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Journal articles on the topic "Short stories, American – History and criticism"
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Gadylshin, Timur Rifovich. "Features of R. Kipling’s Work in the Naturalist Prose of F. Norris." Litera, no. 10 (October 2022): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2022.10.39055.
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The article focuses on estimating the influence of Rudyard Kipling’s figure on the works of his younger contemporary, the American Frank Norris. The author comes to the conclusion that the English writer fundamentally determined his literary follower’s development vector. Kipling who has become extremely popular among American readers raises Norris’s interest toward neo-romantic short story. The early stage of Norris’s work is noted by Kipling’s powerful influence and the article reveals common plot, compositional and stylistic elements in their works. The writers are united by artistic ideals: Kipling and Norris emphasize the exotic and the criminal and treat the concept of masculinity in a similar way in their short stories. The relevance and scientific novelty of the article are determined by the fact that the article studies Norris’s short stories which were previously unexplored in Russian literary criticism. The author makes an attempt to determine the significance of romanticism’s legacy for Norris’s work and to demonstrate its close relationship with naturalism, exploring various works by R. Kipling. The article uses the following methods: elements of the biographical method; estimation of Norris's theoretical ideas according to the principles of cultural studies; comparative analysis of the works of the two authors. The article can be used in teaching the history of foreign (in particular, American) literature in higher educational institutions.
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Bascom, Ben. "Groping Toward Perversion: From Queer Methods to Queer States in Recent Queer Criticism." American Literary History 32, no. 2 (2020): 396–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaa007.
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Abstract What’s so queer about the nineteenth century? According to three recent studies of American literature—Elizabeth Freeman’s Beside You in Time (2019), Natasha Hurley’s Circulating Queerness (2018), and Benjamin Kahan’s The Book of Minor Perverts (2019)—the answer may be fairly all encompassing. For these critics, queerness is both an orientation and an object of study, enlivening, engendering, and uncovering a plethora of inchoate possibilities for imagining nonnormativity in the long nineteenth century. As such, these studies help resituate the critical capacity for queer studies to engage with historical material while also attending to the ephemeral possibilities that queerness, as a heuristic, frames, from being a methodology, a narrative trope, or a marker of excess that gets overpassed through dominant and emergent ideologies. Bringing together novels, plays, performances, short stories, and life narratives—along with compelling debates in the fields of queer studies—these books are sure to motivate continued work on the intersections of queerness, affect, and the literary while also plotting ways to consider how queerness disrupts and confirms the biopolitics of sex as a category of analysis.
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Radmilo Derado, Sanja. "MERGING SOCIAL CRITICISM WITH IRISH CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THE UNTILLED FIELD BY GEORGE MOORE." Folia linguistica et litteraria X, no. 32 (2020): 43–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.32.2020.3.
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The paper analyses the short story collection The Untilled Field by the Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) with the aim of establishing the subversive potential of these stories in the context of the criticism of the overpowering dogmas within the Irish society at the beginning of the 20th century. With this long neglected short story collection, George Moore reveals a darker, silenced side of Ireland, hidden from the public discourse of the socio-political mainstream of the period. His social criticism is primarily focused on some neuralgic aspects of the Irish society of the time, namely on the dominant influence of the Irish Catholic church on the collective ethos of the nation and, subsequently, on the spiritual and moral paralysis of the Irish people as well as on mass emigrations of the Irish to America. By pinpointing these, in his view, destructive social forces and the complex sociopolitical situation in Ireland during the formation of the modern Irish state, George Moore identifies a state of collective moral lethargy characterised by total absence of any possibility of individual affirmation through artistic agency. The importance of this short story collection, from the point of view of scientific research, lies in the foregrounding motivation behind it. In other words, in George Moore´s intention to dig deep into the relentless existence of the Irish people at one stage in the country´s history and to re-shape the well- established colonial representations which favoured falsely pastoral visions of Ireland. It was not until the second half of the 20th century that the stigma of ´un-patriotic´ and ´subversive´ was lifted from this short story collection giving it, though still limited, well-deserved attention and recognising its literary and artistic importance for Irish national culture and for its literature.
