Essays about: "communal voice"

Found 3 essays containing the words communal voice.

  1. 1. POSTCOLONIAL DISSENT SCENOGRAPHY: setting civic scene, building urban voice, new societies prototyping facilitation for Tensta.

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Mariia Otkalenko-Povalinska; [2022]
    Keywords : Social sustainability; feminist postcolonial theory; intersectionality; dissent; civic space; popular education; protest; parade; space occupation; grassroots society prototyping; urban design; Tensta;

    Abstract :   Urban space is a product of power relations and negotiations in society. Who gets represented and monumentalised in it, you? One is being formed and deformed by the environment they are placed into through the way it functions and suggests certain actions in a particular sequence, through the power distribution in its spatial equivalent. READ MORE

  3. 2. "Why Did I Live"

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Tora Åsling; [2020]
    Keywords : Mary Shelley; Meredith Ann Pierce; Humanism; Posthumanism; Anthropocentrism; Speciesism; Artificial Life; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how Mary Shelley and Meredith Ann Pierce criticise Western patriarchal societies through the depiction of the creation of artificial life. The thesis discusses how Shelley and Pierce’s critique consequently includes a critique of Humanism, since the school of thought had a pivotal role in the formation of the civilizational model of these Western societies. READ MORE

  4. 3. Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Eva Leonte; [2017]
    Keywords : Otsuka; migrant literature; picture brides; subalternity; feminist theory; communal voice; speech-act criticism; illocutionary force.;

    Abstract : It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. READ MORE