{"title":"Material Memories: Narrating and Reconstructing Experiences about Displaced Childhood during World War II","authors":"Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During World War II, about 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to Sweden and other Nordic countries to stay in foster homes to ease the situation of Finnish families. In this article, I analyze narratives of a former Finnish child evacuee who was evacuated to Sweden and who lived in Swedish foster homes during two different periods. I scrutinize her experiences, stories, and personal documents about evacuation and everyday life in foster homes from the perspective of affective and material memories. I approach the retrospective reminiscence of displacement as a mixture of a child’s perspective and an adult’s reflection. During the interview, the narrator read letters she had written to her mother, which bring out everyday life experiences in the midst of conflict that anchor in the material world. The written documents, as well as the sensory and material elements of the oral storytelling, function as keys for rendering complex affective experiences. In this text, I analyze the process of reconstructing narratives of displaced childhood and transnational family history as part of personal memory work.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"109 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42108982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0263
K. D. Bhutia
{"title":"“A World Where Many Worlds Fit”: Understanding Cosmopolitics through Narratives of Possessions and Spirit Invocation among the Lhopos (Bhutia) in Sikkim","authors":"K. D. Bhutia","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"263 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43124431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0187
Eviatar Shulman
{"title":"Canonical Belief Narratives of the Buddha: Folklore and Religion in the Early Buddhist Discourses","authors":"Eviatar Shulman","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"187 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42513951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0240
Terry Gunnell
{"title":"The Rise of Chupa-Sangue in a World of “Fake News”: Living Legends of Vampirism in Mozambique and Malawi","authors":"Terry Gunnell","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"240 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46924645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0218
Sandis Laime
{"title":"Reflections of Historical Witch Trials in Latvian Folklore: Veckušķis Legend Cycle","authors":"Sandis Laime","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0218","url":null,"abstract":"Large-scale criminal prosecution of witches in Europe started in the alpine valleys of Switzerland, Italy, and France in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries (Behringer 57–68). By the middle of the sixteenth century, that tide had reached the territory of Latvia, where it did not abate until the 1720s. The goal of this article is to analyze the cycle of legends about the sorcerer Veckušķis and his execution, documented in the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, to answer these questions: to what extent do the migratory plots recurring in these legends reflect local historical events and local beliefs; what is the chronology of these legends—were they inherited from the period of witch trials or formed in a later period; and what narrative voices can be heard in these legends?","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"218 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47377198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0281
A. Solovyeva
{"title":"New Life of Old Mongolian Demons","authors":"A. Solovyeva","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"281 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48384545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0317
Christal Seahorn
{"title":"“Thy Fame Shall Never Cease”: Ritualized Oratory and Mythmaking in Renaissance Reproductions of Elizabeth I’s Tilbury Address","authors":"Christal Seahorn","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.8.2.0317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"317 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42746458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2021-03-06DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.8.1.0155
Katherine Whitehurst
{"title":"Youth Films and the Nation: Imagining Obama's US Foreign Policy in Disney's Moana","authors":"Katherine Whitehurst","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.8.1.0155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.8.1.0155","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article demonstrates how scholars can undertake a sociocultural reading of youth films without positioning youth/youth culture as te central focus. Drawing on Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Emma Wilson, and Sarah Wright's contemplation of the child as a national avatar, this article suggests th t like the child, the adolescent becomes a site to address national concerns and positionings. I explore how the adolescent becomes interlinked with discourses of nation-building and myth-making, and I argue that the transitory nature of the adolescent facilitates narratives about nations in flux. In support of these assertions, this essay analyzes Disney's Moana in relation to the Obama era and his presidential rhetoric on foreign policy. In so doing, it contributes to the long-standing work on genre cinema and US ideology by offering a framework to link youth cinema to political moments.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"155 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43238913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}