Grounded in narrative theory, this book offers a case study of a liberal arts colleges use of narrative to help build identity, community, and collaboration within the college faculty across a range of disciplines, including history, psychology, sociology, theatre and dance, literature, anthropology, and communication. Exploring issues of methodology and their practical application, this narrative project speaks to the construction of identity for the liberal arts in todays higher education climate. Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community focuses on the ways a cross-disciplinary emphasis on narrative can impact institutions in North America and contribute to the discussion of strategies to foster bottom-up, faculty-driven collaboration and innovation.
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SECTION I Interrogating and Framing Reality: Identity and Cultural Perceptions |
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1 Old and New Technologies of Asynchronous Communication: Virtual Narratives and "Presence" |
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2 Onitsha Market Literature: Narrating Identity and Survival in a Colonial African City |
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3 Narrative Identities in India's Global Age |
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4 Narrative Text and Photographs: A Case for Ethnographic Research Poetry |
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SECTION II Narratives at the Intersection of the Public and Private |
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5 Finding Story in Unexpected Places: Branding and the Role of Narrative in the Study of Communication |
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6 The "Not Yet Pregnant": The Impact of Narratives on Infertility Identity and Reproductive Policy |
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7 Letter-Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Scientific Community: Constructing Narratives and Identity |
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SECTION III Performing Bodies, Creating Stories |
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9 Narrative and the Performing Arts: A Symposium |
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10 Stories and Objects: Narrative and the Construction of Connective Links in an American Quilting Guild |
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11 The Currency of Stories: Anthropologists, Nawaals, and the Strange World of Academe |
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| Conclusion: Narrative Diffusion |
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Brian Attebery is Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA.
John Gribas is Professor of Communication, Media, and Persuasion at Idaho State University, USA.
Mark K. McBeth is Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and Professor of Political Science at Idaho State University, USA.
Paul Sivitz is Lecturer of History at Idaho State University, USA.
Kandi Turley-Ames is Founding Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and Professor of Psychology at Idaho State University, USA.
