“Racial Stereotypes as Narrative Forms: Staging the English Gentleman in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim”

Puxan-Oliva, Marta

doi:10.1353/jnt.2016.0000

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“…In literary analysis, the role that stereotypes play in novels has been the focus of much research, e.g. the "English gentleman" in Conrad's novels (Puxan-Oliva, 2015), or Toni Morrison's analysis of race and racial stereotypes in American literature (1990). Leerssen (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“I tell you don’t trust the French”

Handford

2021

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National stereotypes are inherently evaluative, often negatively, and potentially prejudicial. While research has examined stereotypes from an organisational perspective, this is overwhelmingly in experimental settings involving students (Landy, 2008); in other words not in workplaces, and not involving employees doing their jobs. Through a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 53 authentic business meetings, this study finds that among certain communities, national stereotypes are used in workplace narratives, and argues that such narratives constitute a contextual, situated social practice. The novel methodology pinpoints and categorises all stereotypes in business-meeting narratives, before discussing what role they play in indexing the identities of the stereotyped and the stereotyping. Finally, evaluation, ideology and power are critically engaged with to explain their use or non-use, thus making a theoretical contribution to studies of evaluation, workplace narratives, and stereotyping in discourse. While ethically problematic, and potentially detrimental to business success, their use may be motivated by local workplace goals.

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“I tell you don’t trust the French”

Handford

2021

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“…Specific techniques such as signifying and double-voicedness have been documented as 'a re-semanticization of the familiar meaning to have a "decolonized"' sense (Gates, Jr., 1988: 51). Individual studies ask how race-and ethnicity-oriented perspectivity interacts with formal textual features (McIntire, 2012;Sohn, 2014;Puxan-Oliva, 2015), or work towards developing an understanding of how narratives of race interact with legal as well as social practices (Gutiérrez-Jones 2001; Kim, 2013).…”

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