AltaMira Press
Pages: 272
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7619-9035-2 • Paperback • September 1998 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
978-1-4617-3148-1 • eBook • September 1998 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Stephen P. Banks is a professor of Communication at the University of Idaho
Anna Banks is professor of Communication and American Studies at the University of Idaho
chapter 1 Preface
chapter 2 Acknowledgments
chapter 3 Series Editor's Preface
chapter 4 1. Stephen P. Banks and Anna Banks, The Struggle Over Facts and Fictions
chapter 5 Part 1: Narratives of Representation
chapter 6 2. Robert Hopper, Flirtations: Conversational Analysis From Fiction and Life
chapter 7 3. Sandra L. Haarsager, Stories That Tell It Like It Is? Fiction Techniques and Prize-Winning Journalism
chapter 8 4. Michelle Miller, (Re)presenting Voices in Dramatically Scripted Research
chapter 9 5. Eugene Valentine and Kristin Bervig Valentine, Dead or Alive, You're Going to Teixido: The Teller and the Tale
chapter 10 Part 2: Narratives of Understanding
chapter 11 6. Robert L. Krizek, Lessons: What the Hell Are We Teaching the Next Generation Anyway?;
chapter 12 7. Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger, Portrait of an Anorexic Life
chapter 13 8. Leigh Berger, Silent Movies: Scenes from a Life
chapter 14 9. Sandra Coyle, Dancing with the Chameleon
chapter 15 Part 3: Narratives of Suspicion
chapter 16 10. Anna Banks, Some People Would Say I Tell Lies
chapter 17 11. Shawn Michelle Smith, On the Pleasures of Ruined Pictures
chapter 18 12. Eric M. Eisenberg, From Anxiety to Possibility: Poems 1987-1997
chapter 19 Part 4: Narratives of Vulnerability
chapter 20 13. Simon Gottschalk, Postmodern Sensibilities and Ethnographic Possibilities
chapter 21 14. Stephen Linstead, Dishcloth of Minerva: Absence, Presence, and Metatheory in the Everyday Practice of Research
chapter 22 15. Stephen P. Banks, The Tioga Tapes
chapter 23 Index
What can fiction add to our repertoire as communication teachers and researchers? Anna Banks' and Stephan Banks' Fiction and Social Research: By Ice or Fire is filled with answers...Firmly grounded in the new theories of ethnographic research writing discussed and illustrated in anthropology journals during the last ten years, Banks and Banks have produced a collection of essays that extend the communication scholars' research reporting options. Both beginning and more experienced investigators will find insightful narrative examples tucked away in nearly every chapter....The authors demonstrate practices often minimally reported in communcation journals.
— Reta A. Gilbert, Eastern Washington University; Review of Communication
The book's value as a resource for researchers and other writers is also magnified by the editors' logical, clearly explained organization of their material and by their erudite and sophisticated theoretical introduction. This is an important book on a topic whose significance is sure to keep growing in the years ahead.
— Paul Messaris, Univ of Pennsylvania; Communication Theory