Narrative analysis
Subtitle: studying the development of individuals in society
By: editors, Collette Daiute and Cynthia Lightfoot.
Contributors: Daiute, Colette.; Lightfoot, Cynthia.
Publisher: Sage
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Description: This text offers an interdisciplinary approach to narrative inquiry, appealing to those studying psychology, education social work, sociology, and anthropology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Literary readings ; 1.1. The role of imagination in narrative constructions / Theodore Sarbin ; 1.2. Fantastic self: a study of adolescents' fictional narratives, and aesthetic activity as identity work / Cynthia Lightfoot; title: 1.3. Cultural modeling as a frame for narrative analysis / Carol D. Lee, Erica Rosenfeld, Ruby Mendenhall, Ama Rivers, and Brendesha Tynes ; 1.4. Data are everywhere: narrative criticism in the literature of experience / Mark Freeman; title: pt. II. Social-relational readings ; 2.1. Construction of the cultural self in early narratives / Katherine Nelson ; 2.2. Creative uses of cultural genres / Colette Daiute ; 2.3. Positioning with Davie Hogan: stories, tellings, and identities / Michael Bamberg ; 2.4. Dilemmas of storytelling and identity / Steven Stanley and Michael Billig; title: pt. III. Readings through the forces of history ; 3.1. Narrating and counternarrating illegality as an identity / Jocelyn Solis ; 3.2. Transcendent stories and counternarratives in Holocaust survivor life histories: searching for meaning in video-testimony archives / Sarah Carney ; 3.3. Women of "the greatest generation": feeling on the margin of social history / Abigail J. Stewart and Janet E. Malley; title: 3.4. Culture, continuity, and the limits of narrativity: a comparison of the self-narratives of native and non-native youth ; Michael J. Chandler, Christopher E. Lalonde and Ulrich Teucher ; 3.5. Once upon a time: a narratologist's tale / Mary Gergen.