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Narrative Relations and Associations: Catherine Kohler Riessman’s Research Dialogism Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Cigdem Esin,Corinne Squire
In this paper, Esin and Squire provide their individual and collective reflections on the influence of Catherine Kohler Riessman’s dialogical approach in research. Each researcher reinterpreted the dialogism in Riessman’s approach in their own work, focusing on differing elements of it. While Esin examines her experience of relationality, reflexivity, and positionality in her work, Squire discusses
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On Reflexivity: Tribute to Catherine Kohler Riessman Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Wendy Luttrell
This paper is a tribute to Catherine Kohler Riessman, whose imprint on the field of narrative studies is legendary. It draws on some of her most influential publications to highlight her enduring commitment to and practice of researcher “reflexivity” and how her scholarship has influenced my work. I draw upon several of Cathy’s most influential publications to highlight her model of reflexivity in
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Children’s Psychosocial Narratives in “Found Childhoods" Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Ann Phoenix
This paper focuses on a proliferating narrative genre: videos where children are central, posted on the internet for public consumption. The video analyzed is of a pre-school U.S. Black girl resisting how her mother has combed her hair. It offers insights into family practices and display (Finch, 2007; Morgan, 2011) that would usually not be open to scrutiny and cannot be captured in the same way in
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A Small Story Concerning a Big Mistake: Returning Voice to a Breast Cancer Narrative Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Elaine Martin
This article arose from an error. In 2000, I began recording the story of myself and nine other university women with later stage breast cancer. Following the fifth death, I took on the task to make what I could of the archive. An introduction to Cathy Riessman and narrative research began to direct and support this work. Of major significance was the performative aspects of our storytelling, especially
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Seduction, Sharing Stories, and Borderlinking in Co-Constructed Narratives Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Angie Voela,Cigdem Esin,Jennifer Achan
Drawing on a co-constructed autobiographical narrative as our example, we explore the resonances of Catherine Kohler Reissman’s concept of seduction with Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger’s concept of matrixial borderlinking. Borderlinking between theoretical domains, rather than comparisons or juxtaposition, brings forth potentialities and expands the theorization of feminine subjectivities in much the
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A Chronicle of Mentoring Narrative Scholarship Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Molly Andrews
There are many aspects of Catherine Kohler Riessman’s narrative scholarship which have established her international reputation in the field. This contribution pays tribute to the role she has played as a mentor, both through her written work and in her practice. Mentoring, which is time-consuming and painstaking work, is a critical but widely unacknowledged aspect of scholarship, which is often portrayed
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Individuality and Continuity in Narrating across Generations Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Vieda Skultans
This article explores the commonalities of structure in the life histories of a mother and her daughter. I argue that sharing the same story does not preclude the existence of a strong and distinctive sense of self. Agency and selfhood are intimately connected with interpretation and the pursuit of understanding. In order to illuminate this relationship, I draw upon ideas of musical form and interpretation
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Different Listener and Teller Positions, Different Narratives Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Margareta Hydén
By comparing two interviews with women exposed to their husbands’ violence, this article shows that an exploration of the many layers of a personal narrative is not a straightforward linear process, but a circular one. Based on the analysis of one of Catherine Riessman’s case stories and one of the author’s, the article further shows that a narrative can change dramatically if the tellers’ and/or listeners’
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Narrative and Argumentation in a Case of Alleged Child Abuse Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Clive Baldwin,Michelle Greason
The relationship between argument and narrative has been the subject of much debate, particularly in the area of law, where a number of theorists have argued for the priority of one over the other in the decision-making process, the premise being that argumentation and narrative are two distinct text forms. Through the rhetorical analysis of a series of expert reports in a case of alleged child abuse
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Self-Narrative Elicitation in Counseling: An Exploration of the Usefulness of Selected Interview Methods Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Emilia Soroko
An important element of many forms of counseling is the narrative articulation of the client experience. This article aims to define self-narrative elicitation methods, to explore their use in counseling, and to present a quantitative empirical examination of narrative interview instructions. It examines whether the self-narrative inclination and selected situational factors influence the narrativity
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Constructing Victimhood: Storied Opposition to Legislation Protecting LGBTQ Students Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Daniel Lai,Lois Presser,Jennifer L. Schally
Contemporary initiatives against anti-LGBTQ bullying in the United States include enumeration policies, which name sexual orientation as an unacceptable basis for bullying. Conservative opposition to these and other initiatives has been swift, taking discursive and specifically narrative form. This article examines how opponents of prevention and intervention use narrative to resist efforts to curb
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The End of the Story? Narrative Openness in Life and Death Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 William Randall
