Галерея мужских образов в рассказе А.К. Гольдебаева Галчонок

The motif of the Apocalypse passes through all the works of the Samara writer A.K. Goldebaev (Semenov). But if in his early works he did not highlight the end of the world (It seems distant and therefore not so scary to the author), years later he realizes the seriousness of what is happening – death isapproaching. In the story The Young Jackdaw (In the Established Order), published in 1910 in the short story collection Knowledge, the writer starts a conversation about the fallen women. However, this topic is not the leading one, and the female characters are not central ones. In this article, the author attempts to reveal the true meaning of the work through the analysis of the system of male characters.

“Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire”: An Interview with Laura Hird

Full of morbid humour and painfully honest narrations, Laura Hird’s stories— mainly set in the city of Edinburgh— deal with relationships of power, family values and her narratives always offer her unique view on the city she was born in and its people. Through these stories, she presents her unparalleled perspective on the beauty of some of the city’s hidden locations which are not portrayed by others. As she mentions in Dear Laura, Hird considers herself to be a ‘constipated romantic’, and that is simply a great way to summarise her work, as her way of portraying life through writing is not always pleasant, yet ever phenomenal. While her first published work allowed her to be included amongst a group of male authors; her first story collection and her novel roared originality and offered a different city of Edinburgh, and her last collection put the cherry on top with yet more uncomfortably true stories about queer Scottishness as part of her urban observations.

Merging Identities: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri’s characters in her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies keep wandering between the two worlds- one in their homeland and the other in the country where they choose to live and die. Lahiri records the emotional journey of characters seeking love and searching their identity beyond the barricade of nations, cultures, religions and generations. Mr. Kapasi is an interpreter of maladies and the malady of Mrs. Das is to be an unfamiliar person to her family’s culture, as Lahiri herself is an erudite interpreter of maladies- both social and emotional. Since, Mrs. Das is undertaking a second migration, she turns to be an interpreter like Mr. Kapasi whose job interests her so much. The characters’ longing to belong to either or both the habitats, their urge to de-stress the distress of alienation by searching an identity in their native heritage add value to the writer’s creative intensity. She illustrates her characters sprouting in the centre of a new crossbreed culture, the Indo-American awareness as Lahiri herself, the true representative of the second generation Indian in America.

Deconstructing the terrible gift of postcolonial African lives: An intertextual reading of Martin Egblewogbe’s Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God & Other Stories.

This paper situates Martin Egblewogbe’s short story collection Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God & Other Stories (2008) within intertextual discourses as they relate to the tri-generational canon of Ghanaian, and by extension, African literature. It argues against the easy temptation of reading the work via uncontextualized metaphysical or existentialist paradigms, or what Wole Soyinka (1976) refers to as the undifferentiated mono-lenses of “universal humanoid abstractions,” and instead situates it within the Ghanaian tradition by pointing out the collection’s filiation to the specific trope of madness-as-a subversive-performance-of-resilience against the oppressive socio-political status quo in that tradition. The paper excavates the works of first generation postcolonial Ghanaian authors such as Armah, Awoonor and Aidoo, and reads Egblewogbe’s relatively recent debut oeuvre against them in a grounded epistemic manoeuvre that fractures assumptions about the work’s uniqueness and places it in on-going trans-generational dialogic exchanges about how to negotiate the fractious crucible that is postcolonial Ghanaian experience.

Character Education Value Content in a Collection of Short Stories Compass 2018 Doa yang Terapung

Character education can be instilled in various ways. One of them is through literature. Literature itself is very diverse until now. Among young people, one of the works that have a lot of interest is short stories (short stories), because a short story contains interesting stories to read. In addition, the work also contains a message about positive things. This study aims to describe the value of character education in the collection of short stories Compass 2018 Doa Yang Terapung. Research is included in qualitative research. The method in this study uses descriptive qualitative. The data source in this study is a collection of short stories from Compass 2018 Doa Yang Terapung. Data collection in this study was carried out by reading and understanding short stories and recording data containing the value of character education in the 2018 Compass short story collection Doa Yang Terapung. Data analysis in this study uses the Miles and Huberman flow model, namely data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The results of this study indicate the values of character education in the 2018 Kompas short story collection Doa Yang Terapung, among others a) the value of religious character education (the value of religious character praying to God, the value of religious character accepting destiny, the value of religious character believing & surrendering to God's destiny; b) the value of nationalist character education (the value of nationalist character, the spirit of heroism, the value of nationalist character). willing to sacrifice for his family, and c) the value of independent character education (character values of a good work ethic, professional character values, creative character values).

