
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Wile, J. M. "Collaboration and resistance : literacy scholars and the development of basal reading programs /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487848531366152.
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Ball, Elaine Catherine. "Resistant spaces in Kristeva and Foucault, and their literary formation in Barnes and Lorde." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367191.
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This thesis examines, in the light of Julia Kristeva's and Michel Foucault's recent theorisations of the productions of meaning, the work of two authors, Djuna Barnes and Audre Lorde, whose writing, it argues, sets up virtual spaces which can become places of resistance to the normative functioning of a given culture. Having sketched a philosophical background to notions of extra-linguistic space through reference to Plato, Kant, Hegel and Lacan, the first chapter considers what is distinctive in the theories of space provided by Kristeva, who (in Revolution in Poetic Language) develops Plato's notion of the chora functioning at times as a synonym for "semiotic articulation". The semiotic (le semiotique) is employed by Kristeva in a very precise way. It represents a convolution of expressions: operating as a drive system within the body that affects the structure of language (understood by her as the symbolic), as a "network of marks" that breaches the established sign systems, and as a revolutionary process that is responsible for the transgression and articulation of new meanings. Because both the semiotic and the symbolic are an inseparable part of the signifying processes of language, they together act as pathways of production. Of all these various processes and relations, the most remarkable one is that these two modalities are genderised: the semiotic chora is "enigmatic and feminine, th[e] space underlying the written"; while the symbolic is a "phallic function". That being so, one of the main features of this thesis is to articulate a feminist argument in relation to Kristeva, expounding on the notion of the spatial concept of the semiotic chora as a "resistance" to phallocentrism. The second chapter sets out to explore Foucault's spatial reasoning. My argument is that space is central to Foucault's concerns. This is demonstrated in several ways. First I suggest that Foucault's interpretation of a social construction of space is such that the subject is connected to its own fashioning processes. Second, by introducing space into his documentation of history, Foucault sets in motion a dispersion of society's master narratives. In respect of this, I argue that a methodology can be formed from Foucault's spatial term "heterotopia", where contingent sites, rather than causes, shape new discourses and open up possibilities of resistance against the techniques and tactics of domination. Because (as Foucault writes in The Order of Things) the heterotopia serves to "desiccate speech, stop words in their tracks, contest the very possibility of grammar at its source", it not only produces discourse, it challenges all boundaries and remains essentially fluid, escaping the matrix of historical category. The next three chapters consider the implications of Kristeva's definition of the semiotic chora which, as briefly mentioned above, is constituted by psychosomatic drives. Hence, mood plays a central role in the semiotic chora. I construct a reading of Nightwood the main tenet of which is to examine the textual variations of Kristeva's resistant and abject `language'. Located in melancholy, incest, and discontentednesse ach trope forms individual chapterse xploring ways in which the limits of language are transgressed. Taken as a whole, the theme running through the three chapters on Nightwood is that new literary formations arise when the abject as mood becomes structured and made meaningful by the symbolic. The last two chapters examine Foucault's position in relation to Kristeva's, and argue that Kristeva's and Foucault's spatial thinking questions the appearance of finality and completeness in language. These chapters also provide a practical application of Foucault's heterotopia, in which spaces between contingent sites are shaped by Lorde. It is argued that opportunities of resistance are provided by Lorde who, naming her disparate position against the master narratives that fail to recognise her, locates her difference from them. In conclusion, a feminist reading of Kristeva's chora and Foucault's heterotopia reveals an opening to resistant spaces and new paths of production of meaning. Chora and heterotopia, then, are not merely abstract philosophical concepts, but powerful tools of reading, as is shown by their application in the interpretation of the works of Barnes and Lorde.
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Bauer, Robert B. "Resisting the Resistance: The Emancipation of Students from the Hidden Curriculum of Commodified Resistant Narratives in Young Adult Dystopian Film Through Open Pedagogical Space and Culture-Jamming." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5621.
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Young Adult Dystopian Film exercises an influence over young people of which they are not aware. As part of a structure of domination these films teach students to participate in their own oppression by the capitalist system. The film industry maintains a hidden curriculum like that utilized in school classrooms to conceal the oppression from the masses. One particularly effective means is the portrayal of resistance against oppression in the narratives of the YA Dystopian Film. Young people are drawn to that narrative and end up supporting the structure of domination financially and ideologically. Modes of resistance to this oppression can be found in Media Literacy Education and Public Pedagogy (e.g. culture-jamming). Teachers can incorporate Media Literacy and culture–jamming into a form of radical pedagogy to emancipate students from that oppressive relationship.This thesis investigates the usage of this radical pedagogy though an action research project in a high school drama class in the intermountain west. The students learned the theories, critically reflected on the situation, and created a live culture-jamming performance. The results of the action research show the affordances and limitations of this approach and offer suggestions for instigating its usage by media literacy educators.
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Lusher, Katelyn J. "Recognizing Student Emotion: Resistance and Pathos in the Composition Classroom." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492017509722133.
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Hamam, Kinana. "Confining spaces, resistant subjectivities : toward a metachronous discourse of literary mapping and transformation in postcolonial women's writing." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594642.
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This thesis takes as its starting point Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s argument that it is the way in which “Third World” women’s narratives are read and understood that is crucial, together with the need to locate them contextually. My original contribution to knowledge is to develop a deconstructive, cultural analysis through the re–reading of a selection of core postcolonial women’s texts written in former colonial societies, at a time prior to the full emergence of postcolonialism as a set of theoretical concepts and before feminism had developed its major contribution to academic scholarship. These theories are examined in the first three chapters of the thesis. This re–reading is of texts which arguably prefigured in many ways some of the main debates later articulated in postcolonial feminist criticism, thus (re–)interpreting them through a contemporary, critical lens. The objective of the textual analysis, among other things, is to underline the function of literary mapping in postcolonial women’s writing and the ways in which this resonates with key issues in postcolonial feminist studies. For example, the texts subvert the figure of the “universal woman” challenged by several critics, undermine images of women’s sameness, and transform marginalising spaces such as prison and home into sites of possible resistance. Overall, the main contribution of this thesis is twofold. Firstly, the interpretation of postcolonial women’s writing as a metachronous discourse of literary mapping in order to reclaim rather than deny the difference and complexity inherent in women’s texts and identities. This lends a wider dimension to the literary representations of women and justifies my attempt to order the texts as following an inverted rite of passage. Secondly, this thesis demonstrates that postcolonial women’s writing constitutes a discourse of literary activism and a cultural archive of prismatic female narratives which demands a responsive reading of the texts. This is to form a collective, critical consciousness from which, it is hoped, present and future communities of women can learn to change their lives.
