scholarly journals Chasing After Life: Migrating Childhoods in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Aparna Mishra Tarc
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Displaced Children ◽  
Adult World ◽  
New Challenges

This essay engages the border-crossing poetics of transnational migration through an engagement with Valeria Luiselli’s fictional depictions of migrant children in her novel Lost Children Archive. Engaging the migrating and intertextual forum of children’s witness and memory in the novel, I follow Luiselli’s moving depiction of child migrants as wholly undocumented and lost people outside the adult world of articulation. I argue that Luiselli’s novel documentation conjures up historical, contemporary, and autobiographical memories of migrant and displaced children comprising the colonial story of modernism. I consider children’s articulations, construction and witness of migration through my readings of the stories of migrating childhood delivered by Luiselli’s fictional depiction. I find, Luiselli’s moving rendition of children’s migration presents new challenges to educational and popular discourses of childhood, migration, and the responsibilities of the adult communities.

The Functions of Deictic Words in the Representation of Migrants’ Experiences in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013)

Imbizo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Okwudiri Anasiudu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Singular Form ◽  
African Migrant

Literature is one of the arenas of discourse where the meaning potential of language can be explored. Interestingly, literary language is more figurative than denotative. One of the functions of language in literary discourse is to represent reality. The reality literature represents varies, depending on the historical time and social events a writer focuses on. Some aspects of global reality captured in current literature include transnational migration, border crossing and how migrants negotiate their identities in new cultures and spaces. For the African writer, the foregoing is a source of inspiration for what has become known as the African migrant novel. Against this background, this paper explores the representation of migrant experiences with particular attention paid to the use of language. An aspect of language explored in this paper is the use of deictic words in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and the deployment of deictic forms, such as pronouns, verbs, and adverbs in order to specify personal and collective identity, physical and psychological displacement and spatiotemporal referencing in the novel. M. A. K. Halliday’s and Roger Fowler’s functional linguistic models are adopted as a theoretical framework within a descriptive and qualitative methodology. This paper notes that the recurrent use of the first-person pronoun in singular form (I) foregrounds the text as a Bildungsroman. It also underscores the process of self-evolution of Darling, the protagonist, from an a priori subject to a self-conscious a posteriori subject. The paper shows that deictic words as deployed in the novel enabled Bulawayo, the author, to create distinct narrative voices, from a personal voice to a collective voice. A guiding assumption of this paper is that it is not enough to say that a narrative has a first, second, or third person narrative speaking voice without pointing to the text to show how it is realised with data drawn from the text. It is on that basis that this research contributes significantly to the multidisciplinary interconnection between the field of linguistics and literature (stylistics) to demonstrate how a writer can engage nouns and pronouns as linguistic resources for the construction of migrant experiences, whether encompassing personal or group identity, nostalgia and memory, dislocation, or hybridity.

scholarly journals At Play on the Borders of the Diegetic: Story Boundaries and Narrative Interpretation

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 591-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Computer Game ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Scene Construction ◽  
Narrative Interpretation

Working with young readers, aged 10 to 14, as they responded to narrative texts in a variety of media (Mackey, 2002), I observed a recurring phenomenon: In a variety of ways they repeatedly stepped in and out of the fictional universe of their different stories. Some examples will perhaps give the flavor of this experience: Two 14-year-old girls playing Starship Titanic alternate between lively engagement in the narrative world of the story and stepping outside the fiction to console themselves, “Oh well, if we die, we can just start again.” A 10-year-old girl speaks of alternating between the novel and the computer game of My Teacher is an Alien, using the novel as a source of game-playing repertoire. Two 10-year-old boys look at the DVD of the film Contact, learning how the special effects of an explosion scene were composed, and commenting on how their new awareness of scene construction would affect how they view the film in the future. As I recorded and analyzed numerous examples of such behaviors, I was struck by a common element of interpretive activity on the boundaries of the fictional universe. Sensitized to the topic, I began to notice, and then to collect, examples of contemporary texts that foster various forms of such border crossing, in and out of the diegesis, the framework of events as narrated in the text. This article explores how an awareness of this aspect of contemporary texts may enhance our understanding of interpretive processes and expand what happens in literature classes.

The Novel Multi-layered Approach to Enhance Sorting Performance of Healthcare Analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Large Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analytical Technique ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Costs Of Treatment ◽  
Layered Approach ◽  
New Challenges

Emergence of big data in today’s world leads to new challenges for sorting strategies to analyze the data in a better way. For most of the analyzing technique, sorting is considered as an implicit attribute of the technique used. The availability of huge data has changed the way data is analyzed across industries. Healthcare is one of the notable areas where data analytics is making big changes. An efficient analysis has the potential to reduce costs of treatment and improve the quality of life in general. Healthcare industries are collecting massive amounts of data and look for the best strategies to use these numbers. This research proposes a novel non-comparison based approach to sort a large data that can further be utilized by any big data analytical technique for various analyses.

