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Journal articles on the topic "Fiction, family life"
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Linder, Rhema, Chase Hunter, Jacob McLemore, Senjuti Dutta, Fatema Akbar, Ted Grover, Thomas Breideband, et al. "Characterizing Work-Life for Information Work on Mars." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, GROUP (January 14, 2022): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3492859.
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We present a design fiction, which is set in the near future as significant Mars habitation begins. Our goal in creating this fiction is to address current work-life issues on Earth and Mars in the future. With shelter-in-place measures, established norms of productivity and relaxation have been shaken. The fiction creates an opportunity to explore boundaries between work and life, which are changing with shelter-in-place and will continue to change. Our work includes two primary artifacts: (1) a propaganda recruitment poster and (2) a fictional narrative account. The former paints the work-life on Mars as heroic, fulfilling, and fun. The latter provides a contrast that depicts the lived experience of early Mars inhabitants. Our statement draws from our design fiction in order to reflect on the structure of work, stress identification and management, family and work-family communication, and the role of automation.
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Meyer, Luanna. "Family History: Fact Versus Fiction." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020044.
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Current interest in genealogy and family history has soared, but the research journey may be fraught. Original intentions may be inhibited and inevitably altered as the actual historical details are revealed and documented through recorded evidence. While liberties may be taken with memoir and even autobiography, critical family history requires scrutiny of the lived events uncovered—some of which may be in sharp contrast to family myths passed down through generations. I traveled to three states and conducted archival research in local libraries, court houses, historical county archives, and museums in my search for original sources of authentic information about the names listed on a family tree over centuries. This article reports on how and why research on the genealogy of two families joined by marriage shifted from a straightforward recording of chronological facts to the development of a novel. The case can be made that fiction provides an effective and engaging tool for the elaboration of interconnected lives through the addition of historical context, enriching personal details, and imagined dialogue. Key accuracies needed for a critical family history can be preserved but in a genre that enables characters and their stories to come to life.
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Disney, Dan. "‘She would probably envy herself, from outside’: Auto-fictional narrations in Alice Munro’s ‘Fiction’." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00074_1.
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In one of Alice Munro’s longer stories, the metafictional ‘Fiction’, readers encounter a series of contingent narratives in which characters exert explicit, self-constructing expressive labours. The text is split into two sections: in the first, the protagonist Joyce is betrayed by her husband, Jon and her life momentarily falls to pieces. In the second section, decades later, Joyce is remarried, surrounded by friends and family, her life replenished and thriving. A gamut of fictions suffuses this text, as if Munro’s scenes are case studies delivering heuristic knowledge and Joyce’s self-narrativizations act as if a generative mode of self-care (the talking cure for one, as such). At heart, Munro seems to explore for the possible functions of fiction: through Joyce’s example, it seems that part of the work of fiction remains intra-personal, in this text a means by which to switch trauma off. Joyce’s mind is shown to work in anti-repressive modes, creating clearly narrativized lines of self-understanding which, in this case, enable the protagonist to literally come to terms with a self-told story placing at the denouement her own blamelessness. Herewith, ‘Fiction’ can be read as a complexly woven narrative on modes of narrativization, Munro seemingly implying that memories retold and reframed are a functional gestalt enabling some to become more than the sum of past traumas. Through accepting that life sometimes can be as positively strange as fiction, Joyce is able finally to both rejoice and (as it were) re-Joyce.
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Radler, Dana. "‘TOUCHED’ BY HUMOUR IN LIFE: CHARACTERS IN JOHN MCGAHERN’S FICTION." Transfer. Reception Studies 5 (December 31, 2020): 143–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/trs.2020.05.14.
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In John McGahern’s stories, stories bring to life characters in both comic and tragic instances, and their whole existence comes under the spotlight, as the writer uses mild, ironic or sarcastic touches. In between automatisms and mobility often directed at dogmatism or mental stereotypes displayed by characters, clergymen, workers, teachers, writers or family members display their ignorance, occasional (lack of) manners, boredom or elevation, often imitating what seems to be ‘decent’ in terms of taste. This paper explores how class, gender and false pretences are ridiculed and exposed in both novels and short stories, and how laughter moves from a classical Kantian play instance to a Freudian-supported analysis of condensation and ambiguity as vehicles employed by a realist creator. The narrative often alternates between family roles and poles of power, visible and invisible laughter, as natural and changing (or hybrid) as human nature.
