Dissertations / Theses: 'Testimonial Narrative'

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Ruiz-Aho, Elena Flores. "How to hear the unspoken : engaging cross-cultural communication through the Latin American testimonial narrative." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001695.

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Lai, Oi-leung Helen, and 賴凱亮. "Testimonial narrative: the personal, collective and the political experience in I, Rigoberta Menchu, anIndian woman in Guatemala." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950607.

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Lai, Oi-leung Helen. "Testimonial narrative : the personal, collective and the political experience in I, Rigoberta Menchu, an Indian woman in Guatemala /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13787603.

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Tie, Tra Bi Irie Fabrice Raoul. "Famille et Violence dans la littérature francophone : le génocide des Tutsis du Rwanda." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne‎ (2017-2020), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAL014/document.

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La présente thèse questionne la famille en lien avec des tueries de masse : le génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda. Le sujet a été développé sur deux grands axes. Un point d’histoire a présenté les déterminants socio-historiques qui ont favorisé l’extermination des Tutsi rwandais. Puis une analyse littéraire a établi une corrélation entre l’idée de famille et cette violence extrême, à travers un corpus d’écrivains francophones et de rescapés de cet événement. Ce qui a décloisonné l’étude du génocide contre les Tutsi au Rwanda du seul point de vue historique pour en faire un sujet littéraire. Dans ce travail de recherche, notre propos a insisté sur la situation des familles qui ont résisté et sur celles qui ont été décimées face au génocide ambiant. Et a informé sur une tragédie qui a fragilisé les liens de filiation au sein des membres d’un même ménage et rompue les alliances, la fraternité entre familles voisines. Cette étude a également souligné les configurations possibles de l’institution familiale après le génocide. Elle a montré qu’avec les massacres qui ont déstructuré les ménages, rompu les liens de filiations, les survivants pour amorcer une résilience, recomposent de nouvelles fratries, de nouvelles familles
This thesis question the notion of family in connection with mass Killing : the genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda. It was developed on two main axes. A point of history presented the socio-historical determinants which favorised the extermination of the Rwandan Tutsi. Then a literary analysis established a correlation between the idea of family and this extreme violence, through a corpus of French-speaking writers and survivors of this event. What opened up the study of the Tutsi génocide from the only historic point of view to make a literary subject. In this research work, our subject insisted on the situation of the families which resisted and on those who were decimated in front of ambient genocide. And informed about a tragedy which weakened the links of filiation within the members of the same household and broke the relationship, the brotherhood between nearby families. This study also presented the possible configurations of the family institution after the genocide. It showed that with the massacres which deconstructed the household the survivors to begin an impact strength, recompose of new sibships, new families

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Paynter, Eleanor. "Witnessing Emergency: Testimonial Narratives of Precarious Migration to Italy." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1582996945730084.

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Longmire, Monica R. "Digital narratives creating diabetes awareness through testimonials and communities of faith /." Connect to resource, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32178.

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Galichon, Isabelle. "Le récit de soi comme écriture de résistance face au nazisme : du sentiment à l'acte : définition d'une poétique du récit de soi en résistance." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00994610.

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Nous proposons, dans le cadre de cette thèse, de définir une poétique du récit de soi en résistance face à l'expérience de répression nazie, dans un contexte historique élargi. Notre étude couvre une période qui s'étend des premières manifestations antifascistes en France, dès les années trente, avec, en particulier, la création en 1934 du Comité de Vigilance des Intellectuels Antifascistes jusqu'à la fin des années cinquante, marquées par la sortie du film Nuit et Brouillard d'Alain Resnais, en 1956. Afin d'appréhender la notion de récit de soi, nous partons des conclusions que Michel Foucault propose dans son cours au Collège de France en 1982, sur " L'Herméneutique du sujet ", et nous considérons donc le récit de soi dans la perspective d'un renouvellement des pratiques du souci de soi. C'est à partir d'une sélection de douze textes, choisis dans un corpus de récits de soi français ou francophones, que nous analysons l'écriture personnelle de la résistance. Notre sélection rassemble des récits de soi choisis pour leur diversité générique - journal, témoignage, poésie, correspondance, livre de raison, essai - ainsi que pour les différentes situations de résistance qu'ils présentent. Il s'agit donc de revisiter l'idée de résistance personnelle perçue comme une attitude de " refusance " telle que Philippe Breton l'a décrite, et de définir, dans le cadre de l'écriture du récit de soi, comment le sujet entre en résistance et dans quelle mesure cette résistance personnelle peut être assimilée à un acte : d'une position foucaldienne de résistance en puissance, émanant de la pratique du souci de soi, le récit de soi devient un acte de résistance face à l'expérience nazie.

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Zumarán, Alarcón Javiera. "Alegoría de la nación quebrada: memoria emergente y narrativa testimonial en Una casa vacía de Carlos Cerda." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2013. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/113100.

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Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica
El recordar, el ejercicio dinámico de la memoria, es un proceso que une al menos dos temporalidades: un pasado y un presente, y el cuestionamiento que nos surge inmediatamente es cómo se relacionan, a través de qué medios, y con qué fin. Sin embargo no podemos olvidarnos de que ese vínculo no es solamente temporal, sino que también es emocional y simbólico ya que no une exclusivamente dos hechos, dos actos, sino que une dos memorias que habitan en cuerpos que arrastran otros elementos y que los hacen únicos por sus experiencias. Pero de qué manera podemos acceder a esos recuerdos si nosotros no estuvimos presentes en el otro lugar, cómo podemos entender. En el presente trabajo entenderemos que el testimonio es ese elemento que nos permite crear vínculos con otras temporalidades sin haber sido actores de ellas. El testimonio nos abre una puerta y nos entrega una posibilidad única de saber, de sentir, de entender y de pensar. Pero también debemos asumir que ese discurso está abierto a interpretaciones y depende de las propias lecturas y experiencias que van completando los pequeños espacios y cargando de nuevas significaciones.

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Stellavato, Michaelle. "Tales of Healing: A Narrative Analysis of the Digital Storytelling Workshop Experience." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13290.

