Entre Cassandre et Clytemnestre: le théâtre québécois, 1970–90

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-245
Author(s):  
Dominique Lafon
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Constant State

The purpose of this article is to examine theatre in Quebec as the site of transformation of its collective images as they have evolved through theatrical texts over the past twenty years. Quebec society, in a constant state of mutation as it searches for its national identity, has been particularly receptive to forms of theatre that emphasize the theme of the family. For example, the first important work of this ‘new theatre’ which dared to liberate the language from its French model was Tremblay's Les Belles-Sœurs, a play where all the action is located in a kitchen and whose characters are all women. In the development of Tremblay's work, we see how the discourses of women are taken over by masculine characters, mediated through the transvestite within a homosexual theme and finally liberated from the feminine model by the affirmation of the homosexual couple. In other more recent works, playwrights such as Normand Chaurette and Michel Marc Bouchard, have incorporated the search for a patrilinear descent into the very heart of the family conflict where the mother is put to death in a ritual killing, presented either as a ceremony (Chaurette), or as the unfolding of a myth (Bouchard).In all these cases, the evolution of the fictive family structure is the projection of social transformations taking place in Quebec where the maternal heritage, represented historically by France, is necessarily damaged and eventually eliminated in order to lay claim to a political structure which confirms the rights of the father.

scholarly journals POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY AS AN URGENT PROBLEM IN MODERN PERIOD

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
Guliyeva Shahnaz Guliyeva Shahnaz
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
National Values ◽  
The Family ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
People Development

The article examines the positive psychological issues of the formation of national self-awareness and thinking through instilling in the younger generation, the preservation of the historically established high national and moral values of each nation. One of the main psychological factors in the formation of national self-awareness among each young generation is the awareness of the psychological past of people, which means that knowledge of what moral and psychological qualities they possess and how their people are progressing, which is widely reflected in the article. Because it is impossible to direct future development without knowing the ethnogenesis and ethnopsychological past of the people. Margaret Mead notes that the past of the older generation is the future of the younger generation. First of all, the role of the ethnocultural environment of the family in the formation of national identity is great. The main national values are born in the family, formed and instilled in children by parents in the process of action and communication. In the national consciousness of the younger generation, the family is considered sacred and exalted, perceived as an example of a small state. In the life of every family lives its spirit, spirituality, reflecting the identity of the people, serving the formation of national identity, passed down from generation to generation. Folklore samples, works of classics, historical monuments are of particular importance in obtaining information on the history of the psychological development of the people and play a key role in the formation of national identity and national self-awareness of the younger generation. The formation of national identity is the basis for the active generation and self-realization of the young generation, taking into account the acquisition of certain knowledge about the ethno psychological past of the people. The national consciousness of cognition of the psychological past of its people actively influences the further development of the young generation in terms of national self-development, national self-improvement. A young man who understands himself, feels his national identity with soul and blood, respects his people, is now in the spirit of national identity. But in the younger generation, national consciousness is not a connection with the past, but the preservation of the beauty of their people, propaganda and inspiration of the generation and the world, growing in accordance with the ideology of the time, and the elimination of people's shortcomings. The article emphasizes that the development of national self-awareness should not lead to national egoism, national individualism. Because where there is national egoism, there are outward features that arise exclusively from nationalist tendencies and are not characteristic of other nations and peoples, as well as for the nation itself, which leads to national conflicts between nations and peoples. Keywords: young generation, personality, national self-awareness, people, development.

scholarly journals Az elterelt fiatalok családi hátterének jellemzői Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megyében

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Dóra Barabásné Kárpáti
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Drug Consumption ◽  
Family Problems ◽  
Individual Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Family ◽  
Statistical Program

