scholarly journals Den kultur- och litteraturhistoriska gestalten i den lettiska novellen “Svētā Briģita” (“Heliga Birgitta”) av Jānis Ezeriņš

2019 ◽  
pp. 136-146
Author(s):  
Ivars Orehovs
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Human Values ◽  
International Recognition ◽  
Literature And Religion ◽  
Direct Association ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Celtic Mythology ◽  
History Of Culture

Cultural-historical and literary gestalt in the Latvian short story “Saint Birgitta” (“Heliga Birgitta”) by Jānis EzeriņšThe Latvian author Jānis Ezeriņš’s (1891–1924) literary heritage includes, among other texts, the collection of short stories Fantastiska novele un citas (Fantastic short story and others, 1923). The collection contains the short story “Svētā Briģita” (“Saint Birgitta”), in which the author has used the image of a saint, which is very well known in the history of culture, literature and religion. The image can be related both to Celtic mythology and the historical Swedish personality, who had been the founder of Vadstena monastery and a literary author herself (approx. 1303–1373). The aim of the article is to explore the function of the image in the prose text by the Latvian author Ezeriņš and its connections with the cultural and historical personality of St. Birgitta. It is not typical of Ezeriņš’s writings to make such an explicit and direct association with this kind of legendary phenomena, therefore the inclusion of the text in the collection may suggest a connection between St. Birgitta’s individual destiny and enduring human values. This writer’s choice can also be seen as his own claim to international recognition.

scholarly journals Prabhanjan will narrates short stories Puduvai Tamil status of during the French rule

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Saratha M ◽  
Selvakumaran S
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Tea Plantation ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

This Article, The Position of The Tamils of Pondicherry during the French rule, which deals with the short stories of Vishwasan, who is one of the most important tamil short story creators, is based on the short stories of The Cycle, Security, Brother Oro and Business of The Universe. It also examines the difficulties faced by the inequalities of caste and religion and the racist activities of the French rulers, especially when Pondicherry was under the control of the French in the 16th and 19th centuries. This article also deals with the tragic history of the exile of tamil people by using their ignorance and poverty to foreign countries for tea plantation industries.

KONFLIK SOSIAL DAN POLITIK DALAM KUMPULAN CERPEN DRAMA ITU BERKISAH TERLALU JAUH KARYA PUTHUT EA: KAJIAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA

Buana Bastra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Fithroh Wahidah
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection

This study aimed to describe the social and political conflicts contained in the collection of short stories Drama Tells Too far work of Puthut EA and to describe thecorrelation between the short story collection The play was a story Too far work of PuthutEA with reality night history of Indonesian society. Sources of data in this study is the textcontained in the collection of short stories Drama Tells Too far work of Puthut EA. Whilethe research data is an excerpt sentence, description, dialogue, and other important mattersin the collection of short stories Drama Tells Too far work of Puthut EA. Data obtained byreading and writing techniques. Data were analyzed with the approach of sociology ofliterature and descriptive analysis techniques. The validity of the data obtained byconducting triangulation is triangualasi methods, sources of data and theory. These resultsindicate the existence of social and political conflict are contained in the collection of shortstories Drama Tells Too Far work of Puthut EA, containing social conflicts, among others:(1) gender conflict, namely: the oppression of women, (2) racial conflict, namely:discrimination of race Chinese, (3) inter-religious conflicts, namely: distrust ofcommunism, (4) conflict of interest, namely: the imposition of a leader, (5) interpersonal conflicts, namely: distrust of others, (6) the conflict between social classes, namely: socialinequality. Containing the political conflict, among others: (1) the weapons of battle and (2)the strategy politik. Correlation between the short story collection That play was a storyToo Far of Puthut EA works with historical reality of Indonesian society, among others: (1)The 1998 riots (2) The increase in fuel (3) Ethnic Discrimination (4) Dispute people of thesame religion (5) arrest Without Accompanied Official Letter (6) Violations of humanrights and (7) Poverty.  

scholarly journals Breaking the Rules: Innovation and Narrative Strategies in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
Carmen Haydée Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Sandra Cisneros ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Stage Direction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Considerable Length

Conventional approaches to literary genres conspicuously imply definition and classification. From the very beginning of our incursions into the literary world we learn to identify and differentiate a poem from a play, a short story from a novel. As readers we classify each written work into one of these neatly defined literary genres by following basic guidelines. Either we classify according to the structure of the work (stanza; stage direction/dialogue; narrative) or the length (short story; novelette; novel). What happens though when a reader encounters a work of considerable length made up of individual short pieces or vignettes that include rhythm and rhyme and is framed by an underlying, unifying story line linking the vignettes together? Is it a novel or a collection of short stories? Why does it sound and, at times, look like a poem? To further complicate classifications, what happens when a reader comes across an epistolary format with instructions on which letters to read first: letters made up of one-word lines, poetic stanzas, or italicized stream of consciousness; letters that narrate the history of two women's friendship? Is this a novel or a mere collection of letters?