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Based on a narrative analysis of data collected on behalf of the Trauma Healing Project in Eugene, Oregon this project considers the responses of 50 digital storytelling workshop participants (26 storytellers and 24 assistants), collected as audio recordings of closing circles, written evaluations, and post-workshop interviews. The data are organized by themes and then ranked according to frequency. For both the storytellers and assistants, the personal experience of participating in a digital storytelling workshop is overwhelmingly positive, with transformative insights being the most common experience. According to their responses, both storytellers and assistants experience increased feelings of self-efficacy, personal growth, and self-confidence directly after completing a digital storytelling workshop.

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Espino, Michelle M. "Master Narratives and Counter-Narratives: An Analysis of Mexican American Life Stories of Oppression and Resistance Along the Journeys to the Doctorate." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195733.

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This study focused on the testimonios [life narratives] of 33 Mexican American Ph.D.s who successfully navigated educational systems and obtained their doctorates in a variety of disciplines at 15 universities across the United States. The theoretical and methodological frameworks employed were critical race theory (CRT), Latina/o critical race theory (LatCrit), and narrative analysis in order to examine power relations, multiple forms of oppression, and the intersections of race, social class, and gender within educational contexts. CRT and LatCrit frameworks were expanded by attending to the experiences of middle class participants and participants who identified as second- or third-generation college students, which challenge traditional paradigms that essentialize Mexican American communities. This study uncovered and contextualized the ways that Mexican American Ph.D.s resisted and reproduced power relations, racism, sexism, and classism through master narratives constructed by the dominant culture to justify low rates of Mexican American educational attainment. The findings suggested that as the dominant culture develops master narratives, Mexican American communities reproduce these stories as well. Mexican American communities also crafted counter-narratives that resisted the master narratives. The dominant culture master narratives were: Mexican American families do not value education; Mexican American women are not allowed to get an education; The dominant culture and Mexican American communities reproduce masculinist ideology; If Mexican Americans would work hard enough and persevere, they can succeed in education; The U.S. is a colorblind, gender-blind, and class-blind society; and Mexican Americans are only in college/graduate school because they are minorities. In addition, Mexican American communities constructed two master narratives in an effort to advocate for educational equity and increase research in Mexican American communities: Mexican Americans must struggle through educational systems and Mexican American Ph.D.s should research Mexican American issues. This study provided a venue for narratives on Mexican American educational attainment that reflected struggle and survival, privilege and merit, as well as overcoming obstacles and not finding any barriers along the way. These narratives have the power to reshape, reframe, and transform discourses of deficiency to those of empowerment and resistance in K-12 education, postsecondary education, and graduate school.

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Vita, Saverio <1987&gt. "Autobiografi della vergogna. La vergogna come dispositivo narrativo nella letteratura autobiografica e testimoniale del secondo dopoguerra." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7356/.

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La tesi si occupa di indagare le dinamiche della vergogna, insieme con le sue articolazioni narrative, nel contesto della letteratura autobiografica e testimoniale del secondo dopoguerra. In particolare, la vergogna viene utilizzata come filtro critico, al fine di individuare i dispositivi fondamentali del genere. Nella prima parte, l'autore della tesi si propone di individuare tali dispositivi nelle scritture della Shoah. Il focus viene comunque diretto su Primo Levi, Robert Antelme, Jorge Semprún (prima generazione) e Georges Perec, David Grossman, Jonathan Littell, Art Spiegelman (seconda generazione). Nella seconda parte del lavoro, si confermano i dispositivi narrativi isolati precedentemente, attraverso la ricerca delle loro ricorrenze nei testi autobiografici prodotti in Italia da autori coinvolti nei fatti di guerra. In particolare, l'analisi si concentra sull'opera di Giuseppe Berto.
The aim of this Phd thesis is to investigate the dynamics of shame, along with its narrative articulations, in the context of autobiographical literature after World War II. Shame is used as a critical filter, in order to identify the rhetorical and narrative devices and of the genre. In the first section, the author of the thesis aims to identify these key devices in the Shoah writings, focusing on Primo Levi, Robert Antelme, Jorge Semprún(first generation) and Georges Perec, David Grossman, Jonathan Littell, Art Spiegelman (second generation) The results will be verified in the second section of the thesis, by focusing on the italian literature produced by authors involved in acts of war. In particular, the focus will be on Giuseppe Berto's work.

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Morris, T. Randahl C. "Reconsidering Testimonial Forms and Social Justice: A Study of Official and Unofficial Testimony in Chile." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/30.

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Testimony flows from a story that originates long before the opportunity to be a witness about human atrocities occurs. And, ironically, testimony – the voice that is suppressed during times of state sanctioned terror – continues to flow long after the perpetrators fade from power. It is this ethereal and enduring paradox that raises the questions of what testimonial forms are, how they communicate, and whether they positively impact social justice as evidenced by enhanced communicative freedoms. The testimonial forms of this study are narratives about human rights atrocities which emerged from the 17-year military junta in Chile led by Augusto Pinochet. This project examines the development and uses of official and unofficial testimony surrounding times of transitional justice using a multi-modal analysis incorporating narrative and historical analysis, communication ethics, and critical theory which yields a meta-analysis of testimony and the context in which it functions. This research concludes that a life cycle of testimony exists that is organic and evolving. Furthermore, due to the unique circumstances of transitional justice periods, a theory of testimony ethics is called for to increase individual communicative freedoms that lead to enhanced social justice as well as to increase the success of truth commission communication processes.

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Butnaru, Mirela. "Confluencias de los Generos Literarios en la Literatura Centroamericana: Testimonio, Novela y Narrativas del Yo." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439455048.

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Louckx, Audrey. "Empowering voices: testimonial literature and social justice in contemporary American culture." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209257.