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Obrucheva, T. S. "V.A. OBRUCHEV – LIFE DEVOTED TO SCIENCE." VM- Novitates 17, no. 4 (December 25, 2023): 4–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31343/1029-7812-2023-17-4-4-11.
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The article is dedicated to the outstanding scientist, one of the founders of modern geology Vladimir Obruchev. A detailed biography of the scientist is accompanied by a list of the main directions of his activity, including the new scientific directions created by him. The great importance of Obruchev’s popular science books and his science fiction novels was especially noted. The article uses materials from the Obruchev family archive and various publications.
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Hyttinen, Elsi. "Samaan aikaan toisaalla. 1910-luvun siirtolaiskuvaukset toisin kuvittelemisen tilana." AVAIN - Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti, no. 1 (June 1, 2017): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.30665/av.64262.
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Simultaneously Elsewhere. Imagining Migrancy in Early 20th Century Finnish Literature
The article discusses the functions of early 20th century Finnish language fiction on FinnishAmerican migrancy. The author suggests that fiction depicting migrant life served its contemporary readership as a utopic ”elsewhere” where mobility, gender and agency could be articulated differently from what could be done in literature depicting life in Finland. The argument is developed through readings of three reoccurring tropes articulating migrant subjectivity in fiction: the family (or, rather, its absence), the tramp and the urban housemaid.
From a transnational perspective, the article engages with, even if respectfully distances itself from, earlier research on FinnishAmerican migrant literature with its strong emphasis on reading fiction as representing reallife migrant. Instead, it is proposed that it might be fruitful to approach migrant literature and Finnish literature depicting life in Finland as a diffuse whole, where ideological investments are to an extent bound to locations but not explained causally by them.
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Zakia Khurshid and Dr. Atta Ur Rehman Meo. "Family Life In Muhammad Hafeez Khan's Novel "Adh Adhore Log": An Analytical Study." Dareecha-e-Tahqeeq 4, no. 4 (December 31, 2023): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.58760/dareechaetahqeeq.v4i4.146.
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Muhammad Hafeez Khan occupies a prominent position in Urdu literature of the 21st century. He is a novelist, fiction writer, playwright, columnist, researcher, critic and poet at the same time. About thirty of his books have been published, including four novels; Adh Adhore Log, Kirknath, Mantara and Anwasi have been published. He has effectively portrayed the social and family life of the elite in the present era where the psychology of women and the tension of their family life can be clearly seen. Family life basically means married life of husband and wife. Family life constitutes a family, which is the basis of the social system. This small organization formed by husband and wife and children is the biggest link in the cultural life of man. This article discusses the family life in Mohammad Hafeez Khan's novel "Adh Adhore Log".
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Fitria, Sari. "AKHIL SHARMA’S FAMILY LIFE: REGRETTING DOUBLENESS OF DIASPORA INDIVIDUALS." Poetika 10, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/poetika.v10i1.64292.
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This study discusses a matter of cultural identity faced by diaspora individuals in Akhil Sharma’s novel Family Life. As a diasporic Indian American, Sharma depicts that cultural identity is problematic, especially for an individual who experiences two or more conflicted cultures from home left behind and the home this individual has moved to. Sharma also demonstrates that the identity of this diasporic is never complete. This study aims to critically analyze Sharma’s fiction by highlighting the issues he engages as a diasporic writer. It also depicts how voluntary displacement done by diaspora characters tends to lead them to mourn. The analysis applies a concept of cultural identity by Stuart Hall. It explains a notion of identity within the discourses of history and culture, which is not an essence but a positioning. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. The result shows there is doubleness of cultural identity conveyed by Sharma. This regretting doubleness appears in structured stages: admiring the West and being rejected by the West.
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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 (July 1, 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 together lent an unparalleled ambiguity and anxiety about family life’ (Levey 2001, p.125). Nearly 60 years on, the same conditions seem still to apply not only to the United States, but also to many other countries across the globe. The linking of family to the social well-being of a nation and its individual citizens is a familiar rhetoric employed by politicians, religious leaders, social commentators, and scholars, who rely on the interplay between an actual social unit and its metaphorical extensions to produce an illusion of ‘the truth’. In a similar way, the notion of a ‘new social order’ offers the utopian promise of a better life than that which current or past social orders have provided. Again the force of the metaphor resides in its capacity to appeal to both the intellect and the emotions.
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Burrow, Chris. "The Orphan’s Dilemma." After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 8 (2021): 82–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20212876.
