Reflections and Refractions: Arab American Women Writing and Written

Hawwa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samia Serageldin
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Arab American ◽  
First Person ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Real ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Non Fiction

AbstractAt a time when the American popular imagination is dominated by fun-house refractions of Arabs and Muslims as the ultimate "other," it is critical that these images be counterbalanced by unmediated, first-person, authentic reflections of the real-life experiences of writers of Middle Eastern heritage. This is where fiction and narrative non-fiction occupy a privileged position, creating an intimate, expansive space for empathy and identification, and serving generality through specificity.

Keeping up with London's Past: Local History in the Metropolis

Urban History ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
D. A. Reeder
Keyword(s):  
Urban History ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Local History ◽  
The Real ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
And Control ◽  
Guide Lines

The growing popularity of local history in towns and cities raises some questions for urban historians. What contribution is being made to our knowledge of the urban past by groups of people for whom local history is a leisure-time occupation? Are they poles apart from the interests and approaches of urban history? Can guide-lines be laid down? There is no general agreement on these matters. Opinions range from the view that local history is best left to develop its own canons, to the view that it can supply a source of labour for academics under their direction and control. Another, possibly more sympathetic view, is that the two kinds of work might feed into each other, provided that local historians are willing to move more purposively into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. So they are urged to take on new subjects, to ‘flesh out’ the urban process, and to develop a more ‘vital approach’, making their ‘touchstone the real life experiences of people themselves’, But how responsive are local historians likely to be?

scholarly journals Insights into the real-life experiences of people living with epilepsy: A qualitative netnographic study

2021 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 107729
Author(s):  
Barbara Fazekas ◽  
Becky Megaw ◽  
Damian Eade ◽  
Nicholas Kronfeld
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Real

scholarly journals Empathy for the game master: how virtual reality creates empathy for those seen to be creating VR

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Paul Roquet
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
Oculus Rift ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Emotional Identification

This article rethinks the notion of virtual reality (VR) as an ‘empathy machine’ by examining how VR directs emotional identification not toward the subjects of particular VR titles, but toward VR developers themselves. Tracing how both positive and negative empathy circulates around characters in one of the most influential VR fictions of the 2010s, the light novel series-turned-anime series Sword Art Online (2009–), as well as the real-life figure of Palmer Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift headset that launched the most recent VR revival, the author shows how empathetic identification ultimately tends to target the VR game master, the head architect of the VR world. These figures often already inhabit a socially privileged position. A better understanding of how VR channels empathy towards VR creators points to the need to ensure a broader range of people have opportunities to take up the role of VR game master for themselves.

scholarly journals Lesión de anatomía: Diamela Eltit o la autora sobre‐expuesta en la escritura como crítica de lo Real

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 134-158
Author(s):  
Eleonora Cróquer-Pedrón
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Person ◽  
Diamela Eltit ◽  
The Real ◽  
Non Fiction

This essay focuses on two unclassifiable books by the Chilean storyteller Diamela Eltit: El Padre Mío (1989) and El infarto del alma (1994). From the overexposure of the author thatmanifests itself in the first person as overturned towards the unavoidable outside of an encounter with difference, embodied in the madness and the helplessness of the bodies of “vagabundage” and psychiatric isolation, respectively, as well as the responsibility that emerges as a position of discourse before the problematic act of shaping the materiality of its recovered presence, I go through the ways in which the other writing of a critique of the Real is outlined in them. Knotted around the subjective shiver of who is willing to account for the “other” in writing, in both atypical texts within the writer’s fictional-theoretical productivity, and atopic within the framework of what could be thought of as a work of non-fiction, literature and art become powerful reading spaces for the deployment of cultural criticism dislocated and politically engaged in the visibility of a Real inscribed in the Letter through the effects of its concern.

‘Healthy Viewing?’: experiencing life and death through a voyeuristic gaze

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin David Kendrick ◽  
John Costello
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Delivery Of Health Care ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Health Care Settings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Care

Recent times have witnessed a groundswell in the number of British television programmes that deal with the ‘real life’ experiences of people in various health care settings. Such programmes tend to focus upon the two interrelated strands of the experience of those who deliver professional care and those who are at the receiving end of it. The usual rationale given for such programmes is that they offer insights about the delivery of health care that are not readily accessible to members of the public. This article will look beneath the rationale and reasons offered by programme makers for the existence of such documentaries. It will explore insidious and questionable elements that go beyond revealing the ‘lived experience’ of professional carers and those for whom they care. Emerging from this is the challenging notion that such programmes deliver the opportunity to experience the vulnerability, suffering and even death of others through a voyeuristic gaze.

Exploring Citizenship: Unit 4 My Heritage

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (5) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
John Rutledge ◽  
Joy C. Jordan ◽  
Dale W. Pracht
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The Real ◽  
Volunteer Leaders ◽  
Youth Development Program ◽  
Major Revision ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Needs

 The 4-H Citizenship Project offers the opportunity to help 4-H members relate all of their 4-H projects and experiences to the world around them. The 4-H Citizenship manuals will serve as a guide for 4-H Citizenship experiences. To be truly meaningful to the real-life needs and interests of your group, the contribution of volunteer leaders is essential. Each person, neighborhood, and community has individual needs that you can help your group identify. This 14-page major revision of Unit IV covers the heritage project. Written by John Rutledge, Joy C. Jordan, and Dale Pracht and published by the UF/IFAS Extension 4-H Youth Development program. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/4h019

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