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Naumenko, Valentina G. "“History of Russia in the Short Stories for Children” by A. Ishimova: Estimations of Сontemporaries." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], no. 5 (October 24, 2011): 53–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2011-0-5-53-58.
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Huguet, Montserrat. "The US American Self-criticism. Stories of Anger and Bewilderment." REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos 1, no. 1 (November 30, 2019): 49–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/reden.2019.1.1373.
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Criticism to the system is a core place in the US American culture.The self-criticism gets its roots in the permanent restlessness of the American People, in their fears, in their dissatisfaction, and even in their insane self-destructive behabiour. Many episodes in the American history have worked out from attitudes of paranoia, disgust or anger towards communities or the public administration. The natural rhythm of society in the United States is far from acceptance and calm. On the contrary, the US history is defined by restlessnees and doubious sentiments. Thus, one might think that the American dream is fundamentally a state of permanent crisis in which people, unable to deal with their present vital conditions, transmute these conditions into havoc and creation. In the pages of this article, a breaf tour into the historical and cultural trend of discouragement is offered. It also pays attention to the American ability to self-analyze its own historical experiences. The fictionated stories, that come from the imagination but also from people’s voices and memories, convey a sense of dissatisfaction and of struggle to improve the American way of behaving. Those citizens, especially uncomfortable with themselves or with the administration, may not be aware that they are precisely those who constitute the best US image abroad. In the ostentation of a self- criticism, of a subversive thought, these Americans, opposed to the official positions,feature the virtue of the relentless self-purge.Therefore,looking at past and present times, this paper is composed by six related arguments that rely on both historical events and fictionated stories, with the titles of: “Under the paranoid style”; “The angry nation”, “Hate: Public Limited Company”, “Images of anger”, “Guilty, ashamed and redeemed”, and “The legacy of disenchantment”.
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Reid, Margaret. "Narrative Silence in America's Stories." Keeping Ourselves Alive 3, no. 2-3 (January 1, 1993): 269–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.3.2-3.11nar.
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Abstract In the historical event of the American Revolution, as well as in certain central texts of the American literary imagination, a tension between the power of a community to define itself through language and the resistance of experiential history to such enclosure is represented through a particular form of narrative silence. This narrative form may first suggest repression and the failures of memory. But the American imagination has used narrative silence as a way of representing events that lie outside of the known and planned, in order to preserve the residual life of experience and so to bear witness to the imagina-tion's dependence on the whole of history. In this essay, I argue that this narrative form reveals a central paradox of the American cultural imagination: This imagination successfully encodes its story of community exactly insofar as it creates a place—in language and in thought—for the safely silent acknowl-edgement of the power of experiential knowledge and untold secrets. (Culture studies; literary criticism)
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Dewi, Novita. "COUNTERING XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM THROUGH SHORT STORIES FOR HISTORY STUDENTS." International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) 5, no. 1 (September 24, 2021): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v5i1.3697.
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Short stories provide suitable reading materials to enrich the study of American History. Using literary works can help foster transformative history teaching, especially when discussing the violent past to construct a better future. This study aims at examining two American short stories that deal with racism and prejudice. Used as primary data are “Désirée’s Baby” (1893) which tells about racial intolerance in a pre-Civil War plantation society; and “Shame” (1964), a story about intolerance experienced by a Black schoolboy. Critical reading method is applied by making contextualization with different American historical periods. The results show that (1) themes of xenophobia, racism, and intolerance are evident in these short stories; (2) authorial backgrounds help explain their dealing with the history of racism shown in their works; and (3) stories of inter-racial relations make good reading supplements for teaching American History. In conclusion, literature is history which is beautifully condensed that can help raise students’ awareness about the evil pasts and to grow a historical empathy in facing current realities in order to build a more just, civil, and compassionate society in the future.
