David Mastey
Biographic Data
| ID | 642364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mastey |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mastey |
| SIGNATURE | MASTEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0696-5850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Going Local to Global through Technology-Needs Assessment and Development of a Virtual Arctic Youth Wellbeing Network
Strengths-based approaches to suicide prevention and life promotion in circumpolar regions must engage youth participation and leadership given the impact of suicide on this demographic. We describe the development of a youth-engaged community of practice (CoP) across circumpolar regions, and adaptations to the ECHO model as a foundation for this virtual CoP. We describe youth priorities for learning in the area of mental health and wellbeing, id…
Slave Play, or the Imperial Logic of Board Game Narrative
Child Soldier Narratives and Their War Names
War names are a prominent feature in the child soldier narrative, a genre of literary writing mostly associated with Africa. They have several narratological functions; they act as unique identifiers, signal their statuses as combatants, and so on. Moreover, characters who use war names often reflect upon their significance as inspirational, aspirational, representative of how they want to be perceived by others and even a source of “hidden power…
The Adulterated Children of Child Soldier Narratives
In this article I examine how child soldier narratives address the concept of childhood as it relates to their young protagonists. I begin with a brief examination of the most prominent characteristics that define childhood in North America, the primary target market for these works. I draw on these concepts in my analysis of how the characters mature in their respective texts. The genre presents an alternative (though not preferable) model for c…
The relative innocence of child soldiers
This article concerns the portrayal of childhood innocence — both moral and legal — in the child soldier narrative, a predominantly African genre of writing. I begin with an analysis of how these stories establish the moral innocence of their young characters through prevailing narratological structures that culminate in the loss of this innocence, usually by means of scenes in which child soldiers kill or sexually assault other characters. The p…
Child Soldier Stories and their Fictions
In this essay I examine child soldier stories, one of the most popular and critically successful genres of African writing in the United States in recent years. They are unique in some respects, but many publishers and US readers are already familiar with their most basic themes. The success of the genre owes much to the fact that it resembles an existing book marketing category known as misery literature. Publishers recognize that child soldier …
National Narratives Reconciled in Contemporary Liberian Fiction
In this article I examine two contemporary novels, C. William Allen's The African Interior Mission and Boima Fahnbulleh Jr.'s Behind God's Back, in the context of postcivil war Liberian society. Both works are set during the preceding 1980 military coup and attempt to cultivate a sense of national identity through a process parallel to that of the recently concluded Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I offer two competing analyses of these narr…
Slumming and/as Self-Making in Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father
This article examines how Barack Obama’s narrative Dreams From My Father functions for a White audience. It argues that the narrative provides potential White readers the opportunity to “slum” alongside Obama in Chicago’s South Side ghettos. More than entertainment, slumming is for many White people an effective means of racial self-making in a process parallel to that undertaken by the narrator. Potential White readers encounter various Black ch…
Child Soldier Narratives and Their War Names
War names are a prominent feature in the child soldier narrative, a genre of literary writing mostly associated with Africa. They have several narratological functions; they act as unique identifiers, signal their statuses as combatants, and so on. Moreover, characters who use war names often reflect upon their significance as inspirational, aspirational, representative of how they want to be perceived by others and even a source of “hidden power…
The Adulterated Children of Child Soldier Narratives
In this article I examine how child soldier narratives address the concept of childhood as it relates to their young protagonists. I begin with a brief examination of the most prominent characteristics that define childhood in North America, the primary target market for these works. I draw on these concepts in my analysis of how the characters mature in their respective texts. The genre presents an alternative (though not preferable) model for c…
The relative innocence of child soldiers
This article concerns the portrayal of childhood innocence — both moral and legal — in the child soldier narrative, a predominantly African genre of writing. I begin with an analysis of how these stories establish the moral innocence of their young characters through prevailing narratological structures that culminate in the loss of this innocence, usually by means of scenes in which child soldiers kill or sexually assault other characters. The p…
Slumming and/as Self-Making in Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father
This article examines how Barack Obama’s narrative Dreams From My Father functions for a White audience. It argues that the narrative provides potential White readers the opportunity to “slum” alongside Obama in Chicago’s South Side ghettos. More than entertainment, slumming is for many White people an effective means of racial self-making in a process parallel to that undertaken by the narrator. Potential White readers encounter various Black ch…
National Narratives Reconciled in Contemporary Liberian Fiction
In this article I examine two contemporary novels, C. William Allen's The African Interior Mission and Boima Fahnbulleh Jr.'s Behind God's Back, in the context of postcivil war Liberian society. Both works are set during the preceding 1980 military coup and attempt to cultivate a sense of national identity through a process parallel to that of the recently concluded Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I offer two competing analyses of these narr…
Child Soldier Stories and their Fictions
In this essay I examine child soldier stories, one of the most popular and critically successful genres of African writing in the United States in recent years. They are unique in some respects, but many publishers and US readers are already familiar with their most basic themes. The success of the genre owes much to the fact that it resembles an existing book marketing category known as misery literature. Publishers recognize that child soldier …
The Adulterated Children of Child Soldier Narratives
In this article I examine how child soldier narratives address the concept of childhood as it relates to their young protagonists. I begin with a brief examination of the most prominent characteristics that define childhood in North America, the primary target market for these works. I draw on these concepts in my analysis of how the characters mature in their respective texts. The genre presents an alternative (though not preferable) model for c…
The relative innocence of child soldiers
This article concerns the portrayal of childhood innocence — both moral and legal — in the child soldier narrative, a predominantly African genre of writing. I begin with an analysis of how these stories establish the moral innocence of their young characters through prevailing narratological structures that culminate in the loss of this innocence, usually by means of scenes in which child soldiers kill or sexually assault other characters. The p…
Child Soldier Narratives and Their War Names
War names are a prominent feature in the child soldier narrative, a genre of literary writing mostly associated with Africa. They have several narratological functions; they act as unique identifiers, signal their statuses as combatants, and so on. Moreover, characters who use war names often reflect upon their significance as inspirational, aspirational, representative of how they want to be perceived by others and even a source of “hidden power…
Slave Play, or the Imperial Logic of Board Game Narrative
Going Local to Global through Technology-Needs Assessment and Development of a Virtual Arctic Youth Wellbeing Network
Strengths-based approaches to suicide prevention and life promotion in circumpolar regions must engage youth participation and leadership given the impact of suicide on this demographic. We describe the development of a youth-engaged community of practice (CoP) across circumpolar regions, and adaptations to the ECHO model as a foundation for this virtual CoP. We describe youth priorities for learning in the area of mental health and wellbeing, id…
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