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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961019703321

Titolo

Beyond narrative coherence / / edited by Matti Hyvärinen ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010

ISBN

9786612484919

9781282484917

1282484915

9789027288554

9027288550

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 196 p. : ill

Collana

Studies in narrative, , 1568-2706 ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

HyvärinenMatti

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Psychological aspects

Cohesion (Linguistics)

Narrative inquiry (Research method)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Beyond narrative coherence: an introduction / Matti Hyvärinen -- Weird stories: brain, mind, and self / Maria I. Medved and Jens Brockmeier -- Identity, Self, Narrative / Lars-Christer Hydén -- 'Mind-reading', a method for understanding the broken narrative of an aphasic man / Tarja Aaltonen -- Broken narratives, visual forces: letters, paintings and the event / Maria Tamboukou -- Artists-in-progress: narrative identity of the self as another / Linda Sandino -- Breaking of self-narrative as a means of reorientation? / Vilma Hänninen and Anja Koski-Jännes -- "There is no fear in my lexicon" vs. "You are not normal if you won't be scared": a qualitative semiotic analysis of the 'broken' discourse of Israeli bus drivers who experienced terror attacks / Alison Stern Perez, Yishai Tobin and Shifra Sagy -- Beyond narrative: the shape of traumatic testimony / Molly Andrews -- Afterword: 'even amidst': rethinking narrative coherence / Mark Freeman -- List of contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

This chapter will explore the limits and possibilities of narratives in which individuals turn to language to communicate the inexpressibility of experiences they have endured. The central dilemma for many



survivors of trauma is that they must tell their stories, and yet their stories cannot be told. Traumatic experiences often defy understanding. Testimony of those who have survived can be marked by what is not there: coherence, structure, meaning, comprehensibility. The actual emplotment of trauma testimony into conventional narrative configurations - contained in time- transforms them into something which they are not: experiences which are endowed with a particular wholeness, which occurred in the past, and which have now ended. The paper concludes with a discussion of the relationship between language and silence in traumatic testimony.