Story Of Identity Research Articles

Identity and Language Advocacy: A Critical Collaborative Autoethnography

ABSTRACT Bilingual preservice teachers are uniquely positioned to enter into the figured world of K-12 schools, where many have experienced trepidation in their own education. Preservice teachers who are given opportunities to explore their identities, understand the big picture related to linguistic ideologies, and connect with one another are better able to grow a stronger sense of self. Through critical collaborative autoethnography, a group of undergraduates wrote their personal language identity story and explored, with their professors, their identities as influenced by languages, cultures, and educational journeys. Major findings include highlighting the identity improvisations of college students as they navigate a Primarily White Institution (PWI) dealing with discrimination, bias, and white and English hegemony. Coming together as a group to build student-led groups to be authentically themselves, honor their language and culture, and support their teacher dream created spaces to change the system. This work adds to the literature on the topic with recommendations that show the importance for PWIs to establish communities, networking and advocacy.

Narrating The Self: Identity Quests in Linda Grant's Novels

This research paper focuses on identity quests in Linda Grant’s novels. This paper explores the complex web of identity development that Linda Grant's novels weave together. With an emphasis on the subtle stories that shed light on the characters' travels, the study makes its way across the tricky terrain of self-discovery found in Grant's literary works. The study deconstructs the complex layers of identity quests that Grant's protagonists undertake through a close reading of important works, such as "The Clothes on Their Backs" and "When I Lived in Modern Times." The investigation covers how the characters' perceptions of themselves are shaped by the interaction of their personal histories, cultural surroundings, and societal forces. The study explains how Grant's books function as rich canvases on which the characters paint their stories of identity by drawing on a variety of theoretical frameworks. Grant's protagonists go on significant self-discovery journeys that connect with readers universally, whether they are navigating the complexities of personal relationships, dealing with the legacy of family, or facing historical upheavals. By closely analysing narrative strategies, character growth, and thematic motifs, this study seeks to advance knowledge of how Linda Grant uses the novel to delve into the complexities of the human psyche. By doing this, it illuminates the author's unique storytelling style, in which the search for identity serves as a major theme and encourages readers to consider their own paths of self-discovery. In the end, this investigation aims to present Linda Grant's works as engrossing and perceptive analyses of the nuances present in the process of forming and describing the self.

Queering the Outdoors: Experiences of 2LGBTQIA+ Outdoor Recreation Professionals

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Plus non-conforming identities (LGBTQ+) individuals who have pursued a professional career in the outdoor recreation industry. Six stories of queer identity in the outdoors were gifted to this study, with the understanding that not all LGBTQ+ individuals experience the outdoors in the same way. Each participant was encouraged to guide the study through individual expression in alignment with an emancipatory critical narrative research design. This study considers participant experiences across the span of their career, where job advancement and the role of colleagues both arose as prominent themes that shed light on the pervasiveness of hegemonic culture in the outdoor recreation profession. Outdoor recreation organizations may learn from these stories to disentangle harmful social norms from curriculum and practices by creating structural pathways for professionals with non-dominant identities, and authentically consider how an organization’s history informs its culture. The findings have important implications for creating inclusive culture in the outdoor recreation profession.

Mistaken Identities: Negotiating Passing and Replacement in Chinese Records of the Strange

The large corpus of early medieval Chinese narratives now classified as records of the strange includes an abundance of stories of mistaken identity. This essay focuses on stories in which an animal successfully impersonates a human but is eventually found out. The questions I ask of these materials touch on issues of identity, privilege, and narrative: What does it take to pass as and replace a human, and possibly even a particular human? How are personal identity and privilege conceptualized, also across species and gender? How do narratives of initially mistaken and finally revealed “true” identity operate and what literary means do they employ? I propose that the political and social changes that shook early medieval China moved questions about ethnic, social, and personal identity to the center of thought, and that the literary conventions of records of the strange made the genre particularly suited to deliberating and negotiating these matters, especially in terms of access to privileged social spheres. Considering the literary sophistication with which records of the strange were usually composed, I also propose to include them more seriously in discussions of literary practice in early medieval China.

