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Gunders, Lisa. "Social issues in television fiction". Critical Discourse Studies 8, nr 2 (maj 2011): 147–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2011.558694.
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Mellen, Joan. "Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900––1934". Film Quarterly 61, nr 2 (2007): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2007.61.2.10.
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ABSTRACT This review essay of a National Film Preservation Foundation archival DVD boxed set of fiction and non-fiction films from the Progressive era emphasizes the underlying optimism about the future that is discernible even in those films that treat harrowing subjects (such as social deprivation, violence, and industrial exploitation).
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ATTIA, Nesrine, i Kantaoui MOHAMED. "CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE FICTION WRITING SOCIAL AND HOMELAND ISSUES". RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, nr 07 (1.09.2021): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.7-3.2.
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The narrative story has evolved from its precursor, when the old myths are shattered, in which the new novel has become a text with numerous cultural formats within its contents. Fragmentation and separation have been two of the most significant aspects of modern creative writing. In order to grasp the evolving reality, novelists must assume new creative forms in which the reader joins the realms of secrecy and marginalization. Those looking for the positions of the novelist critics will notice that contemporary writing has occupied a distinguished position due to the issues it raises regarding humanity and the homeland and pushing its readers to become conscious and understand what is lacking. The issues of the homeland have become thorny issues due to the imagination of the novelist and his intellectuality. It became more and more evident. The novel, with its transformation and development in content and structure, has become an autonomous literary genre that hides complex topics beyond the words. Its reader must search for distinct critical mechanisms to read it and decode its words. Hence, contemporary novelists did not write fictional texts arbitrarily. But, behind every text there was a significance and a human issue affecting the community whose conditions deteriorated socially and politically. From the above, we will try, in this research paper, to dig into the depth of the issue and reveal the features of the contemporary fictional text and its marginalization. Perhaps the most important question is: Did contemporary creative writing really contribute to educating societies? And revealed the issues that are absent and marginalized? Will the continuation of this type of writing change and solve the nation's crises? In order to answer these questions, we have to research contemporary creative writing and dive into the most important cultural, social, political and even ideological systems.
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Burridge, Joseph. "Review: Social Issues in Television Fiction Lesley Henderson". Critical Social Policy 28, nr 3 (sierpień 2008): 400–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183080280031003.
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Abdulla, Bayeshanov. "ARTISTIC LITERATURE - EDUCATOR OF A PERFECT GENERATION". Frontline Social Sciences and History Journal 03, nr 05 (1.05.2023): 125–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/social-fsshj-03-05-17.
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The article highlights the importance of fiction in educating the future of our country, the young generation, its role in the education of the nation, as well as the issues of strengthening the faith of the intellectual generation of our country, instilling national identity through fiction.
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Y. Gashi, Agron. "Fact and Fiction in Autoconfession: A Theoretical Confrontation". Journal of Educational and Social Research 11, nr 6 (5.11.2021): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2021-0132.
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The formulation of the topic fact and fiction in auto-confession is a result of earlier research in which the greatest theoretical confrontation takes place in the area of autobiographical prose. This paper investigates and explores issues with which contemporary poetics is faced regarding the concepts in question, especially when they coexist within a work concerned either with genre codification or with undefined status (i.e. hybrid genre). Such discussions are often accompanied by great dilemmas on whether auto-confessional texts such as autobiography or autobiographical prose should be considered fact or fiction. Being a fierce confrontation, especially for a genre that is considered a compromising genre in which the facts are weaved according to the fictional practice, this paper proposes that a double reading (fact-fiction) will highlight issues that are essential to interpret and decode a text of autoconfessional premises and, beyond that, a codification of the genre when dilemmas grow and become even larger: in fiction, nonfiction, novel, autobiographical novel, autobiography, etc.
Received: 27 January 2021 / Accepted: 2 September 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021
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Dr. Vishnu Kumar. "Social Resistance in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable". Creative Launcher 7, nr 4 (30.08.2022): 96–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.4.13.
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Mulk Raj Anand was a revolutionary writer of the twentieth century India who changed the mode of writing and thinking in the field of Indian fiction writing. The novelists before him, who had written fiction, wrote the fictional side of life which were ideal and romantic in nature. There were a smaller number of issues of the society. Mulk Raj Anand’s writing brought revolutionary change in the field of fiction writing. He wrote the novels for the sake of untouchables and the poor. He raised the issues of casteism, capitalism, feudalism, colonialism and imperialism through his novels. In Untouchable, he has attacked one of the worst social evils of the Indian society which was ignored by the previous writers and that is blot on Indian society, culture and tradition that has colonized eighty five percent people of Indian society. This sensibility has ruined creativity of Indian people. Casteism and untouchability are the blots on the face of humanity. Anand seems fighting for the liberty, equality and justice of the untouchables and the poor. He appealed for the basic human rights and needs in the newly emerging civil structure of colonial and post-independence India. He had the opinion among all the fundamental rights that human dignity is the highest. Bakha, the leading character, had the resistance in the mind but he could not express it due to the fear of his caste. Bakha is a metaphor for all the untouchables of India.
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DAVIES, Rebecca Ufuoma. "Gender Issues for Social Reformation in Contemporary African Women's Fiction". European Modern Studies Journal 7, nr 2 (25.05.2023): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.59573/emsj.7(2).2023.06.
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Contemporary African women's fiction has been a significant site of exploration for issues of gender and its intersections with other identity markers such as race, class, and sexuality. This paper provides an overview of the gender issues present in contemporary African women's fiction and analyzes how these authors are engaging with feminist thoughts and theories in their works. The paper begins by exploring the patriarchal nature of African societies and how this has been challenged by African women writers through their portrayal of female characters who resist societal norms and expectations. The paper then analyzes the various forms of oppression that African women face, including sexual violence, female genital mutilation, and forced marriages. Additionally, the paper considers the role of African women in politics and how they are represented in literature. The paper argues that contemporary African women writers are challenging Western feminist thoughts and developing forms of feminist theory that are more inclusive and relevant to African contexts. The study concludes that African women's fiction is an important site of feminist discourse and offers valuable insights into the gender issues that affect African women today.
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Rhee, Jooyeon. "Making Sense of Fiction: Social and Political Functions of Serialized Fiction in the Daily News (Maeil sinbo) in 1910s Korea". Journal of Korean Studies 22, nr 1 (1.03.2017): 227–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21581665-4153385.
