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Mackenzie, Catriona, and Jacqui Poltera. "Narrative Integration, Fragmented Selves, and Autonomy." Hypatia 25, no. 1 (2010): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01083.x.
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In this paper we defend the notion of narrative identity against Galen Strawson's recent critique. With reference to Elyn Saks's memoir of her schizophrenia, we question the coherence of Strawson's conception of the Episodic self and show why the capacity for narrative integration is important for a flourishing life. We also argue that Saks's case and reflections on the therapeutic role of “illness narratives” put pressure on narrative theories that specify unduly restrictive constraints on self-constituting narratives, and clarify the need to distinguish identity from autonomy.
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John, Aesha, and Lucy E. Bailey. "Multiple selves." Storytelling in the Digital Age 27, no. 2 (October 6, 2017): 357–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.27.2.08joh.
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Abstract The paper presents findings from narrative analyses of interviews with 16 Gujarati women caring for a child with an intellectual disability in a midsized city in India. Participants’ mothering narratives articulate the multiple selves (or identities) they have constructed in the context of their child’s disability. In efforts to align with the cultural discourse on good mothering, women in this study sometimes narrate themselves as knowledge bearers and as agents, as people who labor and triumph over difficult circumstances, but at other times vulnerable and victimized as they navigate both their daily responsibilities and the social expectations and discourses regarding mothering. The identity narratives educate the audience of what mothering a child with an intellectual disability means in this unique sociocultural context.
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Mackenzie, Catriona. "Embodied agents, narrative selves." Philosophical Explorations 17, no. 2 (March 31, 2014): 154–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2014.886363.
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Hardcastle, Valerie Gray. "Emotions and Narrative Selves." Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 10, no. 4 (2003): 353–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2004.0019.
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Vice, Samantha. "Literature and the Narrative Self." Philosophy 78, no. 1 (January 2003): 93–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819103000068.
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Claims that the self and experience in general are narrative in structure are increasingly common, but it is not always clear what such claims come down to. In this paper, I argue that if the view is to be distinctive, the element of narrativity must be taken as literally as possible. If we do so, and explore the consequences of thinking about our selves and our lives in this manner, we shall see that the narrative view fundamentally confusues art and life. We learn from art itself that our selves and lives transcend narratives and that thinking in a narrative manner ignores the rich complexity of individual persons.
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Ulatowski, Joseph. "Self as One and Many Narratives." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 13, no. 1 (2021): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bjp20211313.
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There are different approaches to the narrative self. I limit myself to one approach that argues narratives have an important role to play in our lives without it being true that a narrative constitutes and creates the self. My own position is broadly sympathetic with that view, but my interest lies with the question of whether there is truth in the claim that to create one’s self-narrative is to create oneself. I argue that a self-narrative may be multiply realised by the inner self—impressions and emotions—and the outer self—roles in work and life. I take an optimistic attitude to the idea that narrative provides a metaphor that may stimulate insight into the nature of self if we accept a plurality of narrative selves. This paper mines a vein of research on narratives for insights into selves without being bewitched into accepting implausible conclusions.
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Törrönen, Jukka. "Relational Agency and Identity Navigation in Life Stories on Addiction: Developing Narrative Tools to Analyze the Interplay Between Multiple Selves." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 21 (January 2022): 160940692210783. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069221078378.
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In life stories on addiction, in which dependence is experienced as an antagonistic force, agency manifests as enigmatic. As narrators in these stories usually describe how they lost their agency to a substance, we may ask who then takes over the agency and is the actor. Can material things act with agency? By taking influences from actor–network theory, Bambergs’ narrative positioning theory, Greimas’ narrative semiotics, symbolic interactionism, and critical discourse studies, I propose that addiction stories can be productively approached with an ontology that conceptualizes actors’ agency as relational. According to this ontology, individuals develop addiction in relation to heterogeneous attachments that form an enabling assemblage. Moreover, I propose that life stories on addiction are narratives in which narrators navigate their addiction by negotiating with multiple selves. These selves can be productively identified and analyzed from the perspectives of “story,” “interaction,” and “identity claim.” As a story, in which actors are positioned vis-à-vis one another, life stories on addiction can be approached as narratives that describe the confrontation between the trajectory of the self that is driven by addiction and the trajectory of the self that seeks mastery over one’s life. As an interaction between narrators and interlocutors, life stories on addiction can be examined as performances of interactive selves who do positive face-work to neutralize, rationalize, and justify their “deviant” behavior. And as identity claims, life stories on addiction can be considered embodiments of ideal or normative selves that are articulated in relation to the dominant discourses and master narratives of surrounding culture. By using examples from life stories on addiction, the article aims to clarify with what kinds of concepts and narrative tools we can analyze the interplay between multiple selves in addiction stories.
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Chałupnik, Małgorzata. "Storying selves and others at work." Narrative Inquiry 32, no. 1 (November 18, 2021): 66–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.20047.cha.
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Abstract This paper engages with the relationship between story ownership – so who owns a story, tellership – so who has the right to tell it, and functions of workplace narratives as well as the broader social practices at work. Drawing upon discourse and narrative analyses, the paper investigates specifically how the negotiation of meaning visible in the often incomplete and fragmented but naturally-occurring narratives points to the discursive struggle over the construction of self within the specific parameters of the notion of professionalism. The paper identifies the facets of story ownership and discusses how each one can be affected by such regulatory forces of the social practices of work.
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VanOra, Jason, and Suzanne C. Ouellette. "Beyond Single Identity & Pathology." International Review of Qualitative Research 2, no. 1 (May 2009): 89–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2009.2.1.89.
