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Smith, Greg. "Fiction in Goffman." Sociological Review 70, no. 4 (2022): 711–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261221109029.

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There are no references to creative fiction in Erving Goffman’s founding statement of his sociology of the interaction order, his 1953 Chicago doctoral dissertation ( Communication Conduct in an Island Community). Yet four pages into his first and best-known book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Goffman cites a ‘novelistic incident’ describing the posturing of Preedy, a ‘vacationing Englishman’ on a Spanish beach. It is introduced in order to articulate the distinction between ‘expressions given’ and ‘expressions given off’ and to indicate their capacity for intentional or un

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Haley, Madigan. "On Gathering: Or, The Birth of Global Fiction from the Spirit of Tragedy." Novel 53, no. 1 (2020): 76–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8139339.

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Abstract This article examines how certain works of global fiction have conceived of their ethical and political agency through the form and act of gathering. Discussions of the global novel's relationship to collective life have often adapted the ideas of Benedict Anderson in order to suggest that contemporary fiction extends “imagined community” from the nation to the globe. Yet political theorists such as Wendy Brown have shown how global economic integration under neoliberalism comes at the price of national social disintegration. In search of a collective imaginary outside the terms of gl

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Lacalle, Charo, Beatriz Gómez-Morales, and Sara Narvaiza. "Friends or just fans? Parasocial relationships in online television fiction communities." Communication & Society 34, no. 3 (2021): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/003.34.3.61-76.

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This paper explores parasocial phenomena on social media pages related to Spanish television fiction by analysing the development of parasociality through relationships established between users and characters and the characteristics of this type of online community. The sample consisted of 4,762 spontaneous comments posted on social media pages (1,598 on Facebook and 3,164 on Twitter) linked to television series. Comments published between 1 January 2018 and 31 May 2020 were compiled the day after the premiere of each fiction. Our findings confirm those of previous researchs on the similarity

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Mellin, Lilace A. "Helping Adolescents Make It Home." English Journal 86, no. 7 (1997): 80–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej19973461.

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Argues that literature of nature teaches teenagers about life and home. Describes how personal narratives, essays, and fiction that look at human interaction prepare students for life. Focuses on three main elements important in establishing strong connections: landscape, community, and work.

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Sipos, George. "Masks of the Author in Dazai Osamu’s Fiction." Theory in Action 15, no. 4 (2022): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2226.

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The present article reexamines the work of Japanese modern writer Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)2 in an attempt to revisit its conventional placement within the tradition of the modern Japanese literary category of the shishōsetsu (approximately, I-novel). By briefly exploring the very elements and definitions of the category itself, as well as Dazai’s literary evolution, the article endeavors to understand what led to the works of his final years life and to the change in narrative techniques that makes those works Dazai’s best writings and some of the most accomplished in modern Japanese literature

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Manning, Gerald F. "Fiction and Aging: “Ripeness is All”." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 8, no. 2 (1989): 157–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800010862.

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ABSTRACTIn response to recent claims for the role of the humanities in understanding aging, this paper identifies certain works of fiction which illustrate and dramatize such concepts as life review and integrity. In its consideration of novels by Muriel Spark, Tillie Olsen, Margaret Laurence, and Jessica Anderson, the essay argues that complex fiction about old persons refuses to over-simplify or sentimentalize the problems of aging but often finds poetic and symbolic means of affirming the positive values of life review and spiritual growth at the end of life's journey.

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Mallan, Kerry, Clare Bradford, and John Stephens. "New Social Orders: Reconceptualising Family and Community in Utopian Fiction." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 15, no. 2 (2005): 6–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2005vol15no2art1246.

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In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article: The family is the cradle into which the future is born; it is the nursery in which the new social order is nourished and reared during its early and most plastic period. (Sidney Goldstein, Marriage and Family Living, 1946)1 When Goldstein conceived the metaphor of the American family as the cradle of the future he was writing at a specific historical moment, ‘one to which the stresses of war, the uncertainties of the ensuing peace, and the emerging relationship between ideologies of the family and American national identity toget

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Anderson, Babs. "Can a community of enquiry approach with fiction texts support the development of young pupils' understanding?" Education 3-13 33, no. 3 (2005): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03004270585200271.

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Munro, Martin. "Community in Post-earthquake Writing from Haiti." Paragraph 37, no. 2 (2014): 193–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2014.0121.