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Abstract Modern Korean newspapers played a decisive role in transforming the Korean fiction genre in the early twentieth century―a transformation that was carried out in two distinctively different cultural and political environments. In the 1900s, reform-minded Korean intellectuals translated and authored fictional works in newspapers primarily as a way to instigate Koreans to participate in the nation-building process during the Patriotic Enlightenment movement (Aeguk kyemong undong) period. When Japan annexed Korea in 1910, the Daily News (Maeil sinbo) continually used fiction as a vehicle to deliver the colonial government’s assimilation policy, that is, to raise Korea’s socioeconomic and cultural status, with the aim of civilizing the society. The rhetoric of civilization is a common feature in fictional works produced during the period. However, what characterized the works serialized in Maeil sinbo was their increasing focus on individual desire and domestic affairs, which manifested itself in the form of courtship and familial conflicts. The confrontation between private desire and family relationships in these fictional works represented the prospect of higher education and economic equity while invoking emotional responses to the contradictory social reality of colonial assimilation in the portrayal of domestic issues in fiction. Looking at Maeil sinbo and its serialization of fiction not as a fixed totality of the Japanese imperial force but as a discursive space where contradicting views on civilization were formed, this paper scrutinizes emotional renderings of individuality and domesticity reflected in Maeil sinbo’s serialized fiction in the early 1910s.
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Lackey, Chad. "Social Science Fiction: Writing Sociological Short Stories to Learn about Social Issues". Teaching Sociology 22, nr 2 (kwiecień 1994): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1318562.
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Tamanisau, Lisa. "REVIEW: A smoothing journey of wit, serious social issues". Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 8, nr 1 (1.06.2002): 181–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v8i1.744.
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Review of Niu Waves, edited by Robert Nicole. Pacific Writing Forum and the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, University of the South Pacific.
Niu Waves is a collection of short fiction and poetry by a group of writers who are dominantly products of Fiji but who are also a part of the Niu Waves Writers' Collective. This was formed in 1995 "to encourage and nurture young writers from the Pacific region" and is informally headquartered at the University of the South Pacific.
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Raine, Sophie. "“Founded on Fact”: Paratextual Politics in Penny Fiction". Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 4, nr 2 (2023): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/cxkv6018.
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In the preface of James Malcolm Rymer’s The Night Adventurer (1846), the writer claims that, contrary to popular opinion, the “masses” were attracted to stories on “account of their truthfulness” rather than “wild, romantic literature” (1846: Preface). Indeed, the ‘factual’ basis for penny serials was so marketable that numerous prefaces, author notes and newspaper advertisements emphasised how these serials were “founded on fact.” While there were sensationalist purposes for using factual biographies of criminals, the use of non-fictional sources has, I argue, a far more philanthropic social purpose which outlines the radical politics of the authors. For penny fiction, which was often deemed as harmless and derivative content, the authority the paratext proffered was vital in demonstrating its active engagement with social and political issues. Penny fiction authors used paratextual space to create authority, establishing affinity between author and reader in order to disseminate and support the moral of the fictional narrative in a more effective way. Writers exploited the unique, composite style of penny fiction, pioneered by George W. M Reynolds in The Mysteries of London (1844–6), to disseminate their political agendas, educate their readership and assert themselves as writers of serious literature.
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Stockwell, Peter. "Literary dialect as social deixis". Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 29, nr 4 (listopad 2020): 358–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947020968661.
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The representation of non-standard and regional accent and dialect in literary fiction has been framed mainly sociolinguistically and treated as an index of authenticity, within an account of characterisation. The reader’s attitude to such speakers in literary fiction is manipulated narratorially and authorially. Since readerly effects, impressions and evaluations are the key issues involved, it seems plausible that a cognitive poetic approach to the reading of dialect in literature would also be productive. In the current deictic theory, the dimension of social deixis captures a broad range of stylistic features including register and dialectal representations. Cognitive deictic theory draws on an explicitly spatial metaphor in which characters are positioned in conceptual space. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the effect of readerly positioning and dispositioning. This article revisits social deixis and its points of transition and textural variation from a theoretical perspective. It develops a new angle on the representation and significance of accented and dialectal forms in literary fiction, with some illustrative examples drawn from 19th and 20th century British novels.
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Jets, Kairi. "How is Fear Constructed? A Narrative Approach to Social Dread in Literature". Interlitteraria 23, nr 2 (3.01.2019): 427–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2018.23.2.16.
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Fear-inducing narratives can be divided into two subtypes of horror and dread. While horror stories concentrate on a concrete visible object such as a monster, in dread narratives the object of fear is abstract or absent altogether. Pure forms of either are rare and most narratives mix both types, usually with dominant in one or the other. An interesting subtype of dread narratives is the narrative of social dread, where the fear is social in nature.
One of the few narratologists to study construction of fear in arts, Yvonne Leffler suggests a variety of narrative techniques often used in horror fiction. Adjusting Leffler’s list of techniques for tales of dread instead of horror helps analysing the nature and amount of dread present in a range of different narratives from light reading and literary fiction to non-fiction. A narrative approach helps to reveal how non-fiction texts use similar techniques, and sometimes more extensively than fictional texts. Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) is an excellent example of social dread in fiction, where societal failures are a big part of the fears induced, and the questions raised in the narrative are denied definite answers. Kanae Minato’s Confessions (2008) is closer to a thriller, because despite raising issues of societal failure, the work gives conclusive answers to all of the questions raised during the narrative. Although Haruki Murakami’s Underground (1997–98) is a nonfiction compiled from interviews of terror attack survivors, it nevertheless has the hallmarks of a social dread narrative, such as question-answer structure and abstractness of the source of fear. More importantly, Murakami’s work alternates between identifying and anticipatory readings, gives no definitive answers to the questions it poses, and the fear it conveys is social in nature.
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Linder, Rhema, Chase Hunter, Jacob McLemore, Senjuti Dutta, Fatema Akbar, Ted Grover, Thomas Breideband i in. "Characterizing Work-Life for Information Work on Mars". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, GROUP (14.01.2022): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3492859.
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We present a design fiction, which is set in the near future as significant Mars habitation begins. Our goal in creating this fiction is to address current work-life issues on Earth and Mars in the future. With shelter-in-place measures, established norms of productivity and relaxation have been shaken. The fiction creates an opportunity to explore boundaries between work and life, which are changing with shelter-in-place and will continue to change. Our work includes two primary artifacts: (1) a propaganda recruitment poster and (2) a fictional narrative account. The former paints the work-life on Mars as heroic, fulfilling, and fun. The latter provides a contrast that depicts the lived experience of early Mars inhabitants. Our statement draws from our design fiction in order to reflect on the structure of work, stress identification and management, family and work-family communication, and the role of automation.