In the past 10-15 years, the consumption of illegal drugs has increased significantly both in Hungary and in our county. In parallel with the society's getting more and more open, the fulfilment of personal freedom, and the spreading of globalisation and individual culture, the use of drugs has become more and more accessible and acceptable to the young. This study briefly overviews the family background and problems of provincial young people consuming drugs. I have studied 3 problems within this topic: family structure, relations with parents, and family members' drug consumption behaviour. I suppose that family problems are connected with the interviewees' alcohol and other drug consumption. In my research I apply the Euroadad questionnaire. The sample covers 144 interviewees, 76.9% of whom have been "diverted" from jurisdiction. The other respondents have volunteered for the therapy.I have processed the data with the SPSS statistical program package. Having studied the respondents' family structure, I have found no significant difference regarding the co-habitation data for the past 30 days or the past year. The family members' alcohol and drug consumption bears a greater relation to the use of legal drugs than of prohibited ones. The family problems related to parents are connected to the young people's prohibited and legal drug consumption, and fathers play a particularly stressed role. The groups of party drug and amphetamine consumers struggle with more family problems than the groups of marijuana users.

scholarly journals Oscuras quimeras: metamorfosis e híbridos humano-animal en algunos textos de literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Ilaria Stefani
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Identity Concept ◽  
Human Animal

RESUMEN: Este estudio se propone investigar las distintas formas de construcción de identidades posthumanas a partir del elemento arquetípico de la metamorfosis y del híbrido humano-animal. Estas nuevas figuraciones rescatan una perspectiva acerca de lo animal procedente de un imaginario premoderno para deconstruir las categorías que han definido el sujeto humano a partir de la modernidad europea. En algunos textos publicados en los últimos veinte años, la mezcla entre especies plantea un nuevo concepto de identidad: por un lado, se examina cómo el devenir-animal se acompaña a la emancipación de la figura femenina y a la deconstrucción de la idea de familia patriarcal; por el otro, se exploran las conjunciones entre el híbrido humano-animal y el cyborg.   ABSTRACT: This article aims to study the different ways of shaping posthuman identities, which originates from archetypical metamorphoses and human-animal hybrids. This new imaginary rescues a premodern perspective about the animal, in order to dismantle the boundaries that have defined the human subject since the European modern age. In some books published in the past twenty years, the interspecies encounter outlines a new identity concept. Firstly, the article examines how the becoming-animal concept merges with the feminine subject’s emancipation, as well as with the deconstruction of the patriarchal family structure; secondly, it explores the conjunctions between human-animal hybrids and cyborgs.

La familia en México colonial: Una historia de conflictos cotidianos

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Family Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

In recent decades scholars have become interested in the nature of daily life and the history of the family. Studies of those subjects in Mexico, although scattered and unsystematic, now constitute an important body of work. Large questions, such as the formation of a national identity, biological and cultural mestizaje, changes in social organization, and the preservation of traditions and ancestral beliefs, can be better understood if considered from the perspective of family structure, manifestations of daily life, and the relationship between the public and the private. This essay seeks to assess the recent advances in these fields.

Some Changes in Family Support for the Elderly in Poland

1989 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brunon Synak
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Main Direction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Needs

This article touches primarily on the influence that the socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Poland have on the family structure and individual needs of the elderly. Based on several studies in the past 20 years in Poland, I will show the main direction the changes are taking in the patterns of family support (i.e., intergenerational help) for elderly people.

scholarly journals Azerbaijanis in the multiethnic environment of Samara: factors of ethnocultural identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-133
Author(s):  
Yury Nikolaevich Shirinskikh
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cohesive Group

Increased cultural contacts between representatives of different ethnic groups affect the process of self-identification of their members. Especially it concerns migrant communities. Examination of the problem of ethnicity is especially important due to the fact that the ethnic community exists until there are ethnoconsolidating factors. Within the framework of this research factors of Samaras Azerbaijanis ethnic identity were revealed. Representatives of the Azerbaijani community of Samara base their own identity on differential features. Language is the most important factor of ethnic identity. The Azerbaijani language is the most functional in communication with relatives, friends and acquaintances, in the family. The intensity of intra-ethnic contacts leads to the necessity of language skills and stimulates stable reproduction of the ethnic group. Language skills are transmitted to children from their parents and older relatives. Traditional family structure, traditional food, holidays and mourning days are also factors of ethnic identity of Samaras Azerbaijanis. These components allow Samara Azerbaijanis to realize their national identity and to preserve themselves as a cohesive group. Azerbaijanis of Samara realize the importance of these identity factors whose preservation is one of the main aims of national and cultural associations.

