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artnoose. Ker-bloom!: It's positive. Pittsburgh, PA: perpetual uncertainty, 2012.

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Castro, Isabel Ann. Positive: A Mini Covid Zine. San Antonio, TX: Isabel Ann Castro, 2021.

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Viet Nam: Spooky and civil affairs-- : positive memories. [United States]: Larry M. Wooster, 2010.

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Karlsen, Eva Lind. Kjærlighetens flyktninger. Oslo: Pax Forlag, 2000.

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The captive's position: Female narrative, male identity, and royal authority in colonial New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

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Sidi, Hila. 222 sipure hashraʼah. [Tel Aviv?]: Simpleasme 222, 2021.

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Position, Nth, ed. From Equations in Nth Position in The Wayback Machine. London, UK, 2011.

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Toledo, Juan Luis Salinas. El peso de la sangre: Viaje personal al sida. Santiago de Chile: Debate, 2019.

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Publicover, Robert J. L. My unicorn has gone away: Life, death, grief and living in the years of AIDS. Somerville, MA: Powder House Pub., 1992.

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Lofton, Rodney. The day I stopped being pretty: A memoir. New York: Strebor Books, 2007.

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Richardson, Ann. Wise before their time: People with AIDS and HIV talk about their lives. London: Fount, 1992.

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Korea and her neighbours: A narrative of travel with an account of the recent vicissitudes and present position of the country. Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1986.

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PhD, Dr Margarita Tarragona. Positive Identities: Narrative Practices and Positive Psychology. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.

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Longoria, Josefina Beatriz. Enjoy: How to Create a Positive Narrative. Lulu Press, Inc., 2021.

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Longoria, Josefina Beatriz. Enjoy: How to Create a Positive Narrative. Lulu Press, Inc., 2021.

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Henning, Margaret. Positive Dynamics: A Systemic Narrative Approach to Facilitating Groups. Red Globe Press, 2016.

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Lieblich, Amia. Narratives of Positive Aging: Seaside Stories. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Dearman, J. Andrew. Narrative Art. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190246488.003.0007.

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This chapter continues the exploration of semantics and its relevance for the art of written expression for interpreting Old Testament narratives. Contemporary and biblical examples of figurative expression are identified and analyzed in their literary and cultural contexts. Three examples from the book of Ruth are analyzed. Naomi’s bitterness in Ruth 1:20–21 is explored in the context of the prayers of lament in ancient Israel. The common description of Boaz and Naomi as persons of worth (hayil) contributes to their positive representation of an Israelite community ethos. The description of Boaz as a kinsman-redeemer offers an example of a term representing a social institution in Israel for the support or rescue of family members in distress.
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W, Burns George. 101 Stories for Enhancing Happiness and Well-Being: Using Metaphors in Positive Psychology and Therapy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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101 Stories for Enhancing Happiness and Well-Being: Using Metaphors in Positive Psychology and Therapy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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W, Burns George. 101 Stories for Enhancing Happiness and Well-Being: Using Metaphors in Positive Psychology and Therapy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Diamond, James A. The Narrative Hell and Normative Bliss of Biblical Love. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805694.003.0006.

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This chapter addresses the question of how to understand a concept as amorphous and abstract as love of an infinite, omniscient, all-knowing God? The answer to that question emerges from a detailed exploration of the biblical perspective on human love, with all of its concrete manifestations and messy complications. The numerous stories of human love misplaced, withheld, or gone awry teach us something about the proper relationship with God, and, by extension, with each other. What emerges is that passionate, unrestrained love, when directed toward other human beings, is fraught with danger. The Bible seems to say that only by making God the supreme object of our desire can we ensure that love will serve as the positive, life-affirming force it was meant to be.
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Bedtime Stories for Children: Collection of Fables and Fairy Tales for Kids with Princesses, Unicorns and Puppies. Positive Narrative to Help Your Kids Fall Asleep Relaxed. Including Christmas Stories. Independently Published, 2020.

