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Resilience Stories : Individualized Tales of a Metanarrative / Hamideh Mahdiani.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LettrePublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839458365
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.95 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Resilience Research: The Need for a Narrative Turn -- Life Sciences and Narratives of Resilience -- Narrative Enquiry on the Theme of Resilience in Fiction -- A Memoir-Based Reading of Human Resilience -- Resilience in Times of Economic Boom and Bust -- Concluding Remarks
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Resilience Research: The Need for a Narrative Turn -- Life Sciences and Narratives of Resilience -- Narrative Enquiry on the Theme of Resilience in Fiction -- A Memoir-Based Reading of Human Resilience -- Resilience in Times of Economic Boom and Bust -- Concluding Remarks

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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