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Storytelling In Daily Life - Performing Narrative (Hardcover)
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Storytelling In Daily Life - Performing Narrative (Hardcover)
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Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of
their experiences, claim identities, and 'get a life'. So much of
our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and
listening to and reading the stories of others. But we rarely stop
to ask: what are these stories? How do they shape our lives? And
why do they matter? The authors ably guide readers through the
complex world of performing narrative. Along the way they show the
embodied contexts of storytelling, the material constraints on
narrative performances, and the myriad ways storytelling orders
information and tasks, constitutes meanings, and positions speaking
subjects. Readers will also learn that narrative performance is
consequential as well as pervasive, as storytelling opens up
experience and identities to legitimization and critique.The
authors' multi-leveled model of strategy and tactics considers how
relations of power in a system are produced, reproduced, and
altered in performing narrative. The authors explain this strategic
model through an extended discussion of family storytelling, using
Franco Americans in Maine as their exemplar. They explore what
stories families tell, how they tell them, and how storytelling
creates family identities. Then, they show the range and reach of
this strategic model by examining storytelling in diverse contexts:
a breast cancer narrative, a weblog on the Internet, and an
autobiographical performance on the public stage.Readers are left
with a clear understanding of how and why the performance of
narrative is the primary communicative practice shaping our lives
today. Author note: Kristin M. Langellier is Mark and Marcia Bailey
Professor at the University of Maine where she teaches
communication and women's studies. A former editor of "Text and
Performance Quarterly", she has published numerous journal articles
on personal narrative, family storytelling, and Franco American
cultural identity. Eric E. Peterson is Associate Professor at the
University of Maine where he teaches communication. He is coeditor
of a recent book on public broadcasting and has published a variety
of journal articles on narrative performance, media consumption,
and communication diversity and identity.
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