Tag: Narratives

Free Download Victor H. Matthews, "Old Testament Turning Points: The Narratives That Shaped a Nation"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0801027748 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 1.7 mb
Adam and Eve, God’s covenant with Abraham, the deportation of Judah and their eventual return to Jerusalem-these are the Old Testament stories most people remember, and for good reason. According to veteran Old Testament professor Victor Matthews, these stories are essential to the identity of Israel as God’s people.

Free Download Pia Lane, "Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives: Crossing Borders and Telling Lives"
English | ISBN: 3030891089 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This edited volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how identities are negotiated and a sense of belonging established in a world of increasing migration and diversity. Transcending field-specific approaches and differences in foci, the authors investigate how identity is constructed and mediated in face-to-face interactions (in real time and fictional writing), how writers use narratives to express their reorientation and their identity negotiation in a new homeland, and how material objects convey layered meaning to identity and belonging. This engagement with spoken, written and material mediation of identity resonates with recent sociolinguistic investigations on how language is connected to and intersects with embodiment, materiality and time. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of globalisation and migration studies, sociolinguistics and narrative analysis, anthropology and cultural studies.

Free Download Thomas Howard Suitt III, "Narratives of Trauma and Moral Agency among Christian Post-9/11 Veterans"
English | ISBN: 3031310810 | 2023 | 283 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Serving in the military is often a disruptive event in the lives of those who join, precipitating a reassessment of the service member’s ethical sensibilities or, tragically, resulting in lasting moral injury and trauma. The military experience compels them to navigate multiple identities, from citizen to warrior and back. Their religious identity, sometimes rooted in a civilian religious community, can be altered by military participation.

Free Download Barzoo Eliassi, "Narratives of Statelessness and Political Otherness: Kurdish and Palestinian Experiences "
English | ISBN: 3030766977 | 2021 | 315 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book argues that citizenship is an inadequate solution to the problem of statelessness based on a critical investigation of the lived experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian diasporas in western Europe. It examines how statelessness affects identity formations, homelessness, belonging, non-belonging, otherness, voices, status, (non)recognition, (dis)respect, (in)visibility and presence in the uneven world of nation-states. It also demonstrates that the undoing of non-sovereign identities’ subjection to structural subalternization and everyday inferiorization requires rights in excess of the mere acquisition of juridical citizenship, which tends to assume national sameness. That assumption in turn involves sovereign practices of denial and assimilation of ethnic alterity. The book therefore highlights the necessity of de-ethnicizing and decolonizing unitary nation-states that are based on the politico-cultural supremacy of a single, "core" ethnicity as the sovereign legislator ofthe rules and regimes of national belonging and un-belonging. It therefore broaches questions of "majority" and "minority," mobility, nationalism, home-making, equality, difference and universalism in the context of the nation-state and illustrates how stateless peoples such as Kurds and Palestinians endure and challenge their subordinate position in a hierarchical (geo-)political order and how in so doing remain bound by political otherness.

Free Download Sin Wang Chong, "Landscapes and Narratives of PhD by Publication: Demystifying students’ and supervisors’ perspectives"
English | ISBN: 3031048946 | 2022 | 234 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book includes theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and reflective discussions on issues and experiences pertaining to PhD by Publication for both the prospective and retrospective route. It features formal work alongside reflections on stakeholders’ experiences and addresses formal primary research and research syntheses which survey the landscapes of PhD by Publication regarding its policies, thesis and student experience.

Free Download Dervila Cooke, "Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec: Ways of Belonging"
English | ISBN: 3031459350 | 2024 | 240 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimony. Through four in-depth case studies of cultural creators, one Indigenous and three non-Indigenous, Dervila Cooke discusses multicultural and ethnically diverse society in Québec, examining current tensions, challenges, and opportunities. Works studied range from Abla Farhoud’s first novel in 1998 to Anita Aloisio’s 2022 documentary film Calliari, QC. Topics include the desire for freedom to self-ascribe and enact cultural identity, self-reinvention through fiction, expressions of Indigeneity in Naomi Fontaine, the term "Québécois", especially after Bill 21, and the thorny question of integration of immigrants, discussed in relation to Akos Verboczy’s Rhapsodie québécoise. As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance of Indigenous writing, Farhoud’s Libano-Québécois context, and language laws in Québec, including the foundational Bill 101 and the more recent Bill 96.

Free Download Dervila Cooke, "Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec: Ways of Belonging"
English | ISBN: 3031459350 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB | 618 KB
This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimony. Through four in-depth case studies of cultural creators, one Indigenous and three non-Indigenous, Dervila Cooke discusses multicultural and ethnically diverse society in Québec, examining current tensions, challenges, and opportunities. Works studied range from Abla Farhoud’s first novel in 1998 to Anita Aloisio’s 2022 documentary film Calliari, QC. Topics include the desire for freedom to self-ascribe and enact cultural identity, self-reinvention through fiction, expressions of Indigeneity in Naomi Fontaine, the term "Québécois", especially after Bill 21, and the thorny question of integration of immigrants, discussed in relation to Akos Verboczy’s Rhapsodie québécoise. As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance of Indigenous writing, Farhoud’s Libano-Québécois context, and language laws in Québec, including the foundational Bill 101 and the more recent Bill 96.

Free Download Holmes and the Ripper: Versus Narratives
by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031531833 | 218 Pages | PDF/ePUB (True) | 4.6/0.85 MB

Free Download Ghassan Zeineddine, "Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging "
English | ISBN: 0814349250 | 2022 | 248 pages | EPUB | 948 KB
Named a Michigan Notable Book for 2023, and a Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards!

Free Download Lucio De Capitani, "Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing "
English | ISBN: 3031387031 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies.