Essays about: "Clarissa Grace Chang"

Found 2 essays containing the words Clarissa Grace Chang.

1. 1. Imagining Somewheres: Obstruction as a Productive Force in Decolonial Visuality, Solidarities, and Asian American Futures

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Clarissa Grace Chang; [2018]
   Keywords : decoloniality; obstruction; radical hope; Asian American embodiment; virtual reality; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize and unintentionally other the depicted subjects. READ MORE

3. 2. “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World”: the Decolonized Chronotope, Liminality, and Dialogics in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Clarissa Grace Chang; [2016]
   Keywords : contemporary literature; Junot Díaz; decolonized chronotope; decolonial imagination; heteroglossia; New Jersey; Dominican Republic; Afro-Latinidad; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Narratives focusing on People of Color often suffer from neocolonial treatment with narrow focus on race at the expense of character development, working with stereotypical monoliths rather than complex individuals. These types of narratives tend to use Whiteness as a “neutral” reference point. READ MORE