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Cox, Lisa E. Narratives on Positive Aging: Recipes for Success. Cognella Academic Publishing, 2017.

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Bhui, Hindpal Singh. Understanding Muslim Prisoners through a Global Lens. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0013.

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This chapter discusses how narratives about security, extremism, and migration may be influenced by racist stereotyping, thereby undermining positive engagement between prison staff and Muslim prisoners in England and Wales. It argues that wider discourses about Muslim prisoners are dominated by a narrative of threat that draws strongly on anti-migrant feelings and racism, encouraged by growing scepticism about British multiculturalism and essentialist conceptualizations of minority groups. The chapter suggests that the damaging impact of this narrative can be challenged through better incorporation into practice of the insights of empirical research involving foreign and Muslim prisoners.
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Friedenthal, Andrew J. Retcon Game. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496811325.001.0001.

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This book argues that the narrative/world-building technique known as retroactive continuity, often overlooked by literary scholars and media historians alike, has become a naturalized and ubiquitous part of popular culture. A careful look at the history of retroactive continuity–or retconning– reveals how its growing acceptance as a part of popular narratives has led to a complex, complicated understanding of the ways in which history and story can interact, ultimately creating a cultural atmosphere that is increasingly accepting of revisionist historical narratives. This can be seen most potently in the way that the editable hyperlink, rather than the stable footnote, has become the de facto source of information in America today. The groundwork for this major cultural shift has been laid for decades via our modes of entertainment. To embrace the concept of retroactive continuity in fictional media means accepting that the past, itself, is not a stable element, but rather something that is constantly in contentious flux. Thus retconning, on the whole, has a positive impact on society, fostering a sense of history itself as a constructed narrative and engendering an acceptance of how historical narratives can and should be recast to allow for a broader field of stories to be told in the present.
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Federman, Sarah, and Ronald Niezen, eds. Narratives of Mass Atrocity. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009110693.

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Individuals can assume—and be assigned—multiple roles throughout a conflict: perpetrators can be victims, and vice versa; heroes can be reassessed as complicit and compromised. However, accepting this more accurate representation of the narrativized identities of violence presents a conundrum for accountability and justice mechanisms premised on clear roles. This book considers these complex, sometimes overlapping roles, as people respond to mass violence in various contexts, from international tribunals to NGO-based social movements. Bringing the literature on perpetration in conversation with the more recent field of victim studies, it suggests a new, more effective, and reflexive approach to engagement in post-conflict contexts. Long-term positive peace requires understanding the narrative dynamics within and between groups, demonstrating that the blurring of victim-perpetrator boundaries, and acknowledging their overlapping roles, is a crucial part of peacebuilding processes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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van der Vossen, Bas, and Jason Brennan. Positive-Sum Global Justice. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190462956.003.0001.

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After describing the stunning wealth that some people in our world enjoy, the chapter contrasts two ways of thinking about the sources of such wealth and poverty. While many people believe this is the result of a maldistribution of resources, the empirical truth is that wealth results from people’s productive forces being harnessed for the common good. The chapter then contrasts two different approaches to thinking about global justice, which largely line up with these two narratives about global poverty and wealth. According to the zero-sum approach, solving global poverty must, in some way, require redistributing resources from rich to poor. According to the positive-sum approach, which the authors favor, the just solution to global poverty emulates what creates wealth: enabling people around the world to become productive, contributing to both their own welfare and that of others.
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Biblical Psychotherapy: Reclaiming Scriptural Narratives for Positive Psychology and Suicide Prevention. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2019.

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Biblical Psychotherapy: Reclaiming Scriptural Narratives for Positive Psychology and Suicide Prevention. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2017.

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Pratt, Michael W., and M. Kyle Matsuba. Personality and Psychological Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199934263.003.0010.