Language Teacher Mindset and Teacher Identity

Teacher identity refers to how teachers see themselves as teachers and how others see them as teachers. A teacher growth mindset refers to a teacher’s belief system that sees professional learning as a possibility, even in the face of challenges and disruptions. In this presentation, I outline what teacher identity means, and why it is important for teachers to know about their changing identities in the contexts in which they work. I also suggest narrative ways of exploring those identities – that is, to generate and understand teachers’ identity stories. I then briefly describe what mindsets are and share several stories told by teachers and teacher educators that reveal how their identities and their mindsets interconnect. I show how this interconnection does not always reveal a growth mindset or a belief in learning. To try to explain this situation, I present a professional development framework consisting of a number of interrelated mindset continua that aims to achieve, through teacher narrative inquiry, some sort of equilibrium or stability in the lives of hard-working teachers.

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle (review)

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle (review)

(Re)assembling the Self: Homeless Young People’s Identity Journeys and the Search for Ontological Security

ABSTRACT Homelessness is frequently assumed to be a fixed state that suspends people in time and space as they enter into contexts and environments where they struggle to exert control over their lives and their futures. Furthermore, a multitude of negative identities are ascribed to people who are homeless based on their lack of stable housing. A growing literature has contributed to a more nuanced understanding of the identity “work” engaged in by youth who experience homelessness. Nonetheless, most studies have examined the construction of identity cross-sectionally; in many cases, exclusively or primarily through the lens of youths’ experience of street and shelter life. Additionally, while the home has long since been argued to provide a secure base around which identities are constructed and ontological security attained, the intersection of identity with ontological security has, hitherto, not been adequately addressed within the youth homelessness literature. This paper examines the identity journeys of homeless young people based on selected findings from a six-year biographical longitudinal study of homeless youth in Dublin, Ireland. The analysis—which is organised according to the themes of rupture, the interruption of trust, and the (re)assembling of self—builds on existing studies by engaging with the concept of ontological security alongside an examination of young people’s accounts of, and reflections on, their journeys through and, in some cases, out of homelessness. The paper concludes by discussing the importance of understanding the identity stories of homeless youth through longitudinal biographical narration and addresses the policy implications arising from the findings presented.

Refiguring research stories of science identity by attending to the embodied, affective, and non-human

This perspective article draws on conversations with a program coordinator in a community organization that guided the development of an after school Convoclub for girls, which focused on understanding the role of science in their lives. We examine our conversations with the program coordinator to understand how affective placemaking, brought about by engagement in a digital storytelling project, created a new space for girls' engagement in science. We describe these conversations as part of our “research story”—a term intended to highlight the importance of storying in postqualitative methods. We draw on data from a qualitative case study of the co-designed science activities in Convoclub with a special focus on conversations with its program director and our joint work in the design of the club activities over time (i.e., dialogue circles with the six youth participants, a digital storytelling project, and a video documentary about science). Presented in three vignettes, we address the evolution of the club activities and its implications for designing spaces for learning and becoming informal science learning environments supportive of empowering identities in science understood through framing from a posthumanist perspective. Throughout, we consider the implications of refiguring research stories of identity by attending to the mundane yet also emergent stories of assemblages—affectively charged associations of people, places, and things. We consider what this orientation brings not only to the telling of identity stories but also to the co-design of learning spaces and considerations about whose voices and stories are told and heard in science spaces.

