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The American GI’s experience in hospital during World War II is absent from official military histories, most scholarly works, and even many oral history collections. Utilizing the papers of WWII infantryman, Leon Standifer, this thesis offers the reader a rare glimpse of WWII military hospital life and chronicles one soldier’s journey from willing obedience to subversive action. This thesis compares the stated goals and procedures of the US Army medical department to the experience of Leon Standifer, an infantryman who served in northern France during the last year of the war and the American occupation of Bavaria, whose service was marked by several periods of protracted hospitalization. Over the course of five hospitalizations, during which Standifer was treated for bullet wounds, trench foot, and pneumonia, he consistently wrote letters to his family describing his experience. A careful reading of Standifer’s wartime correspondence in conjunction with his published and unpublished writings, secondary source material, and military records, suggest that while isolated in the hospital, after killing and experiencing the death of his comrades, Standifer lost his desire to fight. He began to make calculated decisions based on his knowledge of the military medical system in an attempt to ensure his survival and control the remainder of his military service.

Les formes personnelles du récit (roman à la première personne et roman épistolaire) se sont imposées comme des formes privilégiées de la narration romanesque depuis la fin du dix-septième siècle jusqu'aux années 1760. L’étude a porté sur ce qui a pu inciter les auteurs, féminins ou masculins, à adopter très fréquemment une voix féminine dans ces narrations à la première personne. Qu'autorise cette voix féminine ? Cette adoption implique-t-elle une identification possible au féminin ? S'agit-il au contraire de mieux « construire » une représentation du féminin auquel d'ailleurs, en retour, les femmes peuvent finir par s'identifier ? L’étude a d'abord porté sur l'héritage des voix féminines en revenant à la situation de ce qu'on peut qualifier de « genres féminins » au dix-septième siècle : l’écriture épistolaire et mondaine pratiquée par Madame de Sévigné, les contes de fée, et le genre du roman-mémoires qui se développe sous la plume de romancières comme Mme de Villedieu ou Mme de Murat. Tous ces genres mettent en place certaines images de la féminité et de la narration féminine marquées par l’audace, l’humour, le badin et parfois la mise à mal des modèles héroïques. Ceci nous a menée à la voix de la Marianne de Marivaux qui est le pivot de cette réflexion, en ce qu’elle a incarné le féminin dans le roman-mémoires pendant plusieurs décennies. En amont, il s’agissait de voir en quoi la voix imaginée par Marivaux n’avait pas surgi ex nihilo, mais comment elle avait été préparée par les romancières et écrivaines de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle, et de quelle manière les conditions étaient réunies pour qu’émerge cette voix véritablement fondatrice. En aval, l’étude nous a permis de voir en quoi cette voix a influencé et inspiré les auteurs contemporains de Marivaux ou ceux qui l’ont suivi. L’étude se poursuit par une confrontation entre La Religieuse de Diderot et la Nouvelle Héloïse Rousseau afin d’observer la manière très différente mais en écho dont les deux romanciers faisaient parler des personnages de femmes et ramenaient dans le champ du romanesque une forme de tragique ou de pathétique qui semblait éteindre la voix de Marianne et donc avec elle les voix des romancières et conteuses de la fin du XVIIe siècle. / The personal narrative forms (novels written in the first person and epistolary novels) are among the most commonly used narrative forms in novels written between the end of the seventieth century and the period circa 1760. This research aims to identify the motivations of many male as well as female authors to use very frequently a woman’s voice in their first person narration. What does this woman’s voice allow? Does it mean the author identifies himself with a woman ? Or is it a way to shape a woman’s representation, to which the women, in return, might identify themselves ? This research studies the legacy of women’s voices, through what we may call the feminine narrative forms in the 17th century : the epistolary and mundane writtings of Madame de Sévigné, the fairy tales and the memoir-novels from Mme de Villedieu or Mme de Murat. All these narrative forms convey an image of feminity and feminine narrative forms full of audacity, humour, « badin » and also a certain undermining of the heroic role model. “The voice of Marivaux’s Marianne” is at the center of this reflexion, as she embodied the feminine in the memoir-novels for several decades. A feminine voice who did not appear ex-nihilo but whose emergence was fully prepared by the female novelists and writters of the second half of the 17th century. And a feminine voice who did not disappear with her author, as many Marivaux’s contemporaries and authors in the following years gave new inspirations to this voice. This study also confronted La Religieuse de Diderot and La Nouvelle Héloïse de Rousseau in order to identify the very different, although mirroring ways in which the two authors have the women characters express themselves and bring forward a form of tragedy and pathetic that seems to silence Marianne’s voice and close the era of the female authors and storytellers of the end of the 17th century.

