scholarly journals A life story forged by successive migrations: the case of Lucia

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-157
Author(s):  
Ida Lucia Machado
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Female Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
The Military

The aims of this article are divided in two: (i) show that life stories of migrants are currently necessary because they contemplate a discursive look that is at once social, historical and psychological; (ii) to investigate the identity “mysteries” of the protagonist and narrator of the novel Lucia, written by Olga Canllo Salomon, which tells the life of a poor Argentinian girl who, through displacements/migrations, found her place in the world after being forced to flee the military regimen that ruled her country in the 1970s. This female character fits into what I call “transclass subjects” because she went through life’s hardships hoping to find something better. The article relies on the theoretical convergence of life stories according to Machado (2018; 2019) and the Semiolinguistics proposed by Charaudeau (1983; 2006), to which I also add the ideas of Cyrulnik (2015) to explain/apply the notion of resilience, a feature of the novel’s female protagonist. I hope this article serves as testimonial of the research I have been conducting for some years and to which I now add the figure of migrants. Finally, excerpts of Lucia are cited to illustrate the imaginaries of beliefs of her homeland as well as her emotions, fears, and audacity

Vocational Development in Emerging Adulthood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Pratt ◽  
M. Kyle Matsuba
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Vocational Development ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts

Chapter 6 reviews research on the topic of vocational/occupational development in relation to the McAdams and Pals tripartite personality framework of traits, goals, and life stories. Distinctions between types of motivations for the work role (as a job, career, or calling) are particularly highlighted. The authors then turn to research from the Futures Study on work motivations and their links to personality traits, identity, generativity, and the life story, drawing on analyses and quotes from the data set. To illustrate the key concepts from this vocation chapter, the authors end with a case study on Charles Darwin’s pivotal turning point, his round-the-world voyage as naturalist for the HMS Beagle. Darwin was an emerging adult in his 20s at the time, and we highlight the role of this journey as a turning point in his adult vocational development.

Shankar Nana, Parubai, and the Author, Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Deepra Dandekar
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
Church Missionary Society

This chapter presents the life story of the first converts Shankar Nana, his wife Parubai, and the author of the novel, Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar, their son. The life stories are based on Christian witnesses, Church Missionary Society archival records, and the Marathi Christian literature of the time that provided protagonists in the novel human agency. This chapter is important for its narrative that lies outside missionary discourse and the native Christian interest that seeks to justify conversion. Based on archival records, this chapter then constitutes the ‘other’ of the translated text.

scholarly journals THE QUEST FOR INDIVIDUALITY IN FARIBA VAFI’S MY BIRD

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 1511-1516
Author(s):  
Elnaz Valaei Bakhshayesh ◽  
Seyed Reza Ebrahimi
Keyword(s):  
Personality Development ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
The Self ◽  
Female Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
The Common

One of the common themes in contemporary Persian literature in Iran is the psychological development of women and their challenges to find their path towards individuality. By applying Jungian “process of individuation,” Fariba Vafi’s novel My bird is analyzed to uncover the self- development of the female character. The motion of self-archetype is studied in relation to Jung’s theory of individuality to study how the female protagonist experiences this process of personality development. The motif of re-birth emerges at the end of the novel when the female heroine reaches a level of recognition of the changes occurring within her. Other archetypal motifs that appear in the novel are the house archetype, the shadow archetype, and the individuation archetype which are discussed as they are the main structuring elements in the formation of the theme of the novel. This research aims to study how the psychological development of the female protagonist, based on Jung’s archetypal theories, occurs. Keywords: Jung’s archetypes, shadow archetype, house archetype, individuation archetype.

scholarly journals Features of syntax in the novel “Was I not a Viburnum in the Meadow” by V. Shkurupy

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 178-184
Author(s):  
Tetiana Kononchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Emotional Tension ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
Research Analysis ◽  
Productive Role