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This paper uses a conceptual framework based in critical personality psychology and a narrative strategy of inquiry to understand how two transgender women, whose lives and identities are depicted by sociological and clinical literatures as unidimensional and pathological, construct a set of multiple, coherent, and transformative selves. Through their unique approaches to questions posed in McAdams' (1995b) Life Story Interview, these women depict multiple selves, a multiplicity not identified in previous research that focused on a single transgender identity. These women's selves include female selves, activist selves, gay-community based selves, and selves related to race, class, and culture. These women demonstrate authentic commitments to social justice and social transformation through their attempts and capacities to establish coherence among these and other multiple selves within contexts related to activism and personal relationships. Finally, these women's lives challenge traditional race/class distinctions as they pertain to privilege. While race and class strongly contextualize both narratives, culture is theorized as a more useful construct in explaining differences between these two women with regard to the social struggles and isolation they face.
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Hillman, James G., and David J. Hauser. "Master Narratives, Expectations of Change, and Their Effect on Temporal Appraisals." Social Cognition 39, no. 6 (December 2021): 717–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/soco.2021.39.6.717.
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People hold narrative expectations for how humans generally change over the course of their lives. In some areas, people expect growth (e.g., wisdom), while in others, people expect stability (e.g., extroversion). However, do people apply those same expectations to the self? In five studies (total N = 1,372), participants rated selves as improving modestly over time in domains where stability should be expected (e.g., extroversion, quick-wittedness). Reported improvement was significantly larger in domains where growth should be expected (e.g., wisdom, rationality) than domains where stability should be expected. Further, in domains where growth should be expected participants reported improvement for selves and others. However, in domains where stability should be expected, participants reported improvement for selves but not others. Hence, participants used narrative expectations to inform projections of change. We discuss implications for future temporal self-appraisal research, heterogeneity of effect sizes in self-appraisal research, and between-culture differences in narratives.
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Laskey, Brenda, and Lesley Stirling. "Positioning Selves in Narrative Accounts of Military Trauma." Applied Linguistics 41, no. 3 (June 1, 2020): 389–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaa019.
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Abstract Linguistic and narrative strategies employed in two dyadic interviews of male veterans of the war in Afghanistan were analysed and compared. Each interviewee told chains of connected stories that positioned them in relation to catastrophic events and their effects. These incidents were framed as being linked to decisions that the teller had taken in perilous circumstances. Sequences of generic clauses in sections of orientation were used to manage knowledge asymmetries, to establish story world norms, to display professional, soldierly and veteran identities and to present danger, serious injury, and death as normative in the context of military work in a conflict zone. Resolutions to narratives involving death or injury resided not in specific narrative event clauses but in sections of evaluation that framed the outcome of a preceding story chain in terms of its personal, current significance to the speaker. Our exploration of contrasting accounts of similarly catastrophic events by two storytellers, one of whom was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, offers insights into ways in which trauma is represented that could be useful in psychotherapeutic contexts.
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Oenning da Silva, Rita de Cácia. "Quem conta um conto aumenta muito mais que um ponto: narrativa, produção de si e gênero na produção fílmica com crianças pequenas." Perspectiva 33, no. 3 (April 1, 2016): 1069–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-795x.2015v33n3p1069.
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Analisando as performances narrativas do conto Chapeuzinho Vermelho de três crianças pequenas (2 a 4 anos de idade) frente à câmera filmadora, este artigo apresenta e discute o modo como essas narrativas tanto expressam quanto constituem o mundo e os sujeitos narradores. Variando na forma narrativa, no conteúdo e nos personagens clássicos do conto, essas performances narrativas revelam como as crianças narradoras entendem e dinamizam relações: entre seus pares (atentando especialmente para as relações de gênero – gender); com outros seres (imaginários ou não); e com o próprio gênero narrativo. A análise aponta para como, através dessas narrativas, estão testando possibilidades (de e entre seres, de linguagens, de fórmulas narrativas, de interação e estética). Chama-se a atenção para a capacidade transformativa e criativa presente nas performances narrativas de crianças pequenas e do aspecto filosófico do seu pensamento. Dessa forma, narrando frente à câmera e à plateia, fazem-se sujeitos: produzem a si mesmas e o mundo. More then just telling tales: narrative, self production and gender/genre in film production with small children AbstractThrough an analysis of the narratives of three small children playing with a video camera, the article presents and discusses the way that small children both express and produce themselves. As they vary the narrative form, the plot, and the characters of Little Red Riding Hood, these children's performances reveal how they understand and catalyze relations with their peers (especially subverting gender relations), with other beings (human, animal, imaginary beings etc.), and with narrative genre. Through these narratives they test the possibilities of beings, of interaction, and of language, opening a range of possibilities for an aesthetic of self. Based on an extensive background of film production with children, I point out the philosophical aspects of this production, showing how the performative and creative capacity of children open a space where they represent them selves. Narrating for the camera or for an audience, these children turn themselves into social subjects, thus producing themselves and the world.Keywords: Small Children. Narrative Performance. Digital Media. El cuento va más allá de lo contado: la narrativa, la producción de sí mismo, y el género en la producción cinematográfica con niños pequeños ResumenAnalizando de las narrativas de Caperucita Roja contadas por tres niños pequeños (2-4 años) en frente de la videocámara, este artículo presenta y discute cómo estas narrativas tanto expresan el mundo y como constituyen a sus narradores como sujetos. Estas actuaciones narrativas revelan cómo los pequeños narradores entienden y crean relaciones: entre pares (con especial atención a las relaciones de género); con otros seres (de ficción o no); y con su propio género narrativo. Los análisis apunta a las posibilidades de cómo, a través de estos relatos, están probando posibilidades (entre los seres, los idiomas, las fórmulas narrativas, la interacción y la estética). Llama la atención sobre la capacidad transformadora y creativa de este interpretaciones narrativas de los niños pequeños y el aspecto filosófico de su pensamiento. Por lo tanto, haciendo la narración delante de la cámara y del público, se convierten en sujetos: producen ellos mismos y el mundo.Palabras claves: Primera Infancia. Narrativa. Género.
