Fiction and Social Research

By Ice or Fire

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Fiction and Social Research

By Ice or Fire

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Fiction and Social Research brings together writers from a variety of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative forms in social research. At the intersections of fiction, ethnography, and cultural studies, these essays demonstrate narratives that simultaneously enrich fieldwork and enliven research reporting. By arranging this volume into four areas of concern, this volume demonstrates how fiction can express issues of representation, subjectivity, critique and postmodern discourse. This volume is unique in its accessibility and will prove a valuable tool to the veteran scholar and beginning ethnographer alike.

Table of Contents

chapter 1 Preface
chapter 2 Acknowledgments
chapter 3 Series Editor's Preface
chapter 4 1. Stephen P. Banks and Anna Banks, The Struggle Over Facts and Fictions
chapter 5 Part 1: Narratives of Representation
chapter 6 2. Robert Hopper, Flirtations: Conversational Analysis From Fiction and Life
chapter 7 3. Sandra L. Haarsager, Stories That Tell It Like It Is? Fiction Techniques and Prize-Winning Journalism
chapter 8 4. Michelle Miller, (Re)presenting Voices in Dramatically Scripted Research
chapter 9 5. Eugene Valentine and Kristin Bervig Valentine, Dead or Alive, You're Going to Teixido: The Teller and the Tale
chapter 10 Part 2: Narratives of Understanding
chapter 11 6. Robert L. Krizek, Lessons: What the Hell Are We Teaching the Next Generation Anyway?;
chapter 12 7. Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger, Portrait of an Anorexic Life
chapter 13 8. Leigh Berger, Silent Movies: Scenes from a Life
chapter 14 9. Sandra Coyle, Dancing with the Chameleon
chapter 15 Part 3: Narratives of Suspicion
chapter 16 10. Anna Banks, Some People Would Say I Tell Lies
chapter 17 11. Shawn Michelle Smith, On the Pleasures of Ruined Pictures
chapter 18 12. Eric M. Eisenberg, From Anxiety to Possibility: Poems 1987-1997
chapter 19 Part 4: Narratives of Vulnerability
chapter 20 13. Simon Gottschalk, Postmodern Sensibilities and Ethnographic Possibilities
chapter 21 14. Stephen Linstead, Dishcloth of Minerva: Absence, Presence, and Metatheory in the Everyday Practice of Research
chapter 22 15. Stephen P. Banks, The Tioga Tapes
chapter 23 Index

Product details

Published Sep 11 1998
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781461731481
Imprint AltaMira Press
Series Ethnographic Alternatives
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Anna Banks

Anthology Editor

Stephen P. Banks

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