Ukrainian intelligentsia in post-Soviet Lʹviv : narratives, identity, and power / by Narvselius, Eleonora Havryluyk

Table of Contents: “…Approaching Intelligentsia -- Intelligentsia and Problematics of Culture, Nation, Class and Power -- A Historical Stage for Intelligentsia's Projects : Polyethnic, Multicultural, Nationalist Daily Lʹviv -- Incarnations of the Protagonist : Old Intelligentsia, New Intelligentsia, Pseudo-Intelligentsia, Non-Intelligentsia -- Between Kham and Knight : The Lʹviv Intelligentsia's "Others" and Alter Egos -- Intelligentsia's Spaces in Lʹviv -- Empowering Projects of the Lʹviv Intelligentsia and Intellectuals after the End of Soviet Rule : Narratives about Lʹviv's Centrality and Peripherality -- Empowering Projects of the Lʹviv Intelligentsia and Intellectuals after the End of Soviet Rule : Narratives about (Be)longing, Ambiguity and Cultural Colonization -- Opening a Pandora's Box : Collective Memories and "Blank Spots" of the Ukrainian Past in Historical Narratives of the Lʹviv Intelligentsia -- Conclusions: Intelligentsia in Lʹviv : The Power of Location and Narration -- Appendix 1: List of Informants.…”
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Memory spaces : visualizing identity in Jewish women's graphic narratives / by Aarons, Victoria

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Eye to I : self-portraits from the National Portrait Gallery /

Arab American novels post-9/11 : classical storytelling motifs against outsidership / by Sawires-Masseli, Marie-Christin

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Storytelling in Rabih Alameddine's "The Hakawati" -- 2.1 Summary of the novel -- 2.2 Metafictional Comments on Storytelling -- 2.3 Religion and good vs. evil in the different narrative strands -- 2.3.1 King Kade, the army of light, and their fight against color -- 2.3.2 Afreet-Jehanam's story on hell and paradise -- 2.3.3 The prophet Shams and the color tyranny -- 2.3.4 A holy birth and the cult -- 2.3.5 Religious references in the Baybars story -- 2.3.6 Religious charades in Osama's family -- 2.3.7 Conclusive remarks on religion and storytelling -- 2.4 Homosexuality in the different narrative strands -- 2.4.1 Homosexuality in the frame narrative -- 2.4.2 Homosexuality in the Fatima strand -- 2.5 Women doubles in the different narrative strands -- 2.6 Recurring motifs and entwined narrative strands -- 2.7 Music as a core expression of cultural identity -- 2.8 Conclusion to "The Hakawati" -- 3 Storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber's "Crescent" -- 3.1 A short summary of the novel's plot -- 3.2 Storytelling principles, the fable and its implications -- 3.2.1 Summary of the fable -- 3.2.2 Shifting identities and misleading assumptions in the fable -- 3.2.3 Arabness in the fable -- 3.2.4 The fable's purpose and implications for the novel as a whole -- 3.2.5 Han and Abdelrahman as alter egos -- 3.2.6 Other interfaces between frame narrative and fable -- 3.3 Arab Women in "Crescent" -- 3.4 Religion in "Crescent" -- 3.5 Immigrants in America -- outsidership or integration? …”
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Adrian Piper : a synthesis of intuitions, 1965-2016 /