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Broad, K. L. "Social Movement Selves." Sociological Perspectives 45, no. 3 (September 2002): 317–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sop.2002.45.3.317.
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This article discusses Holstein and Gubrium's (2000) analytic for understanding the production of postmodern selves and suggests that it is a means by which to further understandings about the construction of social movement selves. According to Holstein and Gubrium's perspective, the construction of postmodern subjectivity is an interplay between circumstantial resources and self-constituting work. As an example, I discuss research about a social movement organization in the GLBT (gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender) movement, Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). I begin by illustrating how PFLAG parents can be understood as drawing on the narrative resources of the GLBT movement, in particular the dominant narrative of coming out. Next I discuss how PFLAG parents also do selves (as heterosexual parents), through everyday interactional identity work to construct affiliation. In so doing, I illustrate a key process of Holstein and Gubrium's analytic—the interplay between cultural constraints and artful agency in the production of postmodern selves—and show how it can help to explain the production of subjectivity in today's social movements. I close with a discussion of the significance of understanding the production of social movement selves for social movement literature.
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Schipper, Mineke. "Narratives, identities, selves: Intercultural perspectives on autobiography and first‐person narrative." Journal of Literary Studies 16, no. 3-4 (December 2000): 42–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564710008530264.
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Clark, Matthew. "The cognitive turn." Narrative Inquiry 22, no. 2 (December 31, 2012): 405–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.22.2.11cla.
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Corresponding to the “narrative turn” in the human and cultural sciences, this paper advocates a “cognitive turn” in the study of literary narratives. The representation of the self in literary narratives, for example, is in some ways similar to the representation of the self represented in philosophic, psychological, and sociological theory, but the narrative models extend and enrich the understanding of the self. The tradition of literary narrative includes the monadic, dyadic, and triadic models of the self, as well as representations of agent, patient, experiencer, witness, instrumental, and locative selves. Narrative is thus a kind of worldmaking, and the making of complex worlds, such as the worlds of the self, lead towards narrative.
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Shigematsu, Eri. "Defoe’s psychological realism: The effect of directness in indirect consciousness representation categories." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 27, no. 2 (May 2018): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947018782008.
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Daniel Defoe’s fictional autobiographies represent the life of an individual through personal memories. Although he has often been associated with circumstantial realism rather than psychological realism, Defoe in fact represents the psychological as well as social and economic realities of his characters. In Defoe’s first-person autobiographical narratives, the person who narrates (i.e. the narrating self) and the one who experiences (i.e. the experiencing self) share the same pronoun, ‘I’, which exhibits a fluctuating internal tension between the two selves. This article aims to investigate Defoe’s psychological realism in terms of this internal tension, focusing on the narrative techniques for representing consciousness in which the points of view of the two selves are mingled. The representation of consciousness by means of what is called free indirect speech and thought (FIST) is under development in the early eighteenth century. In Defoe’s fictions, however, the internal tension between the two selves is abundantly indicated by his use of FIST and his handling of directness (the-experiencing-self-oriented deictic and expressive elements) within indirect representations of consciousness (indirect speech and thought (IST) and narrator’s representation of speech/thought act (NRSA/TA)) and within narration (N). The analysis demonstrates that, like FIST, direct elements used in indirect consciousness representation categories show the narrating self’s empathetic identification with the past self, which simultaneously evokes the reader’s empathetic feelings towards the psychology of the experiencing self. It consequently reveals that the creation of empathetic effects through directness helped Defoe to represent the psyches of individuals in remembering as in real life.
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Kapellidi, Charikleia. "Selves and identities in narrative and discourse." Journal of Pragmatics 41, no. 1 (January 2009): 183–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2008.07.003.
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Fireman, Gary D. "Narrative Selves: Our Philosophy for Everyday Life." American Journal of Psychology 118, no. 3 (October 1, 2005): 475–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/30039077.
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Hardie-Bick, James. "Identity, Imprisonment, and Narrative Configuration." New Criminal Law Review 21, no. 4 (2018): 567–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2018.21.4.567.
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This article addresses the role of self-narratives for coping with the laws of captivity. By focusing on how confinement can disrupt narrative coherence, the intention is to examine the role of self-narratives for interpreting previous events and anticipating future actions. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary research on self-identity, imprisonment, and offender narratives, this article highlights how narrative reconstruction can alter our desires, commitments, behavior, beliefs, and values. By (re)telling a story about our lives, it is possible to reinterpret existing circumstances and make new connections between our past, present, and future selves. Whereas research suggests the importance of narrative reconstruction for protecting against a sense of meaninglessness, this article shows how self-narratives have the potential to be empowering and divisive. The final part of the article examines how the narratives inmates construct about themselves and others can serve to legitimize violence against other prisoners.
