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What is Monologue

Handbook of Research on Communication Strategies for Taboo Topics
The ground upon which people gather and sustain their identity. This monologic ground that holds their identity is what people will live, die, or kill for.
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Racism in the United States: Messy Conversations About Exceptionalism, Passivity, and Why America Has Yet to Overcome
Jessica Neu (Duquesne University, USA) and Nathaniel B. Cox (Duquesne University, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9125-3.ch005
Abstract
This chapter explores American exceptionalism, which is rooted in the Anglo-Saxon myth and Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism, and expands the concept to imply that those of Caucasian Nationality are a superior body politic. The goal is not to re-write America's story, but to rather use this scholarship to clarify and illuminate portions of America's history that society has ignored and to examine how we have arrived in a historical moment fueled by a sense of passive activism in which fighting for equality is trendy, but not necessarily transformative. American exceptionalism is tied to the notion of White and Black as an American creation, and the Black body as demonized to prove that American exceptionalism is rooted in the fabric of America's founding and still threads through Democracy today in the form of White supremacy.
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Jordi Casanovas' #Coronavirusplays: Spanish and Catalan Micro-Theatre Within the Framework of the Project COVID-19 LiTraPan
A speech given by a single character. It was traditionally a device used in theatre—a speech to be given on stage—, but in Postmodern aesthetics it refers also to other literary genres and artistic languages (film, etc.).
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