Narrative Knows No Boundaries : Exploring the Claims and Limits of Telling

Ferrell, Ann K. (EDT)/ Sims, Martha C. (EDT)/ Phelan, James (FRW)

University Press of Mississippi（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781496862976

Full Description

Contributions by Sheila Bock, Olivia Caldeira, Claudia Chiang-Frost, Cynthia Cox, Ann K. Ferrell, Kate Parker Horigan, Stewart Jobrack, Eleanor Paynter, James Phelan, Susan Ritchie, Martha C. Sims, Jasmine Stork, Sydney K. Varajon, and Jason Whitesel

In Narrative Knows No Boundaries: Exploring the Claims and Limits of Telling, the contributors examine uses of clearly recognizable narratives, as well as narratives that are implied, assumed, or even absent because they are untellable. The essays in this collection apply key concepts from the work of acclaimed narrative scholar Amy Shuman to a broad array of narrative contexts. Since her first publications in the early 1980s, Shuman has been a much-cited force, not only within the realm of folklore studies (her home discipline), but also in a myriad of other fields, including narrative studies, critical theory, literacy studies, performance, disability studies, human rights and asylum, gender and feminist theory, and identity studies.

In the tradition of Shuman's work, and in honor of her encouragement to her students to push boundaries, the contributors to this volume illustrate varied ways of thinking about and approaching the study of narrative. The range of contexts considered here includes migrants, refugees, and farmers; storytelling in an indigenous community, on a true crime podcast, and during disaster; sexuality education with persons with disabilities and parenting a child with a disability; master narratives about fatness and asexuality in fanfiction; and Gothic literature and tattoos. The volume's organization emphasizes surprising connections between these subjects, grounded in concepts like narrative promises, entitlement, tellability, and hypervisibility.

Contents

Foreword: Amy Shuman: Scholar, Mentor, and Colleague Extraordinaire
James Phelan
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Narrative Is Everywhere
Ann K. Ferrell and Martha C. Sims

Part I: Narrative Promises and Entitlement
Chapter 1: Three Ways to Tell a Story
Stewart Jobrack
Chapter 2: Hearing and Telling Lakota People's Stories: Narrated Events and Narrative Events at Pine Ridge
Cynthia Cox
Chapter 3: Personal Stories of Not Getting Murdered: Narrating the Ambiguity of Potential Victimhood in the My Favorite Murder Podcast
Sheila Bock and Claudia Chiang-Frost
Chapter 4: Enthralling Narratives: The Theological Gothic and the Myth of Disenchantment
Susan Ritchie

Part II: Tellability
Chapter 5: Innocence, Empathy, and Tellability in Asylum Narrative Encounters
Eleanor Paynter
Chapter 6: (Un)Tellability, Sexuality, and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Olivia Caldeira
Chapter 7: Storying and Restorying the Fat Body: Disrupting the Medicalized Master Narrative with Fat-Activist Counternarratives
Jason Whitesel
Chapter 8: "I Can See Fire": Risk, Evacuation, and the Role of Social and Spatial Visibility
Sydney K. Varajon

Part III: Hypervisibility
Chapter 9: Passing as Hearing: Stories of Diagnosis, Disability, and Erasure
Kate Parker Horigan
Chapter 10: Telling as Seeing: Tattoos as Visual Narratives of Illness
Martha C. Sims
Chapter 11: "And You'd Love to Be the Big Rancher Driving the New Trucks": Narratives Implied by Marked Categories of Farmers and Farming
Ann K. Ferrell
Chapter 12: From Lack to Legibility: Representing and Responding to Asexuality in Fanfiction
Jasmine Stork

Contributors
Index