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Bohlin, Gustav. "Evolving germs – Antibiotic resistance and natural selection in education and public communication." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-138657.
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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics threatens modern healthcare on a global scale. Several actors in society, including the general public, must become more involved if this development is to be countered. The conveyance of relevant information provided through education and media reports is therefore of high concern. Antibiotic resistance evolves through the mechanisms of natural selection; in this way, a sound understanding of these mechanisms underlies explanations of causes and the development of effective risk-reduction measures. In addition to natural selection functioning as an explanatory framework to antibiotic resistance, bacterial resistance as a context seems to possess a number of qualities that make it suitable for teaching natural selection – a subject that has been proven notoriously hard to teach and learn. A recently suggested approach for learning natural selection involves so-called threshold concepts, which encompass abstract and integrative ideas. The threshold concepts associated with natural selection include, among others, the notions of randomness as well as vast spatial and temporal scales. Illustrating complex relationships between concepts on different levels of organization is one, of several, areas where visualizations are efficient. Given the often-imperceptible nature of threshold concepts as well as the fact that natural selection processes occur on different organizational levels, visual accounts of natural selection have many potential benefits for learning. Against this background, the present dissertation explores information conveyed to the public regarding antibiotic resistance and natural selection, as well as investigates how these topics are presented together, by scrutinizing media including news reports, websites, educational textbooks and online videos. The principal method employed in the media studies was content analysis, which was complemented with various other analytical procedures. Moreover, a classroom study was performed, in which novice pupils worked with a series of animations explaining the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Data from individual written assignments, group questions and video-recorded discussions were collected and analyzed to empirically explore the potential of antibiotic resistance as a context for learning about evolution through natural selection. Among the findings are that certain information, that is crucial for the public to know, about antibiotic resistance was conveyed to a low extent through wide-reaching news reporting. Moreover, explanations based on natural selection were rarely included in accounts of antibiotic resistance in any of the examined media. Thus, it is highly likely that a large proportion of the population is never exposed to explanations for resistance development during education or through newspapers. Furthermore, the few examples that were encountered in newspapers or textbooks were hardly ever visualized, but presented only in textual form. With regard to videos purporting to explain natural selection, it was found that a majority lacked accounts of central key concepts. Additionally, explanations of how variation originates on the DNA-level were especially scarce. These and other findings coming from the content analyses are discussed through the lens of scientific literacy and could be used to inform and strengthen teaching and scientific curricula with regards to both antibiotic resistance and evolution. Furthermore, several factors of interest for using antibiotic resistance in the teaching of evolution were identified from the classroom study. These involve, among others, how learners’ perception of threshold concepts such as randomness and levels of organization in space and time are affected by the bacterial context
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Kiess, Kolter. "Rhizomatic Resistance: A Pedagogy for Social Transformation." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1248147584.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 26, 2010). Advisor: Masood Raja. Keywords: Rhizomatic; resistance; social transformation; pedagogy; radical; education; literature. Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-161).
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Foster, Paula L. "The buzzing of the worker bees : hidden transcripts of literate resistance to employee communications in a software corporation /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1287402692.
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Sweeney, Philip John. "Taiwanese Language Medical School Curriculum: A Case Study of Symbolic Resistance Through The Promotion of Alternative Literacy and Language Domain Norms." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/938.
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In contemporary Taiwan, Mandarin language proficiency and literacy in Han characters are not only key skills needed for success in academic institutions and employment markets, but they also carry meaning as symbolic markers of national and supranational Chinese identity. This study examines how Taiwanese-language medical studies curriculum planners are promoting alternative linguistic practices as a means of resisting the influence of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan and striving to replace it with a rival Taiwanese nationalism. I conducted research for this study during the 2010-2011 school year in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I collected data for this study by engaging in participant observation research at Taiwanese-language curriculum-editing meetings; auditing Taiwanese-language courses at Kaohsiung Medical University; and conducting interviews with both curriculum planners and students at KMU. The role of official languages, literacy, and historical narratives are examined as symbolic components of a Chinese nationalist hegemony, which was constructed through the policies of the Kuomintang's Republic of China administration in post-war Taiwan. This study also examines the relationship between occupation, language skills, and national identification in the context of the contemporary Greater China regional economy. The curriculum planners who are the subjects of this study are employed in the field of medical care, where Taiwanese language skills are valued resources for communicating with patients from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. In addition, medical doctors have historically been vocal opponents of the Kuomintang administration's pro-Chinese nationalist policies. Therefore, this case study illustrates how the curriculum planners' occupations and language practices are utilized as resources in their efforts to foster Taiwanese autonomy in the Greater China region. This study also examines current limits to the effectiveness of language preservation and revitalization policies in Taiwan due to the importance of Mandarin-language literacy in the majority of high-status occupations in Greater China and to changing conceptions of the relationship between language practice and national identity. This study contributes to the fields of linguistic anthropology and Asian studies by examining relationships between nationalism, employment, language practice, and literacy in the context of Taiwan's ambiguous status as a national entity. It also analyzes ways in which language practices and literacy forms are created and modified as strategic acts to both identify people with competing nationalisms and allow them access to employment opportunities in the context of shifting administrative and economic power structures in the Greater China region.
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SILVA, NETO Antonio Artequilino da. "As práticas e representações de leitura dos detentos alfabetizadores e alfabetizados do Complexo Prisional de Aparecida de Goiânia." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2009. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2076.
