Narrative Analysis

Studying the Development of Individuals in Society
Colette Daiute
Cynthia G. Lightfoot
Narrative Analysis
December 2003 | 320 pages | Sage US
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Narrative Analysis: Studying the Development of Individuals in Society aims to help researchers and students identify and evaluate the wealth of rationales, practices, caveats, and values of narrative inquiry for understanding human development. A rich collection of chapters articulates diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives within the integrative theme that identity and knowledge development occur in dynamic social environments.

Editors Colette Daiute and Cynthia Lightfoot have brought together an internationally renowned team of experts in narrative analysis to create a volume perfect for qualitative researchers in sociology, psychology, social work, education, and anthropology. Students, professors, and experienced researchers will find the pedagogical elements and case studies perfect for course use and professional reference.

Case study examples offer a wide range of research contexts and goals, including:
  • School-based violence prevention
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Undocumented children and families from Mexico
  • Generational trends among women
  • Suicide rates among First Nations youth
Narrative Analysis is organized around three approaches or "readings." Literary Readings focus on aesthetic, metaphorical, and other literary qualities inherent to narrative approaches. Social-Relational Readings build upon the idea that narrative discourse is personal but also echoes political, economic, and other material relationships in the environment. Readings through the Force of History explain how narrators come to know themselves and their worlds in terms of and in spite of the received explanations of time and place. Working in a range of ethnic, geographic, generational, class, and institutional communities, the authors demonstrate how they have used narrative inquiry to explore development in challenging social contexts.

Contents

Editors' Introduction

  • Theory and Craft of Narrative Analysis

Literary readings

  • Preface to Literary Readings
  • The Role of Imagination in Narrative Constructions
  • Fantastic Self: A Study of Adolescents' Fictional Narratives, and Identity Work as Aesthetic Activity
  • Cultural modeling as a frame for narrative analysis
  • Data are everywhere: Narrative criticism in the literature of experience

Social-relational Readings

  • Preface to Social-relational Readings
  • Co-constructing the cultural person through narratives in early childhood
  • Adaptive and Creative Uses of Narrative Genres
  • Positioning with Davie Hogan: Stories, Tellings, and Identities
  • Dilemmas of storytelling and identity

Readings through the forces of history

  • Preface to Readings through the forces of history
  • Narrating illegality as an identity in conflicting cultural discourses
  • Transcendent stories and counter-narratives in holocaust survivor life histories: Searching for meaning in video-testimony archives
  • Women of "the greatest generation": Feeling on the margin of social history
  • Culture, continuity, and the limits of narrativity: A comparison of the self-narratives of Native and Non-Native youth
  • Once upon a time: A narratologist's tale

Editor and Author Bios Editor and Author Bios

Editor and Author Bios Editor and Author Bios

Description

Narrative Analysis: Studying the Development of Individuals in Society aims to help researchers and students identify and evaluate the wealth of rationales, practices, caveats, and values of narrative inquiry for understanding human development. A rich collection of chapters articulates diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives within the integrative theme that identity and knowledge development occur in dynamic social environments.

Editors Colette Daiute and Cynthia Lightfoot have brought together an internationally renowned team of experts in narrative analysis to create a volume perfect for qualitative researchers in sociology, psychology, social work, education, and anthropology. Students, professors, and experienced researchers will find the pedagogical elements and case studies perfect for course use and professional reference.

Case study examples offer a wide range of research contexts and goals, including:
  • School-based violence prevention
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Undocumented children and families from Mexico
  • Generational trends among women
  • Suicide rates among First Nations youth
Narrative Analysis is organized around three approaches or "readings." Literary Readings focus on aesthetic, metaphorical, and other literary qualities inherent to narrative approaches. Social-Relational Readings build upon the idea that narrative discourse is personal but also echoes political, economic, and other material relationships in the environment. Readings through the Force of History explain how narrators come to know themselves and their worlds in terms of and in spite of the received explanations of time and place. Working in a range of ethnic, geographic, generational, class, and institutional communities, the authors demonstrate how they have used narrative inquiry to explore development in challenging social contexts.