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Within the last three decades, contemporary North America came to reinvent a socially focused genre of literary personal narratives. These new editorial and writing projects, published in the form of collections of personal narratives, emerged as a tool for the socially voiceless to secure some measure of agency in their contemporary social and cultural situation. Projects such as the Freedom Writers’ Diary or volumes of the Voice of Witness book series fit in the process that is currently labeled social empowerment. Witnesses express a deep urge to share their story in the hope to denounce their experience of an enduring social injustice. The written word, primary a means for self-disclosure, serves to exorcise the suffering associated to this specific predicament. The narrators engage in a powerful self-investigative gesture oriented towards resilience and renewed enfranchisement in regaining control over their life and environment. At the moment of publication, however, these testimonies come to be validated as authentic examples of the injustices they disclose. These examples serve an educational purpose: raising the audience’s awareness and opening deliberative fora for these issues to be discussed and for solutions to be hammered out and eventually implemented.

The purpose of this dissertation is to propose a theoretical model for the subgenre of testimonials of social empowerment. With the concept of empowerment as groundwork, the model develops a textual approach framed in a psychosocial structure. I argue that testimonials may be described as examples of Jürgen Habermas’s communicative action. As speech acts aimed at reaching understanding, testimonials capitalize both on the binding and bonding aspects of illocutionary force in the hope to secure with their audience an ongoing dialogue over issues of social justice. The volumes, as unofficial public spheres, mobilize the normative and practical dynamics at work in social movements. These dynamics express as two narrative guiding threads: an aesthetic based on impact, and an ethics based on responsibility. The texts’ aesthetic develops a form of perlocutionary realism instantiating a sense of authenticity and sincerity embodied in the narrators’ voices. The resulting impact is coupled to moral concerns based on a polysemic understanding of social responsibility, on which narrators seek to build their narratives’ ethical potential. A series of case studies allowed to demonstrate that both narrative threads are realized as an appropriation of four paradigmatic forms of rhetorical ethos, each based on a specific realm of the social world: intimacy, justice, spirituality and activism.

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Dantzler, Camille Ciara. "Exchange of Fictions: Exploring the Intersections of Gendered Self-narration and Testimonio Representations on the Rwandan Genocide." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343847882.

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Quakernack, Stefanie [Verfasser]. "(Re-)framing Testimonio on YouTube: Multimodal performances of dispossession in digital narratives of undocumented Youth / Stefanie Quakernack." Bielefeld : Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1096457245/34.

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Hattingh, Nathalie. "A systemic functional analysis of two Truth and Reconciliation Commission testimonies: transitivity and genre." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2541_1361370387.

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This thesis examines how two narrators construe their experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two testimonies. The Human Rights Violations (HRV) hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) allowed testifiers to tell stories of their experiences during apartheid. The selected testimonies refer to the events that led up to the arrest and eventual torture of Faried Muhammad Ferhelst, as told by himself and his mother, Minnie Louisa Ferhelst. Theframeworks used to analyse the testimonies are drawn from the transitivity and genre theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics. A clausal analysis of the transitivity patterns is used to compare the ways in which the testifiers construct their identities and roles when recounting their stories. The transitivity analysis of both testimonies shows that both Mrs Ferhelst and Faried Ferhelst construe themselves as the Affected participant through Material, Mental and Verbal clauses, and construe the police as the Causers, mostly through Material clauses. A genre analysis revealed that both testimonies took the form of narratives, in particular the Recount, a typical genre for relating narratives of personal experience. This research project also explores how the original Afrikaans versions of the testimonies differ from the translated English versions, available online on the TRC website. The Afrikaans versions were transcribed by the researcher from
audio-visual records. A transitivity analysis reveals that the interpretation of the Afrikaans testimonies is fairly accurate, with a minimum loss of meaning. Thus in the case of these testimonies, the
actual online record in English is an accurate reflection of their stories.

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Krüger, Anna-Katharina [Verfasser], and Robert [Akademischer Betreuer] Stockhammer. "The birth of the (non) European author : or the deconstruction of authorship in testimonial narration / Anna-Katharina Krüger ; Betreuer: Robert Stockhammer." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1221524283/34.

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Saçço, Roberta Cristina de Oliveira. "Narrativas da dor: entre o silêncio e a representação." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2016. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/3168.

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Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a obra literária de Bernardo Kuscinski, K (2014) e depoimentos de sobreviventes da ditadura militar brasileira. Exploram-se, neste trabalho, a relação entre ficção e testemunhos orais. Em termos comparativos, nosso objetivo é mostrar como a literatura elabora imagens da violência contra o corpo e contra o psiquismo e como as vítimas elaboram os traumas dessa época. O embasamento teórico que norteia essa investigação compreende uma série de trabalhos que ocupam-se das relações entre testemunhos e trauma. Como forma de validação dessa hipótese baseamos nossa análise nos estudos de Franz Fanon, Márcio SeligmannSilva e Maria Rita Kehl. Concomitantemente, analisamos o testemunho de mulheres que prestaram depoimento para a Comissão Municipal da Verdade de Juiz de Fora. O intuito é resgatar vozes silenciadas na militância feminina juiz-forana e compreender como esse período foi pensado pelas mulheres da cidade que resistiram ao regime. Nesse cenário, a literatura surge como a possibilidade de representação do trauma. Na análise do texto literário ainda é viva a ferida aberta na memória da nação brasileira. O papel da literatura é justamente esse, retomar o passado sob um olhar diferenciado, o olhar literário numa tentativa de transformar dor e sofrimento em arte e não deixar que a história caia no esquecimento. Através de um compromisso ético, a literatura devolve aos sobreviventes e aos desaparecidos o direito à memória e à justiça.
Esta investigación tiene como objeto de estudio la obra literaria de Bernardo Kuscinski, K (2014) y los testimonios de los sobrevivientes de la dictadura militar brasileña. Ese trabajo se detiene mas en la relación entre la ficción y los testimonios orales. En términos comparativos, nuestro objetivo es mostrar cómo la literatura elabora imágenes de violencia contra el cuerpo y en contra de la psique y cómo las víctimas elaboran el trauma de esa época. La fundamentación teórica que guiará esta investigación comprende una serie de trabajos que tienen que ver con la relación entre el testimonio y el trauma. Con el fin de validar esta hipótesis basaremos nuestra análisis en los estudios de Franz Fanon, Márcio Seligmann-Silva y Maria Rita Kehl. Al mismo tiempo, analisamos los testimonios de mujeres que han dado pruebas a la Comisión Municipal de Juiz de Fora. El objetivo es rescatar las voces silenciadas de la militancia "juiz forana" de las mujeres y entender cómo este período fue considerado por las mujeres de la ciudad que resistieron al régimen. En este escenario, la literatura parece ser la posibilidad de la representación del trauma. En el análisis del texto literario hay todavía una herida abierta en la memoria viva de la nación brasileña. El papel de la literatura es precisamente esto, reanudar el pasado bajo un aspecto diferente, el aspecto literario, en un intento de transformar el dolor y el sufrimiento en arte y no dejar que la historia se hunda en el olvido. A través de un compromiso ético, la literatura devuelve a sobrevivientes y a desaparecidos el derecho a la memoria y a la justicia.