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Khan, Muhammad Sajid. "ARTISTIC AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE FICTION WORK OF ANGARAY". Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 58, nr 1 (30.06.2019): 191–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/jssh.v58i1.138.
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Reading habits among young generation is going to declining and culture of reading books is modified to modern methods of communication like browsing social sites and internet, playing on cell phones and watching T.V. This era modernization has taken away the youth from reading habits. It is important that the young generation learns about the rich Urdu literature including Urdu fiction in which several writers have significantly contributed. The emergence of Urdu literature facilitated the expansion of Urdu language. Fiction writers try to indicate important weaknesses of the society, cultural traditions, and norms, so as to find out the solutions to these issues. There were so many fictional works in Urdu literature having done during the progressive and independent movement. “ANGARAY” is a collection of fictional short stories authored by four young writers who had a progressive approach and tried in their own way to bring forth several social issues through their work at the time British India. This paper attempts to present a brief history of this collection and the consequences emerging out of its publication at that time. The study is reviewed and analyzed the criticism on selected short stories of subsequent publication. The study found that the readers would find the ideas and views of the four writers in the present time may provide them some relief from the opposition they faced on publication of their work.
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Medina, Carmen L. "Drama Wor(l)ds: Explorations of Latina/o Realistic Fiction". Language Arts 81, nr 4 (1.03.2004): 272–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/la20042905.
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This article looks at fifth graders’ interpretations of Friends from the other side/Amigos del tro lado by Chicana/Mexican American feminist writer Gloria Anzaldúa (1993). Drama-in-Education strategies were the pedagogical tools used to facilitate the students’ engagement in dialogues that moved them from understanding aspects of the life and social reality of Mexican undocumented immigrants on the US/Mexico border to questioning issues of citizenship and justice. Three (3) overarching themes were identified that extended through the dialogues and the drama: First, Making sense of the issues, where the students began to talk and make sense of social issues presented in the text such as citizenship, representation and language. Second, Friendship and compassion. Finally, Becoming critical: Understanding the multiple perspectives involved.
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Madavi, Dr Manoj Shankarrao. "Exploring the Unexplored- Postcolonial Issues in the novels of Upmanyu Chatterjee and Arvind Adiga". International Journal of Teaching, Learning and Education 2, nr 4 (2023): 28–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijtle.2.4.5.
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Indian English fiction writings have flourished after the post-independence period. Most of the Indian English novels were dealing with post-partition, changing social-political values and impact of colonial rule on Indian Psyche. Upmanyu Chatterjee wrote some of the prominent novels focusing on changing values of Indian society in postcolonial India were having high education and all comforts of life, characters in novels finds themselves in a cultural dilemma. Postcolonial literature of India which deals with the decolonization of the minds of colonized communities. Important issues like socio-economic disparities, cultural domination, ethical subjugation, identical marginalization, political nepotism, and corrupt bureaucracy have been brought to the forefront by Arvind Adiga in postcolonial Indian English fictions. This research article examines the different aspect of postcoloniality as reflected in the selective novel writing of Upmanyu Chatterjee and Arvind Adiga.
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Taisir, Ahmad. "SOCIAL ISSUES IN FILM HAFALAN SURAT DELISA". Symposium of Literature, Culture, and Communication (SYLECTION) 2022 1, nr 1 (24.12.2022): 301. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/sylection.v1i1.11636.
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This study aims to analyze the film "Hafalan Surat Delisa.” This research uses a qualitative approach, which is to look at human social behavior which seeks to understand the social meaning of phenomena and reveal the reasons hidden behind a social action. Data collection techniques will be carried out using documentation and recording. Documentation techniques were used to obtain data about the profile of the film Hafalan Surat Delisa. The data can be obtained with existing literature, both in the form of books, articles, the internet, and written materials to complete. The film is the art that in short stories is of both fiction and true story. After analyzing social issues using qualitative analysis, the researcher can conclude that in the film Hafalan Sholat Delisa there are social issues that can be realized in our lives, namely how to speak and dress appropriately and appropriately, a sense of empathy for our brothers and sisters who have been hit by disasters, holding fast traditions and always prioritizing obligations, repaying good and bad deeds by the charity of our worship, having faith in good and bad destinies, one of which is natural disasters. We should take the wisdom behind it, be sincere and tough to the calamities that befall us, do something selflessly, and only hope for blessings from God, A polite way of speaking according to our interlocutor, avoiding social jealousy in the family, loving and respecting each other, respecting and loving each other despite different languages and cultures. From the eight images above, it is clear that social values are in action. Existing social values refer to three established benchmarks, namely self-actions, motives, and circumstances.
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Koplowitz-Breier, Anat. "North to South through a Post-Feminist Prism: Israeli Society as Reflected in Ora Shem-Ur’s Fictional Detective Novels". Humanities 11, nr 6 (27.10.2022): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11060133.
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Ora Shem-Ur’s detective series starring Ali Honigsberg established her as one of the early female pioneers in the new wave of Israeli detective fiction writers. In line with the current trend in post-feminist criticism towards analyzing the place of women within popular culture by looking at fiction as an agent of social change, this article suggests that the series not only addresses gendered topics but also other tensions and social exploitations of power within Israeli society. Shem-Ur thus provides a fascinating portrait of Israeli society in the 1990s, reflecting the way in which female detective fiction developed from light reading material into a social mirror presenting and addressing social changes and shifts in gender conception. Reading the series through a post-feminist lens, the article seeks to demonstrate how its themes of the relations between men, women, and power, and of economic corruption and politics, shed light on contemporaneous Israeli social issues.
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Fadhila, Drouche Fatima. "Society of crisis in the fictional text: a sociological reading of Algerian fiction". Contemporary Arab Affairs 4, nr 3 (1.07.2011): 301–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2011.586506.
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This article undertakes a sociological reading of three contemporary Algerian novels to assess the text as a social product indicative of social practice, where fiction casts the realities of Algerian life in a concise and highly revealing form–potentially more indicative of its intricacies and particulars than documentary forms. The novels under consideration are Dhākirat al-Māʾ (The memory of water) by Wāsīnī al-Aʿwaj; KhwayyāDaḥmān (My brother Dahman) by Mirzāq Biqṭāsh; and Al-waram (The Tumor) of Muḥammad Ṣārī. Examined are key issues in Algeria, including issues of daily life from unemployment to alienation as well as Islamic fundamentalism — to whom it appeals — and how it pertains to the apparatuses of state and Algerian nationalism and identity. As the characters in the novels constitute archetypes of Algerian society, exploration of the stories, states of mind, pressures, influences and religious, cultural, and socio-economic factors can be effectively elucidated through these. Through the narratives of the characters in the novel, one is party to what Georg Lukács and René Girard referred to as a ‘degraded search’ for authentic values in a ‘degraded world’ where the most distinguishing features of narrative content reside in the disharmony and conflict between the fictional character and the Algerian reality in which he lives. The sociological reading of these novels suggests that one of the most effective ways of comprehending Algerian reality — especially at the level of the microcosm and the internal panorama of the self in society—may actually be through the fiction of Algerian writers.
