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Crimean Rhetorical Sovereignty: Resisting A Deportation Of Identity, Christian Berry
Crimean Rhetorical Sovereignty: Resisting A Deportation Of Identity, Christian Berry
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On a small contested part of the world, the peninsula of Crimea, once a part of the former Soviet Union, lives a people who have endured genocide and who have struggled to etch out an identity in a land once their own. They are the Crimean Tatar. Even their name, an exonym promoting the Crimeans’ “peripheral status” (Powell) and their ensuing “cultural schizophrenia” (Vizenor), bears witness to the otherization they have withstood throughout centuries. However, despite attempts to relegate them to the history books, Crimeans are alive and well in the “motherland,” but not without some difficulty. Having been forced …
Avatar And Self: A Rhetoric Of Identity Mediated Through Collaborative Role-Play, Pamela Andrews
Avatar And Self: A Rhetoric Of Identity Mediated Through Collaborative Role-Play, Pamela Andrews
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This project responds to a problem in scholarship describing the relationship between virtual avatars and their physical users. In Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle identifies points of slippage wherein the persona of the avatar becomes conflated with the user‘s sense of self to create an authentic self predicated on both real and virtual experiences (Turkle 184-5). Although the conflation of the authentic self with the virtual has provided various affordances for serious games or other pedagogical projects such as classrooms hosted through the game Second Life, the processes enabling identification with an avatar have been largely overlooked. This project …