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Silva, Luis Alberto Pires da. "Narrativas das percepções e conectividades de caminhantes nas paisagens dos areais pampeanos: perspectivas ambientais para geração de ambiências." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/15719.

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Neste texto que evoca as percepções de muit@s, narradas e tramadas a partir da ambiência entre os diferentes caminhantes que se propuseram o desafio de caminhar em direção à Campanha gaúcha, busco traçar os caminhos desde os primeiros humanos que se estabeleceram no que hoje se constitui o sudoeste sul-riograndense e seu encontro com as paisagens do Pampa, até @s errantes que ainda buscam caminhos nos tempos atuais nesses pagos. Os caminhos e olhares que hoje traçamos estão retratados pelas percepções da ambiência estabelecida nas atividades de campo pelos atores que elegeram estudar os areais e o processo de sua gênese, a arenização, em suas pesquisas de pós-graduação e pela atenção dispensada aos jovens e professoras de uma unidade federal de ensino, CEFET, que traduziram sua visão e conceito de paisagem por imagens fotográficas, desenhos e comentários destas. Parte do caminho é narrada pelo autor, mesmo procurando respostas as questões da dinâmica ecológica estabelecida sobre os areais e por vezes encontrando material para reflexão sobre as mesmas, continua buscando respostas para perguntas ainda não formuladas, no intuito de encontrar novos motivos de reflexão onde não se tinha buscado.
This text that evokes the perceptions of many, narrated and made from the environment between the different walkers which proposed the challenge of moving towards the Campanha Gaúcha, I track the paths since the first humans who have settled in the Southwest South-Rio-Grandense and their ways towards Pampa's landscapes, until those who still seek ways in current times those pagos. The roads and looks that we traced today are portrayed by the perceptions of the environment established in field activities by stakeholders who elected to study the sand and the process of its genesis, the sandiness in their search for Graduate degree and the attention given by young people and teachers of a federal unit of instruction, CEFET, who translated its vision and concept of landscape by photographic images, drawings and comments. Part of the path is narrated by the author, even looking for answer the questions of ecological dynamics established on the sand and sometimes finding material for reflection on them, still seeking answers to questions not made yet, in order to find new reasons for reflection where no one had sought.

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García, Ysla Eugenio Mario. "La memoria, el testimonio y el hombre capaz como claves en la novela La noche y sus aullidos de Sócrates Zuzunaga Huaita." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4656.

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La tesis a desarrollar propone una lectura de la novela La noche y sus aullidos como un discurso simbólico que, a partir de una historia ficcional, representa el derrotero vital de un sujeto que ha perdido su identidad y pertenencia a una comunidad debido a un acontecimiento violento y que mediante la memoria, el testimonio y la restitución de sus capacidades del ser y el hacer pretende restituir lo perdido, esto entendido como objetivo central de nuestro trabajo. Como un primer objetivo específico, se dará respuesta a las preguntas: ¿Cómo operan las categorías de la memoria, el testimonio y el hombre capaz?2 ¿Cómo se definen el campo de referencia externo, el campo de referencia interno y los mundos posibles o de ficción? Un segundo objetivo específico es relacionar las categorías mencionadas con la historia narrada, de modo que nos sirvan para analizar cada uno de los elementos contenidos en la novela y luego pretender una interpretación que nos lleve a la confirmación de nuestra hipótesis propuesta. Nuestra hipótesis es que en la novela La noche y sus aullidos de Sócrates Zuzunaga Huaita se presenta un sujeto víctima de la violencia política que mediante el ejercicio de la memoria, el testimonio y sus capacidades como hombre capaz, recupera su identidad como persona y su pertenencia a una comunidad, a la vez que restituye sus capacidades como sujeto de derecho y responsable de sus actos. La presente tesis de carácter exploratorio ha sido esquematizada de la siguiente manera: En el CAPÍTULO I, establecido como marco teórico, en primer lugar, describiremos los conceptos de memoria y testimonio desde la perspectiva de Paul Ricoeur tomados de su texto La memoria, la historia, el olvido. Estas categorías nos permitirán analizar la novela estructurada como una narración que parte de la memoria y el testimonio del personaje central dentro de un espacio y tiempo determinados por lo narrado y todo esto enmarcado por la violencia ejercida por Sendero Luminoso y las Fuerzas Armadas, como grupo iniciador de la violencia y como aparato represivo del Estado, respectivamente. En segundo lugar, nos aproximaremos a las categorías de los campos de referencia externa e interna planteados por Benjamín Harshaw y, asimismo, a los mundos de ficción o mundos posibles expuesto por Thomas Pavel; porque consideramos que la novela La noche y sus aullidos describe un mundo posible, pero se apoya en la realidad de la cual extrae los elementos que sirven para otorgarle verosimilitud. En tercer lugar, explicaremos los alcances de la categoría «el hombre capaz» concebida como el conjunto de capacidades que vienen a configurar a la persona humana, alguien que confía en decir, actuar, narrar, ser imputado moralmente y prometer, como lo explica Paul Ricoeur en el Segundo Estudio, Reconocerse a sí mismo, capítulo II, «La fenomenología del hombre capaz» de su libro Caminos del reconocimiento. Tres estudios (2005), puesto que la novela La noche y sus aullidos tiene como personaje principal a un sujeto del enunciado que, debido a un acontecimiento trágico, se ve impedido de consumar sus proyectos de vida, provocando su desarraigo, su marginación, su pérdida de identidad, su incapacidad de poder ser y hacer. El CAPÍTULO II será un acercamiento panorámico al tiempo histórico, social y político, que nos será útil como campo de referencia externa, respecto a la escalada violentista que luego calará en el campo de referencia interna de la historia narrada en la novela La noche y sus aullidos como suceso que impide las libertades, bloquea las capacidades y desaparece la identidad del personaje principal; además, un sucinto repaso de las novelas publicadas, los ensayos y artículos de diversos especialistas, como contexto literario y recepción crítica. Los dos capítulos anteriores serán retomados y aplicados en el CAPÍTULO III, capítulo central de nuestra tesis donde nos detendremos para realizar el análisis del texto y la estructura, como primera instancia; y, luego, procederemos a la aplicación de las categorías mencionadas en procura de llegar al culmen de nuestra hipótesis. Como final de la tesis presente enunciaremos las conclusiones a las que nos han derivado las argumentaciones desarrolladas en los tres capítulos mencionados.
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Maués, Eloisa Aragão. "\'Em câmara lenta\', de Renato Tapajós: a história do livro, experiência histórica da repressão e narrativa literária." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-05022009-114612/.

