Stories of One's Own: Nonunitary Subjectivity in Narrative Representation

1 June 1996

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Qualitative Inquiry

Vol. 2 (2) , 176-197
https://doi.org/10.1177/107780049600200203

Abstract

This article examines the interrelated concepts of self-representation in personal narratives and the production of nonunitary subjectivity as a site of interpretation in qualitative research. Through close interpretations of narrative data, I analyze how subjectivity is manifested in narratives. I conclude both that nonunitary self-representation subverts humanist and patriarchal modes of discourse and that the act of narrating a nonunitary self allows forgreater self-knowledge to begained by respondents.

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