Four Novels of 1939: Ambition and Redemption; Ethnicity and Race

Four Novels of 1939: Ambition and Redemption; Ethnicity and Race

Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England by Mary Kate Hurley

Reviewed by: Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England by Mary Kate Hurley Stephen Harris mary kate hurley, Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England. Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2021. Pp. 226. isbn: 978-0-8142-1471-8. $99.95. A challenge faced by any book on a broad theme like translation is to quarry a small number of texts for something widely applicable. The challenge is made more difficult if one's aim is to reveal 'community,' which has to be abstracted from dozens of familial, tribal, ethnic, legal, religious, and linguistic groupings across centuries, evinced (in Britain) in at least four languages, and encrypted within conventions of genre. The challenge seems to me insurmountable except as a thought-experiment, itself much complicated by addressing readers who entertain modern prejudices, expectations, and unfamiliarity with source material. In that view, Translation Effects is an instructive thought experiment. Mary Kate Hurley interprets a variety of medieval translations in order to propose their 'imagined political, cultural, and linguistic communities' (p. 1). These imagined communities are the 'translation effects' of her title. Hurley's first chapter discusses the Old English (OE) translation of Paulus Orosius' History Against the Pagans, written in Latin. Hurley focuses on a handful of instances when the OE translator writes, 'Orosius said.' This phrase, Hurley claims, 'constructs an audience located in two distinct times: the fifth-century Roman world … and the ninth-century Old English-speaking world' (p. 27). A subtle effect on a reader of the OE Orosius, this trans-temporal community exemplifies Hurley's 'translation effect.' The second chapter concerns the Catholic abbot Ælfric of Eynsham, who around the year 1000 recorded a set of saints' lives in OE. By translating some local lives from Latin, especially that of Saint Oswald, King of England, Ælfric creates a 'protonationalist' tradition around which an Anglo-Saxon community can form (p. 70). In Chapter Three, Hurley adopts a trope from Christine Schott: the 'community of the page,' which comprises readers, scribes, and glossators of a manuscript. The post-Conquest glossator known as the Tremulous Hand of Worcester returned often to a manuscript and therefore had a 'multitemporal relationship' to it (p. 98). In another manuscript, an illustrator has marked Latin phrases with red ink, while another marked OE sentences with red ink, thereby indicating 'the multilinguality of the text' (p. 102). Scribes are aware of translations and have methods to help future readers (p. 108). Thus, the manuscript invites readers who are multilingual and who can add information to what they find there. Chapter Four concerns the story of Constance as retold by Nicholas Trevet, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer. The three authors are 'united by their temporally heterogeneous portrayals of an emerging sense of "Engelond"' (p. 128). My knowledge of these authors is too limited to be able to assess the success of Hurley's argument. The last chapter concerns Beowulf. In it, Hurley explores moments in the poem 'in which the process of community formation and dissolution is worked out through the telling and retelling of stories' (p. 154). It is a terrific meditation on how the poem portrays the vicissitudes of human community. This chapter reveals a critic who has thought deeply and well about this poem. [End Page 152] Hurley contributes to a scholarly conversation about English identity that focuses on idealized communities as a source of political and social aspiration. For decades scholars have tried to isolate sources of ethnic and national identity in the early medieval world and to weigh both their credibility and their effects. A common assumption in this conversation is that stories, especially historical ones, bore a 'kernel of identity' (in Herwig Wolfram's phrase) around which communities could—but not necessarily did—form. Readers can entertain ideas they never act on. And stories of identity are always provisional, a point Hurley illustrates extremely well in her final chapter. The contributing role of stories to a shared potential identity opened the door to literary critics. Critics, this reviewer among them, mined literary texts for ideals of community. I'm not sure that the effort yielded much that was useful to...

Contributors’ Notes

Kelley L. Carter is an award-winning entertainment and pop-culture journalist who joined ESPN in January 2016 as a senior entertainment reporter for The Undefeated (now Andscape), which is a Black media platform dedicated to creating, highlighting, and uplifting the diverse stories of Black identity. She is the host of the digital series “Another Act with Kelley Carter,” where she gives viewers direct access to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Some of her critically acclaimed work has featured artists such as film director John Singleton, legendary singer Aretha Franklin, and actor Chadwick Boseman. Carter joined the Undefeated from Buzzfeed, where she was a senior editor for entertainment. Prior to Buzzfeed, she served as entertainment editor at Ebony magazine. Carter is currently based in Los Angeles, but she is a native of Detroit and graduate of Michigan State University who was working as a journalist for the Detroit Free Press at the time of J Dilla’s death.Dan Charnas is an award-winning music and business journalist; producer of records and television; and Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. He is the author of four books, including The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (2010), Def Jam: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, which was co-authored with Bill Adler and Cey Adams (2011), and Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (2022). In addition, Charnas was the co-creator and executive producer of the VH1 TV series The Breaks. In the early 1990s, Charnas was one of the first writers for The Source, becoming part of a generation of young writers who helped create hip-hop journalism. He penned cover stories, features, reviews, and columns for a variety of publications on artists including L.L. Cool J, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest, N.W.A. and Public Enemy.KáLyn Banks Coghill is a doctoral student in the Media, Art, and Text Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is also an instructor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies department. Her research focuses on digital violence, hip-hop feminism, black girlhood, and digital studies.Ambre Dromgoole (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. Her dissertation “There’s a Heaven Somewhere