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Zheng, Yi. "Writing about women in ghost stories: subversive representations of ideal femininity in “Nie Xiaoqian” and “Luella Miller”." Neohelicon 47, no. 2 (March 5, 2020): 751–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-020-00524-3.
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AbstractOn the one hand, because of the double historical prejudices from literary criticism against ghost stories and women’s writing, little attention has been paid to investigate the ideals of femininity in women’s ghost stories in nineteenth-century America. This article examines “Luella Miller,” a short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, who indirectly but sharply criticized the ideal of femininity in her time by creating an exaggerated example of the cult of feminine fragility. On the other hand, although extensive research has been done on Chinese ghost stories, especially on the ghost heroines in Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, there are few studies comparing the Chinese and the American ones. By comparing “Luella Miller” and Pu’s “Nie Xiaoqian,” this article does not primarily aim to list the similarities and differences between the Chinese and the American ideals of femininity, but to provide fresh insights into how both Freeman and Pu capitalized on the literary possibilities of the supernatural, because only in ghost stories they could write about women in ways impossible in “high literature.”
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Spasić Jakovljević, Tijana R. "KRITIKA POSTMODERNISTIČKE IRONIJE U DOKUMENTARNOJ PROZI DEJVIDA FOSTERA VOLASA." Nasledje Kragujevac XX, no. 56 (2023): 207–2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/naskg2356.207sj.
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His criticism and efforts to overcome the negative consequences of postmodern irony – mostly as a worldview that has had a profound impact on contemporary American society and literature – are central to understanding David Foster Wallace’s literary work. Unlike his highly influential fiction (novels and short stories), his nonfiction (essays and articles) still remains understudied, in spite of the volume and importance of his essays in the Ameri- can culture and beyond. The paper analyses Wallace’s criticism of postmodern irony in his nonfiction by considering three selected essays, with the aim of examining the possibility that Wallace’s nonfiction succeeds in even further articulating his artistic intentions, which have in recent analyses been qualified as post-ironic.
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Jelínková, Ema. "Trauma Narratives of Scottish Childhood in Janice Galloway’s Short Stories." American & British Studies Annual 15 (December 21, 2022): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/absa.2022.15.2430.
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Janice Galloway represents one of the most strikingly original voices in new Scottish fiction, which breaks with the tradition of conventional narratives looking back at the national history and looking up to larger-than-life male heroes. Instead, Galloway writes deftly crafted short stories of everyday life in contemporary settings, finding that the past informs the present and proceeding to explore how the stateless nation’s cultural heritage affects her characters. This paper analyses selected stories from Galloway’s collections Blood (1991) and Where You Find It (1996) from the perspective of trauma criticism, which seems a particularly fitting approach to the author’s often disturbing narratives of violence and abuse. The focus is on child characters and on the ways that historical trauma, as introduced by Sigmund Freud and further refined by Cathy Caruth, is passed down to them. Finally, the paper provides examples from the individual short stories which illustrate how the traumatic experience can be acknowledged, witnessed, and ultimately communicated.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Short stories, American – History and criticism"
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Shishkin, Timur. "Marginalized Characters in Contemporary American Short Fiction." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/297.
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The focus of the present research work is the contemporary American short stories that bring up issues of compulsory norm and the conflict between marginalized characters and their environment. This research was based on those short stories that seemed to represent the idea of being "different" in the most complex and multilayered way, and its goal was to unfold new aspects of the conflict between "normal" and "abnormal"/"different". Variations of norm as well as diversity within the marginalized raise a number of questions about the reasons for their inability to coexist peacefully. The close reading and the analysis of the selected stories show that all the conflicts in them, in one way or another, repeat similar patterns and lead to the same root of the problem of misunderstanding, which is fear. To be more precise, all the cases of hate towards "different" characters can be explained by the hater's explicit or implicit fear of death in its various forms: inability to procreate one's own kind, cultural or personal self-identity loss, actual life threat in the form of a reminder of possible physical harm and death. Most often it would be the case where shame and fear of death overlap in a very complex way. In general, the cases of characters' otherness fall into three major groups. The nature of the alienation for each of these groups is described and analyzed in three separate chapters. Prejudice and stereotypes are playing a great role in formation of fears and insecurities which need to be dismantled in order to make peaceful coexistence possible. This work concludes with pointing out the crucial role of taking an approach of representation of various perspectives and diversification of voices in creative writing, academia and media in the context of multicultural society.
