Some Reflections on the Legacies of Michael White: An Australian Perspective

This article, which appears in a special 30‐year anniversary edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, reflects on the legacies of the work of Michael White. It begins by looking back on Michael's time as editor of the Australian Journal of Family Therapy. Of the many themes that were discussed in the Editorials and Letters to the Editor section of this journal in the early 1980s, this article focuses on three in particular to explore the legacies of the work of Michael White. The author describes how Michael has bequeathed not only a profound body of work, but also a distinctive spirit of originating, and ways of working that consider the effects of social issues and that examine the politics of experience. It is the author's hope that this approach to considering Michael White's legacies honours his work and also honours the contributions of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy in its 30th year.     

Spirituality and child welfare reunification: a narrative analysis of successful outcomes

When children are removed from their families because of maltreatment, the child welfare system seeks reunification whenever possible. Despite the importance of this goal, little is known about families who are able to achieve and maintain successful reunification. This qualitative study conducted in‐depth interviews with 15 families who completed their child welfare case plans, were reunited with their children and remained together for at least 1 year post‐reunification. Narrative analysis using a combination of thematic and structural coding was completed to examine the strengths and process families discussed related to their successful child welfare outcomes. This paper discusses one of those strengths, spirituality, in greater depth. Specifically, 12 participants situated the strength of spirituality within their stories as an important narrative element they perceived as critical, leading to important changes. Findings highlight the benefits some families receive from their spiritual beliefs, practices and faith communities when working towards reunification, suggesting child welfare practitioners be prepared to identify and honour this family strength.     

Brushed aside: African American women’s narratives of hair bias in school

ABSTRACT

For African American women, hair is a key site of identity formation and self-esteem that has been largely ignored by education researchers. Fifty-six African American women shared memories of negative hair experiences in school as a means to magnify the implicit injuries of racial and gender marginalization in educational environments. Memories consisted of hair shaming and suffering the consequences of hair damage, by way of classmate or teacher. Embarrassment and anxiety were the most frequently reported emotional reaction, resulting in participants’ discomfort in school and in their interpersonal relationships. Findings from this study suggest that hair bias represents a source of trauma and identity negotiation within school contexts. Critical Black feminist theories were used to frame the method and interpretation of participants’ reflective narratives. The insights provided through the narrative sample fuel recommendations regarding anti-bias teaching and school policy reform.     

论回族爱情叙事诗的悲剧美--以《马五哥与尕豆妹》为例

作为回族民间文学重要组成部分的爱情叙事诗,由于具有鲜明的民族特色和独特的艺术风格,在长期的传播中赢得了回族及周边各族人民的喜爱。同时,它又以粗犷、直率、沉郁的语言抒发了一种悲壮的感情,令人回味无穷。文章欲以在西北农村广泛传唱的“花儿”体叙事长诗《马五哥与尕豆妹》为例,试图利用社会人类学的功能理论来尝试性的分析回族爱情叙事诗的悲剧美。     

中国当代“动物叙事”神话原型母题及其模式研究

中华民族对待动物的古老原始神话思维对当下文学创作具有潜在影响,在与现代思维理念相交融、碰撞之后发生现代转型,并且这种转型以一种相对固定的母题模式呈现在“动物叙事”文本表达中。原始动物神话的派生形态：动物自然神话与动物图腾神话的溯源研究,导引出动物原型母题中动物作为自然象征、动物作为人的本质性象征两大核心叙事维度,进而深入到对其神话原型母题模式与类型衍生的探讨。     

接受美学视域下《李尔王》叙事话语与文化内涵研究

接受美学是一种强调读者地位与作用的美学理论,在解读与赏析文本中可以拓宽研究的视角,更深层面地挖掘作品的价值与意义。本文基于接受美学视域对莎士比亚经典戏剧《李尔王》的叙事话语与文化内涵进行阐释,从作品情节、人物命运、叙事语言、叙事风格、意象、宗教色彩等方面力求突破文本限制与障碍,以期让独具魅力的经典作品焕发新的生机。     

观艺术之心叩灵魂之门——重读田本相著《曹禺传》

《曹禺传》是田本相代表性的研究成果之一,该著以其整体宏阔的结构原则,史实考订与艺术想像并重的阐释方式,注重心灵探寻的写作向度,重建了伟大作家曹禺的生命史和灵魂史。《曹禺传》所提供的意义已经远远超出了透视曹禺本身,对探求文学背后所隐含的政治、思想、文化的解释,以及克服当代作家传记写作的隐与忧等亦有诸多启示意义。     

论《傲慢与偏见》反讽色彩在译本中的欠额翻译

反讽可以达到戏谑、嘲弄及讽刺的效果,使作品生动幽默,富有艺术感染力。反讽在《傲慢与偏见》中塑造了鲜活的人物形象,使作品妙趣横生,令读者百读不厌。因此,成功的译文必须将其完全再现出来。然而,在阅读三个中文译本的过程中发现存在反讽的欠额翻译现象。从语言学角度分析了其原因,并给出了新的翻译建议,指出译者不仅要具备足够的源语文化和语言知识,还必须具有熟练驾驭目标语的能力,才能避免反讽的欠额翻译,达到译语读者和源语读者反应的对等。     

Interwoven migration narratives: identity and social representations in the Lusophone world

This article provides an exploratory analysis of the life narratives of migrants in the Portuguese-speaking world. By interweaving the life experiences of eight participants in three thematic clusters – ‘shared past’, language and sense of community – we propose a critique of the deep-seated idea of the Lusophone space as a community constructed by the harmonious conviviality of different countries and people. Drawing on contributions from cultural studies, social psychology, anthropology and sociology, we first aim to give voice to the human subjects who embark on migrations and then to understand how the engendered process of identity construction is framed by their social world, simultaneously reframing it. Thus, we aim at shedding light on the ways in which aspects of the political discourses on Lusophony are used (and are instrumental) to the migrants’ identity narrative (re)construction.     

Students’ health engagement and affective relations in Danish upper secondary school

To increase our understanding of the dynamics of young people’s embodied engagement in health, this article analyses Danish upper secondary school students’ understandings and practices of health and the role of the school environment in these dynamics. Participatory, visual and narrative data were collected during fieldwork with 37 students aged 16–17. Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of the body is applied to analyse the affective relations and emerging body-health assemblages within the students’ school life, which generated force and vitality (here conceptualised as health). Through becoming within sensuous, social and political body-health assemblages, the students attempted to curb school stress, sustain social belonging in an individualistic school environment and both reproduce affirming power discourses and subvert their territorialisation. The study proposes an analytical shift in perspective on young people’s health away from an individualistic ‘components approach’ towards a relational understanding, and suggests that students’ health at school relates to collectivity, quality, rhythm and co-produced engagement, rather than individuality, quantity, rules and performance, which increasingly characterise Danish health discourse and school policy.