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The Toxicity of Otherness
Justin Malone
This poster is a brief overview of my research on the dangerous philosophical principle of Othering, wherein a group of people are ostracized for being different from the majority. While categorization of information is a fundamental aspect of how the brain works, the categorization of people homogenizes their complexities. In doing so, a group is seen as a single entity, rather than individuals, which strips them of their humanity. After a group has been Othered, society will inevitably invoke some method of forced displacement upon them. Additionally, the article this poster summarizes puts emphasis on the importance of affected individuals telling the stories of their experiences with oppression from Othering. Sharing one’s personal experience in this way breaks down the barrier formed by societal Othering, reinstating an empathetic connection.
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Life On Wheels
James C. Mangum
This analysis offers an insightful look into an aspect of travel and modernity that has gone seemingly unnoticed in the culture of American Mobility. As a social product space is created to serve the function of something integral in society. Working individuals need offices for example, students need schools, and citizens need residences. These are created spaces of society that intersect the realities of life, and an automobile is how we get to and from these spaces. Modernity has allowed us to stretch the ideas of mobility and space by combining the two. This analysis is an in depth look at three examples in the modern American culture of travel that represent a creation of space, a new social product that merges automobile with functional space. This new creation of a mobile space, constitutes ideas of Lefebvre that are also explored. It is the result of a need for travel, and a need for a representative space to be interpreted through.
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Alienation, and Its Antidote
Anna Nissley
This poster visually portrays and distills arguments within the paper of the same name, outlining its principal arguments and incorporating pictures of people/landscapes discussed within.
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Societal Rebirth: The Importance of Spirituality
Lauren Rothstein
The two texts Grapes of Wrath and Black Elk Speaks both include moments of anonymous forces imposing systematic modernization on society. Through the controversial subject of societal rebirths, traditionally defined through employment and steady food source availability. I propose an approach to societal rebirths that emphasizes the importance of spiritual connection to the land through a critical analysis of Bakhtin’s theory of chronotope and Leopold’s theory of land ethic.
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The Road That Got Us Here
Kayla M. Rotz
This article attempts to explain the romanticism of Native American culture existing in The United States and how it came to be. Through a chain of events this romanticism began. Forced Migration caused a social divide creating a separate social space for Native American people. Because of this negative social space we may see hegemony begin to take place. The American Government took Native children from their homes and forced them to assimilate into the general American population, thus creating a domino effect. In many cases children carry on a culture for other generations. However if these children are forced to assimilate, their culture will then begin to decline. Between a dying culture and forced isolation, we further alienate Native Americans, causing their romanticization.
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Rebellion and Change on the Road Poster
Natalie Rude
This article talks about rebellion, which has always been a prominent piece of American history, but it has always been associated with world changing events. Rebellion is an action that is anything, regardless of size, that is out of the ordinary that results in personal change while on the road. Unfortunately, Rebellion on the road is gendered, meaning that while men can rebel and change wherever they wish, women can only rebel on the road, and all the personal changes women make disappear as soon as they leave the road. This is largely due to the social spaces constructed by certain cultural norms. This paper specifically looks at Free Air by Sinclair Lewis, Frank L. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Hope’s Highway by Dorothy Garlock.
These posters are part of the final assignment of the course: Traveling American Modernism, ENG 366, Fall 2018, taught by Dr. Andrew Vogel.
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