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Em 1977, a Alfa-Omega, uma editora de oposição ao regime militar, publicou Em Câmara Lenta, de Renato Tapajós. Foi a primeira obra nacional, produzida por um escritor que atuou em um grupo da esquerda armada, a trazer uma reflexão crítica sobre as estratégias da guerrilha e a denunciar o emprego brutal da tortura pela repressão. O autor participara da Ala Vermelha, um agrupamento urbano de influência maoísta que empreendeu ações armadas, e por isso cumpriu pena de 1969 a 1974. Divulgado por todo o Brasil, o livro despertou a fúria de setores conservadores e levou a um episódio inusitado: em julho de 1977 Tapajós foi preso em São Paulo e ficou dez dias incomunicável, sob a acusação de que Em Câmara lenta era \"instrumento de guerra revolucionária\". Isso apesar de o livro não ter sido proibido e não ter, do ponto de vista legal, nenhum empecilho à sua circulação. Somente 15 dias depos da prisão de Tapajós, a obra foi censurada e sua venda, proibida. A partir das intricadas repercussões desse fato, o propósito principal deste trabalho é procurar demonstrar como a experiência da luta armada se transformou em narrativa literária. Para tanto, apresentamos um estudo sobre a história do livro, sobre os procedimentos empregados tanto na formação da culpa dirigida contra Renato Tapajós (com base em documentos do Departamento Estadual de Ordem Política e Social, DOPS, de São Paulo, produzidos durante a investigação policial) quanto os utilizados pela defesa do caso, bem como a respeito da recepção crítica e do teor testemunhal presente no romance
In 1977, Alfa-Omega, a publish house which opposes the Military Regime, published Em Câmara Lenta, by Renato Tapajós. It was the first book to analyze the leftist guerilla groups strategies and to denounce the brutality of the torture enforced by the military and the police against the activists of those groups. Tapajós had been a militant of Ala Vermelha, an urban Maoist guerilla group, and had been jailed from 1969 to 1974. Publicized all over the country, the book was furiously received by the conservative sectors of Brazilian society. In a surprising move, Tapajós was jailed in São Paulo in July of 1977 and stayed 10 days without any communication, under the accusation that Em Câmara Lenta was a \"tool of the revolutionary guerrilla\". Formally, the book was not forbidden and legally, there was no problem to publish and publicize it. Just after 15 days of Tapajós got the jail, the book was formally censured and it was made illegal to sell it. Taking in consideration the complex repercussions of this event, the initial aim of this dissertation is to demonstrate how the leftist guerrilla experience was transformed in a literary narrative. In order to do that, I present a study of this book history, the criminal procedures enforced against Renato Tapajós (using the documentation of the State Department of Political and Social Order, DOPS, the political police of São Paulo, produced during the police investigation) and in favor of him, as well as the testimonial narrative of the romance and its critical reception by the public and the specialists.

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Craveiro, Joanna. "A live/living museum of small, forgotten and unwanted memories : performing narratives, testimonies and archives of the Portuguese Dictatorship and Revolution." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/a-liveliving-museum-of-small-forgotten-and-unwanted-memories(f671342c-cb8d-4696-9340-b3644a601cde).html.

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This practice-as-research thesis investigates and contributes to the transmission of official, non-official and personal memories of the Portuguese Dictatorship (1926-1974), Revolution (25th April 1974) and Revolutionary Process (1974-1975) – three key historical moments, memories of which are still subject to contestation. My research addresses these disputes, part of the overall “memory struggles” (Jelin, 2003) concerning the public politics of memory in Portugal, together with the lack of inscription of those memories in the public space. Moreover, in what I argue to be the absence of an official process of transitional justice and the lack of reparation for victims of state repression during the dictatorship, – I interrogate not only state policies over the last 40 years, but also the personal responsibility of the individuals in the preservation and transmission of memory. A Living Museum of Small, Forgotten and Unwanted Memories, presents a series of seven performance-lectures on aspects of the three historical moments, as évenements “…shaped from conflicting imaginations at once past and present” (de Certeau, 1988 xv). My employment of different performance devices within the performancelecture mode intersects the “archive” and the “repertoire” (Taylor, 2001) in the transmission of memory, demonstrating that, rather than disappearing, performancecan remain (Schneider, 2011) in various ways, as when written materials originally pertaining to the “archive” are performed and thus become “repertoire”, and through the effect of the performance on spectators and their memories of the events portrayed. Using autobiography and oral testimonies, I accessed the meaning of the events for these individuals, myself and my family, creating a set of personal histories with which I challenge some of the dominant master narratives, disseminated through privileged channels, such as the media and political discourses. As such, the performance A Living Museum became a space to disseminate an alternative history, altering the perception of these events in the public space. It also became a space of live interaction between past events and their present representation, through post-performance debates staged every night, whereby spectators and some of the interviewees could voice their opinions, as well as their own personal memories. The performance thus encouraged emancipated spectatorship (Rancière, 2009), offering an active practice of reconciliation for individuals with traumatic features of their past, namely state repression and the Colonial War during the dictatorship; the return from the Portuguese ex-colonies during the revolutionary process; and the lost utopias of an “impossible” revolution (the revolutionary process of 1974-75), today perceived through negative narratives of excess and exoticism.

