Narrative, Identity, and the City
Filipino stories of dislocation and relocation
Authors
Raul P. Lejano | Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development - New York University
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 Lejano’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.
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 8] 2018. xii, 170 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Series editor’s preface | p. ix
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Acknowledgements | p. x
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Contributors | p. xi
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List of figures | p. xii
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Chapter 1. Narrative, identity, and the cityRaul P. Lejano | pp. 1–38
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Chapter 2. Story 1: The city foundAlicia P. Lejano | pp. 39–48
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Chapter 3. Story 2: The city foundMikaella Evaristo | pp. 49–59
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Chapter 4. Commentary on the city foundRaul P. Lejano | pp. 61–77
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Chapter 5. Story 3: The city lostAaron J. P. Almadro | pp. 79–99
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Chapter 6. Commentary on the city lostRaul P. Lejano | pp. 101–112
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Chapter 7. Story 4: The city of silenceJosefina D. Constantino | pp. 113–123
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Chapter 8. Commentary on the city of silenceRaul P. Lejano | pp. 125–135
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Chapter 9. The narratively represented self-and-cityRaul P. Lejano | pp. 137–152
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Some key thinkers
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Appendix. Some key thinkers | pp. 153–160
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Bibliography | pp. 160–168
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Index | pp. 169–170
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Subjects
Linguistics
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSB: Literary studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT025000: LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General