“Broken Dialogues,” or Finding Bakhtin in Auto|Biography Studies

Karpinski, Eva C.

doi:10.1080/08989575.2015.1088714

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“…The illness narrative literature is increasingly attending to narrative gaps or ‘disturbances’ in an effort to do just this (see Charmaz, 2002; Karpinski, 2015; Stone & Kokanović, 2016). For example, in his writing on dementia, Karpinski (2015: 207) argues that rather than considering dementia narratives to be incoherent, it would be more productive to consider them as ‘anecdotal small stories governed by their own internal logic’ that ask us ‘to learn to listen differently in a dialogic manner, which requires that we step out of the dominant cognitive frame’. Elsewhere, narrative and embodiment are being considered together in analyses of illness narratives and narrative performativity (see Lillrank, 2002; Stone & Kokanović, 2016).…”

Section: Broken Narratives and Resistancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Listening to what cannot be said: Broken narratives and the lived body

Kokanović

Stone

2017

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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The core of this special issue of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education emerged from the Broken Narratives and the Lived Body conference held in 2016. The ‘Broken Narrative’ essays included in this issue open up a critical space for understanding and theorising illness narratives that defy a conventional cognitive ordering of the self as a bounded spatial and temporal entity. Here, we discuss how narratives might be ‘broken’ by discourse, trauma, ‘ill’ lived bodies and experiences that exceed linguistic representation. We trouble distinctions between coherent and incoherent narratives, attending to what gaps, silences and ‘nonsenses’ can convey about embodied illness experiences. Ultimately, we suggest that ‘breaks’ are in fact a continuation of embodied narration. This is shown in the ‘Art and Trauma’ forum of essays, which reveal how narrative silences can ‘infect’ other embodied subjects and be transformed, achieving musical or visual representation that allow us to apprehend the ‘constitutive outside’ of narratives of illness or trauma.

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Section: Broken Narratives and Resistancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other conditions, the lived body interrupts when neurones no longer communicate the way they used to (e.g. in dementia, see Karpinski, 2015); neurones always had idiosyncratic or 'neurodiverse' communications (e.g. in autism); the words that once made sense no longer do (e.g.…”

Section: Broken Narratives and The Lived Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%