scholarly journals Men and Place: Male Identity and the Meaning of Place in the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Gàidhealtachd

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Home Country ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Male Identity ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
Significant Element ◽  
Professional Success

The perfunctory noting of name, dates, family relationships and a location on gravestones initially suggests that such details are unprofitable sources for evidence of male identity. However the sheer commonplaceness of stating a placename, particularly when it is noticeably associated with men rather than women, and when not all cultures do the same, indicates that it may reveal something of how men thought of themselves and how they felt. Canadian and Australian studies have suggested that recording placenames on a headstone was a marker of Scottish ethnicity, like an image of a thistle. However, in the nineteenth-century Scottish Highlands ethnicity was not a key component of identity. Indications of place, at least in the ‘home’ country, must therefore signify a different element of identity. This article examines headstone inscriptions of men from across the Gaelic-speaking Highlands and Islands of Scotland who died in the nineteenth century. The resulting evidence indicates that place was a significant element of male identity, indicating personal or ancestral connection with a particular location; a regional affiliation; professional success; social status; national and international mobility; an imperial or patriotic mindset; or even geographical dislocation. In short, place was highly significant to nineteenth-century Highland men, and was a key element of their personal identity.

scholarly journals A Legitimate End to Illegitimate Beginning: A Critical Analysis of Mariam’s Character in A Thousand Splendid Suns

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Samina Akhtar ◽  
Muhammad Rauf ◽  
Saima Ikram ◽  
Gulrukh Raees
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Battered Woman ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Societal Attitude

This paper is an attempt to portray the plight of Mariam that she undergoes due to her illegitimate social status. The study focuses on the critical societal attitude towards the illegitimate unfortunate women. Mariam begins her life with a “harami” status; continues her struggle for personal identity, suffer and endures as a battered woman and leave this world as a woman of consequences by digging herself out of the lower social status that society attached to her. The study analyzes Mariam’s endurance, struggles and resistance in her strenuous journey to attain legitimate ending. The researcher used feminist literary criticism to interpret the text as a research methodology and adopted close textual analysis of the text by Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

scholarly journals Stagnering en transformering: die rol van die nar in Paljas

Literator ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nel
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Marital Problems ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Spatial Isolation ◽  
Social Level

Stagnation and transformation: The role of the clown in Paljas This article focuses on the central problem in the film Paljas, and the role of the clown in the process of transformation that is embedded in the story. The stagnation in interpersonal relationships and the accompanying problem of identity on a personal and social level constitute the problem underlying the narrative. The youngest child refuses to speak and dysfunctional family relationships and marital problems are evident. These problems can mainly be ascribed to the spatial isolation in which the characters find themselves. Attention is therefore paid to the way in which space functions in this film. The arrival of an absconded circus clown effects transformation and healing – especially by means of his picaresque performances and the notion of play. Subsequently this article concentrates on the characteristics of game/playing as a cultural activity and on its liberating value. The clown also has definite Biblical connotations as far as the aspects of betrayal and redemption are concerned. The process of transformation as depicted in this film is completed when the child starts speaking again, dysfunctional family relationships are restored and the family is reinstated in the community because of their restored social status.

Reading for differentiation: the family romance plot

2015 ◽  
pp. 118-168
Author(s):  
Helena Michie ◽  
Robyn Warhol
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Family ◽  
Romance Plot ◽  
The City

Despite George Scharf’s professional success and eventual social status, most people who have heard the name are thinking of his father. It is George Scharf Sr’s urban sketches– tracking street by street and demolished house by demolished house the emergence of Regency London and of the city we know today–that were brought together in the 1980s as an exhibition and a book, both entitled George Scharf’s London. If George Jr does not get to possess, in the contemporary imagination, the city in which he, too, lived and worked, he did in his own time manage to surpass his father in reputation and class, to leave behind the slightly pathetic figure, the chronically underemployed immigrant debtor who shared– that is to say, anticipated– his name. The remarkable story of George Jr’s class and professional ascendancy, marked by increasing signs of public respect, achieved its apotheosis in the nominal change that shortly preceded his death: the not-quite- posthumous creation of ‘Sir George Scharf’, the addition of ‘Sir’ to the name of the son, marked the distance between the two men for posterity.

