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Remapping Evil: Locating, Spatializing, And Depicting Evil, Christie Lynn Daniels
Remapping Evil: Locating, Spatializing, And Depicting Evil, Christie Lynn Daniels
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This dissertation expands upon critical studies of difference by exploring one particular ideological construct and how its use propagates, maintains, and exacerbates ubiquitously existent social inequalities. The concept of evil has been employed in a way that marginalizes and villainizes individuals, groups, and even entire communities. Moreover, when they are deployed in a visual medium, the ideas and concepts conveyed are often not interrogated as closely as a written work would be. As a result, the guiding question of inquiry for this project is: How have western notions of good and evil been deployed and employed as a mechanism of …