Narrating Cultural Encounter: Lady Morgan and the Irish National Tale

1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Maria Edgeworth ◽  
Charles Robert Maturin ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
Sydney Owenson

With the publication of The Wild Irish Girl in 1806 Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) inaugurated the national tale, a worldly and impure genre that operates out of a performative notion of representation. Building out of romance tropes and protoethnographic discourse, the national tale relocates the scene of cultural encounter, confounding the distinction between "over here" and "over there" in order to move the modern metropolitan subject/reader into a potentially transformative relation of proximity. Familiar categories come under pressure as the English protagonist/reader is transported to Irish ground, unhinger from familiar space, and subjected to disconcerting encounters that bring about a certain self-estrangement. Through its tactics of displacement, the national tale (practiced by Maria Edgeworth and Charles Robert Maturin as well as by the pioneering Morgan) brings about a troubling of the imperial narrative. Modern critics too often have ignored the destabilizing energies present in this neglected genre.

Uneasy Alliances: Liberty and the Nation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Price
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Maria Edgeworth ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Sydney Owenson

In imagining the safe politicisation of the ‘mass’ in commercial modernity, the idea of the nation as a focus for enthusiasm is key. Yet in the British context the nation itself was a troubled concept. Hence, as Chapter 3 explores, historical novelists drew upon the comparative potential of stadial history, trying to reimagine British liberty in relation to the competing nationalisms of the sister kingdoms and the empire. As novelists like Henry Siddons, Anna Maria Mackenzie, James White, Anna Millikin, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Porter realised, such competing nationalisms would have to be carefully balanced, shaped by new historical narratives, if national feeling were not to be as threatening to the emergent state as class identity. As such, the historical novel is an important forerunner to the national tales of Sydney Owenson and Maria Edgeworth.

scholarly journals Binary Opposition Between Arrogance and Patience in Owenson’s The Missionary: An Indian Tale

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Narayan Prasad Ammai
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Basic Tool ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Sydney Owenson ◽  
Equal Space

“The Missionary: An Indian Tale” by Sydney Owenson (1811) a remarkable novel written in the backdrop of Spanish-Portuguese conflict in India, a haunting tale of cultural encounter and trans-racial romance set in early colonial India, deals with the theme of binary opposition between arrogance and patience. The Missionary focuses on the binary opposite relationship between Hilarion, a Portuguese missionary to India and Luxima, an Indian prophetess. Hilarion in the novel is presented as a colonizer who seems to be proud on his religion and intends to transform Luxima into Christian from Hindu whereas Luxima’s patience is privileged. Both are aristocratic, devoted to their religions, and biased against other cultures. The primary objective of this study is to analyze how the state of binary opposition between Hilarion’s arrogance and Luxima’s patience exists. The focus of this study is what made Hilarion to be converted in front of Luxima who was supposed to convert her. Owenson is saying that it is the subjectivity of Luxima that gets transferred to Hilarion but not vice versa. By valorizing Luxima’s subjectivity over Hilarion, the writer foregrounds the hidden value of the Hindu culture that gives emphasis not only upon the reason rather puts equal space for emotion. For this purpose the concepts of John Whale and Michael J. Franklin in used as a basic tool of textual analysis to prove its hypothesis. Journal of NELTA Surkhet Vol.4 2014: 98-104

“Sou Inglesa! Sou Inglesa!”: Memórias de uma Menina Anglo-Portuguesa (1907-1930)

2017 ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Miguel Alarcão
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

Textualizing the memory(ies) of physical and cultural encounter(s) between Self and Other, travel literature/writing often combines subjectivity with documental information which may prove relevant to better assess mentalities, everyday life and the social history of any given ‘timeplace’. That is the case with Growing up English. Memories of Portugal 1907-1930, by D. J. Baylis (née Bucknall), prefaced by Peter Mollet as “(…) a remarkably vivid and well written observation of the times expressed with humour and not little ‘carinho’. In all they make excellent reading especially for those of us interested in the recent past.” (Baylis: 2)

Interaction between patient and health professional

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Naemi Holm
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
Theoretical View ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
The One ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Do So

This article presents a theoretical view on culturally embedded thinking and action in encounters between patient and health professional. A key point of the analysis indicates that a highly efficient health sector may entail an implicit duality: on the one hand, the health professional can and often must relate pragmatically to the patient in order to solve problems and do so quickly, while on the other, the professional may be personally challenged when embedded cultural thinking leads to conflicts or dilemmas. This means that a purely pragmatic perspective will be challenged when such conflicts arise. The article looks at interrelated concepts such as ‘culture’, ‘prejudice’ and ‘meaning’ in order to shed light on the presuppositions that are brought into the cultural encounter between patient and health professional. This kind of analysis will hopefully contribute to a raised awareness of what is actually – apart from pragmatic problem solving – going on in such encounters. The conceptual framework used in this article primarily draws on the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, which is contrasted with the pragmatic perspective from the American philosopher Richard Rorty.

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