Insider/Outsider: A Muslim Woman's Adventure Practicing ‘Alongside’ Narrative Therapy

The following paper centres on my unique experience as a white Australian therapist who is able to sympathise with a Western world view while being immersed in an Islamic world view. The goal is to share my journey as a Muslim Australian via an auto‐ethnography reflexive method. Using diaries, intentional reflexive positioning, and multiple modes of supervision, I contemplate an Islamic identity and value system while negotiating poststructural therapies such as solution‐focused collaborative, and in particular, narrative therapy as viable approaches to working with the Muslim community. There are two inquiries which are of interest. The first is to reflexively describe the experience of being a Muslim practitioner and wondering whether core differences in epistemological views between social constructionism and Islamic doctrine can be overcome. Secondly, this enquiry explores Quranic guidelines about how to perceive ‘problems’ in life, based on the premise that understanding how an Islamic world view addresses life's troubles may add to deeper conceptions of the role of difficulties. I propose that adherent Muslims have a natural metaphorical way of thinking that connects with some of the poststructural therapeutic skills and techniques and at the same time draw on past Quranic solutions for contemporary problems. Little has been written on narrative therapy as a suitable approach to working with Muslim clients. In the current paper I review my personal experience as a veiled Muslim therapist striving to implement narrative therapy alongside an Islamic epistemology.     

Rendering sexism invisible in workplace narratives. A narrative analysis of female entrepreneurs’ stories of not being talked to by men

Entrepreneurism is widely regarded as being one way in which women can sidestep the sexism of male‐dominated institutionalized work environments and enter into a world in which men and women operate on a level playing field. Yet, in a corpus of stories of female entrepreneurs’ experiences, we noted that being ignored by men was a constant theme. Taking a social constructionist and narrative approach to identity, we analyse the gendered identity work that female entrepreneurs do in these stories and we seek to explicate the process through which female entrepreneurs do not evaluate being ignored by men as sexism‐in‐action. Using positioning theory as an analytical tool, we analyse these stories at three different levels: the here‐and‐now interaction between interviewer and storyteller; the there‐and‐then identity work of the characters in the storyworld; and the wider societal Discourses that the storytellers enact, and which are enacted by such identity work. Findings indicate that despite making gendered difference, inferiority and lack of agency relevant, the stories are not evaluated as sexism‐in‐action because the female entrepreneurs enact a postfeminist and neoliberal Discourse of freedom, autonomy and choice, rather than a feminist Discourse of discrimination and sexism.     

美国社会家庭婚姻之问题——析《这年的秋天》的叙事艺术

欧茨早期的代表作《这年的秋天》叙事艺术高超,展现了她对于美国现代家庭婚姻问题的思索。小说的叙事结构明显,欧茨从过去和现在两个层面综合展现了埃莉诺从年轻时到年老时完整的生活历程,使读者了解到一段婚外情对埃莉诺生活的影响,透过这些人物形象揭示出20世纪中后期美国社会存在的婚姻危机。     

文学信息传播视角下的语言文化变异研究

在我国社会经济发展的过程中,文学信息传播中语言文化的变异研究,其核心在于强调信息传播的过程中,除了注重翻译人员语言中体现的语言文化价值外,还要注重文化翻译人员的文化背景以及其翻译过程中体现的文学信息及实质感悟,并以此来掌握翻译人员在信息传播中所发挥的媒介作用。由此不难看出,文学信息在传播的过程中,针对不同地区、不同民族之间,有着促进文化交流的作用。基于相关因素的影响,文学信息在传播的过程中会发生一定的变化。在此,本文针对文学信息传播视角下的语言文化变异,做以下论述。     

