Narrative and social control
Subtitle: critical perspectives
By: editor, Dennis K. Mumby.
Contributors: Mumby, Dennis K.
Series: Sage annual reviews of communication research ;; v. 21
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Newbury Park [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Discourse analysis, Narrative; Discourse analysis -- Social aspects; Social control
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Narrative, power, and social theory / Stewart R. Clegg; title: Family storytelling as a strategy of social control / Kristin M. Langellier and Eric E. Peterson; title: Cultural narratives and the therapeutic motif : the political containment of Vietnam veterans / Peter Ehrenhaus; title: Narrative and the culture of obedience at the workplace / Marsha Witten; title: Stories and racism / Teun A. van Dijk; title: Deformed subjects, docile bodies : disciplinary practices and subject-constitution in stories of Japanese-American internment / Gordon Nakagawa; title: The narcissistic reflection of communicative power : delusions of progress against organizational discrimination / W. Marc Porter and Isaac E. Catt; title: American journalists and the death of Lee Harvey Oswald / Barbie Zelizer; title: Oppositional voices in China Beach : narrative configurations of gender and war / A. Susan Owen.