scholarly journals Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models

2022 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Hanna Meretoja
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractThis chapter examines a new form of autofiction that has emerged in the twenty-first century, which the chapter proposes to call metanarrative autofiction. Such writing displays awareness of how our ways of narrating our lives are socially, culturally, and historically conditioned. The chapter conceptualizes metanarrativity in this context as a form of self-reflexive storytelling that makes narrative its theme, reflecting not only on the process of its own narration but also on the roles of cultural narrative models in making sense of our lives. The chapter discusses affordances of metanarrative autofiction in Annie Ernaux’s Les Années (The Years) (2008), Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Min kamp (My Struggle) (2009–2011), and the Finnish singer-songwriter Astrid Swan’s Viimeinen kirjani (2019, My Last Book).

scholarly journals New Chinglish and the Post-Multilingualism challenge: Translanguaging ELF in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wei
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Chinese Speakers ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Generation

AbstractBuilding on the extensive ELF research that aims to reconceptualise English as a resource that can be appropriated and exploited without allegiance to its historically native speakers, this article explores the issue of English in China by examining New Chinglish that has been created and shared by a new generation of Chinese speakers of English in China and spread through the new media. This new form of English has distinctive Chinese characteristics and serves a variety of communicative, social and political purposes in response to the Post-Multilingualism challenges in China and beyond. I approach New Chinglish from a Translanguaging perspective, a theoretical perspective that is intended to raise fundamental questions about the validity of conventional views of language and communication and to contribute to the understanding of the Post-Multilingualism challenges that we face in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals La ética y el desafío de vivir una ciudadanía democrática “La ética en la educación desde una perspectiva en común”

2016 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Antonio Calderón
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

ResumenNuestro Siglo XXI vive cambios muy profundos, los cuales están basados en las nuevas tecnologías, nuevos medios de comunicación, nuevas formas de relaciones humanas y nueva forma de hacer cultura, es decir, es un modo nuevo de ver el mundo con otros ojos, pero, es en este ver y rever, donde se va descubriendo una trama de problemas con connotaciones muy profundas que afectan al ser humano y a toda la arquitectura de los entramados sociales vigentes, en estado de democracia. Ahora bien, estos nuevos comportamientos o hábitos, deben ser objetos de estudio. La Ética y la pedagogía deben ser las primeras interesadas en ella, pues es la segunda puerta por donde las nuevas generaciones deben construir sus hábitos para una vivencia y convivencia más humana y humanizada. Nuestra propuesta es una vivencia desde la ética pedagógica en un contexto marcado por la pluralidad.Palabras clave: Ética pedagógica - pluralidad - comunicación - diálogo - educación en valores - hábitos AbstractThis Twenty-First Century experiences very deep changes based on newtechnologies, new media, new forms of human relations and new form ofculture, that is, a new way of seeing the world with new eyes. And it is inthis viewing and reviewing where we discover a variety of problems withdeep connotations affecting humans and the entire architecture of theexisting social frameworks, in a state of democracy. These new behaviorsand/or habits must be subjected to study. Ethics and pedagogy shouldbe the first interested, because they represent the second opportunityfor the younger generations build their habits for living and sharing ina more humanized way. Our proposal is an experience from teachingethics in a context marked by plurality.Keywords: Pedagogical ethics, pluralism, communication, dialogue,education in values, habits ResumoO nosso século XXI, vive mudanças muito profundas, que são baseadasnas novas tecnologias, novos médios de comunicação, novas formas derelações humanas e nova forma de fazer cultura, ou seja, é uma novamaneira de ver o mundo com outros olhos, mas neste ver e rever, ondevai-se descobrindo uma trama de problemas com conotações profundasque afetam ao ser humano e toda a arquitetura das estruturas sociais existentes,em estado de democracia. Agora, esses novos comportamentos e /ou hábitos devem ser objetos de estudo. A ética e a pedagogia devem seras primeiras interessadas nela, pois é a segunda porta por onde as novasgerações devem construir seus hábitos para uma vivencia e convivênciamais humana e humanizada. Nossa proposta é uma vivencia desde a éticapedagógica num contexto marcado pela pluralidade.Palavras-chave: Ética pedagógica, pluralidade, comunicação, diálogo,educação em valores, hábitos.

Tahrir Memoirs: Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahia Abdel Nasser
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
University Campus ◽  
New Form ◽  
Tahrir Square ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The University

This chapter examines new Arab memoirs and the effects of the Arab revolutions in the twenty-first century on the genre. The genre of the Tahrir memoir, a form that focuses on subjectivity in the broader movement rather than solitude, reworks Arab memoirs in the twenty-first century. Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince wrote new memoirs that chronicle the writers’ involvement in Egypt’s 2011 revolution. The chapter focuses on Ashour’s Heavier than Radwa: Fragments of an Autobiography (2013) and the posthumously published The Scream (2014), including The Journey (1983) and Specters (1999), with Mona Prince’s Revolution Is My Name (2012). Both Ashour and Prince offer a new form in which writing, activism, the university campus, and Tahrir Square are deeply intertwined, with parts that focus on the writers’ medical or professional crises within Egypt’s revolution.

Twentieth-Century Orthodox Reception of Aquinas

2021 ◽  
pp. 441-451
Author(s):  
Marcus Plested
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
First Century ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
Twenty First Century

The reception of Aquinas in the twentieth century must be understood in the context of the experience of political instability, exile, and Communist oppression that affected, in one way or another, virtually all the theology of the period. In this century, the anti-Westernism of the Russian Slavophiles reaches something of a peak, with Aquinas routinely held up as an archetypal representative of a theological tradition quite foreign to that of the Orthodox Church. That said, there are a number of examples of a more nuanced and less polemical approach to Aquinas that serve to provide hope for a less confrontational (if still duly critical) engagement with Aquinas within Orthodox theology in the twenty-first century. Such an engagement would, in fact, be not unlike that widely found in the Byzantine and early modern periods.

Australian Masculinity on the Road

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-236
Author(s):  
Philip Butterss
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Road ◽  
True Love ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Ways Of Being

In an Australia where the old images of masculinity are no longer serviceable, the road provides an ideal site for films wishing to explore ways of being a man at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, True Love and Chaos, Doing Time for Patsy Cline and Kiss or Kill critique or destabilise traditional models of masculinity, and use the road as a space where masculinity is free to change. However, as Pamela Robertson (1997: 271) has pointed out, the road movie is ‘a genre obsessed with home’. The closure of all four films involves establishing a new form of home, and in doing so demonstrates how difficult it is to reintegrate credibly the changes experienced on the road into a domestic unit that is fulfilling for all its members.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Community and Identity in Twenty-First Century Technoscience

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Karen Kastenhofer ◽  
Susan Molyneux-Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
First Century ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis introductory chapter begins with the empirical example of synthetic biology, a case that has challenged our own thinking, provoking us to re-address the concepts of scientific ‘community’ and ‘identity’ in contemporary technoscience. The chapter then moves on to a delineation of the conceptualisations of community and identity in past sociologies of science, highlighting open questions, promising avenues and potential shortcomings in explaining contemporary conditions. Following this, the individual contributions to this volume are presented, including their analyses on community and identity constellations and the related effects on the contemporary technosciences as institutions, practices and living spaces. This is achieved with a focus on common themes that come to the fore from the various contributions. In a final discussion, we take stock of our attempt at re-addressing community and identity in contemporary technoscientific contexts and discuss where this has brought us; which ambiguities could not be resolved and which questions seem promising starting points for further conceptual and empirical endeavour.

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