scholarly journals "The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia Ohwovoriole
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Mutual Exchange ◽  
Communicative Function ◽  
Stylistic Feature ◽  
Prose Narratives ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Written Traditions ◽  
Relationship Of

Literature and oral tradition share a symbiotic relationship. Toyin Faiola the author of A Mouth Sweeter than Salt has produced a highly engaging memoir. The text is set in Ibadan, Ode Aje and Ilorin. We find a rich and knowledgeable exploitation of oral forms which the author uses within the frame of the biographical genre. Through the use of proverbial narration, Fa­Iola presents a tale replete with magic, religion, divination, spirituality and various folklore elements. The oral forms Faiola has used in the text come from the oral character of everyday life, prose narratives, songs, proverbs and proverb-like expressions while exploring the themes of innocence, curiosity and growth. This stylistic feature of narration is common in African story telling sessions. In both the traditional and modern context, the African prov­erb fulfils its social and communicative function in various forms. Faiola pres­ents an inseparable relationship of mutual exchange between the oral and written traditions. However, our point of emphasis is to evaluate the context and usage of the proverbial narration with a restriction to proverbs which deal with animals. The qualities attributed to animals in the proverbs and sayings figuratively and metaphorically describe people's appearance, characteristics and deeds.

scholarly journals Cidades biofílicas inteligentes: Um estudo sobre diretrizes deste conceito aplicado a cidades médias

Terr Plural ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-445
Author(s):  
Luan da Silva Klebers ◽  
Luis Guilherme Aita Pippi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The City

The issue is presented to understand urban planning and how to draw new perspectives so that, through full technological use, improvements are sought for everyday life. However, it fails by segregating the ‘smart’ concept from society's ecosystem relationship with nature. The city is vital, dynamic and democratic, it comes from the symbiotic relationship of coexistence amid anthropic and natural environments thus requiring multifunctionality and dynamics of users. This paper presents a brief reflection about smart biophilic cities, analyzing the medium-sized cities from the perspective of resilient cities, and their conceptual applicability.

The Symbiotic Relationship of Solar Power and Energy Storage in Providing Capacity Value

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Sodano ◽  
Joseph DeCarolis ◽  
Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz ◽  
Jeremiah X. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Power And Energy ◽  
Relationship Of

Jazzing It Up A Storm: The Execution and Meaning of Toni Morrison's Jazzy Prose Style

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan J. Rice
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Systematic Account ◽  
Musical Tradition ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Prose Style ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The publication of Toni Morrison's new novel Jazz with its insistent jazzy themes and rhythms will have concentrated the minds of critics on the relationship of her work to America's most important indigenous artistic form, jazz music. However, in their headlong rush to foreground the impact of jazz on Toni Morrison's latest novel critics should be wary of isolating this novel as her only jazz-influenced work. All of her novels have been informed by the rhythms and cadences of a black musical tradition and in this article I want to stress the centrality of jazz music stylistically to her whole corpus of work. Morrison herself has acknowledged the centrality of a musical aesthetic to her work in interview after interview long before the publication of Jazz:…a novel written a certain way can do precisely what spirituals used to do. It can do exactly what blues or jazz or gossip or stories or myths or folklore did – that stuff which was a common wellspring of ideas…Morrison is writing out of an oral tradition which foregrounds musical performances as well as other oral forms. Some critics have acknowledged the importance of jazz to her work, notably Anthony J. Berret in his article “Toni Morrison's Literary Jazz”. But, despite some provocative and illuminating comments, his is not a systematic account of the use of a jazz mode in Morrison's fiction and I wish in this paper to attempt a more rigorous analysis of her early novels, outlining her willed use of a jazz aesthetic as a pivotal structural device.

scholarly journals Stories of Material Storytelling

2012 ◽  
pp. 171-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen ◽  
Anete M. Camille Strand
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Material Artifacts ◽  
Relationship Of

Material storytelling is used here to denote a material-discursive understanding of technology, and how technology works in organizations in terms of story performance. The idea is that technology configures organizations in spatial, temporal and material terms. We are inspired by Karen Barad’s work in quantum physics in developing the term material storytelling, which relies on a material-discursive understanding of storytelling. By introducing material storytelling we resituate the hegemonic relationship of discourse and language over matter. As such technology regains a central space in both understanding and managing organizations. It implies that attention is relocated to the petty and lowly everyday routines, techniques and material artifacts, which are implicit in what we do in everyday life but govern the agential possibilities for acting in this world. We frame the chapter as a story of material storytelling of a change project in a bank. We experiment with the writing style by going back and forth between two different layers of text. The first layer tells the stories of material storytelling, while the other draws out the theoretical/methodological implications of this approach in terms understanding and managing technology.

