Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0187
M. Jarrar
{"title":"The Serpent Queen: A Case Study in “Travel” and Appropriation","authors":"M. Jarrar","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0187","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article studies the adaptation of the popular tale of “Ḥāsib Karīm al-Dīn and the Queen of Serpents” from The Thousand and One Nights as a hypotext in the work of the contemporary Egyptian novelist and poet Badr al-Dīb (1926–2005). In folklore and religion, the serpent as a complex mythical symbol is perceived as a primordial being and is linked with wisdom and cosmic power. The snake-woman is the embodiment of the world-generating, life-giving principle and lunar wisdom. Whenever the serpent appears in folktales, epics, and religion, one can expect a spectacle of ongoing metamorphosis.Al-Dīb’s endeavor reveals the unrestrained options of the imagination of a contemporary writer whose “renarrating” amounts to a diegetic transposition of the cycle. Al-Dīb remains faithful to the text and offers a novel reading opting for an experience of constant impermanence. The crossing of spaces and the shifting of physical and imagined borders form a central dynamic in the structure of the tale.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"187 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46856863","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 : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0001
S. Groth
{"title":"Political Narratives / Narrations of the Political: An Introduction","authors":"S. Groth","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This introductory essay outlines a perspective on political narratives that moves beyond a narrow understanding and highlights the reception of political narratives in everyday contexts and conceptualizations of political spheres in everyday narratives of the political. It offfers distinct perspectives of (1) narrative as practice and ontology, that is, the view that telling and receiving stories are universal modes of mediating (political) views; (2) narrative as strategy, that is, the intentional or automatic use of narrative to further relatively specific goals; and (3) narrative as method, that is, as an analytic approach to sociopolitical realities in academia. The essays in this issue show how political narratives are interpreted, modified, and coconstructed in everyday stories and as part of popular narratives, and how political processes and structures are framed in everyday narratives.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42412089","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 : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0069
Rita Sanders
{"title":"Unity and Stability? Legacies and Remembrance of the Great Patriotic War in Russia’s Exclave of Kaliningrad","authors":"Rita Sanders","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0069","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Statements by politicians on Russia’s unity and stability are omnipresent. This article deals with people’s daily narratives by focusing on the legacies of the Great Patriotic War in the city of Kaliningrad (previously Königsberg). In this endeavor, the article explores the immortal troop project, an alternative march to the official militaristic parade on May 9, which is devoted to the remembrance of people’s fate during the war. However, the narratives’ diversity and their potential as political counter narratives only becomes visible by taking into account people’s personal relationship to the city’s materiality. My arguments are based on long-term fieldwork, conducted between 2015 and 2017.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"303 7","pages":"69 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41258448","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 : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0255
Joann Conrad
{"title":"Into the “Land of Snow and Ice”: Racial Fantasies in the Fairy-Tale Landscapes of the North","authors":"Joann Conrad","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0255","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines fantasies of race and place in Scandinavian children’s literature of the mid-1800s to early 1900s. Overtly fictionalized accounts of journeys to “fairy-tale landscapes” in the Scandinavian context take the form of “Journeys to the North”—in particular the “Journey to Lapland.” Although these narratives rest on a well-formed mythology of the North as a locus of fascination both imagined and encountered as well as on standard fairy-tale motifs and structures, they nonetheless constitute lessons on race, place, and identity for future modern subjects.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"255 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47102586","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 : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0211
Amir Lerner
{"title":"“The Story of the Vizier and His Son” from The Hundred and One Nights: Parallels in Midrashic Literature and Backgrounds in Early Arabic Sources","authors":"Amir Lerner","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0211","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:One of the many topics that attracted the attention of scholars of The Thousand and One Nights (and scholars of medieval Arabic literature in general) was its correspondence with early Jewish elements in its varied literary materials. Similarly, a reading of its sibling, the smaller medieval collection of The Hundred and One Nights, reveals that its stories hide a number of plot constituents with analogues in early Jewish literature, the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and so on, as well as parallels in medieval sources in Arabic related in some way to Jewish heritage. The article is an initial inquiry into this matter, focusing on one of the collection’s core corpus stories, “The Story of the Vizier and His Son.”","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"211 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47088371","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 : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0095