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Cronshaw, Darren. "Beyond Divisive Categorization in Young Adult Fiction: Lessons from Divergent". International Journal of Public Theology 15, nr 3 (27.10.2021): 426–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-01530008.
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Abstract Veronica Roth’s Divergent is a young adult fiction and movie franchise that addresses issues of political power, social inequity, border control, politics of fear, gender, ethnicity, violence, surveillance, personal authenticity and mind control. It is possible a large part of the popularity of the series is its attention to these issues which young Western audiences are concerned about. The narrative makes heroes of protagonists who become activists for justice and struggle against oppressive social-political systems. What follows is a literary analysis of Divergent, evaluating its treatment of public theology and social justice themes, and discussing implications for Christian activism, especially for youth and young adults. It affirms the ethos in the books of resisting oppression, and questions assumptions about gender and abuse, violence and imperial control, personal authenticity and categorization, and difference and sameness.
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Binder, Werner. "A Liberal Order Beyond Earth? Civil Sphere, “The Culture” and the Future of Liberalism". Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 19, nr 4 (2020): 36–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-4-36-60.
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Starting with George Orwell’s liberal problem of meaning, this article investigates liberalism as cultural structure and myth, drawing on the theory of civil sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander and the science fiction novels of Ian M. Banks. Following Alexander, it is argued that liberal societies are built around a sacred core described by the cultural structures of the civil sphere, which are structures of meaning as well as feeling. Civil discourses and movements in liberal (and not so liberal) societies mobilize powerful sym-bols of the sacred and profane and are thus able to inspire an almost religious devotion. The article then continues to explore the meaning structure, cultural contradictions and possible future of the liberal order discussing Bank’s Culture series. These novels are set in the borderlands of “the Culture”, a galactic civili-zation and liberal utopia. It is precisely this utopian setting, which allows Banks to probe the internal dilemmas of liberalism, for example between pacifism and interventionism, while addressing issues of contemporary relevance, such as the liberal problem of meaning, the allure of authoritarianism or the social status of artificial intelligence. With their literary imagination, science fiction writers construct “a myth of the future” (Banks), which may often reflect the myths of their time, but which can also—as in the case of Banks—reflect on those myths, their implications and contradictions. Finally, the fictional possibilities of social order in science fiction can be a valuable source for our imagination as sociologists contemplat-ing the very possibility of social order.
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Pater, Jessica, Casey Fiesler i Michael Zimmer. "No Humans Here". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, GROUP (14.01.2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3492857.
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Many research communities routinely conduct activities that fall outside the bounds of traditional human subjects research, yet still frequently rely on the determinations of institutional review boards (IRBs) or similar regulatory bodies to scope ethical decision-making. Presented as a U.S. university-based fictional memo describing a post-hoc IRB review of a research study about social media and public health, this design fiction draws inspiration from current debates and uncertainties in the HCI and social computing communities around issues such as the use of public data, privacy, open science, and unintended consequences, in order to highlight the limitations of regulatory bodies as arbiters of ethics and the importance of forward-thinking ethical considerations from researchers and research communities.
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Bohovyk, Oksana, i Andrii Bezrukov. "Social and political agendas of American society in the new millennium (Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte”)". Synopsis: Text Context Media 29, nr 2 (2023): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2023.2.7.
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The subject of the research is the artistic interpretation of social and political problems in Salman Rushdie’s novel Quichotte (2019). This work is a postmodern reinterpretation of Cervantes’s story about the ingenious gentleman of La Mancha, which tackles a number of pressing issues, faced by American society at the beginning of the twenty-first century, from opioid addiction and migration to the environmental crisis and cyber-spies. The purpose of the article is to identify and describe those social and political triggers that, on the one hand, define today’s agenda of the American post-truth society, and on the other hand, appear to be kind of tags of the relevance and priority of the issues raised. Explication of the strategies of literary representation of such problems in the work of fiction reveals their relationship with the author’s worldview. The application of the methods of hermeneutic, intertextual, cultural, semantic, and linguistic-stylistic analyses enables us to study the author’s intentions in the literary space with an emphasis on the most topical concerns of contemporary issues. The literary forms representing the post-truth narratives in Rushdie’s novel are designed to expose the most troublesome issues in the Age of Anything-Can-Happen. The article examines the interpretation of such problems as the influence of mass media products, racism, and gender inequality, as well as some issues of language, ageism, and psychological pressure on children. The results of the study. The concept of post-truth, which penetrates fiction from public discourse to become a key means of explaining the author’s intentions and creating narratives of hyperreality, in Quichotte, appears as the prism through which all events, phenomena, and meanings are interpreted. Having become the main form of artistic vision, hyperreality appears in postmodern fiction to transform the contemporary literary landscape. This post-truth environment helps Rushdie see and analyse in detail the most crucial problems of American, or, in general, world society. They are manifested at all levels and in the actions of the characters, and the situations that happen to them, as well as in the author’s comments.
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Mitchell, Claudia. "Feminist Activism against Rape Culture". Girlhood Studies 14, nr 1 (1.03.2021): v—vi. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2021.140101.
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I met Roxanne Harde, the guest editor of this Special Issue, at the Second International Girls Studies Association conference in 2019 when I attended the panel discussion, “Representations of Rape in Young Adult Fiction.” I recall Roxanne’s passion vividly and, indeed, the enthusiasm of all three presenters as they discussed a variety of texts in superb presentations that aligned well with Ann Smith’s notion of feminism in action in their seeing “a fictional text not only as a literary investigation into issues of concern to its author but also as the site of educational research” (2000: 245). Their papers pointed to the ways in which the analysis of how rape culture is treated in Young Adult (YA) literature, film, and the print media can take scholars and activists so much further into the issues, and, at the same time, noted the ways in which rape culture in all its manifestations as a global phenomenon has inevitably led to its becoming an everyday topic of YA fiction.
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Mulyadi, Budi, Yusifa Tamarlin Margie i Umar Bayu Wisesa. "Refleksi Isu Sosial Di Jepang Dalam Empat Karya Fiksi: Hiyama Kentarou No Ninshin, Sanju Mariko, Sensei No Kaban, Dan Death Sweeper". KIRYOKU 5, nr 1 (31.05.2021): 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/kiryoku.v5i1.34-45.
