Strategic Narrative: New Perspectives on the Power of Personal and Cultural Stories
Edited and Introduced by Wendy Patterson. Lanham, MD: Lexingt on Books
£53.00/EUR90.92 Cloth 0-7391-0370-9 June 2002 248pp


Available to buy online : www.lexingtonbooks.com

List of Contributors

Roger Bromley, Joseph E. Davis, Nigel Edley, Arthur W. Frank, Mark Freeman, Barbara Juen, Catherine Kohler Riessman, John McLeod, Liz Morrish, Wendy Patterson, Couze Venn

The contributors to this exciting new collection, edited by Wendy Patterson,
address the real and far-reac hing affects of narrative in everyday life.
Positing the power and intentionality of narrative--in short its strategic
uses--the essays reveal how we use our ways of telling to reclaim, evaluate,
and draw meaning from our experiences in an increasingly complex world. The
contributors take up themes of narrative as resistance, the ethical
dimension of narrative, the importance of narrative in the imaginary social
worlds of children, the role of narrative in the constructio n of
masculinity, the uses of narrative in therapy, and the significance of
imaginary stories in personal narratives of traumatic experience. Strategic
Narrative brings together diverse perspectives from a range of disciplines
and takes the reader into compelling discussions of this often simplified
and confoundingly theorized form of discourse.