scholarly journals Sie sammeln und sie tauschen. Schloss Ambras als Knotenpunkt eines europäischen Netzwerks kunstaffiner Fürstenhöfe der Spätrenaissance

2019 ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Ricarda Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Mutual Exchange ◽  
The Arts

This paper explores dimensions of cultural exchange, a research area that traces mutual exchange activities of various kinds in material culture, including portraits and statues, but also tools of everyday life. At the heart of this study is Castle Ambras, a centre of regional cultural exchange activities in Renaissance Tyrol. Since the days of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol, its proprietors cultivated relationships with other European princes interested in the arts. As will be shown in this paper, various objects found their way to Tyrol as part of this cultural exchange – and can still be found in the halls of Ambras’ present-day museum.

scholarly journals Terorisme dan Simalakama Media Massa

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Farid Pribadi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Combination Technique ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Relationship Of

This article discusses the symbiotic relationship of mutualism between mass media andterrorism. Whether we realize it or not, acts of terrorism in the homeland are still interestingand economically valuable news material in front of the mass media. On the other hand, onthe part of terrorists, the news about terrorist acts actually becomes a strategic campaignarea to show their existence. The research uses a qualitative approach to narrative analysismethod. The results of the study are www.okezone.com and www.tribunnews.com placingthe terror terror events in Medan Mapolrestabes as interesting and economically valuablenews material. The style of the news flow is arranged with a choice of tense, dramatic andsensational nuances of words. In addition, the display of photo and video illustrationsshortly after the explosion also aims to display as if the news of the explosion event is true,not engineering, objective and valid. The combination technique of choice of words, storyline, placement techniques and the size of photos and videos all aim to make the emotions ofthe reader participate dissolved in a tense situation as the situation at the scene of theexplosion. The practice of compiling this kind of news flow is called, as Jean Baudrillard'spractice of simulation. The practice of simulation through the practice of compiling newslines and the touch of visual image technology will eventually create conditions ofhyperreality. Namely the conditions between reality will be mixed with the pseudo so it isdifficult to distinguish which is original and fake. Next, the airing of a list of victims ofunknown origin will actually give birth, as Pierre Bourdie calls it symbolic violence. That is,the practice of violent symbols aimed no longer at the physical target but rather consciousthoughts. Symbolic violence in the appearance of the victim list really has the potential tocreate traumatic feelings towards the families of the victims.

Nature, Nation, Science and Gender

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-347
Author(s):  
Gita Chadha
Keyword(s):  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Mother Goddess ◽  
Indian Scientist ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article explores the equation among nature, nation and gender in the nationalist context. Developing the argument that both nature and nation were feminised and deified as mother and mother goddess in the nationalist context, the article deploys feminist perspectives to critically examine this on a fourth-axis science. By looking at the relationship of the scientist, J. C. Bose, to these categories, the article hopes to unravel the complex relationship of the Indian scientist to nation, nature, gender and science. It is argued that due to being a ‘Sakta’, Bose had a symbiotic relationship to nature, and consequently to science, thereby presenting an ‘alternative’ to Western modes of relating to science and nature. The article submits that this alternative was cast in patriarchal constructions of both science and nature and views the associations of mother with nation and nature within larger feminist critiques of science. The article submits that while these sleeping metaphors set an alternative paradigm to the Western modes of relating to nature through science, they reproduced patriarchal constructions of the same. The article is an effort at grafting feminist perspectives on (a) science and (b) nationalism with postcolonial perspectives on science and modernity.

Identifikasi Kearifan Lokal dalam Pemanfaatan Jenis-Jenis Tumbuhan Untuk Ketahanan Pangan Dan Obat-Obatan

MAKILA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Yustina Anggraini ◽  
Paulus Matius ◽  
Hastaniah Hastaniah ◽  
Rita Diana
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Analyze Data

This research aims to inventory local wisdom in the management and utilization of plants as food and medicine by local communities. The method conducted in this study is the purposive sampling method that aims to inventory plant species, direct observation, and analyze data by calculating density and basal area. The results showed 243 individual plants, consisting of 53 types of trees from 17 families, and found 29 types of plants were used as food and medicine. The utilization of plants by local communities varies. People use plant species for various benefits, namely foodstuffs, building materials, handicrafts, and traditional medicines. Local wisdom in the local community is the knowledge that lasts for generations and has a symbiotic relationship of mutualism with the forest ecosystem at the research site.

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