Tragic Pathos and Border Syndrome: Constantine Giannaris’s Hostage

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
Philip E. Phillis ◽  
Philip E. Phillis
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Accented Cinema

Giannaris’s film provides an original evocation of border crossing through its reimagining of the 1999 hijacking of an intercity bus in Greece by a clandestine Albanian migrant who endured police brutality in Greece. This chapter affords an in-depth analysis of the film’s form and thematic preoccupations so as to comprehend issues of mobility that are essential to (cinematic) migrant journeys. The author argues that the film’s layered use of on-screen and off-screen mobility reveal the politics of transnational migration and their impact on the migrant’s body. These conventions and their ideological are conveyed to the reader through close readings of select scenes. To further achieve this, the author resorts to the notion of ‘border syndrome’, coined by Gazmend Kapllani in his Short Border Handbook and to Hamid Naficy’s meditations on border subjects in his Accented Cinema, and argues that Hostage reimagines the migrant as a tragic outsider, prone to victimhood.

scholarly journals Understanding Resilience by relating Stimuli Optimality to Schema Constructs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karmela Arbanasić ◽  
Nicholas Hubert Kirk
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cognitive Schemas ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Heterogeneous Nature ◽  
Over Time

We hereby define a novel, two-phase framework which describes the process of elaborating input stimuli of heterogeneous nature into cognitive schemas. For our first phase (PI), we formalize the concept of stress as the deviation from the optimal stimuli level of an individual, described as either understimulation or overstimulation. As second phase (PII), we consider retrieval and rating of autobiographical memories on an importance-positivity scale, which provides an estimation of the individual’s self- and world-schema. The present paper also highlights the novel nonlinear transformation function between the mentioned first (PI) and second phase (PII), in terms of translating over- and under-stimulation to the self- and world-view over time. The described framework, in addition to proposing a novel classification of individuals based on their needs for stimuli, entails representation and potentially diagnosis of multiple psychopathological conditions we have analytically described herein.

scholarly journals COVID- 19 and its Effects on Refugee, Asylum Seeker and Migrant Children Aged 12-17 Years at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-205
Author(s):  
Memory Rumbidzai V. Mandikiana ◽  
Yogesh Awasthi ◽  
Isaac Ignatius Dambudzo
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
World Health ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
Displaced Children

Refugee, asylum seekers, and migrant (displaced) children are at protracted vulnerability levels, and COVID-19 has exacerbated the situation. Zimbabwe accepts refugees but enforces an encampment policy, and displaced populations are encamped at Tongogara Refugee Camp (TRC).  The research gap is that there is very little literature on refugees in Zimbabwe. The research objectives for the study were to explore the challenges that refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced children at TRC face, ascertain how COVID-19 has affected children at TRC, and propose solutions to these challenges. This research relied upon a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative approach considering the immediacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondary data is referred from published articles and organizational reports. The population size of 2,304 children aged 12 to 17 was obtained through the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR)’s January 2021 population statistics for TRC. A 10% sample of 230 respondents was selected. Non-probability sampling techniques were used in administering a questionnaire through individual and focus group interviews, which were fed into KoBo Toolbox. Data cleaning and analysis were conducted, with SPSS and NViVo for quantitative and qualitative data analysis, respectively.  Ethical considerations of consent, confidentiality, do no harm, and statements to withdraw from the study were employed. The process involved strict observance of World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on COVID-19. The research was conducted between April 2020 and February 2021. Results showed that displaced children suffered a spectrum of challenges before COVID-19. During the COVID-19 period, respondents had limited access to child protection services, experienced increased conflicts at home, and limited access to formal learning and entertainment: their already dire situation was exacerbated by COVID-19. The study recommends the upgrade of the local secondary school to advanced level status, adoption of educational innovations in lieu of the COVID-19 pandemic, including radio, television, and virtual learning platforms; improved child protection mechanisms; accommodation; dietary diversity; access to water and sanitation hygiene; provision of electricity; adequate street lighting; activities for entertainment; and increasing awareness against child abuse and gender-based violence (GBV).

scholarly journals Robert Menasse, The Capital. A satirical novel on the European Union

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Teresa Martins de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Robert Menasse ◽  
The Eu