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Previous issue date: 2009-08-19This present dissertation related to the line of research Teaching Staff Formation and Professionalization analyzes the practices and the representations of those teachers and learners prisoners in the Prison Complex of the Aparecida de Goiânia, in a context which the population of the prison is involved and it is constituted majority by stigmatized individuals according to a society that in a paradox way, at the same time, oppresses and fears them. Most of them are excluded and marginalized, without schooling and come from poor and unprotected social conditions. The research has as a goal to analyze the speech of those prisoners that have participated of a process of literacy inside the Prison Complex of the Aparecida de Goiânia, in a period of time from July 2007 to June 2008, the process of understanding their practices and their representations of reading, it was considered as a privileged source the proper speech of the teachers and learners inside the carcere environment. It is a qualitative research wich the methodology and the theory content are based on the analyze of the discursive representations from studies by Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Foucault, Goffman, Bourdieu, Certeau, Freire and Chartier, among many others authors who also helped to base scientifically the results and the evidences carried out along this research. The data collected in order to make the analyze, took place inside the Prison Complex of the Aparecida de Goiania, and it includes the Provisional Prison House (Casa de Prisão Provisória) and the Prison Coronel Odenir Guimarães (Penitenciária Odenir Guimarães) located in the city of Aparecida de Goiania, in the state of Goias, they were collected from experiences lived along and after the time when those literacy tasks were happening. After selecting a sample for the qualitative research, semi structured interviews were carried out and recorded with sixteen prisoners, eight of them performed as teachers and eight were considered learners. The analyze of the practices and representations of young and adult reading, deprived of freedom pointed out that even under the bad conditions that the research was carried out, it was possible to teach reading and writing 64% of this group of prisoners, and also they still have a great search through the world of reading by keeping themselves studying.The analyses has also demonstrated that the bad and precarious conditions of the carcere interferes in the process of teaching and learning, as a result the readers were banned of the activity of reading. In this sense, the research points out the need of encouragement of habits of reading in a proper environment, formal and informal, as a component of a public policy aimed to young and adults education inside prison sites, not only in Aparecida de Goiânia, as well as in any other city in Brazil
A presente dissertação, ligada à linha de pesquisa Formação e Profissionalização Docente , analisa as práticas e representações de leitura dos detentos alfabetizadores e alfabetizados do Complexo Prisional de Aparecida de Goiânia, dentro de um contexto que envolve uma população carcerária constituída em sua maioria por sujeitos estigmatizados pela sociedade que, paradoxalmente, os oprime e se sente por eles atemorizada. São indivíduos majoritariamente excluídos, marginalizados, pouco escolarizados e socialmente desfavorecidos. A pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o discurso dos detentos que participaram de um processo de alfabetização dentro do Complexo Prisional de Aparecida de Goiânia, no período de julho de 2007 a junho de 2008, para compreender as suas práticas e representações de leitura, tendo como fontes privilegiadas a própria fala dos alfabetizadores e alfabetizados no ambiente do cárcere. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa em que a metodologia e o aporte teórico estão fundamentados na análise das representações discursivas a partir dos estudos de Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Foucault, Goffman, Bourdieu, Certeau, Freire e Chartier, dentre diversos outros autores que também ajudaram a alicerçar cientificamente as constatações feitas ao longo desta pesquisa. A coleta dos dados para análise foi realizada no interior do Complexo Prisional que abrange a Casa de Prisão Provisória (CPP) e a Penitenciária Cel. Odenir Guimarães (POG), localizados no município de Aparecida de Goiânia, Estado de Goiás, a partir de experiências vividas durante e após o referido período em que aconteceram os trabalhos de alfabetização. Após a seleção de amostra para a pesquisa foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas gravadas com dezesseis detentos, dos quais oito atuaram como alfabetizadores e oito foram considerados alfabetizados. A análise das práticas e representações de leitura dos jovens e adultos em regime de privação da liberdade demonstrou que, mesmo nas condições de precariedade em que foi realizado o trabalho de alfabetização, foi possível alfabetizar 64% desse grupo de detentos que ainda tem muito a buscar no mundo da leitura, através da continuidade dos seus estudos. A análise demonstrou ainda que as condições precárias e deficientes do presídio interferem no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, resultando na interdição das leituras e dos leitores. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa ressalta a necessidade do incentivo às práticas de leitura em ambientes adequados, formais ou informais, como componente de uma política pública de Educação de Jovens e Adultos dentro dos espaços prisionais existentes não só em Aparecida de Goiânia, como também em outras cidades do Brasil
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Maraj, Louis Maurice. "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Rhetorical Ecologies at an Historically White Institution." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524145658002913.
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Updike, Ann Sutton. "Artful Literacies: Transculturation and Resistance in the Ledger Drawings of Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Prisoners at Fort Marion." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1123011759.
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Soroko, Agata. "The Politics of Teaching Financial Literacy Education: A Case Study of Critical High School Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices in Ontario and Québec." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42779.
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Teachers’ voices have been largely excluded from the academic and political debates regarding the aims and merits of financial literacy education. Through case study research, this project examined the beliefs, practices, and lives of 10 teachers in Québec and Ontario who teach financial literacy at the intermediate and senior levels. Specifically, the teachers in this study report taking a critical approach to financial literacy education–a subject that tends to be framed in simplistic and individualistic terms as mere personal financial decision-making. In an analysis of in-depth interviews and deliberative inquiry focus groups with self-identifying critical teachers and investigation into various documentary sources, I detail the ways in some of these teachers adhere to mainstream understandings of financial literacy education while others work to reframe it towards more critical and economically just ends. This research results in the development of a framework for critical economic literacy education, documenting the intellectually demanding set of skills, knowledge, and pedagogical strategies a critical economic literacy requires of students and teachers. Findings also bring forth distinctions in teachers’ ideas about criticality, revealing that teachers navigate between common, critical, and transformative sense orientations in sophisticated ways to achieve their pedagogical aims. Last, I investigate how criticality emerges in teachers, narrating the ways in which their personal biographies, professional and political activities, and intellectual pursuits inform their critical teaching in relation to financial literacy. This case study is further contextualized by the current political moment in which escalating economic inequality and the widening racial wealth gap, the current financial crisis, impending climate disasters, and antidemocratic politics worldwide convey a sense of urgency and a timely relevance for a more critical and transformative financial literacy education.
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Azevedo, Felipe Vigneron. "A resistência na literatura em tempos de globalização." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8684.
