Storytelling in Daily Life : Performing Narrative
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Title
Storytelling in Daily Life : Performing Narrative
Description
Performance studies theory text. Maine Franco American case studies in a discussion of the methods and forms of storytelling. Written by two University of Maine professors. From Temple University Press: "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."
Creator
Langellier, Kristin
Peterson, Eric E.
Source
Date
2004
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
Coverage
20th century - 21st century; Maine
Contribution Form
Online Submission
No
Zotero
ISBN
9781592132133
Num Pages
280
Place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Publisher
Temple University Press