Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0003
Jessica Senehi
Abstract:Often storytelling is framed as being rooted in a particular culture and told by the flickering fireplace or campfire light. This has invited comparisons with storytellers telling in contemporary multicultural public contexts, such as schools, libraries, and community centers. This is often characterized as a difference between traditional and contemporary storytellers or between traditional and professional storytellers. Here these distinctions are questioned. Instead, a consideration of endocultural and transcultural storytelling is proposed. Zora Neale Hurston's writing and career is discussed as demonstrating the positionality of a transcultural storyteller.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.15.1.0031
N. Sunderland, Nicole Matthews
Abstract:Listening to personal stories in health-related institutions is widely recognized as a challenging and potentially discomforting activity that often requires courage and resilience on the part of the listener. Through a series of international case studies of the ways stories are being listened to in health and social policy settings, and engagement with current listening literature, we identified four key “meta-oratory” roles at work in promoting and supporting listening in institutional health contexts: curator, host, caretaker, and broker. We refer to these roles as meta-oratory due to the often profound effects they can have on how stories are listened to, received, and applied (or not) in health settings. In this article we offer a complex view of listening in institutions and query the ways that existing meta-oratory role holders can support active, applied, and potentially transformative listening for health.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0300
Heather Gerhart
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0225
M. Humphrey
Abstract:The philosopher Adriana Cavarero argues that each person is born unique and through speech and action with others creates an unrepeatable story. This article explores whether that theory, called narratability, holds up in digital spaces, especially on platforms such as Instagram, which favors repetition and fast consumption. One account, called Insta_Repeat, gathers images that are strikingly similar and lays them out together to reveal a proclivity to repetition for what otherwise might appear to be original expressions of experience. In this article, I examine one such post, made up of twelve images from the same cave with a similar pose of a person in the mouth of the cave. By tracking the photographers to their own Instagram account, and by conducting visual analyses of the images, I find that each does reveal a unique individual. However, the platform's pressures for rapid consumption and repetitive tropes makes this endeavor far harder than a system that would favor true relationship-building.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0157
Bahram
Abstract:Digital storytelling in part creates its discourse over the ruins of dysfunctional and outmoded practices in storytelling. Perhaps it is with this deconstruction of the traditional narrative that we are able to invite the free-floating postures of interactivity such as synchronicity, level of control, and collectivity in digital storytelling. This article is the representation of my artistic experience of such deconstruction, which also depicts the permutation of my understanding of works of art as a self-destructive medium of storytelling. In this text, I portray the possibility of structuring a liminal space in which language is both present and absent, while a reader could spontaneously realize the inaction of subjectivity and disruption of intentions in communicating with the story.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0061
Michael A. Uzendoski
Abstract:In this article, the literary publication of the Amazonian author Carlos Alvarado Narváez is analyzed to explore the deeper underlying social aesthetics of storytelling that define his works. The argument is that the literary aesthetics of Alvarado's work draw on the ancestors' emphasis on the body as the central site of struggle. Specifically, the article shows that Indigenous knowledge and ritual are forms of somatic strength against “cannibal” conquerors who seek to disarticulate and consume Indigenous bodies as a means toward the accumulation of wealth. The article concludes that storytelling and its underlying social-symbolic aesthetics become powerful social action during political struggles, as demonstrated by the recent events of the Indigenous protests in Ecuador.
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Abstract:As a form of oral communication, storytelling helps people explain their experience of the world to others. For experience to translate, tellers and audiences must be able to actively respond to each other, necessitating flexible roles; however, in contemporary oral storytelling venues, audiences and tellers typically take on more rigid roles, akin to theatrical performer/audience relationships. We argue that virtual spaces allow storytellers to reach wider audiences, yet those audiences must be encouraged to be more actively involved in the storytelling event for tellers and audiences alike to engage in meaningful acts.
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