Geschichte(n) jenseits von Helden und Siegern. Sammeln als solidarische Praxis bei Walter Benjamin und Ursula K. Le Guin by Carina Nagel

“…Für beide handelt es sich um Katastrophenerzählungen, die nicht nur Leid bagatellisieren und Kämpfe marginalisierter Gruppen diskreditieren, sondern alternative Narrative und damit auch alternative Beziehungsweisen verdecken. …”
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Qui accouche qui ? Etude de 134 récits d’accouchement à domicile by Geneviève Pruvost

“…After presenting the context in which these narratives take place as well the sociodemographic profile of the storytellers, we will turn ourselves to the process by which family and professional hierarchies are inverted in favor of parturient women who are subtly empowered in the course of the delivery. …”
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Narrativas de democratização cultural no Brasil: um olhar sociológico ao Programa Cultura Viva by Rodrigo Manoel Dias da Silva

“…For this purpose, it analyzes the narrative recurrence of these processes in the “Cultura Viva” program of the Ministry of Culture. …”
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Understanding Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa: A Systematic Literature Review by Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu

“…The existing literature agrees with this narrative on the hostility and resentment faced by immigrants, but there is limited empirical data on the effectiveness of government interventions. …”
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A closer look at IIsaac Oluwole Delano’s A Dictionary of Yoruba Monosyllabic Verbs by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“…In it, we provided a historical narrative of the emergence of the dictionary as the main tool for lexicographers. …”
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Timişoara, de la petite Vienne du Banat à la Capitale européenne de la culture by Amandine Dargaud

“…However, these policies deals with the weakness of institutional tools, criticisms of the dominant narrative of the city promoted by institutional actors and their relays – like the TM2021 association in charge of preparing the European Capital of Culture event in 2021 –, but also the permanence of dissonant and even conflicting legacies of socialism in the context of europeanization.…”
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Coreografie dell’“Arcipelago” (2015-2023). Estetica, archeologia, ecologia nel lavoro di Annamaria Ajmone con il luogo by Giada Cipollone

“…The essay discusses the evolution of Archipelago over time: it shifts from aesthetically and visually enhancing the environment to a more “archaeological” approach, delving into even the most hidden and spectral narratives. It then progresses to a more “ecological” perspective, conceptualizing the place as an ecosystem where the body dances together and like the moving matter.…”
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Beyond the Status of Health: A Collection of Stories Representing Diverse Maternal Mental Health Perspectives by Sara Santarossa, Ruth A. Blake, Heather Buchanan, Mercedes Price, Rachael Guzzardo, Craig Guzzardo, LaKenya M. Johnson, Jacobeth M. Morshall, Andrea Bate, Wayne Bate, Riziki Bakari, Leah Copeland, Dana Murphy, Ashley Redding, Amy Loree

“…As part of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington Engagement Award aimed at improving capacity to address maternal mental health in research, this collection of eight stories describes the unique experiences from caregivers (N = 2), patient/caregiver dyads (N = 2), healthcare stakeholders (N = 2), and community stakeholders (N = 2). Shared here are narratives dedicated to uplifting and supporting maternal mental health through storytelling. …”
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"I'm Not Like Most of You Here, I'm Just an Alcoholic": A Russian Baptist Theory of Addiction by Igor Mikeshin

“…However, during the program, rehabilitants learn Russian Baptist dogma and theology, and soon afterwards the distinction becomes obsolete for them. I address narratives of distinction and the Russian Baptist response to them. …”
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Le monument naturel dans le mythe de l’Ouest chez Washington Irving, Mark Twain et Walt Whitman by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…This article deals with the image of the natural monument and considers its function in 19th-century representations of the West, especially in three travel narratives—A Tour on the Prairies by Washington Irving, Roughing It by Mark Twain and Specimen Days by Walt Whitman. …”
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Genre, migrations et sédentarités by Colette Le Petitcorps

“…We focus on their situation, space practices and social image in the place of their return home by bringing together an insight on their migration (hi)story and an analysis of the various ways by which migrations and settling processes patterns interact. The women narratives and the interviews with some people from their neighborhood in Mauritius gathered through fieldwork help understanding the sense of migration and of settled way of life from the subject point of view. …”
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The Dream House of American Culture: Archives of the Self, Visions of the Future by Myrto Drizou

“… In this essay, I argue that American literature and culture help students draw more expansive geographies of their selves and more articulate narratives of their experiences. Using Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House as an example, I show how students are empowered to make meaningful connections between the personal and the political, and how they are encouraged to reflect on their “home” identities, especially with regard to race, class, sexuality, and gender. …”
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Maîtres et élèves dans les Vies des sophistes de Philostrate : essai d’approche relationnelle by Anthony Andurand

“…In its exploratory dimension, this contribution intends to test some notions and tools developed in the field of social network analysis in order to study the relational space described in the textual and narrative content of Philostratus’ work as chronicler and continuator of the Second Sophistic.…”
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Jean Rhys et Shani Mootoo ou la fragmentation de l’être by Freddy Marcin

“…Feminine identity crisis will be analyzed in correlation with narrative strategies used in post-colonial and queer literatures as well as deconstruction and subversion of literary canons.…”
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« C’était une femme à qui il fallait un époux et lui un homme qui voulait une épouse… ». Les représentations filmographiques des mariages par correspondance by Laure Sizaire, Gwenola Ricordeau

“…The analysis of an eight film corpus of post-1945 movies staging a mail-order marriage shows their shared narrative in three social and historic contexts (colonization, migration and globalization of the marriage market): marriage resolves the problems faced by men due to shortage of women. …”
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Eldorado Revisited: Spanish Film-makers in Reagan’s America by Vicente J. Benet

“…On the Line focussed on the issue of trafficking Mexican immigrants; Reborn dealt with tele-evangelism. Both narratives were presented as challenges to American unity as identified in the conservative social and cultural values of the time. …”
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The Politics of Aesthetics: Ezra Pound’s Jefferson is Mussolini by Hélène Aji

“…Inscribed within the framework of Ezra Pound’s theory of the “luminous detail,” historical facts are placed under the sign of a highly idiosyncratic master narrative, which ties in with a politics of aethetics, after Jacques Rancière but also in keeping with Benjaminian evaluations of the political uses of aesthetics. …”
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The The street names in East Central European cities and towns in the pre-industrial period from a comparative perspective by Orysia Vira

“…The study underscores the relevance of historical atlases in facilitating comparative research, shedding light on street names as repositories of narratives. These names, carrying echoes of professions, ethnic origins, and geographical landmarks, serve as windows into urban evolution and societal dynamics. …”
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Seductive Snakes and Asexual Angels: Queer Undercurrents in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Desert Sands” by H.J.E. Champion

“…Yet when one applies a thin layer of turpentine to the top layer of the canvas that makes up the narrative of “Desert Sands,” it becomes clear that there is another, much more unusual, image underneath. …”
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Z doświadczeń uczestników projektu THRIECE – perspektywa dziecka i dorosłego by Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska

“…In this article a qualitative analysis of teachers’ utterances was applied and children’s narrations with mosaic approach were used. Classes observations, children’s utterances and their pieces of work were helpful. …”
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