Narrating Stance Morality And Political Identity

Author : Lauren Zentz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000389364

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Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity by Lauren Zentz Pdf

This book offers unique insights into the use of Facebook after the 2016 US presidential election, interrogating how users in private groups draw on individual experiences in movement building and identity construction while also critically reflecting on ethnographic practices around social media. The volume draws on the author’s own involvement in a specific Facebook group focused around activism and community organizing in Texas following the 2016 US presidential election. Chapters draw on the frameworks of "small stories" and "stance" to unpack the ways in which group members use parts of their individual stories to signal beliefs to others, present themselves in relation to the group, and signal virtues of moral authority on various pressing political issues. Building on these analyses, Zentz goes on to address ways in which the scales of politics are being navigated and modified at the grassroots level in our highly networked world. This book contributes to ongoing conversations about the realities of internet use within linguistic anthropology and new media studies, and how researchers might seek to account for social media use and access to this data as these technologies develop further. This book is key reading for students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, media studies, and activism and social movement studies.

Author : Katherine S. Flowers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009278010

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Making English Official by Katherine S. Flowers Pdf

In communities across the US, people wrestle with which languages to use, and who gets to decide. Despite more than 67 million US residents using a language other than English at home, over half of the states in the US have successfully passed English-only policies. Drawing on archives and interviews, this book tells the origin story of the English-only movement, as well as the stories of contemporary language policy campaigns in four Maryland county governments, giving a rare glimpse into what motivates the people who most directly shape language policy in the US. It demonstrates that English-only policies grow from more local levels, rather than from nationalist ideologies, where they are downplayed as harmless community initiatives, but result in monolingual approaches to language remaining increasingly pervasive. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Alex Georgakopoulou,Korina Giaxoglou,Sylvie Patron
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000885408

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Small Stories Research by Alex Georgakopoulou,Korina Giaxoglou,Sylvie Patron Pdf

This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship on small stories and its reach beyond discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives. The volume both takes stock of and seeks to advance the development of small stories research by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Michael Bamberg, as a counterpoint to conventional models in narrative studies, one which has accounted for "atypical" yet salient activities in everyday life, such as fragmentation and open-endedness, anchoring onto the present, and co-constructive dimensions in stories and identities. With data from different languages and contexts, emphasis is placed on the analytical aspects of the paradigm toward producing models for the analysis of structures, textual and interactional choices, and genres of small stories. Chapters on the role and commodification of small stories in digital environments reflect on the paradigm’s recent extension to the analysis of social media communication. This book will appeal to scholars interested in narrative inquiry and narrative analysis, in such fields as sociolinguistics, literary studies, communication studies, and biographical studies.

Author : Brian Duffy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401205948

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Morality, Identity and Narrative in the Fiction of Richard Ford by Brian Duffy Pdf

Morality, Identity and Narrative in the Fiction of Richard Ford is only the second monograph on the work of Richard Ford and the only one to deal with all three Frank Bascombe novels. The book offers comprehensive readings of the trilogy and the stories of Women with Men and A Multitude of Sins, thus bringing critical work on Ford up to date. Richard Ford insists that fiction contain a “moral vision”, and this study takes up that challenge by investigating Ford’s characters through the interconnections of morality, identity and narrative. It draws on the moral theories of Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, and on the work on narrative and identity of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. But it also explores in detail the portrait of contemporary American society and culture offered in the trilogy, analysing the individualism, exclusionary independence and laissez-faire principles of Independence Day, and the consumerism, sectionalism, self-absorption, enervation and violence of The Lay of the Land. This study traces the emerging vision in the trilogy of America as an atomized society in a state of disharmony and fear, and as a culture casting around for meaning, identity and spiritual peace. The book also contains an extensive recent interview with Richard Ford.

Author : Lauren Zentz
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783098484

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Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy by Lauren Zentz Pdf

Against the background of language and nation formation in Indonesia, this book demonstrates how language planning is inseparable from the broader actions of the state, and how postcolonial nationalism and globalization have had profound implications for language use and state actions to control it. Using language planners’ texts, national and regional policy statements and the discussions of university English majors, it explores the borders of what can be defined as Indonesian, Javanese and English languages, and how this is informed by ideologies of language and nationalism in contemporary Indonesia. The tensions played out in the book between the ideologically perceived languages around which policies are built and the realities of linguistic performance and the resources of the individual are echoed across the globe, making this book crucial reading for anyone interested in the interplay of language planning and language use.

Author : Adele Reinhartz
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780195099706

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Why Ask My Name? by Adele Reinhartz Pdf

Unnamed characters--such as Lot's wife, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh's baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible and appear in a wide variety of roles. Adele Reinhartz here seeks to answer two principal questions: first, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if so, what are its contours? Second, how does anonymity affect the readers' response to and construction of unnamed biblical characters? The author is especially interested in issues related to gender and class, seeking to determine whether anonymity is more prominent among mothers, wives, daughters, and servants than among fathers, husbands, sons and kings and whether the anonymity of female characters functions differently from that of male characters.

