Marked identities
Subtitle: narrating lives between social labels and individual biographies
By: Edited by Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex, UK ; Alessandra Fasulo, University of Portsmouth, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781137332806
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Social aspects; Identity (Psychology); Narratives; Sociolinguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
Description: "Western society has become increasingly diverse and inclusive, but stereotypes still pervade public discourse. How do people who for different reasons have a marked status in society manage their identity and respond to stereotypes? This edited volume explores this issue with people who either belong to a culturally salient group - Travellers, Jewish survivors, Canadian First Nation women, ex DDR citizens - or whose circumstances make them potential targets of discrimination - teenage mothers, homeless people, substance users and individuals with autism. The interviews in these chapters reveal how their life narratives resist, change or incorporate society's views about them"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; Alessandra Fasulo and Roberta Piazza1. '... Since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (...) Now [People]... Understand More 'cos of that Programme': Irish Travellers' Identity between Stigmatisation and Self-image; Roberta Piazza2. The Nice Stasi Man Drove his Trabi to the Nudist Beach: Contesting East German identity; Molly Andrews3. 'They Paint Everyone with the Same Brush but it Just Simply isn't the Case': Reconstructing and Redefining Homeless Identities; Phoebe Trimingham4. On the Margins: Aboriginal Realities and 'White Man's Research'; Maria I. Medved and Jens Brockmeier5. 'The Racial Laws have Turned our Lives Positively': Agentivity and Chorality in the Identity of a Group of Italian Jewish Witnesses; Roberta Piazza and Antonia Rubino6. Young Motherhood: Is it Really a Case of 'Shattered Lives and Blighted Futures'?; Hilary Bruffell7. Reordered Narratives and the Changes in Self-understanding from Addiction to Recovery; Georgia-Zetta Kougiali8. History in Wait: Receiving a Diagnosis of Asperger in Mid-life; Alessandra Fasulo in collaboration with Philip Adrian Hunt and Perry IsidoreAfterword; Anna De Fina.