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This article develops Celia Britton's insights into community in French Caribbean writing in two ways. First, it considers Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée and its image of community in the broader context of modern and contemporary Haitian fiction; and second it discusses representations of community in two Haitian works written after the earthquake of 2010, an event that literally destroyed many communities and has forced Haitian authors to rethink relationships between different groups in Haiti and between human life, the cities, nature and the land.

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Thompson, Spencer Paul. "The Commodified Christ and the Economics of Jubilee." Kenarchy Journal 1 (May 2020): 85–141. http://dx.doi.org/10.62950/vzwpl17.

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Spencer Thompson’s article is this Volume’s long read. The basic premise of this paper is that economics and theology cannot be separated: what we believe about God is inextricable from how we organise our material affairs. Specifically, the paper argues that the prevailing economic system and the prevailing theological system are both subsystems of empire, for both are predicated on the fiction that life is essentially a commodity, an object to be owned, traded, and consumed. This fiction extends to nature, work, and money, and ultimately to Christ himself, whose life was supposedly exchanged

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Chernyshova, Svitlana. "The US migratory novel: toward the ideology of genre." Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "Philology", no. 92 (August 15, 2023): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2227-1864-2023-92-07.

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This article focuses on the US migratory novel and the reasons it has been overlooked in literary scholarship. It is emphasized that the study of migration experience is important as it represents the worldview of historical subjects who, although they contributed a lot to the building of the New World, always existed on the margins of both real life and fiction. Literary scholars concentrated on the fictional images of colonizers, builders of a new world order, pioneers, farmers, cowboys, but not immigrants as such, although all these identities of American history were rooted in the migratio

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Wankhammer, Johannes. "Anthropomorphism, Trope, and the Hidden Life of Trees: On Peter Wohlleben’s Rhetoric." Literatur für Leser 40, no. 2 (2017): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/lfl022017k_139.

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While the textual representation of plants is yet an emerging concern in academic literary studies, it has squarely arrived in the mainstream of a general reading public: The best-selling German non-fiction book of the past few years, Das geheime Leben der Bäume (2015), is a sustained writerly exercise in representing the complexity of vegetal life.147 Written by the forest ranger Peter Wohlleben, the book portrays trees as exquisitely complex creatures, exploring (among other things) their capacities for communication, memory, and community formation. In terms of genre, the work is perhaps be

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Jarraway, David R. "Tales of the City: Marginality, Community, and the Problem of (Gay) Identity in Wallace Thurman’s "Harlem" Fiction." College English 65, no. 1 (2002): 36–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ce20021277.

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Incites inquiry as to how modern American literature reflects on the problem of identity. Spotlights the contribution to modern American writing by Wallace Thurman’s "Harlem" fiction. Endeavors to link a racial imperative to a sexual imperative by means of a current theoretical discourse surrounding notions of city and community life.

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Jensen, Thessa, Lýsa Westberg, and Søren Lindhardt. "Fanfiction as a carrier bag methodology of fiction." Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter, no. 26 (December 24, 2023): 110–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.54337/academicquarter.vi26.8253.

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This paper provides a short introduction to fanfiction as an example of Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. Through the analysis of the fanfiction drabble, this paper gives an initial outline of a methodology for the carrier bag theory, showing how the process of writing is supported by the community that surrounds fanfiction. As such, the writing and publishing of fanfiction can be seen as exemplary of a democratic, bottom-up method for creating the other stories, or life stories, in Le Guin’s and Haraway’s sense.

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Dr Anupam Soni. "Parsi Consciousness in Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction." Creative Launcher 5, no. 6 (2021): 223–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.5.6.31.

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Rohinton Mistry is one of the most celebrated new wave fiction writers of Indian writing in English. Mistry is a well-known name for his heritage fiction and Parsi consciousness. As being a Parsi, Mistry seems to be more concerned with his community and its diminishing numbers like their symbol bird vultures. Parsi is one of the most educated communities all around the world and famous for their sense of charities yet with each passing year this one of the oldest religious communities is facing the threat of extinction; and this threat put each and every Parsi writers on their toes to preserve

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Grigore, Rodica. "A Journey to the Self: The Quest for Identity in Clarice Lispector’s Fiction." Theory in Action 16, no. 4 (2023): 36–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2323.

