This volume brilliantly advances our understanding of the use of narrative in the social sciences. It brings together contemporary work on narrative theory and methods and presents a fascinating range of case-studies, from Princess Diana's Panorama interview to the memoirs of the wives of US nuclear scientists.
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'...for us, the main attractions when reading Lines of Narrative were the range of topics covered and the inclusive approach to theorizing. Albeit, this is not a book for the faint-hearted; if the reader is willing to engage on a variety of levels then it has a great deal to offer in terms of illuminating and opeing up an expansive appreciation of the 'narrative turn'. - Feminism and Psychology, Christine Horrocks and Nancy Kelly.
List of contributors vii Foreword xi Norman K. Denzin Introduction 1(10) Molly Andrews Shelley Day Sclater Michael Rustin Corinne Squire Amal Treacher PART I Narrative and culture 11(64) Introduction 13(5) Corinne Squire Narrative, civil society and public culture 18(18) Ronald N. Jacobs Resurrective practice and narrative 36(12) Clive Seale Wedding bells and baby carriages: heterosexuals imagine gay families, gay families imagine themselves 48(16) Suzanna Danuta Walters Narratives as bad faith 64(11) Ian Craib PART II Narrative and life history 75(54) Introduction 77(4) Molly Andrews When the storys over: narrative foreclosure and the possibility of self-renewal 81(11) Mark Freeman A cautious ethnography of socialism: autobiographical narrative in the Czech Republic 92(12) Zdenek Konopasek Molly Andrews `Papas bomb: the local and the global in womens Manhattan Project personal narratives 104(13) Carol Wolkowitz Betrayals, Trauma and self-redemption? The meanings of `the closing of the mines in two ex-miners narratives 117(12) Tom Wengraf PART III Narrative and discourse 129(70) Introduction 131(5) Shelley Day Sclater Narrative, discourse and the unconscious: the case of Tommy 136(14) Wendy Hollway Tony Jefferson Fictional(ising)? Ontological assumptions and methodological productions of (`anorexic) subjectivities 150(14) Helen Malson `Let them rot: four boys talk about punishment 164(16) Marion V. Smith Narrative and the discursive (re)construction of events 180(19) Jackie Abell Elizabeth H. Stokoe Michael Billig Conclusion 193(6) Phil Bradbury Shelley Day Sclater Index 199
Co-Directors of the Centre for Narrative Research in the Social Sciences, University of East London., Co-Director of the Centre for Adoption and Identity Studies, University of East London.
