scholarly journals The Romani Ethos: A Transnational Approach to Romani Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-40
Author(s):  
Ana Belén Martín Sevillano
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Diasporic Literature

In the context of the sociopolitical articulation of the Romani diaspora, this paper explores how its narrative is supported in four literary works written in different languages and national settings – Fires in the Dark by Louise Doughty, Camelamos Naquerar (We want to speak) by José Heredia Maya, Goddamn Gypsy by Ronald Lee, and Dites-le avec des pleurs (Say it with tears) by Mateo Maximoff – shaping a transnational/diasporicliterary production. Departing from the existence of a common Romani ethos, the analysis focuses on how these literary works shape a transnational/diasporic literature by representing the specificities of the Romani history – in particular the recollection of traumatic collective experiences – through a number of narrative strategies, such as self-representation or the depiction of cultural memory.

Dynamics Of Indian Diaspora Literature: A Panoramic View

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-511
Author(s):  
S.SOPHIA CHRISTINA
Keyword(s):  
Broad Context ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Panoramic View ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Diaspora Literature ◽  
Diasporic Literature ◽  
Multiple Characteristics ◽  
Indian Contribution

Diaspora Theory has affected the literature of every language of the globe with its multiple characteristics. This literature is commonly referred to as Diasporic or Expatriate Literature. Diasporic Literature is a very broad idea and a paragliding term that involves all those literary works published by writers outside their home nation, but these works are linked to indigenous culture and background. All those authors can be considered as diasporic authors in this broad context, who write outside their nation but through their work stayed linked to their homeland. Diasporic literature has its origins in the sense of loss and alienation resulting from migration and expatriation. Diasporic literature generally deals with alienation, displacement, existential rootlessness, nostalgia, identity quest. Migrants suffer from the pain of being away from their homes, their motherland memories, the anguish of leaving behind everything familiar agonizes migrants ' minds. The diasporic Indians, too, are not breaking their ancestral land connection. There is a search for continuity and an astral impulse, an attempt to search for their origins. Settlement in alien territory leads to dislocation for them. Dislocation can be seen as a rupture with the ancient identity. By debating characteristics of expatriate or diasporic literature, the article tried to examine the reflection of Diaspora Theory and its multiple aspects in literature. The Indian contribution to diasporic literature was also evaluated in English.

Rethinking Diaspora through Borders: Contemporary Somali Literature in English and Italian

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-83
Author(s):  
Gabriele Lazzari
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
Diasporic Literature ◽  
Territorial Boundaries ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract This article examines contemporary Somali diasporic literature by proposing a comparative analysis of Nuruddin Farah’s Maps and a selection of texts written by authors of Somali origin currently writing in Italian: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Cristina Ubah Ali Farah, and Igiaba Scego. Drawing on diaspora studies, theories of narrative space, and contemporary theories of world literature, this article argues that Somali diasporic literature places at its imaginative and symbolic core the concept of the border. In so doing, Somali diasporic literature interlocks formal and narrative strategies to political and literary histories in order to challenge the naturalized perception of linguistic and territorial boundaries. Through the investigation of how processes of border production and contestation define both the narrative geographies and the dynamics of institutional recognition of Somali literature written by the members of its global diaspora, this article further suggests that Somali diasporic writers engage with border epistemologies to articulate more historically conscious modalities of belonging to place and language.

Literary Journalism as a Medium of Cultural Memory. The Case of Papusza by Angelika Kuźniak

Tekstualia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (48) ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Magdalena Horodecka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Journalism ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Writing Culture

The article offers an analysis of the strategies of writing culture (James Clifford) in Papusza, a reportage written by Angelika Kuźniak. The reconstruction of the cultural memory about the protagonist, a Gypsy poet living in Poland, is one of the key objectives of Kuźniak’s text. Additionally, the article examines the ways in which Kuźniak mediates between the subject and the narration concerning the culture of the Other. One of Kuźnaik’s key narrative strategies is a relativist poetics, which gives voice to the „users of culture”. The notion of „ethnographic mimesis” is referred to in order to describe the narrator’s attempt to present the world from a Gypsy’s perspective.

