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Storied Lives - The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding (Hardcover, New)
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Storied Lives - The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding (Hardcover, New)
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"The stories people tell about themselves are interesting not only
for the events and characters they describe but for something in
the construction of the stories themselves. The ways in which
individuals recount their histories-what they emphasize and omit,
their stance as protagonists or victims, the relationship the story
establishes between teller and audience-all shape what individuals
can claim of their own lives. Personal stories are not merely a way
of telling someone (or oneself) about one's life; they are the
means by which identities may be fashioned."-from the Introduction
In this provocative book, psychologists, anthropologists, and
sociologists analyze interviews with a range of subjects-a minister
who uses the death of his son to reaffirm his identity as a man of
God, women who have given up their children at birth for adoption
and who blame society for their action, Holocaust survivors, a
victim of marital rape, and many others. Together these studies
suggest a new way of thinking about autobiographical narratives:
that these life stories play a significant role in the formation of
identity, that the way they are told is shaped (and at times
curtailed) by prevalent cultural norms, and that the stories-and at
times the lives to which they relate-may be liberated from their
psychic and social constraints if the social conditions of story
telling can be critically engaged. Presenting a wide range of life
stories, these studies demonstrate how "telling one's life" has the
potential to clarify or mystify one's commitments and to animate or
encumber one's future development.
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