Representation and the text: re-framing the narrative voice

"This book focuses on representations of contested realities in qualitative research. The authors examine two separate, but interrelated, issues: criticisms of how researchers use "voice", and suggestions about how to develop experimental voices that expand the range of narrative strategies." "Changing relationships between researchers and respondents dictate alterations in textual representations - from the "view from nowhere" to the view from a particular location, and from the omniscient voice to the polyvocality of communities of individuals. Examples of new representations and textual experiments provide models for how some authors have struggled with voice in their texts, and in so doing, broaden who they and we mean by "us"."--Jacket.

Reporting qualitative research as practice / Donald E. Polkinghorne -- Lost in translation: time and voice in qualitative research / William G. Tierney -- Self, subject, audience, text: living at the edge, writing in the margins / Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Fiction formulas: critical constructivism and the representation of reality / Joe Kincheloe -- Regimes of reason and the male narrative voice / William F. Pinar -- Evocative autoethnography: writing emotionally about our lives / Carolyn Ellis -- The ethnographer as postmodern flâneur: critical reflexivity and posthybridity as narrative engagement / Peter McLaren -- Performance texts / Norman K. Denzin -- Performing between the posts: authority, posture and contemporary feminist scholarship / Erica McWilliam -- Creating a multilayered text: women, AIDS, and angels / Patti Lather -- Pico College / Greg Tanaka -- Textual gymnastics, ethics, and angst / Thomas A. Schwandt.