Browsing by Subject "performance"
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Click Here for Community: One ethnographer's journey through a mostly virtual world of fantasy, literature, sexuality and Harry Potter
(2011-04-27)This thesis seeks to answer the question “Why are there communities on the Internet that read and write sexually explicit fan fiction?” Part 1 moves through an examination of the history of the publication of the Harry Potter ... -
"Construyendo Nuestro Pedacito De Patria": Space and Dis(place)ment in Puerto Rican Chicago
(2009)This dissertation explores the relationship between identity and place in the imagination, performance and production of post-World War II Puerto Rican urban space in Chicago. Specifically, I contend that the articulation ... -
Diagnostic Performance of a Rapid Syphilis Test Among Pregnant Women in Peru
(2011)<bold>Background:</bold> Maternal and congenital syphilis are pressing concerns in Latin America, with consequences ranging from newborn mental retardation to perinatal death. Widespread, accurate screening and timely penicillin ... -
Learning to Listen, Learning to Be: African-American Girls and Hip-Hop at a Durham, NC Boys and Girls Club
(2009)This dissertation documents African-American girls' musical practices at a Boys and Girls Club in Durham, NC. Hip-hop is the cornerstone of social exchanges at John Avery, and is integrated into virtually all club activities. ... -
Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in Post-Anpo Japan (1960-1970)
(2011)This dissertation examines the intersection of experimental art, literature, performance, photography, and architecture, as Japanese artists and intellectuals grappled with political disillusionment after the end of the ... -
“Mountains, rivers, and the whole earth”: Koan interpretations of female zen practitioners
(Religions, 2018-04-11)© 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Though recent years have seen a critical reappraisal of Buddhist texts from the angle of performance and gender studies, examinations of Zen Buddhist encounter dialogues ... -
Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
(2017)This dissertation contends that sound and aurality ought to be more fully integrated into how gender and sexuality are thought. The dissertation’s title, “Partial Figures,” refers to its aims: not to exhaustively document ... -
Shukhi-ye Zesht o Tekrāri: Performing Blackness in Iranian Entertainment
(2018-04-18)There persists a lack of consistent critical engagement with issues of race, particularly Blackness, in Iranian spaces, despite the continuous presence of “race” in the Iranian experience. As such engagements with Blackness ... -
Spectacles of American Liberalism: Narratives of Racial Im/posture
(2009)This project traces the seemingly improbable intersections between performances of blackness and the development and traces of an American liberalism defined by Gunnar Myrdal's overwhelmingly influential, sociological text, ... -
Spectacular China: Performing Pessoptimism in 21st Century China
(2019-04)This paper uses three Chinese cultural performances as a lens through which to study how China has navigated the global system of Western modernity in order to present a successful image in the Chinese state’s CCTV Chinese ... -
‘Who Were the Maccabees?’ The Maccabean Martyrs and Performances of Christian Difference
(2020-01-31)<jats:p>Jennifer Knust surveys the gradual canonisation of the Maccabean martyrs within a collection of Christian sacred texts. The eventual adoption of these martyrs as proto-Christian models of faith were clearly ...
