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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"family narrative"”.
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Portraits and Landscapes in Family Narrative
… interest in how individual perspectives affect family narratives and constructions of family history. Narrative exists chiefly in story form, but it also exists in people's mind, helping them to understand material culture, customs, and other forms of folk expression. These folk ideas define us …
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Eating Marigolds
… in the nature of time, impermanence, mortality, family narrative and ritual.</p>
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Mend: a personal exploration of healing
… of an inner conflict. Coming from a family of embroiderers in Austria I use needle and thread as my tools and physical objects as triggers in search of what has been forgotten or repressed. The work centers largely around a shared history between my mother and myself, which though …
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In the Dead Season
… is a manuscript of poetry that explores, through family narrative, the tensions between ignorance and truth, between honor and mendacity, between violation and veneration, between love and loss, between grief and transcendence. Set in rural Texas, the poems in this collection describe a harsh and …
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Pencils of Light: Family, Photography, and Performance
… and viewer is most often explored within the family unit. Ritualized family performances are those events where a family narrative is written photographically. This study explores this family dynamic of photography and performance through autobiographic reference to the author's own familial …
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Stitched from the Soul: An Auto/biographical Inquiry Into one Black Woman Administrator's Voice and Vision
… lives of four generations of Black women in my family. Each of these women -- Hattie C. Wilcher (my great grandmother), Connie W. Duggan (my mother), Danielle R. Lowe (my daughter), and I -- have studied and/or taught in public schools in the U. S. south. I explore how my family narrative …
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In the Shadow of the Family Tree: Narrating Family History in Väterliteratur and the Generationenromane
… their own relationship to the past through narrative. Since the late 1970s, this experimentation has yielded a series of autobiographical novels which focus not only on the authors' own lives, but on the lives and experiences of their family members, particularly those who lived during the …
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Evolving ethnic identity and recognizing relatedness: An examination of ethnic and family identity development among African Americans reuniting with extra-extended relatives from Africa
… new information to inform their ethnic identity. Family identity as a psychological sense of belonging to a specific family group develops through family socialization and internalizing a family heritage which gives them a social location within the family narrative. Notably, existing studies on …
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(R)Evolutionary Cultural Literacy: Pauli Murray’s Boundary-Crossing Tripartite Pedagogy
… practice. This project reads across four genres: family narrative, autobiography, legal compilation, and poetry, treating each as a legitimate site of knowledge production. Method follows skill lines rather than timelines, tracking how Murray accumulated, tested, and transmitted cultural …
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Repositioning speech language pathology practices: engaging with family and community narratives to evolve communication supports for neurodivergent children
… horizon). In order to do explore these concepts, narrative interviews were conducted with four families and two community members in order to learn about their experiences regarding inclusion and belonging. The families all have children who access alternative communication and the focus of the …
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Repositioning speech language pathology practices: engaging with family and community narratives to evolve communication supports for neurodivergent children
… horizon). In order to do explore these concepts, narrative interviews were conducted with four families and two community members in order to learn about their experiences regarding inclusion and belonging. The families all have children who access alternative communication and the focus of the …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
… Loss in 20th- and 21st-Century Korean American Narratives analyzes the significance of trauma and attachment in representations of family within contemporary Korean American literature and films. Situating these texts in relation to Asian American histories of warfare, migration, and adoption, …
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A Strong-Minded Southern Woman: Sarah Joe Alston Claiborne
… for a creative non-fiction book using original family letters and other documents brought to light for the first time. The narrative traces the lives and losses of the author's relatives, John Herbert Claiborne, M.D., and Sarah Joseph Alston Claiborne, from 1852 to 1868 in Petersburg, Virginia. …
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New care home admission following acute hospitalisation: a mixed methods approach
… exploring the experiences of a patient, their family, and practitioners (n=5). The cohort study (n=100) found a heterogeneous picture with long hospital admissions (range 14-231 days), frequent transfers of care (31% experienced three or more transfers), varied levels of documented assessment …
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Infidelity and Identity: Cheating, Children, and the Church
… my interpersonal relationships. I also use narrative interviewing to identity the ways my siblings were affected by the same experience and how such discrepancies in our home influenced their identities. The theory of narrative inheritance (Goodall, 2005) serves to be a source of empowerment …
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Which discourses underpin long-term, autistic/non-autistic romantic couples’ understandings of their relationship as they live with and accommodate each other? A critical discourse/narrative inquiry
… draws on both critical discourse and critical narrative inquiry to examine the long-term romantic relationship experiences of those in autistic/non-autistic long-term romantic relationships. Four couples participated, three heterosexual and one female same-sex couple. The participants were …
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Towards a New Understanding: Complex Familial Constructs of Autism
… used the medical model or the institutional narrative to interpret how autism is understood in families. More recently, a counter-narrative has emerged resisting this medical model. Both narratives, however, simplify the intricate nature of the disability construct within families. …