A post-social conceptual framework for exploring object narratives in sport organisations

In this article we propose a theoretical framework for narrative analysis that gives voice to objects in sport organisations. Despite considerable interest in the symbolic and mnemonic potency of some sporting objects – most notably memorabilia – many organisational objects go unnoticed, whilst little attention has been paid to methods for gathering stories from inanimate objects. We suggest that material objects in sport organisations participate in narrative production and therefore constitute a rich investigative site. We adopt a post-social approach to narrative methodology where objects are recognised as non-human actors in organisational sense-making, not as narrative repositories that ‘contain’ stories and memories. A three-domain research framework is developed recommending an approach to eliciting an object narrative within a sport organisation. First, object materiality exposes the significant networks of forces, materials and people – and therefore episodes and actors – that engage with and through objects. Second, since people and objects are enmeshed in sequenced, workplace activities, object practice allows organisational agents to define what stories objects can tell whilst objects reciprocally bound the scope of human performance. Third, object biography provides a strategy to map the connections and transitions that occur over the lifecourse of an object, which reveals a changing web of organisational relations.     

Emotional energy and sub-cultural politics: alternative bands in post-1997 Hong Kong

The paper attempts to work out the link between the structuring of the public domain and hegemonic masculinities in contemporary Kerala, South India. Using the debates around an incident of sexual harassment that happened in 1999, it argues for a conjunctural understanding of the contemporary where various events and moments in history are replayed through narrativization and popular memory. The paper goes on to analyse the debates around the incident that produce a ‘narrative public domain’, to foreground the various notions of masculinity that construct and structure it in relation to notions of female sexuality and changing structures of family. These notions of masculinity could be, the paper argues, a starting point for a historical inquiry into Kerala's modernity – an inquiry that would throw light on the past and the ways in which the contemporary is produced through its historical legacies.     

Editorial statement

Grounded in the interdisciplinary educational work of Cultural Studies, this paper examines the pedagogical potentials of narrative and performance for the teaching of writing as a mode of public discourse. Guided to address a wide readership, students engage in critical communication aimed at linking self inquiry and narrative discourse to the contextual analysis of the social. Drawing on research findings derived from the undergraduate teaching of cultural criticism as a genre of public writing at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, we look at how educational drama mediates the work of narrative and performative acts involving the young learner-writers and contributes to the shaping of a dialogic mode of address and communication, thus articulating the process and impact of writing to the public-oriented discourse in Cultural Studies education. In light of such acts in critical discourse and imagination targeted at the potential reader, we show how the young writers' own engagement with critical thinking and communication are opened up by drama-in-education adopted in the class, and argue how, in this sense, both writing and its learning process become effective stages in the making of the kind of cultural criticism we want to help students to learn.     

Heroes of Their Own Life Stories: Narrating the Female Self in the Feminist Age

ABSTRACT

This article proposes a triple legacy of the expressive culture of the 1960s and 70s. Late twentieth century feminism, discourses of gender equality and the advent of modern confessional culture liberated women’s women’s voices, producing self-realising narratives and a shift in women’s facility to produce authentic ‘reflexive projects of the self’. Drawing on oral history interviews with women born in the 1940s in the United Kingdom, Australia and North America, a new concept for a distinct genre of women’s oral history narrative is advanced– the feminography – in which we hear women owning their voices and the stories those voices tell.     

‘On British Felony the Sun Never Sets’

ABSTRACT

This article examines the narratives of three political prisoners transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: the French-Canadian François-Xavier Prieur, the American Linus Miller, and the Irishman John Mitchel. It shows that the three ‘politicals’ sought to portray the suffering of political convicts as greater than that of the convict majority, from which they distanced themselves in terms of class, piety and honour. It also demonstrates how the three men critiqued the British Empire and the convict system in Australia, how they wrote (in some instances, re-wrote) their lives for their audience, and how they defined themselves in the convict colonies.     

论金庸小说全知视角的叙事艺术

金庸小说大部分采用全知视角来叙事。通过全知视角作者带领读者进入一个瑰丽无比的武侠世界。利用全知视角的叙事特点，作者全面掌控故事，或向读者做出详尽的解释和评价，或留有伏笔做铺垫，予取予夺，尽在自己的掌握之中。这种叙事策略在吸引读者的阅读兴趣上取得了非凡的效果。     

浅议《三侠五义》中的叙事性因素

由于长期闭关锁国所造成的封闭性,公案小说并没有学习到西方文学中先进的叙事技巧,而是在延续着传统古典小说的基本模式,长期以来停留在一个表面的、感性的层面。为了适应这种叙事模式,浓重的封建迷信思想、对故事情节的高度重视及对人物性格塑造的压制和漠视等叙事性因素都被纳入到这个轨道之中。     

嬗变与转型：新文学运动前后的中国叙事诗

19世纪末 2 0世纪初及新文学运动前后 ,是中国叙事诗艺术由古典向现代形态演进的关键时期。西方叙事诗学及其文学的影响与中国抒情文学中心地位的式微 ,使当时的”新体”叙事诗创作及其理论批评 ,呈现出新的创作形态与艺术追求。五四新文学运动前后“白话叙事诗”及其创作形态的出现 ,为中国叙事诗艺术现代文体类型的确立与理论批评体系的重构 ,规定了基本的发展趋向     

传统的现代主义:薇拉·凯瑟的小说创作风格

薇拉.凯瑟在创作上经常进行大胆尝试而使其作品具有独特的叙述魅力。她继承了现实主义的优良传统,但又敢于突破传统小说的旧框架,将主观情感融入客观现实,引入印象主义技巧,以及运用内化的叙述视角而使其作品独具风格,体现出由传统向现代的走向。