Narratives Of A Fall: Star Wars Fan Fiction Writers Interpret Anakin Skywalker's Story, Sarah Gerina Carpenter
Aug 2011
Narratives Of A Fall: Star Wars Fan Fiction Writers Interpret Anakin Skywalker's Story, Sarah Gerina Carpenter
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My thesis examines Star Wars fan fiction about Anakin Skywalker posted on the popular blogging platform LiveJournal. I investigate the folkloric qualities of such posts and analyze the ways in which fans through narrative generate systems of meaning, engage in performative expressions of gender identity, resistance, and festival, and create transformative works within the present cultural milieu. My method has been to follow the posts of several Star Wars fans on LiveJournal who are active in posting fan fiction and who frequently respond to one another's posts, thereby creating a network of community interaction. I find that fans construct systems …
By Custom And By Law: Black Folklore And Racial Representation At The Birth Of Jim Crow, Shirley Moody
Nov 2006
By Custom And By Law: Black Folklore And Racial Representation At The Birth Of Jim Crow, Shirley Moody
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By Custom and By Law: Black Folklore and Racial Representation at the Birth of Jim Crow establishes folklore as a contested site in the construction of racial identity during the emergence and solidification of legalized racial segregation at the end of the nineteenth century. By examining institutional interests, popular culture performances, and political rhetoric, I demonstrate how representations of black folklore played a seminal role in perpetuating a public discourse of racial difference. Alternately, my work introduces new scholarship examining the counter-narratives posed by nineteenth-century African American scholars, writers and folklorists who employed folklore in their various academic works and …
The Dancing Sasquatch And Other Mysteries, Steve Nadis
Dec 2002
The Dancing Sasquatch And Other Mysteries, Steve Nadis
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Nadis relates a close encounter with the Bigfoot during a recent vacation at Greensboro VT. He and his wife, Blinkie, went on a midnight cross-country ski outing and saw a dark, gyrating figure in the middle of the Caspian Lake, a sight he found a bit unnerving. The Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, was a twelve feet tall mythic creature well-known in the Pacific Northwest.
Stephen Kings' It, Tommy Wallace
Dec 1989
Stephen Kings' It, Tommy Wallace
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In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Loser Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. 30 years later, they are called back to fight the same clown again.
Villa Maria, Unknown Photographer
Dec 1874
Villa Maria, Unknown Photographer
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Villa Maria Convent, previously "Monklands," Montreal, QC, about 1875
1870-1880, 19th century
Silver salts on paper mounted on card - Albumen process
10.7 x 7.8 cm
Gift of Mr. Stanley G. Triggs
Mcgill College, William Notman
Dec 1858
Mcgill College, William Notman
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McGill College, Sherbrooke Street,, Montreal, QC, about 1859
Probably 1968, 20th century
Silver salts on film - Gelatin silver process
12 x 10 cm
