785 research outputs found
Mouvance and the medieval author: re-editing Ancrene Wisse
No full textThe paper discusses the theoretical and practical problems of editing the early thirteenth-century guide for anchoresses, Ancrene Wisse, which (in Paul Zumthor's phrase) is an 'oeuvre mouvante', modified repeatedly from an early stage by its author and others
How to be a woman. Models of masochism and sacrifice in young adult fiction
No full textBuffy, Bella, Veronica, Katniss, Clary, Tris and Saba : For two decades post-feminist heroines have faced life-threatening trials as part of their progress to womanhood. In this chapter I consider how young adult popular fictions operate as forms of pedagogy for young women by offering them particular models of maturity and womanhood. I explore the recurrence and reformulation of a persistent pattern of behaviour in which heroines engage in risky and/or masochistic behaviours for which they are emotionally rewarded.. These recurrences function as a form of vicarious experiential learning in which readers and viewers learn that emotional gratification and adult status are conferred through self-harm and self-sacrifice. Popular culture is not a monolithic form and young adult fictions are no exception. An analysis of fictional examples of this behaviour pattern challenges the idea that heroines today are empowered agents as a result of the legacy of feminism. At the same time, the analysis belies any notion that fictions are universally hegemonic and oppressive – fictions can and do disrupt and interrogate this pattern of emotional masochism. Scholars of public pedagogy have explored the complexities, contradictions and subtleties of the pedagogical process. Sandlin O’Malley and Burdick (2011) in their review of public pedagogy literature acknowledge that some scholarship has demonstrated how “the teaching and learning inherent within daily life can be both oppressive and resistant” (p. 144). Jubas and Knutson (2012) also see public pedagogy as an arena where contradictions and tensions are in play. They argue that we can see “New examples of dialectic or tensions … between the authority of the producer and the consumer; between traditional structures which ground identities and help people make sense of cultural texts, and personal agency which frees people to choose and invent identities and meanings” (p. 86). This analysis aims to contribute to understandings of the complexities of public pedagogy by showing how fictions aimed primarily at young women both resist and accommodate patriarchy
Sea Change: Nursing in Bella Bella, 1901-1925
Full text linkIn the early 1900s, the Heiltsuk village of Bella Bella (Wáglísla) in Northwest British Columbia boasted a new Methodist mission hospital and a small Training School for Nurses. This study explores the largely unknown history of missionary nursing in Bella Bella between 1901 and 1925, built around the private documents of Doris Nichols, who began her nursing training there in 1921. This study critically examines the experiences of early nurse missionaries—students and graduates —who lived, learned, worked, and worshiped as a part of the Methodist medical mission in Bella Bella and to the surrounding area. As a social history, this study reflects on those experiences through the lenses of gender, age, class, race, region, and religion. This exploration concludes that Doris Nichols’ rare experience was interconnected with—and an extension of—the profound changes that occurred for the Heiltsuk, the Methodist missions, nursing education, and Doris herself.Nurses; Methodist medical mission; Heiltsuk; Bella Bella; Wáglísla; Rivers Inlet; Northwest Coast; Chilliwack, British Columbia; Indigenous healthcare histories; Training Schools for Nurses; R.W. Large Memorial Hospital; Methodist missionar
NOMINALS IN BELLA COOLA
No full textThe analysis of sentential units of the Salishan language of Bella Coola is presented, as far as the expression of nouns in them is concerned. The author concludes that the archaic language of Bella Coola gives opportunity to trace that verbals were diachronically prior to nominals in the development of parts of the speech system
Bella Coola Indians, Volume 2:
No full textThe material includes stories of the Bella Coola Indians. Vol. 2 includes songs (without music) and a Bella Coola-English Vocabulary.by T.F. McIlwraith.The material contained in this monograph was collected ... for the National Museum of Canada ... from March to August, 1922, and from September, 1923, to February, 1924
Bella Coola Indians, Volume 1:
No full textThe material includes stories of the Bella Coola Indians. Vol. 2 includes songs (without music) and a Bella Coola-English Vocabulary.by T.F. McIlwraith.The material contained in this monograph was collected ... for the National Museum of Canada ... from March to August, 1922, and from September, 1923, to February, 1924
Bella Coola: British Columbia Heritage Series Our Native Peoples Series 1 Volume 10
Full text link"Bella Coola" is the common designation of those Indians who, until a few years ago, inhabited the valley of the Bella Coola River in Central British Columbia. Linguistically, the Bella Coola form an isolated island of Salish-speaking people separated from others of the same stock by tribes of Athapaskan and Kwakiutl lineage. Culturally, they belong to the central section of the North Pacific Coast area. Social Studies Bulletin Department of Education.Not peer reviewedHistoric bookle
The relationship between body mass index and disease in non-aboriginal and aboriginal people residing in the Bella Coola Valley.
Full text linkThe goal of this project was to examine the prevalence of obesity and its associations with various diseases, in both the First Nation and non-First Nation populations in the isolated coastal community of the Bella Coola Valley on the West coast of British Columbia, Canada. 1. Are BMIs for Nuxalk in the Bella Coola Valley higher than non-aboriginals in the Bella Coola Valley? 2. Are diseases associated with higher BMIs in the Bella Coola Valley? 3. Are diseases more prevalent for Nuxalk or non-aboriginals in the Bella Coola Valley? --P.6.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b132603
Sudabeh Mohafez e Yoko Tawada: due differenti processi di (ri)costruzione identitaria
No full textYoko Tawada is a famous German-Japanese author she lives since 1982 in Germany, where she writes in Japanese and German. Sudabeh Mohafez is a German-Iranian author that she lives since 1979 in Germany and she writes only in German. This essay examines how Tawada and Mohafez approach the native country in their works. The focus of this study intends to show what different identity processes have each writers and how they are described in Akzentfrei, 2016 of Tawada and Wüstenhimmel Sternenland, 2004 of Mohafez
L’attesa come condizione esistenziale: SAID Landschaften einer fernen Mutter, 2001 e Marjane Satrapi Persepolis, 2007
Full text linkIn this paper the author intends to analyze
the concept of ‘waiting time’ that, in a different way, also seen the substantial artistic diversity, is present in the film Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, 2007,
based on the namesake graphic novel written by the French-Iranian director in 2000, and in the novel Landschaften einer fernen Mutter written by the German-Iranian author SAID, 2001.
The analysis that is conducted here wants to investigate how both, in the film and in the literary work, the ‘waiting time’ for the exile takes on totally personal connotations, becoming also not only part of the life of Satrapi and SAID, but above all a state of mind
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