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One of the best representatives of Latin American literature, Clarice Lispector has always fascinated her readers. Her novels bring into question some major aesthetic and ideological issues, sometimes under the mask of elaborated textual games implying innovative narrative strategies and a new way of understanding fiction. The Hour of the Star (A hora da estrela, 1977) addresses the problem of identity and storytelling, as well as the complex relationships established among author, narrator, character and reader. The violence which the novel’s protagonist has to face and endure is also an expr

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Letort, Delphine. "The tales of New Orleans after Katrina." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 5 (August 1, 2013): 101–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.5.07.

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Focusing on the months that followed Katrina and the breach of the levees in New Orleans, the first two seasons of HBO series Treme (2010, 2011) plumb the interstices between fact and fiction, thereby testifying to the confusion that prevailed after the storm. The series derives entertainment from the disruptions engendered by the floods, which create enigmas and knowledge holes in the narrative, dramatising the characters’ individual life stories. From melodrama to docudrama to crime fiction, the series pulls together various generic modes that enhance the impact of Katrina on the local commu

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Grandjeat, Yves-Charles. "No tierra firme : Retrieving Loss in Helena Maria Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them." Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 46, no. 1 (2013): 111–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.2013.1451.

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Helena Maria Viramontes’s 2007 novel Their dogs came with them conjures up the life of a few blocks in the Chicano barrio of East L. A. As ecocritics would put it, the narrative is firmly “emplaced” and as such it belongs to a well established tradition of Chicano and Chicana narratives testifying to the power of fiction in helping maintain a sense of community and territory. Yet, the story also makes it clear that the time of origin is a time of loss, and that bonding rituals are rituals of death. Meanwhile, the persistent marks of a lost native tongue endow the narrative with a ghostly quali

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Abbas, Abbas. "The Racist Fact against American-Indians in Steinbeck’s The Pearl." ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 3, no. 3 (2020): 376–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/elsjish.v3i3.11347.

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the social conditions of Indians as Native Americans for the treatment of white people who are immigrants from Europe in America. This research explores aspects of the reality of Indian relations with European immigrants in America that have an impact on discriminatory actions against Indians in John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl. Social facts are traced through fiction as part of the genetics of literary works. The research method used is genetic structuralism, a literary research method that traces the origin of the author's imagination in his fiction. The imagination is considered a social re

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Ustinova, Oksana V., and Yulia V. Putilina. "Early 20th Century Historical Sources on the Siberian Student Community." Herald of an archivist, no. 1 (2018): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2018-1-38-47.

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The article examines the early 20th century historical source base on the Siberian student community of the pre-revolutionary period. It argues that the sources complex of the period is heterogeneous in structure, nature, and content. It determines that the life of Siberian students, as depicted in the early 20th century sources from state archives, was recorded principally in the following aspects: approved and regulated university activities (admission, scholarships, training, participation in registered student organizations, fraternities, academic clubs, etc.) and oppositional, political,

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Szczepkowska, Ewa. "TEMATYKA KULINARNA W POLSKIEJ WSPÓŁCZESNEJ POPULARNEJ PROZIE KOBIECEJ." Acta Neophilologica 1, no. XIX (2017): 269–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/an.687.

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This article concerns culinary motifs found in popular women’s fiction at the turnof the 20th and 21st centuries. Women’s fiction is either indifferent to culinary topicsor interested in them as a theme, metaphor or recipe. Culinary topics as the main themeappear in novels written by Kalicińska, Enerlich, and Ficner-Ogonowska. I. Sowa employsa culinary code as a metaphor for contemporary urban life style which is marked byconsumerism, excess of consumer goods and an intense rivalry. Kalicińska’s novel cycleis an example of downshifting narratives appreciated by some feminists as a way topromot

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Hossain, Md Amir. "Doris Lessing’s Fiction as Feminist Projections." International Journal of English and Cultural Studies 1, no. 1 (2018): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijecs.v1i1.3081.

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Doris Lessing, an unrivaled novelist in the literary genres around the globe, portrays the fundamental problems of women as well as social system of her times. Lessing searches for new models to communicate the experiences of a blocked woman writer, who spends her early life in Africa, becomes an active and a disappointed communist, who is a politically committed writer, a mother, a wife, or a mistress sometimes a woman. With her very keen and subtle attitude, Lessing wants to present women’s psychological conflicts between marriage and love; motherhood and profession, unfairness of the double

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Oleson, James Clinton. "On Telling a Lie to Reveal the Truth: Mongrel." Journal of Arts and Humanities 6, no. 7 (2017): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v6i7.1200.

