Verge 10 (2014-2015)

Hillary Blunt, Your Father Would Be So Proud: A Study on Family Collective Memory of a Deceased Parent

Emily Huebner, Border State Blues: A Civil War Scrapbook in Baltimore

Weston Kulvete, Catacombs and Courtship: Life Imitates the Gothic in Northanger Abbey

Alissa Murray, Los toros, las balas, y la castración-el dilema de la masculinidad en El caballero de Olmedo

Zachary Reese, Corso, Conformity, and Christmas Teeth

Anna Richardson, Broken Fragments of Immortality: Why People Will Always Love Peter Pan

Emilia Slimon, The Orpheus Myth through Nineteenth Century Art

Maureen Winter, L’agent devient l’acteur : un regard sur les méthodes du Théâtre de l’Opprimé et la notion de l’habitus chez Pierre Bourdieu

Phoebe Yeoh, An accidental prediction: The saga of antimatter’s discovery

The Development of Community and Resistance Through Traditional Music Culture

“Perhaps the most relevant to Lorde’s ideas of the erotic and joy, Ehrenreich states, “The joy of the rhythmic activity would have helped overcome the fear of confronting predators and other threats” (Ehrenreich, 26). This is critical to understanding the importance of music and dance in protest. Synchronised singing, dancing, and stomping, galvanises the people, keeps the fear at bay while also intimidating the oppressor in a raucous show of force from a crowd. The act of singing and dancing is a human behaviour so instinctual it has lasted from the primitive human to today, utilizing what Lorde would describe as the erotic, to build and defend a community.”

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