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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hyvärinen, Matti.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; v. 11.

Studies in narrative, 1568-2706 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Psychological aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Cohesion (Linguistics).

Narrative inquiry (Research method).

Physical Description:

vi, 196 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612484919

9781282484917

1282484915

9789027288554

9027288550

OCLC:

593240233