Where do they stand? A post-structuralist examination of offense-supportive narratives constructed by men convicted of child sexual abuse

Knack, Natasha; Holmes, Dave; Hammond, Chad; Hammond, Brianna; Trunzo, Melissa; Murphy, Lisa; Fedoroff, J. Paul

doi:10.1038/s41443-023-00685-6

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“…process of probing isiXhosa short stories and other genres. Briefly, structuralism 1 focuses on the oblique structures and praxis of meaning in a literary text (Naji, 2022;Knack et al, 2023). Structuralists accept that all literary texts have a set of implicit binary dichotomies that configure their meaning (Sewell, 2018;Mutekwa, 2023).…”

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Probing the Structuralist Analysis of a Selected isiXhosa Short Story, ‘Ukuzibulala Akusiso Isisombululo’ (Suicide Is Not the Solution), as a Literary Work

Diko

2023

The Thinker

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Mental health crises and suicide continue to plague young men and women in South Africa, and not irrefutably secluding otherage groups. While scholarly and non-scholarly dialogues pivot to address this conundrum, isiXhosa short stories as a literary art are no exception. As a result, this article aims to conceptualise how mental health crises and suicide are mirrored in ‘UkuzibulalaAkusiso Isisombululo’ (Suicide Is Not the Solution). The objective was to unravel the interplaying meanings in respect of the phenomenon of interest. This particular short story was further appreciated as a source of data while structuralism as a theorywas elicited as an instrument to enact reasonable and empirical debates. Ultimately, it became evident that mental health and suicidal thoughts and behaviours are acutely entrenched in the South African milieu, and that necessitates an extensive scholarly discourse beyond the limitations of this particular article.

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