Story Of Marriage Research Articles

The aspects and implications of the ‘boundary’ contained in Japanese Heterogeneous Marriage Stories

The aspects and implications of the ‘boundary’ contained in Japanese Heterogeneous Marriage Stories

Expanding identity beyond the human

AbstractEcofeminists, environmental activists, and ecologists are calling humans to change our relationships to other‐than‐humans and more‐than‐humans. Indigenous people and knowledge systems are often exemplified as ways for non‐Indigenous people to relate to these entities. While Indigenous people have historically participated in epistemologies and modes of perception that rendered them more able to connect to non‐humans, these relationships have not always been peaceful or mutually advantageous. Examples are cited in which annihilating all beavers was the goal, and the fur trade is cited as a time when Indigenous people in North America gained mastery over animals that had previously threatened them, leading to near extinction for some species in some locations over a short time. Bear–human marriage stories provide us with another way to view the human–animal relationship, which is sometimes violent. Through multiple conversations with Elders over time, I have been accumulating a sense of Indigenous North American (INA) theories of mind, self, and consciousness. I apply the results of my discussions to the question of whether we are creating a new consciousness of relations with non‐humans that has not previously existed in INA thought, though it has its progenitors. I also apply insights from recent literature on psychedelics. This new thought arises from the current domination of the planet and animals by human beings and the relative lack of threat to humans from animals. Indeed, we are more dangerous to them than they are to us. Within this context, we can construct a new consciousness of non‐humans, which has its historical antecedents and which is also entirely new.

“Craving to be frightened”: Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw as a Sinister Parody of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

This article seeks to argue that The Turn of the Screw is a sinister parody of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and of the female quixotic Bildungsroman. To sustain this claim, I will show that both Catherine and the governess are two burlesque and quixotic heroines who are deeply influenced by their extravagant fancies and their readings of romance. I will also explore their self-assumed role as heroic characters in search of cognitive certainty. And finally, I will argue that evil is intimately related to social and class conflicts in both narratives. Nevertheless, contrary to what happens in Northanger Abbey, in James’s parodic reworking of Austen’s novel, Gothic intrusions do not serve as a means of discipline for the governess’s overworked imagination and her potential story of marriage and social ascent is consequently foiled. The narrative’s refusal to educate the governess and its deviation from the female quixotic tradition links James’s novella to modernity.

How to Protect Your Daughters from “Stranger Marriage”: Palestinian Families in Germany Betwixt Kinship Endogamy and Intercultural Exogamy

This article is about marriage stories collected from Palestinian Muslim families making a new life in Germany while seeking to retain their transnational ties and cultural roots. They belong to the Arab and Muslim diaspora whose disposition to integrate into the fabric of European society has been persistently questioned. Arab and Muslim immigrants and their offspring largely seem to prefer staying amongst themselves, taking spouses from their home countries rather than intermingling with the local population. However, faced with transnational exchange and intercultural crossover in much the same way, those who do intermarry and those who do not may have more in common than often suggested. Combining narrative inquiries with quantitative comparisons, three issues are addressed in this article: the impact of migration histories on marriage preferences and prerogatives, intergenerational dynamics of marriage stories unfolding at the family level, and shifting boundaries of “protection” and “strangeness” evolving in the course of change from below.

Manmath Pooja

Lepakshi is a small town1 situated in Hindupur taluka of Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh. Veerbhadra temple located in Lepakshi is famous for monumental temple architecture of Vijaynagar Empire period. The extensive mural paintings executed on the walls and temple ceilings are world famous. One of the painting ‘Girija Kalyanam’ depicts story of marriage of Shiv and Parvati. It is a narrative panel. It starts with the painting famously known as ‘Parvati’s toilet’. In this paper, I have tried to prove that it is not ‘Parvati’s toilet’ but ‘Manmath Pooja’.

Hukum Hadat Dayak Ngaju: Tahiu Janji Pangawin di Kalimantan Tengah

<p style="text-align: justify;">The purpose of this study is to find out how the Ngaju Dayak Hadat Law regulates the application of tahiu promise pangawin to the Ngaju Dayak indigenous people. The method that the author uses is a normative research method with a library study approach, using primary and secondary legal materials such as 96 articles of Damai Tumbang Anoi, the book of Panaturan, marriage agreements, legal books and legal research results. The results of this study that know the promise of pangawin is a customary law of the Ngaju Dayak community to form an eternal household but only death can separate because for the Ngaju Dayak indigenous people marriage is a sacred and sacred thing, it is very necessary to maintain its sanctity. In accordance with the teachings they believe, referring to the marriage stories between Raja Garing Hatungku and Nyai Endas Bulau Lisan Tingang in the book of Panaturan chapter 30. For those who violate the promise of marriage, they will be subject to sanctions in accordance with article 3, namely singer hatulang not yet in the 96 articles of Peace. Fall Anoi.</p>

Women and Sexual Contracts in Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage

This study examines the position of women in Divakaruni's collection of short stories. This study aims to look at what the position of women is depicted in Divakaruni’s collection of short stories Arranged Marriage, and uses the narrative of the sexual contracts. This theory was chosen because it can investigate the complications revealed. Therefore this theory is well-suited to determining the position of women in Divakaruni's collection of Arranged Marriage stories. The data is presented in the form of character utterance and author narration. This study used a qualitative descriptive method to analyze the data. A woman is a property where the property owner is free to do whatever he wants. The property owner has the right to be angry and to speak harshly when he is upset. Women must obey whatever men say if they do not want to be physically abused.

Learning to love at the violent periphery of Philippine society

AbstractThis article seeks to contribute to a scholarly conversation about love beyond dominant assumptions of romance, desire, and attraction by exploring what love comes to mean as situated in and governed by violence and marginalization in the shadows of political conflict. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Muslim women in Palawan, the Philippines, I unpack the empirical notion of learning to love as it occurred in their stories of marriage. The article argues that learning to love reflects the women's struggles to survive socially, emotionally, and materially, and to make a life and selves. In this way, love is rooted in patriarchal relationality, the cultivation of moral and religious ideals of womanhood as well as in the social and material dependency in the family revealing love as familial togetherness, attachment, and support. On this basis, the process of learning love captures the women's work of learning to live, reclaiming sociality and social worth within the violent and confining conditions that structure their lives.

Love Story's Ontology: Species Feeling in New Grub Street

Naturalism is an under-acknowledged posthumanism, and George Gissing's New Grub Street helps to reveal its ontologically and formally intricate aesthetics. Posthumanism challenges conventional humanism in insisting on the self as materially embodied, situated, and impinged: the self is not transcendent or etherealized, as in Cartesian philosophy. Gissing's Darwinian fiction often, interestingly, implies the premise of human non-specialness through stories of love and marriage. This essay claims that New Grub Street—with all its attention to writing, the print marketplace, and consumer appeal—metafictionally suggests the popular love story of the marriage plot as a particularly delusive product in that it encourages the false notion of human species distinction. New Grub Street's characters absorb this plot as a pattern for their own lives, which then fools them into thinking that a mere emotion, love, has a grand power to shape their futures, whatever their material circumstances. In other words, Gissing represents the feeling of love as a rhapsodic exaggeration of interiority and of interiority's supposed freedom from embodied conditions. But New Grub Street does not simply satirize its characters' ontological mistake. Rather, it demonstrates naturalism's complicated formal tendency to oscillate between two scales: the macroscale—deep, long species history—and, every bit as important, the microscale, or characters' small, daily, felt sense of their lives. Naturalism holds both versions of reality as equally valid; it is a fundamentally dual, dynamic form of realism, whose aesthetics, moreover, also works dynamically with readers themselves, implicating them, too, in a perplexed account of human being.

Review of Chitra Banerjee’s Arranged Marriage Stories

Book Review: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, ‘Arranged Marriage Stories’, Anchor, 1996, 320p, ISBN-13: 978-0385483506 Reviewed by Niranjana G, Research Scholar, VIT Chennai, Bhuvaneswari, Assistant Professor, VIT Chennai

Как молодые люди осмысляют вступление в брак? Истории о знакомстве и свадьбе в интервью молодых супругов

В исследованиях молодых семей фокус делается на жизни после свадьбы — развитии отношений супругов, прохождении ими через семейные переходы, преодоление критических точек, освоение новых ролей. При этом в значительной части работ сопоставляются люди, не регистрирующие отношения и выбирающие сожительство, и те, кто вступает в брак; последние при этом рассматриваются как гомогенная группа. Однако также есть исследования, посвященные рассмотрению очень узких вопросов, связанных со вступлением в брак: как именно делается предложение, как супруги участвуют в подготовке к свадьбе, какие ценности и образы семьи транслируются в свадебных пожеланиях. В рамках данной работы предполагается рассматривать вступление в брак как процесс, в ходе которого начинается формирование семейных отношений. На основании анализа глубинных интервью с молодыми супругами (48 интервью, 24 пары, состоящие в зарегистрированном браке не более пяти лет) выделяются этапы вступления в брак, показывается множественность интерпретаций молодоженами каждого из них. В заключительной части работы представлены несколько гипотез о факторах, определяющих структуру брачных историй и их специфику. Благодарность. Исследование «Как создаются и живут молодые семьи в современной России? Сравнение семей мирян и священников» осуществляется в рамках Программы научных исследований Фонда развития ПСТГУ в 2018-2021 гг.

