Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 9, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1931. Advisers: John Johnson; Portia Maultsby.

<p> A thematic study grounded in transnational and transatlantic studies of modern and postmodern literatures, this dissertation examines five contemporary Irish poets&mdash;John Montague, Padraic Fiacc, James Liddy, Seamus Heaney, and Eavan Boland&mdash;whose separation from Ireland in the United States has produced a distinct body of work that I call, "the poetics of return." As the biological heirs of the Civil War generation and the intellectual heirs of the Irish high modernists, these poets are some of the leading lights of the renaissance in Irish literary arts after midcentury. </p><p> This dissertation argues that an important aspect of this era has been its reevaluation of narratives of political and artistic exile; those created by nationalists and republicans, on the one hand, and modernists such as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, on the other. Drawing on the criticism of Patrick Ward and Seamus Deane, I argue that the atomization of the critical vocabulary of exile has enabled modern poets greater means to consider the cultural anxieties surrounding their separation from Ireland. Accordingly they have become less interested in the meaning of leaving Ireland and more interested in the meaning of return. This project engages a range of scholarly literature devoted to the Irish poets and poetry of the last half century and reevaluates a number of standard readings and assumptions.</p>

Ethical respect for others is central to culturally-responsive teaching. While a variety of research in higher education has examined the use of narratives to foster ethical respect for different cultural groups, there has been little research on using narratives to foster an ethical respect for people with disabilities. Two questions informed this study: (1) What kinds of disability narratives are available? and (2) What kinds of narratives are used in pre-professional education? Question 1 was addressed by drawing on an examination of the scholarship of other culturally adjacent categories and content analysis conducted on the descriptions of a small sample of seventeen disability-related narratives from across a wide range, for example graphic novels, and fiction such as kid-lit, young adult lit, and adult literature and so on. That analysis established that the historically dominant framing of disability is the pathography, a narrative that focuses on medical diagnoses, problematizes disability and focuses on reductive limitations. Two genres speak to the dominant pathologized framing: inclusion literature and illness narratives. Two counter-narratives embody what it is to experience the body/mind with this particular disability: somebody narratives which are written by individuals with disabilities, and caregiver narratives which discuss the proximate lived experience of an intimate, ally, or caregiver. Within these four classes of narratives, 16 discrete sub-genres were identified as a proposed disability-genre taxonomy. Question 2 was addressed by an employing the genre taxonomy to examine of a sample of nine syllabi and 98 narratives from courses designed for pre-professionals in the field of disability. Two additional subgenres were identified for a total of 17 discrete subgenres. Analysis revealed that narratives appear to be chosen on the basis of authors’ lived experience of disability. Of the seventeen possible genres from which to choose, 80% of the narratives were of one of four genres: endure accept or accommodate illness narratives, protest narratives, liberatory narratives, and self-revealing narratives. Understanding the range of disability-related genres that are available and used will allow researchers to do more nuanced analyses of how narratives are taken up by pre-professionals, will allow professors to make more informed decisions about their curricular choices, and presents new models by which professionals can encourage self-narrative texts written by individuals with disabilities. / Educational Leadership

La ville de Hohenems, commune autrichienne d'environ 16.000 habitants située dans le Vorarlberg, a été marquée par des vagues d'immigration successives au fil de son histoire : ancienne ville d'accueil pour une importante communauté juive ou encore de nos jours pour de nombreux travailleurs immigrés ou réfugiés en grande majorité de confession musulmane, Hohenems s'inscrit véritablement dans une longue tradition interculturelle. Une approche microhistorique permet de s'interroger sur les raisons et les motivations qui ont permis en 2009 l'instauration d'un prix littéraire pour auteurs issus de la migration ayant adopté l'allemand comme langue d'écriture alors qu'ils ont une autre langue maternelle. A travers l'exemple concret de ce prix littéraire sont abordés d'une part la gestion de l'hétérogénéité culturelle au niveau communal et d'autre part l'impact de la littérature d'auteurs issus de la migration dans le monde germanophone. La conséquence en est l'émergence d'une écriture interculturelle voire transculturelle. / The city of Hohenems, an Austrian town of about 16.000 inhabitants located in Vorarlberg, has been marked by successive waves of immigration. As a former host city for a large Jewish community and even today for many immigrant workers and refugees, a large majority of whom are Muslims, Hohenems truly embraces a long intercultural tradition. A microhistorical approach makes it possible to question the reasons and the motivations that in 2009 enabled the establishment of a literary prize for migrant authors who write in German though they are non-native German speakers. Through the concrete example of this prize, we examine the management of cultural heterogeneity at the local level and the impact of the literature of migrant authors in the German-speaking world that leads to the birth of intercultural and cross-cultural writing.