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<p>South African author William Dicey’s 2016 collection of essays, Mongrel, operates as a literary prism, refracting and clarifying literary and sociological elements of life. The book’s six essays grapple with a sprawling range of subjects, including: the elusive distinction between fiction and non-fiction, literary footnotes, the endeavor of writing, the search for truth, the citizen’s search for community, the relevance of ethnicity in post-apartheid society, the perpetuation of socioeconomic disadvantage, the tragedy of criminal justice, and collective moral culpability for climate c

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Rao, M. Narasimha, and Prof K. Ratna Shiela Mani. "SIGNIFICANCE OF RURAL CULTURE IN THE SHORT FICTION OF MANOJ DAS." Journal of English Language and Literature 09, no. 01 (2022): 68–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9107.

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A brief survey of Indian Short Fiction in English indicates that there is a wide scope for its study. Manoj Das has presented a serene and simple way of life of rural community in India in his fiction which is rapidly disappearing. He is one of the foremost short story writers in Post-Independent India and an outstanding bilingual writer both in English and Oriya at ease. He depicts very effectively and skillfully the way of life of people living in villages, their values, norms, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, customs, superstitions, religion, etc., in his stories. He is a keen observer of th

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Guo, Ziqian, and Liangyuan Wu. "Building a Community of Life: Interpretation of Richard Powers’ The Overstory from the Perspective of Spatial Theory." Yixin Publisher 2, no. 2 (2024): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.59825/jhss.2024.2.2.11.

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Richard Powers is well known in the contemporary American literary world and he has been hailed as “America’s most promising novelist”. One of his novels The Overstory (2019) is an ode to nature. It is based on eight stories in which humans and trees depend on each other and save each other, presenting a vast, long and subtle world of trees and human society with alienated relationships, and then thinking about the relationship between man and nature. The novel, with its clever design and inventive language, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was a New York Times bestseller. Therefore

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Askar Ali, M. "Islamic ‘Bakhirs’." Shanlax International Journal of Tamil Research 6, no. 4 (2022): 121–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/tamil.v6i4.4834.

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The lives of Islamists around the world are fundamentally religious. More than that, it is subject to the rules taught by that “religious community.” In such a religious life, the duality of being centered and marginalized becomes inevitable. Thoppil Mohammad Meeran and Keeranur Jagirrajah are the creator of the myths about the marginalized community in the creative field. The lives of various marginalized people as a result of the central political attitude are portrayed as diverse in their fiction. They have written about the marginalized mantras of sex workers, homosexuals, mercenaries, bro

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S, Ramesh. "History of the Badagas in the Novel "Kurinjitthen"." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-10 (2022): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s104.

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Rajam Krishnan's fiction "Kurinjitthen" describes the lives of three generations of the Badagas ethnic community who migrated from the state of Karnataka after the tenth century AD. Through this novel, the cultural elements of three generations of the Badagas community are shared. It can be seen that the attachment of the first generation to the land is diminishing in the succeeding generations. Later, their culture was also mixed due to foreign contact. People who live in a materialistic society are greedy for money and start cultivating tea in their land. The Kurinji flower land is occupied

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Zafar, Asma, Ali Usman Saleem, and Asma Haseeb Qazi. "Pakistani Diaspora Cultural Transformation Under Globalization in Shamsie's Home Fire." Global Regional Review V, no. III (2020): 128–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(v-iii).14.

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This research explores the cultural dimension of globalization that has transformed the lives of masses experiencing Pakistani diaspora in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire that reflects the life and sensibilities of the diaspora community, especially after 9/11. Shamsie takes into account how the lives of the Pakistani diaspora Muslim community got into difficulties, especially after 9/11. Manfred B. Steger's theorization serves as a framework to evaluate cultural transformation under the ever increasing influence of globalization through media. This article examines the transformation in the life a

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JUBAS, KAELA. "A Fine Balancein truth and fiction: exploring globalization’s impacts on community and implications for adult learning in Rohinton Mistry’s novel and related literature." International Journal of Lifelong Education 24, no. 1 (2005): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/026037042000317347.

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Dick, Caroline. "The Community Watches Over Them All: A Panoptic View of Life in the Fiction of Olga Masters." Journal of Australian Studies 42, no. 4 (2018): 491–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2018.1505774.

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Tian, Xi. "Homosexualizing “Boys Love” in China." Prism 17, no. 1 (2020): 104–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8163817.