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Este trabalho pretende investigar as relações existentes entre o mercado, a globalização, a chamada pós-modernidade e a literatura. Para tanto, inicialmente delineia-se um breve panorama da literatura brasileira contemporânea, com a finalidade de expor uma parte do que ora se produz em termos de crítica e de ficção. Em seguida, trata-se do controverso conceito de pós-modernidade, com atenção especial às divergências terminológicas que vem suscitando, principal tópico objeto das considerações finais. Analisa-se depois o fenômeno da globalização, particularmente no que afeta a formação de novas subjetividades, ponderando-se também seu impacto na conceituação dos valores em geral e dos valores estéticos em particular. Por fim, passa-se ao conceito de resistência, com base em elementos teóricos extraídos de Schiller (o papel do artista), Agambem (a questão do contemporâneo) e Alfredo Bosi (relações entre narrativa e resistência), fechando-se o foco na produção literária, mediante análise sucinta da narrativa Eles eram muitos cavalos, de Luiz RuffatoThis dissertation aims at investigating the relationship between the market, the globalization, the so-called Postmodernity and literature. First, for this purpose, a brief view of contemporary Brazilian literature is outlined, in order to present part of what is currently produced in terms of criticism and fiction. Then, the controverted concept of Postmodernity is analysed, focusing specially on the terminological differences that have been raised, which is the main object of the final considerations. So, the phenomenon of globalization is analyzed, especially in what it concerns the constitution of new subjectivities, as well as in its impact on the conception of values in general and aesthetic values in particular. This work also deals with the concept of resistance, based on theoretical elements drawn from Schiller (the role of the artist), Agambem (the issue of contemporary) and Alfredo Bosi (relationship between narrative and resistance), focusing on the literary production, by means of a brief analysis of Luiz Ruffatos narrative There were many horses
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Coimbra, Cláudia Cristina. "Poesia e resistência: estilhaços de Chacal." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14681.
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This dissertation proposes to analyze Belvedere, poetic anthology of Chacal. The objectives are to show in the perspective taken by I lyrical, poetic aspects of resistance in the lyricism of Chacal, as well as reflect on the poetic devices of this resistance. To achieve these objectives, was selected the following issue: how the Chacal's poetry reveals production demonstrating the strength of his generation? How is the relationship between modernism of 22 and the so-called "marginal poetry" of the poetry of Chacal? For treatment of the problem, we select the hypoteses -as resistance poetry the poetic chacaliana reflect the angustias and the wishes of his generation; the poetic chacaliana, to engage in dialogue with the modernism of 22 objective, a relationship between literature and life and points to a lyric poetic. The theoretical foundation about the resistance relies on the conceptions of Alfredo Bosi, the critical concepts in, Antonio Candido, Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda and Hugo Friedrich. Among the conclusions, emerge: the poetry chacaliana acts as resistance to repressive society and homogenizing, acting as front this resistance can retrieve; the marks of modernism of 22 incorporate his poems dose of lyricism
Esta dissertação se propõe a analisar Belvedere, antologia poética de Chacal. Tem como objetivos evidenciar, na perspectiva assumida pelo eu lírico, aspectos de resistência poética no lirismo de Chacal, assim como refletir sobre os recursos poéticos dessa resistência. Para atingir tais objetivos selecionou-se o seguinte problema: Como a poesia de Chacal revela uma produção que evidencia a resistência de sua geração? Como se reveste a relação entre modernismo de 22 e o denominado caráter marginal da poesia de Chacal? Para tratamento do problema, selecionou-se as hipóteses: como poesia de resistência, a poesia chacaliana reflete as angústias e os desejos de sua geração; ao empreender diálogo com o modernismo de 22, objetiva uma relação entre literatura e vida e aponta para uma poética lírica. A fundamentação teórica acerca da resistência se apóia nas concepções de Alfredo Bosi, os conceitos críticos em textos de Antonio Candido, Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda e Hugo Friedrich. Entre as conclusões, ressaltam-se: a poesia chacaliana atua como resistência à sociedade repressiva e homogeneizante, como frente de atuação dessa resistência recupera as marcas do modernismo de 22 e incorpora em seus poemas certa dose de lirismo
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Otero, Luque Frank. "Del etnovaivén al etnobúmeran: identidad cultural, estrategias de resistencia e impronta literaria del subalterno en el Perú." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3478.
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In my dissertation, I explore social strategies that Peruvian subalterns have developed to survive against racism and discrimination. I have identified and coined one of these strategies as etnovaivén (ethno-sway), which I define as a pendulum-like approach that allows subalterns to swing/sway from blanqueamiento to cholificación, and vice versa. In this context, blanqueamiento (whitening) mainly refers to the subaltern's willingness and efforts to assimilate the white culture in order achieve upward social mobility, whereas cholificación depicts the reluctance of Indian and mestizo subalterns to assimilate the cultural norms of the dominant group in certain circumstances, while asserting their own ethnic identity. Conversely, etnobúmeran (ethno-boomerang) is a self-inflicted boycott to one’s own ethnic groups. I claim that Peruvian subalterns shape their cultural singularity between ethno-sway and ethno-boomerang.
My research has examined these social phenomena as reflected in the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios reales (1609), Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Aves sin nido (1889), and Enrique López Albújar’s Matalaché (1928). In addition, in La ciudad y los perros (1963) by Mario Vargas Llosa, Montacerdos (1981) by Cronwell Jara, La violencia del tiempo (1991) by Miguel Gutiérrez, and Hienas en la niebla (2010) by Juan Morillo, I have analyzed the historical connection between miscegenation, discrimination, inequality and violence, which progressively led to the Internal Conflict (1980-2000), the goriest and longest war in Peru’s republican history that resulted in the assassination of approximately 70 000 persons, most of them Quechua-speaking, ordinary civilians. Highlanders fleeing from terrorism during those two decades account for the depopulation of over 2/3 of the Andean region.
This study is both relevant and pertinent because it intersects with contemporary debates about national identity formation, and because it provides a means to understand the aftermath of political violence, a phenomenon that periodically threatens the lives of Peruvians. My work contests the traditional thesis of racial and cultural miscegenation as the foundation of Peruvian national identity (the "melting pot" metaphor), which has proven to be ineffective. Instead, I propose a more inclusive identity concept that celebrates cultural diversity and accepts the coexistence of multiple ethnic and cultural groups within the confines of the nation.
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Helmbrecht, Brenda M. "A Mediatic Pedagogy: Rhetoricizing Images within Composition Curriculum." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1089742902.
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Silva, Denivaldo Matos Moreira Almeida e. "A escrita negra de Solano Trindade: movimentos de resistência e modos de identidade da consciência poética." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14728.
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This dissertation presents the contributions of poetry Solano Trindade for black literature, as well as the important presence of personal and collective memory of the black rhythm in the body of his poetry. Reading focuses on surveying the characteristics of folk art (music, dance, folk rhythms and cultural), and especially the ways identifiers word in our idealized black Brazilian land, under the Marxist style and unique aesthetic of the poet. It also seeks to investigate the relationship between the poetics of everyday Solano Trindade and african- Brazilian culture, with the backdrop of the myth and meaning. The main objective is to describe how is the search for identity african-Brazilian and identifying ways manifest in resistance movements in the composition of poetry Solano Trindade, the crossing of black literature with African myth. The hypothesis of the research confirms that the myth is the foundation for the reconstruction of black identity mediated representation, once freed from the laws of metaphysical ontology. As a result, it is evident the desubjectivation inaugurated by the poetic self awareness of the world incorporated into the idea of aesthetic in black voice of the poet Solano Trindade
Esta dissertação apresenta as contribuições da obra poética de Solano Trindade para a literatura negra, bem como a importante presença da memória pessoal e coletiva do negro na ritmicidade do corpo de sua poesia. A leitura concentra-se no levantamento das características da arte popular (música, dança, ritmos folclóricos e culturais) e, sobretudo dos modos identificadores da palavra idealizada do negro em nossa terra brasileira, sob o estilo marxista e estético único do poeta. Procura, também, verificar a relação entre a arte poética de Solano Trindade e o cotidiano cultural afro-brasileiro, tendo como pano de fundo o mito e o significado. O objetivo central é descrever como se processa a busca de identidade afro-brasileira e dos modos manifestos nos movimentos de resistência na composição da poesia de Solano Trindade, no entrecruzamento da literatura negra com o mito africano. A hipótese da pesquisa atesta que o mito é fundamento de reconstrução da identidade negra mediada pela representação, uma vez liberta das leis da ontologia metafísica. Como resultado, evidencia-se a dessubjetivação do eu poético inaugurada pela consciência de mundo incorporada à ideia do pensamento estético na voz negra da poesia trindadiana
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Araújo, Francisco de Sousa. "Resistência e utopia: a arte cartográfica de Antônio Vieira." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14695.
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This study aims to examine some aspects of the Writing Letters Art of Antonio Vieira. The main focus of this research includes Vieira s thoughts, related to Poetic Resistance and Utopia. Furthermore, we consider some of his biggest questions and cartographic influences of his authorial outsiderismo with readers, in the context of seventeenth-century baroque. The main body of research is the set of Vieira s letters, called Cartas do Brasil, as a Rhetoric Map in development, as a continuous synthesis of its official correspondence with royalty, colonial society and the Company of Jesus, which was admitted member. Therefore, it is from this corpus that we can verify their theories, perspectives, and the very root of Brazilian Literature Information. The main target of this dissertation is to understand his ideas, resistances and utopias, or the reasons that make Padre Vieira, prefer a libertarian position to the pacific Ignatian Letter Writing Pact. These and other questions are based on the theoretical line of Alfredo Bosi (the Resistance) and Thomas Moore (as the universal basis of Utopia). This research finds that the key to understanding the Vieira s great poetic strength is his outsiderism, alma-mater of his rhetorical strategies
Este estudo pretende analisar alguns aspectos da Arte Epistolar de Antônio Vieira. O foco principal da pesquisa contempla suas visadas, relacionadas à Resistência Poética e à Utopia. Além disso, consideram-se alguns dos seus maiores questionamentos cartográficos e as influências do seu outsiderismo autoral junto aos leitores, sob o contexto barroco-seiscentista. O corpus principal da pesquisa consiste no conjunto de missivas vieirianas, denominadas Cartas do Brasil, na qualidade de Mapa Retórico em desenvolvimento, síntese de suas contínuas correspondências oficiais com a realeza, a sociedade colonial e a própria Companhia de Jesus, da qual era membro confesso. Logo, é a partir desse corpus que se pode verificar suas teses, perspectivas e a própria raiz da Literatura de Informação brasileira. A principal visada é entender suas teses, resistências e utopias, ou quais as razões que tornaram Padre Vieira um escritor de perspectiva utopista, preferindo o fazer inconformista e libertário ao pacífico Pacto Epistolar inaciano. Essas e outras questões se fundamentam na linha teórica de Alfredo Bosi (quanto à Resistência) e de Thomas More (quanto à base universal da Utopia). A pesquisa considera que a chave para a compreensão da grande resistência poética vieiriana é o outsiderismo, alma-mater de seu fazer-retórico
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Broughton, Katherine. "Cuentos de resistencia y supervivencia: Revitalizando la cultura maya a traves del arte publico en Guatemala." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556561584195135.
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Fails, Simone S. G. C. "Algumas Teorias da Tradução e Suas Implicações na Tradução do Conto "Mammon and the Archer" de O. Henry." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3871.
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This paper contains an overview of some of the main 20th Century tendencies in translation theory. It focus especially on matters of equivalence, dynamic equivalence, formal equivalence, skopos, abusive fidelity and foreignizing translation or resistant translation and their implications for actual translations. This paper also includes translations prepared according to the principles of abusive fidelity, equivalence and dynamic equivalence, which are compared and commented.
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Huang, Su-hsin, and 黃素馨. "Ecofeminism and Literary Resistance in a Meat-Centric World." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59331792806377545216.