Family, Religion and the American Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
D. Eric Schansberg ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
American Experiment ◽  
The Republic

Indications are that the success of the American experiment is fading. Perceived declines in family and religion are of particular concern as key aspects of civil society. But family and religion are difficult to measure, and it is challenging to have clarity about our own times and the past. The 1950s are commonly seen as the end of a long run of success for religion and family in America. Yet marriage and family have consistently gone through cycles of growth and decline. Thus, post-World War II religion was more “civil religion” than Christianity. To gain perspective on the past and envision the future, this essay revisits two classic books: Carle Zimmerman’s 1947 study of the family and Will Herberg’s 1955 study of religion. Zimmerman describes a decline in family structure that seems to fit the last 50 years. But other literature indicates that we may be at the trough of a cycle in family structure. How much does family structure matter to society, and what is the future of the family in America? Herberg describes religion as largely a way of “belonging”--more cultural than religious. How do cultural and “religious” dimensions contribute to the health of a society? Without vibrant religious faith and strong families, can we keep the republic?

Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Prevailing View ◽  
The Way

At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland’s national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism. Whereas 19th-century Scotland is popularly depicted as a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book shows how Scotland’s national heroes were once the embodiment of a consistent, expressive and robust view of Scottish nationality. Whether celebrating the legacy of William Wallace and Robert Bruce, the reformer John Knox, the Covenanters, 19th-century Scots rooted their national heroes in a Presbyterian and unionist view of Scotland’s past. Examined through the prism of commemoration, this book uncovers collective memories of Scotland’s past entirely opposed to 21st-century assumptions of medieval proto-nationalism and Calvinist misery. Detailed studies of 19th-century commemoration of Scotland’s national heroes Uncovers an all but forgotten interpretation of these ‘great Scots’ Shines a new light on the mindset of nineteenth-century Scottish national identity as being comfortably Scottish and British Overturns the prevailing view of Victorian Scottishness as parochial, sentimental tartanry

Niepełna rodzina jako zaburzenie prawidłowego funkcjonowania struktur rodzinnych

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-142
Author(s):  
Michał Kuzdak
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family

The author discusses the topic of families, especially incomplete. The work is about the disorganization of the family structure, showing its causes and history. The article describes the dangers of modern family and relations on the parentchild line. The author refers to economic emigration as one of the reasons for the loosening of family ties and the cause of incomplete families.

Macedonia Faculties’ Students - “Chrisi Avgi” (Right Party) Followers’ Critique on the Greek Educational Policy

2014 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalerante Evagelia
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
History Books

AbstractThe present paper is involved with the Pedagogical faculties’ students’ critique on the current educational system as it has been altered after 1981. The research was carried out utilizing both quantitative and qualitative tools. Students-voters participated in the interviews whereas active voters were difficult to be located to meet the research requirements. The dynamics of the specific political party is based on a popular profile in terms of standpoints related to economic, social and political issues. The research findings depict the students’ strong wish for a change of the curricula and a turn towards History and Religion as well as an elevation of the Greek historic events, as the History books that have been written and taught at schools over the past years contributed to the downgrading of the Greek national and cultural identity. There is also a students’ strong belief that globalization and the immigrants’ presence in Greece have functioned in a negative way against the Greek ideal. Therefore, an overall change of the educational content could open the path towards the reconstruction of the moral values and the Greek national identity.

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