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The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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In this volume, Qi Wang traces the developmental, social, cultural,
and historical origins of the autobiographical self - the self that
is made of memories of the personal past and of the family and the
community. Wang combines rigorous research, sensitive survey of
real memories and memory conversations, and fascinating personal
anecdotes into a state-of-the-art book. As a "marginal woman" who
grew up in the East and works and lives in the West, Wang's
analysis is unique, insightful, and approachable. Her accounts of
her own family stories, extraordinarily careful and thorough
documentation of research findings, and compelling theoretical
insights together convey an unequivocal message: The
autobiographical self is conditioned by one's time and culture.
Beginning with a perceptive examination of the form, content, and
function of parent-child conversations of personal and family
stories, Wang undertakes to show how the autobiographical self is
formed in and shaped by the process of family storytelling situated
in specific cultural contexts. By contrasting the development of
autobiographical writings in Western and Chinese literatures, Wang
seeks to demonstrate the cultural stance of the autobiographical
self in historical time. She examines the autobiographical self in
personal time, thoughtfully analyzing the form, structure, and
content of everyday memories to reveal the role of culture in
modulating information processing and determining how the
autobiographical self is remembered. Focusing on memories of early
childhood, Wang seeks to answer the question of when the
autobiographical self begins from a cross-cultural perspective. She
sets out further to explore some of the most controversial issues
in current psychological research of autobiographical memory,
focusing particularly on issues of memory representations versus
memory narratives and silence versus voice in the construction of
the autobiographical self appropriate to one's cultural
assumptions. She concludes with historical analyses of the
influences of the larger social, political, and economic forces on
the autobiographical self, and takes a forward look at the
autobiographical self as a product of modern technology.
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