Words and Wounds - Narratives of Exile

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Preface


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Narrative Complexity of History


• Chapter 2: The Shape of Narrative Identity in Exile


• Chapter 3: Personal Narratives and the Creation of a Political Voice


• Chapter 4: The Rhetoric of Narrative Work


• Chapter 5: Ethical and Interpretive Stances in Narrative Work


• Chapter 6: Reflections


• Epilogue

About the author

Sean Akerman is a poet, novelist, and writer of non-fiction. He earned his PhD in psychology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and he has held faculty appointments at Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Bennington College. His other books include: the novel, Outposts (Threekookaburras); the novella, Krakow (Harvard Square Editions); and the poetry collection, The Magnitudes (Main Street Rag Publications). He lives in the North Woods near Lake Superior's south shore, where he is a research associate at the Center for Rural Communities at Northland College.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Akerman, Sean (Research Affiliate Akerman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2019
• EAN: 9780190851712
• ISBN: 978-0-19-085171-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Population & demography, Population and Demography