Considering counter narratives : narrating, resisting, making sense / edited by Michael Bamberg, Molly Andrews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bamberg, Michael G. W., 1947-

Andrews, Molly.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; v. 4.

Studies in narrative, 1568-2706 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

x, 380 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational categories is what lies at the center of the chapters and commentaries collected in this book. The book comprises six target chapters by leading scholars in the field. Twenty-two commentators discuss these chapters from a number of diverse vantage points, followed by responses from the six original authors. A final chapter by the editor of the book series concludes the book.

Contents:

Considering Counter-Narratives

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Introduction to the book

Opening to the original contributions

References

Memories of mother

Motherhood and its discontents

Helen: The fight to be free

Ann: Frustrations and radical thinking

Joe: Motherhood and sacrifice

Peter: ``She had that gift''

Narrative psychology and social resistance

Commentaries

Blame it on psychology!?

Accidental cases: Extending the concept of positioning in narrative studies

Politicising mothers: Counter-narratives of mothering experience

Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative re-construction of problematic pasts

Positioning

Social organisation of memories

Performing social actons: Reconfiguring the past

Mother-blaming

Conclusion

Response

to commentaries on ``Memories of Mother: Counter-narratives of early maternal influence''

Negotiating ``normality'' when IVF fails

The IVF storylines

The interviews

Analysis

Negotiating technology

Managing reproductive normativity

Meeting the motherhood criteria

Claiming the childfree life

Notes

IVF failure: Reproductive normativity and dealing with disappointment

Discourse analysis and alternative readings

Counter narratives

When IVF fails - the success of science and medicine

On identifying counter-narratives of failed IVF

to commentaries on ``Negotiating Normality: When IVF Fails''

Texts in context

The progressive storyline

Looking at the big picture

References.

Photographic visions and narrative inquiry

Preliminary considerations for visual approaches to narrative inquiry

Auto/biographical and narrative uses of visual images

Studying `everyday' photography: Photographs in people's lives

Fieldwork

What is everyday photography?

Photographs, memory and narratives

Photographs and counter-narratives

Conflicts provoked by valuable photographs

Work with counter-narrative photographs and their possessors

Constructing negative and positive narratives with the help of photo-images

Acknowledgement

Hearing what is shown and seeing what is said

Show is tell

to commentaries on ``Photographic visions height8pt depth3pt width0pt and narrative inquiry''

`Pictures do not verbalize anything'

Topic and resource

Conflict and counter-narratives

Using visual images in narrative inquiry

``That's very rude, I shouldn't be telling you that''

The creation of the narratives

A discursive approach to narratives

Dominant cultural storylines and counter-narratives

Identifying counter-narratives within data - emic analysis

Participant's orientations to telling a counter-narrative

Identifying counter-narratives within data - etic analysis

The analyst's identification of counter-narratives

Narratives as drawn-upon and narratives as occasioned: Challenges in reconciling an emic and etic analysis

Two views of narrative

Warranting claims at the ``Emic''level of analysis

Excerpt 1 - Liz (and a brief comment on excerpt 3 - Liz)

Excerpt 2 - Lesley

Excerpt 4 - Win

Excerpt 5 - Win

Warranting claims at the ``Etic''level of analysis

``But what's at stake?''Older women talking about sexuality

Complicating counter narratives

Sticking to the dominant cultural storyline

The production of counter narratives

What discourse analysis reveals about elderly women, sex and the struggle with societal norms

Available roles for elderly women: Asexual, liberal or both?

Employing Goffman and Gumperz: The value of a micro-analytic approach to talk-in-interaction

to commentaries on ```That's very rude, I shouldn't be telling you that': Older women talking about sex''

Emic and etic analysis

Theoretical positions

The benefits of microanalysis

Co-construction

What counts as discourse analysis?

Note

White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen

A brief history of recent talk on television

Women are trash

White trash pride

Black citizenship

Social identity work in storytelling: Methodological remarks

Main issues

Basic concepts and methodological questions

An ethnomethodological perspective

Talking and acting: Making change and doing development

Language use - and language user - in the ``doing of talking''

Talking, acting, talking about acting, and just talking

The closed nature of openness

Semiotic Demand Settings (SDS)

Connectedness and disconnectedness

Conclusion: Looking for a general model

The context of race in reading narratives on daytime talk shows

Day-time talk shows as a forum for social critique

Meta-narratives of cultural experience: Race, class, gender

to commentaries on ``White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen''

Charting the narrative unconscious

Narrative and counter-narrative.

The distant origins of the self

Rethinking autobiography

Autobiography and poiesis

Discussing nonconscious processes involved in autobiography

Introduction

Constructing self-guiding narratives

Can a constructivist/narrativist utilize a psychollage signified by the term unconscious?

Construing the psychollages used in Freeman's article

Memory processes and off awareness psychological functioning in narrative making

Explaining the assembling of an ``uncharacteristic'' autobiography

Anticipated outcome

Constructing the narrative unconscious

Can memory be collective?

Who fashions what out of cultural givens?

What is a cultural given and who exactly gives to whom?

Are cultural memories more local or national?

Where do we go from here?

Possible lives

Working the narrative unconscious: Positioning theory and moral order

to commentaries on ``Charting the narrative unconscious: Cultural memory and the challenge of autobiography''

Considering counter narratives

Narrative and claiming a sense of self

Narratives and counter claims

Master narratives

Invocations of master narratives

Analyzing counter narratives

Where (and How) do counter narratives emerge?

Concluding remarks (to open up)

Index

The series Studies in Narrative.

Notes:

Chiefly articles previously published in Narrative inquiry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160158

9781282160156

128216015X

9789027295026

9027295026

OCLC:

646767845