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Platt, Ryan.
Cinema/Movement/Screen: Media In Choreography And Performance.
Degree: PhD, Theatre Arts, 2011, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33604 
► This dissertation examines the role of media and movement in contemporary choreography and film. In contrast to the prevailing critical emphasis on the physical apparatus…
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▼ This dissertation examines the role of media and movement in contemporary choreography and film. In contrast to the prevailing critical emphasis on the physical apparatus of new media and technology in performance, it identifies a formal connection between cinema and choreography in a common constitutive element, movement. Like frames in film, the continuous passage of this movement provides a structural alternative to dramatic unity and redirects its audience towards events and possibilities from beyond the boundaries of of the theatrical and cinematic scene- and the visual field of the seen. These peripheral events manifest themselves as a "screen" that diffuses or obfuscates the site- and sight- of performance. Rather than a surface for the projection of images, this screen is the product of continuous motion. This continuous motion consists of two modes, autoimmunity and the ambulatory. The dissertation first considers autoimmunity in Yvonne Rainer's early choreography, which implements a structure based on incessant stopping. This structural intermittence establishes an affinity with film and produces an actual screen, which is embodied on stage by mattresses. In search of relief from this structure of relentless interruption, Rainer's subsequent dance, Trio A, develops another choreographic structure, ambulatory motion. In addition to suspending formal unity, ambulatory motion's pedestrian pace diffuses distinct qualities. Applied to a subsequent study of Chantal Akerman's feminist film je tu il elle, this diffusion becomes a formal category, opacity. By considering je tu il elle with regard to Akerman's recent documentaries on immigrants and autobiographical video installations, it is possible to link feminist performance to translation, which itself instantiates continuous motion. William Forsythe's choreography also uses translation, albeit in a way that returns to Rainer's engagement with autoimmunity as an aesthetic process. Unlike Rainer, Forsythe's translations emphasize autoimmunity's biopolitical aspects, which anticipate a life form that does not adhere to biological or technological definitions and whose collectivity relates to a notion of media that separates what it connects- namely, the screen.
Advisors/Committee Members: Murray, Timothy Conway (chair), Monroe, Jonathan Beck (committee member), Bathrick, David (committee member).
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APA (6th Edition):
Platt, R. (2011). Cinema/Movement/Screen: Media In Choreography And Performance. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33604
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Platt, Ryan. “Cinema/Movement/Screen: Media In Choreography And Performance.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33604.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Platt, Ryan. “Cinema/Movement/Screen: Media In Choreography And Performance.” 2011. Web. 17 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Platt R. Cinema/Movement/Screen: Media In Choreography And Performance. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33604.
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Platt R. Cinema/Movement/Screen: Media In Choreography And Performance. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33604
Cornell University
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Lee, I-Zhuen.
Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.
Degree: PhD, Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture, 2018, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749
► This dissertation examines the relation between scholars of kokugaku (often translated as "nativism") and the rise of empirical rationalism as a paradigm for knowledge in…
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▼ This dissertation examines the relation between scholars of kokugaku (often translated as "nativism") and the rise of empirical rationalism as a paradigm for knowledge in Mid-Eighteenth Edo Japan. In particular, I trace the shifts in the ways language, the human body, and nature came to be intertwined in a complex network of relations that redefined the way knowledge came to be produced. By emphasizing the crucial relation between kokugaku and empirico-practical fields, such as the medical-pharmacological rise of honzōgaku (ch. bencaoxue) in the 1700s, I seek to show how anatomy and nature came to be central in the ways kokugaku scholars imagined the role of people in the world. Mindful of the immense changes occurring in Eighteenth Century Edo intellectual landscape, I argue that it is impossible to account for the rise of kokugaku without taking into consideration the shifts in social perception of the role of nature. Instead of anchoring kokugaku within the teleological paradigm of incipient nationalism – a relation foregrounded since the Meiji period, and later championed by philosophers in the decades of Japanese empire – my dissertation shows how the excess of nature, as a repository of conceptual and practical knowledge about the world, often guided these scholars’ philological archaeology of the "pristine" relation between language and the body.
Advisors/Committee Members: de Bary, Brett (chair), Sakai, Naoki (committee member), Hirano, Katsuya (committee member), Monroe, Jonathan Beck (committee member), Bachner, Andrea S. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Early Modern Japan; Early Modern Japanese Medical History; Kokugaku; Tokugawa Intellectual History; Wabun; Asian studies; Nature; Asian literature
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Lee, I. (2018). Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lee, I-Zhuen. “Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lee, I-Zhuen. “Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.” 2018. Web. 17 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Lee I. Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749.
Council of Science Editors:
Lee I. Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749
Cornell University
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Senk, Sarah.
