Search Results for narrative perspective

... in Les neuf consciences as yet another avatar of the writer. 16 However, what I would like to suggest here is that the narrative perspective of a bird could be considered a prolongation of the regime of visibility present in the Éloge . The visual is pushed to the extreme in this novel so...

..., but a secular perspective does not fully answer what makes certain historical narratives persuasive to particular audiences. Paying closer attention to this sacralizing power of heritage can provide new insights into workings of postcolonial memory and heritage. [email protected] ©...

... of narratives of the black presence and racism in postwar Britain that center on the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948. By way of conclusion, the essay follows Carby in revisiting the so-called Brown Baby debate at the end of World War II, an episode in the reracialization of Britain that offers...

...Shirley Toland-Dix Sylvia Wynter's 1962 novel, The Hills of Hebron , is both a narrative of the nation and critique of the extant vision of the nation. Writing her novel from the perspective of a theorist, Wynter introduces insights and concepts that she has since developed in her extensive body...

..., it suggests that going beyond national perspectives also includes the study of local histories, reconceived as spaces linked to but not always bound by national narratives. 30 Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press...

...-historical turn” due to its ability to narrativize its literariness and its commitment to “the transcoding of language politics into narrative structure.” 2 From this perspective, in addition to other, more straightforward elements of plot and narrative, the creole novel also tells the story of its status...

..., in emphasizing the limits of the narrative perspective, the fact that the outsider might have other points of reference is recognized at the same time as the community, indicated by the first-person plural, “our” ( nous ), is confirmed. This particular lament ( complainte ) may not be famous outside...

... time, the accuracy of these attributes is pertinent to an assessment of the author’s significance in the development of the narrative. The growth of Creole inclusion in narrative to the point at which it is the code of expression for a fully formed character marks a major shift in narrative perspective...

... of Empire” concerns the issue of time and narrative perspective. According to Lowe, Carby “innovates eloquently the temporality of the autobiography, in which the subject in the contemporary moment must ‘read’ the subject in the past from whom its meaning was withheld.” Situating itself within...

... from this perspective in dialogue with Wainwright's writing about Williams is also to clarify time and location as paramount to presumptions about temporality. Visual art criticism and explorations of art history narratives, including writings by Petrine Archer-Shaw (1956–2012), Okwui Enwezor, Paul...

... and memories of so-called lower social classes. The window's frame from which viewers can imagine Elsie looking out, in combination with Aunt Ruth's narrative, counters the photographic framing of this visual document and highlights the voices of women, considering their experiences and perspectives...

... of Arnoldian cultural uplift. 10 From the perspective of the federalist imaginary, the colonialist discursive rendering of the region as geographically unreal remained unchallenged. This meant that when confronted with persuasive narratives foregrounding territorial nationalism, the federalist imaginary had...

... seen from a number of perspectives by relatives, friends, and others. Her imaginary life-experience encompasses sto- ries that critique and query the predominance of heroes in African- and European- centered anticolonial narratives. The artwork fills the void...

... listed above: it was problem-oriented; adopted a transnational perspective; engaged in historically informed interdisciplinarity; challenged the ways hegemonic narratives played with memory and historicity in order to describe , inscribe , and prescribe ; produced knowledge grounded in Caribbean...

... of colonial in/securities not singularly bound to, although indeed not separate from, the operations and violence of the plantation. 4 I use Maroon practices, strategies, and spaces as important narrative sites that afford another perspective on the insistent, immediate, and intimate violence of plantation...

.... Both essays are important because they not only introduce the link between culture and national imaginaries but revisit traditional political-economic narratives of national identity formation from a nonelite, Pan-island, sociocultural perspective. Following this renewed interest in culture...

... of undecidability that exists between the certainties underpinning certain liberationist narratives and the uncertainties and qualifications characteristic of an instinctively reflexive category of perspectives. This familiar and thickly dissonant space obtains between Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth...

... of kambrada. It allows for a disruption of the surface narrative and provides an avenue to expose the subtleties and hidden complexities of these women’s experiences. This analytical perspective endeavors to deliver a more layered and profound comprehension of the intricate realities that these historical...

...Kaiama L. Glover The 2010 earthquake has given rise to and put into wide(r) circulation a narrative very much of a piece with the long-standing discourse of Haitian singularity. This recent, though not new, narrative is premised not only on the notion of Haiti's endless suffering but also...

... Dominicans espoused regional identifications and loyalties that have been erased by triumphalist national narratives as well as those that emphasize difference and exceptionalism. Popular perspectives all over the island are erased by conflict models that focus on state- and elite-level discourses, as other...