Orphan Narratives

Author : Valérie Loichot
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813926416

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Orphan Narratives by Valérie Loichot Pdf

In Orphan Narratives, Valérie Loichot investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas--William Faulkner (USA), Édouard Glissant (Martinique), Toni Morrison (USA), and Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe)--to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. She uses the term "orphan narrative" to capture the ways in which this violence severed the child, the text, and history from a traceable origin. Black or white, male or female, Antillean or American, these writers share a common inheritance and transnational connection through which their texts maintain familial, temporal, and narrative patterns without having any central authority figure. The author specifically cites Saint-John Perse's Éloges (1911), Faulkner's Light in August (1932), Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), and Glissant's La Case du commandeur (1981) as postslavery texts. Where the actual family is dismembered, these narrative accounts invent new familial links. Reciprocally, biological family ties endure despite the literal and discursive violence inflicted upon them. Breaking new ground in trans-American studies by juxtaposing texts from the francophone Lesser Antilles and the U.S. South, Orphan Narratives will be a valuable addition to Caribbean, American, and postcolonial studies, not to mention its appeal to scholars and students of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse.

Author : Laura Peters
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0719052327

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Orphan Texts by Laura Peters Pdf

"The study argues that the prevalence of the orphan figure can be explained by considering the family. The family and all it came to represent - legitimacy, race and national belonging - was in crisis. In order to reaffirm itself the family needed a scapegoat: it found one in the orphan figure. As one who embodied the loss of the family, the orphan figure came to represent a dangerous threat to the family; and the family reaffirmed itself through the expulsion of this threatening difference. The vulnerable and miserable condition of the orphan, as one without rights, enabled it to be conceived of, and treated as such, by the very institutions responsible for its care." "Orphan Texts will of interest to final year undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and those interested in the areas of Victorian literature, Victorian studies, postcolonial studies, history and popular culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : George Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019018057

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Brief Narrative of Facts relative to the Orphan Houses and the other objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for home and abroad. ... Tenth [11th., 13th., 18th-21st, 36th-47th] report, etc by George Müller Pdf

Author : Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad (Bristol),George Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000342378

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Brief Narrative of Facts Relative to the Orphan Houses (to the New Orphan Houses ... on Ashley Down, Bristol) and Other Objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad by Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad (Bristol),George Müller Pdf

Author : Diane Warren
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474464383

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Rereading Orphanhood by Diane Warren Pdf

Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.

Author : George Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023134246

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Brief Narrative of facts relative to the new Orphan House of Ashley Down, Bristol, and the other objects of the Scripture Knowledge Institution, etc by George Müller Pdf

Author : Marion Gymnich,Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Gerold Sedlmayr
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527515703

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The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century by Marion Gymnich,Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Gerold Sedlmayr Pdf

The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural concepts such as childhood, family, the status of parental legacy, individualism, identity and charity. The first chapter argues that the figure of the orphan was suitable for negotiating a remarkable range of cultural anxieties and discourses in novels from the Victorian period. This is followed by a discussion of both the (rare) examples of novels from the first half of the 20th century in which main characters are orphaned at a young age and Anglophone narratives written from the 1980s onward, when the figure of the orphan proliferated once more. The trope of the picaro, the theme of absence and the problem of parental substitutes are among the issues addressed in contemporary orphan narratives. The book also looks at the orphan motif in three popular fantasy series, namely Rowling’s Harry Potter septology, Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. It then traces the development of the orphan motif from the end of the 19th century to the present in a range of different types of comics, including funnies and gag-a-day strips, superhero comics, underground comix, and autobiographical comics.

Author : Laurel Snyder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062443434

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Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder Pdf

A National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).

Author : George Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010226835

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Brief Narrative of Facts Relative to the New Orphan Houses, on Ashley Down, Bristol, and Other Objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution For Home and Abroad by George Müller Pdf

Author : E. König
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137382023

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The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction by E. König Pdf

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity.

Author : Cheryl L. Nixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317021940

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The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature by Cheryl L. Nixon Pdf

Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.

