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  1. 1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Claudia Bern; [2023]
    Keywords : Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. READ MORE

  3. 2. Birdpoetic Worlds : Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren's bird poems

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Estetik

    Author : Jessica Sunnebo; [2023]
    Keywords : Nina Södergren; Animism; Ecocriticism; Human-animal studies; Ecopoetics; Zoopoetics; Poetry; Birdpoetry; Birds; More-than-human world; Attentiveness; Nils Aslak Valkeapää; Nina Södergren; Animism; Ekokritik; Litterära djurstudier; Ekopoetik; Zoopoetik; Poesi; Fågelpoesi; Fåglar; Mer-än-mänsklig värld; Uppmärksamhet; Nils Aslak Valkeapää;

    Abstract : This thesis, Birdpoetic Worlds: Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren’s bird poems, analyses a selection of poems by Swedish poet Nina Södergren (1924–2015) from the collection Högt ärade trana: Nya dikter och urval av tidigare poesi* (2012),  through the lens of ecocriticism and animism. The aim is to identify and explore how her bird poetics can function as an invitation to sense a relational experience and interconnectedness with the more-than-human world, especially through attentiveness. READ MORE

  4. 3. Navigating Layers of Care and Attention in Education : A comparative Analysis of Noddings and Weil in "The kindergarten Teacher" Sara Colangelo's Film(2018)

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

    Author : Maryam Salehi Najafabadi; [2023]
    Keywords : Caring; paying attention; one-caring; caring-for; Simone Weil; Nel Noddings;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the issue of attention based on Noddings and Weil's perspectives. Inaddition, it describes a fictional example for attention. The fictional example critically examinesthe benefits and potential risks of care and attention in modern education. READ MORE

  5. 4. ''The string between our lives''. The healing power of a cello’s music in The Cellist of Sarajevo.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för litteraturvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Dominika Pizon; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The essay is an analysis of the intermediality of literature and music with an emphasis on music psychology and the poetic and cultural representations of the cello. The research is applied on Steven Galloway's ''The Cellist of Sarajevo'', in order to interpret the characters' experience of music and examine its therapeutic value... READ MORE

  6. 5. Marriage and Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar : An Analysis of Gender Expectations and Poetic Language

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Ebba Carlstein; [2023]
    Keywords : literature; Sylvia Plath; The Bell Jar; marriage; motherhood; gender; expectations; roles; figurative language; poetic language; domesticity; women; 1950s; America;

    Abstract : .... READ MORE