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Is it okay to erase memories of your past to give yourself a better chance at a happy future? In this work of philosophical short fiction, Harold is an orphan up for adoption. He has been selected to be adopted, which means, in order to be accepted by the family, he will need to have his memory wiped clean and implanted with the preferred memories of his new family. This, they say, will give him a better chance of integrating with his new family and living out a successful life. He, and other orphans, are called one by one to decide if this is a procedure, they are willing to accept so they can be adopted. Harold wonders what it will be like to no longer remember his first kiss, or his love of science fiction. These are the things, he reasons, that have allowed him to cope and grow from his difficult life. His name is called, it is time for him to decide.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fiction, family life"
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Shahbazi, Laura Chadwick. "Life as the invisible woman : a partial manuscript of a novel." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1260624.
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The novel Life As the Invisible Woman, details the death, re-birth and life of a young woman who learns through her experience that she creates "good" and "bad" in the context of her own life, and will continue to do so in an eternal process until, as the character Sarah states in the book, "there is more light in her than water and clay." It is also a story about abuse, domestic violence, and their devastating psychological consequences in the lives of those who experience them.Life As the Invisible Woman is being submitted as a partial manuscript in fulfillment of the creative project requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in creative writing.Department of English
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Samuelson, Magdalen Lorenz. "Captive Still Life." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1344.
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Captive Still Life is the fictional story of Marcus Penikett, a seventeen year old celebrity trapped in a scary, suburbanite housing community called Morningside. Marcus Penikett will never escape the childhood incident at the Zoo that made him and the Penikett family famous —the infamous TIME cover of his bleeding face hangs outside of his room, forever documenting and haunting Marcus with the past. Now, Marcus is determined to leave the housing community of Morningside, Georgia to get away from his control freak mother Elise, his absent professor father Otto and a menagerie of other Morningside residents. This plan is complicated by his love for fellow neighbor Olivia, sexual relationship with the maid Sue and Morningside's uncanny 'power' to thwart Marcus' goals.
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Courtney, Mackenzie. "Snowing in Kansas." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1683.
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Set in rural Kansas, this story follows the lives of Jonathan Tate, his sister Lily Anne Tate, and their father, up until his death, Hershall Tate. They are an isolated family, seemingly living outside of time. John opens the novel with a walk into town to set the contrast between him and the rest of the world. Time is the theme and essence, because every scene and the tone of the scenes are weighted by the imminence of Hershall's death. He is dying slowly and so their lives move slowly. Lily can't help but be ornery, while John, assuming all the chores and anxiety of the future without his father, is reserved and reluctant. Hershall is set in his ways and not in a hurry to get the house in order before his death. There is the old-fashioned nature of Hershall, the isolated nature of the whole family, and the rest of the modern world to contend with. These beginning pages are setting up the next stage of the novel where Lily and John begin their journey after their father's death.
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Welch, Alisa Eve. "Short Stories." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/811.
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In these six intertwining fictional short stories, one fateful decision ripples through the lives of multiple generations. Annie is an unmarried young mother during World War II when she leaves her young daughter in the care of a childless couple. When Annie fails to return for the child after days and then years, a new and fragile family is formed only to be tested by Annie's eventual return. The other stories in this collection follow the daughters and granddaughters who have to navigate their own lives in the shadow of this abandonment. Spanning multiple decades, Annie's decision remains a pivotal psychological scar imprinted in her descendants and those left to care for the child that she could not.
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Weatherford, Anna Christine. "Mari When It's Light Out and Other Stories." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1382.
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These stories all take place in the city of Riverside, California. In each story, the narrator or characters struggle with the complicated push/pull that they feel towards their home--be that a home defined by place, memory, another person, or something found within themselves.
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Teberg, Lisa Marie. "Show Me the Way to Go Home." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1047.
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In the following nine linked stories, characters from disparate backgrounds and socio-economic strata converge in a rural community along the Missouri river in central Montana. A Texas-based oil exploration and production company takes up residence in the area, causing a stir in the neighborhood. Long-time local residents experience their daily lives amid a tourist driven economy and reaffirm their aspirations to leave despite significant obstacles and limitations. In "Show Me the Way to Go Home," a young waitress is stranded after a car accident and seeks help from residents living on the single row of houses in the area. In "Give Death Grace," a resident artist leaves to resolve her tumultuous past with her father. In "A Good Little Fisherwoman," a woman deals with the repercussions of her recent reproductive decisions during a fishing trip. In "Little Fires," a local man deals with the tragic burn injury of a child while also facing deeply rooted resentments with his mother. In "Dwelling," an aging local must decide whether or not she will sell her home to two strangers. In "Other Important Areas of Functioning," a woman decides to discontinue her mood stabilizing medications in favor of a more natural lifestyle. While this place means something different to each of these characters, they all coexist while facing individual challenges.