In this 2019 John McKendy Memorial Lecture,1 Dr. William Randall discussed how few topics intrigue us more than death. Yet few topics are more taboo—not unlike aging, with which, in many people’s minds, it can seem synonymous. But just as a narrative perspective on aging enables us to envision its more positive potentials in terms of meaning, wisdom, and spirituality, so a narrative perspective can
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Review of Catherine Belsey, Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural History Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Arthur W. Frank
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Stories’ Work: Making Darkness Visible Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Arthur W. Frank
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“It’s impossible that there’s no connection” Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Miri Tashma Baum
Despite the growing interest in language learning histories, autobiographical reasoning, a central concept in narrative psychology, has rarely appeared in second language acquisition research, despite the fact that autobiographical reasoning has been found to be central to identity formation, correlating with resilience, motivation, and well-being. This article conducts a narrative analysis of the
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Identity and Masculinity in Two Cases of Early-Onset Disability Autobiography Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Hanna Pohjola,Merja Tarvainen
This article examines the construction of identity and masculinity in two cases of disability autobiography. Retrospectively written autobiographical accounts of early-onset disability were analyzed abductively by using the model of narrative circulation (MNC), with a thematic content analysis being used to organize the data. Both narrators constructed their adult identity as men in relation to the
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Could the Tree of Life Model Be a Useful Approach for UK Mental Health Contexts? Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Sophie Parham,Jeyda Ibrahim,Kate Foxwell
Some suggest the ethos of the Tree of Life (ToL) group aligns with the concept of “personal-recovery” promoted in mental health policy. Thus, it is claimed that the group could be a useful approach within UK mental health services. This review collated 14 papers to explore whether existing literature regarding the ToL group supports this assertion. The papers were synthesized using the thematic analysis
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Ellen Cole & Mary Gergen, Eds. Retiring but Not Shy: Feminist Psychologists Create Their Post-Careers. Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Michelle N. LaFrance
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Writing the Erasure of Emotions in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction: Reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Lauren Oliver’s Delirium Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Rocío G. Davis
Young Adult (YA) dystopian fiction blends the traditional developmental narrative with a heightened concern with issues regarding the individual against society, often in the context of a post-apocalyptic world. In this article, I examine the way Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993) and Lauren Oliver’s Delirium (2011) focus on the state’s regulation over or removal of their people’s emotions and decisions
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Oneself as Another: Intersubjectivity and Ethics in Alzheimer’s Illness Narratives Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Lucy Burke
This paper considers what is at stake in telling the story of another’s illness and in taking on the history of another’s dementia as part of one’s own life narrative. Through a close analysis of Michael Ignatieff’s Scar Tissue , it explores the ways in which writing about the experience of caring for a parent with dementia speaks to the intersubjective dimensions of selfhood but also complicates the
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My Wartime Self: Meaning Construction in Narratives of World War II Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Julie B. Wiest
We are all storytellers. We tell stories in a variety of settings, to a variety of audiences, and for a variety of reasons. We tell structured stories about personal experiences—narratives—as a means of understanding the past, constructing identities, and communicating ourselves to others. Drawing on social psychological literature on narratives, identities, and autobiographical memories, this study
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Women’s Narratives of Trauma: (Re)storying Uncertainty, Minimization and Self-Blame Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Catrina Brown
Women’s stories of trauma often reveal uncertainty, minimization, and self-blame. This paper explores community-based research findings on women’s narratives illustrating powerful, yet uncertain, stories of chronic, multiple, and severe trauma. This paper argues that 1) research needs to recognize that posttraumatic responses often involve uncertainty and ambivalence about telling stories of trauma;
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Narrative, Ethics, and the Development of Identity Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Mark Freeman
The terms “narrative” and “development” would appear to be difficult to relate to one another. While “narrative” frequently connotes movement backward in time and would thus seem to be a retrospective concept, “development” connotes movement forward in time and would thus seem to be a prospective concept. In this article, I seek to rethink both of these terms in such a way as to render them more compatible
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What Goes On in Strangers’ Minds? How Reading Children’s Books Affects Emotional Development Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Based on recent studies in developmental psychology and cognitive narratology, this article shows the impact of Theory of Mind on children’s understanding and apprehension of other people’s thoughts and beliefs presented in fictional texts. With a special focus on the depiction of emotions in two children’s novels, Erich Kastner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) and Anne Cassidy’s Looking for JJ (2004)
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Thickening Thin Narratives: A Feminist Narrative Conceptualization of Male Anorexia Nervosa Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 David King
