Os convivas da morte no banquete das almas: presença de eguns em um conto de João Antônio by Gilberto Figueiredo Martins

“…In the short story analyzed in this essay - "Eguns" - João Antônio (1937-1996), a writer from São Paulo, presents a narrator who describes in detail an unusual religious celebration held in Bahia, meant for the cult of ances- tors. …”
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Friendship: Indigenous Hosts & German Travelers by Renae Watchman

“… 18th-19th centuries travel to the "contact zones" of diverse Indigenous communities by European Others initiated new experiences, which were further re-presented to Europe via detailed, albeit onesided narratives. The Indigenous – as a site or as a prototype – were imagined, fictionalized, and befriended by German explorer-intellectuals through Travel Literature. …”
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Les cheveux de sainte Thérèse, ou le sacré comme dispositif by Marie Caillat

“…The objective of this research is to understand how the devices used to exhibit relics and the narration of the biographies of saints can produce both object and subject – souvenir, relic or saints – as well as thought, for example, of death.…”
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Whose Voice? Tim Crouch’s The Author and Active Listening on the Contemporary Stage by Vicky Angelaki

“…It provides a critical engagement with the spectatorial experience of the piece so as to problematize the multiple uses of the physical medium of voice and speech in a contemporary play that delivers a fresh angle to narrativity and metatheatricality. At the same time, the essay probes the varied range of possibilities but also realistic extent of audience involvement in the play, tracing its deep textual contingencies to produce an overall understanding of the equally rewarding and precarious interrelationship between performance piece and audience.  …”
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La mémoire de l’esclavage à travers la religion vaudou by Alessandra Brivio

“…À travers l’étude de la possession dans le culte Tchamba, on peut voir comment parallèlement à la narration historique, il y a d’autres façons de raconter et se remémorer l’histoire.…”
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Effects of Digital Storytelling Package on Students’ Motivation and Attitude to Christian Religious Studies (CRS) in Junior Secondary Schools by Adetunmbi L. Akinyemi, Jonathan Iyanuoluwa Makinde

“…En outre, on a observé un effet significatif du kit de narration numérique sur la motivation et l'attitude des élèves (F (2 ; 61) = 29,67 ; p = 0,49 pour la motivation, et F (2 ; 61) = 32,49 ; p = 0,52 pour l'attitude). …”
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Faide indiane e allarmismi lombardi. La mediatizzazione del conflitto ‘etnico’ e la sua eco sulla quotidiana convivenza migranti/autoctoni by Sara Bonfanti

“…Through ethnographic narratives and local chronicles, I contrast the stakes of immigrants and natives, citizens and officials, unraveling how the identity outcomes of that drama affected social interactions and integration of the Panjabi communities long established in the area.  …”
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Incertezza e cambiamento climatico nell’era dell’Antropocene by Elena Bougleux

“…Climate change appears as a major driver of identity crisis, affecting changes at local and global level in terms of spaces, security, livelihood and weather. The prevailing narration on climate change describes unfamiliar scenarios struck by exceptional events, that rarely can be connected with personal experiences. …”
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De l’exposition à la décomposition prismatique : art de la mémoire et arts visuels dans Speak, Memory de Vladimir Nabokov by Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty

“…Framing and pictorial devices allow the narrator to highlight significant episodes and salvage them from the flow of time while allusions to photography invite the reader to analyze the complex dialectic of light and darkness, and awareness and oblivion at work in the emergence of memories. …”
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Beyond the Status of Health: A Collection of Stories Representing Diverse Maternal Mental Health Perspectives by Sara Santarossa, Ruth A. Blake, Heather Buchanan, Mercedes Price, Rachael Guzzardo, Craig Guzzardo, LaKenya M. Johnson, Jacobeth M. Morshall, Andrea Bate, Wayne Bate, Riziki Bakari, Leah Copeland, Dana Murphy, Ashley Redding, Amy Loree

“…As part of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington Engagement Award aimed at improving capacity to address maternal mental health in research, this collection of eight stories describes the unique experiences from caregivers (N = 2), patient/caregiver dyads (N = 2), healthcare stakeholders (N = 2), and community stakeholders (N = 2). Shared here are narratives dedicated to uplifting and supporting maternal mental health through storytelling. …”
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"I'm Not Like Most of You Here, I'm Just an Alcoholic": A Russian Baptist Theory of Addiction by Igor Mikeshin

“…However, during the program, rehabilitants learn Russian Baptist dogma and theology, and soon afterwards the distinction becomes obsolete for them. I address narratives of distinction and the Russian Baptist response to them. …”
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Le monument naturel dans le mythe de l’Ouest chez Washington Irving, Mark Twain et Walt Whitman by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…This article deals with the image of the natural monument and considers its function in 19th-century representations of the West, especially in three travel narratives—A Tour on the Prairies by Washington Irving, Roughing It by Mark Twain and Specimen Days by Walt Whitman. …”
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Genre, migrations et sédentarités by Colette Le Petitcorps

“…We focus on their situation, space practices and social image in the place of their return home by bringing together an insight on their migration (hi)story and an analysis of the various ways by which migrations and settling processes patterns interact. The women narratives and the interviews with some people from their neighborhood in Mauritius gathered through fieldwork help understanding the sense of migration and of settled way of life from the subject point of view. …”
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The Dream House of American Culture: Archives of the Self, Visions of the Future by Myrto Drizou

“… In this essay, I argue that American literature and culture help students draw more expansive geographies of their selves and more articulate narratives of their experiences. Using Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House as an example, I show how students are empowered to make meaningful connections between the personal and the political, and how they are encouraged to reflect on their “home” identities, especially with regard to race, class, sexuality, and gender. …”
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The The street names in East Central European cities and towns in the pre-industrial period from a comparative perspective by Orysia Vira

“…The study underscores the relevance of historical atlases in facilitating comparative research, shedding light on street names as repositories of narratives. These names, carrying echoes of professions, ethnic origins, and geographical landmarks, serve as windows into urban evolution and societal dynamics. …”
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Z doświadczeń uczestników projektu THRIECE – perspektywa dziecka i dorosłego by Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska

“…In this article a qualitative analysis of teachers’ utterances was applied and children’s narrations with mosaic approach were used. Classes observations, children’s utterances and their pieces of work were helpful. …”
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Bobruisk line of defense at the end of June 1941 by S. E. Novikov, A. V. Sushko

“…The commentary, based on the use of little-known documentary information, reveals the content of the traditional and new historiographic narratives about the defensive battles of the Red Army in the context of solving local problems of keeping one of the defensive lines on the Berezina River near the Belarusian city of Bobruisk by Soviet troops. …”
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La primera fase del Estado-nación en España, 1808-1880: cambios sociales y espacios políticos by Jesús Millán

“…For a long time the prevailing narratives of historiography had usually considered the problems of democracy and national identity in 20th Century-Spain as a linear result of unsuccessful processes, concerning both the Nation and the State, in the early 19th Century. …”
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The power of metaphor in thesis writing process by Hanić Jasmina, Pavlović Tanja, Jašić Alma Jahić

“…Despite the fact that thesis writers themselves were not encouraged to pay attention to or use metaphorical language, their narratives reveal the interplay of metaphors when describing the writing process.…”
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O Luto em Portugal: da Corte à Gente Comum (séculos XV-XVI) by Ana Mafalda Pereira Lopes

“…We will analyze the concepts and practices of mourning and their evolution throughout the Early Modern period, by reviewing the contents mainly of royal chronicles, inserting the narratives of mourning in their political contexts. …”
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