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Bell, Lucy Amelia Jane. "Configurations of the fragment : the Latin American short story at its limits." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607767.
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陳淸貴 and Ching-kooi Chan. "Narrative techniques of Taiwan short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/b30252866.
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劉燕萍 and Yin-ping Grace Lau. "Tragic elements in Tang short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3120871X.
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符傳豐 and Suan-fong Foo. "A study of Lao She's (1899-1966) short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31215233.
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Burgoyne, Mary M. "'At work on short stories' : the making, marketing, and reception of Joseph Conrad's early short fiction." Thesis, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2016. http://research.stmarys.ac.uk/1167/.
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Nakasa, Dennis Sipho. "The dialectic between African and Black aesthetics in some South African short stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22394.
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Most current studies on 'African' and/or 'Black' literature in South Africa appear to ignore the contradictions underlying the valuative concepts 'African' and 'Black'. This (Jamesonian) unconsciousness has led, primarily, to a situation where writers and critics assume generally that the concepts 'African' and 'Black' are synonymous and interchangeable. This study argues that such an attitude either unconsciously represses an awareness of the distinctive aspects of the worldview connotations of these concepts or deliberately suppresses them. The theoretical and pragmatic approach which this study adopts to explore the distinctive aspects of the worldview connotations of these concepts takes the form, initially, of a critique of such assumptions and their connotations. It is argued that any misconceptions about the relations between the concepts 'African' and 'Black' can only be elucidated through a rigorous and distinct definition of each of these concepts and the respective world views embodied in them. Each of the variables of these definitions is also examined thoroughly through an application of, inter alia, Frederick Jameson's 'dialectical' theory of textual criticism, Pierre Macherey's 'theory of literary production' and also through the post-colonial notions of 'hybridity' and 'syncreticity' propounded by Bill Ashcroft et.al (eds). In this way the study examines the dialectical interplay between, for instance, such oppositional notions as 'African' and 'Western' (place-conscious), 'Black' and 'White' (race-conscious), and other forms of ideological 'dominance' and 'marginality' reflected in the 'African' and/or 'Black' writers' motivations for the acquisition, appropriation and uses of the language of the 'other' (i.e. English) and its literary discourse in South Africa, Africa and elsewhere in the world. A close textual reading of the stories in Mothobi Mutloatse's (ed) Forced Landing, Mbulelo Mzamane's (ed) Hungry Flames underlies an examination of the processes of anthologisation and their implications of aesthetic collectivism, reconstruction and world view monolithicism which repress the distinctive world outlooks of the stories in these anthologies. The notions of aesthetic monolithicism implicit in each of these anthologies are interrogated via the editors' truistic assumptions about the organic nature of the relations between the concepts 'African' and 'Black'. The notion of a monolithic 'African' and 'Black' aesthetic is further decentred through a close textual reading of the uses of the 'African' and 'Black' valuative concepts in the short story collections The Living and the Dead and In Corner B by Es'kia (formerly Ezekiel) Mphahlele. The humanistic pronouncements in Mphahlele' s critical and short story texts suggest various ways of resolving the racial demarcations in both the 'Black' and 'White' South African literary formations. According to Mphahlele, a predominant racial consciousness inherent in the racial capitalist mode of economic production has deprived South African literature and culture an opportunity of creating a national humanistic and 'Afrocentric' form of aesthetic consciousness. The logical consequence of such a deprivation has been that the racial impediments toward the formation of a single national literature will have to be dismantled before the vision of a humanistic and 'Afrocentric' aesthetic can be realised in South Africa. The dismantling of both the 'Black' and 'White' monolithic forms of consciousness may pave the way toward the attainment of a synthetic and place-centred humanistic aesthetic. Such a dismantling of racial monolithicism will, hopefully, stimulate a debate on the question of an equally humanistic economic mode of production.
