Essays about: "American Identity"
Showing result 31 - 35 of 116 essays containing the words American Identity.
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31. 'We all end up mutilated': Bodily destruction and self-mutilation in the first three novels by Chuck Palahniuk
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In this essay, I explore the motifs of bodily destruction and self-mutilation in the first three novels of American author Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (1996), Survivor (1999) and Invisible Monsters (1999). These motifs are prevalent throughout the author’s work and are particularly noteworthy in how detailed and graphic the novels are. READ MORE
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32. IDENTITY & TECHNO-UTOPIANISM.A Critical Discourse Analysis of Marketing Material and their Sociotechnical Imaginaries
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/JMG - Inst f journalistik och masskommAbstract : This research paper sets out to investigate the messaging present in a corpus of texts gathered from Acxiom’s, an American data-analysis and ‘Identity Solutions’-company, website. The paper applies a framework of Critical Discourse Analysis informed by Theo van Leeuwen’s theory of ‘legitimations’ and analyses the findings through the theoretical framework of ‘Sociotechnical Imaginaries’. READ MORE
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33. Identity through food : Designing for cultural persistence through culinary traditions within diasporic communities
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This project explores how designing for human-food interaction (HFI) can preserve individual and collective knowledge about the food identities of Latin American migrants living in Malmö, Sweden. The project was carried out through a participatory design process, where specific needs were identified to preserve and track the evolution of culinary practices. READ MORE
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34. The Mah Jong Game of Life : Storytelling, Identity and Orientalist Discourse in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This project examines the connection between the representations of Chinese American women and the Orientalist discourse, as depicted in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Using a deconstructive and intersectional approach, the project focuses on four interconnected constituents that regulate the novel’s main structural and thematic elements: Narrative Structure; Mother-Daughter Relationships; Language, Writing and Identity; and Feminist Affirmations. READ MORE
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35. "A mother never stops waiting" : Exploring Motherhood as an Identity Marker in Social Movements
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The movement Caravana de Madres de Migrantes Desaparecidos; a transnational social movement uniting Central American mothers from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua whose children have disappeared in Mexico while migrating to the US, is part of a Latin American tradition where a mother-centered kinship system is at the center. The movement has managed to reunite more than 300 families. READ MORE
