{"title":"Afghan Refugees’ Iconic Stories","authors":"Benjamin Gatling","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers the stories Afghan refugees tell about their displacement from Afghanistan and emplacement in the United States. Drawing on scholarship about reportability, tellability, and storyability, this article argues that narrators foreground the noteworthiness of their experiences through specific sign relationships, foremost among them iconicity. Specifically, this article discusses two narrative strategies—parallelism and co-narration—Afghan refugee narrators use that heighten the evaluative functions of their most storyable personal narratives and create an iconic relationship between story and interview event.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"176 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Narrative Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article considers the stories Afghan refugees tell about their displacement from Afghanistan and emplacement in the United States. Drawing on scholarship about reportability, tellability, and storyability, this article argues that narrators foreground the noteworthiness of their experiences through specific sign relationships, foremost among them iconicity. Specifically, this article discusses two narrative strategies—parallelism and co-narration—Afghan refugee narrators use that heighten the evaluative functions of their most storyable personal narratives and create an iconic relationship between story and interview event.
期刊介绍:
Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.