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Abstract Originating in Japan, “boys love” (BL) manga and fiction that focus on romantic or homoerotic male-male relationships are considered by most of their writers, readers, and scholars to be primarily by women and for women and are purposely differentiated from gay fiction and manga by both commentators and practitioners. However, BL's increasing interweaving with homosexuality and sexual minorities in China requires scholars to reread and redefine BL practice in its Chinese context. This article discusses some of the recent transformations of the BL genre in China, examines the significa

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Katsnelson, Anna. "Clarice Lispector’s Interviews with Brazilian Jewish Cultural Figures." Journal of Lusophone Studies 4, no. 2 (2020): 159–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21471/jls.v4i2.340.

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In her public life, Clarice Lispector fought to be recognized as a native Brazilian; however, in her private life, she tended to associate with people with origins like hers. Many of her interviews are with artists who were either children of immigrants or emigrants from Eastern Europe. Scholars have probed Clarice’s fiction and the interviews she gave for a view of her approach to Jewish identity, but the interviews she conducted have not yet been examined. This article discusses Clarice’s dalliance with identity politics when interviewing notable members of the cultural Brazilian Jewish comm

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Bashir, Afrasiab, Umar Rahman, and Muhammad Abid. "HYBRID IDENTITY AND THE SELECTED DIASPORIC WORK: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 04, no. 03 (2022): 1173–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i03.1297.

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The present study discusses the selected South Asian diasporic work in the relation to the notion of hybrid identity. Migrants leave homeland and join host land for better life and economic improvement. This shift from home to foreign land brings several obstacles among which crisis of identity is major one. Moreover, in host land diasporic community also faces segregation in terms of workplace environment and other social aspects of life and it further make them shattered and consequently this phenomenon leads them towards hybrid identity. This qualitative study employs theoretical concept of

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Cooper, Lujira, and Austin Oswald. "CREATIVE WRITING AS A TOOL FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) HISTORY AND FUTURE MAKING." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (2022): 136–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.542.

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Abstract The shift toward embracing creative methods in qualitative research opens new possibilities for gerontologists and older adults to explore the nuances of aging and its affective undertones. This paper describes the process of facilitating a weekly creative writing group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) older adults and their subjective experiences. Various creative writing practices (e.g., poetry, fiction, short story, biography) facilitates the retelling of life events and reimaging of new futurities. Done in community, it creates opportunities for social c

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Vint, Sherryl. "Science Fiction." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 74, no. 3 (2022): 191–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.56315/pscf9-22vint.

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SCIENCE FICTION by Sherryl Vint. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021. 224 pages. Paperback; $15.95. ISBN: 9780262539999. *Science Fiction is the story of the romance between fiction and science. The goal of the book is not to define the history or essence of science fiction, but rather to explore what it "can do" (p. 3). How does fiction affect scientific progress? How does it influence which innovations we care about? In the opposite direction, what bearing does science have on the stories that are interesting to writers at a point in time? Science Fiction references hundreds of books to paint

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Łapińska, Magdalena. "Otherness and Identity in Daphne Palasi Andreades's Brown Girls." Kultura i Wartości 36 (December 31, 2023): 141–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/kw.2023.36.141-157.

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The article explores how Daphne Palasi Andreades presents the impact of assimilation and racial otherness on the immigrants' identity in her novel Brown Girls. First, the article explores theoretical approaches connected with immigration, with special attention paid to the processes of assimilation, acculturation, and collective identity. Subsequently, the analysis of the novel presents how the process of assimilation alters one's identity as well as disrupts interpersonal relationships. With the use of immigration and identity theory, the paper presents how individual identity clashes with co

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Wahyuni, Dessy. "BENCANA KABUT ASAP SEBAGAI DAMPAK BUDAYA KONSUMSI DALAM CERPEN “YANG DATANG DARI NEGERI ASAP”." Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya 11, no. 1 (2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.17510/paradigma.v11i1.371.

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<p class="JudulAbstrakKeyword">Literature, as a work containing facts and fiction, can obscure the conventions of realities and create new realities so that there are no visible boundaries between the real thing and the unreal thing. Fact and fiction coincide and simulate to form hyperreality. In the short story “Yang Datang dari Negeri Asap (Who Comes from the Smoky Country)” by Hary B. Kori’un, the existence of facts and fiction overlap each other. The author created the country of smoke as a fictitious world due to his contemplation on the consumption culture, which is a phenomenon in

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Djeddai, Imen, and Fella Benabed. "The Strong Binti in Nnedi Okorafor’s African American Science Fiction." Traduction et Langues 19, no. 2 (2020): 210–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/translang.v19i2.374.