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This study examines how Japanese social issues are portrayed in four fiction works in the form of manga and novels:”Hiyama Kentarou no Ninshin”,”Sanju Mariko”, “Sensei no Kaban”, and “Death Sweeper”. Using qualitative methods by conducting descriptive analysis method to describe how social ties and community weakening in Japan in the scope of Shoushikoureika and Kodoku issues are portrayed in the said works. The findings of this study are the followings: 1) Hiyama Kentarou no Ninshin portrayed the dilemma faced by women and men in child-bearing and child-rearing activities. 2) Sanju Mariko portrayed the vigor of Japanese elders and their struggle to find a place in society. 3) Sensei no Kaban portrayed the changes of Japanese narrowing social structure. 4) Death sweeper portrayed lonely death as the effect of Kodoku. As a reflection of reality, fiction works could also serve as a cross-cultural study by examining the phenomenon explained inside the works through the eyes of the writers and characters.
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WOIAK, JOANNE. "Designing a Brave New World: Eugenics, Politics, and Fiction". Public Historian 29, nr 3 (1.01.2007): 105–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2007.29.3.105.
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Aldous Huxley composed Brave New World in the context of the Depression and the eugenics movement in Britain. Today his novel is best known as satirical and predictive, but an additional interpretation emerges from Huxley's nonfiction writings in which the liberal humanist expressed some surprising opinions about eugenics, citizenship, and meritocracy. He felt that his role as an artist and public intellectual was to formulate an evolving outlook on urgent social, scientific, and moral issues. His brave new world can therefore be understood as a serious design for social reform, as well as a commentary about the social uses of scientific knowledge.
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Benedict, Barbara M. "Toxic Love: Gender and Genre in Frances Sheridan’s Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph". Eighteenth-Century Fiction 35, nr 2 (1.04.2023): 235–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.235.
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How can so exemplary a heroine of sensibility as Sidney be so brutally punished in an apparently typical conduct fiction like Frances Sheridan’s Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761)? This essay locates one cause for the novel’s unsatisfying effect in the hostility depicted between the sexes, which undermines the novel’s conduct-fiction moral code. Through close reading informed by queer theory and social history, I argue that all the major characters experience relationships poisoned by conflicting loyalties and interests—in familial bonds, homosocial friendships between pairs of both men and women, and heterosexual affairs. The emotional dysfunctionality of these social relations reflects the eighteenth-century cultural confusion over such issues as the social value of sensibility, the nature of sentimental friendship and its relationship to same-sex relations and to heterosexual unions. The account of these toxic rivalries suggests that this novel offers a satirical critique of conduct fiction because the genre endorses an anti-feminist ideology predicated on gender division.
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Wilson, Rita. "Local Colour: Investigating Social Transformations in Transcultural Crime Fiction". Quaderni d'italianistica 37, nr 1 (9.06.2017): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v37i1.28282.
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Over the last twenty years, Italian “migration literature” has made significant contributions to the redefinition of the country’s literary and cultural scene. While the initial phase can best be conceptualized as a generic “micro-system” encompassing canonical genres such as (auto)biography and the Bildungsroman, more recently, narratives of migration have diversified radically, exhibiting a high degree of linguistic and genre experimentation. The defining feature of some of the more successful recent novelists lies in their active engagement with critical social and political issues that concern contemporary Italian society through the vehicle of the crime fiction genre. A case in point is provided by Algerian-born Amara Lakhous, whose four recent novels Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio (2006), Divorzio all’islamica a viale Marconi (2010), Contesa per un maialino italianissimo a San Salvario (2013) and La zingarata della verginella di Via Ormea (2014) all use strategies of genre hybridization (polyphonic migration narratives blended with giallo and noir structures) to problematize notions of citizenship and cultural identity. This article argues that borrowing the conventions of the giallo/noir enables Lakhous both to provide new insights into shifting constructions of “Italianness”/citizenship in a period characterized by the transition from national to transcultural communities and to accentuate the continuity of the dialogical relationship between the crime fiction genre and contemporary social reality.
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Iwuh, John, i Nicodemus Adai Patrick. "Reading the docufiction script: Harnessing the thin line between facts and fiction". Journal of Screenwriting 13, nr 3 (1.11.2022): 375–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/josc_00107_1.
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The ethical issues raised by merging facts and fiction in docufiction screenplays as a genre suitable for social impact storytelling still linger. Hence, for the intended message to be effectively passed, the genre, formatting and narrative technique have to be clearly established for the readership’s consumption. Therefore, this article will investigate how facts are reinforced by fiction in docufiction. Textual analysis of Nicodemus Adai Patrick and John Iwuh’s is employed in exploring narrative techniques and formatting as indicators of the proportion of facts and fiction in a docufiction screenplay. It concludes that docufiction is a deliberate document with a mission in which the fact supplies the foundation on which fiction stands. Pre-knowledge of the embedded fact is primal to a deeper appreciation of a docufiction. It concludes that the readership’s level of comprehension and satisfaction will be enhanced if the thin line between facts and fiction is spotted.
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Pak, CHris. "Ecocriticism and Terraforming: Building Critical Spaces". FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts, nr 10 (5.06.2010): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/forum.10.644.
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Science fiction employs a distinctive language to engage speculatively yet critically with our contemporary world. Space, with its discrete planetary bodies and other cosmic objects, functions both as an emblem of science fiction and operates in a more general sense as a space in which to map social, ideological and ontological boundaries between cultures and between humanity and the universe. This is especially evident in narratives of terraforming. They engage with climate change and environmental philosophy and bring these discourses into contact with a postcolonial geopolitics that is reflected upon through the colonisation of other worlds. Science fiction makes use of plausible representations of science to build spaces on separate worlds where these issues can be confronted and alternative socio-political configurations entertained. This dynamic can be seen at the intersections between ecocritical and postcolonial theory in Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy, comprising Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. In order to highlight the critical spaces put into play and the distinctive contribution science fiction makes to these issues, my point of entry will be the language of science fiction. I examine the megatextual trope of terraforming and the significance of Robinson's development of this motif before analysing specific chronotopes and the values connected to them. I then consider Edward Said's discussion of space and the Other to ask how Robinson's Mars trilogy operates as an exploration of dialogised spaces concerned with imagining socio-economic issues from ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives. First, however, I begin by considering M.M. Bakhtin's concepts of the chronotope and dialogism alongside Damien Broderick's notion of the science fiction megatext.
