Authorizing the Memoir Form

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. The Editors xiii
5. Narrative Frames
6. Making Sense of Disease, Disability, and Trauma 3
7. Interdisciplinarity and Postdisciplinarity in Health Research in Canada 11
8. Public Framing of Personal Narratives
9. Introduction 25
10. Authorizing the Memoir Form 33
11. Telling Trauma 45
12. Between Two Deaths 53
13. Paper Thin 61
14. The Incomprehensible Density of Being 71
15. Challenging Subjects 79
16. The Tectonics of Trauma 89
17. The Silvering Screen 97
18. Representing the Subject
19. Introduction 107
20. Writing about Illness 113
21. Constructing a “Schizophrenic” Identity 129
22. Space, Temporality, and Subjectivity in a Narrative of Psychotic Experience 139
23. Re-sounding Images 149
24. (Story-)Telling It like It Is 159
25. Disrupting the Academic Self 171
26. Women Surviving Hemorrhagic Stroke 181
27. Men, Sport, and Spinal Cord Injury 191
28. The Larger Picture
29. Introduction 203
30. Disability Income 209
31. Narratives of Trauma and Aboriginal Post-secondary Students 217
32. Social Trauma and Serial Autobiography 227
33. Reports from the Psych Wars 237
34. Agoraphobia, Social Order, and Psychiatric Narrative 247
35. “They Say the Disease Is Responsible” 255
36. Temporal Assumptions 265
37. Ableist Limits on Self-narration 275
38. An Example of Cross-disciplinary Analysis
39. Margaret Edson’s Play Wit 285
40. Un-fitting Stories, Un-disciplined Research 297
41. References 307
42. Notes on Contributors 337
43. Index 349