Réécrire l'Histoire pour les enfants du point de vue des Amérindiens : devoir de mémoire, devoir d'imagination (Brésil, États-Unis) by Pauline Franchini

“…This couldn't be the case in historical novels dealing with colonial and pre-colonial times, most of all those written by native american or afro-descendant writers affected by postcolonial issues: in these novels, the interpretation of historical events according to the point of view in which it is narrated – often that of the vainquished - is crucial. …”
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The Evolution of Venezuelan Evangelical Involvement in Politics: The Case of the 2024 Presidential Elections by Fernando Adolfo Mora-Ciangherotti

“…Despite allegations of human rights abuses, corruption, and violations of the Venezuelan constitution, some evangelicals created a narrative about NMM as the “protector of families” and as God’s chosen one to usher in a new era of prosperity for the nation. …”
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4 3 2 1, The Book of Endlessly Forking Paths by Ilana Shiloh

“…This premise dictates Auster’s narrative strategy, which involves the juxtaposition of four alternative versions of the protagonist’s character and life. …”
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Learning from collaborative ‘conversations’ on the Students as Producer Pedagogic model: students’ views by Kate Strudwick, Phil Johnson

“…The reflections and narratives that emerged from the collaborative conversations are grouped (and explored) via four key themes: student engagement, research skills, employability, and curriculum design; a number of similarities and differences are also highlighted in relation to the two projects. …”
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Interview as an Act of Seduction: Analysing Problems I Have Met during My Fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury by Tiina Sepp

“…I will approach problems arising during folkloristic fieldwork and the focus will be on researching belief narrative in personal experience stories. A lot has been written about fieldwork and in this article I am going to add my thoughts on topics that have already been discussed in self-critical reflexive style by several scholars: the different roles of the researcher and the problematic interactional relationship between researcher and informant; power relationships in an interview situation; combining emic and etic perspectives in researching; being ambivalent about which reality we really belong to. …”
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Digital transformation and corporate strategy by A. L. Denisova, A. N. Lopatnikov

“…We offer an alternative narrative digital transformation, which we argue is better described as going «more digital». …”
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Valuing students’ mindsets in essay compositions: Active learning and feedback approaches by Aisah Apridayani, Budi Waluyo

“…During a 12-week course, 91 undergraduate students engaged in writing various types of academic essays, receiving iterative feedback and participating in collaborative writing tasks aimed at enhancing both technical proficiency and metacognitive awareness. Employing narrative inquiry, the study analyzed students' reflective essays to identify the key factors shaping their mindsets. …”
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Benjamin’s gamble: commodifying life in the age of heroic demise by Stephanie Polsky

“…Benjamin became fascinated with charting the social narrative of the future dead, whether they existed in a celebrated state as it was the case with heroic suicide or as tragic disposable bodies that National Socialism would eventually excise by deeming them unworthy of life. …”
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To speak about me is to speak about all of us: Memories and emotions among Afro-Argentine activists by Paola Monkevicius

“…Differences are noted between the subalternized Afro-descendant memories of male leaders and those produced by women activists, who incorporate affective and biographical dimensions into the production of public narratives in spaces of dialogue between the Afro community and the state. …”
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“You are stealing our future in front of our very eyes.” The representation of climate change, emotions and the mobilisation of young environmental activists in Britain by Sarah PICKARD

“…First, climate change is represented as a “crisis” or an “emergency” and placed within dystopian narratives. Second, older generations, particularly politicians, are urged to take swift and substantial action, to both fulfil their generational responsibility towards young and future generations, and to avoid ecological collapse.This article discusses the impact of such discourse on the activism of young protesters. …”
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Vladimir Nabokov, un exemple d’aliénation créatrice by Marie Bouchet

“…In his fiction, many “estranged” characters are to be found, especially as main focalizers or first-person narrators. The present article thus demonstrates how the concept of frontier is crucial to interpreting such alien status: these characters are forever estranged, due to geographical borders, temporal distances or linguistic barriers. …”
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Assessment of national urban planning standards in structure plan preparation: a study of major urban centers in Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia by Degu Bekele Nigatu

“…The reliability and validity of the data was checked and data was analyzed by combining the content and narrative analysis. Although some complexities, challenges and the peculiar characteristics of the urban centers are expected, the study mainly found that the structure plans of these urban centers are not prepared based on the manuals and standards. …”
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Between giants and windmills: Lulismo in the presidential elections of 2018 by Mércia Alves, Joyce Miranda Leão Martins

“…It is concluded that Lulismo was mobilized to fight against the Temer government and the Brazilian Social Democratic Party, which were not dangerous rivals; however, it failed to build a narrative against the “dragons” of anti-petismo that questioned not only the Brazilian electoral game, but the democratic regime itself.…”
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Women in Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Poetry by Abidemi Bolarinwa

“…Gender ideology contains legends, narratives and myths about what it means to be a man or a woman and suggests how each should behave in a society (Olabode, 2009). …”
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«Hijabis» in Spain: their construction as microcelebrities through their YouTube channels by Daniel-David Muñoz-Morcillo, Alejandra Walzer-Moskovic

“…Muslim hijabis content creators on YouTube play a central role in identity-building dialogues for a community that is often overlooked and lacks positive role models and its own narratives. These women emerge as microcelebrities within their community by creating authentic, intimate, accessible, and frequent content that fosters a deep and affectionate bond with their followers, who progressively develop a sense of identification and connection. …”
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Black Pepper’s Anti-Aging and Chemoprevention Properties: A Review by Endah

“…To help with the explanation in the narrative, all the data was compiled and summarized into tables and graphs. …”
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L’abandon et l’appel, ou l’optimisme paradoxal de Graham Greene dans The Power and the Glory by René Gallet

“…However, this fails to consider Greene’s little-known statement to the contrary, as well as important aspects of the novel, one of them being the idea of “glory” in the title. In the narrative itself, a fragmented presence of beauty can be discovered as early as the opening scene, and more particularly within Mr Tench’s seedy universe. …”
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The Crack in the Cornerstone: Victorian Identity Conflicts and the Representation of the Sepoy Mutiny in Metropolitan and Anglo-Indian Novels by Flaminia Nicora

“…Attention will also be paid to class conflicts and to their representation in the Mutiny novel, as much as to other “inconsistencies” shown by narrative in the hegemony definition of roles.…”
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Rewriting the intersex body: On the opera adaptation of Herculine Barbin’s Memoirs by Gonzalo Iturregui-Gallardo

“…This framework serves to analyse the different adaptations (story, film and opera) and to argue that the opera presents a more queer-conscious narrative and a character who, despite being a victim of the social constraints of her time, was also master of her non-normative sexuality and desire. …”
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Orality in War Novels: Different Aspects of Swear Words in Henri Barbusse’s and Ahmadou Kourouma’s works by Joanna Kotowska-Miziniak

“…In spite of a temporal distance, a generic framework and a narrative structure that separates the two novels, they both present one major common feature which is the concern to describe the martial experiences – real or imagined – in a direct and personal way, which finds its expression at the lexical level. …”
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