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Carnival, Convents, And The Cult Of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge In The Work Of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sibongile B. Lynch
Carnival, Convents, And The Cult Of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge In The Work Of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sibongile B. Lynch
English Theses
In the work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson the city and culture of 19th century New Orleans figures prominently, and is a major character affecting the lives of her protagonists. While race, class, and gender are among the focuses of many scholars the eccentricity and cultural history of the most exotic American city, and its impact on Dunbar-Nelson’s writing is unmistakable. This essay will discuss how the diverse cultural environment of New Orleans in the 19th century allowed Alice Dunbar Nelson to create narratives which allowed her short stories to speak to the shifting identities of women and the social …
Another Brick In The Wall: Public Space, Visual Hegemonic Resistance, And The Physical/Digital Continuum, Daniel Gilmore
Another Brick In The Wall: Public Space, Visual Hegemonic Resistance, And The Physical/Digital Continuum, Daniel Gilmore
Communication Theses
In this thesis I will demonstrate that there is a similarity between the use of physical walls and digital walls as means of ideological dissemination by power structures as well as socio-political protesters. Also, I will show that their use in this manner not only changes the way that both function ideologically, but also changes the environment that these walls are created/exist in as well. The first case study will analyze Banksy’s employment of carnivalesque graffiti as a means of protest. The second case study will analyze the use of digital public space and “walls” created within social media as …
Strategies Of Narrative Disclosure In The Rhetoric Of Anti-Corporate Campaigns, Richard A. Herder
Strategies Of Narrative Disclosure In The Rhetoric Of Anti-Corporate Campaigns, Richard A. Herder
Communication Dissertations
In the years following World War II social activists learned to refine rhetorical techniques for gaining the attention of the new global mass media and developed anti-corporate campaigns to convince some of the world’s largest companies to concede to their demands. Despite these developments, rhetorical critics have tended to overlook anti-corporate campaigns as objects of study in their own right. One can account for the remarkable success of anti-corporate campaigns by understanding how activists have practiced prospective narrative disclosure, a calculated rhetorical wager that, through the public circulation of stories and texts disclosing problematic practices and answerable decision makers, activists …