http://winnspace.uwinnipeg.ca:80 The WinnSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. 2012-05-16T21:31:19Z http://hdl.handle.net/10680/415 Bite Me: Abjection, Eroticism and the Breaking of Skin in True Blood Chorney, Meagen Through the relationship between vampires and humans on the television show True Blood, the abject image of biting skin and sucking blood becomes highly eroticized and romanticized. True Blood takes the image of the vampire, once considered a monster, and makes it something desirable. True Blood turns a violent act of penetrating and breaking the skin into an erotic one in which the ‘victim’ willingly allows these skin borders to be broken down, blurring self and other, abject and erotic. The blurring of abject and erotic in True Blood signifies the empowerment of women in choosing what could appear to be a victimizing role. True Blood’s language of choice and differentiation of choice vs. force emphasizes that violent sexuality and erotic abjection can be a strong indicator of a woman’s power and liberation, and I therefore argue that True Blood can be read as an empowering representation of female sexuality. 2012-05-07T05:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10680/414 The German Home and Child as Traumascape: The Problematic Site of the German Child Victim in North American World War II Narratives Lezubski, Kirstian While the strategic use of the figure of the child in narratives of German victimization has not gone unnoticed, the use of setting—an integral part of these narratives of individual and national crisis—has often been taken for granted. This paper examines the relationship between the figure of the child and setting in three North American World War II narratives that feature German children as victims. It finds that these narratives locate the healing of the traumatized child and/or setting on foreign soil or through foreign intervention. By examining this trend through Maria Tumarkin’s concept of the traumascape, this paper concludes that these texts appropriate the figure of the traumatized German child in order to reaffirm traditional North American family values and concepts of childhood, rather than to address or confront contentious issues of German victimization. 2012-04-23T05:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10680/411 Passing the Buck? Examining Canadian Banks Approaches to Financial Exclusion Buckland, Jerry The purpose of this report is to examine what Canadian banks say they are doing to address financial exclusion by identifying what banks understand about its causes, consequences, and solutions. Relevant bank-related publications are reviewed and the results of a series of interviews with bankers are reported on. 37 pp. 2012-02-14T06:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10680/410 How Well Are Poor People Served by Canadian Banks? Testing Consumer Treatment Using Mystery Shopping Buckland, Jerry; Brennan, Marilyn; Fikkert, Antonia This study reports on results from a mystery shopping method that was designed to see how lowincome people were treated by banks in a simple shopping event. Banks that were shopped include mainstream and fringe banks. Mystery shopping was used as a research method to obtain quantitative and qualitative insights on the behaviour of financial service staff toward low-income people. 55 pages. Appendices. 2012-02-14T06:00:00Z