In Search of Narrative Mastery: Postmodernism and the People without History

Klein, Kerwin Lee

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“…In these cultures where change is normative, more freedom but also more pressure is put on individuals and groups to develop their own futures (see Bauman 1991 ). Somewhat mirroring this broad (and perhaps reductionist, Lee Klein 1995 ) attempt to analyze cultures, the Chicago school of sociology started during the 1930s to explore the link between environmental conditions and behavior, thereby focusing on socialization, identity formation, and navigation strategies in fast changing and growing cities (Chaskin 2010 ). When it comes to understanding crime and delinquent behavior , social disorganization theory was developed from studies on crime rates in different areas in relation to population stability and change, migration in relation to cities' spatial organization (Shaw and McKay 1942 ), and also specifi cally on mapping of gangs .…”

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Gang Transitions and Transformations in an International Context

Maxson¹,

Esbensen²

2016

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Gang Transitions and Transformations in an International Context

Maxson¹,

Esbensen²

2016

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“…Phillips notes that 'little narratives' are histories, marked by the gradual erosion of grand narratives of the social, that locate their significance in real life as it is lived (Phillips 1994). Generally speaking, the criticism of grand narratives has gone hand-in-hand with a project intent upon validating the little histories told by 'others' or by the 'subaltern' (Klein 1995). Scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that the study of individual lives Ϫ i.e., 'little narratives' Ϫ over time is indispensable for meaningful social inquiry (Cremin 1988;Gardner 1994).…”

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The personal is political in Kinuta o utsu onna [The cloth fuller]: A ‘little narrative' by zainichi Korean writer Lee Hoe Sung

Foxworth¹

2010

Contemporary Japan

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In 1971 Japan-based second-generation Korean writer Lee HoeSung became the first 'foreigner' in Japan to win the esteemed Akutagawa Prize for Belles Lettres for his semi-autobiographical novel Kinuta o utsu onna [The cloth fuller]. It recounts the life and death of a young Korean woman, Chang Suri, during the 1940s, as remembered by her son. Whilst fascism, democracy, and Korean nationalism constitute the meta-narratives that informed the lives of Lee's generation in (post)colonial Japan between the 1940s and 1960s, the writer underscores the importance of the little narrative for exploring identity and a sense of belonging. Eschewing hyper-political approaches that attempt to explain the whole movement of history and social life or nationhood as a 'grand narrative', Lee's poignant rendition of the life and death of a young woman is rather a 'little narrative' of personal suffering and redemption. Lee's story functions as a sinse t'aryong (i.e., a traditional Korean form of oral lamentation and narrative storytelling), which allows him to point to 'Korean-ness' as an anchor. This anchor secures the listener to a solid 'home' or cultural place of reference that can support them in their search for a sense of identity and belonging in the context of colonialist oppression and dislocation.

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“…In particular, they are recalled by a wider variety of triggers than memories that have been integrated into coherent schema 60 68. The intrusion of traumatic memories into working memory may result in an automatic process of suppression or distraction, which consumes working memory resources71 72 and heightens the accessibility of stressful memories through the negative feedback processes involved in repression 73. Therapeutic writing may help an individual to structure disorganised stressful experiences, reducing their recall and thereby making traumatic memories less likely to compete for limited working memory resources.…”

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Finding a voice: revisiting the history of therapeutic writing

Peterkin

Prettyman

2009

Med Humanities

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We review the history of therapeutic writing, focusing on the role of narrative competence and the use of writing therapy for stress, trauma and coping with chronic illness. After providing a historical overview of the evidence for writing's positive effects on health and the hypothesised mechanisms underlying this effect, we ask whether narrative competence can explain and improve writing's benefit. Narrative competence is defined across two dimensions: (1) Emplotment, or the ability to construct and comprehend goal-oriented connections among temporally situated events; and (2) Meaning, or the ability to understand and communicate contextual interpretations of ambiguous story structures. We suggest that the ability to construct well-organised and meaningful narratives is an important skill for successfully coping with life stressors and trauma, enabling individuals to create coherent stories from fractured memories and to facilitate cognitive processing of traumatic events. Given the positive effect of narrative competence on psycho-physical health, there is a need to broaden medical use of narrative competence therapies beyond the current interventions aimed at fostering empathy among healthcare providers, to include therapies for the patients themselves. Toward this end, we briefly explore one clinical model currently offered by Dr Allan Peterkin and colleagues at Mount Sinai Hospital providing group Narrative Competence Psychotherapy (NCP) for individuals living with HIV.

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In Search of Narrative Mastery: Postmodernism and the People without History

Cited by 44 publications

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Gang Transitions and Transformations in an International Context

Gang Transitions and Transformations in an International Context

The personal is political in Kinuta o utsu onna [The cloth fuller]: A ‘little narrative' by zainichi Korean writer Lee Hoe Sung

Finding a voice: revisiting the history of therapeutic writing

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