Claiming historical agency : intertextuality as autobiographical rhetorical strategy in Ian Smith's Bitter Harvest: the Great Betrayal and its Dreadful Aftermath

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Rhetorical Construction ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Historical Agency ◽  
Rhetorical Discourse

This article discusses the rhetorical construction of self-identity in Ian Smith's autobiography. I argue that in communicating self-identity and claiming historical agency, Smith deploys rhetoric born out of intertextuality. Intertextual references construct nation-building rhetoric that positions Smith as an agent of history. The article demonstrates that Smith's invocation of past texts and citations provokes unintended and problematic meanings. While Smith constructs rhetorical discourse, he is in turn also constructed by that discourse as a subject of history.

scholarly journals PEMAKNAAN SERAGAM SEKSI BAGI OPERATOR PEREMPUAN SPBU 54.801.50 DENPASAR

ASKETIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Wayan Gede Lamopia Dan Riza Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Gas Station

This study aims to describe the meaning of sexy uniforms for female GAS STATION operators. The phenomenon is there, operational standards and grooming at the GAS STATION 54.801.50 Denpasar, incompatible with the generally happens. The existence of rules for wearing sexy lingerie for women operators became one of the requirements for workers. This research uses qualitative research methods with types of case studies. The phenomenology of theories about the construction of self dissect the motives of the purposes and motives because the property of Alfred Schutz was chosen to analyze this research. The results of this study showed a dar motive cause and motive of the purpose for the operators of the woman who wears sexy uniforms at the time of work. There are three things the motive cause that is educational, economic and social conditions. While there are purpose motive pda self-identity and comfort in doing the job obtained in addition to fulfill the rules of the company. Key words: definition,Uniform Section, female Operator SPBU

scholarly journals Residential Aged Care Facilities: Places for Living and Dying

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Parker
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Residential Aged Care ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Aged Care Facilities ◽  
Residential Aged Care Facilities ◽  
The Individual

This article explores residential aged care facilities (RACFs) as places of dying and death, and the role these spaces and places have in the construction of self identity for dying residents.  It argues that RACFs, rather than being static places where events such as dying and death occur, are places that shape these experiences. They are social institutions where the construction of self identity for dying residents arises out of the individual experience within the setting, most specifically the experience of social interaction. Drawing on ethnographic work in two Australian facilities the article explores how macro level influences such as economic, social and political discourses intersect with micro level experiences of dying for those approaching death as well as family members and health professionals who support the dying.

scholarly journals Idiolect and Identity: Fourth Grade Students’ Translanguaging, Comprehension, and Self-Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Stephanie Eller ◽  
David Nieto
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Emergent Bilinguals ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Construction Of Self

The practice of translanguaging offers emergent bilinguals the opportunity to access their full linguistic repertoire. This qualitative study uses the lenses of dynamic bilingualism and idiolect, or one’s own unique language patterns, to explore emergent bilinguals’ translanguaging and reading comprehension strategies during a reading think-aloud, as well as the ways that language factors into the construction of self-identity. Data collected from a think-aloud show that the five fourth-grade students used language flexibly when reading and comprehending the texts that were presented in both Spanish and English. The participants, in follow-up interviews, also explained ways that they use translanguaging strategies when communicating with different audiences and how their identity as bilinguals positions them as mediators of their own language use. These findings support the conclusion that when students’ idiolects are supported and encouraged, they are able to develop positive self-identities.

The Construction of Paul’s Self in His Writings: Narrative Identity, Social Memory and Metaphorical Truth

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-265
Author(s):  
Simon Butticaz
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
The Church

The article aims to investigate – in two autobiographical fragments of the Pauline writings (1 Cor. 15:8-10 and Gal. 1:13-24) – how the narrative mode enables the apostle to grasp the continuity and coherence of his identity, while integrating in the construction of his self disparate and discordant elements (like the Damascus event) which continually threaten the “narrative unity of a human life” (MacIntyre). Furthermore, since “collective memory” precedes and shapes the individual representation of the past (Halbwachs; Assmann), the article also examines how Paul integrates and negotiates in his construction of self-identity the “communal memories” shared by his social group, and in particular his past as persecutor of the Church. Finally, we shall describe the integration of these autobiographical fragments within their respective literary contexts and explore the “metaphorical truth” – or the “refiguration” of reality – which is produced by these different “configurations” of Pauline identity (Ricoeur).


5. People, objects, and identity

2016 ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Michael Allen Fox
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The People ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Home Space

‘People, objects, and identity’ considers how the home is a major focus in the construction of self-identity and how people carve out home space even within institutions. It suggests that a home is always a house plus many other ingredients, but a house is a home minus many elements. These elements include the people who matter to us and the objects we choose to keep in our homes. The links between home, objects, and personal identity are dramatically illustrated by two stories focusing on the Holocaust. They demonstrate that destroying homes and their occupants’ ties to place also amount to erasing things that mould identities and create networks of memories.

Budget processes in the Anglican Church of Melanesia: an emergent ethnic identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 1294-1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Hauriasi ◽  
Karen Van-Peursem ◽  
Howard Davey
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Tribal Tradition ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate ethnic identities emerging from the budgetary processes of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (COM) – the Solomon Islands. Design/methodology/approach An interpretive and case-based methodology is employed. Fieldwork consists of 27 interviews, document analysis and lived-observations. Ethnic identity and concepts of the indigenous culture inform the analysis. Findings Findings demonstrate how Church-led practices merge with indigenous processes and how, together, members negotiate their way through this complex budgeting process. A broadened network and community (wantok) is revealed, and through a sympathetic melding of Melanesian and Church tradition, a new ethnic-identity emerges. Issues of parishioners’ isolation, women’s roles and central accountability are not, as yet, fully integrated into this emerging identity. Research limitations/implications There may be value in prioritising “people” over “timelines”, “discussion” over “deadlines” and in respecting local traditions in order to nurture the foundation for new identities. Also, and as evidenced, “nationhood” should not be assumed to be a powerful force in defining ethnic identity. Practical implications The value of respecting the complex interaction between tribal tradition and Church values by those in power is revealed. Social implications “Ethnic identity” is revealed as a complex notion in the Solomon Islands Anglican COM. Originality/value A long-isolated culture’s construction of self-identity in the context of the COM is revealed.

Positioning as a Means of Understanding the Narrative Construction of Self: A Story of Lesbian Escorting

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davina Swan
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue

In this article we examine the use of narrative strategies in the construction of a self. We focus on the function one woman’s (alias Rachel) narrative serves in terms of constructing a coherent self through her account, via a magazine interview, of “How I became a lesbian escort”. We highlight the relational nature of narrative self construction, i.e., the ongoing dialogue between the use of cultural narratives in a story and the individual’s positioning in relation to such elements to create a unique and coherent self in that setting. (Narrative, Positioning, Construction of Self, Identity, Lesbian Escorting)

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