Research on Contradictoriness in Female marriage stories of San Yan: via Xin Xue Theories

Research on Contradictoriness in Female marriage stories of San Yan: via Xin Xue Theories

The remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel: a story of marriage and money in the early republic

The remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel: a story of marriage and money in the early republic

Being Human

Being Human Scott Andrews (bio) The Woman Who Married a Bear Poems Tiffany Midge University of New Mexico Press www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000006797 80 Pages; Print, $17.95 Each semester I teach a set of American Indian stories about women who marry bears. I like these stories for many reasons, but one special reason is how they resist easy understanding. Like relationships, these stories about relationships can be contradictory, mystifying, and dynamic. Relationships that start off badly can become satisfying. Others can be going well and then suddenly end very badly for all involved. In his commentary on a suite of bear marriage stories, Karl Kroeber praises them for their “intense focus on the central ambiguities of social life” and their portrayal of “human life as a tissue of ambivalences inseparable from pain, error, and suffering.” Some of this can be said about Tiffany Midge’s new collection of poems, The Woman Who Married a Bear. But do not think that all of her poems are about “pain, error, and suffering.” Many are about laughter, sex, and meditations on those “central ambiguities,” especially between lovers. The collection is the result of a thoughtful poet considering the mysteries of being a complicated human relating to other complicated humans (or bears). The first poem in the collection, “The Woman Who Married a Bear,” establishes a pattern that can be found in many of the poems that follow. Five stanzas of varying and concrete images describe the strange nature of sexual attraction. The lover’s eyes are “black hooks” that have “pierced her heart into the darkling of his body,” that have “winched it out, a spent, stained prize.” On the one hand, saying we have won someone’s heart is to suggest that person has fallen in love with us, and we might describe falling in love as having our heart pierced by Cupid’s arrow. Having that heart pierced with black hooks and then removed with a winch? That is saying something else. I will present the final stanza whole to preserve the strength and sound of Midge’s poetry: “She had a lover who spooned her body at night, / who drank from the full cups of her breasts, / who hungered for her shoulders, her mouth, her belly– / who fed on the pounding in her chest.” The erotic language here is paradoxical enough to please the ghost of Cleanth Brooks. The lover desires her, hungers for her, engages her body in ways that we might all enjoy being enjoyed, and the “pounding in her chest” suggests she enjoys it too. However, we might ask how she is being fed in this exchange—the second stanza describes her alone in the woods as she waits out his hibernation; she forages for food and relies upon the “mercy of trees.” Is their passion reciprocal? Perhaps it is. However, the language that describes erotic desire can sound like the language of an attack. Is this a description of lovemaking or a scene from The Revenant? If her lover is a bear, might he be consuming her, eating her alive? I prefer the former possible meanings to the latter because, you know, it’s hot. But the possibility for both meanings exists. This contradictory reaction to desire is made explicit in “Desire: An Inventory.” The speaker says the audience might think desire is “a delicate impulse,” that would be wrong. If desire had a face it “would resemble a troll, or worse, a gargoyle.” The speaker says desire is “the most monstrous emotion since envy, since / hubris.” Desire is “utterly fickle,” coming and going with few reasons that we can understand. We resist our desires even when we give into them, the poem suggests, perhaps protecting ourselves in that most vulnerable encounter between two people. The poem concludes: “Tell me what you want,” he said.“You,” she said. “I want to want you.” “Tell me what you want,” she said.“You,” he said. “I want to not want you.” Several poems observe intimacies between lovers that do not express conflict (like that with a bear eating you alive) but express awareness that our lovers have lives...

Marriage as Black Citizenship?