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Mondok, Larisse. "About Home." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1556055157714489.
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Kocz, Nick. "Big Baby Hot, Big Baby Cold." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77493.
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The stories in this collection reflect the absurdities of contemporary American family life, and the particularly distressing economic conditions of the present moment. These stories often employ absurdist elements. Because of the personal history that informs my work, realism does not seem an appropriate form for me. My oldest son, in whom my emotional well-being is heavily invested, is autistic. He is not “normal"? in a way that others would understand as “normal."? Parenting a child with special needs changes the way a marriage operates, deforming it. The personal experience that drives these stories often seems fantastical even to me. I don’t write about my personal experiences, but I write about the impressions that those experiences make upon me. In this way, my work is descriptive rather than didactic.Master of Fine Arts
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Chan, Kenneth, and n/a. "Chinese history books and other stories." University of Canberra. Creative Communication, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061020.144139.
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My thesis is a creative writing doctorate which focuses on one Chinese family's
adaptation to living in Australia in the mid-twentieth century. The thesis is in two
parts. Part I is an examination of Chineseness and identity within the context of the
short stories that make up Part I1 of the thesis.
In Part I, I have looked at the place of the Chinese within the larger, dominant cultures
of America and Australia. In particular, I have discussed the way in which the
discourses of the dominant culture have framed Chineseness; and also what it might
mean to describe authentic and essential qualities in Chineseness. The question I ask
is whether the concept of Chineseness shifts according to time, location, history, and
intercultural encounters. This leads me to try to "place" my family and myself. I
provide some background on my family and on specific incidents that have served as
springboards for the fiction. Part I also discusses some aspects of narrative theory in
relation to the stories and considers the stories within the context of other Chinese-
Australian fiction and performance.
Ln Part 11, I have written a collection of nine short stories about the lives of a fictitious
family called the Tangs. The stories can be described as a cycle that is unified and
linked by characters who are protagonists in one story but appear in a minor or
supporting role in other stories. Composing a linked cycle of stories has given me the
opportunity to extend the short story form, especially by giving me scope to expand
the lives of the characters beyond a single story. The lives of the characters can take
on greater complexity since they confront challenges at different stages of their lives
from different perspectives.
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Farnes, Sherilyn. "Fact, Fiction and Family Tradition: The Life of Edward Partridge (1793-1840), The First Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2302.
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Edward Partridge (1793-1840) became the first bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1831, two months after joining the church. He served in this capacity until his death in 1840. The first chapter examines his preparation for his role as bishop. Having no precedent to follow, he drew extensively upon his background and experiences in civic leadership, business management, and property ownership in order to succeed in his assignment. Partridge moved to Missouri in 1831 at the forefront of Mormon settlement in the state, where on behalf of the church he ultimately purchased hundreds of acres, which he then distributed to the gathering saints as part of the law of consecration. In addition, he prepared consecration affidavits and oversaw each family's contributions and stewardships. The second chapter examines Partridge's ability to succeed in his assignment, and the tensions that he felt between seeing the vision of Zion and administering the practical details. Forty years after his death, his children began to write extensively about their father. The third chapter of this thesis examines their writings, focusing on how their memories of their father illuminate their own lives as well as their father's. The final chapter finds that the three published descendants' modern attempts to chronicle the life of Edward Partridge each fall short in at least one of the following: the field of history, literature, or a faithful representation of his life.
Books on the topic "Fiction, family life"
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Smith, Parkhurst Liz, and Lorenzen Rod, eds. Homecoming: The southern family in short fiction. Little Rock: August House, 1990.
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Sussman, Marvin B. "The Isolated Nuclear Family: Fact or Fiction." In Family and Support Systems across the Life Span, 1–10. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2106-2_1.
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Gudmundsdottir, Gunnthorunn. "Forgetting and the Writing Moment: Corrections and Family Archives." In Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction, 47–68. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59864-6_3.
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Podnieks, Elizabeth. "“their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between”: Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese." In Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 33–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_3.