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Wang, Labao. "Australian short fiction in the 1980s : continuity and change." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1999. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27583.
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This thesis offers a critical survey and a comprehensive bibliography of the
Australian short story in the 1980s. Conceived partly as an continuation of Stephen
Torre’s study of Australian short fiction of the 1940-1980 period, it starts where
Torre’s thesis stopped, focusing on Australian short story writing published in the
ten years between 1981 and 1990. Torre has summed up the 1940-1980 period as
‘a time of development and innovation’ in the history of Australian short fiction. In
comparison, the 1980s is probably best described as a decade of unprecedented
expansion and diversification. During that time, Australian short fiction broke away
from its earlier domination by monolithic traditions and became a much more
eclectic and pluralistic form. Contributing to this eclecticism and plurality were five
different streams of story writing created by five separate groups of writers. Due to
constraints of space, the critical text of the thesis examines only four of them.
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MacKenzie, Craig. "The oral-style South African short story in English A.W. Drayson to H.C. Bosman." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002271.
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This study is concerned with a particular kind of short story in South African English literature - a kind of story variously called the fireside tale, tall tale, yarn, skaz narrative, frame narrative, or (the term used in this study), the 'oral-sty Ie story.' This kind of story is characterised by the use of an internal narrator (a fictional narrator or storyteller figure), the cadences of his or her speaking voice, and a 'reporting' frame narrator. Stories by A. W. Drayson, Frederick Boyle, J. Forsyth Ingram, W. C. Scully, Percy FitzPatrick, Ernest Glanville, Perceval Gibbon, Francis Carey Slater, Pauline Smith, Aegidius Jean Blignaut and Herman Charles Bosman form the principal body of primary sources examined in this study. The Bakhtinian notion of "simple" and "parodistic" skaz narratives is deployed to analyse the increasing complexity to be discerned in the works by these writers, which roughly span the 100 years from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the present century. A "simple" use of the skaz narrative is evident in the early or 'ur-South African' oral-style story, represented here by Drayson, Boyle and Ingram. With Scully and FitzPatrick the form is still used 'artlessly,' although the beginnings of a greater self-consciousness can be discerned. The' Abe Pike' tales by Glanville introduce a more complex use of the fictional narrator, a process taken a step further by Gibbon in his 'Vrouw Grobelaar' tales. With the latter, in particular, the complex or "parodistic" skaz narrative makes its advent in South African literature. The oral-style stories of Slater and Smith are largely a regression to the ear lier form, although there are aspects of their stories which anticipate Bosman. With Blignaut and Bosman, however, the South African oral-style story comes into its own. In their Hottentot Ruiter and Oom Schalk Lourens characters is invested all the complexity and 'double-voicedness' that was latent, and largely dormant, in the earlier oral-style narratives. Through Blignaut, and Bosman in particular, the South African oral-style story achieves its most economical, sophisticated and successful form of expression. The study concludes by looking briefly at the use of an oral style in short stories by black South African writers and argues that their stories are not, formally speaking, to be categorised alongside those by the other~ writers examined. The oral-style story, the study concludes, achieved its apogee in Bosman's Oom Schalk Lourens sequence and went into sharp decline after Bosman's death in 1951.
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Dai, Ping Emma, and 戴平. "The concept of love in the Ming short stories of Sanyan and Erpan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222559.
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Krstovic, Jelena O. Short story criticism. Edited by Gale Group. Detroit, Mich: Gale, 2011.
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Krstovic, Jelena O. Short story criticism. Edited by Gale Group. Detroit, Mich: Gale, 2010.
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Krstovic, Jelena O. Short story criticism. Edited by Gale Group. Detroit, Mich: Gale, 2011.
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Lybyer, J. M. CliffsNotes Poe's Short Stories. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002.
