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Sunday Morning. Reconsidering SMALL STORIES what have we learned thus far? How important IS the context of telling? Exercise 3 10-year-olds on “ why girls are disgusting ” Exercise 4 13-year-olds on “ why it is okay to tease girls” Sum Up. Davie Hogan story
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Sunday Morning • Reconsidering SMALL STORIES • what have we learned thus far? • How important IS the context of telling? • Exercise 3 • 10-year-olds on “why girls are disgusting” • Exercise 4 • 13-year-olds on “why it is okay to tease girls” • Sum Up
Davie Hogan story • 4 boys sitting around the campfire • The “Davie Hogan Story” • What is the story about? a fat boy, barforama, revenge, turning the tables on adults, ‘coming of age’ (in America) • Two versions Two different perspectives: (i) more detached (ii) more involved • The Interactive Situation: • Story negotiation beforehand • What is the story about? • Story negotiation after the story • What did it mean? • Stories as LOCAL sense-making mechanisms • Different versions -- Different meanings • Micro-Analysis (i) story (ii) turn-by-turn actions • STORY as part of a situated, ongoing interaction <context>
Betty’s losing-her-dress-story • Two versions/perspectives (same Betty?) • Same speaker (Betty as speaker/narrator) • Same events (buying a dress, looking great, losing the dress) • Betty as ‘answering different questions’ • Betty as ‘displaying different selves’ • Betty as ‘performing different identities’ • MICRO-analysis of the language used to construct ‘detachment’ versus ‘involvement’ (= the construction of stance or valuation <= personal perspective>) • ‘Perspectives/Stances’ on life = ‘identities’ • Identities as ‘interactively occasioned/performed
Implications of this View ofSelf & Identity • Identity as iterative, everyday performance • Drawing on Judith Butler’s work (1990) • Identity constituted in performance • Fashioned and revised in everyday interactions • Re-enacted and re-experienced continuously to achieve personal currency • Conversational narratives <small stories> as the sites for iterative identity projects • ANTI-ESSENTIALISM + ANTI-DETERMINISM
Characteristics of Small Stories • Short • Conversationally Embedded + Negotiated • before • during • after • Fine tuned positioning strategies • fine-tuned vis-à-vis the audience • fine-tuned vis-à-vis dominant + counter narratives • multiple moral stances (testing out and experimenting with identity projections) • Low in tellability, linearity, temporality + causality
Functions of Small Stories • Practice in doing identity work • Continuous editing of experience • Retelling of experience • Re-tuning these tellings according to • different audiences • different master-narratives • different (developing) senses of ‘who-I-am’ • Resulting in some sense of coherence • though one that is constantly reworked
SUM UP • Narrative Methodology • Life Stories • Life-Event Stories • Small <everyday> Stories • Narratives in <the everyday> Culture • Narratives in Cultural Psychology • Narratives in Cross-Cultural Psychology • Cultural + Cross-Cultural Psychology • Places for publishing: • Cultural Psychology + Narrative Inquiry (Clark Univ) • http://www.clarku.edu/~mbamberg (graduate studies)
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