Personal Narratives and the Creation of a Political Voice

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-98
Author(s):  
Sean Akerman
Keyword(s):  
South Sudan ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Political Voice ◽  
Narrative Account

Chapter 3 focuses on voice—in particular, how personal narratives become embedded in a political voice for many exiled groups. The author illustrates this tangled relationship in his fieldwork and then elaborates on it through the work of scholars who have written on the Harkis of France and on refugees in South Sudan. What becomes clear in these accounts is that personal narratives of exile provide a challenge to the understanding of what a narrative account means by the degree of a narrator’s investment in audience, testimony, witnessing, and a need to speak with unquestioned authority. The author also considers the narrative form many of these accounts take: hope.

scholarly journals Same but Different: Chaos and TV Drama Narratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alison McLachlan
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Mathematics And Science ◽  
The Way

<p>Complexity is a term that is now commonly used when discussing TV serial dramas and the way that, in recent years, creators and producers of this narrative form have embraced innovative and challenging strategies to tell their stories. As a result, it is also often argued that all TV serial dramas are strikingly different from one another; one of the few things that contemporary TV serial dramas have in common is their employment of complex narrative strategies. However, in this thesis, I argue that—while serial dramas are different from one another in many ways—they are also all the same at a fundamental level.  In order to examine the fundamental narrative components that all serial dramas employ, I use chaos as a framework. Chaos is a branch of mathematics and science which examines systems that display unpredictable behaviour that is actually determined by deep structures of order and stability. At its most basic level, chaos corresponds with the way in which serial dramas are both complex and simple at the same time; beneath the complexity of serial dramas are fundamental building blocks that are used to generate innovative, challenging and unpredictable narratives.  I apply the findings from my critical examination of chaos and TV drama narratives to the creation of my own TV projects, which employ the inherent structures and patterns of TV drama narratives in a way that produces innovative and complex stories. In doing so, I intend to highlight the potential of serial dramas to be endlessly creative yet consistently the same.</p>

scholarly journals History Teaching and Narrative Tools

2016 ◽  
pp. 70-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Zanazanian
Keyword(s):  
Minority Group ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Language Community ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Creation

Based on an analysis of five English-speaking students’ written narratives on Quebec’s history, this article proposes a pedagogical tool for better integrating and vitalizing these students’ language community in Quebec. Despite tendencies of reliance and opposition emerging from their historical consciousness, these students do not employ clearly articulated and coherent English-speaking storylines for positioning themselves as a minority group. To this end, I suggest the creation of schematic narrative templates of English-speaking Quebec’s collective historical experiences for offering students workable springboards to develop personal narratives of belonging, while taking Francophone concerns of linguistic and cultural fragility into account.

Beginning and End: Exploring the Qur͗anic ‘Grand Story’

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Form ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Human Attributes

This chapter discusses the Qur'anic ‘grand story’, which refers to the underlying, basic conceptual scheme that informs Qur'anic stories and bestows meaning and coherence on them. Ths basic conceptual scheme is predicated on a relationship between humankind and God that leads to either salvation or damnation. In expressing this relationship, the Qur'anic narrative form turns God into a person with a dramatic presence and human attributes. The chapter reflects on the beginnings as expressed by the creation story and on the eschatological future. It cites the cosmic beginning as the seed of the Qur'anic grand story; this beginning is a preparation of the physical stage for the climactic moment of the human beginning when God creates Adam. It also explains how the creation story and the specificity of the ‘Adamic beginning’ relate to the grand story.

Sudan: Soldiers and Civilians, 1958–2019

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
The South ◽  
Democratic Government ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of

Sudan has had an unstable relationship between soldiers and civilians since shortly after it came to independence in 1956. This has resulted in three military coups, in 1958, 1969, and 1989, all of which gave rise to successful, peaceful civilian resistance seeking democratic government in 1964, 1985, and 2018. In the south of the country, two lengthy civil wars started under periods of military rule and resulted in separation and the creation of South Sudan in 2011, in which the very definition of “soldiers” and “civilians” is central to continuing conflicts.

New states in South Sudan could entrench patronage

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Sudan ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Security Concerns

Subject Governance in South Sudan. Significance In late 2015, President Salva Kiir ordered that the country’s ten states be redrawn to create 28 states. In January, he then ordered the creation of four more states, taking the total to 32. This is unfolding against limited outbreaks of fighting around the country, sometimes in areas which were more stable in past periods of insecurity. Kiir is trying to keep alive the Transitional Government of National Unity, formed out of the 2015 peace agreement but jeopardised by the crisis in mid-2016. Impacts Localised upsurges of fighting will continue, risking a larger crisis. Juba will watch for evidence of Sudanese or Ethiopian support for Machar that may exacerbate security concerns. No one has the power to topple Kiir, except potentially for a senior military figure in Juba. The creation of new states will do little for the prospects of needed investment and development.

Constrained Agency and Power in Surrogates’ Everyday Lives

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisy Deomampo
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Global Surrogacy ◽  
Structural Inequalities

Chapter 7 outlines the complexities of agency, constraint, and inequality in the lives of women who become surrogates in India. Women’s personal narratives reveal the global surrogacy industry’s reinforcement of a broader stratification of reproduction. They also show women’s resistance to victimhood. In the context of physician racism and structural inequalities discussed earlier in the book, this chapter analyzes how women challenge racialized constructions of Indian surrogates to create new opportunities for themselves and their families, albeit within larger structures of power. The chapter also examines the roles of women, many of them former surrogates, who act as intermediary agents. The chapter shows how the creation of intermediary positions reinforces the increasingly refined hierarchies inherent in transnational surrogacy. By revealing the many ways in which women exert (limited) power, the chapter highlights the social divisions inherent in transnational surrogacy.

A story in small lessons magnified: the creation of an online campus

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Karen M. White
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrative Account

PurposeThis paper aims to outline the beginnings of online education.Design/methodology/approachThis article is a narrative account by an “early adapter” of her initiation into online learning, at a time when few people could even conceive the potentialities of the mode and nobody could clearly envision them.FindingsThis article reveals a side to the endeavor that is usually edited out of more formal histories, which focus primarily on major discoveries – the untidy process of coming to terms with new possibilities in the course of daily life, while struggling with both incomprehension of one's peers and personal uncertainties of one's own.Originality/valueThe article illustrates how innovation is driven not simply by pragmatic needs as much as by the lure of the unknown.

scholarly journals Image of the Soviet Union in Truman Capote’s work “The Muses Are Heard”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Zhanna Georgievna Konovalova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Truman Capote

The subject of this research is the reception of the image of the Soviet Union in the book &ldquo;The Muses Are Heard" by the American writer Truman Capote. The perception of the image of &ldquo;foreign&rdquo; and &ldquo;foreign culture&rdquo; is one of the pressing problems within the modern literary studies. The goal of this work is to determine the peculiarities of literary-documentary resemblance of the image of &ldquo;foreign&rdquo; country based on the work &ldquo;The Muses Are Heard&rdquo;, which is synthetic in its genre nature. The conclusion is drawn on the genre affiliation of the book and the techniques of depicting the image of &ldquo;foreign culture&rdquo; therein. The novelty lies in the fact that the research of this literary work are of synoptic nature, and this article is the first attempt of revealing the specificity of the image of the USSR in this work. The author indicates that the specificity of the image of the Soviet Union in the work &ldquo;The Muses Are Heard is largely determined by its complex literary-documentary nature. T. Capote sets the goal to debunk the stereotypical representations on the USSR, which have formed in the American national mentality. Moreover, the writer refers to the Soviet material as an aesthetic experiment associated with the creation of a peculiar literary-documentary narrative form. The image of the Soviet Union in the work is structured on the factual documentary basis &ndash; Capote directly observes the Soviet realities and interviews the Leningrad residents. At the same time, in creating the image of the USSR, T. Capote applies the artistic and cinematographic techniques: stylization of the narrative on behalf of the &ldquo;naive narrator&rdquo;, method of &ldquo;gradual immersion&rdquo;, cropping, &ldquo;pointed camera&rdquo; effect, retardation, and contrast.

scholarly journals Exhibition Review: Gender Bending Fashion

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Myriam Couturier
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Fashion Studies ◽  
Dress Codes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Museum Of Fine Arts ◽  
And Gender

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ recent 2019 exhibition, Gender Bending Fashion, explored some of the ways in which designers and wearers in European and American contexts have challenged traditional ideas around dress and gender over the last century. This included the rejection of conventional dress codes (in the form of men wearing skirts and women wearing suits); the blurring of gender lines in fashion (the combination of “masculine” and “feminine” design elements and the construction of unisex clothing); as well as attempts to transcend the idea of gendered dress altogether (through the creation of new forms of genderless clothing). This review highlights key objects featured in the exhibition, with special attention paid to everyday ensembles and personal narratives that effectively communicated ideas of embodiment, cultural experience, and fashion storytelling that were missing from some of the high fashion garments on display. The deliberately critical and academic approach taken by the curatorial team is discussed, as are some of the tensions and material challenges inherent in representing different bodies and expressions of gender in the context of a major museum fashion exhibition. This exhibition addresses themes that are of critical importance to fashion curators, scholars, and anyone interested in fashion studies more generally.

scholarly journals Transnational Social Resilience in La Costa Region of Chiapas, Mexico

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Vila Freyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Social Remittances ◽  
Informative Case ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Community Crisis

This paper tells the story of how a group of fishermen became resilient in response to a community crisis in their village caused by the depletion of shrimp stocks, and how they are building transnational social resilience through the creation and operation of an Ecotourist resort to improve their lives, and insure their future well-being. Social change is taking place in some communities in the La Costa region of Chiapas, one of the most impoverished states in Mexico, where people opted to emigrate to the US and came back charged with individual and collective social remittances, and new personal narratives which have helped them and their community adapt and change while constructing transnational lives. The development of El Centro Turístico El Madresal in Ponte Duro, Chiapas, provides an informative case study in how to use the tools of social resilience conceptualization within a transnational context.

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