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Norton, Sue. "Incorporating One’s Own Literary Criticism into the Curriculum: The Teachable Essay via John Updike’s Short Stories." In Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom, 293–301. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94166-6_18.
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Peng-Keller, Simon, and David Neuhold. "A Short History of Documenting Spiritual Care." In Charting Spiritual Care, 11–20. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47070-8_2.
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Abstract The first chapter of this edited volume traces the history of documenting spiritual care. By referring to ancient and early modern practices, the relationship between spiritual (self-) care and various forms of documentation is outlined. The focus lies on developments in the twentieth and the twenty-first century, although the question of what constitutes an adequate practice of documenting healthcare chaplaincy is as old as the profession itself. The pioneers of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) – Richard Cabot, Anton Boisen, Russell L. Dicks, and others – developed distinctive forms of recording for different purposes. For example, procedures of documentation that are prepared for and helpful to the pastors themselves as “self-criticism,” “self-improvement,” or even “self-revelation” have been distinguished from documentation practices that are intra- or interprofessional. Regarding more recent developments in documentation, the introduction of electronic patient records (EMRs) was critical. We present a case study from Kenya to show how the issues discussed here are encountered in a non-Euro-American context.
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Roberts, Nicole. "Past Histories and Present Realities: The Paradox of Time and the Ritual of Performance in Mayra Santos Febres’ Fe en disfraz." In Chronotropics, 65–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32111-5_4.
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AbstractIn her short historical novel Fe en disfraz (2009), Mayra Santos Febres uses re/presentations of time to re-invoke historical memory and to illuminate the ways in which black women’s lives were eclipsed from the Puerto Rican landscape. The novel offers a bold examination of the consequences of sexual exploitation and abuse on black women during enslavement, a topic which is under-explored in Puerto Rican and Latin American narrative. The intersection between the past and present that occurs through the unraveling of the narrator Fe’s life story reveals how the historical forces that shaped the lives of enslaved women continue to echo across time for contemporary black women. The treatment of time and the questioning of historical archives in the text both question and disrupt the official accounts of history: for instance, the intermittence of Santos Febres’ reconstructed historiography, which appears as a handful of short vignettes disseminated throughout the text, highlights the ways in which official stories have silenced black women’s lives. Countering this erasure, Santos Febres’ text anchors the black female body, depicting it as a site of cultural inscription and resilience.
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Miller, Camden, and Alex Bitterman. "Commemorating Historically Significant Gay Places Across the United States." In The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods, 339–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66073-4_15.
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AbstractThe stories of gay spaces across the United States are largely unrecorded, undocumented, and are not centrally collected or archived beyond informal reports and oral histories. Evidence demonstrates that the preservation of historic sites allows for future generations to benefit from intangibles related to community and identity. However, the LGBTQ+ community has been unable to gain benefits that place-based, historic sites can provide, due to an inability to commemorate spaces that have shaped LGBTQ+ history in significant ways. This chapter explores the disparities between the preservation and commemoration of significant LGBTQ+ spaces and the amount of funding distributed to these sites. As of 2016, LGBTQ+ sites comprised only 0.08 percent of the 2,500 U.S. National Historic Landmarks and 0.005 percent of the more than 90,000 places listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This representation is well short of the share of American adults that identify as LGBTQ+ , which in 2017 was approximately five percent of the United States population. In 2010 the Administration of President Barack Obama launched the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative under the National Historic Landmarks Program. This effort underscored a broader commitment to include historically underrepresented groups, including LGBTQ+ individuals. As a result, LGBTQ+ communities became eligible to receive funding for projects through the Underrepresented Community Grant Program. An analysis of the distribution of Underrepresented Community Grant Program funds revealed that the LGBTQ+ community receives considerably less funding compared to other underrepresented communities. The findings from this study suggest that there is still a significant amount of work that remains to be done to integrate LGBTQ+ histories into historic preservation programs that exist at various levels of programming (local, state, and federal).
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Friedman, Walter A. "5. An industrial country, 1880–1910." In American Business History: A Very Short Introduction, 53–67. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190622473.003.0006.
