Browsing by Subject "space"
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"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 ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Spaces of Order: An African Poetics of Space
(2016)“Spaces of Order” argues that the African novel should be studied as a revolutionary form characterized by aesthetic innovations that are not comprehensible in terms of the novel’s European archive of forms. It does this ... -
The Demands of Integration: Space, Place and Genre in Berlin
(2012)This dissertation argues that the metaphor of integration, which describes the incorporation of immigrants into the national body, functions as a way to exclude "Muslim" immigrants from German national identity, as these ...