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By looking carefully at the history of science fiction, we can notice that African American authors have been excluded from the scene for a long time due to the “whiteness” of the genre in terms of writing and publication. In addition to racism, sexism persists in the science fiction community. Hence, marginalized black women writers of science fiction try to include more black women characters in their literary works. Through Binti, Binti: Home, and Binti: The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor focuses on the experience of being black and woman in a technological society of the future. This stu

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Griggs, Gerald, and Helen J. Heaviside. "“A Common Danger Unites”: Reflecting on Lecturers’ Higher Education Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using an Ethnographic Fictional Analysis." Education Sciences 13, no. 11 (2023): 1085. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci13111085.

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The sudden transition of Higher Education (HE) from predominately face-to-face to online delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns placed many lecturers in unfamiliar situations. This study aimed to explore and represent the experiences of lecturers working in HE during this time. We used a storytelling approach to represent an amalgamation of experiences collated from lecturers. Data were collected using (i) a focus group interview, (ii) reflections on our experiences, and (iii) experiences alluded to by academics via online blogs. The data were presented using an ethnographic fiction.

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Tharmenthira, Shopana. "Physiological norms in Silappatikaram." International Research Journal of Tamil 2, no. 2 (2020): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt2026.

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Silappatikaram an epic poetry was written by Ilanko Adikal. Silambu and Context (Athikaram) are combined and becomes Silappatikaram. The story of Silmba (Anklet) is therefore called Silappatikaram. It is called the Citizen's Epic because it was sung by ordinary people like Kovalan and Kannaki. It is the book that makes the life of the people very clear. Individuality, Family, Relative, Community Membership, Citizenship are Physiological Sites and characteristics that human beings need to protect, tasks to perform, and the norms by which an ordinary man can live in everyday life. The integrity

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A, Yogaraj, and Kavitha M. "A Brief Analysis on the Impact of Minority Parsi Community Issues by Rohinton Mistry’s Novels." IAR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 3, no. 01 (2022): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47310/iarjhss.2022.v03i01.009.

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Literature has always represented society in one form or another because writers are the sensitive souls of the society who are affected by the slightest possible change in their surroundings. This paper deals with Indian literature especially focuses on Indian diasporic writer Rohinton Mistry who represents the realistic picture of the most sustained explorations of post – independence Indian society through his chronicles of individual and community lives. Mistry’s fiction covers many themes, from politics to parsi community life and economic inequality to national ‘events’ such as wars, rig

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Sensibar, Judith L. "Writing for Faulkner, Writing for Herself: Estelle Oldham's Anticolonial Fiction." Prospects 22 (October 1997): 357–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000168.

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Before estelle oldham married William Faulkner in June 1929, she had spent nearly eight years in the Pacific and Far East as a participant-observer in two American colonial cultures. In June 1918, her first marriage to the Mississippi lawyer and entrepreneur Cornell S. Franklin brought her as a new bride to what were then called the Hawaiian Territories. But despite his excellent Southern connections, the business community in the “Paradise of the East” had little room for a bright yet arrogant young man with no capital. Thus, in December 1921, Estelle Oldham Franklin, her husband, and their f

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Park, Jeff, and Beverley A. Brenna. "The Value of Writing for Senior-Citizen Writers." Language and Literacy 17, no. 3 (2015): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/g27w2c.

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This qualitative case study explores writing and writing motivations of senior citizens age 65-93 who had entered a public library Writing Challenge. The research questions focused on how and why writing was important to this group as well as what patterns and themes emerged in their work. Data from questionnaires offered that the social aspect of writing appeared to be the strongest motivating factor for participation. Numerous individual reasons for writing were listed, and these, as well as the unique ideas presented in excerpts from the work itself, created a resonant picture of writing in

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SUHER, Dylan. "Other Worlds: A Genealogy from Lu Yao’s Capitalist Realism to Maoni’s Internet Literature." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 35, no. 1 (2023): 94–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mclc.2023.0028.