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Meat plays an important role in our daily lives. The global demand for meat products has resulted in various forms of violence, discrimination, and environmental degradation. This dissertation discusses how Ang Li, Ruth Ozeki, Upton Sinclair, and Margret Atwood shed light on the meat industry’s exploitative and patriarchal practices in their literary works, Shafu (The Butcher’s Wife), My Year of Meats, The Jungle, and Oryx and Crake and how these literary works reveal the intersectionality of oppression and reinforcement of status hierarchy in a meat-centric world. Ecofeminism combines feminism and ecology, with the aim of improving environmental sustainability and achieving equal rights for all. Following Carol J. Adams’ “absent referent” and Greta Gaard’s “vegetarian ecofeminism,” this dissertation argues that the alienation and degradation of oppressed groups through language in meat-centric world exacerbates discrimination and victimizes the oppressed. Language has been used as a tool of power and social control by the ruling class, with the effect of influencing society’s attitudes and behaviors towards women and “Others,” and ensuring that they remain in socially, economically, and politically inferior positions. Ecofeminist skepticism about language helps language-users identify the racism, sexism, and speciesism present in our everyday vocabulary, and change our unconscious adherence to cultural and political biases. This dissertation examines the effects of language on various cultures in both Eastern and Western contexts and how carniculture, patriarchal power and global capitalism encourage violence and influences how people eat, act, think, and speak. Chapter One presents how the discrimination in our language helps strengthen patriarchal ideology and meat-centric culture. Meat / patriarchy language coerces people into supporting the system of oppression and become indifferent to other race, class, gender, or species’ suffering. Chapter Two discusses the incorporation of pork, pig offal, and pig parts into derogatory Taiwanese language renders meat consumption a habit and all forms of oppression routine. The use of meat / patriarchal language helps to reinforce social hierarchies of traditional Taiwan and contributes to collective apathy and discrimination against women, children, and animals. Chapter Three focuses on how a female body is used as a social, political, or economic tool. Chapter Four highlights violence against women and animals is often shrouded in many cultures under the guise of art or “the loving act.” The meat-centric culture encourages us to view women and animals’ bodies as commodities that can be traded and bought for pleasure, and as a result, we lose our ability to see the inequality that permeates our society. Chapter Five explores the effects of fast food and consumerism on local and global agriculture, the prevalence of meat fraud, and the environment, and how the working class struggles within the context of slaughterhouses and meat production plants. Through the exploration of these four literary works, this dissertation expects to provide a broad ethical response to environmental and all forms of violence associated with meat production and consumption.
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Naidoo, Salachi. "Gender violence and resistance : representation of women's agency in selected literary works by Zimbabwean female writers." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22609.
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The aim of this study is to offer a critical analysis of representations of gender violence and resistance to such violence in selected novels by Zimbabwean women writers. A great deal of scholarship on Zimbabwean women writers focuses on well-known authors such as Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga. Even here, the critical emphasis tends to be on the representation of women’s suffering under patriarchy and their status as victims. Although the exposure of gendered suffering is important, these studies often fail to take into consideration the female characters’ agency and survival strategies, including how they go about rebuilding lives and identities in the aftermath of violence. This thesis argues that the fictional texts of other, lesser known Zimbabwean authors are similarly worthy of critical scrutiny, yielding as they can important insights into female characters’ resistance to gender violence. The current study analyses Zimbabwean women writers’ literary contributions to discourses on gender-based violence and explores how female characters have embraced the concept of agency to recreate their identities and to introduce a new gender ethos into the contexts of lives that are often shaped by severe restrictions and oppression. Violence is a phenomenon that is always shaped by specific cultural, ideological and socio-economic forces. As the study shows, characters’ identities are constituted by the complex intersections of a number of markers of difference, including their gender, race and class. This study thus regards identity as intersectional and takes all these factors into consideration in its analysis of the representations of violence and resistance in the selected texts. The study also aims to determine whether these literary representations offer any solutions to the difficulties of characters affected by or living with violence. The works critiqued are Lillian Masitera’s The Trail (2000), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006), Virginia Phiri’s Highway Queen (2010) and Violet Masilo’s The African Tea Cosy (2010).English Studies
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Deysel, Jurgens Johannes Human. "The subversive Afrikaner : an exploration into the subversive stance of the little magazine Stet (1982–1991)." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28538.
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This study explores the subversive stance taken by the Afrikaans little magazine Stet (1982–1991) against the then current ideologies of Afrikaansness, apartheid, and censorship in South Africa during the 1980s. A narrative exploration of the context and circumstances from which the publication emerged, provides a base from which the visualisation of the subversive stance on the covers of Stet is semiotically analysed. The oppositional and alternative nature of the covers of Stet is discussed from within the Barthesian paradigm of myth construction and the discipline of social semiotics.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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Durand, Félix. "La mort sera notre dernière fraude, suivi de Fouler le monde : expérience de la ville et résistance du flâneur dans Territoires fétiches de Marcel Labine." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20673.
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Lemieux, Catherine. "Vanités et résistances de la pensée critique. Du kitsch philosophique dans "Maîtres anciens" de Thomas Bernhard." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9071.
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Ce mémoire interroge le rapport développé dans Maîtres anciens de Thomas Bernhard entre l’écriture littéraire, la pensée philosophique et le kitsch. Au-delà de la supposition surprenante que la philosophie puisse être affaire de goût, de séduction et de sentiments, l’analyse de la notion de kitsch philosophique permet d’envisager le discours critique comme une arme à double tranchant qui promet autant l’émancipation que l’autoaliénation du Kitschmensch pensant. C’est à travers la figure de Reger, protagoniste de la comédie orchestrée par Bernhard, que s’incarne cette perspective critique paradoxale qui témoigne de problèmes de légitimation et d’un scepticisme croissant face aux promesses des grands récits émancipateurs.
