1996
DOI: 10.1177/107780049600200203
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Stories of One's Own: Nonunitary Subjectivity in Narrative Representation

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 selfrepresentation subverts humanist and patriarchal modes of discourse and that the act of narrating a nonunitary self allows forgreater self-knowledge to begained by respondents.In he… Show more

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“…According to Wertsch (1991, p. 13), it is important to ask why a particular voice 'occupies centre stage' on certain occasions, when there could also be many other potential ways of representing reality. Bloom (1996) provides some answers to this question in her article dealing with unitary and non-unitary subjectivity by arguing that the traditional narrative genre produces a masculine, unitary self: a self as a hero. Although my interest in this inquiry is not in the power of different voices, I would like to point out that different practices often sound more univocal than they actually are, because some voices are simply more powerful than others and therefore more easily heard.…”
Section: The Touch Of the Storiesmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…According to Wertsch (1991, p. 13), it is important to ask why a particular voice 'occupies centre stage' on certain occasions, when there could also be many other potential ways of representing reality. Bloom (1996) provides some answers to this question in her article dealing with unitary and non-unitary subjectivity by arguing that the traditional narrative genre produces a masculine, unitary self: a self as a hero. Although my interest in this inquiry is not in the power of different voices, I would like to point out that different practices often sound more univocal than they actually are, because some voices are simply more powerful than others and therefore more easily heard.…”
Section: The Touch Of the Storiesmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…The moral in practice invites students to adopt specific cultural narratives, although on the other hand, each student's own personal story makes this process unique. The narrative teacher identity constructed as a result of this process is often a non-unitary subjectivity, fragmented and contradictory, a 'doing' rather than a 'being' (Bloom, 1996).…”
Section: The Touch Of the Storiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Feminists such as Bloom (1998aBloom ( , 1998b, Weedon (1997) and Baxter (2003) posit that women, as agents, respond to contradiction and conflict by creating a fragmented subjectivity. Baxter further describes subjectivity as 'nonunitary or active and continually in the process of production within historical, social, and cultural boundaries ' (2003: 4).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the concept of "conveying of identity" lies an understanding of identities as something to do, rather than an expression of who we are (Arendt, 1958(Arendt, /1977. Bloom (1996) showed that through self-reflection upon events in historical succession, people "make" their identities. From a social constructive perspective, ideas of the existence of a true, real "reality" are challenged.…”
Section: A Narrative Study-a Social Constructive Perspectivementioning
confidence: 99%