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AbstractIn their respective memoirs Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders (2013) and How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned About Love and LGBTQ Parenthood (2021), Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese illuminate how mother and father are concepts that are varied, mutable, and fluid. Boylan, a university professor at Colby College in Maine and best-selling author, reveals that she is a transgender woman, formerly a husband in a long-term marriage, and father of two. Boylan writes from her position as a second mother to her children, and as the still-married partner of Deirdre Boylan. Reese, a social justice advocate, is a transgender man who not only adopted two children with his husband, Biff Chaplow, but who also gave birth to their biological baby. In my analysis herein, I argue that through narratives that conflate the conventional and the radical, Boylan and Reese normalize trans parenthood while queering normativity. Drawing on scholarship from queer, maternal, and life writing studies, and foregrounding the themes of transitioning, reproduction, and childrearing, I showcase how Boylan and Reese use their memoirs to open up vital spaces for new and inclusive notions of family.
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Kella, Elizabeth. "From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein’s Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn." In Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 93–114. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_6.
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AbstractThe Swedish journalist and author Margit Silberstein’s autobiographical memoir, Förintelsens Barn (2021), represents her post-war upbringing in a survivor family. Both parents were Hungarian-speaking Jews from Transylvania, who were the only members of their respective families to survive horrendous persecution and conditions during the war. After the war they immigrated to a small town in Sweden, where Margit and her brother were born. This chapter examines the tensions in Silberstein’s account of her childhood and her relations with her parents, particularly her mother, viewing these tensions as stemming from characteristics of and contradictions between later postmemorial writing and the im/migrant literature of Sweden today, both of which are conditioned by their social contexts, including those of antisemitism. Silberstein’s work brings Holocaust postmemoir into dialogue with im/migrant autobiography in contemporary Sweden, and it suggests that this dialogue will continue to the third generation, Silberstein’s children.
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Grahn, Lisa. "One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin’s “Tiger Bites”." In Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 17–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_2.
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AbstractThe issue of safe and legal abortions is and has been highly relevant for generations of women. By describing acts that have previously been carried out in secret, literary fiction makes these experiences visible, meanwhile exposing the circular nature of women’s history. In this chapter, intergenerational experiences of motherhood are examined in Lucia Berlin’s short story “Tiger Bites,” which tells the story of a young mother seeking abortion in Mexico. In Berlin’s representation of the abortion clinic, feelings of isolation and shame are foregrounded, as well as the actual risks to the health of the women and girls involved. The portrayal of the patients and staff at the clinic highlights aspects such as class, the crossings of bodily and national borders, and agency. This chapter argues that family relationships can create feelings of isolation as well as community, and that it is only through her own choice that the protagonist can realize her agency in motherhood. The analysis ultimately argues that Berlin’s story has its own intergenerational relevance, and speaks to the present as well as to its time of initial publication.
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Björklund, Jenny. "Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness." In Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 55–75. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_4.
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AbstractThis chapter focuses on literary representations of childlessness, more particularly, Swedish novels from the twenty-first century, with female protagonists and where the struggle to have children takes center stage: Pernilla Glaser’s 40 minus (2010; 40 Below), Martina Haag’s Glada hälsningar från Missångerträsk: En vintersaga (2011; Happy Greetings from Missångerträsk: A Winter’s Tale), and Tove Folkesson’s Hennes ord: Värk I–III (2019; Her Words: Ache I–III). I analyze the literary representations of involuntary childlessness and the women at the center of the narratives, focusing in particular on how non-motherhood is positioned in relation to femininity and (hetero)normativity. I also situate these representations in their national context and analyze how they relate to Swedish-branded values like gender equality and progressive family politics. On the one hand, the representations of non-motherhood illustrate the centrality of motherhood to normative femininity, and all three novels reinforce heteronormative temporalities. On the other hand, the novels to some extent also resist these norms. Moreover, none of these novels ends with children or even a pregnancy, and thus the narratives break with the conventional infertility plot line and frame the struggle to become a mother as a story that can be told in its own right.
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Damiano, Natasha. "Making a Place for Our Selves: A Story About Longing, Relationships, and the Search for Home." In IMISCOE Research Series, 189–99. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41348-3_17.
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AbstractI use an ‘autoethnographic’ or ‘creative non-fiction’ writing approach to share a story of my relationship with my Italian-born father, a stone mason by trade whose singular dream in life was to build his family a home. Moving between vignettes of the past and composite re-tellings of conversations I had with my father before he died, I intertwine my father’s immigrant experience and life story with memories of the multiculturalism of my own youth. Through this process I try to illuminate Euro-colonial obsessions with property (ownership) and its impact on my understanding of self, home, and belonging.