女同文学叙事比较——以霍尔和邱妙津的同性恋代表作为阐释文本

英国20世纪初的女作家拉德克利夫·霍尔的《孤寂深渊》,是英语文学中的第一部女同性恋小说,被誉为＂女同性恋者的圣经＂。《鳄鱼手记》是当代台湾著名女同性恋作家邱妙津最成熟的小说之一,突破了之前同题材作品情欲规避的传统,在台湾女同性恋文学史上具有开拓性的意义。霍尔和邱妙津本身都是同性恋者,这两部都源自于作家本人切身体验的作品,通过不同的母题、叙事风格和叙事策略,展现了在不同文化环境中的女同性恋者应对男权与异性恋社会的方式的差异性。     

《寻隐者不遇》的叙事翻译补偿

以《寻隐者不遇》为例,从叙事视角、叙事方式、叙事结构、叙事策略和叙事意象等方面来考查原文的叙事要素和叙事特征,在对比WitterBynner,BurtonWatson,吴钧陶,王大濂,孙大雨,万昌盛、王倘中,许渊冲等译者的七个英译文本叙事翻译质量的基础上,进行叙事翻译补偿。     

试论受众的心理需求与家庭伦理剧的叙事样态之关系——以上世纪90年代的家庭伦理剧为例

20世纪90年代以来的家庭伦理剧在叙事样态上呈现的特点是受众心理与时代文化的“共谋”。为满足观众补偿现实生活之不足的心理需求,在叙事主旨、叙事精神上表现出回归传统伦理道德、彰显底层与民粹的倾向;受观众认知现实的观看心理的影响,在视觉图谱和风格上呈现出现实主义的平民世界图景;为满足观众的娱乐心理,家族伦理剧在伦理形态上呈现出快乐伦理的指向。研究表明,90年代以来的家族伦理电视剧所呈现出的上述叙事样态与受众的补偿心理、认知心理以及娱乐心理互为生成。     

网络“穿越”小说的叙述与流行——以大众文化为分析视角

穿越小说和穿越电视剧等“穿越”现象作为大众文化快餐中的一个热点,用传统的经典叙事理论来研究它会有很大局限。拟从大众文化的角度来研究网络“穿越”小说,旨在探讨网络穿越小说的迅速流行与它的叙事模式、叙事策略及时代语境的关系。研究认为：穿越小说在故事内容及人物形象的塑造上形成了一定的叙述模式,这种类型化的模式便于读者的接受和理解;在叙事策略上,穿越小说紧扣现代白领的现实生活需求,从权谋和言情两个方面满足读者的心理需求;在与时代语境的契合方面,通过反复叙述“灰姑娘”这一文学母体和“成功梦”,形成了其独特的“造梦机制”。     

ACHIEVING REFLEXIVITY: MOVING RESEARCHERS FROM ANALYSIS TO INTERPRETATION IN COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY

The idea of ‘teaching’ reflexivity might seem to some to be a nonsense but many students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, struggle with ‘it’ as a concept, a process and as a means of moving away from simplistic themed research categories towards in‐depth interpretation. This paper will examine the nature of reflexivity from the perspective of a personal stance and suggest the use of particular strategies for interpreting data reflexively. Such strategies include the use of biographical accounts and organising principles, the exploration of metaphor and metonymy and the utilisation of poetry as an interpretative device. It will offer particular ways of undertaking reflexive interpretation that have been used successfully with many postgraduate students and researchers.     

Evaluation of an Intervention to Foster Time Perspective and Career Decidedness in a Group of Italian Adolescents

A structured 10‐didactic unit intervention was devised to foster adolescents’ time perspective and career decidedness. The study was conducted with 50 adolescents who were selected from a group of 624; 25 of the participants were randomly assigned to the control group and 25 were assigned to the experimental group. They were selected according to their level of career indecision and poor propensity to look to the future. A series of repeated measure analyses of variance were carried out to evaluate pre‐ and posttest differences between the experimental and control groups regarding time perspective and career decidedness. At posttest, the experimental group showed higher levels of continuity, hope, and career decidedness than did the control group. Implications for future practice and research are discussed.