Representation and the Text: Re-Framing the Narrative Voice

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William G. Tierney, Yvonna S. Lincoln
SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1997 - Literary Criticism - 321 pages
Focuses on authorial representations of contested reality in qualitative research.This book focuses on representations of contested realities in qualitative research. The authors examine two separate, but interrelated, issues: criticisms of how researchers use "voice," and suggestions about how to develop experimental voices that expand the range of narrative strategies.

Changing relationships between researchers and respondents dictate alterations in textual representations--from the "view from nowhere" to the view from a particular location, and from the omniscient voice to the polyvocality of communities of individuals. Examples of new representations and textual experiments provide models for how some authors have struggled with voice in their texts, and in so doing, broaden who they and we mean by "us."

 

Contents

Reporting Qualitative Research as Practice
3
Time and Voice in Qualitative Research
23
Critical Constructivism
57
Regimes of Reason and the Male Narrative Voice
81
Performance Texts
179
Authority Posture
219
Women AIDS and Angels
233
Pico College
259
Textual Gymnastics Ethics and Angst
305
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William G. Tierney is Professor and Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California.

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor and Head of the Educational Administration Department at Texas A&M University.

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