The present paper is devoted to the analysis of the novel “Was I not a viburnum in the meadow?” written by a modern Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Shkurupy. The novel was written in 1984 and was first published in 1990. The article focuses on the features of syntax in the novel under consideration. The author describes the events which took place in Ukraine after the World War ІІ. The writer builds a narrative based on the true life stories told by relatives and acquaintances. The genre of the novel involves going beyond the main time. The older characters reflect on what happened in Ukraine in 1932–1933. Their narratives are associative pictures of their experience. In the process of research analysis it was specified that the author uses the appropriate syntax to reproduce emotional tension. Phraseologisms appear as generalizations and peculiar formulas that figuratively show the dramatic life circumstances of the famine of 1946–1947 are employed. It is worth noting that one-member sentences play the most productive role. For example, definite-personal sentences (particularly presented from the first person) indicate the presence of the narrator in the circumstances, and therefore their plausibility. Indefinite-personal sentences emphasize the mass repressive measures of the authorities against the Ukrainian population. One-member sentences – definite-personal and indefinite-personal – dominate in the narratives of older characters about the Holodomor of 1932–1933. Their function is similar to that performed by these types of sentences in the pictures of the main tense. Thus, the peculiarity of the syntax in the novel Was I not a viburnum in the meadow? written by V. Shkurupy is that the author used definite-personal and indefinite-personal sentences to bring the artistic reality closer to that experienced by the Ukrainians in the Holodomor of 1932–1933 and in 1946–1947. The obtained results undoubtedly have both theoretical and practical significance. In addition, the writer's works require further scientific research.

scholarly journals The Inner Quandary of Woman in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
T R Deepak
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Female Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Moll Flanders ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Shed Light

Daniel Defoe is an enchanted incinerator of English literature sprung during the initial years of eighteenth century. His applauded Moll Flanders (1722) is professed as picaresque in literary vegetation. He has emotionally painted the commotion of a solitary, imprudent and prevalent female distinct against an inimical and droopy humanity. As a matter of datum, the female chief strolls into the alleyway of assorted catastrophes. She has borne the humanity either in an orthodox or warped mundane. All these archetypes of women have shed light in the fiction even before the initiation of feminist movements athwart the realm. These movements have engrossed the intellect of community and sedated as operational. At regular intervals, these have performed more elegant and redundant than being operative.Moll Flanders is not a typical incarnation of feminist thoughts. It has never strained to sketch an itinerary for the relegated female personality to outshine her eccentricity. Yet, it is indubitably pro-woman and reconnoiters a female character with the reputation of protagonist. The farsighted image of woman with grander tenets of empathy and sympathy is blossomed. In the contemporary habitat, the novel may not seem like far-reaching as it pushes the female lead to imitate and regret with ceaseless kinks and contraventions. But the novelist is ahead of his epoch in aiding his female protagonist to gallop and endure the probabilities amidst dejection and misfortunes. Hence, the research ornate has through an endeavour to enchant the inner quandary of woman in a masculine captivated sophistication with reference to Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders.

Military Relics: Soldiers and Sailors at Home in Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet-Major

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-534
Author(s):  
Aeron Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Military Veterans ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Civil Defence ◽  
The Military ◽  
At Home

Abstract Thomas Hardy’s 1880 text The Trumpet-Major, a historical novel set during the period of the Napoleonic invasion scares, is notable for its generic inconsistency and the strangeness of its plot and characters. This essay analyses the novel’s array of soldiers, sailors, members of the yeomanry focused on civil defence, and military veterans, arguing that Hardy’s novel’s formal strangeness grows in part out of its preoccupation with these examples of military figures at home – roles that, I suggest, focused a contemporary anxiety about social connectedness and the continuities and consistencies of life stories and identities. In highlighting the disquiet that these military figures register in the novel as well as outside it, in wider discussions of army reform and policies toward veterans and members of the military, I suggest that in Victorian accounts and in the ruptures registered in Hardy’s text we may find new insights into the languages of social connection – and their failures – that continue to vex us today.

scholarly journals Not a scintilla of light: Darkness and despondency in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
Chioma Opora
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Light Darkness ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Hill