À l’examen de cette mise en scène de la philosophie, apparaît une manière proprement littéraire de « penser la pensée ». Ce mémoire veut rendre compte de ce en quoi la pensée littéraire se distingue de l’essai philosophique mais aussi de tout autre métadiscours. La littérature, car elle montre plus qu’elle n’affirme, conséquemment permet de comprendre les points de contact et de tension entre la philosophie et le kitsch, entre la culture et la barbarie, d’une manière toute particulière. C’est cette particularité qui fait l’objet de cette étude et qui est considérée comme une forme de résistance à la commodification, la vanité, la domestication, bref la kitschification de la pensée critique.In critically examining Thomas Bernhard’s Old Masters, this essay questions the relations between literary writing, philosophical thought and kitsch. Beyond the surprising assumption that philosophy might also be a matter of taste, seduction and sentiments, analyzing the notion of philosophical kitsch allows for consideration of critical discourse as a double-edged sword that promises not only the emancipation but also the autoalienation of the thinking Kitschmensch. The figure of Reger, the principal character in Bernhard’s orchestrated comedy, embodies this paradoxical critical perspective. This paradox of kitsch critical thought attests to problems of legitimation that arise alongside a growing scepticism towards the claims of grand emancipatory narratives. This examination of philosophy’s mise en scène in the novel allows for perceiving a specifically literary mode of thinking. This essay suggests that literary thinking differs from philosophical exposition as well as from metadiscourse generally. Literature, because it shows more than it affirms, therefore allows for understanding in a very specific manner the similarities and tensions between philosophy and kitsch, culture and barbarism. In sum, this study focuses in this literary specificity that comes to appear as a form of resistance to commodification, vanity, domestication – in short, to the kitschification of critical thought.
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Henzi, Sarah. "Inventing interventions : strategies of reappropriation in Native American and First Nations literatures." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/6980.
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Ma thèse de doctorat, intitulée Inventing Interventions: Strategies of Reappropriation in Native and First Nations Literatures traite du sujet de la réappropriation de la langue anglaise et de la langue française dans les littératures autochtones du Canada et des États-Unis, en tant que stratégie d’intervention de re-narration et de récupération. De fait, mon projet fait abstraction, autant que possible, des frontières nationales et linguistiques, vu que celles-ci sont essentiellement des constructions culturelles et coloniales. Ainsi, l’acte de réappropriation de la langue coloniale implique non seulement la maîtrise de base de cette dernière à des fins de communication, cela devient un moyen envers une fin : au lieu d’être possédés par la langue, les auteurs sur lesquels je me penche ici possèdent à présent cette dernière, et n’y sont plus soumis. Les tensions qui résultent d’un tel processus sont le produit d’une transition violente imposée et expérimentale d’une réalité culturelle à une autre, qui, pour plusieurs, n’a pas réussie et s’est, au contraire, effritée sur elle-même. Je soutiens donc que les auteurs autochtones ont créé un moyen à travers l’expression artistique et politique de répondre (dans le sens de « write back ») à l’oppression et l’injustice. À travers l’analyse d’oeuvres contemporaines écrites en anglais ou en français, que ce soit de la fiction, de l’autobiographie, de la poésie, du théâtre, de l’histoire ou du politique, ma recherche se structure autour de quatre concepts spécifiques : la langue, la
résistance, la mémoire, et le lieu. J’examine comment ces concepts sont mis en voix, et comment ils sont interdépendants et s’affectent à l’intérieur du discours particulier issu des littératures autochtones et des différentes stratégies d’intervention (telles la redéfinition ou
l’invention) et du mélange de différentes formules littéraires.My doctoral thesis, entitled Inventing Interventions: Strategies of Reappropriation in Native and First Nations Literatures, explores the reappropriation of the English and French languages, as a strategy for retelling and reclaiming hi/stories of the Aboriginal people of Canada and the United States. In effect, my project disregards national and linguistic borders since these are, in essence, cultural and colonial constructs. To reappropriate the colonial language, then, entails not only its mastery as a means for basic communication, but claims it as a means to an end: instead of being owned by and subject to the language, it is now these authors who own the language. The resulting tensions of this process are the product of the imposed and tentative violent transition from one cultural realm to another, which, for many, never succeeded to its fullest, but rather crumbled back upon itself: for First Nations and Native American authors, I argue, creating means through art and politics to “write back” against oppression and injustice. My thesis, an examination of contemporary fictional, autobiographical, historical and political, prosaic and poetic works written in French and English, is structured along the analysis of specific keywords – language, resistance, memory and place. I explore how these concepts are voiced, and how they are not only inter-related but affect each other within the particular discursive framework of Indigenous writing, set in motion by different strategies of intervention (redefinition, invention) and the mixing of different literary devices.
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Malavoy-Racine, Tristan. "Un endroit familier ; suivi de Le problème de la mémoire dans le portrait littéraire." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25452.
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Mémoire en recherche-créationUn endroit familier est composé de trois portraits littéraires. L’auteur y met en relief des moments marquants de la vie de trois membres de sa famille : son grand-père maternel, qui a participé activement à un réseau de radio clandestine dans la France occupée, dans les années 1940; sa grand-mère paternelle, qui a élevé quatorze enfants à Saint-Joachim-de-Montmorency, et dont la longue vie embrasse à elle seule tout un pan de la ruralité québécoise du siècle dernier; puis son arrière-grand-mère maternelle, dont le mari est mort dans les tranchées de Champagne, durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Avec en arrière-plan le vingtième siècle, ses enthousiasmes et ses dérives, cette galerie de portraits en comprend un autre, plus discret, fragmenté, celui de l’auteur qui cherche à mieux comprendre d’où il vient. À la recherche de l’autre, ne sommes-nous pas toujours un peu à la recherche de nous-mêmes ? L’essai qui suit, intitulé Le problème de la mémoire dans le portrait littéraire, aborde le recours aux sources documentaires qu’exige le genre, de même que l’incidence des intentions de l’auteur sur la façon dont les sources seront exploitées. Il est ensuite question du degré d’exclusivité de la mémoire individuelle et de ce qu’implique l’idée, nourrie par la théorie de la postmémoire, notamment, d’une mémoire des traumas où le souvenir de l’un devient le souvenir de l’autre. L’essai se referme sur une réflexion portant sur le pouvoir qu’a la littérature de faire sortir de l’ombre, avec leurs énigmes non résolues, celles et ceux qui nous ont précédés. Et s’il y avait d’abord, au coeur d’une telle démarche d’écriture, le besoin de mieux vivre avec ses morts ?
