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Narrative and Stylistic Agency: The Case of Overt Narration Universiteit Gent
Narrative and stylistic agency: the case of overt narration Universiteit Antwerpen
Narrative and Stylistic Agency: The Case of Overt Narration Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Difficult empathy the effect of narrative perspective on readers’ engagement with a first-person narrator Universiteit Gent
We narration in Chang-rae Lee’s 'On such a full sea' and Julie Otsuka’s 'The Buddha in the attic' : 'unnaturally' Asian American? Universiteit Gent
This essay looks at two recent Asian American texts written in the first-person plural – namely Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the attic (2011) and Chang-rae Lee’s On such a full sea (2014). Its main goal is to show that the ambiguities and tensions here generated by we narration prove particularly apt when it comes to calling into question essentialist views concerning the anatomy of community-building. But my contention is that these two we ...
Remembering collective violence in exile. A conceptual and empirical exploration of memory, narration, and silence with Kurdish refugee families KU Leuven
Research on the psychosocial sequelae of collective violence and forced displacement increasingly investigates the potentially harmful impact of these disruptive life experiences on relational dynamics within refugee families. Meanwhile, studies explore how intra-family processes may constitute protective sources in reversing the adverse impact of traumatization and reconstructing life in exile. In this regard, trauma communication has been ...
Narration and the experience of estrangement in the fiction of Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot Universiteit Antwerpen
This article addresses connections between the fictional writings of Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot by examining the window motif in their stories. This motif has a central meaning for both writers, and exploring it will demonstrate the proximity between their literary works. The following analysis centers on four themes and/or processes associated with the window motif: the experience of estrangement in the narrator's ambiguous relation to ...