Representation and the Text
Author | : William G. Tierney |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0791434710 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780791434710 |
Rating | : 4/5 (710 Downloads) |
Download or read book Representation and the Text written by William G. Tierney and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."