Storylines : craftartists' narratives of identity af Elliot George Mishler (1924-) (Bog)

Forfatter: Elliot George Mishler (1924-)
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 0
Forlag: Harvard University Press
Udgivelsesår: 1999
What do we mean when we refer to our "identity," and how do we represent it in the stories we tell about our lives? Is "identity" a sustained private core, or does it change as circumstances and relationships shift? In this thoughtful and learned book, a recognized master of research interviewing explores these questions through analyses of in-depth interviews with five craftartists, who reflect on their lives and their efforts to sustain their form of work as committed artists in a world of mass production and standardization. The artists describe their families of origin and the families they have created, and the conscious decisions, chance events, and life experiences that entered into the ways they achieved their adult artistic identities. Exploring these continuities, discontinuities, and unresolvable tensions in an analysis that brings new sophistication to a much-used term, Elliot Mishler suggests that "identity" is always dialogic and relational, a complex of partial subidentities rather than a unitary monad. More a verb than a noun, it reflects an individual's modes of adaptation, appropriation, and resistance to sociocultural plots and roles. With its critical review of narrative research methods, model of analysis for the systematic study of life stories and identity, and vision of how narrative studies may contribute to theory and research in the social sciences, Storylines is an eloquent and important book for narrative psychology and lifespan development.
Titel: Storylines : craftartists' narratives of identity
Udgave: 1. udgave

Sammendrag: Bogen præsenterer en narrativ analyse af fem håndværkskunstneres livshistorier for at udforske, hvordan identitet skabes og forhandles i fortællinger. Gennem kvalitative forskningsinterviews viser Elliot G. Mishler, at identitet er dialogisk og relationel snarere end en fast, privat kerne. Craftartists’ fortællinger om familie, uddannelse, karrierevalg og kunstnerisk arbejde bruges til at belyse spændinger mellem håndlavet kunst og masseproduktion samt mellem personlige værdier, økonomi og samfundets forventninger. Værket bidrager til teori og metode inden for narrativ psykologi, sociologi, etnografi og kvalitativ forskning og er relevant for studerende og forskere, der arbejder med livshistorier, interviewmetodik og studier af kunstneriske praksisser og kreative erhverv.
Type: Hardcover