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Martínez, María-Ángeles, and Esther Sánchez-Pardo. "Past storyworld possible selves and the autobiographical reformulation of Dante’s myth in Lorine Niedecker’s “Switchboard Girl”." Journal of Literary Semantics 48, no. 1 (April 26, 2019): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2019-2008.
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Abstract This essay focuses on the autobiographical reformulation of Dante’s myth in the short story “Switchboard Girl”, by the Objectivist American poet Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970). Within the cognitive linguistics paradigm of storyworld possible selves, or SPSs (Martínez, María-Ángeles. 2014. Storyworld possible selves and the phenomenon of narrative immersion. Testing a new theoretical construct. Narrative 22 (1). 110–131, Martínez, María-Ángeles. 2018. Storyworld possible selves. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter), the study explores the projection of a past Dantean SPS as key to individuals’ perspectival alignment with the narrator, and concomitantly, with the author’s fictionalized formulation of the realities of American working-class women in the 1950s. The linguistic anchoring of this Dantean SPS is also analysed and discussed. The results highlight Niedecker’s concern with drawing readers into sharing the personal hell of an intelligent, rural middle-class, mature woman with a serious visual disability, who is unsuccessfully applying for a menial job as a switchboard operator. The analysis also prompts a revision of the original SPS typology to include the author SPSs likely to be generated by readers of autobiographical narratives.
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Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu. "Virtuous selves in vicious times." Narrative Inquiry 21, no. 2 (December 31, 2011): 367–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.21.2.16rit.
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In this paper I review some of the key elements of Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of narrative identity. I focus on his notions of tradition and unified self, which have been interpreted by some critics as signs of a political conservatism and elitism. My argument proceeds by reviewing the critiques offered by Galen Strawson and Hilde Lindemann Nelson, both concerned with the conflict between tradition and choice. While Strawson and Nelson believe that traditions are oppressive at least to some individuals, MacIntyre offers a more complex understanding of tradition, emphasizing that traditions embody conflicts. In proposing a different reading of these concepts, one I claim is more accurate, I suggest that MacIntyre’s concept of narrative selfhood can serve as foundation of a political theory that is utopian in a standard liberal way.
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Schely-Newman, Esther. "To break down the wall." Narrative Inquiry 19, no. 1 (September 25, 2009): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.19.1.01sch.
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Narrating self-experiences inherently involves tension between real time and remembered time, between narrative event and narrated events. Narrators employ various strategies of footing and voicing to position their current “self” vis-à-vis their former selves and their audience. These characteristics are particularly pertinent in the case of significant life changes, such as learning to read and write for the first time as an adult. This paper treats personal narratives of an Israeli immigrant woman elicited during a meeting with a former literacy teacher. The encounter, forty years later, provides an opportunity for both to reestablish their relative identities and reframe their shared history. Analyzing the events — and narratives thereof — within their sociocultural contexts, reveal a delicate balance between gratitude and agency in the construction of a literate identity. These transformational narratives draw upon the Israeli hegemonic narrative of assimilation and modernization as well as the Mizrahi counternarrative of integration, creating a unique version of the consequences of (il)literacy.
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Todres, Mathew, and James Reveley. "Achieving selves." Journal of Management History 25, no. 3 (October 11, 2019): 323–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-01-2019-0005.
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Purpose Arguably, how psychohistorians treat entrepreneur life-writing interiorizes the autobiographer’s self, thereby limiting the extent to which self can be accessed by researchers. By advocating a different approach, based on socio-narratology, this paper provides insight into how entrepreneurs in both the distant and recent past construct narrative identities – the textual corollary of “storied selves” – within their autobiographies. Design/methodology/approach The object of analysis is the failed entrepreneur autobiography, straddling two sub-genres – “projective” and “confessional” – which both serve to rehabilitate the author. Findings Narratological analysis of Nick Leeson’s Rogue Trader autobiography reveals how the author deftly draws upon the culturally recognizable trope of the “rogue as trickster” and “rogue as critic” to contextualize his deceptive and illegal activities, before signaling his desire for rehabilitation by exiting banking and futures trading – thereby enacting the “rogue as family man”. Practical implications The application of a narratological methodology opens up new avenues for understanding the interplay between Western cultural institutions, entrepreneur selves, and autobiographical writing. Originality/value This paper shows that narratology provides a new methodological window through which management historians can view entrepreneur autobiographies.
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Robertson, Craig. "Music, Selves and Societies: Respondent Paper." Music & Science 4 (January 1, 2021): 205920432110189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20592043211018912.
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Researchers working within the field of music and society often comment that they wish to use their research for the betterment of society and individuals, wherever possible. In many cases, this process of betterment requires some sort of behavioral change—whether this is changing poor habits to promote healthy living and thinking or changing destructive behavior in order to lead more productive and connected lives. It can increasingly be seen in the world today that social behavior has a complex array of influences and motivations and rarely is empirical evidence one of them. No amount of thoroughly researched evidence or logically developed arguments influences this behavior. Brexit and the Trump administration are two examples of this phenomenon. What seems to influence this seemingly bizarre social behavior is a collective belief in a narrative. The narrative needs to speak to common emotions, senses of identities and memories, but it does not need to necessarily be supported by empirical evidence to be effective. There is a need to understand this power of narrative in the public discourse if we are to truly influence how public policy engages with music.
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Kupferberg, Irit. "Narrative and figurative self-construction in meaningful stories." Linguagem em (Dis)curso 10, no. 2 (August 2010): 369–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1518-76322010000200007.