scholarly journals Negotiating Identity and Belonging in the Western Indian Ocean: Fluid Enabling Spaces in M.G. Vassanji’s Uhuru Street

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Dolors Ortega ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Short Story Cycle ◽  
Indian Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Cycle

This article analyses the short story cycle Uhuru Street, which describes the life of the members of the minority Ismaili community, whom Vassanji fictionalises as Shamsis, in the context of crucial changes in the history of Tanzania. Diaspora, fragmentation and ethnic multiplicity in a really hierarchical tripartite society will be studied within the framework of cross-cultural networking in the Western Indian Ocean, where complex identity relations are established. Our discussion stems from a brief historical genealogy of the Indian community in Tanzania, it analyses the complex identity relations and affiliations among Tanzanian citizens of Indian descent, and moves on to the analysis of Vassanji’s short stories in order to explore those fluid and enabling spaces where identity and belonging are to be negotiated.

Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley in Good Housekeeping Magazine

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-207
Author(s):  
Saskia McCracken
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Oxford Street ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good Housekeeping ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Women's Magazine

In 1931, Virginia Woolf was commissioned to write a series of six articles for Good Housekeeping, a middlebrow women’s magazine, which have typically been read by critics as five essays and a short story. Woolf’s series takes her readers on a tour of the sites of commerce and power in London, from the Thames docks and shops of Oxford Street, to ‘Great Men’s Houses,’ abbeys, cathedrals, and the House of Commons, ending with a ‘Portrait’ of a fictitious Londoner. This chapter has three aims. First, it suggests that Woolf’s Good Housekeeping publications can be read not simply as five essays and a short story, but, considering Woolf’s ethics of the short story, as a series of short stories or, as the magazine editors introduced them, word pictures and scenes. Secondly, this chapter argues that Woolf’s Good Housekeeping series responds to, and resists the Stalinist politics of, Aldous Huxley’s series of four highbrow essays on England, published in Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine. Finally, this chapter analyses a critically neglected short story by Ambrose O’Neill, ‘The Astounding History of Albert Orange’ (February 1932), published in Good Housekeeping, which features both Woolf and Huxley as characters, and which critiques, satirises, and destabilises the boundaries of highbrow literary culture. Thus, the focus turns from highbrow writers’ short stories to a story about highbrow writing, all published in the supposedly middlebrow Good Housekeeping, demonstrating the rich complexity of the magazine, its varied politics, and its generically hybrid publications.

scholarly journals Excavation of History and Narration of Subaltern Orality in the Short Stories of Mahasweta Devi

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 159-166
Author(s):  
Anuranj C K
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Mahasweta Devi ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Bengali Language

In 1979 Mahasweta Devi had written and published a short story collection in Bengali language. Later, the short story collection had been translated into English by Ipsita Chanda and published in 1998 under the title of Bitter Soil. This paper studies two short stories from this collection of translation, which entitled as Little Ones and Salt respectively. Mahasweta Devi made tremendous contribution to literary, social and cultural studies in this country and she always believed that the real history is made by the ordinary people as she is also a political activist. Both these short stories represent the history of post independent India. Mahasweta Devi’s empirical research into oral history and haunting tales of exploitation and struggle as it lives in the cultures and reminiscences of tribal communities is highly relevant today.  

scholarly journals ASPECTS CREATIF THINKING IN SHORT STORIES OF MONKEY, DOG, AND GINKGO TREE BY JASNI MAT LANI

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Norfazila Aron
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Study Material

This study aims to analyze aspects of creative thinking in the Collection Short Stories Monkeys, Dogs, and Ginkgo Trees by Jasni Matlani. This study was conducted to identify aspects of creative thinking and as well as apply creative thinking based on SPB4L Theory. In this study, the researcher used the Theory SBP4L Integrated Thinking System (Upper, Born, Logic, and Lateral) by Yusof Hassan. Based on this theory, noble thinking as well as logical thinking is a thought that is often associated with storytelling. Noble thinking is a spiritual aspect of life. Meanwhile, logical thinking, on the other hand, emphasizes the facts and an event that happened to form history in life. In addition, the researcher limited the study by studying a total of 5 stories in a group of short stories. This work was chosen as the study material because it contains elements of identity, pure values, and community life that are described to non-human beings. The analysis of this study found that the creative thinking aspect is used as best as possible by the author. This study revolves around the personal patterns of society itself and is shown through non-human characters and history through stories in the Collection Short Story of Monkeys, Dogs, and Gingko Trees. In conclusion, this study not only shows the creativity and perseverance of the artist but also can see the adaptation between human values with the SPB4L theoretical approach.

scholarly journals Cerita “Hibat” Karangan R.H. Moehamad Meosa sebagai Embrio Cerita Pendek Sunda dalam Wacana Kolonialisme Abad ke-19

LOKABASA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Darpan Darpan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
The West ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Writing ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
The 19Th Century