Cape Fear (1962) Filminin Türsel Açidan Değerlendirilmesi

The concept of genre has had a significant place in cinema studies since the 1970s. Genre films are commercial feature films telling identical stories with similar characters. Definition and debate of genus and genres in cinema has tended to focus on mainstream, commercial films in general and Hollywood films in particular. In this study, it is aimed to make a generic evaluation of the movie Cape Fear directed by John Lee Thompson in 1962. The movie was selected with a teleological sample method because it inhibits the characteristics of some main genres and some sub-genres and makes the changes of some main species visible over time. The movie has the characteristics of psychological-thriller, psycho-thriller, film noir and neo-noir. The film was chosen in terms of both showing the change in the main genre, film noir, and blurring the boundaries of psycho-thriller and psychological thriller, which are two sub-genres of thriller. Movie selected as a sample, analyzed according to the generic criticism method. In this direction Cape Fear is evaluated from a generic perspective under the headings of “subject, narrative structure, characters, iconography and direction of photography.”

The Poison Flood by Jordan Farmer (review)

Reviewed by: The Poison Flood by Jordan Farmer Randi Adams (bio) Jordan Farmer. The Poison Flood. New York, N.Y.: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020. 288 pages. Hardcover. 4. Through the first-person narration of Hollis Bragg, guitarist and secret songwriter for a popular mainstream band, Jordan Farmer presents a story of murder, environmental destruction, music, love, and identity. The Poison Flood, Farmer’s second novel, is hyperfocused on a week-long string of events that take place in a small West Virginia town. Hollis’s unique perspective is informed largely by the outsider status he has incurred due to his hunched back. The plot of the novel lurches forward when Hollis’s self-inflicted reclusivity is shattered by a fan and an environmentalist zealot just as a chemical spill leaves the county’s water poisoned and the region in crisis. The dangers Hollis faces in relation to the contamination and the violent fallout force him to reckon with his sense of self, his relationships with women, and the isolation and anonymity he has been hiding within. [End Page 104] As is common in Appalachian literature, The Poison Flood exhibits a self-awareness of Appalachia’s role in American consciousness. Hollis, unsurprised by the lack of aid following the contamination, tells the reader, “In many ways, we’ve always been on our own, addressed only when the rest of the country requires our resources or needs something to mock.” Farmer expertly parallels this exploitation on a micro-level as we see the county, full of people who have mythologized Hollis as a monster, come to rely on him for his unspoiled well water. It is a poignant metaphor for a cruel and all-too-true reality. In some of his most beautiful prose, Farmer continually links Hollis’s body with place, furthering this metaphor. The novel’s most obvious antagonist is essentially an eco-terrorist which creates a dramatic sense of tension within the narrative given the plot is largely driven by an environmental disaster. It is an interesting choice by Farmer, who could have easily given the story a perfect martyr. Instead, via Victor’s violent zeal, Farmer asks the reader to interrogate their own sense of right and wrong. Yet Victor falls flat as a character. Perhaps he is too much; a voyeuristic and explosive persona in a uniform of a cowboy hat and spurs. Or perhaps he is not enough; with almost no background story, his zeal seems unearned at times. Victor’s believability especially falters in comparison to the novel’s other malicious extremist, Hollis’s father–the Reverend. Victor becomes a caricature of a villain, almost to the point of the unbelievable, making it difficult to see him as a true threat. While the novel is, on the surface, crime noir with an environmental consciousness, at its heart, it is a love story and a reckoning with identity. Music is a driving force for Hollis, but at an early stage in his life, it is secondary. He begins [End Page 105] making music because of and for Angela, whom he meets as a teenager. The pair bond over guitar lessons and Angela becomes Hollis’s escape from his abusive father and from the loneliness he faces. Music becomes a larger part of his identity later in life, after he leaves The Troubadours, the band he and Angela founded. Hollis derives much of his self-worth through his relationships with women–Angela, Caroline, and eventually, Rosita, using music as a means to foster these relationships. Even in catastrophe, even in potentially fatal situations, Hollis’s mind returns to the women in his life, his relationships with them, and their considerations of his body, or what he imagines as their considerations. In the most dire situations, Hollis ultimately wants to be desired and loved– something to which everyone can connect. It is in these moments, Hollis’s most vulnerable admissions, that Farmer’s candid, honest, and, surprisingly, tender storytelling functions at its best. Hollis’s relationship with his disabled body is in a continuous state of change. While it does lean toward resentment and apathy, Farmer makes it clear that perfect acceptance of one’s physical...

