The travelling concepts of narrative /

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Imprint:Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Co., [2013]
©2013
Description:1 online resource (vi, 311 pages)
Language:English
Series:Studies in narrative, 1568-2706 ; volume 18
Studies in narrative ; v. 18.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11193262
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Other authors / contributors:Hyvärinen, Matti, editor.
Hatavara, Mari, editor.
Hydén, Lars-Christer, 1954- editor.
ISBN:9789027271969
9027271968
9781299662117
1299662110
9789027226587
902722658X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This chapter addresses how concepts of narrative and narration have been used in theories of cultural trauma. My point of departure is an article by Wulf Kansteiner and Harald Weilnböck, where they criticize the concept of cultural trauma or what they call the paradigm of "deconstructive trauma discourse." They argue that this paradigm not only misuses the concept of psychological trauma by adapting it to a cultural realm, but also r2013efuses to recognize the significance of narratives in trauma therapy. I will challenge their criticism by taking a closer look at how the concept of cultural traum.
Other form:Print version: Travelling concepts of narrative. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013] 9789027226587
Print version: Hatavara, Mari. Travelling Concepts of Narrative. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013 9789027226587
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Introduction, or another story of narrative
  • 2. Exploring the narrative turns
  • 3. Travelling metaphors, transforming concepts
  • 4. Why narrative is here to stay
  • 5. To the narrative turn and back
  • 6. Travelling with narrative
  • 7. Philosophical underpinnings of the narrative turn in theory and fiction
  • 8. Travelling between fiction and non-fiction
  • 9. Fact and fiction
  • 10. Broken or unnatural?
  • 11. Making sense in autobiography
  • 12. "Unnatural" narratives?
  • 13. Storytelling on the go
  • 14. Travelling from body to story
  • 15. Towards an embodied theory ofnbsp;narrativenbsp;andnbsp;storytelling
  • 16. Fractured narratives
  • 17. Broken stories
  • 18. Concluding reflections
  • 19. Twists and turns
  • 20. List of contributors
  • 21. Index