Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300054552)

In this provocative book, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists analyze interviews with a range of subjects (a minister, Holocaust survivors, a rape victim, and others) to present a new way of thinking about autobiographical narratives. They argue that these narratives play a significant role in the formation of identity, that the way they are told is shaped by prevalent cultural norms, and that the stories may be liberated from the psychic and social obstacles constraining them if the narrators gain critical insight into their own accounts.

Author: George C. Rosenwald
ISBN-10: 0300054556
ISBN-13: 9780300054552
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1992
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.59h x 6.41w x 1.19d