The paper makes an attempt at exploring the concept of the absurd as it applies to Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning. The inordinate quest for survival and human dignity is graphically etched on the sordid canvas of angst, grime and abject poverty. The author deftly links this quest with the quest of identity which is manifested in a stream of endless waiting. The world of the novel is patently portrayed as irrational. The absurd is depicted, in the vein of Camus, as the function of the conflict between the irrational world and the human being’s passionate desires. The grossly traumatised and colonised humanity in Makokoba, a microcosm of Southern Africa, represents a scathing human condition. The female protagonist Phephelaphi is cast as an emblem of a subjugated and struggling African person seeking an identity as well as self-fulfilment. Phephelaphi, as a matter of course, bears the Sisyphean burden which remains unmitigated for the stone continuously rolls to the foot of the hill. This futile, endless and laborious feat which is symptomatic of the individual’s relentless struggles on earth echoes the absurd in an irrational milieu. This is inextricably linked with an indomitable and immortal time against which African men, women and children contend as they are kept waiting in stark futility.

scholarly journals Search for Identity: A Study of Female Characters in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Tejaswini Behera
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Female Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The One ◽  
In Fire

The three leading female characters in the novel Fire on the Mountain(1977) are searching for their identity till the end of the novel. All of them are victims of various kinds. Nanda, though not a victim of direct physical violence, has certainly been a victim of her husband’s indifference and of the family that has taken her for granted all her long life. Due to which she has finally decided to live a lonely life in Carignano. Ila Das in her own way for searching for her identity becomes the most obvious victim of violence in her own death by murder. Raka though a child searches for her identity due to the brutal and indifferent nature of her parents. She is a victim of the world of her parents that she is born to. But she is the one female character in the novel who is aware of the violence and finally get s the solution by setting the forest in fire.  

scholarly journals A study of Ageism in Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries: Narrative and Body Foregrounding the (old) self

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Hiba Ahmed ◽  
Sheena Lama
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
The World ◽  
Ageing Body

This paper looks at the (re)presentation of ageing in Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries. In an attempt to unmask society’s ageist attitudes towards its elderly, the research attempts to analyse ageing through the prism of gender as surely ageing is worse for women than it is for men. The research sheds light on how the old person is viewed just as an old body which is also genderless and therefore expected to be devoid of any carnal desires. As the novel revolves around a narrative within the novel’s narrative, the paper also sees how Daisy, the ageing protagonist, loses her self behind her narrative. Her self is also in perpetual submersion due to her hyper-visible ageing body. Her sagging skin and wrinkles are the only assertions that the world registers from her side while her selfhood and identity are either erased or ignored. The novel’s story follows Daisy through her tumultuous life but this paper attempts to live it with her. So while Daisy composes her life story, her life composes her story which eventually begins to foreground her to the extent that she is completely submerged in her story and ultimately dies in a nursing home in Florida. Her death bringing relief to her family is the peak of ageism that the story throws in our faces. She lived as an association— a mother, a grandmother, an aunty, a wife, a widow; and died as an old woman and nothing more.

scholarly journals A Critique of American Supremacist Politics in Cold War in Sorayya Khan's City of Spies

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Irfan Farid ◽  
Asma Aftab ◽  
Zubair Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Islamic Fundamentalism ◽  
American Intervention ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
Insight Into

The present study investigates the representation of America in Anglophone Pakistani Literature with a special focus on Sorayya Khan's City of Spies with the assumption to trace some possible connection between American intervention and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the context of Pakistan's politics. Given the American intervention in Pakistani politics and its indelible impact on the domestic and international scenario had made the country a virtual battleground for the superpowers of the world. Khan's novel situates this conflict in the aftermath of the military coup of General Zia, followed by the Afghan war and (c)overt American alliance in it, which brought about serious implications for the Pakistani state. The story of the novel offers some pertinent extracts which deal, literally or metaphorically, with the role and representation of America in these geostrategic events. The article has used the critical cultural angle by investing the theoretical views of Ziauddin Sardar in terms of the Muslim world's apathy for America in the aftermath of cold war politics are used to get a better insight into the central problem by underscoring how this foreign policy of America has been responsible for the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan.

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