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Chapter 10 reviews the literature on personality development and adjustment during the transition to adulthood, using the McAdams and Pals model. The authors especially draw on the growing literature on the life story and positive adaptation by contemporary narrative researchers. Certain styles or qualities, such as optimistic and redemptive themes, may be important resources in helping young adults cope with difficult issues in their lives. The authors then describe some of their own research evidence on narratives of life experiences and adjustment in the Futures Study. The chapter ends with a case study of Ishmael Beah, who, during his emerging adulthood, wrote a book on his life as an African child soldier and described the difficult process of redemptive change and recovery from this traumatic experience.
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Murphey, Tim. Voicing Learning. Candlin & Mynard ePublishing Limited, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47908/18.

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A multi-voiced narrative to help educators understand the worth and procedures of ideal classmates, action logging, social testing, juggling, songlets, storytelling, and class publications through developing educational well-being, meaningfulness and positive psychology.
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Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative. Edited by Brycchan Carey. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198707523.001.0001.

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‘I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.’ Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author)s account of his enslavement after his childhood kidnapping in Africa, and his journey from slavery to freedom. Equiano was slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker merchant, and he vividly depicts the appalling treatment of enslaved people at sea and on land. He takes part in naval engagements, is shipwrecked, and has other exciting adventures on his travels to the Caribbean, America, and the Arctic. Equiano claimed his own freedom and became an important abolitionist, but his Narrative is much more than merely a political pamphlet. The most important African autobiography of the eighteenth century, it has achieved an increasingly central position among the century)s great works of literature. The introduction to this edition surveys recent debates about Equiano's birthplace and identity, and considers his campaigning role and literary achievements.
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Kahn, Andrew, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler. Local narratives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199663941.003.0005.

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Intergenerational feuds gave rise to literary works about dynastic continuity, which transformed local military warriors into religious heroes and led to the elevation of the Grand Prince as a national leader, a position crystallized late in the period by Ivan IV. The chapter charts a narrative about invasion and survival after the thirteenth-century depredations of the Mongols, and discusses how scribal techniques adjusted versions of texts to suit the ideology of dynastic claimants. Prose narratives and two epics tell a story of the trauma of conquest and the potential for renewal. Historical discourses employed a language of natural boundaries, relying on river, plain, and forest imagery to create a symbolic geography of the Russian state.
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Bauer, Jack. The Transformative Self. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199970742.001.0001.

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Everyone wants a good life. Some try to create a good life by cultivating personal growth. They have a transformative self. This book explains how people form a transformative self, primarily in their evolving life stories, to help cultivate growth toward a life of happiness, love, and wisdom for the self and others. It introduces an innovative framework of values and personhood to strengthen and integrate three main areas of study: narrative identity, the good life, and personal growth. The result is a unique model of humane growth and human flourishing. Each chapter builds on that framework to explore topics central to the transformative self, such as how cultural beliefs of a good life shape our narrative identity; how narrative thinking shapes cultural and personal beliefs of a good life; how cultural master narratives shape our ideals for personal growth; how growth differs from gain, recovery, and other positive changes in the life story; how happiness, love, wisdom, and growth serve as superordinate goods in life; how the hard and soft margins of society thwart and facilitate personal growth; the dark side of growth; and the lengthy development of authenticity and self-actualizing. This book synthesizes scholarship from scientific research across several subfields of psychology to philosophy, literature, history, and cultural studies. It offers a creative and scientifically grounded framework for exploring three of life’s perennial questions: How do we make sense of our lives? What is a good life? and How do we create one?
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Fair, Alistair. ‘At the End of a Boom?’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807476.003.0008.

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This chapter discusses theatre-building in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The 1970s has often been characterized as a period of economic and political crisis in British history in which the welfare state project was challenged. Yet theatre-building continued throughout the decade: in Scotland the late 1970s saw significant progress in several key projects. The chapter discusses the extent to which contextualism and economy were significant themes in the conception and design of such examples as Bristol Theatre Royal’s studio, Eden Court (Inverness), Pitlochry Festival Theatre, and Dundee Repertory Theatre. It also continues the narrative into the 1980s, showing how the likes of Plymouth Theatre Royal and the West Yorkshire Playhouse represent an evolution of ideas established during the previous two decades. The chapter concludes by aligning the history of theatre architecture in these decades with a recent trend to advance more positive narratives of their history generally.
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Sandler, Willeke. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190697907.003.0010.