Original Skin: Melancholy Returns, Postcolonial Mourning.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2011, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29484
► This dissertation takes issue with recent injunctions against mourning in contemporary trauma studies. The critical turn to melancholic or "resistant mourning" is based on the…
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▼ This dissertation takes issue with recent injunctions against mourning in contemporary trauma studies. The critical turn to melancholic or "resistant mourning" is based on the idea that one normalizes and assimilates loss in ethically dubious ways, either denying the loss or denying the alterity of the lost other; as a result, this criticism positions melancholia as the only viable response against a totalizing mourning. In tracing the parallels between this trend and a related valorization of anti-elegiac tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first century writing, I argue that the resurgent discourse of melancholia is based on a perceived breakdown of mourning which paradoxically conceals a desire for a time of perfect, totalizing mourning that this trend ostensibly refutes. This thesis, which most centrally addresses recent trends in trauma studies, opens up to postcolonial studies by examining how contemporary Anglophone writers, shaped by a common traumatic history of English colonialism, attempt to articulate new modes of grief work rather than simply returning to old wounds. Focusing on representations of individual loss and historical trauma in the work of Kamau Brathwaite, J. M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, and Derek Walcott, I explore acts of literature as ways of working-through that do not actually foreclose a dialogic relationship with the past. While all four writers initially seem to participate in a valorization of melancholia, they are actually attempting to work through loss in ways that challenge a reductive binary opposition between mourning as closure and melancholia as openness.
Advisors/Committee Members: Monroe, Jonathan Beck (chair), Lacapra, Dominick C (committee member), Deloughrey, Elizabeth M. (committee member), Castillo, Debra Ann (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Trauma Studies; Mourning; Melancholia; Caribbean; South Africa
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Senk, S. (2011). Original Skin: Melancholy Returns, Postcolonial Mourning. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29484
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Senk, Sarah. “Original Skin: Melancholy Returns, Postcolonial Mourning.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29484.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Senk, Sarah. “Original Skin: Melancholy Returns, Postcolonial Mourning.” 2011. Web. 17 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Senk S. Original Skin: Melancholy Returns, Postcolonial Mourning. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29484.
Council of Science Editors:
Senk S. Original Skin: Melancholy Returns, Postcolonial Mourning. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29484
Cornell University
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Leger, Natalie.
"A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution.
Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2012, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441
► Dissertation Abstract "A Tragedy of Success!" is a close engagement with the ongoing artistic turn to Haiti and its revolution within the Caribbean literary imaginary.…
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▼ Dissertation Abstract "A Tragedy of Success!" is a close engagement with the ongoing artistic turn to Haiti and its revolution within the Caribbean literary imaginary. It argues that twentieth and twenty-first writers of the region are drawn to the nation and its Upheaval precisely because the striking incongruity of Haiti's revolutionary past and postcolonial present vividly discloses how the modern Caribbean experience is profoundly shaped by the ceaseless play of radical change (conquest, colonialism and anti-colonial revolution) and debilitating communal crisis. This project joins the rich conversation on Haiti, modernity and the Revolution begun by C.LR. James, and continued by Nick Nesbitt and Sibylle Fischer, to address this discussion's slight attention to the abundant literary production inspired by the Revolution. This dissertation therefore focuses on the ideological work of the Revolution's repeated narration in the Caribbean, specifically, the manner in which it arouses anti-colonial aspirations. It argues that the Caribbean experience of modernity has introduced a tragic mode into literary representations of the Upheaval, causing regional writers to depict the immediate as confounded by the past. Characterized by a subtle wavering between tragic pathos and comic elation, iii this mode is as much an engagement with time and its affective oscillation as it is a politics of possibility. It speaks strongly to the writers' longing for total decolonial liberation region wide. This project participates in the rethinking of tragedy, as initiated by contemporary scholars like Rita Felski, Timothy Reiss and David Scott, in order to gauge how Caribbean writers use Haiti to negotiate the difficulties and successes of the region in their efforts to portray their desire for an improved Caribbean future. iv
Advisors/Committee Members: Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (chair), DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M. (committee member), Boyce Davies, Carole Elizabeth (committee member), Monroe, Jonathan Beck (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Haitian Revolution; Modernity; Tragedy; Comedy; Caribbean Literature
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Leger, N. (2012). "A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Leger, Natalie. “"A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Leger, Natalie. “"A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution.” 2012. Web. 17 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Leger N. "A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441.
Council of Science Editors:
Leger N. "A Tragedy Of Success!": Haiti And The Promise Of Revolution. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29441
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Colanzi, Liliana.
Of Animals, Monsters, and Cyborgs. Alternative Bodies in Latin American Fiction (1961-2012).
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2017, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47757
► This work draws from animal studies, biopolitics, and posthumanism to explore the ways in which the body is simultaneously inscribed and erased in seven Latin…
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▼ This work draws from animal studies, biopolitics, and posthumanism to explore the ways in which the body is simultaneously inscribed and erased in seven Latin American texts from the last fifty years: from João Guimarães Rosa’s “Meu tio o Iauaretê” (1961) to Martín Felipe Castagnet’s Los cuerpos del verano (2012), and including Sara Gallardo’s Eisejuaz (1971), Jorge Baron Biza’s El desierto y su semilla (1998), Mario Bellatin’s Flores (2000), Miguel Esquirol’s “El Cementerio de Elefantes” (2008), and Rafael Pinedo’s Subte (2012). In these novels and short stories the body is the place where issues of race, sexuality, and ethnicity are negociated and contested: I focus on the figures of the animal, the monster, and the cyborg as bodies that escape the confining limits of a white, rational, and heterosexual normativity modeled after modern and contemporary Western ideals. In all these narratives, the marginalized body helps to destabilize binary concepts such as nature/culture, human/animal, normal/abnormal, civilization/barbarism, and is the springboard from which biological life —instead of the usually dominant logos– is able to generate a field of affect, estrangement, or resistance which can be influential in the creation of alternative communities. In the aforementioned cases, the animal sign is instrumental in thinking on those bodies —whether they are sick, disabled, queer, poor, marginalized, female, indigenous, minority— that do not conform to an hegemonic image of Man.