The narrative of black marriage as citizenship enhancing has been pervasive in American history. As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Moynihan Report and prepare to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Thirteenth Amendment, this Article argues that this narrative is one that we should resist. The complete story of marriage is one that involves racial subordination and caste. Even as the Supreme Court stands to extend marriage rights to LGBT couples, the Article maintains that we should embrace nonmarriage as a legitimate frame for black loving relationships — gay or straight. Nonmarriage might do just as much, if not more, to advance black civil rights.Part I explores marriage’s role in racial subordination by looking at the experiences of African Americans, as well as Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Asian Americans. Drawing on institutional structure analyses, it then considers how legal marriage has “married” Blacks to second-class citizenship. Part II explores the current place of marriage in African America. It argues that, while the regulation of black loving relationships today differs dramatically from what we saw in earlier times, family law often has a punitive effect on such American families. Part III contemplates the benefits of adopting a focus on nonmarriage. It contends that meeting black families where they are holds the most potential for progress in addressing the structural barriers to success faced by those families. The Article ends with a “call to action” for legal scholars and others concerned about black families and citizenship. It maps a broad agenda for exploring in earnest the potential that supporting and valuing the existing networks, arrangements, and norms regarding gender and caretaking in African America has for promoting black citizenship and equality in the twenty-first century.

Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender, and Ethnic Identity by Anna Grabolle-Çeliker

<i>Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender, and Ethnic Identity</i> by Anna Grabolle-Çeliker

Scripting Civil Partnerships: interviewing couples together and apart

Couple studies generally focus on heterosexual relationships where partners are interviewed together or apart. This article discusses a study of same-sex couples’ Civil Partnerships that interviewed partners together and apart. It considers the methodological and analytical challenges raised by our approach by discussing how the different interactional settings of the interviews shaped the stories that couples and partners told, the links between relationship narration in interviews and their ‘doing’ in practice and the insights generated into the sociocultural factors that shape relationship scripting. The joint interviews produced couple and marriage stories. They illuminated couples’ scripting agency and factors that enable and constrain partners’ scripting authority in interviews and beyond. The individual interviews produced biographically embedded narratives of ‘relating selves’. These contextualized and complicated couple stories of (non-)negotiated relationships. Our approach enabled us to make links between relational scripting in interviews and the flow of power in situated research, relational and sociocultural contexts.

The Powerful Map of Transnational Families: &lt;i&gt;Marriage, spaces and life trajectories&lt;/i&gt;

Transnational families are, as the term suggests, social structures existing across national borders. Thus, individuals belonging to these families are in geographical terms separated by space. However, the practices of transnational families often provide a sense of proximity and emotional attachment. This article, by seeing space as inherently relational, discusses the fields within which families establish themselves and move transnationally. Transnational family spaces are, for example, arenas where young people meet and where marriages are arranged. This article includes the life and marriage stories of two individuals who have married transnationally, based on their family relationships, and further analyses how these marriages are element in the practices that families engage in to uphold a sense of closeness - an endeavour that is sometimes successful, sometimes not. Finally, the article discusses some elements that challenge the relational spaces that transnational families engage in, particularly the impact of nation states and their regulations.

Independence Comes to the Chief's Daughters: A Gabonese Family Story of Marriage and Decolonization

This essay explores Gabonese understandings of decolonization and marriage through oral narratives about Felicien Endame Ndong (ca. 1890–1971), a Fang-speaking Gabonese chief. Many historical studies of marriage in Africa have focused on the colonial period, but Ndong’s failed efforts to arrange marriages for his daughters indicate how drastically gender relations could change in the 1960s, after the achievement of national independence. These changes are particularly striking in Gabon, where scholars have contended that France’s continued influence ensured continuities between the colonial and postcolonial era. This case illustrates the challenges of interpreting oral narratives. Endame Ndong’s daughters noted how their father had forced their mother to marry him, but their presentations of his later life reflected their individual concerns: one daughter presented him as the victim of corrupt officials and deceitful family members; the other contended he was a tyrant who had forced her into an unhappy marriage. Such different portrayals denote women’s agency through the resistance of Endame Ndong’s daughters, and how differently sisters with similar experiences present their lives.

Nozawa dorama: televisual authorship in the currents of suspense and desire

This article offers an interpretation of the contribution of the recently deceased scriptwriter Nozawa Hisashi (1960–2004) to Japanese television production. Focusing on the recursive genre mixing in Nozawa's television serials from 1992 to 2002, this article develops the notion of ‘televisual authorship’ to better situate individual creators of television programs in wider cultural and social contexts. Mystery thrillers and marriage stories became the major generic currents in Nozawa's television serial dramas in a production context saturated with trendy love stories and also in a larger televisual atmosphere that questioned stabilizing forces in society, like the family. Committed to novelistic storytelling and socially grounded characterization, Nozawa transformed the traditional elements of crime and romance to underline love's pragmatic role in the pursuit of social justice. Unfortunately, this ‘social message’ may ultimately be lost in the information mode of Japanese televisual culture.