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This short epilogue takes the story of the leading colonialists into the post-1945 period and assesses the historiographical narrative of post-war colonial amnesia. This amnesia did not begin in 1945, however, but in the 1930s and 1940s through the work of colonialists. In their efforts to situate overseas colonialism within the needs of the present and of value for the future, colonialists had created an overly positive narrative that emphasized an inherent German aptitude for administering Africa. After the war, these ideals could find expression through development or nature preservation, even though (or perhaps because) they no longer bore a specific association with Germany’s past of formal colonialism.
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Allen, Roger. Selected Studies in Modern Arabic Narrative. Lockwood Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/2019765.

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No Western scholar has contributed as much to the study of modern Arabic narrative as has Roger Allen. His doctoral dissertation was the very first Oxford D.Phil. in modern Arabic literature, completed in 1968 under the supervision of Mustafa Badawi. That same year, he took a position in Arabic language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, the oldest professorial post in Arabic in the United States. Roger Allen has been phenomenally prolific: fifty books and translations, two hundred articles and counting—on Arabic language pedagogy, on translation, on Arabic literary history, criticism and literature. He is also one of the most decorated and acclaimed translators of Arabic literature. The present volume brings together sixteen of Roger Allen’s articles on modern Arabic narrative, with a focus on genre, translation, and literary history, and features analyses of the works of Rashid Abu Jadrah, Bensalem Himmich, Yusuf Idris, Naguib Mahfouz, and Tayeb Salih.
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Toulouse, Teresa A. Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

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Roberts, Laura Morgan, and Stephanie J. Creary. Navigating the Self in Diverse Work Contexts. Edited by Quinetta M. Roberson. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199736355.013.0005.

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Navigating the self is critical for working in a diverse world, in which different identities interact in social space. This chapter presents five theoretical perspectives on how individuals navigate the self in diverse organizational contexts—social identity, critical identity, (role) identity, narrative-as-identity, and identity work. We review these five prominent theoretical perspectives on identity processes in diverse contexts to explicate various ways in which individuals actively participate in the co-construction of their identities in diverse contexts. As a next step in research, identity, diversity, and relationship scholars are encouraged to inquire into the generativity of proposed tactics for navigating the self in order to identify pathways for cultivating more positive identities in diverse work settings. The examination of positive relational identities is considered a promising path for further inquiry in this domain.
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Dearman, J. Andrew. Characters in the Book of Ruth. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190246488.003.0005.

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This chapter explores characters and point of view in the book of Ruth as an example of narrative analysis. Both major (rounded or developed) and minor (flat) characters in the narrative are examined. The depiction of Israel’s God, also a character in the short story, is also briefly discussed. Three pairs of characters play off one another. They are Ruth and Orpah, Ruth and Naomi, Boaz and an unnamed kinsman. The relationships between the characters present aspects of an Israelite community ethos, the positive elements of which are commitment to the health and vitality of the family. The actions of both Boaz and Ruth are described by the Hebrew word hesed, a term for loyalty and kindness that exceeds the requirements of law and custom.
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Toulouse, Teresa A. The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

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Positively Ninety: Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians. Larkspur Productions, 2011.

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Rathunde, Kevin, and Russell Isabella. Playing Music and Identity Development in Middle Adulthood. Edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.7.

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Middle adulthood is a complex developmental period that can involve heavy responsibilities. However, it can also be an opportune time to reflect on priorities that have emotional salience; explore novel ways to individuate and attend to neglected aspects of the self; and forges social integration that enhances a sense of meaning and purpose. This chapter explores how playing music can enter this midlife space and facilitate these positive outcomes. It does so by combining a conceptual framework on identity development with an autoethnographic narrative emerging from the first author’s recreational music making. The narrative adds experiential detail and first-hand description to the theoretical ideas presented about identity growth. A main theme in the chapter is that intrinsically motivated leisure activities like playing music can facilitate successful aging by helping a person create a more tailor-made identity that better suits their unique interests and circumstances.
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Clarke, Katherine. Shaping the Geography of Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820437.001.0001.

