Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate

Writing the Wrongs of Welfare

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7103076
AutoresLisa D Brush (autor correspondente), Lorraine D Higgins
Ano2006
Volume57
Fascículo4
Páginas694-729
Data de publicação2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCollege Composition and Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-096X • E-ISSN: 1939-9006
EditoraNational Council of Teachers of English (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.58680/ccc20065064
OpenAlexW167562890
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas8

Personal narrative embeds the expertise of subordinated groups in stories that seldom translate into public debate. The authors describe a community writing project in which welfare recipients used personal narratives to enter into the public record their tacit and frequently discounted knowledge. The research illustrates the difficulties and possibilities “rhetorical, emotional, and material” of constructing narratives that “cross publics

Economics · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Pedagogy · Political science · Public economics · Public welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology