scholarly journals The Silenced Narrator and the Notion of “Proto-Narrative”

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402098852
Author(s):  
Marina Biti ◽  
Iva Rosanda Žigo
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Deep Zone ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Narrative Subject ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Narrative Voices

Narrative voices in Ismet Prcić’s memoir/novel “Shards” are many; this article primarily focuses on what we refer to as the voice of the “silenced narrator” that appears to speak from a deep (“s ubdiegetic”) narrative level shaped by the unconscious workings of traumatic experience. Starting from psychological insights into traumatic states (Elbert and Schauer, Hunt, Crossley, etc.) and tracing the encoded symptoms of this illness across the text, the discussion moves on to a theoretical level to investigate notions proposed by authors such as Genette (to discuss narrative levels), Ricœur (in examining the construction of self), Caruth (in evaluating narrative implications of the literary voicing of trauma), Antonio Damasio (in exploring the source and the nature of the trauma-related destruction of the narratively voiced “I”), and others. These are used to establish the concept of a narrative subject whose voice emerges from the deep zone of their “proto-self” (Damasio), to be weaved into a distinctive narrative form that we will refer to as “proto-narrative.”

scholarly journals Sensible/visible: les hijes de detenides desaparecides en Hasta que mueras, de Raquel Robles (2019) y Yo la quise (2020), de Josefina Giglio

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 104-129
Author(s):  
Mirian Pino
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Argentine Literature ◽  
Central Node ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Narrative Voices ◽  
The Disappeared

The literature of the children of forced disappeared victims, including that of Raquel Robles and Josefina Giglio, who went through the traumatic experience of the last Argentine civic-military ecclesial business dictatorship in 1976, has been the subject of multiple approaches by vernacular critics (Reati, Domínguez, Basile), or foreign (García Díaz, Bolte, Gatti, et al). In this study, I name the group as lowercase in order to displace the institutional character that, although important, can reduce the perspective that I am trying to display. This perspective focuses on questioning what the writing of children of the disappeared contributes in terms of complexity to literary studies within the framework of memory-literature articulation. Thus, I notice an accumulation of writings, whether in the multiple arc of narrative or poetry, where the assumption of the voice that enunciates, in some cases, works the experience in the first person from styles already registered in literature, although the experiences of the authors enhance writings that are difficult to place in literary trends. As if literature were to make visible the very tension that its politicity implies from the narrative voices with one foot in the lived experience and the other in the creative laboratory; It is also necessary to point out that this experience places state politics as the central node since it reconfigured the life not only of the authors but of all society, in this case Argentina. In the selected novels we are faced with what Jacques Rancière (2015, 2011) understands as a principle of action, from which neither literature nor readers can be far from a new ethos. From this it is possible to connect with certain experiences that emerge in this case from both novels and that affect our perception of reality and history. Argentine literature, born in the very bosom of the nation-state, is not the same after the sons once they intervened in the street in the second half of the 90s of the last century to demand justice, they speak in the new millennium and write experiences that affect us all, and that reshape the ways of thinking politics, literature and history.

scholarly journals A Theoretical Postscript: Time, Space, the Self and the You, and Digital Media as Narrative Constructions

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-224
Author(s):  
Christina Schachtner
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Narrative Subject

Abstract This chapter explores how the concepts of time, space, the Self, the You, and the structural characteristics of the media concerned figure in the narratives. Time, for example, is fleshed out as biographical and sociocultural time whereas space takes on form in the narrative practices of managing boundaries and organizing virtual space. The analysis continues by confirming that the narrative subject is anything but isolated. The You sets foot on the narrative stage as a benchmark or a talking point. In the interplay between narrators and media, transmedia storytelling crystallizes as a new narrative form which interlinks media-based experiences from different phases of life and from different media, giving rise to a cosmos in which the narrators act as the designers of their own stories.

scholarly journals Coming to writing

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Bowstead
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
Narrative Voices

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Core Psychodynamic Factors in PTSD

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Frederic N. Busch ◽  
Barbara L. Milrod ◽  
Cory K. Chen ◽  
Meriamne B. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Narrative Coherence ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Associated Symptoms ◽  
Intrapsychic Conflicts ◽  
The Impact

After briefly reviewing the psychoanalytic view of mental life, including the influence of the unconscious on mental life and symptoms, this chapter describes the impact of trauma from the psychodynamic viewpoint. Disruptions in narrative coherence, repetition and re-experiencing, intrapsychic conflicts, dissociation, defenses, intense negative affects, and disruptions in trust that result from trauma are described. Clinical examples are presented to illuminate these factors. In addition, the relevance of the patient’s pretrauma history, their attachment style and mentalization skills, and the specific nature of traumatic experience on the impact of trauma and associated symptoms is elaborated.

Umbelini: The Voice of the Unconscious

2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-33
Author(s):  
Penny Norris
Keyword(s):  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Voice

scholarly journals BRIDE VALUE: A FEMINIST READING OF BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE BRIDE PRICE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Zanyar Kareem Abdul
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Buchi Emecheta ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Similar Idea ◽  
Bride Price ◽  
The Voice

The Bride Price is one of the most influential modern novels authored by Buchi Emecheta through which the voice of a female character is expressed. The study has two points of discussion: the first deals with patriarchal society in which women suffer and become the only victims, and the second does with African culture from which Emecheta criticizes severely. Men have all the powers in controlling the whole family. The traditional society of Africa follows their culture as it is especially in paying the bride from the groom’s family. The paper aims at both men and women to keep this belief for the rest of their life no matter how modern the society has become. To some extent, the idea of “double colonization” proposed by Peterson and Rutherford (1986) will be identified in the paper and further explanation will be given. The paper also is an attempt to analyze the reflection of the African system related to marriage in the novel; as similar idea can be found in Iraqi Kurdistan that would be counted as the main objective behind writing the current paper. Furthermore, it shows some cultural similarities between both countries. By applying “double colonization” theory, the researcher confirms that Emecheta’s female characters suffer a traumatic experience in which they are controlled by two colonizers: the power of males and the reality of colonization. The researcher tries to send his messages through this paper out to avoid such conflicts and spread self and cultural awareness among the society.

scholarly journals Revisioning Subalternity: A critical study of Ramayana through Mandavi and Urmila

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Tiwari ◽  
◽  
Priyanka Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender And Power ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Power Hierarchy

Ramayana is a narrative knitted through multiple voices but is written around the story of Rama, neglecting the voices of the minor characters. The contemporary South Asian authors breaking the conventional norms of Ramkatha tradition have provided agency to such characters through their contemporary renderings. The study tries to bring forth such hidden nested narratives of the unheard characters of Mandavi and Urmila who are identified either in relation to Sita or their husbands, to re-define the idea subaltern. The paper will analyse the social and political oppression faced by the two female characters because of the existing gender and power hierarchy existing in the text, the unconscious oppression and suffering neglected by the author, reader and the characters of the text as well. The paper will try to analyse the contemporary renderings as an agency and subaltern space for the voice of these subaltern unsung characters of Ramayana, understanding how the concept of unconscious subaltern and normalization of oppression on these character in the epic, demarcating the related myths.

The Three Syntheses of the Body: From the Voice to Speech

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Collett
Keyword(s):  
General Problem ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Voice

Firstly, this marriage of language and the unconscious – or this paradoxical unity of sense and nonsense – appears to allude to the work of the Lacanian school, which he later adds has ‘completely renewed the general problem of the relations between language and sexuality’.2 Secondly, to contribute something original, in light of Lacan’s work – but also, it is implied, because Lacan’s work has not yet reached its own ground (as conceived by Deleuze) – Deleuze is saying here that we need to turn to the work of Carroll, so as to examine ‘what else’ language and the unconscious are connected with. This third term, it is implied, is more fundamental than either language or the unconscious taken separately, underlying them both and accounting for the importance of their relation.

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