The research is based on the assumption that literary works written in the second half of the 19th century were the result of the efforts of the Dutch colonial government to incorporate the ideology of colonialism in culture field, and tried to instill modern ideas from the West through literacy activities. Some of these texts are stories written in short prose that are realistic. The story of "Hibat" is one of them. Based on the narrative characteristics, it can be concluded that the story can be regarded as a Sundanese short story embryo in its modern concept. The analysis of the story "Hibat" was carried out with the aim of finding the form of writing configuration and its narrative characteristics so that the elements of the story were found to be different from the traditions of the previous story writing. Through descriptive methods and structural analysis techniques, it is known that the story "Hibat" is unique and different when compared to the tradition of story writing in more traditional Sundanese. The story shows new features including its configuration written in short prose, leaving the tradition of old story writing that indulges in fantasy, myths, and irrationality, and written with the awareness of wanting to portray everyday life in its environment. The implications of this study must be corrective efforts in the history of Sundanese literature, which considered the birth of Sundanese short stories beginning with the emergence of the Parahiangan magazine (1929-1942) and the publication of Dogdog Pangréwong by G.S. in 1930.AbstrakPenelitian ini didasarkan pada asumsi bahwa karya sastra yang ditulis pada paruh kedua abad ke-19 adalah hasil dari upaya pemerintah kolonial Belanda untuk memasukkan ideologi kolonialisme dalam bidang budaya, dan mencoba menanamkan ide-ide modern dari Barat melalui kegiatan literasi. Beberapa dari teks-teks tersebut adalah cerita yang ditulis dalam prosa pendek yang realistik. Cerita "Hibat" adalah salah satunya. Berdasarkan ciri-ciri naratifnya, dapat disimpulkan bahwa cerita “Hibat” dapat dianggap sebagai embrio cerita pendek Sunda dalam konsepnya yang modern. Analisis cerita "Hibat" dilakukan dengan tujuan menemukan bentuk konfigurasi penulisan dan ciri-ciri naratifnya sehingga ditemukan unsur-unsur cerita yang berbeda dari tradisi penulisan cerita sebelumnya. Melalui metode deskriptif dan teknik analisis struktural, diketahui bahwa cerita "Hibat" mengandung keunikan dan berbeda jika dibandingkan dengan tradisi penulisan cerita dalam bahasa Sunda yang lebih tradisional. Cerita ini menunjukkan unsur-unsur baru antara lain konfigurasinya ditulis dalam prosa pendek, meninggalkan tradisi penulisan cerita lama yang menonjolkan fantasi, mitos, dan irasionalitas, serta ditulis dengan kesadaran ingin menggambarkan kehidupan sehari-hari di lingkungan pengarangnya. Implikasi dari penelitian ini harus ada upaya korektif dalam sejarah sastra Sunda, yang menganggap kelahiran cerita pendek Sunda dimulai dengan munculnya majalah Parahiangan (1929-1942) dan penerbitan buku Dogdog Pangréwong karangan G.S pada tahun 1930.

scholarly journals The History of the Short Story in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lydia Joyce Wevers
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse

<p>The thesis will be an investigation of the history of the short story in New Zealand, attempting to shift the focus away from a (implicitly hierarchical) sequence of writers who specialised in short stories to a consideration of the ascendancy of type in short fiction at certain times (for example the domination of nineteenth century short fiction by oral narratives and romance); the preoccupations of groups of writers who share a collective identity (especially Maori and women); and the recurrence of some kinds of narratives (for example Pakeha writers writing about the Maori). I propose to explore both the construction of 'reality' and 'New Zealand' in the short story, demonstrating how race, gender, and sometimes class/wealth figure in that construction, and generally suggest that the short story's dominance in New zealand's fiction makes it both a significant medium for cultural identity, and a context for a postcolonial discourse characterized by recurring questions about origin and subjectivity.</p>

scholarly journals Two letters by the Amfiteatrovs to Petr Krasnov: Finishing the project

Literary Fact ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 360-370
Author(s):  
George Cheron
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
Large Complex ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emigre Writers

Journalist, prose writer, playwright Alexander Amfiteatrov and Ataman of the Great Don Army General Petr Krasnov, the author of numerous novels and short stories, belonged to the older generation of Russian émigré writers. Amfiteatrov lived in Italy, and Krasnov in Paris, and they communicated by mail. Their correspondence that began in 1927 lasted more than 10 years, until Amfiteatrov’s death. The previously published large complex of their letters contains not only significant additions to the literary biography of correspondents, but also an important information on the political, social, and literary history of the Russian Abroad in the 1920s and 1930s. Moreover, Krasnov’s letters are only a small part of the huge Amfiteatrov émigré collection, researched by the author of this publication in collaboration with Oleg Korostelev with plans to devote several books of the Amfiteatrov volume in the academic series “Literary Heritage” to these materials. This publication presents two recently discovered letters to Krasnov, written by Amfiteatrov himself and by his widow, reporting on her efforts to collect a book in her husband's memory during the outbreak of World War II.

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