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Spring 2014
This thesis examines Indigenous rhetorics of resistance from the Treaty Six negotiations in 1876 to the 1930s. Using methods from Comparative Literature and Indigenous literary studies, the thesis situates the rhetoric of northern Plains Indigenous peoples in the context of settler-colonial...
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"When none can call our power to account": Translating Sleepwalking in Discursive Practices
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This interdisciplinary dissertation makes an original contribution by examining the sleepwalker in terms of medical, legal, and cultural categories in literature, film, and opera. It addresses medical research and medico-legal contexts in relation to diagnostic power and institutional authority...
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Fall 2020
This thesis analyzes a compilation of tweets from a specific digital social movement, Amnesty International’s #TakeAction. This campaign was a strategy from the humanitarian organization to transform the refugee crisis from a global into a personal concern for millions of people. The main...
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Fall 2015
Abstract This dissertation takes as its subject of study transcultural and historical investigations of the production and meanings of transgender in imperial China. I see this dissertation as part of the Chinese transgender studies scholarship pioneered by “beginning” works, such as Transgender...
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(Under)mining the canon: engaging Alberta high school students in the value(s) of literature
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This thesis explores the issues surrounding the teaching of English to high school students in the province of Alberta. Its central premise is that high school students studying academic English are increasingly skeptical about the value of literature, and subsequently lack engagement with the...
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A Bridge from Artificial Places: An Empirical Phenomenology of Mystical Reading in Rilke and Eliot
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Exploring whether, and to what extent, the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Rainer Maria Rilke can facilitate mystical poetic experiencing is the purpose of this thesis. In opposition to Reuven Tsur’s claim that readers simply recognize or detect elements that can be identified as mystical, I argue that...
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A changing disability-intertext: representation of disability in Canadian young adult fiction
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This study examines the disability-intertext in contemporary Canadian young adult fiction and seeks to analyze new patterns in the representation of disability. The disability-intertext is explored using Michel Foucault’s theory of the “background-body” and Ato Quayson’s theory of “aesthetic...
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A Critical Bond: Cultural Transmission and Nation-Building in Métis and Chicana/o Picture Books
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It was not until the later part of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century that Métis and Chicana/o authors began to create picture books as a counter-literary response to the discrimination that they faced as mixed-race peoples. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the...
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Spring 2019
The use of interventionist art to effect the neoliberal status quo was studied through a research creation at The University of Alberta in the form of a guerilla style art show. The main goal was to apply Chantal Mouffe’s theory of Agonistic Space, Donella Meadows’ Leverage Points, and Lawrence...
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Spring 2020
My thesis examines how digital community heritage projects use care practices based in community participation and co-creation to build a care-based collection model. These grassroots initiatives aim to gather and document community history by engaging community members in the collection building...