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This article elaborates on a genealogy linking the internet literature writer Maoni’s work to the Reform-era writer Lu Yao’s realist epic Ordinary World ( Pingfan de shijie). Most of the works on the popular Qidian platform on which Maoni publishes are shaped by fan-culture-derived (“fannish”) technologies aimed at maximizing reader engagement, which results in a textual community that blurs the lines between writer and reader. The aesthetic that emerges from this community, as illustrated by Maoni’s novel Joy of Life ( Qing yu nian), is one that emphasizes characters over narrative, stresses

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Yu, Le. "Body and Power: Study of Body Politics in The Power." Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 12, no. 06 (2024): 182–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2024.v12i06.001.

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British science fiction writer Naomi Alderman's seminal work The Power constructs a thought experiment on how divergent bodies influence power structures. In a cybernetic world arising from genetic mutations of women, the body, imbued with symbolic attributes, becomes a tool for achieving liberation and equality. This paper aims to employ close textual analysis, drawing on Nietzsche's phenomenology and Wilhelm Reich's political psychology, to explore the intrinsic connection and dialectical relationship between the body and power. The body, as a tangible entity, a locus of strength, and an emb

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Madavi, Manoj Shankarrao. "Decultarization, Disorientation and Political Strategies against the Tribal: A Missing Chapter in Contemporary Mainstream Indian Fiction Writing:." Journal of Humanities and Education Development 4, no. 6 (2022): 102–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/jhed.4.6.11.

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Indian English fiction writers have made their particular assertions about tribals which are incomplete therefore; we do not find much reality in their novels. In the novels like The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, The Princess, The White Tiger and The English August, we find the unauthentic representation of the tribal life. In every novel, tribal life and characters are shown dependable on mainstream heroes for the help. Novelist’s tribal women and man, surrender to mainstream sophisticated social arrangements. In most of the novels, they consider the non-tribal person as god and savior for th

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Dutta Hazarika, Aparajita, and Smita Devi. "Exploring the Historical Consciousness in Selected Fiction of Nadine Gordimer." Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities 3, no. 6 (2023): 68–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.55544/ijrah.3.6.8.

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The novels of Nadine Gordimer run parallel with the era of apartheid. They are a record of the realities of the period during the apartheid and also the interregnum period in South Africa in a chronological manner. In South Africa, Gordimer belonged to a minority within the minority. But contained within that small white world is another group of whites who are opposed to the system of racial discrimination known as apartheid and stand with the country's majority. Nadine Gordimer examines the nature of apartheid which according to her, changes depending on who was looking at the issue. Differe

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Lewis, Monica C. "Anthony Trollope and the Voicing of Victorian Fiction." Nineteenth-Century Literature 65, no. 2 (2010): 141–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2010.65.2.141.

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Monica C. Lewis, "Anthony Trollope and the Voicing of Victorian Fiction" (pp. 141––165) Although critics have read the intrusive nature of Anthony Trollope's narrators as everything from suicidal to cordial, little to no attention has been paid to the larger context in which these intrusions would have been voiced or to Trollope's carefully constructed relationship to the interpretive community upon which his literary livelihood depended. Well aware that his novels would be read aloud to his Victorian audience, Trollope adopted a particularly "modern" approach to the questions of audience and

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M, Chellamuthu. "Identities of Transgender People in Ancient Tamil Literature." International Research Journal of Tamil 5, no. 1 (2023): 74–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt23111.

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In human society, it is natural to see two genders, male and female. It is somewhat surprising that the work of transgender people, who can be called the third gender, is somewhat surprising. In the Mahabharatam, the story of the birth of a transsexual is extended. In nature's creation, we find these people incarnated as transsexuals in practical life. The records of transgenders can be found in abundance in Sangam literary grammar. Transgender people, who have been marginalized in society, are denied the right to participate in public. Transgenders living in small groups in the human communit

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Smith, Jessica. "Tracing lines in the lawscape: Registration/pilgrimage and the sacred/secular of law/space." Sociological Review 68, no. 5 (2020): 917–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026120915705.

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The aim of this article is to draw upon sacred/secular ‘journeying’ to explore the inherent movement invoked by the state’s documentation of the life course. In tracing this motion, the article follows two intersecting pathways – the literal travel of those who register a life event and the figurative ‘journeying’ of legal identity. The argument develops from a case study conducted at the Beaney House of Art & Knowledge (Canterbury, UK): a museum, gallery, library, cafe, community exhibition, tourist information point and registration hub. But rather than using the building as a frame, to

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