TY - CHAP
T1 - This do in remembrance of me
T2 - Narrative uncertainty and the frothing of contentious identity
AU - Rolling, James Haywood
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2010 selection and editorial material, Ann-Marie Bathmaker and Penelope Harnett; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - This chapter explores the critical and narrative reinterpretation of life story that foments an overflow of incomplete, alternative, and rogue personal and public identities. The de/re/constructive agitation of certainty and the familiar through a practice that periodically reinterprets personal narrative has the potential for stirring up even those certitudes longest congealed, and the power to contest prevailing orthodoxies of social rectitude, politics, and research. Theoretical suppositions are viewed through a filigree of remembrances surrounding a photograph of my confirmation as a member of an Episcopal church in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 12. And what I am supposing is that the rewriting of personal narrative is an un-naming ritual, a contentious act that resupposes the power of storylines and social expect ations to define one’s life.
AB - This chapter explores the critical and narrative reinterpretation of life story that foments an overflow of incomplete, alternative, and rogue personal and public identities. The de/re/constructive agitation of certainty and the familiar through a practice that periodically reinterprets personal narrative has the potential for stirring up even those certitudes longest congealed, and the power to contest prevailing orthodoxies of social rectitude, politics, and research. Theoretical suppositions are viewed through a filigree of remembrances surrounding a photograph of my confirmation as a member of an Episcopal church in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 12. And what I am supposing is that the rewriting of personal narrative is an un-naming ritual, a contentious act that resupposes the power of storylines and social expect ations to define one’s life.
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U2 - 10.4324/9780203858370-15
DO - 10.4324/9780203858370-15
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85121880920
SN - 9780415496421
SP - 144
EP - 158
BT - Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -