The Making of Sami Ethnography: Contested Authorities and Negotiated Representations by Kristin Kuutma

“…My main focus is on the collaborative effort of the publication process, to investigate the emergence and negotiation of representational authority, of cultural poetics, of social and cultural critique, in order to defy the preconception of a passive informant of a cultural experience. The Sámi narrator Johan Turi is discussed, instead, as an active agent in providing a voice to the Sámi people in the collaborative process of ethnography writing. …”
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Women’s Suffrage: A Cinematic Study by Suzanne Bouclin

“…I do so through a close reading of three key moments in the film’s narrative which suggest how women’s participation or lack thereof, in formal institutions, remains today, an indicator of aspirational and actualized gender equality.…”
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Rousseau et les Pongos by Thomas Robert

“…Rousseau criticises the narratives of travellers, who consider, at best, the Pongoes as beasts or, at worst, as monsters. …”
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The Transatlantic Political Economy by Allan Potofsky

“…On both sides of the Atlantic, a desire to deepen economic ties between the two « regenerated » nations was kindled by the ideological potentials of republicanism in the United States and of the « reform monarchy » at the end of the ancien régime and opening years of the Revolution.This article examines an overlooked element in the « master narrative » of historians who have focused on the degradation of the political and economic ties between the two nations after 1787 : the American financial debt toward France grew in significance with the awareness of the proportions of the deficit of the French state. …”
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Flashbacks in Film Noir by Gilles Menegaldo

“…The flashback is also clearly associated with a subjective vision and it partakes of the confessional nature of the narrative as it is told by means of a voice over. The study of several opening scenes reveals the wealth and diversity of the strategies used to stage the flashback. …”
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Queeritude décoloniale : quels enjeux, quelles possibilités ? by Sandeep Bakshi

“…Suturing decolonial thinking to transnational queer narratives, this essay aims to problematise accounts of coloniality/modernity that emplace eurocentred thinking in a dialectical relation to other formations of knowledge. …”
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Psychopathologie et poétique de l’« ennui » en France au xixe siècle by Juan Rigoli

“…A vast spectrum of common and scholarly terms, absolute or partial substitutes for « weariness », determines the narratives and descriptions of the melancholic state, with which it is associated. …”
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La réception des conversations quotidiennes. Communication ordinaire et normativité sociale by Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau

“…This paper presents and conceptualizes what would constitute different moments of that said individual reception, starting from a specific material, that of conversation narratives. Twenty persons from diverse social backgrounds reported all the conversations they had the past seven days in a debriefing with the researcher. …”
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Introduction by Léa Linconstant, Fleur Beauvieux, Efigies Aix-Marseille

“…These relations between norms and margins, sexual norms and domination relationships are discussed through narratives collected from margins, as well as the silences marginality produces, especially regarding sexual violence. …”
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Kirchnerisme et réécriture de l’histoire : la jeunesse politique au cœur du récit et des pratiques populistes by Juan Manuel Corvalán Espina

“…Thus, the article describes the way Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez rewrite the Argentine history in order to develop a narrative that brings back to life the recent past of the country. …”
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Design, Anthropology, and Sociology. A Possible Transdisciplinarity? by Angelo Bucci

“…The article advocates the re-evaluation of design ethical dimension and its potential for shaping future narratives; it stresses the importance of promoting sustainable and ethical behaviors through design to enhance collective well-being. …”
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Decency, Humility, and Obedience: Spatial Discipline in the Baptist Rehab Centre by Igor Mikeshin

“…This process is an interconnection of the rehabilitation of the addicted people and conversion to a particular kind of Christianity, working as an inseparable twofold process. The narrative of conversion in the rehabilitation ministry is impacted by the 150-year history of Russian Baptists, the rich sociocultural context of contemporary Russia, the junkie and prison context of the people in rehabs, and a very specific Russian Synodal translation of the Bible. …”
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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Almost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combination of a western-style narrative with a black cowboy hero and a historical drama. …”
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En finir avec l’histoire officielle ? Un bilan critique de l’historiographie internationale sur la révolution mexicaine by Evelyne Sanchez

“…For many Mexican researchers, writing the history of the Mexican Revolution is still a process of acculturation : even before proposing a new object of analysis or new hypotheses must first get rid of them heroizing history whose narrative is still used to legitimize the ruling party. …”
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Flux, ambiances et ré-enchantement du monde by Olivier Labussière

“…This novel offers a narrative whose island setting is under the dual and concurrent influences of the language of the Other (domestic and epistemic orders) and of an elementary world. …”
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L’Étrange cas de Coleman Silk, le Jewbird de The Human Stain de Philip Roth by Frédéric Dumas

“…This mysterious presence raises the question of the essentially fictional nature of Coleman Silk’s edifying story within the diegesis, for the narrator’s imagination makes up a paradoxical pattern combining both estrangement and revelation.…”
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Mirror-Image Asymmetry, Chirality, and Suttree by Bryan Giemza

“…Understanding chirality in turn reveals new dimensions of scientific and philosophical meaning in McCarthy’s work, including his investigation of free will, chance, and determinism; his interest in narrative, consciousness, and evolutionary theory; and his search for a logos—a universal ordering principle in both the material and metaphysical worlds.…”
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« Une fois j’ai presque rencontré un esprit » by Maddyson Borka

“…By taking into account the narrative structure of the stories, as well as the morphosyntactic division of certain utterances, it will be possible to highlight what it means phenomenologically to “meet” a spirit. …”
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Vivir para contarla: las memorias de un novelista by Cecilia Castro Lee

“…The text proposes that Vivir para contarla (2002), or Garcia Marquez’s memoirs, is a hybrid text, between essay writing and narrative techniques, between memory and reflection. …”
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