Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, Resisting, Making Sense (Studies in Narrative)

Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC page......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Introduction to the book......Page 10
Opening to the original contributions......Page 12
References......Page 17
Memories of mother......Page 18
Motherhood and its discontents......Page 20
Helen: The fight to be free......Page 23
Ann: Frustrations and radical thinking......Page 26
Joe: Motherhood and sacrifice......Page 28
Peter: "She had that gift"
......Page 30
Narrative psychology and social resistance......Page 34
References......Page 36
Blame it on psychology!?......Page 38
References......Page 43
Accidental cases: Extending the concept of positioning in narrative studies......Page 44
References......Page 48
Politicising mothers: Counter-narratives of mothering experience......Page 49
References......Page 52
Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative re-construction of problematic pasts......Page 53
Positioning......Page 55
Social organisation of memories......Page 56
Performing social actons: Reconfiguring the past......Page 57
Mother-blaming......Page 58
References......Page 60
to commentaries on "Memories of Mother: Counter-narratives of early maternal influence"......Page 62
References......Page 70
Negotiating "normality" when IVF fails......Page 72
The IVF storylines......Page 73
The interviews......Page 77
Negotiating technology......Page 78
Meeting the motherhood criteria......Page 84
Claiming the childfree life......Page 87
Conclusion......Page 90
References......Page 91
Discourse analysis and alternative readings......Page 94
Counter narratives......Page 95
Negotiating technology......Page 96
Managing reproductive normativity......Page 98
References......Page 101
When IVF fails - the success of science and medicine......Page 102
References......Page 110
On identifying counter-narratives of failed IVF......Page 111
References......Page 115
Texts in context......Page 116
The progressive storyline......Page 118
Looking at the big picture......Page 120
References......Page 122
Photographic visions and narrative inquiry......Page 124
Preliminary considerations for visual approaches to narrative inquiry......Page 125
Auto/biographical and narrative uses of visual images......Page 129
Fieldwork......Page 132
What is everyday photography?......Page 133
Photographs, memory and narratives......Page 138
Conclusion......Page 143
Notes......Page 144
References......Page 145
Photographs and counter-narratives......Page 148
Conflicts provoked by valuable photographs......Page 149
Work with counter-narrative photographs and their possessors......Page 151
Constructing negative and positive narratives with the help of photo-images......Page 152
Conclusion......Page 153
Hearing what is shown and seeing what is said......Page 154
References......Page 161
Show is tell......Page 162
References......Page 168
'Pictures do not verbalize anything'
......Page 170
Topic and resource......Page 172
Conflict and counter-narratives......Page 173
Using visual images in narrative inquiry......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 177
References......Page 178
"That's very rude, I shouldn't be telling you that"......Page 180
The creation of the narratives......Page 181
A discursive approach to narratives......Page 182
Dominant cultural storylines and counter-narratives......Page 183
Participant's orientations to telling a counter-narrative......Page 186
Identifying counter-narratives within data - etic analysis......Page 193
The analyst's identification of counter-narratives......Page 194
Conclusion......Page 197
Notes......Page 198
References......Page 199
Narratives as drawn-upon and narratives as occasioned: Challenges in reconciling an emic and etic analysis......Page 202
Two views of narrative......Page 203
Excerpt 1 - Liz (and a brief comment on excerpt 3 - Liz)......Page 204
Excerpt 2 - Lesley......Page 205
Excerpt 4 - Win......Page 206
Excerpt 5 - Win......Page 207
References......Page 209
"But what's at stake?" Older women talking about sexuality
......Page 210
Complicating counter narratives......Page 212
Sticking to the dominant cultural storyline......Page 213
The production of counter narratives......Page 214
References......Page 215
Available roles for elderly women: Asexual, liberal or both?......Page 216
References......Page 223
Emic and etic analysis......Page 224
Theoretical positions......Page 225
The benefits of microanalysis......Page 227
Co-construction......Page 228
What counts as discourse analysis?......Page 229
References......Page 230
White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen......Page 232
A brief history of recent talk on television......Page 235
Women are trash......Page 239
White trash pride......Page 243
Black citizenship......Page 244
References......Page 246
Main issues......Page 250
Basic concepts and methodological questions......Page 252
An ethnomethodological perspective......Page 254
Talking and acting: Making change and doing development......Page 256
Language use - and language user - in the "doing of talking"
......Page 257
The closed nature of openness......Page 259
Semiotic Demand Settings (SDS)......Page 261
Connectedness and disconnectedness......Page 263
Conclusion: Looking for a general model......Page 265
References......Page 266
The context of race in reading narratives on daytime talk shows......Page 267
References......Page 273
Day-time talk shows as a forum for social critique......Page 274
References......Page 280
Meta-narratives of cultural experience: Race, class, gender......Page 281
References......Page 286
to commentaries on "White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen"
......Page 288
References......Page 297
Charting the narrative unconscious......Page 300
Narrative and counter-narrative......Page 303
The distant origins of the self......Page 308
Rethinking autobiography......Page 311
Autobiography and poiesis......Page 315
References......Page 316
Introduction......Page 318
Constructing self-guiding narratives......Page 319
Can a constructivist/narrativist utilize a psychollage signified by the term unconscious?......Page 321
Construing the psychollages used in Freeman's article......Page 323
Memory processes and off awareness psychological functioning in narrative making......Page 324
Explaining the assembling of an "uncharacteristic" autobiography
......Page 325
Anticipated outcome......Page 326
References......Page 327
Constructing the narrative unconscious......Page 328
Can memory be collective?......Page 329
Who fashions what out of cultural givens?......Page 330
What is a cultural given and who exactly gives to whom?......Page 331
Are cultural memories more local or national?......Page 332
References......Page 333
Possible lives......Page 334
Working the narrative unconscious: Positioning theory and moral order......Page 344
References......Page 350
to commentaries on "Charting the narrative unconscious: Cultural memory and the challenge of autobiography"
......Page 352
References......Page 360
Considering counter narratives......Page 362
Narrative and claiming a sense of self......Page 364
Master narratives......Page 370
Invocations of master narratives......Page 372
Where (and How) do counter narratives emerge?......Page 374
Positioning......Page 377
Concluding remarks (to open up)......Page 379
Index......Page 384
The series Studies in Narrative......Page 392