In diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. This study aims at discussing how Yasmin Crowther reviews the Persian tradition in The Saffron Kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, Iran. The novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with Iranian hegemonic d...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

This article uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to explore the development of counter-narrative European integration in Poland. It argues that systemic features EU power induce political actors in-between member states develop two types narratives. These narratives are aimed at dealing with state’s perceived lower status imposed by hegemonic narrative produced field’s dominant actors. Whereas ...

Islamic intellectualism is an unfailing source of revealed wisdom for addressing all the issues that may keep arising till judgment day. History has preserved works several exceptional individuals who formulated effective answers in light this knowledge to challenges their times. In age, modernity and its pernicious impacts on different aspects human life pose a new challenge which drawn undivi...

Drawing on Narrative Theory, this article analyses the second French translation of The Brothers Karamazov as a counter-narrative for novel’s first into French. In mid-1880s, critic Vogüé blocked introduction Dostoevsky’s narrative by predict­ing clash with taste. Taking warning account, transla­tors Halpérine-Kaminsky and Morice in 1888 framed source means selec­tive appropriation repositionin...