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Salomón, Gebhard José. "El falso subalterno. Testimonio y ficción en la narrativa de tres autores chilenos de postdictadura: Cynthia Rimsky, Eugenia Prado y Juan Pablo Sutherland." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/147159.

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Murph, Karen S. "Negotiating the master narratives of prostitution, slavery, and rape in the testimonies by and representations of Korean sex slaves of the Japanese military (1932-1945)." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/451026166/viewonline.

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Chávez, Díaz Liliana Guadalupe. "Based on true stories : representing the self and the other in Latin American documentary narratives." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267817.

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This doctoral thesis studies the relationship between journalism and literature in contexts in which freedom of speech is at risk. It takes as primary sources a variety of nonfiction, crónicas, literary journalism and testimonial novels published by Latin American authors in Spanish, from the 1950s to the 2000s. I propose the concept ‘documentary narratives’ to refer to all literary modes of discourse which are related, in diverse degrees, to a journalistic representation of reality. My corpus covers a wide range of topics such as social protests, dictatorships, civil wars, natural disaster, crime and migration. While scholars have focused on the rhetoric and history of this kind of narratives, my reading considers the real, face-to-face encounter between the journalist and others. I argue that the representation of these encounters influences the pact with the reader and challenges the notion of truthfulness. I contend that documentary narratives can serve as a tool for the transmission of knowledge and the production of public debate in societies marked by political and social instability. In a world overwhelmed by data production and immersed in violent acts against those to be considered ‘Others’, I argue that storytelling is still an essential form of communication among individuals, classes and cultures. Contrary to the authors’s intentions of documenting others’ lives, I conclude that these stories offer an (interrupted) account of oneself, that is, the account of a contemporary storyteller pursuing a rarely fulfilled desire of getting to know the Other truly. The thesis has two appendices. Appendix 1 showcases archival material that support some of my arguments. Appendix 2 includes the transcripts of the interviews that I conducted with eight Latin American authors: Elena Poniatowska, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, Arturo Fontaine, Santiago Roncagliolo, Francisco Goldman, Martín Caparrós, and Juan Villoro.

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De, Ines Anton Tamara. "Translating Central American life writing for the Anglophone market : a socio-narrative study of women's agency and political radicalism in the original and translated works of Claribel Alegría, Gioconda Belli and Rigoberta Menchú." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/translating-central-american-life-writing-for-the-anglophone-market-a-socionarrative-study-of-womenas-agency-and-political-radicalism-in-the-original-and-translated-works-of-claribel-alegraa-gioconda-belli-and-rigoberta-mencha(9cab9568-fd8d-4107-9cf8-e09990d75c52).html.

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At a time when scholars have rekindled the old debate about what is world literature and how can one study it (Casanova, 2004; Moretti, 2000, 2003; Damrosch, 2003, 2009), this thesis analyses the canonisation of Central American Revolutionary women's writing as it moves toward the 'centre' and becomes part of the world literary canon. Drawing on a core-periphery systemic model, this thesis examines how translation for the Anglophone market involves the marginalisation at various levels of the narratives of political radicalism and the erotic that feature in the life writing works of Gioconda Belli, Claribel Alegría and Rigoberta Menchú. The dataset chosen for this study consists of the Spanish originals and English translations of La mujer habitada (1988) and El país bajo mi piel (2001) by Belli; No me agarran viva (1983) and Luisa en el país de la realidad (1987) by Alegría, in collaboration with her husband Darwin J. Flakoll; and Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú (1983) and Rigoberta: La nieta de los mayas (1998) by Menchú. To develop this core-periphery systemic model, I have drawn on the work of scholars in the field of the sociology of translation such as Pascale Casanova (2004), Johan Heilbron (1999, 2010) and Gisèle Sapiro (2008). In the context of the study, peripheralisation has been reconceptualised to assist in locating the texts included in the dataset within a hierarchical power structure (external level of peripheralisation); and identifying the shifts that arise during the translation and circulation of the ontological and public narratives underpinning such texts (internal level of peripheralisation). The study of the internal level of peripheralisation will draw on narrative theory, as elaborated by Margaret Somers and Gloria Gibson (1994), Somers (1997) and Mona Baker (2006). The choice of narrative theory employed in the thesis aims to foreground the impact that translation and the publishing field have on the selection and consecration of a literary genre; facilitate the comparison between the texts and paratexts of the originals and their English translations, and disclose the mechanisms through which the agency of the woman/author is neutralised, and the narratives of sexuality, body, political radicalism and feminine subjectivity are constructed in the original and reinterpreted through translation. This comparative (para)textual analysis questions the nature of the process by which peripheral texts have accessed the Western canon. In light of the findings, the thesis advocates the need to redefine the concept of canonisation in order to acknowledge a possible conflict between the new assumed centrality of the consecrated/translated text and the layers of peripheralisation that might still be constraining the original narratives. Secondly, these findings draw attention to a gap in world literatures scholarship. By assuming the autonomy of literature as an artistic form, world literature scholars might be in danger of obscuring the potential for manipulation inherent in translation practice, particularly in spaces favouring domesticating approaches to translation. Thirdly, this work aims to serve as a reminder to scholars and activists not to overlook the impact of literary translation on the circulation of theories and narratives, particularly in the case of highly canonical texts such as that of Rigoberta Menchú (1984).

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Olsen, Florian B. "Those About to Die Salute You: Sacrifice, the War in Iraq, and the Crisis of the American Imperial Society." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19808.

