It's About Time

Narrative and the Divided Self

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2387375
AutoresA P Bochner (0000-0003-1284-9186, University of South Florida)
Ano1997
Volume3
Fascículo4
Páginas418-438
Data de publicação1997-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/107780049700300404
OpenAlexW2112708284
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas118
Referências citadas26

When I learned that my father had died while I was attending a national communication conference, two worlds within me-the academic and the personal-collided, and I was forced to confront the large gulf that divided them. In this article, I weave the story of that experience into the wider fabric of disconnections that promotes isolation and inhibits risk taking and change within universities and academic disciplines. In the process, I question whether the structures of power constitutive of academic socialization are not as difficult to resist as those of one's family, and the consequences as constraining. I use personal narrative to show how storytelling works to build a continuous life of experience, linking the past to the future from the standpoint of the present; to proble matize the process of assigning meanings to memories via language; to draw attention to the significance of institutional depression m universities; and to blur the line between theory and story

Isolation · Socialization · Empathy and Medical Education · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Rhetoric and Communication Studies