Search results for "Narratives"
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Narrating ambivalence of maternal responsibility
2007
Early motherhood and caring for the infant involve a moral ambiguity that is related to the questions of responsibility and vulnerability. By means of the ethics of care, motherhood can be understood as belonging to the moral domain, as relational, and as linked with everyday social situations. The culturally dominant narratives of ‘good mothering’ easily naturalise and normatise maternal agency. This study illustrates the process of adopting responsibility for the infant and the moral ambivalence that is inscribed in early maternal care. The data consist of four interview sessions with each of seven first-time mothers conducted during pregnancy and the first post-natal year. The interview…
La tradition italienne du roman de chevalerie dans le miroir du "Don Quichotte"
2019
Résumé La tradition italienne du roman de chevalerie et le Don Quichotte ont été mis en relation principalement de deux manières. En premier lieu, la critique moderne a souvent rapproché le Quichotte du Roland furieux de l?Arioste en raison d?un dialogue à la fois textuel et structurel d?une grande complexité, s?étalant sur plusieurs niveaux de composition ; en outre, la réception et la canonisation des deux chefs-d??uvre, successifs mais idéalement conjoints, ont été liées à la dissolution de l?idéal chevaleresque, à la fondation du roman moderne, et même à la naissance de l?idée moderne de l?Homme. En deuxième lieu, le Quichotte représente une sorte de « stade du miroir » du genre après C…
Beyond Lampedusa: Africa Meets Europe / Para Lá de Lampedusa: A África Encontra a Europa
2013
The volume, resulting from a photograph exhibit that travelled the globe (Portugal, China, USA, Nigeria, Italy, etc.), offers a miscellaneous portrayal of the history of African photography and its influence on non-African imaginings of Africa and the African diaspora in all its diversity. My essay comments on the photographic representation of the black body in Italy in both colonial and postcolonial times.
"For beyond this trading community lies family life" : filiation et écriture dans Crossing the River
2016
This paper examines the relationship between filiation, affiliation and writing in Crossing the River. First, it examines the diversity of literary genres incorporated, revisited and juxtaposed in a novel often defined by its polyphonic structure. This analysis leads to a study of the ways in which family ties, and particularly the links between parents and children, are staged in the text through a complex pattern of repetitions and inversions. The echoes which connect, and sometimes oppose, the various parts of the novel suggest that repetition and inversion are the tools through which family identity is constructed throughout the novel. The reason behind these textual strategies may also…
”Jag var slö och slapp och somnade nu lite varstans” : förvandling som narrativ i diagnosberättelser om diabetes typ 1
2018
I artikeln belyses hur individer upplever sjukdom och diagnos genom personliga erfarenhetsberättelser om diabetes typ 1. Med artikeln strävas efter att besvara frågorna: Hur berättar personer med diabetes typ 1 om att insjukna i diabetes? Vad karaktäriserar en diagnosberättelse? I analysen av berättelserna tas avstamp i medicinsociologen Arthur Franks teori om tre typer av narrativ (återgångsberättelser, kaosberättelser och utforskande berättelser). En definition av begreppet diagnosberättelse presenteras och diskuteras. Materialet består av sex berättelser. Intervjupersonerna är tre kvinnor och tre män i olika åldrar. Syftet med artikeln är att pröva den narrativa teorin kring sjukdomstill…
Civilization and sexual abuse: selected Indian captivity narratives and the Native American boarding-school experience
2019
This paper offers a contrastive analysis of Indian captivity narratives and the Native American boarding-school experience. Indian captivity narratives describe the ordeals of white women and men, kidnapped by Indians, who were separated from their families and subsequently lived months or even years with Indian tribes. The Native American boarding-school experience, which began in the late nineteenth century, took thousands of Indian children from their parents for the purpose of “assimilation to civilization” to be facilitated through governmental schools, thereby creating a captivity of a different sort. Through an examination of these two different types of narratives, this paper reveal…
Language students and emerging identities
2012
The aim of our article is to study written narratives as a way of expressing emerging identities as second language (L2) users. We compare narratives written by Finnish students of Swedish during their first semester (24 essays) with data collected after the third year of study (9 essays), thereby trying to figure out how the university context has affected the development of the students as L2 users. L2 learning is regarded as a complex project entailing constant identity formation as a plurilingual subject. We see identity as a process, as something flexible, hybrid and multifaceted. Identity evolves in participation and it always includes a temporal dimension. The language learning proce…
"The woman that we all need" : Kate Bush in the eyes of American fans
2015
Populaarimusiikin fanittaminen on yksi jokapäiväisistä ilmiöistä länsimaisessa kulttuurissa ja yhteiskunnassa. Kate Bush, brittiläinen muusikko, jonka ura on kestänyt yli kolme vuosikymmentä, on saavuttanut vankan fanipohjan ympäri maailmaa. Yhdysvaltalaisten Kate Bush -fanien ajatellaan kuitenkin olevan harvinaisia, sillä Bush ei ole saavuttanut Yhdysvalloissa musiikillisesti samanlaista asemaa kuten vaikkapa Euroopassa. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tuoda esiin Kate Bushin amerikkalaisia faneja, ja tutkia, kuinka he näkevät Kate Bushin artistina. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan Kate Bushin statusta osallistujien elämässä ja heidän emotionaalista suhtautumistaan Bushiin ja hänen musiikkii…
University Exchange Students’ Practices of Learning Finnish: A Language Ecological Approach to Affordances in Linguistic Landscapes
2020
In linguistic landscape (LL) studies, various projects have demonstrated how language learners benefit from tasks that involve the documentation and interpretation of the LL. In this chapter, we investigate how Finnish as a second language learner exchange students turned the local LL into affordances during their time abroad in Finland. While language awareness and its relation to learning and teaching have been extensively discussed, it has often been regarded as a property of an individual consciousness: a faculty or a tendency of a particular person to perceive, notice and reflect upon the linguistic features present in their environments. In contrast, we argue for an approach that cont…
Narrativas visuales pedagógicas de reconstrucción identitaria
2020
El artículo presenta los principales resultados de una investigación basada en la metodología de la Investigación Educativa Basada en las Artes. Mediante la construcción de narrativas simbólicas de visualización identitaria y de comprensión y análisis de relatos biográficos creativos, con una finalidad pedagógica y de mejora y comprensión de la identidad propia. Se expone el desarrollo de esta propuesta de investigación, a partir de prácticas pedagógicas y artísticas, con alumnado de un Máster en Educación Secundaria. La propuesta parte de la utilización de la fotografía, la performance y la narrativa como recursos artísticos de mediación en la construcción de nuevos relatos biográficos de …