The Dialogics of Narrative Identity
- 1 January 1998
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
The language of the storied self is spoken across an eclectic array of disciplines; cognitive and social psychologists, literary critics, poststructural and postmodern social theorists among others have followed the interpretive turn in recent decades to postulate the textual self, the discursive self, the narrative and the mythical self. In the wake of hermeneutic and structuralist projects of the 1960s and 1970s, which bordered, for some, on the eclipse of a meaningful discourse on subjectivity and agency, a diverse collection of theoretical and substantive studies on the textual as site of agency and meaning-making is now available. What may be loosely termed the paradigm of narrative identity is in particular moving from the margins of ...Keywords
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