Author : Olivia Guaraldo
Publisher : Sophi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9513909786

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Storylines by Olivia Guaraldo Pdf

This book analyses Hannah Arendt's conception of storytelling and endows it with relevance in historical and political thinking.

Author : Senka Anastasova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 1032449772

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Political Narratosophy by Senka Anastasova Pdf

"Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the 'self' and narrativity. Through a re-examination of the notions of democracy and emancipation, Senka Anastasova coins the term 'political narratosophy', a unique interpretation of the philosophy of narrative, identification, and disidentification, developed in conversation with philosophers Jacques Rancière, Nancy Fraser, and Paul Ricoeur. Utilizing the author's own identity as a feminist philosopher has lived in socialist Yugoslavia, post-Yugoslavia, and Macedonia (now North Macedonia), Anastasova explores the fluctuating and disappearing borders around which identity is situated in a country that no longer exists. She expertly reveals how the subject finds, makes and unmakes itself through narrativity, politics, and imagination. Political Narratosophy is an important intervention in political philosophy and a welcome contribution to the historiography on female authors who lived through twentieth century communism and its aftermath. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of political theory, philosophy, women's studies, international relations, identity studies, (comparative) literary studies, and aesthetics studies"--

Author : Minoli Salgado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134220199

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Writing Sri Lanka by Minoli Salgado Pdf

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James Goonewardene and Punyakante Wijenaike – to rigorously challenge the theoretical, cultural and political assumptions that pit ‘insider’ against ‘outsider’, ‘resident’ against ‘migrant’ and the ‘authentic’ against the ‘alien’. By interrogating the discourses of territoriality and boundary marking that have come into prominence since the start of the civil war, Salgado works to define a more nuanced and sensitive critical framework that actively reclaims marginalized voices and draws upon recent studies in migration and the diaspora to reconfigure the Sri Lankan critical terrain.

Author : Bhikhu C. Parekh,R. N. Berki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political ethics
ISBN : 0844800511

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The Morality of Politics by Bhikhu C. Parekh,R. N. Berki Pdf

Author : Adele King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349220038

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Camus’s L’Etranger: Fifty Years on by Adele King Pdf

These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world. Contributors come from Algeria, Samoa, India, Russia, France, Britain and the United States. Included are essays by prominent French and English-language authors for whom the novel has been an influential expression of contemporary sensibility. Other essays include feminist interpretations of Meursault, studies of Camus's narrative form, and explorations of the Algerian setting of the novel. Comparative studies show Camus's relation to the New Novel, to Greene and Orwell, to Jules Roy, and to Sartre.

Author : Ignasi Ribó
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783748129

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Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative by Ignasi Ribó Pdf

This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them. This textbook prioritises clarity over intricacy of theory, equipping its readers with the necessary tools to embark on further study of literature, literary theory and creative writing. Building on a ‘semiotic model of narrative,’ it is structured around the key elements of narratological theory, with chapters on plot, setting, characterisation, and narration, as well as on language and theme – elements which are underrepresented in existing textbooks on narrative theory. The chapter on language constitutes essential reading for those students unfamiliar with rhetoric, while the chapter on theme draws together significant perspectives from contemporary critical theory (including feminism and postcolonialism). This textbook is engaging and easily navigable, with key concepts highlighted and clearly explained, both in the text and in a full glossary located at the end of the book. Throughout the textbook the reader is aided by diagrams, images, quotes from prominent theorists, and instructive examples from classical and popular short stories and novels (such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’ J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, or Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, amongst many others). Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative can either be incorporated as the main textbook into a wider syllabus on narrative theory and creative writing, or it can be used as a supplementary reference book for readers interested in narrative fiction. The textbook is a must-read for beginning students of narratology, especially those with no or limited prior experience in this area. It is of especial relevance to English and Humanities major students in Asia, for whom it was conceived and written.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 145290006X

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Modernity At Large by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Author : Michael Nieto Garcia
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780826355270

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Autobiography in Black and Brown by Michael Nieto Garcia Pdf

An important contribution to the study of American life writing and an invaluable reassessment of the work of Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez.--Robert J. Butler, coeditor of The Richard Wright Encyclopedia

Author : David A. Valone,Jill Marie Bradbury
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0838757138

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Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845 by David A. Valone,Jill Marie Bradbury Pdf

This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of contested ideological, political, and cultural identities. At the root of this conflicted sense of self was an acute awareness among the Anglo-Irish of their liminal position as colonial dominators in Ireland who were viewed as other both by the Catholic natives of Ireland and by their English kinsmen. The work in this volume is highly interdisciplinary, bringing to bear examination of issues that are historical, literary, economic, and sociological. Contributors investigate how individuals experienced the ambiguities and conflicts of identity formation in a colonial society, how writers fought the economic and ideological superiority of the English, how the cooption of Gaelic history and culture was a political strategy for the Anglo-Irish, and how literary texts contributed to the emergence of national consciousness. In seeking to understand and trace the complex process of identity formation in early modern Ireland the essays in this volume attest to its tenuous, dynamic, and necessarily incomplete nature. David A. Valone is an Assistant Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. Jill Marie Bradbury is an Assistant Professor of English at Gallaudet University.