Kim Schoofs
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kim Schoofs plays a role.
Articles
2023 Negotiating identities in stories of anti-Chinese racism during the COVID-19 pandemic Language, Culture and Society 5:1, pp. 43–72 | Article
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an upsurge of anti-Chinese racism. This paper investigates the socio-pragmatic processes through which Chinese international students in Belgium discursively deal with othering processes in the stories they tell about racist… read more
2019 Adjusting to new “truths”: The relation between the spatio-temporal context and identity work in repeated WWII-testimonies Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 268–292 | Article
In this article, we study the diachronic (re)construction of repeated WWII-testimonies. Specifically, we scrutinize how shifting master narratives in the social context may affect how stories are told in a particular time and place. We selected testimonies by two Belgian concentration camp… read more