Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-62).

Orientador: Marilda da Silva / Banca: Jaime Francisco Parreira Cordeiro / Banca: Denis Domeneghetti Badia / Resumo: Nosso trabalho objetiva a apreensão e o entendimento das características de narrativas orais de alunos e de alunas observadas nas salas de aula de uma escola pública do interior paulista de Ensino Fundamental regular e de Ensino Médio supletivo. Nesse sentido, utilizamos o referencial teórico obtido a partir de idéias do filósofo alemão Walter Benjamin correlacionado com uma metodologia de abordagem qualitativa. Por essa razão, usamos os conceitos de Erfarhung, que diz respeito à experiência humana construída pela tradição nas sociedades artesanais, e que era transmitida por meio das narrativas orais associadas ao modo de produção pré-capitalista e o de Erlebnis, que se refere à experiência humana moldada pela Indústria Cultural e pelo modo de produção capitalista. A partir dessa premissa teórica, observamos aulas das disciplinas de Língua Portuguesa e História, estratégia metodológica que permitiu a obtenção de exemplos de seis manifestações orais a partir das quais abstraímos elementos que podem contribuir para a compreensão sobre as formas que as experiências dos sujeitos são constituídas em nosso tempo. / Abstract: Our paper aims to apprehend and to understand male and female pupils' oral narratives observed in classrooms of a public school, which offers ordinary Elementary School and Adult High School, located in São Paulo state's countryside. Therefore, we used Walter Benjamin's theoretical reference correlated with a methodology of qualitative inspiration. For that reason, we employed the concepts of Erfahrung which refers to the human experience built by tradition in artisan societies that was communicated through oral narratives associated with the pre-capitalist production mode, and Erlebnis, which is the human experience shaped by the Cultural Industry and the capitalist production mode. From that theoretical premise, we observed classes of Portuguese and History, methodological strategy that allowed us to get examples of six oral expressions that composed the founts of elements that are able to help us to understand how people's experiences are formed in present days. / Mestre

This study seeks to understand the development of early American ideas of race, religion, and gender as reflected in Indian and Barbary captivity narratives (tales of individuals taken captive by privateers in North Africa) and in plays that take American captives as their subject. Writers of both Indian and Barbary captivity narratives used racial and religious language – references to Indians and North Africans as demonic, physically monstrous, and animal – simultaneously to delineate Native American and North African otherness. The narrative writers reserved particular scorn for the figure of the Renegade – the willful cultural convert who chose to live among the Native Americans or adopt Islam and live among his North African captors. The narratives, too, reflect Early American gendered norms by defining the role of men as heads of household and women’s protectors, and by defining women by their status as dutiful wives and mothers. Furthermore, the narratives carefully treat the figure of the female captive with particular care – resisting implications of captive rape, even while describing graphic scenes of physical torture, and denying the possibility of willful transcultural sexual relationships.

<p>This dissertation examines the production of the "native" in literary and photographic narratives in the Franco-Maghrebian postcolonial context. More specifically, I selected a group of a few well-known Maghrebian intellectuals who write in French, who act as mediators of postcolonial difference between France and the Maghreb, while living between the "East" and the "West." In my dissertation fieldwork, I looked at the politics involved in the production of "home", "exile", and of "the native" within literary and photographic engagements of these North African diasporic intellectuals.</p> <p>Here, I argue that a reading of literary texts offers an alternative understanding of the International Relations of migration and of linkages between postcolonies and postmetropoles. Such an examination involves exploring unexpected claims to a 'native' status that brings about a re-thinking of disciplinary boundaries; an incursion into practices of spectrality in visual and literary narratives, whereby the postcolonial diasporic intellectual is engaged in the practice of collecting 'endangered authenticities.' Moreover, an alternative understanding of IR can also be perceived from the politics of language and hybridity, which arise for Maghrebian intellectuals living and writing about "home", and deciding upon audiences in their writings. Out of this politics emerge the categories of the immigré(e) and exilé(e) that reflect a lived experience of international relations, and an absence of relations that adds to our understanding.</p> <p>The importance of this insight becomes clear when we confront a contemporary IR of migration written from a more mainstream perspective. Its ahistorical presentation and state-centrism are blind to the continuities of imperialism, where the postcolony is as much within the lived space of the postmetropole as it is outside. Thus I attempt to amplify this understanding of the IR of migration and imperialism through recourse to literary and visual narratives of Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Due to medical advances, there has been an increased number of burn survivors, thus creating a dire need for research on burn recovery. As 70% of burn-injured patients are male, it is especially important to examine how men understand healing from a burn injury. One way to explore this is by investigating men’s stories of healing because it is through and by the experiential space of narrative that individuals are provided with the tools to reflect on and find meaning from their experiences of burn injuries. This thesis examined narratives men constructed about healing from a burn injury. Adult men with 0.5 – 30% total body surface area burned were recruited for an in-depth semi-structured interview, two to fifty-two weeks post-injury. Narrative analysis of the transcripts revealed that men principally constructed a dominant narrative that involved wanting to return to a life that was “normal” as soon as possible. I argue that these stories are indicative of a restitution storyline, that is, they follow a plotline in which the men view themselves as being temporarily injured but soon recovered. I then explore how agency, or more specifically, how agentic behaviours facilitate these narratives about men returning to their pre-injury selves. Men also constructed narratives about boredom, grief and regrets at the same time as the restitution narratives. These narratives indicated distress because they were counter to the stories that the men wanted to construct. The discussion contextualizes the men’s restitution narratives in terms of masculine socialization, and considers the role of agency in informing narrative plotlines. Lastly, recommendations to health care providers who treat men that have survived a burn injury are provided.

Due to medical advances, there has been an increased number of burn survivors, thus creating a dire need for research on burn recovery. As 70% of burn-injured patients are male, it is especially important to examine how men understand healing from a burn injury. One way to explore this is by investigating men’s stories of healing because it is through and by the experiential space of narrative that individuals are provided with the tools to reflect on and find meaning from their experiences of burn injuries. This thesis examined narratives men constructed about healing from a burn injury. Adult men with 0.5 – 30% total body surface area burned were recruited for an in-depth semi-structured interview, two to fifty-two weeks post-injury. Narrative analysis of the transcripts revealed that men principally constructed a dominant narrative that involved wanting to return to a life that was “normal” as soon as possible. I argue that these stories are indicative of a restitution storyline, that is, they follow a plotline in which the men view themselves as being temporarily injured but soon recovered. I then explore how agency, or more specifically, how agentic behaviours facilitate these narratives about men returning to their pre-injury selves. Men also constructed narratives about boredom, grief and regrets at the same time as the restitution narratives. These narratives indicated distress because they were counter to the stories that the men wanted to construct. The discussion contextualizes the men’s restitution narratives in terms of masculine socialization, and considers the role of agency in informing narrative plotlines. Lastly, recommendations to health care providers who treat men that have survived a burn injury are provided.

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