Contents

Editors' Introduction

  • Theory and Craft of Narrative Analysis

Literary readings

  • Preface to Literary Readings
  • The Role of Imagination in Narrative Constructions
  • Fantastic Self: A Study of Adolescents' Fictional Narratives, and Identity Work as Aesthetic Activity
  • Cultural modeling as a frame for narrative analysis
  • Data are everywhere: Narrative criticism in the literature of experience

Social-relational Readings

  • Preface to Social-relational Readings
  • Co-constructing the cultural person through narratives in early childhood
  • Adaptive and Creative Uses of Narrative Genres
  • Positioning with Davie Hogan: Stories, Tellings, and Identities
  • Dilemmas of storytelling and identity

Readings through the forces of history

  • Preface to Readings through the forces of history
  • Narrating illegality as an identity in conflicting cultural discourses
  • Transcendent stories and counter-narratives in holocaust survivor life histories: Searching for meaning in video-testimony archives
  • Women of "the greatest generation": Feeling on the margin of social history
  • Culture, continuity, and the limits of narrativity: A comparison of the self-narratives of Native and Non-Native youth
  • Once upon a time: A narratologist's tale

Editor and Author Bios Editor and Author Bios

Editor and Author Bios Editor and Author Bios

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Narrative Analysis

Studying the Development of Individuals in Society

Colette Daiute , Cynthia G. Lightfoot
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December 2003 | 320 pages | Sage US

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Narrative Analysis: Studying the Development of Individuals in Society aims to help researchers and students identify and evaluate the wealth of rationales, practices, caveats, and values of narrative inquiry for understanding human development. A rich collection of chapters articulates diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives within the integrative theme that identity and knowledge development occur in dynamic social environments.

Editors Colette Daiute and Cynthia Lightfoot have brought together an internationally renowned team of experts in narrative analysis to create a volume perfect for qualitative researchers in sociology, psychology, social work, education, and anthropology. Students, professors, and experienced researchers will find the pedagogical elements and case studies perfect for course use and professional reference.

Case study examples offer a wide range of research contexts and goals, including:
  • School-based violence prevention
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Undocumented children and families from Mexico
  • Generational trends among women
  • Suicide rates among First Nations youth
Narrative Analysis is organized around three approaches or "readings." Literary Readings focus on aesthetic, metaphorical, and other literary qualities inherent to narrative approaches. Social-Relational Readings build upon the idea that narrative discourse is personal but also echoes political, economic, and other material relationships in the environment. Readings through the Force of History explain how narrators come to know themselves and their worlds in terms of and in spite of the received explanations of time and place. Working in a range of ethnic, geographic, generational, class, and institutional communities, the authors demonstrate how they have used narrative inquiry to explore development in challenging social contexts.

Table Of Contents:

  • Editors' Introduction
  • Theory and Craft of Narrative Analysis
  • Literary readings
  • Preface to Literary Readings
  • The Role of Imagination in Narrative Constructions
  • Fantastic Self: A Study of Adolescents' Fictional Narratives, and Identity Work as Aesthetic Activity
  • Cultural modeling as a frame for narrative analysis
  • Data are everywhere: Narrative criticism in the literature of experience
  • Social-relational Readings
  • Preface to Social-relational Readings
  • Co-constructing the cultural person through narratives in early childhood
  • Adaptive and Creative Uses of Narrative Genres
  • Positioning with Davie Hogan: Stories, Tellings, and Identities
  • Dilemmas of storytelling and identity
  • Readings through the forces of history
  • Preface to Readings through the forces of history
  • Narrating illegality as an identity in conflicting cultural discourses
  • Transcendent stories and counter-narratives in holocaust survivor life histories: Searching for meaning in video-testimony archives
  • Women of "the greatest generation": Feeling on the margin of social history
  • Culture, continuity, and the limits of narrativity: A comparison of the self-narratives of Native and Non-Native youth
  • Once upon a time: A narratologist's tale
  • Editor and Author Bios Editor and Author Bios

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"As qualitative research methods have gained status, interest in narrative analysis has also grown. This collection of essays reflects varying definitions for processes of interpreting variety of discourse as well as varying contexts of meaning. The editors highlight the usefulness of narrative analysis as a way to reveal relationships between individuals and societies. They also emphsize the developmental qualitites of narrative analysis: in terms of life journey, cultural tool over time, complexity, and skill acquisition."
Lesley Farmer, California State University, Long Beach, Education Libraries

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