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The present study tests the validity of two claims foregrounded in current qualitative studies of troubled talk. First, single story-internal organizing figurative forms constitute succinct versions of troubled narrators' selves. Second, figurative clusters contribute to the construction of narrators' selves when some external or internal obstacle undermines communication. To explore this link between narrative and figurative self-construction, the study espouses a discourse-oriented approach which acknowledges the importance of Conceptual Metaphor Theory as well as a multimethods research design comprising qualitative and quantitative analyses. The analysis of a corpus of 101 meaningful stories produced by young Israeli adults supports the intriguing link between narrative and figurative self-construction.
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Martinez, Maria-Angeles, and Luc Herman. "Real readers reading Wasco’s ‘City’: A storyworld possible selves approach." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 29, no. 2 (May 2020): 147–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947020936013.
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This study empirically investigates reader responses to the one-page graphic narrative ‘City’ within the theoretical framework of storyworld possible selves. These are blended structures resulting from the conceptual integration of two input spaces: the mental representation that readers construct for the narrator or character that perspectivizes a narrative, and the mental representation that readers entertain for themselves, or self-concept. In our study, we use a questionnaire to elicit information about the internal organization of storyworld possible selves blends in 15 real readers, and we discuss the bearing of both collectively shared and idiosyncratic storyworld possible self blends on character construction, emotional response, and narrative construal.
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Stokes, Patrick. "Naked Subjectivity: Minimal vs. Narrative Selves in Kierkegaard." Inquiry 53, no. 4 (July 14, 2010): 356–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2010.493370.
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Munezane, Yoko. "GENDERED VISIONS OF IDEAL FUTURE SELVES: AN ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ NARRATIVES." International Journal of Teaching and Education 9, no. 1 (April 20, 2021): 49–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.52950/te.2021.9.1.004.
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This study investigates the impact of gender on future visions, using a mixed narrative method; i.e., a “drawing-and-writing-combined” narrative. Previous research shows that learners’ career aspirations have a positive effect on their academic achievement including language proficiency growth (Sasaki, Kozaki, & Ross, 2017). Therefore, it is worthwhile to explore the impact of gender on language learners’ future possible selves by examining their career visions. Qualitative data were collected from 155 Japanese university English as a Foreign Language learners’ drawings and English essays. Statistical results (chi-square test) revealed gender effects in participants’ visualizations of career-focused and career-family balanced ideal selves as well as in the prominence of social interaction in their future visions. Qualitative analysis of participants’ essays suggested that the majority of both male and female learners envisaged their future ideal selves actively pursuing an international career empowered by the essential tool of English. Overall, females considered combining family and career as due responsibilities for women, whereas the majority of males envisioned career-related ideal selves only. The study further assesses the impact of gender on learners’ future visions by taking into consideration the gender equality level in a particular society. Pedagogical implications and future directions are discussed.
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Ravn, Signe. "Imagining futures, imagining selves: A narrative approach to ‘risk’ in young men’s lives." Current Sociology 67, no. 7 (June 29, 2019): 1039–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392119857453.
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This article proposes a narrative approach to studying ‘risk’. A narrative approach moves away from common attempts to identify individuals ‘at risk’ of social problems on the basis of static characteristics – risks – that are assumed to have uniform ‘effects’ on individuals. Instead, a narrative approach to analysing ‘risk’ entails a focus on how people make consequential links between events in their lives. By focusing on three cases from a qualitative study in Denmark the article analyses how young people who have extensive experience with ‘risky’ practices – mainly drug use – make sense of these experiences. A particular focus on imagined futures produces two types of insights. First, by analysing how past and present experiences are seen by young people themselves as pointing towards their imagined futures, the article demonstrates how seemingly similar events (risk-taking experiences) can be inscribed in very different future narratives. Second, analysing the process of imagining futures illuminates how the participants see themselves in the world, to what extent they see themselves as agents in their own lives and if their futures are seen as within or beyond their control.
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KOVEN, MICHÈLE. "Comparing bilinguals' quoted performances of self and others in tellings of the same experience in two languages." Language in Society 30, no. 4 (October 2001): 513–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404501004018.
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This article lends empirical support to the notion that quoted speech is “constructed dialogue” by exploring empirically how narratives of personal experience involve creative performance of locally imaginable personas, rather than accurate or faithful representation of actual people and their words. This work examines quotation in narratives of personal experience as a site where speakers use language pragmatically to enact socio-culturally locatable identities. Using a corpus of narratives in which French–Portuguese bilinguals told the same narratives of personal experience once in each language, it demonstrates that speakers do not quote more extensively when recounting experiences in the language in which those events “originally” occurred. Ultimately, what differs most in speakers' quotations in French and Portuguese tellings of the “same event” are the nonequivalent kinds and ranges of registers in which narrated characters are quoted. More specifically, speakers are more likely to quote themselves as speaking or having spoken in creative, marked registers in French than in Portuguese. This difference in the registers put in the mouths of quoted characters, in particular of quoted selves, may point to ways in which these bilinguals' multiple identities are instantiated within and across their two languages. More broadly, this work reveals ways in which all speakers may use narrative not only to describe the past but also to perform a variety of cultural selves, reinventing and reenacting characters as quoted selves and others.
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Hakanurmi, Satu, Tuire Palonen, and Mari Murtonen. "Digital Stories Representing Agency Enhancement at Work." Adult Education Quarterly 71, no. 3 (February 6, 2021): 251–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713621989990.