The purpose of this article is to conceptualize a feminist narrative approach to male anorexia nervosa (MAN). Both narrative and feminist theories have been utilized to enrich the discourse of AN among women. An unintended result of this primary focus on women’s experiences has been a limited focus on the experiences of men with AN. This article will explore a contemporary social discourse on masculinity
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Memory of the Present: Empathy and Identity in Young Adult Fiction Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Maria Nikolajeva
Recent studies in cognitive literary criticism have provided scholars of literature with new, stimulating approaches to literary texts and neuroscientists with new insights about human emotions, empathy, and memory through evidence from fiction. What have so far been largely neglected are the implications of cognitive criticism for the study of literature targeting a young audience, whose theory of
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Absence as Presence, Presence as Absence: Museological Storytelling in Berlin Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Joshua Parker
This article examines a long history of objects’ use in “telling stories,” and speculates on how museums and other art forms might encourage “narrations” while leaving story-telling to visitors or viewers. David Chipperfield’s 2009 “restoration” of Berlin’s Neues Museum made great efforts to preserve traces not only of the objects displayed inside, but to present an open-ended “narrative” of the building’s
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Living Narratively: From Theory to Experience (and Back Again) Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Clive Baldwin
On November 3, 2011, Clive Baldwin presented the fourth annual John McKendy Memorial Lecture on Narrative at St. Thomas University. The annual lecture, sponsored by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative (CIRN), is named for John McKendy, PhD, a member of the Sociology Department at St. Thomas University and one of the founding members of CIRN, who died tragically in 2008. What follows
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Kashmir Pending: Narrative and Ideology in a Graphic Novel Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Patrick C. Hogan
Kashmir Pending (2007) is the graphic novel of a man who joined the militant insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir, but who eventually became disillusioned with the revolutionaries. It is valuable in portraying some aspects of the situation in Kashmir that are largely absent from mainstream treatments of the conflict. Nonetheless, it is problematic in a number of ways, ranging from its somewhat
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David Herman. Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0190850401. Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-16 Cynthia Z. Cohen
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The Enacted Narrative: A Group-Based Trauma Repair Approach for Veterans Who Have a Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-16 Marvin Westwood
In this 2017 John McKendy Memorial Lecture, Dr. Marvin Westwood discussed two group-based interventions for veterans who have a post-traumatic stress-injury—guided autobiography and therapeutic enactment—as a trans-theoretical model for change. Narrative-based therapeutic enactment has been highly effective for traumatized individuals—both military and civilian. The presentation included video clips
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Ancestry, Place[s], and Identity in Spiritual Direction Narratives Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-16 Janet Kathryn Ruffing
In this 2017 John McKendy Memorial Lecture, Dr. Janet Ruffing, RSM, discussed spiritual direction as a narrative process, recognized or not, in which the directee tells his or her sacred tale in the interaction with a spiritual director who significantly affects the unfolding of this serial narrative of lived faith. At a time, when directees have unprecedented access to genealogical information and
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Older Women’s Situated Identities: Positioning Analysis Applied to Stories about Everyday Experiences Dealing With Physical Functional Changes Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-16 Makie Kawabata, Miya Narushima
Identities are not only constructed through coherent and unified stories about significant events but also formed within the interactions during everyday social encounters. Using positioning analysis, we explored how older women’s “small stories” from interviews can be used to identify their “situated selves” and how positioning analysis contributes to enhance our understandings about their experiences
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(Re)telling Stories of Middle School Student-Led Bands: How One Music Teacher Becomes a Narrative Researcher Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-16 Stephanie Cronenberg
Finely polished prose and clean analysis is abundant in scholarly publications. Yet the academic writing process of drafts, peer review, and revisions that lead to these polished papers is one of trials, triumphs, discovery, and self-doubt rarely revealed to new scholars. This paper is one attempt to demystify the writing as inquiry process through the lens of narrative inquiry. Using three drafts
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Narrative Analysis: Understanding the Story of a Formerly Homeless Man Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-16 Jennie Ann Cole
This article focuses on the methodological process in examining a portion of one in-depth interview with a formerly chronically homeless man. Implications for housing policy with chronically homeless populations and the role of narrative analysis in social work research are discussed. Data was analyzed using models of narrative analysis developed by Gee (1985, 1986, 1991); Labov (1982, 1987; Labov
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Exploring the Rhizomal Self Narrative Works (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-16 Clive Baldwin, Michelle Greason, Caroline Hill
Theories of the Self abound both across and within disciplines. Following a discussion of two frameworks for understanding the Self—the essentialist and the dialogic—we explore the nature of what we call the rhizomal Self. Through autobiographical material we present a rhizomal narrative as a means of understanding the Self as narrative performance. We conclude with a brief discussion of some of the