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Food And Nationalism In An Independent Ghana, Brandi Miller
Food And Nationalism In An Independent Ghana, Brandi Miller
History Theses
In 1957 Ghana became the first nation in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve independence from a European colonial power. During this time Kwame Nkrumah’s government concerned itself with the creation of a national identity that would speak to the new African Personality and Nkrumah’s Pan-African goals. In Nkrumah’s national project, regional cultural and economic contributions were at times subsumed. The absence of an identifiable national cuisine is a lens into ethnic conflict generated in part by the crafting of the national identity. I argue that in general the absence of a national cuisine represents the strength of the desire to maintain …
The Rhetoric Of Refugees: Literacy, Narrative And Identity For Somali Women, Mary Helen O'Connor
The Rhetoric Of Refugees: Literacy, Narrative And Identity For Somali Women, Mary Helen O'Connor
English Dissertations
This dissertation is a project in the recovery of the subjugated voices of Somali women who are living in the United States as a result of forced migration. Using a transactional, reflective, and activist methodology, I interviewed Somali women in an effort to recognize how multiples discourses of power impact assimilation and identity formation in their lives. I hope to influence how members of dominant cultures, particularly western cultures, research and write about refugees. This study considers the aspects of being Somali, a refugee, and a woman in the United States. As a contribution to academic discourse, I hope the …
Metonymic Modes Of Identity In Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children And David Foster Wallace's "The Suffering Channel": A Metonymic Nose To Sniff Out The Empathetic Shit, Donald Fentem
English Theses
This thesis argues that Salman Rushdie and David Foster Wallace attempt to incorporate empathy throughout their fiction in order to induce empathy in their audiences, particularly in Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children and Wallace’s short story “The Suffering Channel.” While both authors incorporate similar techniques respective of their conceptual styles (i.e. postcolonial, postmodern, post-postmodern styles), the defining characteristic between them is metonymy. By establishing the metonymical characteristics of empathy in contrast to the metaphorical characteristics of sympathy, I also explore the metonymic disconnections between Rushdie and Wallace in terms of metaphor, mimesis, and metafiction.
A Case For Performance Art: An Artist/Educator Exploring Identity, Zully A. Conde
A Case For Performance Art: An Artist/Educator Exploring Identity, Zully A. Conde
Art and Design Theses
How can vulnerability and censorship culminate into a teaching philosophy in art education? In the following thesis, a studio exploration from photography into a performance piece documents how presence and vulnerability play roles in performing and defining identity.