A common way to examine children's language production is to analyze their narrative ability, which has been observed in several studies in various languages. The present study aims to analyze Swedish children's stories at microstructural level (grammatical and utterance level) and macrostructural level (discourse level) and examine how these results differ between two narrative elicitation methods. Furthermore, the study aims to investigate if the results from Swedish and English speaking children differ between these two elicitation methods. The present study involved 40 typically developing children aged 7;0–8;11 years with Swedish as their native language from southeastern Sweden. The two narrative elicitation methods used were personal narrative generation and fictional narrative retell. During personal narrative generation the participants were prompted to share their own experiences based on given themes with image support. In the fictional narrative retell participants were asked to retell the tale "Frog, Where are you?" (Mayer, 1969). The participants' two stories were transcribed in the program Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) and analyzed at micro- and macrostructural level. At the microstructural level the following measures were investigated: Total utterances (TU), Mean Length of Utterance in Words (MLU-w), Type Token Ratio (TTR), Percentage of Maze Words (PcMw), Overgeneralization Errors (EO) and Total Number of Words (TNW). For macrostructural analysis the Narrative Scoring Scheme (NSS) was used. At the microstructural level participants achieved higher MLU-w, TTR and PcMw in the fictional narrative retell than in personal narrative generation. TNW and MLU-w correlated with participants' age at fictional narrative retell. The participants generated higher values regarding TU and TNW in personal narrative generation. Analysis of the macrostructure showed that the majority of the participants achieved higher scores in fictional narrative retell than in personal narrative generation. The results regarding the macrostructural level of the fictional narrative retell correlated with the age of the participants. Similar trends between the elicitation methods appeared in the English-speaking participants.

The aim of this study is to investigate how five boys in grade 3 of compulsory school structure and use language when they write narrative texts retelling and assessing personally experienced events. This is studied by interpreting how the boys use genre steps that are typical of the structure of personal narrative texts and by detecting and naming different linguistic features in the texts. The material in the study consists of five boys’personal reports and the method, which is based on the theories of genre pedagogy (see Johansson & Sandell Ring 2012:28ff, 223f), comes from systemic functional linguistics. A central finding of the study is that the boys structure their texts in varying combinations of genre steps which commonly occur in texts of a narrative kind. Another central finding is that the language in the boys’ texts consists of many verbs and verb groups which explain that someone is acting or doing something, different discourse connectives to indicate time, along with expressions for emotions and descriptions of experiences or objects.

Women in the sex industry struggle with emotional turmoil, drug and alcohol addiction, poverty, and spiritual disillusionment. Their lived experiences as stigmatized individuals engender feelings of powerlessness, which inhibits their attempts to leave the sex industry. This study illuminates how personal narratives develop throughout the process of shedding stigmatized identities and how mutual support functions as a tool in life transformation. Social identity theory and feminist standpoint theory are used as theoretical frameworks of this research, with each theory adding nuanced understanding to life transformations of female former sex workers. Results indicate that women in the sex industry share common narratives that reveal experiences of a "Living Hell", transitional language, and ultimate alignment with traditional norms. Implications of SIT and FST reveal the role of feminist organizations as possible patriarchal entities and adherence to stereotypical masculine ideology as an anchoring factor in continued sex work.

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We all have stories to share, to build, to pass around, to inherit, and to create. This story - the one I piece together now - is about a Thai-/Bengali-/Muslim-/American-/Feminist looking for home, looking to manage the tension and conflict of wanting to belong to her family and to her feminist community. This thesis focuses on the seemingly conflicting obligations to kinship on the one hand and to feminist practice on the other, a conflict where being a good scholar or activist is directly in opposition to being a good Asian daughter. In order to understand how and why these communities appear at odds with one another, I examine how the material spaces and psychological realities inhabited by specific hyphenated, fragmented subjects are represented (and misrepresented) in both popular culture and practical politics, arguing against images of the hybrid body that bracket its lived tensions. I argue that fantasies of home as an unconditional site of belonging and comfort distract us from the multiple communities to which hyphenated subjects must move between. Hyphenated Asian-/American bodies often find ourselves torn between nativism and assimilationism - having to neutralize, forsake, or discard parts of our identities. Thus, I reduce complicated, difficult ideas of being to the size of a thimble, to a question of loyalty between my Asian-/American history and my American-/feminist future, between my familial background and the issues that have become foregrounded for me during college, between the home from which I originate and the new home to which I wish to belong. To move with fluidity, I must - in collaboration with others - invent new stories of identity and belonging.

Working alongside five queer-identified theatre artists, using critical arts-based participatory action research, this research project worked through a creative process in which the research team identified, deconstructed, and disrupted normative queer discourses on the video-sharing website YouTube. Using notions from queer theory, cultural studies, and anti-oppression education, along with embodied analysis as a deconstructive strategy, the research team used collective theorizing and performance to facilitate an analysis of the online videos. In this thesis, I discuss embodied knowing by analyzing performative moments in the creative workshop undertaken by the research team. I then provide a thematic analysis of the online videos, followed by an analysis of how the research team used collective creation and personal narrative to produce a counter-hegemonic response video. Finally, I conclude with a discussion on how to engage video creation as a form of anti-oppression education that queers public pedagogy.

Working alongside five queer-identified theatre artists, using critical arts-based participatory action research, this research project worked through a creative process in which the research team identified, deconstructed, and disrupted normative queer discourses on the video-sharing website YouTube. Using notions from queer theory, cultural studies, and anti-oppression education, along with embodied analysis as a deconstructive strategy, the research team used collective theorizing and performance to facilitate an analysis of the online videos. In this thesis, I discuss embodied knowing by analyzing performative moments in the creative workshop undertaken by the research team. I then provide a thematic analysis of the online videos, followed by an analysis of how the research team used collective creation and personal narrative to produce a counter-hegemonic response video. Finally, I conclude with a discussion on how to engage video creation as a form of anti-oppression education that queers public pedagogy.