scholarly journals LAW ART

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Anthony Cavaliere
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Nazi Germany

The paper argues that Thomas Wolfe’s novella I Have a Thing to Tell You was written to enable his readers to construct the reality of discrimination against Jews in Nazi Germany in the period surrounding the Berlin Olympic Games of 1936. Wolfe’s intention was to record faithfully an episode that took place on a train in Germany in early September 1936, which brought home to him more forcibly than any other personal experience the reality of Nazi oppression. Through this story Wolfe wanted to engage his readers in a narrative discourse, to reveal the truth as he saw it, and to ask his readers to make a metaphoric transference from this one example of Nazi oppression to whatever land or ruler tried to imprison people physically or spiritually. The “thing to tell” was both a protest against abridged or denied civil rights and a testimony of his commitment to expose man’s inhumanity to man.

Narrative Discourse in Young Children With Histories of Early Corrective Heart Surgery

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lowry Hemphill ◽  
Paola Uccelli ◽  
Kendra Winner ◽  
Chien-ju Chang ◽  
David Bellinger
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Heart Surgery ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Subjective Evaluation ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Information Reporting ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives ◽  
Narrative Performance

Narrative attainment was assessed in a group of 76 four-year-old children at risk for brain injury because of histories of early corrective heart surgery. Elicited personal experience narratives were coded for narrative components, evaluative devices, and information adequacy and were contrasted with narratives produced by a comparison group of typically developing 4-year-olds. The production of autonomous narrative discourse was identified as an area of special vulnerability for children with this medical history. Despite considerable heterogeneity in narrative performance, children with early corrective heart surgery produced fewer narrative components than typically developing children. Results suggest that the elaboration of events and contextual information, the expression of subjective evaluation and causality, and clarity and explicitness of information reporting may constitute special challenges for this population of children. Implications of these findings for clinical assessment and possible risks for socioemotional relationships and academic achievement are discussed.

scholarly journals THE NARRATIVE DISCOURSE OF INTERETHNIC BEHAVIOURS AND RELATIONS: THE CONTESTATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY

LITERA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-429
Author(s):  
Susana Widyastuti
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Convergence And Divergence

Drawing from Discursive Social Psychology (DSP) (Potter, 1998; Potter & Edwards, 2001), this study is concerned with how attitudes, behaviours, and identity can be observed through language in use or discourse. Focusing on the narratives of the marginalized Chinese Indonesians, it particularly aims at revealing behaviours in coping with the majority group, and how such behaviours may in turn shape intergroup relations and ethnic identity. The data were in the form of narratives of personal experience of Chinese Indonesians collected through interview which were then scrutinized through in-depth analysis within their socio-political context. It has been revealed that in dealing with unequal power relations, two behaviours are embraced – convergence and divergence – which are manifested in various discursive and social practices of adapting to the wider society and maintaining aspects of ethnic identity. Any choice of behaviours can have consequences for interethnic relations and ethnic identity. The ideological power exercised by different regimes has obviously constructed ethnic identity and thus made it historically and ideologically contested. The contestation is discursively articulated through the negotiation between ethnic and national identity, the labelling practice using the words Cina and Tionghoa, and the perpetuation of stereotypes associated with the ethnic group. Keywords:  ethnicity, discourse, identity, social-psychology

Hailing a Racial Kinship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
The Third ◽  
Paradoxical Phenomenon ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Racial Kinship ◽  
The Olympic Games

The fifth chapter, ‘Hailing a Racial Kinship: Performances of Greek Tragedies during the Third Reich’, interprets the Olympic Games in Berlin (1936) and Lothar Müthel’s production of the Oresteia as part of it as the attempt to present Nazi Germany as the genuine heir of ancient Greece. It also discusses the seemingly paradoxical phenomenon that, during the war until the closing-down of all theatres in September 1944, 16 productions of Antigone were mounted with a total of 150 performances. Taking Karl Heinz Stroux’s 1940 production at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus Berlin as an example, the author discusses whether performances of Greek tragedies in times of war were meant and able to divert the Bildungsbürger from the ongoing atrocities and to reconcile them with the Nazis, or whether they provided a forum for resistance.

Olympic Games in Garmisch - Partenkirchen 1936 – sport, logistics, media

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Włodarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
The Subject

The subject matter of the 1936 Olympic Games is mainly taken up in a political context because, at that time, both the summer and winter Olympic Games were held in Nazi Germany. On the other hand, however, the Olympics proved to be a great success in terms of organisation, communication and new technological solutions. This article is an attempt to show the preparations and conduct of the Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in terms of organisation, logistics and media. The article is based on the offi cial Olympic report, press releases from that period and information from the Olympic exhibition at the stadium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

On Post-Racial America in the Age of Obama

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
Amina Gautier
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Black President ◽  
Post Civil Rights

Amina Gautier reflects on her childhood tendency to ask when, not if, there would be a black president. Growing up in the post-civil rights era, she was influenced by knowledge of earlier presidential bids by African Americans as well as references to the idea of a black president in popular culture, including television programs of the 1970s and 1980s that often saw adult characters project the ability to run for office onto black youth. However, Gautier cautions against conflating Barack Obama's historic election to president with the beginning of a “post-racial” era. She uses a personal experience of racial insensitivity to observe the distance we have yet to go before we are truly post-anything.

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