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Focuses on authorial representations of contested reality in qualitative research.
Focuses on authorial representations of contested reality in qualitative research.This book focuses on representations of contested realities in qualitative research. The authors examine two separate, but interrelated, issues: criticisms of how researchers use "voice," and suggestions about how to develop experimental voices that expand the range of narrative strategies.
Changing relationships between researchers and respondents dictate alterations in textual representations—from the "view from nowhere" to the view from a particular location, and from the omniscient voice to the polyvocality of communities of individuals. Examples of new representations and textual experiments provide models for how some authors have struggled with voice in their texts, and in so doing, broaden who they and we mean by "us."
"The mixture of theory, voice, ideology, and passion makes this a most enjoyable and fulfilling read. This book will be at the forefront of thought and debate about the use of narrative voice, public and private selves, and the obvious place these have in author's research endeavors." — Ken Kempner, Educational Leadership, University of Oregon
Introduction: Explorations and Discoveries
William G. Tierney and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Part I. Mapping the Conceptual Terrain
1. Reporting Qualitative Research as Practice
Donald E. Polkinghorne
2. Lost in Translation: Time and Voice in Qualitative Research
William G. Tierney
3. Self, Subject, Audience, Text: Living at the Edge, Writing in the Margins
Yvonna S. Lincoln
4. Fiction Formulas: Critical Constructivism and the Representation of Reality
Joe Kincheloe
5. Regimes of Reason and the Male Narrative Voice
William F. Pinar
6. Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Emotionally about Our Lives
Carolyn Ellis
Part II. Experiments in Voice, Frame, Time, and Text
7. The Ethnographer as Postmodern Flâneur : Critical Reflexivity and Posthybridity as Narrative Engagement
Peter McLaren
8. Performance Texts
Norman K. Denzin
9. Performing between the Posts: Authority, Posture and Contemporary Feminist Scholarship
Erica McWilliam
10. Creating a Multilayered Text: Women, AIDS, and Angels
Patti Lather
11. Pico College
Greg Tanaka
12. Textual Gymnastics, Ethics, and Angst
Thomas A. Schwandt
Contributors
Index