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI INGATAN BUDAYA DAN IDENTITAS PAHLAWAN NASIONAL DALAM KARYA SASTRA SEBAGAI BUDAYA MATERIAL (The Construction of Cultural Memory and Identity of National Heroes in Literary Works as Material Culture)

Sirok Bastra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cut Novita Srikandi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Memory Representation ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
National Hero ◽  
Historical Photographs

AbstrakKajian tentang ingatan budaya menekankan bahwa ingatan kita ternyata sangat selektif. Ingatan budaya dapat dikomunikasikan melalui media tertentu. Media-media tersebut dapat berupa bentuk budaya material yang paling dasar misalnya pidato lisan, cerita kakek tentang masa lalu, dan dapat pula berupa budaya material yang biasanya memiliki wujud dan beroperasi melalui sistem simbolik seperti monumen, foto sejarah, lukisan, film dokumenter, novel historis, dan bangunan-bangunan sejarah. Dengan demikian, karya sastra dapat ditempatkan sebagai salah satu budaya material. Mengingat eratnya keterkaitan ingatan budaya dengan budaya material, tulisan ini berupaya mengungkap bagaimana budaya material dan pembentukan ingatan budaya dapat menjadi kajian yang menarik dalam penelitian sastra. Tulisan ini mengungkap bagaimana representasi ingatan budaya tokoh pahlawan nasional di dalam berbagai budaya material, termasuk karya sastra. Representasi ini terkait dengan identitas budaya tokoh pahlawan nasional tersebut yang menjadi bagian dari ingatan budaya masyarakat Indonesia. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapatnya perbedaan yang cukup siginfikan dalam representasi tokoh pahlawan nasional dalam masing-masing budaya material, terkait identitas budaya yang dihadirkan. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa ‘cara mengingat’ mempengaruhi pembentukan budaya material termasuk karya sastra dan identitas budaya terhadap tokoh pahlawan nasional yang pernah hidup di suatu masa.Kata kunci: budaya material, ingatan budaya, penelitian sastra sejarah, konstruksi identitas AbstractThe focus of cultural memory studies emphasizes on our selective memory. Cultural memory would be communicated by certain media. These media can These media can be the most basic forms of material culture such as oral speech, grandfather's story about the past, and can also be a material culture that usually has a form and operates through a symbolic system such as monuments, historical photographs, paintings, documentaries, historical novels, and historical buildings. Thus, literary works can be placed as one of material culture. Considering the close relationship between cultural memories and material culture, this paper seeks to reveal how material culture and the formation of cultural memories can be interesting studies in literary research. This paper will reveal how the cultural memory representation of national hero figures in various material cultures, including literary works. This representation is related to the cultural identity of the national hero who takes part of the cultural memories of the Indonesian people. The results showed that there were significant differences in the representation of national hero figures in each material culture, related to the cultural identity presented. Thus, it can be concluded that the 'way of remembering' influences the formation of material culture including literary works and cultural identity of national hero figures who have lived at a time.Keywords: material culture, cultural memory, the research of historical literature, identity construction

scholarly journals The Deportation of 1944 in the Cultural Memory of Crimean Tatar People (the Case of Literary Works of Ervin Umerov and Shamil Aladin)

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-148
Author(s):  
Nadiia Honcharenko
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
World War ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Crimean Tatar

The article deals with the coverage in works of literature of the forceful deportation of Crimean Tatar people in May, 1944. Here, literary works are seen as functioning elements of cultural memory of the people. The works in question are Ervin Umerov’s short stories Loneliness, The Black Trains, The Permit, and Shamil Aladin’s novels Invitation to Devil’s Banquet and I’m Your King and God, recently published in Ukrainian translations. The importance of Ukrainian publications of works of Crimean Tatar literature, telling i. a. about the deportation of 1944, is determined by the persistence of negative stereotypes and anti-Crimean Tatar bias cultivated for decades. In the XXI century, much has been accomplished by scholars and journalists in order to deconstruct historic myths, i. a. the Stalinist black legend about Crimean Tatars’ “treachery” during the 2nd World War. True facts about the deportation of 1944 were publicized as well. Back in Soviet times, when telling the truth about tragic past directly was impossible, Crimean Tatar writers saw their mission in preserving at least some of the people’s memories in their works of fiction. The emotional and aesthetic power of historic fiction is of key importance in bringing images of the past to contemporary readers. Memories of the deportation of May, 1944 were parts of their life experiences both for Umerov (1938–2007) and Aladin (1912–1996). In their works written mostly during Soviet period, they transformed into fictional accounts both their own experience and tragic memories of their compatriots, using multi-layered plots, subtext and Aesopian language so as to bypass Soviet censorship.

