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. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Editor's note
2. Glossing abbreviations
3. About the authors
4. Introduction
5. Inside the storyworld
6. Moving through space and (not?) time
7. We've never seen a cyclone like this
8. Telling narratives, constructing identities
9. Local ecological knowledge in Mortlockese narrative
10. Small stories and associated identities in Neverver
11. `Sometime is lies'
12. Narrative memories, cultures and identities
13. Constructing Kanaka Maoli identity through narrative
14. `Stories of long ago' and the forces of modernity in South Pentecost
15. Australian South Sea Islanders' narratives of belonging
16. Avatars of Fiji's Girmit narrative
17. Samoan narratives
18. "[P]ulling tomorrow's sky from [the] kete"
19. Beyond exile
20. Embodied silent narratives of masculinities
21. Index