Un endroit familier is made up of three literary portraits. The author highlights significant moments in the life of three members of his family : his maternal grandfather, who actively participated in an underground radio network in occupied France, in the 1940s; his paternal grandmother, who raised fourteen children in Saint-Joachim-de-Montmorency, and whose long life alone encompasses a vast segment of Quebec rurality of the last century; finally, there will be his maternal great-grandmother, whose husband died in the trenches of Champagne, during the First World War. Against the backdrop of the twentieth century’s enthusiasms and excesses, this gallery of portraits includes as well the more discreet, fragmented image of the author who seeks to better understand where he comes from. Looking for the other, aren't we always looking a little for ourselves ? The following essay, Le problème de la mémoire dans le portrait littéraire, discusses the use of documentary sources required by the genre, as well as the impact of the author's intentions on how those sources will be exploited. Then we will explore the degree of exclusivity of individual memory and the idea, drawn from the theory of postmemory, in particular, of a memory of traumas in which one’s memory becomes that of another. The essay ends with a reflection on the power of literature to bring out of the shadows, with their unsolved puzzles, those who came before us. What if there was first, at the heart of such a writing process, the need to live better with our dead ?
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Romano, Laura Palange. "Golden thread: exploring the resistance to digital literacies and digital literacy by second-generation back-to-the-landers." 2014. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/198443.
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This project looks at the resistance to digital technologies and digital literacy practices
by families that deliberately choose to live without the technologies that many would consider
essential to daily life. I examine this resistance, and study the ways that uses of digital
technologies and digital composing processes are intertwined with identity.
In order to explore this topic, I conducted oral history interviews and used ethnographic
observation to study twelve participants; members of seven different families, all from the state
of Maine. My participants, all of whom self-identify as people who consciously do not use or
limit their use of digital technologies, engaged with digital technologies to varying degrees, from
members of a family who live “off the grid,” choosing to not use electricity, telephones,
televisions, or the Internet, to a family that uses computers, the Internet and cell phones in the
home, but limits the children’s use of these technologies. All of the participant families engage
regularly in non-digital literacy practices, whether they be the playing of music, the sharing of
recipes, or the contribution to or publication of a community newsletter. For all of the research participants in this study, an identity formed by the rejection of digital or electronic technologies
is important. Each participant represents him or herself as one who rejects or avoids digital
technologies, even though my research reveals that digital technologies are, indeed, used in some
way by most participants.
This is a study that is timely, as we are currently in an unprecedented age of digital
technology use, and many people wonder about the effects of such immersion. Additionally,
many families are trying to negotiate the extent to which the use of digital technologies is
beneficial to their children, and the data gathered during this study speaks to this.
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Robishaw, Don Louis. "From resistance to persistence? An alternative self-directed readiness training program for adult literacy and Adult Basic Education learners." 1996. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9619431.
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Many adult literacy and adult basic education learners struggle with various forms of negative emotions. Self-doubts are often a result of resistance to earlier schooling experiences and how they processed those experiences. Adults need to shed emotions that interfere with progress and develop the self-confidence needed to persist with academic work. There is a need for a strategy to help learners become more self-confident, persistent, and self-directed. The purpose of this study was to develop, pre-test, field-test, post-test, and refine a training program designed to help students move closer to self-directed learning. The data was collected through formative and summative evaluation strategies that revolved around a series of critical dialogues with learners. Findings related to the unlearning process revealed movement by the participants towards several enabling outcomes. These outcomes included unlearning the "blaming-the-victim" mentality; working through the shame issue of returning to school as an adult; resisting the self-fulfilling prophecy that they are incapable of academic work; giving themselves credit for overcoming barriers; and moving towards developing a stronger sense of critical awareness. This study also found that: (1) learners can benefit from reflecting on their earlier schooling experiences and surrounding circumstances; (2) learners want their critical voices heard; and (3) critical reflection and critical pedagogy are important processes in helping learners overcome negative emotions and getting at those voices. In conducting the evaluation, several problems in the design were easily rectified, but others were left unsolved. Empowerment and participatory practices are not easy, and program staff may find some of the results too critical, difficult to deal with, and unpleasant. What characteristics make for a good facilitator? Should a practitioner from the learning center be present during the critical dialogues? The participants not only endorsed the program, but had recommendations for practitioners who might consider participating in a similar program designed specifically for them.
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Gagnon, Samuel. "Réjean Ducharme, un écrivain de la « résistance à la disparition de soi »." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22484.
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Mazancová, Hana. "Genderová analýza knihy Němci od Jakuby Katalpy se zaměřením na koncepty mateřství a rodičovství." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-343408.
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In the diploma thesis Gender Literary Analysis of the novel Němci by Jakuba Katalpa focusing on the motherhood and the parenthood is a gender literary analysis of the novel Němci by the Czech writer Jakuba Katalpa. The thesis focuses on the motherhood, fatherhood, respectively parenthood and how are these phenomenon established within the concrete society: as essentialist, that means biologically, versus the constructivist, therefore socially constructed paradigm. In my thesis I use qualitative interpretative analysis with aspects of discourse analysis and feminist literary theory. Using gender as a analytical cathegory as a methodological category, I try to find and uncover new interpretations and meanings of the book Němci and try to find alternative interpretations of plot and characters. Methodological-theoretical part on the basis of literature introduces the basic terms in use (gender, patriarchy, literary canon, feminism, feminist literary theory), with the help of several writers and authors (Terry Eagleton, Pam Morris, Elaine Showalter). The next part of the thesis pays attention to the concepts of motherhood (Zuzana Kiczková, Sara Ruddick, Elisabeth Badinter, Hana Hašková) and fatherhood (R. W. Connell, Ann Oakley, Elisabeth Badinter). I use the method of so- called resistant reading...
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Gondeková, Miroslava. "Genderová literární analýza románu Nouzový východ od Richarda Yatese." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353949.
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In the thesis "Gender Literary Analysis of the novel Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates" a qualitative interpretative analysis with aspects of discourse analysis is used to interpret the plot and characters from a gender perspective. These interpretations are based on the "resistant reading" method introduced by Judith Fetterley. The literary analysis concepts introduced by Pam Morris and Elaine Showalter are also used as a point of reference. The aim for the application of Gender as a methodological category is to reveal and find new potential meanings and interpretations of the whole story and its characters with respect to their gender identity. The key areas that are focused on are motherhood, emancipation.