Ancestral Voices Healing Narratives

Author : Kristina S. Gibby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666909654

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Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives by Kristina S. Gibby Pdf

Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction examines four novels by Erna Brodber, Zoé Valdés, Sandra Cisneros, and Maryse Condé. In this unique comparative analysis, Kristina S. Gibby explores the significance of female ghosts—specifically maternal figures, who haunt female narrators, inspiring them to transcribe the dead’s obfuscated (hi)stories and recover their family memory. The author argues that these female ghosts subvert historiographic power structures through a matrilineal succession of knowledge via oral traditions of storytelling, inevitably broadening historical consciousness and asserting the value of fiction in the face of historical rupture. Gibby contends that in form and content, these novels disrupt patriarchal and Western expectations of time and epistemology. They favor cyclical temporality (highlighted by the spirits’ uncanny return), which underscores relational understanding and challenges the exclusive and limiting constraints of linear time. This book makes important contributions to inter-American literary criticism with its narrow focus on female authors who confront the horrors of history through maternal spirits.

Author : Lara Medina,Martha R. Gonzales
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539567

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Voices from the Ancestors by Lara Medina,Martha R. Gonzales Pdf

Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Author : Gay Alden Wilentz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813528666

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Healing Narratives by Gay Alden Wilentz Pdf

Exploring the relationship between culture and health, this text provides readings of the works of five women writers, tracing their common structure of a main character moving from a state of mental or physical disease toward wellness through reconnection with her cultural traditions.

Author : Mervyn Nicholson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739100629

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Male Envy by Mervyn Nicholson Pdf

Defining male envy as "the hostility males feel for other males," the author explores how envy, while a taboo topic in everyday life, has (from the Romantic period onward) been given a thorough treatment by literature and looks at what that treatment reveals about the role of envy in competition, warfare, and civilization. Discussing works ranging from Ivanhoe to The Shining he looks at envy as a coded subtext inherent in a vast range of human conflict. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Danita Dodson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781666754179

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The Medicine Woods by Danita Dodson Pdf

The Medicine Woods is a graceful and soul-stirring meditation on how our planet's future lies in the ability to embrace the oneness of life and practice nonviolence toward each other, the trees, the seas, and all beings. In this second collection of awe-inspiring poetry, Danita Dodson uplifts the ecological stewardship that obliges us to seek healing in its many forms--to walk in the woods, to cure waters, to return the soil to its original state of health, to mend broken hearts and minds, to give justice to the oppressed. With perceptive musicality and stunning natural imagery, the poet offers the spirit of what her grandmother sought when she ventured into the East Tennessee woods to find medicinal plants to heal her family--poems that carry an imaginative ethnobotanical essence as they distill curative words in this time of climate change and escalating violence. Uniting the natural and the divine and connecting the hills of Appalachia with the planetary landscape, Dodson's mystical verses exemplify the wisdom of a poet with a love of place, illuminating the deep connection to the land that underlies the desire to love it, to protect it, and to listen to its stories.

Author : Ivor Goodson,Scherto Gill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623565404

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Critical Narrative as Pedagogy by Ivor Goodson,Scherto Gill Pdf

Ivor Goodson and Scherto Gill analyse and discuss a series of trans-disciplinary case studies from diverse cultures and argue that narrative is not only a rich and profound way for humans to make sense of their lives, but also in itself a process of pedagogical encounter, learning and transformation. As pedagogic sites, life narratives allow the individual to critically examine their 'scripts' for learning which are encapsulated in their thought processes, discourses, beliefs and values. Goodson and Gill show how narratives can help educators and students shift from a disenfranchised tradition to one of empowerment. This unique book brings together case studies of life narratives as an approach to learning and meaning-making in different disciplines and cultural settings, including teacher education, adult learning, (auto)biographical writing, psychotherapy, intercultural learning and community development. Educators, researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines will find the case studies collected in this book helpful in expanding their understanding of the potential of narrative as a phenomenon, as methodology, and as pedagogy.

Author : James Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252268434

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Ancestral voices by James Norman Pdf

Author : Glenn Roberts,Jeremy Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015043325185

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Healing Stories by Glenn Roberts,Jeremy Holmes Pdf

At the heart of any therapeutic encounter there is always a story. Patients seeking help bring with them stories, spoken or untold, fragmentary and whole, that collectively make up their own personal narrative, their lived autobiography. Whatever else their tasks, a central part of the doctor's or therapist's job is to facilitate the telling of these stories, to make meaning out of them and find the patterns within them. The aim of this book is to rehabilitate stories and story telling within medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy and to consider a narrative approach both as a theoretical paradigm and a practical, therapeutic tool.