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Sapp, Robert. "At the Crossroads of History: The Cohabitation of Past and Present in Kettly Mars’s L’Ange du patriarche." In Chronotropics, 251–69. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32111-5_14.
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AbstractIn her seminal work Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (1997), Myriam J. A. Chancy posits that Haitian women writers offer a feminized version of Haitian history where fiction serves as a conduit for historical discourse that too often silences women. Similarly, Kettly Mars’s L’ange du patriarche (2018) shifts the emphasis of the Bois-Caïman ceremony from Boukman to the lesser-known woman said to have assisted at the ritual. In the novel, the spirit of Marinette pye chèch, a vengeful lwa believed to have been the woman who slaughtered the black pig at the Bois-Caïman ceremony, haunts the family of the protagonist Emmanuela. Through a close reading of Emmanuela’s reluctant engagement with the spirits that haunt her family, this chapter argues that Mars develops a notion of cohabitation, a willingness to stand at the crossroads of the empirical and the mythical in order to transcend the presumed binaries of past and present. Through Emmanuela, Mars offers a praxis by which one might live with the ghosts of the past, to bring their voices to life, without being dominated by them: a skeptical acceptance of events like the Bois-Caïman ceremony that individuals may simultaneously doubt and accept as truth.
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Russell, Emily. "“The Gift of Life”: Sentiment and the Family." In Transplant Fictions, 141–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12135-8_5.
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Hinckley, Jane. "Quaker Fictive Families." In Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, 393–98. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003113058-66.
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Ribeiro Rabello, Rafaelle. "Between absence and presence: Augmented Reality as a self-fiction poetic." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.105.
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This text comprises an excerpt of the Doctoral research completed in 2021, developed in the Line of Poetics and Processes of Performance in Arts (PPGARTES-UFPA), which will present a conceptual reflection about the creative process that unfolded poetically from the appropriation of an old family photo album. The album in question began to be observed as a place of overlapping time and space, triggering an internal movement of belonging by presenting itself as a place of poetic power due to the physical evidence that emerged from it. Through Augmented Reality, the empty spaces left by the time were occupied, following the tracks and telling another narrative through visual, textual, and sound layers, thus reconfiguring the album, which expanded and became a living space of memory activated by the cybrid experience. The way of facing the presence of absence and at the same time the absence of presence provoked me an inner movement of wanting more and more to belong to that space. There were countless times I approached this album and I was always worried about its gaps and emptiness in its narrative. And, by a sudden feeling of belonging to that space, I began to fill its “silence” and become part of that place. I have been calling this act the movement of self-fiction poetic. This concept is widely discussed in the book Essays on self-fiction, organized by Jovita Maria Gerheim and crossed my research, which I appropriated and used as an operative concept, thus comprising a movement that took place through the appropriation of an object, intervening in a poetic way, from which I became a character manifesting myself subjectively in the fictional narrative. Therefore, I articulated myself between the photographic language and other operational resources that mobile devices made possible, to recreate the space in mixtures with the past and the contemporary in a movement of mixing memories. The album presented itself as a space deconstructed by the action of time and subjects and through the poetic movement, I triggered a series of events, overlapping different times and spaces by inserting photographic files, video, text, and sound that activated this place as a living organism, revealing a new experience with memory. The reconfiguration process of this space was triggered exclusively by digital means. The idea of the movement of self-fiction poetic arose precisely because I brought photographic productions of my own in a mix with the photographs already present in the album. This intersection of authorship that unfolded in the presentation of another narrative, which includes me sometimes as a present character, sometimes as a hidden agent, allowed me to travel through the chain of memory and feel myself belonging to that space-time. By wanting to penetrate a past that was not mine, triggering subjective layers of information produced in the interstice of reality and fiction that photography allowed me, I was able to perceive the album beyond a memory space, but as a place of experience that opened and was available for interventions.
Reports on the topic "Fiction, family life"
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Howgate, Sandra, Mariah Cannon, Tabitha Hrynick, and Vaishnavee Madden. River of Life. Institute of Development Studies, February 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2024.007.
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This fictional River of Life illustrates one family’s journey in the borough of Ealing. Based on research from the Enabling Early Child Development in Ealing (ECDE) project, it shows some common challenges faced by local families, but more importantly, how families felt support should be, in order to ensure all children get the best start in life. While every family is unique with diverse backgrounds and needs, we hope this tool sparks discussion about how all healing families can be supported whoever they are.