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Ali, Baida Abbas. "THE PANORAMIC SOCIAL NOVEL IN MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE READING IN SAMI MICHAEL'S FICTION". International Journal of Humanities and Educational Research 04, nr 01 (1.02.2022): 264–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2757-5403.12.19.
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Sami Mikhail's novel productions have recently received considerable attention from critics, scholars and researchers around the world. Perhaps this is due to the fact that his literary products serve as an artistic tool for awareness of the fate of the Jewish immigrant or citizen and his psychology and behaviors, and the daily reality lived and lived by the Iraqi or Israeli society, and the issues and transformations that occur in the life of the Israeli, as well as thanks to its artistic formulation and its substantive objectives. Many analysts saw Sami Michael's novels as a reflection of society and its current reality. Sami Michael was distinguished by his choice of the panoramic novel model because it is a mirror of the Israeli society with all its satisfactory and illuminated details, which may be difficult to engage in other literary genres, especially in monitoring social transformations, cultural changes, environmental and living developments and their repercussions in the lives of Israeli immigrants in the past century and the present century. Thinking and behaviors in society, as well as a clear expression of the traditions and values of Israeli society, addressing issues of concern to man, and the accounts of Sami Michael the Israeli-Jewish-Iraqi individual, And his concerns and issues and conflicts intellectual, psychological, cultural and emotional, and presented many solutions to the problems related to his existence and psychological and social conflicts, according to the vision of the author.
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Moore, Tara. "STARVATION IN VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS FICTION". Victorian Literature and Culture 36, nr 2 (wrzesień 2008): 489–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150308080303.
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It may seem that Christmas literature, with its glorified descriptions of overflowing tables and conviviality, has no place in a discussion of that other extreme, starvation. However, much of the nineteenth-century literature containing narratives of Christmas speaks directly to national fears of famine. Starvation entered the print matter of Christmas first as part of a social argument and later as a concern for the abiding national identity that had become intertwined with Christmas itself and, more symbolically, Christmas fare. Writers including Charles Dickens, Benjamin Farjeon, Augustus and Henry Mayhew, the creators of Punch, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon authored Christmas pieces that showcase literary reactions to the developing issues of hunger throughout their century. This essay offers an overview of the treatment of starvation in the Christmas literature of the nineteenth century.
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Okolo, Mary Stella Chika. "The need for a Philosophical reading of African Literature". Edumania-An International Multidisciplinary Journal 01, nr 02 (20.07.2023): 244–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.59231/edumania/8987.
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Literature permeates all the labyrinth of human experience. This is because literature acts as both a reflection and a reflector of society. Through the depiction of the life of individual characters the fundamental symbols and values which unite social groups across countries and in different periods of time are conveyed through literature. Important as this consideration may be, its full impact and import cannot be harnessed if they are presented as works of fiction. The main aim of literature as work of fiction is to entertain. Yet in the African context, especially given its historical burden with colonialism and its after affects, most African creative writers employ their work as weapon of social protest. How can African literature retain its fictional character, maintain its role of entertainment and yet act as a force in the re-ordering of African society? This is where philosophy comes in. As the discipline best equipped to guide humanity towards self-understanding by examining all issues confronting humanity and proffering the best solution, philosophy is employed here as the method to be used to extract ideas contained in African literature and subject them to critical evaluation in order to determine their usefulness and justifiability. This study finds that there is need for a philosophical reading of Africa literature. This study concludes that promoting and sustaining dialogue between philosophy and African literature is essential for African self-understanding and opening up new theories for understanding diversities and divergent issues confronting Africa.
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Oganesyan, Roman G. "Ostap Bender and the criminal code of the RSFSR 1926. Part I". Vestnik Yaroslavskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta im. P. G. Demidova. Seriya gumanitarnye nauki 18, nr 2 (24.06.2024): 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.18255/1996-5648-2024-2-270-279.
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The article attempts to conduct a legal analysis of one of the most famous works in Soviet literature - the novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilf and Petrov. A legal assessment of the activities of his main character, Ostap Bender, is given from the perspective of Soviet criminal legislation - the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1926. The topic of this article is relevant because in the Soviet period, the issues of interaction between law and fiction were not sufficiently reflected in research and presented legal conflicts, even having a fictional, imaginary character, ways to tell much more about political and social life and about people involved in various legal conflicts.
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Day, Dian. "Food insecurity in books for children". Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation 11, nr 1 (29.03.2024): 171–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.654.
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Issues of class and poverty are largely absent from children’s fiction and from elementary school curricula, even though, in Canada, one in every five children live in food insecure households. This paper examines the limited number of middle grade children’s books that feature depictions of food insecurity published in North America in English in the past forty years and interrogates their assumptions about children, poverty, food, and hunger. While the primary cause of food insecurity for children is inadequate household income, often due to systemic inequities, most children’s fiction suggests individual choices or life circumstances are to blame and charity, kind strangers, and simple luck are the solutions, giving children, at best, an incomplete understanding of the social and political issues that produce food insecurity.
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Nicolini, Matteo, i Thomas Perrin. "Islands and Insularity: Between Law, Geography, and Fiction". Pólemos 14, nr 2 (25.09.2020): 209–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2020-2014.
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AbstractWithin the cross-disciplinary research on “Law, Changes and Technology,” this essay introduces the focus on “Islands and insularity: between law, geography, and fiction.” The intriguing and enthralling topic of “Island-ness” places emphasis on the manifold intersections between law, geographic studies, political power, and the humanities. These intersections reflect several issues, such as territorial localisation, environmental crises, colonial imaginaries, as well as the insular societal contexts in which they are imbricated. The focus delivers both a synthetic view of these questions and opens up further perspectives for reflection. The contributions engage various topics and adopt different approaches. Beyond this richness of inputs, the essays reveal some common characteristics of islands and insularity as objects and subjects of human imagination, social organisation, and scientific reflection. In particular, two main issues of islands and insularity can be identified, i.e. dialectics and metaphor.
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Engelhardt, Nina. "“Real Flight and Dreams of Flight Go Together”: High Technology and Imaginary Heights in Early Modern and Postmodern Science Fiction". Space and Culture 23, nr 4 (25.12.2018): 382–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218819714.