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This case study about agency enhancement at work in a business organization is based on narrative inquiry. After a staff development project lasting 2½ years, the employees produced digital stories concerning their meaningful moments at work. Through social interactional narrative analysis, multimodal transcription, and text analysis, we examined how agency was enhanced according the narratives. Agency enhancement involved the incoherency between present cognitive models, attitudes, and practices of work compared with inner or outer expectations. Employees used lifelong experiences in their digital stories, which provided a rich source of data, including the visuals and transcripts, offering a unique vantage point for narrative analysis. These digital stories revealed the sociocultural, transformative, and situational modalities of agency enhancement as well as the relationship between epistemic selves and sociocultural bindings in the reforming of agency.
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Kyratzis, Amy. "Narrative Identity." Narrative Inquiry 9, no. 2 (December 31, 1999): 427–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.9.2.10kyr.
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Recently, researchers have been interested in narrative as a conversational point-making activity. Some of the features of narrative (e.g., its "objectivity", Benveniste, 1971) render it ideally suited for self-exploration and positioning of the self with respect to societal institutions (Polanyi, 1989), especially in the context of conversations within friendship groups (Coates, 1996). While past research has often focused on self-constructing and political uses of narratives of personal experience, the present study examines such uses with respect to narratives produced during preschoolers' dramatic play in friendship groups. An ethnographic-sociolinguistic study that followed friendship groups in two preschool classrooms of a California university children's center was conducted. Children were videotaped in their two most representative friendship groups each academic quarter. Narrative was coded when children used explicit proposals of irrealis in one of three forms: the marked subjunctive (past tense irrealis marking in English, e.g., "they were hiding"); the paraphrastic subjunctive (unmarked irrealis proposals such as "and I'm shy"); and pretend directives such as "pretend" ("pretend we're Shy Wizards"). Also, instances of character speech were counted as narrative. Children used con-trastive forms (subjunctive, coherence markers vs. absence of subjunctive; pitch variation) to mark different phases within narrative. Collaborative self-construction was seen in the linguistic forms they used (pretend statements; tag questions; "and-elaborations") and in the identities the children constructed for their protagonists. Girls' protagonists suggested they valued qualities of lovingness, graciousness, and attractiveness. The protagonists the boys constructed suggested they valued physical power. Girls had a greater reliance on story for self-construction than boys did. It is notable that the dramatic play narratives produced during children's play in friendship groups serve some of the same functions in positioning participants with respect to one another and exploring possible selves collaboratively with one another that personal experience narratives serve in adult intimate social groups.
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Kelly, Michael P., and Hilary Dickinson. "The Narrative Self in Autobiographical Accounts of Illness." Sociological Review 45, no. 2 (May 1997): 254–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00064.
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The paper analyzes autobiographical accounts of the experience of chronic illness and its treatment to develop a sociological theory of the self. It is suggested that ‘self’ is not a biologistic or psychologistic thing. Rather self is autobiographical narrative – hence the narrative self. It is argued that four elements constitute such narrative selves in autobiographical discourse: evaluative relationships between events in time; cosmology; power relationships; and conceptualisation of self as object.
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Mattingly, Cheryl. "Moral Selves and Moral Scenes: Narrative Experiments in Everyday Life." Ethnos 78, no. 3 (September 2013): 301–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2012.691523.
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Reeves, Alison G. "Selves, Lives, and Videotape: Leveraging Self-Revelation through Narrative Pedagogy." New Directions for Teaching and Learning 2013, no. 135 (September 2013): 55–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tl.20065.
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Arca, Kristofer Camilo. "Opaque Selves: A Ricœurian Response to Galen Strawson’s Anti- Narrative Arguments." Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 9, no. 1 (September 4, 2018): 70–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/errs.2018.387.
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As narrative conceptions of selfhood have gained more acceptance within various disciplines including philosophy, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, so too have these conceptions been critically appraised. Chief among those who are suspicious of the overall viability of ‘narrative identity’ is the philosopher, Galen Strawson. In this paper, I develop five arguments underlying Strawson’s critique of narrative identity, and respond to each argument from the perspective of the hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricœur. Though intuitive, I demonstrate that none of Strawson’s arguments are cogent. The confrontation between these two figures highlights a deep conceptual disagreement about our epistemic access to the self, which has thus far gone unrecognized in the Anglo-American discussion, so that it raises a new problem for the metaphysics of personal identity.
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Cook, Russell J. "Shattering the Screen: Embodied Narrative in Digital Media." Coactivity: Philosophy, Communication 25, no. 1 (March 27, 2017): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cpc.2017.264.
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This illustrated phenomenological inquiry into storytelling in screen media identifies important media transformations of experience. Viewers embody, or situate their experienced selves, according to screen requirements. A viewer’s compelled perspective on the screen causes fundamental spatio-temporal transformations of narrative experience, including horizontal stretching of screen space and time compression or leakage. Virtual media have the potential, as yet unrealized, to break out of the screen and to restore narrative to its primordial, experiential roots.
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Nelson, Katherine. "Developing past and future selves for time travel narratives." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30, no. 3 (June 2007): 327–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x07002130.
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AbstractMental time travel requires the sense of a past and future self, which is lacking in the early years of life. Research on the development of autobiographical memory and development of self sheds light on the difference between memory in other animals and its cultural narrative basis in humans.
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Adami, Rebecca. "A narratable self as addressed by human rights." Policy Futures in Education 15, no. 3 (April 2017): 252–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210317716299.