Afrofeminist Microhistories and the Making of Modern Black French Identities

This article explores recent works by French Afrofeminists that interrogate notions of Frenchness and colorblindness through staking claims to Black diasporic identity. Examining Audrey Celestine's Une famille française (Paris, Éditions Textuel, 2018) and Maboula Soumahoro’s Le Triangle et l’Hexagone (Paris, La Découverte, 2020) in relation to notions of intersectionality, diaspora, and the “Third Space,” the article reveals how these writers construe Black identity formation in the context of modern France through collective family memory and through conceptualizing both womanhood and race in the geographic prism of the French empire, past and present. Celestine’s and Soumahoro’s interwoven narrative style permits them tell intimate stories of family and personal identity while exploring broader phenomena of colonialism, empire, and systemic intersectional racial, gender, and religious discrimination. Ultimately, these writers work to draw the contours of modern Black French identity and to assert it as an essential part of French history and society that neither claims to systemic universalism nor colorblind rhetoric officially promulgated by the state can erase.

Trapping: An Identity Work Strategy of a Non White Mate Migrant to be Visible in the Workplace

We give voice to a unique individual migrant identity story of extraordinary resilience. In this special issue we analyse an identity work strategy which is so far not accounted for in the identity work literature. This paper aims to uncover the identity work of our first author, a non-white male migrant who is a multi-discipline qualified and a tenured public health academic in his early forties but also a product of post-colonial globalisation and thus an artefact of considerable identity work. The evolution of his identity started with his original identity as a Tamil Malaysian boy. We narrate his story of a seemingly never-ending struggle to 'breathe', stay afloat, and achieve visibility in the workplace through a collaborative, reflective autoethnographic process. The array of multi-location identity work across the globe, from trying to find a voice as a third-generation migrant in his own birth country, Malaysia, in the Russian medical society as an aspiring paediatrician, and a first-generation skilled migrant in Australia made our first author a unique case of identity work. The identity work discovered here is of particular significance to this special issue due to the micro, meso and macro-level implications.

Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood

Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood

But Do They Care?

This paper considers the effectiveness of evolving formats of image work (online interactive, augmented reality, virtual reality) to help audiences understand multiple points of view on contested topics. It is based in the oral histories of six female landscape photographers, all of who photograph the impacts of the controversial oil and gas extraction technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. All of the photographers consider themselves environmentalists and are concerned with the environmental effects of the process. In this experiment, we produced identical stories about the photographers and their work across the three different platforms. We then conducted focus groups to determine if a specific platform helped audiences better develop an “ethic of care”: an ability to understand multiple perspectives about a topic. We argue experiential immersion offers potential for both scholars and image-base dstorytellers. Unlike the still image or archive-based oral history, interactive storytelling allows for audiences to direct how they will experience images and understand complex issues in a tactile platform.

