Constructing and Reconstructing Narrative Identity

Authors

  • Gabriele Lucius-Hoene Universität Freiburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-1.2.1087

Keywords:

autobiographical research interview, narrative identity, narrative analysis, discourse analysis, chronic illness and disability, coping

Abstract

The research work done by the author investigates a phenomenological field—the subjective experience of chronic illness and disability—by means of a specific research instrument, the autobiographical narrative interview. It focuses on the concept of narrative identity and its empirical substrate in the scientifically generated texts. Narrative identity is regarded as a situated, pragmatic, autoepistemic and interactive activity drawing on culturally transmitted narrative conventions which is performed within the research context. We have been working with a systematic analytic approach which covers interactive and contextual aspects of the interview situation as well as rhetoric and positioning strategies in the act of telling. Other research questions concern the concept of "narrative coping" and the comparison of partner's narratives on problems of illness and disability, especially on scrutinizing aspects of identity and alterity (self and other) in the texts. This work can be understood as combining aspects of the research domains of narratology, identity and coping on the background of a qualitative methodology. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0002189

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Author Biography

Gabriele Lucius-Hoene, Universität Freiburg

PD Dr. Gabriele LUCIUS-HOENE is a physician and psychologist and works at the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology, Institute of Psychology, at Freiburg University. Main themes: Rehabilitation of brain-damaged patients, autobiographical narratives in case of illness and handicap (illness narratives).

Published

2000-06-30

How to Cite

Lucius-Hoene, G. (2000). Constructing and Reconstructing Narrative Identity. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-1.2.1087