The research aim was to gain a more thorough understanding of the experiences by former prisoners of the trauma of the time spent in a Nazi concentration camp and reworking it by dreaming. The material comprised 117 written accounts obtained by psychiatrist Stanisław Kłodziński in the 1970s from 38 former Polish national prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (17 women and 21 men). A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the narratives was carried out and two types of dreams were compared in terms of chosen characteristics: camp and post-camp dreams. Camp experiences and a negative emotional tone occurred significantly more often in post-camp dreams. The “beauty” and “symbolicity” categories were present significantly more frequently in camp dreams. It was found that motives related to the time spent in the camp appeared persistently in dreams. This was accompanied by a negative affect and lack of symbolicity typical of PTSD nightmares.
{"title":"“Our nights do not belong to us”","authors":"Weronika Wosińska, W. Zagórska","doi":"10.1075/ni.21108.wos","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21108.wos","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The research aim was to gain a more thorough understanding of the experiences by former prisoners of the trauma\u0000 of the time spent in a Nazi concentration camp and reworking it by dreaming. The material comprised 117 written accounts obtained\u0000 by psychiatrist Stanisław Kłodziński in the 1970s from 38 former Polish national prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (17 women and\u0000 21 men). A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the narratives was carried out and two types of dreams were compared in terms\u0000 of chosen characteristics: camp and post-camp dreams. Camp experiences and a negative emotional tone occurred significantly more\u0000 often in post-camp dreams. The “beauty” and “symbolicity” categories were present significantly more frequently in camp dreams. It\u0000 was found that motives related to the time spent in the camp appeared persistently in dreams. This was accompanied by a negative\u0000 affect and lack of symbolicity typical of PTSD nightmares.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49057627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Elimam & Fletcher (2022): The Qur’an, Translation and the Media: A Narrative Account","authors":"Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani, Malek Al Refaai","doi":"10.1075/ni.22035.vas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22035.vas","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48268052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Applying Bamberg’s (2012) practice-oriented analytical framework for narrative identity as produced through specific linguistic behaviours, this research focuses on the context-specific construction of multiple identities in the accounts of Chinese leftover women (sheng nü). It also seeks to investigate how they negotiate selves and handle struggles in both the storyworld and the storytelling-world by examining the trinity of form, content and context narrated in seven semi-structured interviews. This research reveals that these unmarried Chinese women attempt to narrate a positive positioning of self. They deconstruct the socially ascribed leftover identity but renegotiate a gendered self as either invisible or visible women integrated within an agentic ‘excellent’ (youxiu) self, albeit somehow disrupted within the diverse embedding of patriarchal cultural accounts.
{"title":"“By whom was I left behind?”","authors":"Yang Yang","doi":"10.1075/ni.21095.yan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21095.yan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Applying Bamberg’s (2012) practice-oriented analytical framework for\u0000 narrative identity as produced through specific linguistic behaviours, this research focuses on the context-specific construction\u0000 of multiple identities in the accounts of Chinese leftover women (sheng nü). It also seeks to investigate how\u0000 they negotiate selves and handle struggles in both the storyworld and the storytelling-world by examining the trinity of form,\u0000 content and context narrated in seven semi-structured interviews. This research reveals that these unmarried Chinese women attempt\u0000 to narrate a positive positioning of self. They deconstruct the socially ascribed leftover identity but renegotiate a gendered\u0000 self as either invisible or visible women integrated within an agentic ‘excellent’ (youxiu) self, albeit somehow\u0000 disrupted within the diverse embedding of patriarchal cultural accounts.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47356439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Pasupathi, C. Wainryb, Stacia V Bourne, Cade D. Mansfield
We examined patterns of psychophysiological arousal related to remembering and narrating distressing events, as compared to arousal while engaged in positive and neutral recall tasks. Narrating distressing events entailed increased arousal relative to remembering those events. Analyses of combined data showed that aggregate arousal during narration was related to post-narration reports of distress and self-perceptions. These results support conceptions of narration as an effortful form of regulation, and suggest insights about the process through which narrative construction may promote psychological and physiological benefits.
{"title":"The psychophysiology of narrating distressing experiences","authors":"M. Pasupathi, C. Wainryb, Stacia V Bourne, Cade D. Mansfield","doi":"10.1075/ni.21102.pas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21102.pas","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We examined patterns of psychophysiological arousal related to remembering and narrating distressing events, as\u0000 compared to arousal while engaged in positive and neutral recall tasks. Narrating distressing events entailed increased arousal\u0000 relative to remembering those events. Analyses of combined data showed that aggregate arousal during narration was related to\u0000 post-narration reports of distress and self-perceptions. These results support conceptions of narration as an effortful form of\u0000 regulation, and suggest insights about the process through which narrative construction may promote psychological and\u0000 physiological benefits.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46628633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recent work in environmental philosophy has uncoupled the notion of agency from the human domain, arguing that the efficacy of nonhuman entities and processes can also be construed as a form of “agency.” In this paper, we study discursive constructions of nonhuman agency as they appear in a set of interviews revolving around fictional narratives. The participants were asked to read microfiction engaging with the nonhuman perspectives of entities such as a melting glacier or an endangered tree species. The analysis of the interviews centers on “complex” attributions of nonhuman agency – that is, attributions that involve a combination of agencies attributed to the nonhuman. We show that these complex attributions emerge more frequently in discussing the story (what we call the “storytalk”) than elsewhere in the interviews. We also explore the way in which such complex constructions of nonhuman agency challenge widespread assumptions about the natural world.