The complex story of educational identity in adolescence: Longitudinal relations with academic achievement and perfectionism.

Education has a strong impact on adolescent development. This study investigated the complex longitudinal associations between educational identity processes, academic achievement, and perfectionism. The study used a 4-wave design (N = 744 adolescents, Mage = 15.2 years, 55% girls). Results showed that self-oriented perfectionism mediated the longitudinal relation between academic achievement and educational commitment, whereas educational commitment mediated the longitudinal relation between self-oriented perfectionism and academic achievement. Also, a unidirectional positive direct link from educational in-depth exploration to socially prescribed perfectionism was found, while self-oriented perfectionism mediated the positive relationship between academic achievement and exploration. Finally, higher academic achievement led to decreases in educational reconsideration of commitment, whereas socially prescribed perfectionism predicted increases in educational reconsideration of commitment and decreases in academic achievement. These findings bring forward the intricate and possibly sabotaging links between educational identity processes, academic achievement, and perfectionism.

Cardiac disease in pregnancy and the first year postpartum: a story of mental health, identity and connection

BackgroundWomen with cardiac disease in pregnancy and the first year postpartum often face uncertainty about their condition and the trajectory of their recovery. Cardiac disease is a leading cause of serious maternal morbidity and mortality, and the prevalence is increasing. Affected women are at risk of worsening cardiac disease, chronic illness, mental illness and trauma. This compounded risk may lead to significant and long-term negative outcomes. The aim of this study is to correct the lack of visibility and information on the experiences of women with cardiac disease in pregnancy and the first year postpartum.MethodsA qualitative study using in-depth semi-structured interviews with twenty-five women who had acquired, congenital or genetic cardiac disease during pregnancy or the first year postpartum. Data were analysed and interpreted using a thematic analysis framework.ResultsAnalysis of the interviews produced three major themes: 1) Ground zero: index events and their emotional and psychological impact, 2) Self-perception, identity and worthiness, and 3) On the road alone; isolation and connection. There was a narrative consistency across the interviews despite the women being diverse in age, cardiac diagnosis and cardiac health status, parity and timing of diagnosis. The thread prevailing over the temporal and clinical differences was one of distress, biographical disruption, identity, isolation, a necessitated re-imagining of their lives, and the process of multi-layered healing.ConclusionAcknowledging and understanding the breadth, complexity and depth of women’s experiences is fundamental to improving outcomes. Our findings provide unique insights into women’s experiences and challenges across a spectrum of diseases. Most women did not report an isolated trauma or distressing event, rather there was a layering and persistence of psychological distress necessitating enhanced assessment, management and continuity of care beyond the routine 6-week postpartum check. Further research is required to understand long-term outcomes and to refine the findings for specific disease cohorts to be able to respond effectively.

Contemporary Russian Literature in Latvia: Children’s Literature

Throughout the 20th century, Russian children’s literature in Latvia was a unique phenomenon. Against the background of the general trends of Soviet children’s literature, Latvian children’s literature (in both Latvian and Russian) developed in a space that was less constrained in respect of ideological censorship. 21st century children’s literature in Latvia is developing both taking into account the previous history and current trends. The article is devoted to the specific features of children’s literature in Russian, taking into account the general status of the Russian language as a foreign language and general trends in the socio-cultural space of Latvia. The study considers two main issues. First, it is a sociological analysis of the situation: an assortment of children’s books, the specifics of the school programme, awareness of contemporary Latvian and Russian children’s literature. On the other hand, the corpus of texts of contemporary children’s literature is studied, and an overview of the oeuvre of contemporary Latvian authors is presented. The material for literary analysis was the book by Vladimir Novikov, “The Mischief of the Obedient Martins”. In the course of the analysis, the specifics of the traditional children’s story, the cultural and historical context of the cross-border identity of the author and his potential readers, the specifics of the contemporary narrative, the identification of the concept “one’s own – other’s” were revealed.