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This dissertation produces the first attempt to bring the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the political theory literature on citizenship into dialogue with the scholarship on American empire in the field of International Relations (IR). It explores how the United States’ quest for global pre-eminence, mirrored by the war in Iraq, reveals and exacerbates the social wounds at the seams of American society. To do this, it introduces three new concepts to the field of International Relations. It builds on historian Christophe Charle’s sociological framework of “imperial society” and “national habitus” (2001, 2004 and 2005) and introduces an original concept, the field of citizenship, to examine social conflict over the distribution of military sacrifice amongst citizens in the United States. Finally, it explores these tensions by looking at multiple documentary sources, including over 200 newspaper articles, 60 testimonies about the war from soldiers and their relatives, congressional documents, and military manpower policies.

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Olsson, Moreno Susana. "A bildungsroman-testimonial narrative from the margins : subjection, self-cultivation and subversion in Jimmy Santiago Baca's A Place to stand." Thèse, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/17584.

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"Desterritorialización y reterritorialización en los testimonios de Asunta Quispe Huamán, Munú Actis, Cristina Aldini, Liliana Gardella, Miriam Lewin y Elisa Tokar, y Reyna Grande." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53496.

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abstract: RESUMEN Esta tesis investiga la escritura femenina testimonial de tres obras latinoamericanas. El testimonio de Asunta Quispe Huamán, publicado en Gregorio Condori Mamani. Autobiografía (1977), producido por Ricardo Valderrama y Carmen Escalante; Ese infierno: conversaciones de cinco mujeres sobrevivientes de la ESMA de Munú Actis, Cristina Aldini, Liliana Gardella, Miriam Lewin y Elisa Tokar (2001); y La distancia entre nosotros (2012) escrito por Reyna Grande. Los testimonios han sido analizados a través de diversas premisas teóricas compuestas de las ideas sobre la heterogeneidad latinoamericana de Antonio Cornejo Polar y teorías sobre el territorio, espacio y geografía de Henri Lefebvre, Rogerio Haesbaert, Edward Soya, Gilles Deleuze que nos han servido de plataforma para nuestro estudio. Asimismo se ha recurrido a escritos sobre el cuerpo y la frontera con teoristas feministas como Lucia Guerra, Nelly Richards, Jean Franco, Gloria Anzaldúa y Rosi Braidotti, entre otras. Este estudio se ha propuesto demostrar que estos testimonios Latinoamericanos en su polifonía social y cultural emplean discursos de dimensión multifocal que les permite reterritorializarse desde las márgenes a través de tácticas de resistencia en un proceso de permanente descolonización. Esos cuerpos nómades han sido hablados y programados por el discurso legitimador para desterritorializarlos pero ellos vuelven a reterritorializarse como “líneas de escape” que se transforman creando interconexiones de supervivencia creadora. Consecuentemente, a través del nomadismo de los sujetos analizados se forma una resistencia política que representa nuevos horizontes que son los proyectos en variados ámbitos: de género, raciales, culturales, de justicia del espacio y ambientales. Todos éstos en contrapunteo con el discurso hegemónico.
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Guerra, Ramón J. "Literature as witness testimonial aspects of Chicano self identity narratives /." 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1564017741&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=14215&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008.
Title from title screen (site viewed Oct. 31, 2008). PDF text: vii, 233 p. ; 1 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3309212. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

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Castiblanco, Wiesner Carlos Manuel. "Representationes sociales del conflicto armado colombiano en las crónicas y testimonios de la revista Semana." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7746.

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Yanagisawa, Miwako. "Exploring social identity in narrative analyzing the testimonies of Japanese-speaking Christians /." Thesis, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=813773761&SrchMode=2&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1233865362&clientId=23440.

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Pineteh, Ernest Angu. "Narratives of homelessness and displacement : Life testimonies of Cameroonian asylum seekers in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5785.

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This thesis is based on an analysis of the life testimonies about homelessness and displacement told by the Cameroonian refugee community in Johannesburg. It seeks to understand not only the experiences and the conditions of migrancy within a specific group of involuntarily displaced persons in an African city but also how these experiences are constructed and reconstructed ‘in the telling’. The main thrust of the thesis is a discourse analysis of the oral narratives and stories that Cameroonian asylum seekers and refugees living in the city of Johannesburg tell about themselves, their past, present and future, their journey to exile and their aspirations, memories of home and sense of identity as forced migrants in a global era. The data for this study was gleaned from a series of interviews with twenty Cameroonian forced migrants and the interviews are used in this thesis as my primary texts. The analysis focuses primarily on the narrative construction of migrant experiences, exploring how Cameroonian forced migrants use varied narrative strategies and patterns to articulate broader exilic discourses such as the construction of memory, identity and spaces. Therefore, through the testimonies collected and recorded from my informants, I was able to access individual lives as well as the subjective and collective experiences of Cameroonian forced migrants, and explore how they interpret and construct these experiences. Also, the testimonies provided a platform from which to examine how Cameroonian forced migrants narrativise exilic experiences, construct identities, remember the past and represent diasporic spaces. The study has produced a number of significant outcomes. Firstly, the testimonies tend to represent exile as a place that provides solutions for the predicaments of displaced persons. Secondly, the study also reveals that migrant narratives can be multidimensional and multi-functional if individual experiences and element of time are taken into account. This is evident from the multiple, shifting and somewhat contesting narratives produced by different respondents. Thirdly, because of these narrative features, the testimonies are often affected by the logic of ambivalence, emerging from the constant subversion and undermining of the same narratives using different narrative patterns, metaphors, images and symbols. Finally, the multiplicity, subversion and the shifts of the narratives therefore draw our attention to the fact that testimonies from the same refugee community have the potentials of generating different interpretations of shared experiences of displacement.

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Rodríguez, Quevedo Diana Constanza. "Desplazados: narrativas de identidad y espacio de la Colombia contemporánea." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/27601.