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The paper extends the critique in earlier research of human rights as exclusive of otherness and difference by introducing the work of Adriana Cavarero (2000) on a narratable self. Hence, the formation of human rights is thus about the relations between different narratable selves, not just Western ones. A narrative learning, drawing on Cavarero (2000) , shifts the focus in human rights learning from learning about the other to exposing one’s life story narrative through relationality.
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Whitty, Monica. "Possible Selves: An Exploration of the Utility of a Narrative Approach." Identity 2, no. 3 (July 2002): 211–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s1532706xid0203_02.
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McCormack, Brian. "Narrative, Meaning, and Multispecies Ethical Ontologies." Humanimalia 11, no. 1 (September 12, 2019): 64–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9478.
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In this essay, I draw out and develop some key points of connection and overlap between Val Plumwood's dialogical ethical ontology and Jakob von Uexküll's Umwelt theory. Plumwood makes a convincing case for extending a form of narrative subjectivity beyond the human. Uexküll's theoretical biology has been employed in efforts to build on Plumwood's work (by van Dooren and Rose for example), yet such an ethical strategy raises difficult questions of representational accuracy. I address these questions in the second part of the essay, drawing mainly on David Herman's recent work on narratology beyond the human. Articulating a cultural ontology that recognizes the human as part of a broader ecology of selves entails careful experimentation with notions of nonhuman animal narrative.
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Blum-Kulka, Shoshana. "“You gotta know how to tell a story”: Telling, tales, and tellers in American and Israeli narrative events at dinner." Language in Society 22, no. 3 (September 1993): 361–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500017280.
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ABSTRACTThis study explores the degree of cultural diversity in the dinner-table conversation narrative events of eight middle-class Jewish-American and eight Israeli families, matched on family constellation. Conceptualized in terms of a threefold framework of telling, tales, and tellers, the analysis reveals both shared and unshared narrative event properties. Narrative events unfold in both groups in similar patterns with respect to multiple participation in the telling, the prevalence of personal experience tales, and the respect for children's story-telling rights. Yet cultural styles come to the fore in regard to each realm as well as their interrelations. American families locate tales outside the home but close in time, ritualizing recounts of “today”; Israeli families favor tales more distant in time but closer to home. While most narratives foreground individual selves, Israeli families are more likely to recount shared events that center around the family “us” as protagonist. In modes of telling, American families claim access to story ownership through familiarity with the tale, celebrating monologic performances; but in Israeli families, ownership is achievable through polyphonic participation in the telling. (Ethnography of communication, language and culture, conversation analysis, folklore, narrative).
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Avanesyan, Marina, and Ksenia Denisenko. "Lost possible selves as the presence of the past in the present." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology 12, no. 2 (2022): 204–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2022.208.
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Lost possible selves are a relatively new concept developed within the framework of the Pos- sible Selves proposed by H. Markus and P. Nurius. Lost possible selves were studied in young adults aged 20 to 42 (N = 59). The purpose was to clarify the content of the concept of “Lost Possible Selves”, as well as to describe the forms of their representation in connection with cognitive strategies for constructing identity. We used the method based on the methodology of K. Hooker, the questionnaire of identity styles by M. Berzonsky (ISI-5), the methodology for assessing five-year intervals by A. A. Kronik, E. I. Golovakha. Lost possible selves were conven- tional in nature and concerned with the main tasks of early adulthood: primarily the areas of career, relationships and education. Lost selves were neutral or pessimistic in tone, descriptive, and less often narrative. Three types of temporal orientation of lost possible selves have been identified: with a focus on the present; focus on returning to the “good” past or changing the “bad” past; timeless orientation. The frequency of appealing to the lost self is related neither to the ability for its realization nor to the probability of its realization, but it is connected with the emotional attitude (regret, difficulty of refusal, importance). The neutral tone of the story about the lost self was associated with the normative identity construction style: the more the respondents adhered to socially desirable norms, family traditions, the more neutrally they described the lost possible selves. People with a normative style of identity construction and people who feel their past is less saturated were more confident that in the future they could realize the lost self. The ability to realize the lost self, therefore, has the largest number of rela- tionships compared to its other characteristics.
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Metzler, Ingrid, and Paul Just. "“Think positively”: Parkinson’s disease, biomedicine, and hope in contemporary Germany." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 22, no. 5 (June 21, 2017): 483–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459317715774.
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Narratives of hope shape contemporary engagements with Parkinson’s disease. On the one hand, a “biomedical narrative of hope” promises that biomedical research will help to transform this treatable but incurable disease into a curable one in the future. On the other hand, a more individual “illness narrative of hope” encourages patients to influence the course of Parkinson’s disease by practicing self-care and positive thinking. This article asks how these two narratives of hope interact. It bases its argument on an analysis of data from 13 focus groups conducted in Germany in 2012 and 2014 with patients with Parkinson’s disease and their relatives. Participants were asked to have their say on clinical trials for advanced therapies for Parkinson’s disease and, while doing so, envisioned their biosocial selves in the present and the future. Three “modes of being” for patients were drawn from this body of data: a “users on stand-by” mode, an “unengaged” mode, and an “experimental pioneers” mode. Both narratives of hope were important to all three modes, yet they were mobilized at different frequencies and also had different statuses. While the biomedical narrative of hope was deemed an important “dream of the future” that participants passively supported without having to make it their own, the illness narrative of hope was a truth discourse that took an imperative form: having Parkinson’s disease implied the need to maintain a positive attitude.
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Sowińska, Agnieszka. "Verbal and nonverbal communication of agency in illness narratives of patients suffering from medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)." Communication and Medicine 15, no. 1 (July 3, 2019): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cam.32305.
