232 research outputs found
Dionne Brand
No full textDionne Brand, a 2011 campus author, recieving her plaque from Catherine Steeves, Deputy CIO & Associate Chief Librarian, on behalf of all 2011 authors at the Campus Author Recognition Program annual reception, October 27, 2011
Chaos, loss, passage and desire. The experience of diaspora in the works of Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Levy and Dionne Brand
No full textThis thesis brings together the visions of four women writers of West Indian descent (Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Levy and Dionne Brand) and interprets their works through the most established theories of diaspora and postcolonial studies in the attempt to illustrate the composite nature of the experience of Caribbean diaspora. It lies on the premise that such a complex phenomenon must be interpreted as both an historical event, a private happening and a socio-cultural revolution, and leads to the conclusion that one single voice cannot be enough to represent its comprehensive identity. Multivocality thus becomes a necessity and the idea of assembling the images produced by a group of authors rather, than concentrating on one particular imagery, serves to foster a bird’s eye vision able to render the kaleidoscopic character of this experience. Each chapter turns around one of these writers, whose work is interpreted according to one dominant image. Resorting to a strategy based on the collection of apparently disparate images, this thesis reinforces the idea that the complexity of the Caribbean experience of diaspora cannot be interpreted univocally and that loss, desire, chaos and transition are the leading forces of this phenomenon
Dionne School District No. 4813
No full textPhotograph - A view of the Dionne School building, Alberta. ATS 1-65-15-W
Investigating Occupational Therapy Using Upper-Extremity Electrical Stimulation in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
This presentation reports the findings from a survey of 63 occupational therapists who used electrical stimulation when treating patients with spinal cord injury. The study findings offer a snapshot of an emerging intervention area that is not yet standardized.
Primary Author and Speaker: Timothy Dionne
Contributing Authors: James Lenker</jats:p
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
No full textA mythic, propulsive novel about the tangled fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine.Your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes, they call for vengeance.Babs Dionne, proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town of Waterville, Maine, with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a Marine vet struggling with addiction.When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in the upper northeast, he sends a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs’s youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn’t seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs’s wrath.The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne is a crime saga like no other, with a ferocious matriarch at its bruised, beating heart. With sharp wit and profound empathy, award-winning author Ron Currie, delivers an unforgettable novel exploring love, retribution, and the ancestral roots that both nurture and trap us.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1697/thumbnail.jp
Reconstructing identities: a study of Toni Morrison´s beloved and Dionne Brand´s at the full and change of the moom
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoAnálise das obras Beloved e At the Full and Change of the Moon, investigando de que maneira a reconstrução do passado, presente nestes dois romances, influencia a reconstrução da identidade negra. Para esta análise, utilizei alguns conceitos sobre identidade discutidos por Frantz Fanon, Stuart Hall e Cornel West. Estes entendem a identidade negra como um conceito que foi construído através da imposição de estereótipos coloniais. Além disso, vêem a identidade negra mais como um processo do que algo já fixado. Como nos romances analisados o passado colonial é "re-contado", tento mostrar aqui a relação da escravatura com as estratégias de identificação que as duas autoras retratam em suas obras. Já que cada autora narra experiências diferentes e fala de um local enunciativo específico, elas também retratam diferentes estratégias de formação de identidade. Em Beloved, a identidade é construída através da resistência à dominação branca, o que leva a uma estratégia emancipatória de sobrevivência. Já em At the Full and Change of the Moon, a identidade negra é desintegrada, pois os negros estão espalhados por todo o mundo, o que leva a uma estratégia assimilacionista. Este trabalho conclui que as duas autoras tentam mostrar a importância do entendimento da experiência de escravidão para a reconstrução das identidades negra
Influx, 2001, volume 16, issue 6: digital/analog
No full textAssistant editors: Jacob Krarup, Morgan Watt, Nigel Reeves, Ocean Dionne, Robin Cameron. Contributors: Albert Song, Andrew Dadson, Benjamin Asa Smith, Christopher A. Olsen, Corinna vanGerwen, Curt, Emma, Evelyn Brosseau, Gordon Schmidt, Ian Walker, Janet Glover, Julian Gosper, Kristina Bumphrey, Matt X, Micheal Jamieson, Morgan Watt, Niall Mclellan, Nigel Reeves, Ocean Dionne, Richard Lawley, Robin Cameron, Shayne Ehman, Sharon Kahanoff, Terence Koh, TJ Anzai.
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“Black States”: Diasporic Affect in the Prose of Dionne Brand
No full text Analyzing several prose works by author Dionne Brand, this paper explores the degree to which contemporary theories of diaspora and affect, considered jointly, might direct new critical attention upon the frequent depiction of unnerving and impersonally circulating feeling in black art. A theory of diasporic affect’ is cautiously advanced, mindful of the biases and academic fashionability of the terms diaspora’ and especially affect,’ yet hopeful that such a conjugated term may help provide a deeper critical appreciation of Brand’s prose oeuvre as an ethics, art practice, and cultural politics of the unsettled.’ </jats:p
Beyond Bars: How Print and Visual Media Contributed to the Exploitation of the Dionne Quintuplets and the Gosselin Sextuplets
No full textThis paper explores the depiction of the historic Dionne Quintuplets and the modern-day Gosselin Sextuplets in order to demonstrate how the emergence of mass media (e.g., television, photography, and print) made these children’s likeness into commodities. The author also focuses on consent and freakification of aspects related to the nuclear family and gender roles
Influx, 2001, volume 16, issue 7: the new graffiti issue
No full textAssistant editors: Robin Cameron, Morgan Watt, Nigel Reeves, Ocean Dionne. Contributors: Aki Takabatake, Albert Song, Andre Arnold, Andrew Dadson, Benjamin Asa Smith, Carly Haddon, Chris VonSzombathy, Claire Schagerell, Corinna vanGerwin, David Spriggs, Donato Mancini, Elizabeth Zvonar, Emilie O'Brien, Ephriam Hsu, Eric J. Hogan, Erin Beniferro, Evelyn Brosseau, Gord Schmidt, Ian Walker, Jackie Wechsler, Jan Dvorak, Jeremy Turner, Julia Fryer, Morgan Watt, Niall Mclelland, Nic Lyons, Nigel Reeves, Ocean Dionne, Pat Rafferty, Robin Cameron, Shauna Kaendo, Terence Koh, Tim Barber, TJ Anzai, Tony Romano.
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