After a short introduction to Menasse´s ideas about the European Union presented in different theoretical texts, the paper will concentrate on the novel The Capital, published in 2016. It will focus on the idea the reader will react with strangeness to the diminished narrative space taken in the text by topics like migrations, terrorism and islamofobia, which are generally accepted as the main issues affecting the EU today (Griffen 2019). Nonetheless, a more detailed analysis of three moments of the novel that critics tend to consider as subsidiary according to their place in the textual economy will show the importance of the aforementioned topics and their (possible) recognition as the new challenges that mark the EU.

scholarly journals Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Renfrew
Keyword(s):  
Border Crossing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Transcription Error

This chapter explores Iurii Tynianov’s 1934 film Lieutenant Kizhe, directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer and based on Tynianov’s own novel, which concerns a hero created in official documents due to a clerk’s transcription error. Tynianov’s adaptation involves an unusual border crossing in that the novel was written after the screenplay. In the chapter, it is argued that the director failed to find successful devices for meeting the challenge to realist fiction proferred by Tynianov’s narrative of a non-existent hero. The chapter explores the mutual relationship between Tynianov’s novel and screenplay and his theoretical writings on adaptation.

Border-crossing as Sexual Subjects

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Yang Li
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Interracial Relationships ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Parental Authority ◽  
Interracial Dating ◽  
Sexual Subjectivity ◽  
Racial Relations

Transnational migration shapes young people’s sexual subjectivity in profound ways as cultural and racial borders are crossed. In this context, interracial relationships occupy an uneasy position in young Chinese’s lives against parental authority, patriarchal gender relations, nationalism, and assimilation. As a racial minority in New Zealand (NZ), the Chinese diaspora’s notions of masculinity and femininity are both subjugated by racial stereotypes, constraining the possibilities of sexual expression and producing uneven power relations in intimate relationships. Simultaneously subject to assumptions of sexual sameness by co-ethnics and sexual difference by NZ society, Chinese young people must constantly negotiate the two tugging sets of racial relations in their practice of interracial dating. The entanglement of these power relations illustrates that being diasporic is simultaneously a racial/gendered/sexual project.

Çatışma ve Göç Kültürü Modeli Bağlamında Göç Romanı Okuması: Yüksel Pazarkaya’nın Savrulanlar’ı

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-106
Author(s):  
Ali Tilbe ◽  
Kamil Civelek
Keyword(s):  
Human Mobility ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Characteristic ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Conflict Model

Göç olgusu genel bir bakışla; insanların ekonomik, toplumsal, siyasal ya da ekinsel çok değişik nedenlerle yerleşik uzamlarından başka bir uzama yerleşmek için yaptıkları devinimler olarak tanımlanabilir. Bu tanıma en uygun devinimlerden birisi de altmışlı yıllarda başlayan ve günümüzde de karşılıklı olarak süreğen ekinsel bir nitelik kazanan Türklerin Almanya’ya ulusötesi göçüdür. Bu bildiride İbrahim Sirkeci ve Jeffrey H. Cohen’in Çatışma ve Göç Kültürü Modeli temelli geliştirdiğimiz göç yazını inceleme yöntembilimi yaklaşımıyla çağdaş Türk-Alman yazarlardan Yüksel Pazarkaya’nın Savrulanlar adlı romanını incelemeyi erek ediniyoruz. Roman, iki ülke arasında arafta kalan insanların ekinsel ve toplumsal uyum ve yeni bir kimlik edinmek için vermiş oldukları savaşımı, yıllar sonra gurbette bir trende karşılaşan iki askerlik arkadaşının yeniden kurulan dostluklarını ve aile öykülerini çarpıcı bir biçimde betimlemektedir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHAnalysis of Yüksel Pazarkaya’s Novel Titled Savrulanlar in the Context of Conflict Model of Migration and Cultures of Human MobilityIn general terms, the migration phenomenon can be described as human mobility which occurs for the purpose to settle at a different location from the permanent one due to economic, social, political or cultural reasons. Transnational migration of Turks through Germany, which has started in sixties and has been perpetuated mutually and obtained a cultural characteristic, is one of the most appropriate types of mobility that fits this description. In this presentation, we aim to examine Savrulanlar, which is written by Yüksel Pazarkaya, a contemporary Turk-German author, by employing the approach of migration literature examination methodology that we have developed on the basis of İbrahim Sirkeci and Jeffrey H. Cohen’s Conflict Model of Migration and Cultures of Human Mobility. The novel portrays the struggle of people who try to gain a new identity and their endeavour for cultural and social adaptation, along with the friendship of two army friends who met on train in abroad after many years, as well as their family stories conspicuously.

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