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Description:: This dissertation focuses on Chinese contemporary artists conceptualization of spectatorship in the 2000s, the decade when the state started to regulate art production within the parameters of cultural industry. I argue that these artistsCai Guoqiang (b. 1957), Xu Bing (b. 1955), and Yang Shaobin (b. 1962)adopted the visual language and...
Keyword:: Art history
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Xinran Guo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Dictating Manhood: Refiguring Masculinity in Haitian Literature of Dictatorship, 1968-2010 explores the literary representations of masculinity under dictatorship. Through the works of Marie Vieux Chauvet, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Georges Castera, Kettly Mars and Dany Laferrière, my dissertation examines the effects of dictatorship on Haitian masculinity and assesses whether extreme oppression...
Keyword:: Haitian literature, Manhood, Sexual violence, Masculinity, Duvalier, and Dictatorship
Subject:: French and Italian
Creator:: Ara Chi Jung
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/18/2019
Date Modified:: 02/18/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation is a case study of one midwestern city and its Latinx inhabitants. It explores the intertwined pursuit by ethnic Mexicans and Puerto Ricans of inclusion in union and electoral politics. The world of machine politics offered ethnic Mexicans and Puerto Ricans an avenue for inclusion. Central to this...
Keyword:: Political History, Urban History, Latinx History, and Corruption
Subject:: History
Creator:: Aguilar, Emiliano
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16207 and etdadmin_upload_926417

Description:: Recent scholarship in critical urban theory, urban political ecology, and related fields has emphasized the "hybridity" of urban-environmental systems. This argument is contrasted with the socially constructed "binary" relationship between "city" and "nature" that dominated historical understandings of urban-environmental connections. Despite wide agreement on these issues, the trajectories that precipitated...
Keyword:: park, city, chicago, race, nature, and space
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Kevin Loughran
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/02/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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