Narrative and identity construction in the Pacific Islands /

Narrative and identity construction in the Pacific Islands /

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Imprint:Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Language:English
Series:Studies in narrative ; volume 21
Studies in narrative ; v. 21.
Subject:
Sociolinguistics -- Pacific Area.
Narrative inquiry (Research method) -- Pacific Area.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Social aspects.
Intercultural communication -- Social aspects.
Intercultural communication -- Pacific Area.
Intercultural communication.
Intercultural communication -- Social aspects.
Narrative inquiry (Research method)
Sociolinguistics.
Pacific Area.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11907097
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Other authors / contributors:Gounder, Farzana, editor.
ISBN:9789027268679
9027268673
9789027249340
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Post-structural and post-modern theories have understood the concept of gender as a "fictitious" element rooted exclusively in a linguistic reality (see Butler, 1990), constituted by an illusory metaphysic of substances. Therefore, for these schools, "there is no gender identity behind the expression of gender" and consequently, gender is exclusively "performatively constituted" (Butler, 1990, 25), mainly as an "effect" of discursive practices. However, if we consider narrative in its wider anthropological sense, we should include not only non-verbal narratives, but also what the anthropology of experience name the "arguments of images" that may or may not have their source in language (see Fernandez, 1986, 164). We analyse this visual narrative through a consideration of Guam Chamorros' constructions of masculinity.
Other form:Print version: Narrative and identity construction in the Pacific Islands. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027249340

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