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“An industrial country, 1880–1910” looks at America’s first captains of industry: Rockefeller, at one time the world’s richest man, who made his fortune in oil; Scotland-born Carnegie, who pioneered new processes in steel; and Duke, Kellogg, and Heinz, who packaged and marketed agricultural products in the form of cigarettes, cereal, and soup. Journalists colloquially known as muckrakers began to criticize the dominance of big business. Companies who monopolized or divided markets were punished for violating antitrust laws. This did not stamp out corruption, but was a meaningful development in business–government relations. In the 1910s, companies began to think increasingly about public relations, using public relations to tell their corporate stories.
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Houen, Alex. "Walter Abish: Plotting Everyday Terror." In Terrorism and Modern Literature, from Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson, 192–234. Oxford University PressOxford, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198187707.003.0005.
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Abstract In his introduction to the 1984 edition of Valtrex Amish’s collection of short stories, In the Future Perfect (first published in 1975), Malcolm Bradbury dearest the author to be ‘quite the most important w1iter to have emerged in the United States over the past ten years, and the one whose serious inquiry is most surely still continuing.’! V linner of the 1981 PEN/Faulkner award for How Guzman 1’i It (1980), his novel on terrorism and the lingering effects of Nazism in Germany, Abash has indeed been repeatedly cast by critics as one of the foremost ex opponents of contemporary, American, postmodernist fiction. For Bradbury, however, the affinity between Amish’s prose and the post modern is ‘misleading’, although he does assert that they ‘share’ one ‘tendency’: ‘a refusal to name what we call reality as real, a sense that the language which authenticates this or that as history, geography or biography is a language of human invention’ (JT}P, x). Given that Abash wrote How Gambian less It without ever having visited Germany, Bradbury’s comment seems apposite. And certainly there is an ongoing fascination in Amish’s fiction with what the writer has termed ‘de familiarization’-which is no doubt partly attributable to his having lived in a number of countries from a young age.
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Avila, Eric. "Introduction: The stories of American history and why they matter." In American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction, 1–7. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190200589.003.0001.
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The book opens in explaining that this very short introduction to American cultural history emphasizes culture as a driving force in American history. Cultural history is the history of stories, their origins, transmission, and significance in time. However, no work of cultural history can disentangle the cultural from political, economic, and social processes of change. The relationship between culture and identity needs to be understood along with the spatial context of cultural production and its physical location within distinct geographies. American culture has been the sum of diverse global influences, from almost every part of the world, but it has not contained itself within national boundaries.
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Aron, Stephen. "Introduction: American Wests." In The American West: A Very Short Introduction, 1–2. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199858934.003.0001.
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‘Introduction: American Wests’ shows that the confusion of legend and fact, of myth and history, makes it hard to disentangle the stories we have told about the development of the American West from our understanding of what really happened. This VSI explains how the gap between projections and reality has shaped the development of the West and confounded our interpretations of its history. This history of the American West expands the chronology, enlarges the geography, complicates the casting, and pluralizes the subject to show that across the centuries, the movements of peoples and the minglings of cultures have shaped the history of sharp confrontations and murky convergences.
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Brauner, David. "8. History on a Personal Note: Postwar American Jewish Short Stories." In The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction, 105–18. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780748646166-012.
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Rambsy, Kenton. "Locating the Big 7." In The Geographies of African American Short Fiction, 19–39. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496838728.003.0002.
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Chapter one clarifies how generations of editors solidified a Big 7 of major writers by repeatedly republishing their stories. Decisions by editors to publish select works by Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Bambara, and Walker shaped the canonical history of African American short stories. Drawing from a dataset of one hundred anthologies published between 1925 and 2017, the chapter reveals how a relatively small number of writers and stories became so pervasive. The chapter explains how the imperative of recovering and promoting women writers advanced the circulation of stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, and Alice Walker. Finally, a consideration of a chronological approach, the preferred mode of arrangement by editors, pinpoints the reason the Big 7 emerged as they did.