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The objective of the study is to explore how patients presenting medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) - that is, symptoms that do not have an obvious underlying diagnosis - communicate agency. It is assumed that agency can be exercised verbally through narrative structure and content as well as nonverbally through patients' behaviours, in particular their gestures. This, in turn, points to the ways patients conceptualize their identities and selves. Pauses and disfluencies in the patients' accounts as well as an imprecise use of gestures can indicate a cognitive or conceptual conflict and uncertainty related to MUS. This paper reports on preliminary findings obtained from the analysis of 20 video-filmed interviews with Polish patients with MUS, and presents two case studies of patients who, despite fairly similar medical test results, deliver different illness narratives: (1) a narrative indicative of low agency and characterized by fragmentation, vagueness, repetitiveness and redundancy of content, dispreference markers and the imprecise use of gestures; and (2) a narrative reflecting high agency, characterized by specificity, coherence and the precise use of gestures.
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Faisol, M. "STRUKTUR NARATIF CERITA NABI KHIDIR DALAM AL-QUR’AN." Adabiyyāt: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 10, no. 2 (December 31, 2011): 233. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ajbs.2011.10202.
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This article aims at studying narrative structure of the story of Saint Khidir (Nabi Khidir) in the Koran by questioning its meaning, its structure and fuction. The narrative approach is used in examining the story. It turns out that like any other stories in the Koran, the story of saint Khidir has a simple structure of narrative (ijaz). The narrative structure of the story aims at strengthening the faith to Alloh through its thematic values. The story also informs us the social context of the given time and prophet Mohammad’s psychological realm in his preaching. The story gives tremendous moral value to Arabic society in giving meaning to their selves and their surroundings.
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Randall, William L., and Gary M. Kenyon. "Time, Story, and Wisdom: Emerging Themes in Narrative Gerontology." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 23, no. 4 (2004): 333–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cja.2005.0027.
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ABSTRACTNarrative approaches in the field of aging are receiving increasing attention by theorists and practitioners alike. This article draws on recent thinking innarrative gerontologyto look at three aspects of aging on which a narrative perspective can shed further light. In relation to thetemporalaspects, the notion ofstorytimeis examined. Concerning itspoeticalaspects, the article considers the stages, styles, genres, contexts, and selves of self-storying. Underspiritualaspects, the topics of meaning and identity are explored. A discussion of these aspects may be seen to converge on the theme ofwisdomand the possibility ofwisdom environments.
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Sabaté Dalmau, Maria. "Migrant identities in narrative practice." Narrative Inquiry 25, no. 1 (December 31, 2015): 91–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.25.1.06sab.
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From an interpretive, post-structuralist perspective, this paper analyzes the discursive constructions of fluid migrant identities through the lens of narrative practice. I describe the presentations of the Self /the Other which get inscribed in a series of truncated stories mobilized by three unsheltered Ghanaians who lived on a bench in a Catalan town. I explore their self-attributed /other-ascribed social categories and argue that these multifaceted identity acts are a lens into how heterogeneous migrant networks apprehend social exclusion in their host societies. I show that a narrative approach to the interactional processes of migrant identity construction may be revealing of these populations’ social structuration practices, which are ‘internally’ regulated in off-the-radar economies of meaning. I problematize hegemonic conceptions that present migrants as agency-less, decapitalized storied Selves, and suggest that stagnated populations may also be active tellers who act upon companions and rivals, when fighting for transnational survival in contexts of precariousness.
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ROBBINS, ALLISON. "Doubled Selves: Eleanor Powell and the MGM Backstage Musical, 1935–37." Journal of the Society for American Music 7, no. 1 (February 2013): 65–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175219631200048x.
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AbstractBeginning in the mid-1930s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios released a series of backstage musicals starring Eleanor Powell, a dancer known for her tuxedoes as well as her virtuosic tapping. Powell's tap routines are in and of themselves commanding, with her male dress seeming to originate from her confidence and the masculine aura of tap dance. Yet it is the narratives of her films, inspired by the so-called Cinderella stage musicals of the 1920s, that hold the key to her tuxedoed performances. MGM's backstage stories feature a young dancer, who dreams of Broadway stardom, and her show business boyfriend, who expresses reservations about her desire to perform. This tension between the couple's burgeoning romance and her desire for a stage career shapes the costumes, choreography, music, and camerawork of the show-within-the-film production number; ultimately, Powell's character impersonates her boyfriend in order to achieve theatrical success, a performance that illuminates a Depression-era understanding of a woman's place in show business as well as the backstage musical's “doubled” approach to narrative and number.
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Shuman, Amy. "Entitlement and empathy in personal narrative." Narrative Inquiry 16, no. 1 (August 29, 2006): 148–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.16.1.19shu.
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My review of the past thirty years of narrative scholarship returns to the work of Harvey Sacks and Erving Goffman, situated in Dell Hymes’ ethnography of communication, to examine where their interactive model for understanding narrative has taken us. Although in some disciplines, narrative research is used as empirical evidence of how people interpret their experiences, Sacks’ work points more to the ways that personal narrative destabilizes the relationship between narrative and experience. Current work focuses on narrative at its limits, including the study of fragmented, rather than coherent, selves; multiply voiced, rather than monologic, points of view; and compromised, rather than easily empathetic, relations of understanding. This work builds on, rather than departs from, research on narrative thirty years ago. In this essay, I suggest a connection between early research on entitlement and contemporary research on the ethics of narrative, and I focus in particular on the problem of empathy.