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Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization, Scott Neumeister
Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization, Scott Neumeister
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds is an autocritographical journey that places a group of U.S. literary texts into critically conscious dialogue with the “text” of my life. As a white, American, middle-class, cishetero, able-bodied man, I historicize, contextualize, analyze, and deconstruct the process by which my ten years of graduate academic studies at the University of South Florida fostered my ongoing awakening to critical consciousness—the personal and political evolution Paolo Freire terms “conscientization.” I present the analytical insights I realized about landmark feminist and womanist texts I encountered during my graduate studies that resonate with the prominent literary works and …
"He Didn't Mean It": What Kubrick's, Kelley O'Brien
"He Didn't Mean It": What Kubrick's, Kelley O'Brien
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
With Second Wave Feminism and the Women’s Rights Movement, 1970’s Americans began to see a shift in gender norms affecting how we relate to one another, particularly within a family structure. Scholars have noted an anxiety permeating the decade over the potential negative ramifications of such a drastic cultural shift. We see these issues of gender politics played out in numerous popular films from the 1970s and into the 1980s. Kubrick’s The Shining, like many horror films of the time, preys upon the societal fear for the family, due to these shifting gender norms, by featuring a crumbling patriarch (Jack), …