Afroperipheral indigeneity in Wayde Compton’s The Outer Harbour

Black Canadian writer Wayde Compton’s short story collection The Outer Harbour (2015) is located in the Afroperiphery of British Columbia which stands as a ‘contact zone’ that enables the alliances between Black and Indigenous peoples and also establishes a fecund ground of possibilities to emphasize the way in which cross-ethnic coalitions and representations reconsider imperial encounters previously ignored. The stories participate in the recent turn in Indigenous studies towards kinship and cross-ethnicity to map out the connected and shared itineraries of Black and Indigenous peoples and re-read Indigeneity in interaction. At the same time, the stories offer a fresh way to revisit Indigeneity in Canada through the collaborative lens and perspective of the Afroperipheral reality. In doing so, they contribute to calling attention to current cross-ethnic struggles for Indigenous rights and sovereignty in Canada that rely on kinship and ethnic alliances to keep on interrogating the shortcomings of the nation’s multiculturalism.

Hegemoni dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Kinokot Karya Andhika Mappasomba: Kajian Hegemoni Gramscian

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bentuk hegemoni dalam kumpulan cerpen Kinokot karya Andhika Mappasomba. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Data dalam penelitian ini berupa teks yang mengacu pada bentuk-bentuk hegemoni dalam cerpen “Kinokot” dan “Dia Tak Pernah Kembali” karya Andhika Mappasomba sedangkan sumber data dalam penelitian ini yaitu kumpulan cerpen Kinokot yang diterbitkan oleh P3i Press pada tahun 2018. Objek formal penelitian ini adalah teori hegemoni Gramsci. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa bentuk-bentuk hegemoni tampak pada dua cerpen yang ada di dalam kumpulan cerpen Kinokot yaitu cerpen Dia Tak Pernah Kembali dan cerpen Kinokot. kedua cerpen tersebut menunjukkan adanya bentuk hegemoni menyeluruh yang dibuktikan dengan hadirnya tokoh yang dengan sadar melarungkan anaknya ke laut demi mematuhi anjuran pemerinta tentang keluarga berencana. Selain hegemoni menyeluruh, kedua cerpen tersebut, menghadirkan bentu hegemoni minimum yang dibuktikan melalui sikap negosiasi dan resisten yang ditampakkan dalam cerita. Kata Kunci: hegemoni, kumpulan cerpen Kinokot Abstract: This study aims to describe the form of hegemony in a collection of short stories by Andhika Mappasomba Kinokot. This research is a qualitative study using a qualitative descriptive method. The data in this study is in the form of text that refers to the forms of hegemony in “Kinokot” short stories and “He Never Returns” to Andhika Mappasomba's work while the data source in this study is a collection of Kinocot short stories published by P3i Press in 2018. The formal object of this research is the theory of hegemony. Gramsci. The results showed that the forms of hegemony were seen in the two short stories in the Kinokot short story collection, namely Dia Tak Never Return and the Kinokot short stories. The two short stories show a form of overall hegemony as evidenced by the presence of a character who is conscious of throwing himself out to sea in order to comply with the government's recommendation regarding family planning. In addition to the overall hegemony, the two short stories present a minimum form of hegemony as evidenced by the negotiation and resistance attitudes shown in the story.Keywords: hegemony, collection of short stories Kinokot

Walter Scott, Five Short Stories: The Dundee Edition

Five Short Stories brings together a diverse selection of Walter Scott’s shorter fictions produced over a five-year span late in his long career. First published within the three-volume novel Redgauntlet (1824), “Wandering Willie’s Tale” remains a staple of Gothic anthologies. Two Scottish tales, “The Highland Widow” and “The Two Drovers”, come from Chronicles of the Canongate (1827), Scott’s only official short story collection. Two other works intended for a second series of Chronicles, “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror” and “The Tapestried Chamber”, eventually appeared in a fashionable gift-book, The Keepsake for 1829. A grisly murder and a journey into a hellish underworld; a drug-induced desertion followed by a military execution; a simmering rivalry leading to a homicide; bigamy exposed by a magic lantern show; and an ornate room furnished with the ghost of an evil aristocrat: these short stories amply showcase Scott’s darker imagination.

Sounding displaced memories: Narrative soundscapes in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!

In her short story collection Krik? Krak!, the Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat realizes new formal strategies that integrate vernacular orality into her writings. She does so to construct evocative narrative soundscapes through which difficult memories can be processed. This article examines Danticat’s approach to otherness, migration, and displacement in an attempt to disentangle the function of language, sound, and memory in the development of authentic Caribbean identities and literatures. It aims to trace the workings of sound and mobility in the literary spaces Danticat creates to revisit colonial and patriarchal history and, in so doing, reroot and reroute cultural memories previously lost to violence and organized forgetting. In crossing and replicating the oceanic routes in which past and present intersect, Krik? Krak! opens critical sites of (d)enunciation that rework personal and collective memories of displacement by means of language and sound.