{"title":"Storytalk and complex constructions of nonhuman agency","authors":"Heidi Toivonen, Marco Malvezzi Caracciolo","doi":"10.1075/ni.21062.toi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21062.toi","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Recent work in environmental philosophy has uncoupled the notion of agency from the human domain, arguing that the efficacy of nonhuman entities and processes can also be construed as a form of “agency.” In this paper, we study discursive constructions of nonhuman agency as they appear in a set of interviews revolving around fictional narratives. The participants were asked to read microfiction engaging with the nonhuman perspectives of entities such as a melting glacier or an endangered tree species. The analysis of the interviews centers on “complex” attributions of nonhuman agency – that is, attributions that involve a combination of agencies attributed to the nonhuman. We show that these complex attributions emerge more frequently in discussing the story (what we call the “storytalk”) than elsewhere in the interviews. We also explore the way in which such complex constructions of nonhuman agency challenge widespread assumptions about the natural world.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42783360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Our study draws on the interaction between the micro-level of individual discursive choices and the macro-level of discourses. Having at our disposal narratives by immigrant students in Greece, we highlight the continuum of identities observed. For the investigation of immigrant students’ identity construction in their narratives, we mainly employ an enriched version of Bamberg’s model (1997) on narrative analysis. This model includes the micro-levels of narrative world and narrative interaction in the context of which narrators position themselves towards the discourses of the macro-level – in our data, towards the discourse of Greek national homogenization. We distinguish among three types of identities forming a continuum from legitimization to resistance with in between hybrid stages. Our analysis shows that, despite the catalytic effect of the Greek national homogenizing discourse on the construction of immigrant students’ identities, some students find ways to resist it.
{"title":"The continuum of identities in immigrant students’ narratives in Greece","authors":"Argiris Archakis","doi":"10.1075/ni.19118.arc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.19118.arc","url":null,"abstract":"Our study draws on the interaction between the micro-level of individual discursive choices and the macro-level of discourses. Having at our disposal narratives by immigrant students in Greece, we highlight the continuum of identities observed. For the investigation of immigrant students’ identity construction in their narratives, we mainly employ an enriched version of Bamberg’s model (1997) on narrative analysis. This model includes the micro-levels of narrative world and narrative interaction in the context of which narrators position themselves towards the discourses of the macro-level – in our data, towards the discourse of Greek national homogenization. We distinguish among three types of identities forming a continuum from legitimization to resistance with in between hybrid stages. Our analysis shows that, despite the catalytic effect of the Greek national homogenizing discourse on the construction of immigrant students’ identities, some students find ways to resist it.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. McCabe, Dorien Van De Mieroop","doi":"10.1075/ni.22015.mcc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22015.mcc","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41490135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margaret McAllister, Leanne Dodd, Colleen Ryan and Donna Lee Brien
This paper presents the findings from a study introducing nursing students to narrative production. The aim was to use Story Theory to inspire students to intentionally collaborate with older people and produce a mini-biography of those individuals. Narrative theory was utilised in four ways: designing an educational intervention; collecting and developing older peoples’ life stories; framing an understanding of the meaning of the stories collected; analysing the significance of the storytelling approach. The paper explains the study approach and findings and outlines the benefits as well as challenges that occurred during the process. Most particularly, the anthology produced has become a tangible reminder about a clinical practice that allowed students to meet frail aged residents and come to know them as vibrant human beings.
{"title":"Preparing students for intentional conversations with older adults","authors":"Margaret McAllister, Leanne Dodd, Colleen Ryan and Donna Lee Brien","doi":"10.1075/ni.19096.rya","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.19096.rya","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the findings from a study introducing nursing students to narrative production. The aim was to use Story Theory to inspire students to intentionally collaborate with older people and produce a mini-biography of those individuals. Narrative theory was utilised in four ways: designing an educational intervention; collecting and developing older peoples’ life stories; framing an understanding of the meaning of the stories collected; analysing the significance of the storytelling approach. The paper explains the study approach and findings and outlines the benefits as well as challenges that occurred during the process. Most particularly, the anthology produced has become a tangible reminder about a clinical practice that allowed students to meet frail aged residents and come to know them as vibrant human beings.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":"49 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Obesity and overweight are central issues in contemporary western societies, and the public debates in media are extensive. This paper investigates stories from participants in the reality TV-show Biggest Loser, and how the participants invoke temporal identity changes and childhood traumas to produce discursively accepted narratives about the causes for being obese. This study analyses personal stories about being overweight, and narratives of living a life of obesity. The findings illustrate narrative trajectories in personal stories used to explain overweight within a contemporary therapeutic discourse, and how the participants use chronology and childhood as narrative resources to explain their obesity. These narratives do not only produce preferred explanatory narrative elements, but also highlight that a number of psychologized explanatory storylines must be used in order to produce a culturally valid and discursively accepted personal obesity-narrative.
{"title":"Psychologizing childhood in the reality show Biggest Loser","authors":"Magnus Kilger","doi":"10.1075/ni.21084.kil","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21084.kil","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Obesity and overweight are central issues in contemporary western societies, and the public debates in media are\u0000 extensive. This paper investigates stories from participants in the reality TV-show Biggest Loser, and how the participants invoke\u0000 temporal identity changes and childhood traumas to produce discursively accepted narratives about the causes for being obese. This\u0000 study analyses personal stories about being overweight, and narratives of living a life of obesity. The findings illustrate\u0000 narrative trajectories in personal stories used to explain overweight within a contemporary therapeutic discourse, and how the\u0000 participants use chronology and childhood as narrative resources to explain their obesity. These narratives do not only produce\u0000 preferred explanatory narrative elements, but also highlight that a number of psychologized explanatory storylines must be used in\u0000 order to produce a culturally valid and discursively accepted personal obesity-narrative.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49431210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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