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This article examines how science fiction literature illustrates that exploring the “space above” and journeys toward it necessitates engaging with different types of knowledge, not least scientific-technological and imaginative ones. Scholarship in geography and urban and social studies has recently experienced what has been called a “vertical turn,” that is, a growing attention to the third dimension of space, and researchers call for more interdisciplinary experiments and commitment. This article argues that fictional literature is a valuable source of inquiry and, moreover, that it is precisely science fiction itself that illustrates the need to draw on various types of knowledge in order to explore issues of verticality and the space above. It examines an early modern text from a period before technological ascent into space became possible and a 20th-century novel set at the beginning of the rocket age: Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone; or a Voyage Thither, written sometime after 1628 and published in 1638, and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973). Both texts illustrate that scientific-technological and imaginative investigations of “the above” are inseparable and emphasize the role of the imagination in fictional as well as in technological ascents. Moreover, in these texts, travelling into the space above involves complex ethical and moral dimensions. Exploring these in relation to the inseparability of scientific-technological and imaginative investigations, the analysis of the science fiction texts also develops the ethical and cognitive value of making scholarly analysis of verticality an interdisciplinary endeavor.
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Kalybekova, K. S., K. M. Khamzina i A. D. Bekkulova. "REFLECTION OF SOCIAL REALITY IN KAZAKH PROSE". Language and Literature: Theory and Practice, nr 3 (26.06.2023): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.52301/2957-5567-2023-3-43-54.
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REFLECTION OF SOCIAL REALITY IN KAZAKH PROSEAbstract. The article analyzes the works of prose related to the leading genre of fiction. This work presents the main manifestations of the originality of Kazakh prose of the 70s and the study of the work of an outstanding representative of the literature of that time – Kalikhan Iskakov. The article emphasizes a clear picture of reality, the problems of time in the writer's work and the emphasis on the reverse processes taking place at native land. The author's originality, skill, and stylistic individuality of the writer became the basis of the analysis. In the analyzed works, special attention was paid to the issues of content and form, artistic techniques, historical reality and artistic solutions, etc. But we still decided to give our opinion, conclusions, based on official, historical documents. These and other issues are considered in the author's work within the framework of artistic approaches.Key words: prose, writer, Kalikhan Yskakov, nature, ecology, character, problem.
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Kopf, Martina. "Encountering development in East African fiction". Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, nr 3 (25.05.2017): 334–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417707801.
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In this article I address how East African writers have responded to and conceptualized the encounter with development in works of fiction. The article combines two lines of enquiry: first, a historical perspective on “development” as a history of changing and conflicting meanings and practices in planning and controlling social and economic change, and, second, a narrative studies perspective on fiction as a source of knowledge in social and political research. The article presents an analysis of two novels and a short story from Uganda and Kenya: Akiki Nyabongo’s The Story of an African Chief (1935), Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road (1976), and Binyavanga Wainaina’s Discovering Home (2003). The texts are from three different historical periods from the colonial past to the present. Bringing them into dialogue with institutional discourses relevant to their respective periods, I argue that these works of fiction open up a unique understanding of key issues and problems in development thinking and planning. Furthermore, my analysis sheds a different light on critical debates that perceive the “development encounter” as a story of the “West versus the rest”. Instead, this essay links recent trends in writing to more entangled histories of development.
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Cronshaw, Darren. "Resisting the Empire in Young Adult Fiction: Lessons from Hunger Games". International Journal of Public Theology 13, nr 2 (1.07.2019): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341568.
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AbstractHunger Games are young adult fiction and movie franchises, which address issues of Empire, border control, politics of fear, human rights, gender, ethnicity, refugees and global inequity. The narrative of Hunger Games echoes the dilemmas of balancing personal sovereignty and self-fulfillment with the struggle that goes on for advocacy for social and political change. They make heroes of protagonists who rebel against the status quo and make a stand for justice in oppressive social-political contexts. The basic plot is ancient, but it is striking a chord with a generation of westerners who are disaffected with current societal and political trends. This article is a literary analysis of Hunger Games, analyzing its treatment of public theology, sovereignty and justice issues, especially for younger adults. It affirms the appeal of the books for resisting oppression, but questions unchallenged assumptions about ethnicity, gender, retributive violence and personal authenticity.
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Bickford, John H. "The representations of LGBTQ themes and individuals in non-fiction young adult literature". Social Studies Research and Practice 12, nr 2 (11.09.2017): 182–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-05-2017-0021.
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Purpose Social justice themes permeate the social studies, history, civics, and current events curricula. The purpose of this paper is to examine how non-fiction trade books represented lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and issues. Design/methodology/approach Trade books published after 2000 and intended for middle grades (5-8) and high school (9-12) students were analyzed. Findings Findings included main characters’ demography, sexuality, and various ancillary elements, such as connection to LGBTQ community, interactions with non-LGBTQ individuals, the challenges and contested terrain that LGBTQ individuals must traverse, and a range of responses to these challenges. Publication date, intended audience, and subgenre of non-fiction – specifically, memoir, expository, and historical text – added nuance to findings. Viewed broadly, the books generally engaged in exceptionalism, a historical misrepresentation, of one singular character who was a gay or lesbian white American. Diverse sexualities, races, ethnicities, and contexts were largely absent. Complex resistance structures were frequent and detailed. Originality/value This research contributes to previous scholarship exploring LGBTQ-themed fiction for secondary students and close readings of secondary level non-fiction trade books.
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Bates, Gordon. "Autism in fiction and autobiography". Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 16, nr 1 (styczeń 2010): 47–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.108.005660.
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SummaryMany memorable characters in Western culture could be viewed as having features of autism or Asperger syndrome. In spite of the familiarity of autistic stereotypes such as Star Trek‘s Mr Spock, more completely described characters with autism are still unusual. In recent years there has been a growing interest in autism, mirrored by an increase in depictions of autism in popular works of fiction and autobiography. In this article I will outline the issues that have preoccupied writers and the techniques they have used to demonstrate autistic difference. Some writers have illuminated aspects of the autistic triad of social impairment, abnormalities of language and need for sameness. Other writers have opened our eyes to the autistic world view in its strangeness and richness. Still more have started to examine prejudice, disability rights and the implications of an international autism community. As in other areas of mental health, literature can help inform, entertain and question our attitudes and values.
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Jackson, Elizabeth. "Gender and social class in India: Muslim perspectives in the fiction of Attia Hosain and Shama Futehally". Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, nr 1 (11.05.2016): 124–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416632373.
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This article investigates representations of gender and class inequality in Attia Hosain’s classic novel Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) and her short story collection Phoenix Fled and Other Stories (1953). It compares her work with that of Shama Futehally, another elite Muslim Indian woman writing in English several decades later. Born 40 years after Attia Hosain, the postcolonial world of Shama Futehally is very different, but the issues she explores in her fiction are remarkably similar: social and economic inequality, exploitation of the poor, and the ambiguous position of women privileged by their social class and disempowered by their gender. Both authors write carefully crafted realist fiction focusing predominantly on the experiences and perspectives of female characters. Shama Futehally’s novel Tara Lane (1993), like Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column, is a coming-of-age novel whose protagonist is a young Muslim woman in an affluent family, coming to terms with the uneasy combination of class privilege, gender disadvantage, and a strong social conscience. Both authors explore the perspectives of working-class Indian women in their short stories, emphasizing their vulnerability to exploitation (including sexual exploitation), as well as the deeply problematic nature of “noblesse oblige”. Aware of the interconnections between gender and class inequality, Attia Hosain and Shama Futehally have written powerful fictional works which effectively dramatize not only the complex relationship between gender and social class hierarchies, but also the ways in which all privilege is predicated on inequality.