Author : Delyth Edwards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319640396

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Cultural, Autobiographical and Absent Memories of Orphanhood by Delyth Edwards Pdf

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood interact and interconnect or come into being in the re-telling of a life story and construction of an identity. The volume investigates how care experienced identities are embedded within personal, social and cultural practices of remembering. The book stems from research carried out into the life (hi)stories of twelve undervalued ‘historical witnesses’ (Roberts, 2002) of orphanhood: women who grew up in Nazareth House children’s home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Several themes are covered, including histories of care in Northern Ireland, narratives and memories, sociologies of home, and self and identity. The result is an impressive text that works to introduce readers to the complexity of memory for care experienced people and what this means for their life story and identity.

Author : Senem ÜSTÜN KAYA
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781801352123

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LITERATURE: Lingua Franca of Cultures by Senem ÜSTÜN KAYA Pdf

Literature is an essential unit of a culture and social, political and historical changes in a society impact both culture, language, and particularly, literature. Although there are various languages in the world, literature is the main communication that connects people from different cultures and countries. Literature: Lingua Franca of Cultures, thus, is designed to depict the similarities between different cultures within similar issues and topics. To meet this purpose, the book contains thirteen chapters, each of which was designed to clarify, exemplify and interpret a specific theme, underscored by remarkable authors from different cultures. Within this scope, each chapter respectively presents a topic: diseases, male gaze, children, intimate relations, antagonists or protagonists, human nature, war and depression, parenthood, death and suicide, God and religion, geography and human, revenge, and alienation. In each chapter, notable literary texts from different authors were analyzed to foreground the thematic and contextual similarities. This book, hence, provides readers different perspectives and interpretations to better internalize the common themes and messages of world classics. Although there are various studies of the remarkable senior academicians in the comparative literary field, hopefully, Literature: Lingua Franca of Cultures would contribute to this field both for the academicians and readers. Contents INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: DISEASES CHAPTER II: MALE GAZE CHAPTER III: CHILDREN CHAPTER IV: INTIMATE RELATIONS CHAPTER V: ANTAGONISTS OR PROTAGONISTS CHAPTER VI: HUMAN NATURE CHAPTER VII: WAR AND DEPRESSION CHAPTER VIII: PARENTHOOD CHAPTER IX: DEATH AND SUICIDE CHAPTER X: GOD AND RELIGION CHAPTER XI: GEOGRAPHY AND HUMAN CHAPTER XII: REVENGE CHAPTER XIII: ALIENATION

Author : Kim van Alkemade
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062338307

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Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade Pdf

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage years before. In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City’s Lower Eastside. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns fifteen, she runs away to Colorado hoping to find the brother she lost and discovers a family she never knew she had. Though Rachel believes she’s shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan’s Old Hebrews Home and her patient is none other than the elderly, cancer-stricken Dr. Solomon. Rachel becomes obsessed with making Dr. Solomon acknowledge, and pay for, her wrongdoing. But each passing hour Rachel spends with the old doctor reveal to Rachel the complexities of her own nature. She realizes that a person’s fate—to be one who inflicts harm or one who heals—is not always set in stone. Lush in historical detail, rich in atmosphere and based on true events, Orphan #8 is a powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are compelled to make that can shape our destinies.

Author : David Floyd
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783160112

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Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates by David Floyd Pdf

From the notable emergence of orphan figures in late eighteenth-century literature, through early- and middle-period Victorian fiction and, as this book argues, well into the fin de siecle, this potent literary type is remarkable for its consistent recurrence and its metamorphosis as a register of cultural conditions. The striking ubiquity of orphans in the literature of these periods encourages inquiry into their metaphoric implications and the manner in which they function as barometers of burgeoning social concerns. The overwhelming majority of criticism focusing on orphans centres particularly on the form as an early- to middle-century convention, primarily found in social and domestic works; in effect, the non-traditional, aberrant, at times Gothic orphan of the fin de siecle has been largely overlooked, if not denied outright. This oversight has given rise to the need for a study of this potent cultural figure as it pertains to preoccupations characteristic of more recent instances. This book examines the noticeable difference between orphans of genre fiction of the fin de siecle and their predecessors in works including first-wave Gothic and the majority of Victorian fiction, and the variance of their symbolic references and cultural implications.