Resilience Stories
Individualized Tales of a Metanarrative
Be resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need to be resilient? Hamideh Mahdiani presents answers to this question by challenging a reductionistic understanding of resilience from single disciplinary perspectives; by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept; and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience. In so doing, through a multidisciplinary frame of reference, the book works with various examples from life writing and life sciences, and testifies to the focal role of narrative studies in resilience research.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 9 - 10 -
Preface
Seiten 11 - 12 -
Resilience Research: The Need for a Narrative Turn
Seiten 13 - 34 -
Life Sciences and Narratives of Resilience
Seiten 35 - 50 -
Narrative Enquiry on the Theme of Resilience in Fiction
Seiten 51 - 142 -
A Memoir-Based Reading of Human Resilience
Seiten 143 - 166 -
Resilience in Times of Economic Boom and Bust
Seiten 167 - 212 -
Concluding Remarks
Seiten 213 - 232
1 October 2021, 232 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5836-1
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