Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Narrative, identity, and the city : Filipino stories of dislocation and relocation / editing and commentary by Raul P. Lejano ; storytelling by Alicia P. Lejano, Josefina D. Constantino, Aaron J.P. Almadro and Mikaella Evarist
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series FILLM studies in languages and literatures, 2213-428X ; Volume 8
FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; v. 8. 2213-428X
Contents Narrative, identity, and the city / Raul P. Lejano -- Story 1 : The city found / Alicia P. Lejano -- Story 2 : The city found / Mikaella Evaristo -- Commentary on The city found / Raul P. Lejano -- Story 3 : The city lost / Aaron J.P. Almadro -- Commentary on The city lost / Raul P. Lejano -- Story 4 : The city hidden / Josefina D. Constantino -- Commentary onTthe city hidden / Raul P. Lejano -- The narratively represented self-and-city / Raul P. Lejano
Summary "Raul P. Lejano offers a boldly original synthesis of narratology, psychology, and human geography. This helps him articulate his two main insights: that our identity as individuals, though not completely determined by sociocultural factors, nevertheless profoundly reflects our embeddedness in particular places; and that the way we think of, or would like to think of, our own identity is most readily captured in the stories we tell about ourselves. Most revealing of all, he suggests, are our stories about coming to grips with an entire city, especially when our experience of it is actually one of dislocation or relocation - when we in some sense or other "lose" a city to which we have hitherto belonged, or when we "find" a new one. By way of illustration the book includes four specially commissioned autobiographical stories by writers of Filipino origin, which Legano's analytical chapters compare and contrast with each other within his interdisciplinary frame of reference. At once learnedly sophisticated and readably empathetic, his commentaries are underpinned by a basically phenomenological orientation, which leads him to view human individuals as essentially relational beings, naturally inclined to enter into dialogue with both their fellow-creatures and the larger environment"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Filipinos -- Migrations.
Cultural geography -- Philippines
Narration (Rhetoric)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Cultural geography
Filipinos -- Migrations
Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Narration (Rhetoric)
Philippines
Form Electronic book
Author Lejano, Raul P., 1961- editor.
Lejano, Alicia P., author
Constantino, Josefina D., 1920- author.
Almadro, Aaron J. P., author
Evaristo, Mikaella, author
LC no. 2018024963
ISBN 9789027264275
9027264279