This essay examines in what ways Frederick Douglass’s autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave can be used to promote cultural awareness in the English subject of Swedish upper secondary school. To explore this question, the essay uses the concepts from Byram et al's. model of intercultural language teaching to see what teaching possibilities exist that can promote cultural awareness in the text. The importance of raising cultural awareness is foregrounded because we live in a multicultural society and cultural awareness helps us break down cultural barriers more easily and understand one another better. The method used is a literature analysis where one theme and one character are analysed namely, the theme restriction of freedom and the character Frederick Douglass himself. Additionally, Louise Rosenblatt's view of reading is also used. The findings demonstrate that you can use the autobiography to promote cultural awareness by using intercultural language teaching and Rosenblatt’s view of reading with different ways of teaching.

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Yes / A participatory film-making study carried out in long-term social care with 10 people with Alzheimer-type dementia found that places the participants had known early in life were spontaneously foregrounded. Participants’ memories of such places were well-preserved, particularly when photo-elicitation techniques, using visual images as prompts, were employed. Consistent with previous work on the ‘reminiscence bump’ in dementia, the foregrounded memories belonged in all cases to the period of life between approximately 5 and 30 years. Frequently the remembered places were connected with major life events which continued to have a strong emotional component. The continuing significance of place in the context of long-term dementia care is considered from a psychogeographical perspective.

Driss Chraïbi est un écrivain dont l’œuvre a donné naissance à des réactions diverses dès son début littéraire en 1954 : romans, mémoires, romans policiers, sa création ne s’est pas limitée à un seul genre, ni à une seule source d’inspiration. Si à une première vue elle peut donner l’impression d’une œuvre éparse et sans lien véritable, une lecture plus approfondie donne à voir au contraire une œuvre dont la complexité réside précisément dans son unité. Le fil conducteur de notre recherche a été l’existence d’une écriture pseudo-autobiographique dans quatre des romans de Driss Chraïbi : Le Passé simple, Succession ouverte, La Civilisation, ma Mère !... et L’Inspecteur Ali. Pour confirmer cette hypothèse nous nous sommes appuyée sur une étude comparative entre ces œuvres romanesques et les deux volumes de mémoires de l’auteur : Vu, lu, entendu et Le Monde à côté.Nous nous sommes efforcée donc dans cette étude de rendre compte de certains aspects de sa littérature fictionnelle qui ont été considérés comme fortement autobiographiques, à travers une étude des personnages, de certains événements, de l’atmosphère romanesque et de l’écriture chraïbienne. En respectant l’ordre chronologique des parutions des livres, nous avons voulu suivre l’évolution des sujets, des personnages et du style de Driss Chraïbi d’une œuvre à l’autre. Pour une meilleure base théorique et méthodologique, nous avons puisé dans les différentes théories de l’autobiographie et des genres apparentés, pour passer ensuite à une étude des personnages masculins et féminins. Cette recherche sur les instances narratives nous a permis d’avoir une meilleure image de la manière dont Chraïbi a utilisé certains éléments de sa propre vie pour fonder sa fiction et la façon dont il les a exposés dans ses mémoires.Un autre aspect qui nous a semblé intéressant est de montrer l’évolution du style de Driss Chraïbi entre les récits de fiction ou pseudo-autobiographiques et les deux livres de mémoires : les descriptions, les paysages, la manière d’aborder des sujets délicats comme la religion, mais aussi l’évolution de l’écriture chraïbienne à travers les différents livres. Ce sont ces éléments de détail qui gardent le mieux la trace de l’auteur, même si Chraïbi est connu pour sa volonté de brouiller les pistes et les frontières entre les genres. / Driss Chraïbi is a writer whose work has brought about various reactions ever since his literary debut in 1954: novels, memoirs, detective novels, his creation did not limit itself to one genre or one source of inspiration. At first glimpse, his works may seem scattered, without a real connection, but a more in-depth look shows the opposite. His work is complex precisely because it is so unitary. The guiding principle of our research has been the existence of pseudo-autobiographical elements in four of Driss Chraïbi's novels: Le Passé simple, Succession ouverte, La Civilisation, ma Mère !... and L’Inspecteur Ali. In order to confirm this hypothesis, we used a comparative study between these novels and the two books of memoirs by this author: Vu, lu, entendu and Le Monde à côté.Therefore, in this study, by analyzing characters, events, literary atmosphere and Chraïbi's style, we tried to give an account of certain aspects of his fictional works that have been considered strongly autobiographical. Following the chronological order by release date of the books, our purpose has been to follow the evolution of Driss Chraïbi's themes, characters and style from one work to another.For a stronger theoretical and methodological basis, we tapped into the wealth of theories concerning the autobiography and the related genres, and later switched to an analysis of male and female characters. This research of narrative instances allowed us to understand better Chraïbi's use of elements of his own life in order to build the foundation of his fiction, as well as the way in which he put them forward in his books.We also thought it was very interesting to show the evolution of Driss Chraïbi's style between his fictional or pseudo-autobiographical works and his two books of memoirs: the descriptions, the landscapes, his manner of approaching sensitive subjects like religion, as well as the evolution of Chraïbi's writing throughout his various books. These details are what keeps the traces of the author, despite the fact that Chraïbi is well-known for his propensity to blur the pathways and lines between genres.