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Whose Story Is It? An Autoethnography Concerning Narrative Identity
Author(s) -
Alec Grant,
Laetitia Zeeman
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1735
Subject(s) - autoethnography , narrative , relation (database) , reflexivity , identity (music) , perspective (graphical) , sociology , reflexive pronoun , epistemology , narrative identity , narrative inquiry , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , psychology , literature , social science , philosophy , visual arts , art , database , computer science
This paper is divided into three parts, each separated by centrally spaced asterisks. The first part, co-written on the basis of the standpoint interests of both authors, outlines the historical, philosophical, theoretical and methodological contexts for the use of autoethnographic short stories in the social and human sciences. The functions and representational practices of this genre are reviewed and discussed, and the main criticisms leveled by its detractors responded to. This sets the scene for the second part of the paper, an autoethnographic short story. Effectively a story of stories, it was constructed directly from the first author’s memories of his early life in relation to textual material and was written exclusively by him. In part three, some of the significant issues raised in the story are discussed in relation to larger co-evolving social, cultural and therapeutic frameworks from a reflexive and narrative identity perspective. It is written as, and represents, an extended, unfinished dialogue between the first and second author.

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