this article focuses on zadie smith’s the autograph manin anattempt to see whether smith is for the multiculturalist discourse orcriticizes it. to this end, two major themes of “identity” and “space” areexamined. it is argued that smith offers a counter-narrative to oppose ratherthan support multiculturalism. in fact, what is known as multiculturalistaspects of smith’s work is just a mere refle...

This paper argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In a first part the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention to defend a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identitie...

Espen Aarseth recently claimed that all games referred to as ’narrative games’ could better be described as ’quest games’. The writer of this paper suggests that Max Payne is a possible counter-example to this hypothesis; i.e. a game with a strong focus on narrative which is not easily understood as a quest game. The writer suggests that this, and other similar games, could better be understood...

We describe the N2 (Narrative Networks) Corpus, a new language resource. The corpus is unique in three important ways. First, every text in the corpus is a story, which is in contrast to other language resources that may contain stories or story-like texts, but are not specifically curated to contain only stories. Second, the unifying theme of the corpus is material relevant to Islamist Extremi...

This research will examines the polygamy narratives of Campus Da'wah Activists during rise discourse in Indonesia. activists are part urban Muslims who have intellectual and social duties to preach religion within scope campus level. is field with object being on three major campuses Yogyakarta, uses Master Narrative theory as a dissection narrative used. The findings study show that there grou...

Abstract Narrative-based approaches in dementia care emphasize the importance of understanding humans as beings who make sense themselves and others through constructing life narratives, taking this process to be morally significant for constituting or characterizing identities (and holding into their identities) (Kitwood, 1997). Yet, placing too much emphasis on formation a cohesive narrative ...