scholarly journals “WOMEN’ WRITING” AS AN AREA OF DISCOURSIVE, GENRE AND NARRATIVE CONFLICTS (A CASE STUDY OF GERMAN-LANGUAGE FEMALE PROSE OF THE LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-47
Author(s):  
Aleksandra V. Eliseeva
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
German Language ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Third ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
Structural Cracks

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of “women’s writing”, a discussion about which began in the 1970s. Based on Elaine Showalter’s concept of “doubled-voiced discourse” as well as on Franco Moretti’s theory of literary forms development from the center to the periphery, which generates unstable compromises in the structure, its “cracks” and gaps, the article offers an interpretation of “women’s writing” as an area of increased conflict. The case study of three literary works of the late XIX – early XX century written in German language – Elsa Asenijeff’ essay “Women’s Riot and the Third Sex” (1898), Lou Andreas-Salomé’s novella “Fenitchka” (1898) and Minna Wettstein-Adelt’s novel “Are These Women? A Novel about the Third Sex” (1901) – demonstrates conflicts of discourses, genres and narrative strategies unfolding in these texts. The paper suggests the idea that such structural “cracks” and contradictions mark the departure from the boundaries and limits of contemporary patriarchal discourses and the dominant literary system.

Quare Memory in Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-303
Author(s):  
James Little
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Literary Aesthetic

This essay adapts David Cregan's concept of ‘queer memory’ – a form of memory defined ‘by exclusion rather than inclusion’ – to the author of The Quare Fellow, analysing narrative gaps in Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy in order to better understand its construction of cultural memory. Situating Borstal Boy within a growing canon of Irish writing on coercive confinement, the essay contends that draft versions act as an important component of textual memory, as can be seen by the more explicit portrayal of queer sexuality in Behan's drafts. Both in its transgressive portrayal of queer masculinity, and in the ‘quare’ narrative strategies used to incorporate this material into the published text, Borstal Boy presents an author whose ‘quareness’ is a key part of his literary aesthetic.

scholarly journals Tak samo, tylko lepiej? Jana Křesadly potyczki literackie

2020 ◽  
pp. 307-320
Author(s):  
Anna Gawarecka
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
The Other ◽  
Milan Kundera ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Anxiety Of Influence ◽  
Common Opinion

The literary works of Jan Křesadlo, which were “discovered” just after 1989, from the very beginning have caused controversy among the reviewers and readers, and the writer himself was treated as a typical outsider who deliberately decided to function on the periphery of the contemporary Czech culture. His answer to this uncomfortable situation included ceaseless polemics and disputes with the other writers. Most often he used the postmodern narrative strategies based on the intertextual and autotelic means of literary representation. In this way, he aimed at the parodistic ridiculing of his adversaries (first and foremost it was Milan Kundera). Extensive fragments of his works can be read as belonging to the category of “novels with a key”. On the other hand, it is difficult to avoid the impression that his intertextual reliance on the esteemed (in common opinion) authors is caused by the “anxiety of influence” (the term of Harold Bloom) and by a need to overcome these “strong” role models.

scholarly journals Becoming human. From cultural memory to new senses of beloging stories of migration in contemporary picture books

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Filograsso
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Civil Responsibility ◽  
The Face

This contribution aims to investigate the complex, transformative role children's literature can play in today’s socio-cultural context, offering a creative platform, not only in terms of plot or contexts, but also in terms of stylistic research and the book as a medium, on which to build new ways of thinking about and designing reality. The work focuses specifically on one of the most significant picture books on the topic of (real or metaphoric) migration, refugees, migrants’ difficult and controversial path to integration. The very rich production in recent years has, with different registers each time, emblematically interpreted the political vocation of contemporary children's literature, formulating relations with otherness, encouraging the deconstruction of cultural stereotypes and preventing emotional anaesthesia in the face of issues that demand the precise assumption of human and civil responsibility. In formal terms, it investigates the narrative strategies adopted by the authors and illustrators to guide the empathic involvement of the reader, aiming to foster reflexive and pro-social attitudes. In the picture books examined, the representation of the refugee, the stateless, the “destined to death”, to quote Hanna Arendt, for whom the loss of citizenship equals the denial of the most basic human rights, challenges the “danger of a single history”.

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