Representation and the text
Subtitle: re-framing the narrative voice
By: edited by William G. Tierney and Yvonna S. Lincoln.
Contributors: Tierney, William G.; Lincoln, Yvonna S.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Point of view (Literature); Narration (Rhetoric); Style, Literary.
Description: This book focuses on representations of contested realities in qualitative research. The authors examine two separate, but interrelated, issues: criticisms of how researchers use "voice", and suggestions about how to develop experimental voices that expand the range of narrative strategies.

Changing relationships between researchers and respondents dictate alterations in textual representations - from the "view from nowhere" to the view from a particular location, and from the omniscient voice to the polyvocality of communities of individuals. Examples of new representations and textual experiments provide models for how some authors have struggled with voice in their texts, and in so doing, broaden who they and we mean by "us".
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.