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Migration and exile due to human rights violations have long been key topics in Latin American studies. In the Colombian context, a compelling corpus of texts has surfaced that deals specifically with the phenomenon of forced internal displacement. Colombia is second only to Sudan in terms of the number of victims––some four million people––who have had to leave their homes and communities because of civil unrest. In this dissertation, I consider the socio-political construct of the displaced to be a homogenizing term used by the media and official discourse to refer to those affected by internal exile. This study centres on the uses and impacts of this identity marker at individual and collective levels within a cultural studies approach. In Chapter 1, I discuss three different genres: a novel, which references testimonio accounts, and a play that is partly based on both. The sheer diversity of characters that become part of the displaced category exposes relevant racial, ethnic, and ideological alliances that emphasize us-them relations. An analysis of Luis Alberto Restrepo’s film La primera noche, Chapter 2 deals with the juxtaposition of the rural and urban so as to expose the ramifications of dispossession at multiple degrees of individual and collective identification and examines effects of marginality by contrasting the conditions of the displaced against those of other marginalized populations. In Chapter 3, I argue that music is a tool of both denunciation and declaration through an analysis of a collection of songs written and performed by members of Afro-Colombian displaced communities. I study these vallenato and rap songs, fused with unconventional lyrics and musical elements, as testimonial texts that contest issues of land rights vis-à-vis collective identity and agency. Finally, Chapter 4 is a cross-examination of the shelter within a series of photographs. I first read the refugee centre as a bio-political space where residents are subject to extreme inhumane conditions, and I then show the shelter to be a space that elicits movements of solidarity and resistance, and counters the notion of the displaced as a homogeneous group.

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Paskaleva-Yankova, Asena. "A Phenomenologically Inspired Framework of the Experience of Depression Described in First-person Testimonies: Possibility, Ability, and Being with Others in Depression." Doctoral thesis, 2019. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-20190108999.

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Depression is a severe mental illness estimated to affect around 300 million people worldwide and is currently the leading cause of disability in the world (WHO, 2017). It is classified as a disorder of affect and is diagnosed on the basis of specific criteria stipulated in manuals such as the DSM V and ICD 10. It has been repeatedly argued that psychiatric classification in its present form fails to offer the appropriate framework for understanding and explaining the subjective experience of depression resulting from its focus on operationalized criteria for diagnosis and assessment and the absence of appropriate theoretical and methodological framework for the study of consciousness and how changes in its essential aspects (such as embodiment, temporality, and intersubjectivity) are related to reflective manifestations and signs of mental illness (e.g. Parnas and Zahavi 2002; Fuchs 2010; Parnas et al. 2012). In line with these considerations, I engage in a phenomenologically inspired examination of the experience of depression in particular as it is described in two formats of first-person testimonies, namely published autobiographical accounts and anonymous responses to an online survey conducted in the United Kingdom and Bulgaria. The testimonies of depression consistently describe a radically different way of being, which, I propose can be explained and understood as originating from changes in three major structures of subjective experience – the pre-reflective experience of what it is possible to do, the pre-reflective experience of what one is able to do, and the pre-reflective experience of sharing a world with others, which encompass the essential aspects of subjectivity. I examine how the alterations in the main structures are related both to changes in embodiment, temporality, and intersubjectivity and to the various reflective manifestations in affective experience, thought, and action such as specific emotions, moods, bodily sensations and feeling, cognitive styles, and action patterns. The latter in particular can occur in various combinations and are shaped and coloured by the complex social and cultural context surrounding mental illness in general and depression in particular. With respect to the influence of the cultural and social meaning on the individual manifestations and variations in the experience of depression, I examine the impact of socially shared culturally specific conceptions of depression by contrasting such reported by participants in an anonymous survey from Great Britain and Bulgaria. While in both cultural groups depression is understood as either a pathological psychological reaction or an illness characterized by changes in brain function, in Bulgaria the former understanding is both more prevalent and associated with higher degrees of social stigmatization and subsequently less recognition of subjective suffering and attribution of responsibility. This can result in experiences akin to those commonly established by disturbances in the pre-reflective experience of intersubjective disconnectedness and accentuate already present feelings of shame and guilt. I draw attention to the fact that social stigmatization, in particular its structure and subjective experience, can also be studied within a broadly phenomenological framework on the basis of different first-person account in order to develop practical measures for the prevention of the social stigmatization of mental illness.

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"Negotiating the master narratives of prostitution, slavery, and rape in the testimonies by and representations of Korean sex slaves of the Japanese military (1932--1945)." GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3341613.

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Villagomez, Castillo Berenice. "De la utopía de la solidaridad al dolor del cambio: discursos alrededor de un terremoto." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19102.

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This dissertation proposes an analysis of representative texts that portray the earthquake that hit Mexico City in 1985 as a historical event that contributed to forging new ways of interaction among the people itself, as well as between the community as a whole and its government. By examining the representations of this historically important episode in the life of the city, this project compensates for a significant omission of literary criticism—that has relegated the substantial corpus of texts about this catastrophe to brief comments or footnotes on other topics. Through analysis of testimonial chronicles, newspaper articles, political cartoons, music videos, poetry, drama, and narratives, this dissertation investigates the process through which intellectuals created discursive constructions of a new relationship between Mexican society and its government. The following pages give an account of the debate to shape the historical interpretation of the catastrophe: some texts challenged the patrimonialism institutionalized by the government bureaucracy of the PRI State, while others supported the structures in place even though they acknowledged the need for a nimbler bureaucracy. Therefore, this study is focused on texts that incorporate previous discursive traditions to propose new symbolic ways to understand the nation after the earthquake. This discussion engages texts by authors committed to diverse perspectives—such as Elena Poniatowska, Carlos Monsiváis, José Emilio Pacheco, Carlos Olmos, Enrique Serna, and Rodrigo Fresán, among others—to offer a panorama on the arguments presented on the cultural field. This dissertation considers four specific moments in the construction of the new national narrative: (1) the call for solidarity with the victims of the disaster; (2) the redefinition of the idea of civil society; (3) the debate within mass media to impose a particular meaning to both solidarity and civil society; and (4) the questioning of the main discourses related to the earthquake. This study illuminates the ways that the earthquake narratives have been deployed to challenge political inequities and injustices and to attempt political change towards a modern Mexican State.

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