ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|64 pages
Narrative and culture
chapter 3|16 pages
Wedding bells and baby carriages
Heterosexuals imagine gay families, gay families imagine themselves
part II|53 pages
Narrative and life history
chapter 6|12 pages
A cautious ethnography of socialism
Autobiographical narrative in the Czech Republic
chapter 7|13 pages
‘Papa's bomb'
The local and the global in women's Manhattan Project personal narratives
chapter 8|11 pages
Betrayals, trauma and self-redemption?
The meanings of ‘the closing of the mines' in two ex-miners’ narratives
part III|70 pages
Narrative and discourse
chapter 10|14 pages
Fictional(ising) identity?
Ontological assumptions and methodological productions of (‘anorexic') subjectivities