Author : Amy Gillespie Dougherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1954047142

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The Ancestors Within by Amy Gillespie Dougherty Pdf

"The world of ancestral healing opens up possibilities for mind, body, soul, and spirit wellness you've never imagined. The Ancestors Within offers a collection of life-changing experts' stories and practical tools in the field of ancestral healing so you can understand what's possible and experience improved health, wealth, and happiness.--Publisher's description.

Author : Catherine Rainwater
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812200201

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Dreams of Fiery Stars by Catherine Rainwater Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Since the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a new generation of Native American storytellers has chosen writing over oral traditions. While their works have found an audience by observing many of the conventions of the mainstream novel, Native American written narrative has emerged as something distinct from the postmodern novel with which it is often compared. In Dreams of Fiery Stars, Catherine Rainwater examines the novels of writers such as Momaday, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich and contends that the very act of writing narrative imposes constraints upon these authors that are foreign to Native American tradition. Their works amount to a break with—and a transformation of—American Indian storytelling. The book focuses on the agenda of social and cultural regeneration encoded in contemporary Native American narrative, and addresses key questions about how these works achieve their overtly stated political and revisionary aims. Rainwater explores the ways in which the writers "create" readers who understand the connection between storytelling and personal and social transformation; considers how contemporary Native American narrative rewrites Western notions of space and time; examines the existence of intertextual connections between Native American works; and looks at the vital role of Native American literature in mainstream society today.

Author : Joel C. Kuipers
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512803341

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Power in Performance by Joel C. Kuipers Pdf

Among the Weyewa of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, spokesmen seek to inscribe their traditions and sacred obligations through ritual speaking performances. In a series of lively poetic dialogues, performers use a distinctive couplet style to pursue the trail of their ancestors.

Author : Gerald Vizenor
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803219021

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Survivance by Gerald Vizenor Pdf

In this anthology, eighteen scholars discuss the themes and practices of survivance in literature, examining the legacy of Vizenor's original insights and exploring the manifestations of survivance in a variety of contexts. Contributors interpret and compare the original writings of William Apess, Eric Gansworth, Louis Owens, Carter Revard, Gerald Vizenor, and Velma Wallis, among others.

Author : Wiremu NiaNia,Allister Bush,David Epston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315386416

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Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy by Wiremu NiaNia,Allister Bush,David Epston Pdf

This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care. In the first chapter, Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia outlines the key concepts that underpin his worldview and work. He then discusses the social, historical, and cultural context of his relationship with Allister Bush, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. The main body of the book comprises chapters that each recount the story of one young person and their family’s experience of Māori healing from three or more points of view: those of the psychiatrist, the Māori healer and the young person and other family members who participated in and experienced the healing. With a foreword by Sir Mason Durie, this book is essential reading for psychologists, social workers, nurses, therapists, psychiatrists, and students interested in bicultural studies.

Author : Ivor Goodson,Scherto Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 1472553128

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Critical Narrative as Pedagogy by Ivor Goodson,Scherto Gill Pdf

Ivor Goodson and Scherto Gill analyse and discuss a series of trans-disciplinary case studies from diverse cultures and argue that narrative is not only a rich and profound way for humans to make sense of their lives, but also in itself a process of pedagogical encounter, learning and transformation. As pedagogic sites, life narratives allow the individual to critically examine their 'scripts' for learning which are encapsulated in their thought processes, discourses, beliefs and values. Goodson and Gill show how narratives can help educators and students shift from a disenfranchised tradition.

Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317892489

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Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry by Neil Roberts Pdf

Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that Mikhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he termed "dialogic". This book examines the narrative and dialogic elements in the work of a range of poets from Britain, America, Ireland, Australia and the Caribbean, including poetry from the immediate postwar years to the contemporary, and novel-like narratives to personal lyrics. Its unifying theme is the way in which these poets, with such contrasting styles and from such varied backgrounds, respond to and creatively adapt the language-worlds, and hence the social worlds in which they live. The volume includes a detailed bibliography to assist students in further study, and will be a valuable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary poetry.