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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451531403321

Titolo

Lines of narrative : psychosocial perspectives / / edited by Molly Andrews. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-54751-X

1-280-04665-1

0-585-44800-0

0-203-47100-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

AndrewsMolly

Disciplina

302/.01

Soggetti

Social psychology - Methodology

Sociology - Biographical methods

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword by; Introduction; Narrative and culture; Introduction; Narrative, civil society and public culture; Resurrective practice and narrative; Wedding bells and baby carriages: heterosexuals imagine gay families, gay families imagine themselves; Narratives as bad faith; Narrative and life history; Introduction; When the story's over: narrative foreclosure and the possibility of self-renewal; A cautious ethnography of socialism: autobiographical narrative in the Czech Republic

'Papa's bomb': the local and the global in women's Manhattan Project personal narrativesBetrayals, trauma and self-redemption? The meanings of 'the closing of the mines' in two ex-miners' narratives; Narrative and discourse; Introduction; Narrative, discourse and the unconscious: the case of Tommy; Fictional(ising) identity? Ontological assumptions and methodological productions of ('anorexic') subjectivities; 'Let them rot': four boys talk about punishment; Narrative and the discursive (re)construction of events; Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A focus on the inter-relationship between experience, self and society brilliantly advances our understanding of the 'narrative turn' in the



social sciences. This text will be of vital interest to both sociologists and psychologists.