Amer Dahamshe
{"title":"Symbolic Distinctions in Traditional Palestinian Toponymy: Class, Gender, and Village Prestige in Palestinian Space in Israel","authors":"Amer Dahamshe","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0095","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes the Arabic toponymy of Palestine, based on folk tales and memories of Palestinians living in Israel. The discussion is interpretative and has a dual purpose. First, it aims to shed light on class and gender power relations and the issue of the village's image. Second, it examines the differential relation of Palestinian society to the landscape, as reflected in names of places versus natural features. The starting point is the assumption that toponymy is the result of two parallel processes: names articulate reality and identity, but at the same time, they are also profoundly influenced by the approach of the naming culture to its space. The reading of Palestinian names is a tactic that gives space to popular and peripheral knowledge categories, exposing the limitations of toponymical research in Israel that has tended to focus on the names recently imposed top-down by Zionism, to the neglect of Palestinian spatial constructions. Finally, it empowers the indigenous population by giving voice to their perception of space. The names evoking this perception testify to the ideological and cultural uses of place names, as opposed to the names of natural features used by Palestinian society. The system for naming was a complex system of spatial distinctions and classifications that privileged hegemonic class and gender values by marginalizing feminine or lower-class images.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"120 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43746980","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 : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0015
Christine J. Widmayer
{"title":"Dialogic Subjectivity: Narrating the Self in Stories about Others","authors":"Christine J. Widmayer","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The author's grandmother, Jude, has always been a storyteller. Over the years, her personal experience narratives served as a container for family history and functioned as a reaffirmation of Jude's identity—an identity often created through the process of telling. When Jude began to suffer from dementia, her stories became a source of com-fort and stability as she lost aspects essential to her subjective understanding of herself. While the majority of her stories are self-oriented, this article focuses on a story from Jude's repertoire that is \"other-oriented\"—Jude's narrative of her Polish grandmother's migration to the United States—to demonstrate how even her other-oriented stories serve an identity function. Through a dialogic process using metanarration, contrasts, and repetition, Jude negotiates between audience, character, and her own memories to express subjectivities. Interpreting these dialogic subjectivities gives the author insight into Jude's experiences as she faces the end of her life.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"15 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45947547","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 : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0070
Eija Stark
{"title":"Cultural Intimacy and Othering through Narrative Culture: Folktales about the Finnish Roma","authors":"Eija Stark","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0070","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Records of folk narratives from the past are available in large part through collecting and archival practices which saw pioneering efforts in nineteenth-century Finland. At the same time, archival decision making was not free of the ideological parameters of early folkloristic paradigms. In examining narratives about the Kaale—the Finnish Roma—in the archives of the Finnish Literature Society, this article pursues two goals at once: by outlining the contours and contents of the sparse, archived narrative material about the Kaale told by rural Finns, it is also possible to reconfirm the nation-building focus of nineteenth-century Finnish folklore, collecting which included this minority only through derogatory and ridiculing narratives by the majority population.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"70 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41725563","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 : 2018-01-15DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0001
Katherine Whitehurst
{"title":"Growing Up in Magical Time: Representations of Female Growth and Development in ABC's Once Upon a Time","authors":"Katherine Whitehurst","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.5.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines ABC's televisual fairy-tale adaptation Once Upon a Time (2011– present) by investigating how the organization of episodic storylines within the show challenges chronometric accounts of time, temporality, and growth. It considers how the female characters' emotional development in magical time facilitates a level of fluidity within representations of their growth and character development. Centrally, this article demonstrates how the intersection between form and content moves the tale away from a narrative of devil woman as crone to alternatively reinforce dominant Western ideas surrounding the importance of \"ideal\" development in youth.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42713110","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}