Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that
families and family members make sense of both everyday and
difficult events, create a sense of individual and group identity,
remember, connect generations, and establish guidelines for family
behavior. With so many important functions, storytelling is a
significant but still understudied communicative process for the
family.
Family Storytelling focuses on the ways in which stories are
told in and about family in order to provide insight into the
processes, functions, and consequences of family storytelling. This
collection of empirical articles illuminates various ways in which
family storytelling affects and reflects the negotiation of
individual and relational identity in the family, teaches important
family lessons, and helps members make sense of and cope with
difficulty. Each of these functions is explored through both
scientific and interpretive investigations, thus showcasing the
contributions that research on family storytelling from different
paradigms make to our understanding of the family.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Family Communication.
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