The narratives in this book were written as exercises in a qualitative and ethnographic research methods class. The assignment was to write a narrative from three perspectives:
1. First, from a single, unifying theme;
2. Second, to allow some of the silent minority voices to be heard, and;
3. Lastly, to deconstruct the narrative: by looking for dualities, changing the hierarchical perspective, looking at other sides of the story, shattering the plot, finding exceptions, inferring what is implicit and making it explicit, to create antenarratives, or “stories before the story”.
This was based on Dr. David Boje’s “Narrative Methods for Organizational & Communication Research” (2001, SAGE Publications).
Multiple perspectives are addressed - those of the refugees after the war, the Belgian soldiers, war orphans, Holocaust survivors. It's an experimental work, so feedback is welcomed.
1. First, from a single, unifying theme;
2. Second, to allow some of the silent minority voices to be heard, and;
3. Lastly, to deconstruct the narrative: by looking for dualities, changing the hierarchical perspective, looking at other sides of the story, shattering the plot, finding exceptions, inferring what is implicit and making it explicit, to create antenarratives, or “stories before the story”.
This was based on Dr. David Boje’s “Narrative Methods for Organizational & Communication Research” (2001, SAGE Publications).
Multiple perspectives are addressed - those of the refugees after the war, the Belgian soldiers, war orphans, Holocaust survivors. It's an experimental work, so feedback is welcomed.
