This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold
phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our
need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience.
Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and
gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding
the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a
genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that
is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create
selves and communities.
Focusing on the ways in which narrative is co-constructed, and
on the variety of moral stances embodied in conversation, the
authors draw out the instructive inconsistencies of these
collaborative narratives, whose contents and ordering are subject
to dispute, flux, and discovery. In an eloquent last chapter,
written as Capps was waging her final battle with cancer, they turn
to "unfinished narratives," those stories that will never have a
comprehensible end. With a hybrid perspective--part humanities,
part social science--their book captures these complexities and
fathoms the intricate and potent narratives that live within and
among us.
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