Advisors/Committee Members: Castillo, Debra Ann (chair), Erber, Pedro Rabelo (committee member), Monroe, Jonathan Beck (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Latin American Literature; animal studies; Argentina; biopolitics; contemporary Latin American literature; posthumanism; science fiction
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Colanzi, L. (2017). Of Animals, Monsters, and Cyborgs. Alternative Bodies in Latin American Fiction (1961-2012). (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47757
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Colanzi, Liliana. “Of Animals, Monsters, and Cyborgs. Alternative Bodies in Latin American Fiction (1961-2012).” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47757.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Colanzi, Liliana. “Of Animals, Monsters, and Cyborgs. Alternative Bodies in Latin American Fiction (1961-2012).” 2017. Web. 17 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Colanzi L. Of Animals, Monsters, and Cyborgs. Alternative Bodies in Latin American Fiction (1961-2012). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47757.
Council of Science Editors:
Colanzi L. Of Animals, Monsters, and Cyborgs. Alternative Bodies in Latin American Fiction (1961-2012). [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47757
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Lenoble, Alex.
How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation.
Degree: PhD, Romance Studies, 2019, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360
► In this dissertation I address the ways in which postcolonial authors from the Caribbean and the Maghreb, anglophone and Francophone such as Frankétienne, Edouard Glissant,…
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▼ In this dissertation I address the ways in which postcolonial authors from the Caribbean and the Maghreb, anglophone and Francophone such as Frankétienne, Edouard Glissant, Abdelkebir Khatibi M. Nourbese Philip and Dany Laferrière respond to a historical exclusion from the symbolic; an exclusion that affected and continues to affect colonial and postcolonial subjectivities. How is it possible, from the perspective of the colonized (non)subject, to express a (post)colonial experience? Is bearing witness to past colonial events possible when the constitution of the modern paradigm itself necessitated the erasure of such events? How does one project a voice that bears the possibility to be heard when the structural stability of language and communication—in other words, the “symbolic”—is secured by deafness to these voices? To examine these questions, I look at works of fiction (poetry, novels, spiral) that do not fit easily into a specific genre precisely because they experiment with literary forms of representation. Deploying strategies ordinarily viewed as negative, such as schizophrenia, disidentification and opacity, the authors of my corpus push language to its limits in order to express postcolonial traumatic experiences. Drawing on Lacan’s concept of the real, trauma studies, postcolonial theory and Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, I demonstrate that they successfully “occupy the real:” their dismantling of traditional literary forms – and sometimes of language itself – questions western forms of representation and opens up an ethics of reading that demands the reader takes responsibility for the object of his or her gaze.]
Advisors/Committee Members: Aching, Gerard Laurence (chair), Melas, Natalie Anne-Marie (committee member), Monroe, Jonathan Beck (committee member), Caruth, Cathy (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: African studies; Caribbean literature; Haiti; French literature; Carribean Literature; Postcolonialism
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APA (6th Edition):
Lenoble, A. (2019). How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lenoble, Alex. “How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lenoble, Alex. “How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation.” 2019. Web. 17 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Lenoble A. How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360.
Council of Science Editors:
Lenoble A. How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures Beyond Representation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67360
Cornell University
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Vazquez Rivera, Felix.
Ethics, Poetics, And The Emergence Of The Subject In CéSar Vallejo, Octavio Paz, And Juan Gelman.
Degree: PhD, Romance Studies, 2013, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34007
Subjects/Keywords: Spanish American Poetry; Ethics; Poetics
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Vazquez Rivera, F. (2013). Ethics, Poetics, And The Emergence Of The Subject In CéSar Vallejo, Octavio Paz, And Juan Gelman. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34007
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Vazquez Rivera, Felix. “Ethics, Poetics, And The Emergence Of The Subject In CéSar Vallejo, Octavio Paz, And Juan Gelman.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34007.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Vazquez Rivera, Felix. “Ethics, Poetics, And The Emergence Of The Subject In CéSar Vallejo, Octavio Paz, And Juan Gelman.” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Vazquez Rivera F. Ethics, Poetics, And The Emergence Of The Subject In CéSar Vallejo, Octavio Paz, And Juan Gelman. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34007.
Council of Science Editors:
Vazquez Rivera F. Ethics, Poetics, And The Emergence Of The Subject In CéSar Vallejo, Octavio Paz, And Juan Gelman. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34007
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