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This is a book about the multiple worlds that Herodotus creates in his narrative. The constructed landscape in Herodotus’ work incorporates his literary representation of the natural world from the broadest scope of continents right down to the location of specific episodes. His ‘charging’ of those settings through mythological associations and spatial parallels adds further depth and resonance. The physical world of the Histories is in turn altered by characters in the narrative whose interactions with the natural world form part of Herodotus’ inquiry, and add another dimension to the meaning given to space, combining notions of landscape as physical reality and as constructed reality. Geographical space is not a neutral backdrop, nor simply to be seen as Herodotus’ ‘creation’, but it is brought to life as a player in the narrative, the interaction with which reinforces the positive or negative characterizations of the protagonists. Analysis of focalization is embedded in this study of Herodotean geography in two ways—firstly, in the configurations of space contributed by different viewpoints on the world; and secondly, in the opinions about human interaction with geographical space which emerge from different narrative voices. The multivocal nature of the narrative complicates whether we can identify a single ‘Herodotean’ world, still less one containing consistent moral judgements. Furthermore, the mutability of fortune renders impossible a static Herodotean world, as successive imperial powers emerge. The exercise of political power, manifested metaphorically and literally through control over the natural world, generates a constantly evolving map of imperial geography.
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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. “Desperate for Intimacy”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.003.0008.

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Chapter 6 shifts focus from French to North American real sex films, beginning with film reviewers’ positive response to the film Shortbus because it contains an optimistic humor absent from European-made films. Addressing these industry critiques of European “doomed, furtive or violent” real sex as in Intimacy, the chapter asks: Does this represent a different worldview? It draws on Kelley Conway’s interest in seeking out different authorship/generic configurations within a historical “malaise” by exploring the layers of narrative history conveyed by comedy and political subtext in John Cameron Mitchell’s U.S-made film Shortbus. The chapter argues that Shortbus and Michael Winterbottom’s British real sex film 9 Songs have a similar combination of sex and music, but find that this is used in very different narrative ways. Moreover, unlike 9 Songs, Shortbus has a strong political subtext that critiques both the current (capitalist) commoditization of communication technologies and the US invasion of Iraq.
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Drobak, John N. Rethinking Market Regulation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197578957.001.0001.

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Rethinking Market Regulation: Helping Labor by Overcoming Economic Myths tackles the plight of workers who lose their jobs from mergers and outsourcing by examining two economic “principles,” or narratives that have shaped the perception of the economic system in the United States today: (1) the notion that the U.S. economy is competitive, making government market regulation unnecessary, and (2) the claim that corporations exist for the benefit of their shareholders but not for other stakeholders. Contrary to popular belief, this book demonstrates that many markets are not competitive but rather are oligopolistic. This conclusion undercuts the common refrain that government market regulation is unnecessary because competition already provides sufficient constraints on business. Part of the lack of competition has resulted from the large mergers over the past few years, many of which have resulted in massive layoffs. The second narrative has justified the outsourcing of millions of jobs of U.S. workers this century, made possible by globalization. The book argues that this narrative is not an economic principle but rather a normative position. In effect, both narratives are myths, although they are accepted as truisms by many people. The book ties together a concern for the problems of using economic principles as a justification for the lack of government intervention with the harm that has been caused to workers. The book’s recommendations for a new regulatory regime are a prescription for helping labor by limiting job losses from mergers and outsourcing.
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Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS. Sumach Press, 1992.

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Positive Reflections on My Life: Pre-School to Professor Emeritus (1914 - Present). Vantage Pr, 2004.

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Magoulick, Mary J. The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496837066.001.0001.

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Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk. ” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.
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