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Henryson, Hanna, i Maria Sulimma. "“Nothing was solved, only accelerated”: Contemporary Berlin Novels as Gentrifictions". Narrative 32, nr 1 (styczeń 2024): 60–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2024.a916605.
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ABSTRACT: As a contribution to the growing scholarly debate on literary representations of gentrification, this article explores a tendency of contemporary, Berlin-set fiction to depict accelerating gentrification processes as an imminent apocalypse. While earlier gentrification fiction frequently centered on the struggles of a male character, this article turns to recent female-authored and female-centered narratives of gentrification, thus highlighting the relevance of gender for literary gentrification studies. Based on readings of four novels by German and US-American authors, the main contribution of the article is the delineation of a new hybrid subgenre of gentrification fiction and dystopian fiction—the accelerated gentrifiction . A further major finding is the identification of a standardized female gentrifier character type as an essential feature of this subgenre. The relative flatness of these protagonists results from their shared lack of action and emotional response when facing the consequences of complex social and ecological issues such as accelerated gentrification.
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Lee, O.-Joun, Heelim Hong, Eun-Soon You i Jin-Taek Kim. "Discovering Social Desires and Conflicts from Subculture Narrative Multimedia". Sustainability 12, nr 24 (8.12.2020): 10241. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su122410241.
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This study aims at discovering social desires and conflicts from subculture narrative multimedia. Since one of the primary purposes in the subculture consumption is vicarious satisfaction, the subculture works straightforwardly describe what their readers want to achieve and break down. The latent desires and conflicts are useful for understanding our society and realizing smart governance. To discover the social issues, we concentrate on that each subculture genre has a unique imaginary world that consists of inventive subjects. We suppose that the subjects correspond to individual social issues. For example, game fiction, one of the popular genres, describes a world like video games. Under game systems, everyone gets the same results for the same efforts, and it can be interpreted as critics for the social inequality issue. Therefore, we first extract subjects of genres and measure the membership degrees of subculture works for each genre. Using the subjects and membership degrees, we build a genealogy tree of subculture genres by tracing their evolution and differentiation. Then, we extract social issues by searching for the subjects that come from the real world, not imaginary. If a subculture work criticizes authoritarianism, it might include subjects such as government officials and bureaucrats. A combination of the social issues and genre genealogy tree will show diachronic changes in our society. We have evaluated the proposed methods by extracting social issues reflected in Korean web novels.
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Chick, Kay A. "Promoting Democratic Ideals and Social Action: Children’s Literature on the Civil Rights Movement and School Integration". Social Studies Research and Practice 2, nr 1 (1.03.2007): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-01-2007-b0005.
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This article highlights the role of social studies educators in promoting democratic ideals and social action. The benefits of incorporating children’s and young adult literature into the social studies curriculum in the elementary and middle school grades are discussed. Biography, historical fiction, poetry, and information books are presented to teach students about the civil rights movement and school integration. Literature extension activities are designed to encourage students to examine issues of equality, social justice, and human dignity, while also considering their own prejudices and perspectives on social action.
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Ratnayake, M. D. "Fiction As Social Protest: Liyanage Amarakeerthi’s Stand Against Militarized Education". Vidyodaya Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 09, IRCHSS 2023 (2024): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31357/fhss/vjhss.v09irchss2023.a02.
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This paper looks at how fiction can be used as an effective means to protest about social issues, taking the case of what can be called the militarization of education, and the stand one writer took against it through two of his postwar novels. It will analyze how, through plot and characterization, the writer shows what harm can befall a society if what is expected in militarized education, i.e. unquestioning obedience to power and authority, bears results. The point this paper makes is that fiction is an effective tool in protests, and just like this particular writer took part in the physical rallies that many Sri Lankan academics were involved in, in 2021, in opposing what they thought was the government’s attempts to militarize the higher education system of Sri Lanka, he also put forth that resistance in his creative work, perhaps making deeper and more long-lasting inroads into the minds of the people about the harm such an education might bring to this country. In the two novels chosen here for analysis, two unconventional university students give their opinion quite ruthlessly about what is happening to the protagonists who are both involved in the media and being used for ends they themselves are unaware of. Through these plot structures, Amarakeerthi is able to explore the nexus between media, capitalism and nationalism in Sri Lanka, the awareness of which is crucial to Sri Lankans if they are to navigate the politics of post war Sri Lanka without harming themselves.
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Makiłła, Dariusz. "Czy twórczość Jana Kochanowskiego może być źródłem poznania prawa?" Miscellanea Historico-Iuridica 21, nr 2 (2022): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/mhi.2022.21.02.03.
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The cognitive function of literary works is usually directly related to the social, historical or cultural context, reflecting, by means of literary fiction, the knowledge of what actually happened, or what could happen, being an expression of the projection of reality in the literary work. In this sense, it is possible for the creator of a literary work to relate to the actual reality in which he operated, legal and systemic relations, if their presentation in the presented work is important for the literary fiction that creates the work. Therefore, if we assume that a literary projection, even a fictional one, presents a sequence of events, and at the same time is embedded in a specific context, appropriate for the time of the work’s creation, in this case also covering legal and systemic relations relevant to the epoch, a literary work may thus fulfill a cognitive function. in the field of learning about the history of law or the political system. Based on these assumptions, the tragedy of Jan Kochanowski, The Greek Envoys, presented in 1578 in the presence of the royal couple during the wedding ceremonies of the then Crown Deputy Chancellor, Jan Zamoyski with Krystyna Radziwiłł, was examined. The current view that the work of J. Kochanowski reflected in the sphere of its literary fiction the course of the sessions of the former Polish Sejm from the second half of the 16th century, which its creator used to present political and ideological issues of that era, was verified in relation to the concept of the sources of learning about law. The result of examining the literary work of J. Kochanowski, especially those parts in which it was possible to demonstrate the Author’s reference to legal and systemic issues, is the recognition that the manner of their presentation can be treated as a special, historical source of learning about law, in which an important role, as an instrument for learning about it, it plays the historical as well as the political context, which is the basis of literary fiction.