Sharper Tools

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-276
Author(s):  
Lindsay Rose Russell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
American Women ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Linguistic Proficiency ◽  
Equality In Education

Discussing characteristics of nineteenth-century missionary women’s lives abroad, Russell demonstrates that the colonial, sociopolitical, and technological contexts involved in missionary work in Asia made dictionary-making a possible and appropriate employment for American women. Women involved in missionary work often enjoyed more opportunities for equality in education, allowing for language acquisition and scholarly pursuits that may not have been possible in their home country. These women gained linguistic proficiency through varied interactions—religious, educational, and otherwise—with members of their communities, and in many cases developed pragmatic lexicographical methods that tended to be less prescriptive and more inclusive and appreciative of native languages, in contrast to the colonializing discourse that characterized studies produced by male missionaries.

Creativity in the Emerging Adult

2017 ◽  
pp. 26-49
Author(s):  
Alicia Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
College Education ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Erik Erikson ◽  
Developmental Milestones ◽  
Developmental Theories ◽  
Development Of Identity

Before one can reflect upon the presence of creativity in the Emerging Adult, it is necessary to better understand and explore what it means to be an Emerging Adult. Reviewing the developmental theories of Jeffery Arnett, Erik Erikson, James Marcia, Jean Piaget, and Sigmund Freud is necessary in order to better understand the Emerging Adult and how creativity can optimally be stimulated during this time frame of development. Emerging Adulthood integrates a variety of developmental milestones, including the development of identity and intimacy and the transition of an adolescent from parental dependence to independence in college, relationships and work. This chapter will cover and discuss creativity in the context of group identity, personal identity, family, relationships, cognition, college education, and the workplace.

“A Manifestation of a Deep, Inborn Inherited Instinct”: Modernist Aesthetics and the Instabilities of Inheritance in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
Evelyn T.Y. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Familial Inheritance ◽  
Modern Self ◽  
Century Literature

This essay explores how Joseph Conrad reworks the trope of inheritance—traditionally considered relevant for earlier nineteenth-century literature rather than Modernism—in expressing Jim’s crisis of self-making in Lord Jim. Conrad moves away from the conventional emphasis on familial inheritance of social status and wealth to focus on inherited abilities, which Jim tries to prove in building his heroic and gentlemanly status. However, there are limits to this process of self-creation: inheritance is, as the word’s root suggests, innate to oneself, yet can also be extrinsic since it still needs to be expressed to call it one’s own, and be unstable since it is open to interpretation. Such complexities in the notion of inheritance, the essay argues, contribute to a modernist aesthetics in the novel that simultaneously harbours continuity (such as gradualism, predictability, and succession) and discontinuity (such as narrative rupture and the breakdown of causality), allowing the perils of modern self-making to be more fully revealed.

Cajal’s Legacy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ehrlich
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
National Hero ◽  
Neuron Theory ◽  
Color Photography ◽  
Ramón Y Cajal

This chapter looks into the legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Historians rank Cajal alongside more recognizable names such as Darwin and Pasteur among the greatest biologists of the nineteenth century and Copernicus, Galileo, and Isaac Newton among the greatest scientists of all time. In his final testament to the neuron theory, Neuron Theory or Reticular Theory? Cajal reported to have seen more than a million neurons. Cajal’s drawings of these neurons are much like portraits. “Only true artists are attracted to science,” he once said. Although the majority of his work concerns the nervous system, Cajal was a physician who contributed to many other fields. To pathology, he contributed studies on tuberculosis, leprosy, syphilis, rabies, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer. He also published science fiction and wrote one of the earlier manuals on color photography. Cajal was a true polymath and a national hero in his home country of Spain.

Intimacy and Family in the California Borderlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margie Brown-Coronel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
California History ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

Using personal and family letters written between 1876 and 1896, this article charts the life of a post-conquest Californiana, Josefa del Valle Forster (1861–1943). It argues that the industrial and commercial development that took place in Southern California after 1850 reconfigured family relationships and gender dynamics, shifting understandings of intimacies for del Valle Forster. This discussion of an era and community often overlooked in California history contributes to a fuller picture of how Californianas experienced the late nineteenth century, and it highlights the significance of letters as a historical source for understanding how individuals and families negotiated the transformations wrought by war and conquest.

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