Strategic Narrative
New Perspectives on the Power of Personal and Cultural Stories
Strategic Narrative
New Perspectives on the Power of Personal and Cultural Stories
Description
The contributors to this exciting new collection, edited by Wendy Patterson, address the real and far-reaching affects of narrative in everyday life. Positing the power and intentionality of narrative-in short its strategic uses-the essays reveal how we use our ways of telling to reclaim, evaluate, and draw meaning from our experiences in an increasingly complex world. The contributors take up themes of narrative as resistance, the ethical dimension of narrative, the importance of narrative in the imaginary social worlds of children, the role of narrative in the construction of masculinity, the uses of narrative in therapy, and the significance of imaginary stories in personal narratives of traumatic experience. Strategic Narrative brings together diverse perspectives from a range of disciplines and takes the reader into compelling discussions of this often simplified and confoundingly theorized form of discourse.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 The Burden of Truth: Psychoanalytic Poiesis and Narrative Understanding
Chapter 3 Narrative Identity, Subject Formation, and the Transfiguration of Subjects
Chapter 4 Forms and Functions of Narrative in Conflictive Interactions between Caregivers and Infants
Chapter 5 Narrative Imaginings: The Liminal Zone in Narratives of Trauma
Chapter 6 Lists, Stories, and Dreams: Strategic Invitation to Relationship in Psychotherapy Narrative
Chapter 7 Social Movements and Strategic Narratives: Creating the Sexual Abuse Survivor Account
Chapter 8 The Loner, The Walk, and The Beast Within: Narrative Fragments in the Construction of Masculinity
Chapter 9 Telling Tales: Outing the Honorable Gentleman
Chapter 10 The Extrospection of Suffering: Strategies of First-Person Illness Narratives
Chapter 11 The Dangerous Pronoun: Narratives of Self and Community in Recent Political Cinema
Chapter 12 Doing Justice: Positioning the Interpreter in Narrative Work
Product details
| Published | 10 Sep 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9780739161395 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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