Essays about: "Creative Criticism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the words Creative Criticism.

  1. 11. Aspects of Motherhood in the Poetry of Marilyn Hacker

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Malin Strand; [2018]
    Keywords : female sexuality; lesbian criticism; Marilyn Hacker; motherhood; poetry;

    Abstract : This essay will make a close reading of a selection of poems written by the poet and essayist Marilyn Hacker which explores the relationship between motherhood and lesbianism. The poetry is analyzed from a lesbian feminist view that uncovers how lesbianism can be used to politicize the construct of motherhood. READ MORE

  3. 12. “Are We What We Eat?” Negotiating Identities Through Cuisine and Consumption : A Thing Theory Approach to Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Man Ting Yiu; [2018]
    Keywords : Thing Theory; Materiality; Food; Objects; Cuisine; Consumption; Culinary Narrative; Diaspora; Transcultural; Hybridity; Intersectionality; Transference; Craft; Creative Writing;

    Abstract : Culinary narratives are frequently employed to portray migrant identities and societies in Asian diaspora literature This thesis examines cuisine and consumption in Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver by highlighting the socio-political linkages between material culture and ethnic identity formation of Chinese migrants in New Zealand. Using Brown’s thing theory, food is reframed as site of meaningful discourse to interrogate the role of cuisine and consumption in mediating the migrant experience. READ MORE

  4. 13. 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

  5. 14. ”Hur blev det?” Från målsättning till verklighet : en jämförande studie mellan målsättning och verklighet i Resecentrum Falun

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Selma Broström; [2017]
    Keywords : vision; målsättning; stadsplanering; infrastrukturplanering; Resecentrum Falun;

    Abstract : I arbetet med stadsplaneringsprojekt kan det uppstå glapp mellan målsättningar som tas fram i planeringsskedet och det verkliga resultatet (Svensson 2015). Enligt Nyström (1999) kan en planeringsprocess styras av både normer och mål. Det innebär att planer antas och genomförs efter att målsättningar har formulerats. READ MORE

  6. 15. "Nostalgia for the present": Digital nostalgia and mediated authenticity on Instagram

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Phuong Thao Nguyen; [2017]
    Keywords : Instagram; digital nostalgia; mediated authenticity; human computer interaction; faux vintage filters; ephemerality; interface criticism; qualitative interview;

    Abstract : Retro art and technology have been on the rise in recent years, the phenomenon is fuelled by the nostalgia of a sense of authenticity that the offline world can no longer satisfy. The integration of technology into human’s social conduct has made it an extension of their beings. READ MORE