Redefining our Understanding of Narrative

Bibliographic Data

ID12393389
AuthorsAmardo Rodríguez (Syracuse University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-01-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Report (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1052-0147 • E-ISSN: 2160-3715
PublisherNova Southeastern University (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.46743/2160-3715/2002.1988
OpenAlexW808449779
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This paper is born out of my concern about the increasing use of narrative as merely a different methodology. I argue that narrative as methodology ultimately depoliticizes the potentiality of narratives. Narrative simply becomes one of the many methods that belong to qualitative inquiry. We generally discuss narrative as story-telling. We also focus on doing good narrative analysis. In this paper I recast in narrative in language of cosmology so as to highlight the libratory potentiality that narrative affords persons who strive for a new and different world. I discuss narrative in terms of being in the world. I also unpack the implications that attend to this emergent way of understanding narrative for qualitative inquiry. The paper ends with a discussion of how our narrativeness complements a world that is increasingly seen as complex and quantum

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrative criticism · Narrative history · Narrative inquiry · Narrative network · Narrative psychology · Narrative structure · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Digital Storytelling and Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Philosophy