Narrative, Identity, and the City : Filipino Stories of Dislocation and Relocation.

Intro -- Narrative, Identity, and the City -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- List of figures -- Chapter 1 Narrative, identity, and the city -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The city as discussed by scholars -- 1.3 The city in literature -- 1.4 The fragmented, unreal self of postmodernity -- 1.5 Different perspectives on place-identity-narrative -- 1.5.1Identity and place -- 1.5.2Identity and narrative -- 1.5.3City and narrative -- 1.6 Some more specific synergies -- 1.6.1The city affords the evolution of human subjects, and thereby also supplies the elements of plot -- 1.6.2City and self relate to each other through intertextuality -- 1.6.3The story of the city and the story of the self reflect each other -- 1.6.4The city provides occasions for narration -- 1.6.5The city threatens to decenter the teller -- 1.7 Method of analysis -- 1.8 Filipino materials -- Chapter 2 Story 1 The city found -- Chapter 3 Story 2 The city found -- Chapter 4 Commentary on the city found -- 4.1 Emplotment -- 4.1.1Story 1 -- 4.1.2Story 2 -- 4.2 Postmodernity -- 4.3 Intertextuality and diasporas -- Chapter 5 Story 3 The city lost -- The city: As it was -- The city: Day before Armageddon -- The city: Through Haiyan -- The city: In ruins -- The city: The road to recovery -- The city: Future uncertain -- The city: Within -- Chapter 6 Commentary on the city lost -- 6.1 Catharsis and survival -- 6.2 Trying to make sense -- 6.3 The city and the citizen -- 6.4 Decentered carrying on -- Chapter 7 Story 4 The city of silence -- Solitude -- Chapter 8 Commentary on the city of silence -- 8.1 The Word [sic] as sub-text -- 8.2 The city and the monastic -- 8.3 The cloister and the self -- 8.4 Memory and reflection -- Chapter 9 The narratively represented self-and-city.

9.1 Change and constancy of identity -- 9.2 The relational self -- 9.3 Text, intertext, context -- Appendix Some key thinkers -- Bakhtin, Mikhael, 1895-1975 -- Barthes, Roland, 1915-1980 -- Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002 -- Bruner, Jerome, 1915-2016 -- De Saussure, Ferdinand, 1857-1913 -- Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004 -- Donald, James, 1948- -- Genette, Gérard, 1930- -- Gilligan, Carol, 1936- -- Greimas, Algirdas Julien, 1917-1992 -- Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938 -- Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006 -- Kristeva, Julia, 1941- -- Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991 -- Lehan, Richard, 1930- -- Leví-Strauss, Claude, 1908-2009 -- Lyotard, Jean Francois, 1924-1998 -- Park, Robert, 1864-1944 -- Ernest Burgess, 1886-1966 -- Roderick McKenzie, 1885-1940 -- Piaget, Jean, 1886-1980 -- Ricœur, Paul, 1913-2005 -- Sell, Roger D. 1944- -- Soja, Edward, 1940-2015 -- Young, Iris Marion, 1948-2006 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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