Thesis
Re-mapping Mansfield Park: decolonizing nineteenth-century British canonical fiction through digital visualization tools
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
05/2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000000080
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/119274
Abstract
In “Decolonizing the Digital Humanities in Theory and Practice,” Roopika Risam prompts
the DH practitioners to use digital tools to deconstruct Western epistemological structures, recover
the data hidden or silenced by those structures, re-centralize the marginalized narratives, and create
counter-narratives that challenge the existing forms of misrepresentation. Echoing Risam, I argue
that digital tools can open up alternative ways of representing and teaching canonical literature to
help students understand more covert forms of colonial structure sustained by the ways canonical
texts are circulated, perceived, and taught. My thesis presents a Scalar project currently in
development, titled Re-Mapping Mansfield Park: In Search of the Silenced Spaces of Slave
History, as well as provides a critical analysis of its development. The project re-frames Jane
Austen’s novel Mansfield Park by developing an alternative story universe that juxtaposes
Austen’s story and parallel historical incidents in the nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Using
this project as an example, I argue how technologically-enhanced critical frameworks contribute
to enhancing the experience of reading canonical texts, while providing new directions in
understanding these texts as part of global historical process. I also demonstrate the findings of a study that I conducted at Washington State University to test the potential of my project as a
decolonial pedagogical tool.
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- Title
- Re-mapping Mansfield Park: decolonizing nineteenth-century British canonical fiction through digital visualization tools
- Creators
- NAZUA IDRIS
- Contributors
- ROGER TODD WHITSON (Degree Supervisor) - Washington State University, English, Department ofLEEANN DOWNING HUNTER (Degree Supervisor) - Washington State University, English, Department ofTODD WAYNE BUTLER (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Arts and Sciences, College ofDONNA MARIE CAMPBELL (Committee Member) - Washington State University, English, Department of
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- English, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 122
- Identifiers
- 99900591862901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis