A Small Story Concerning a Big Mistake: Returning Voice to a Breast Cancer Narrative

Narrative Works ◽

10.7202/1076915ar ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 21-38

Author(s):

Elaine Martin

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Narrative Research ◽

University Women ◽

Major Significance ◽

Small Story

This article arose from an error. In 2000, I began recording the story of myself and nine other university women with later stage breast cancer. Following the fifth death, I took on the task to make what I could of the archive. An introduction to Cathy Riessman and narrative research began to direct and support this work. Of major significance was the performative aspects of our storytelling, especially our vocality. Text and reason, not voice and utterance, is privileged in the academy, but still I committed to honouring vocality in telling our story. My initial attempts failed, but this paper begins the redress.

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Big stories co-constructed

Narrative Inquiry ◽

10.1075/ni.20.2.03hel ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 274-295 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Sarah Helsig

Keyword(s):

Narrative Research ◽

The Self ◽

Self Reflection ◽

Analytical Point ◽

Research Interviews ◽

Small Story ◽

Methodological Procedures ◽

Point Of Departure

Tying up to previous narrative work that is concerned with the interrelations between big story and small story research (Bamberg, 2006; Freeman, 2006; Georgakopoulou, 2006b), this article aims to demonstrate that big story research can profit from methodological procedures that understand narrative research interviews as interactional encounters and positions assigned to the narrator during this encounter as impinging on the biographic accounts they deliver. For that purpose, I take the interaction between the interviewer and the interviewee — both before and during the actual interview — as an analytical point of departure and argue that the self-constructions that narrators undertake when engaging in (auto)biographic self-reflection have to and can only be understood against the background of this embedding interaction.

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Using Narrative Research to Understand the Quality of Life of Older Women With Breast Cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum ◽

10.1188/04.onf.1153-1159 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 31 (6) ◽

pp. 1153-1159 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Janine A. Overcash

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Women ◽

Narrative Research

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Interpretation in Practice

10.1093/oso/9780199332182.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Brian Schiff

Keyword(s):

Narrative Research ◽

Male Identity ◽

Narrative Psychology ◽

Identity Constructions ◽

Essential Questions ◽

Small Story ◽

Small Stories

“Interpretation in Practice,” Chapter 8 of A New Narrative for Psychology, compares analytic strategies in two studies central to the canon of narrative psychology: Amia Lieblich’s “Looking at Change: Natasha 21” and Michael Bamberg’s “Form and Functions of ‘Slut Bashing’ in Male Identity Constructions in 15-year-olds.” The two studies provide an excellent contrast between competing approaches to narrative research—big story and small story research. Lieblich’s analysis of Natasha’s transition to life in Israel is holistic, concentrating mostly on the person, while Bamberg’s analysis of a group of 15-year-old boys discussing a girl is microanalytic, emphasizing the linguistic and conversational properties that sculpt identity. The chapter enters into the debate on big and small stories, arguing that despite their differences in approach, they employ the same hermeneutic strategies for understanding narratives and would benefit from a more sustained discussion and consideration of the essential questions of who, where, and when.

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Forms of identities and levels of positioning

Narrative Inquiry ◽

10.1075/ni.25.2.08ber ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 340-360 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Stefan Bernhard

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Identity Theory ◽

Narrative Research ◽

Target Concept ◽

Small Story ◽

Conceptual Shift ◽

Rich Data

What happens in narrative-biographical interviews? The present article answers this question by drawing on biographical (big story) and practice-based (small story) approaches. It starts from a practice theoretical reading of Harrison C. White’s identity theory and conceptualizes narrative-biographical interviews as arenas of storytelling practices that engage in identities of different forms and levels of positioning. Interviewees devise small identities, embed them in contexts and nest those identities-in-context with one another in the course of interactions with the interviewer. Meanwhile, the approach reflects autobiographic big storytelling as highly scripted and contextualized endeavors. It moves beyond the big story script by suggesting “style” as target concept for autobiographical analysis. This conceptual shift goes hand in hand with a move away from single-sited interviewing to multi-sited narrative research. The argument is exemplified using rich data on a nascent self-employed artist.

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Narrative Research: Women's Experiences Following Treatment for Early Stage Breast Cancer in 21st-Century Britain

10.4135/978144627305013509936 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Diane Trusson

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

21St Century ◽

Early Stage ◽

Narrative Research ◽

Early Stage Breast Cancer ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences

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Virus-Like Particles in a Human Breast Cancer: Structural Similarity to Previously Reported Particles

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100072332 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 378-379

Author(s):

G. Kasnic ◽

S. E. Stewart ◽

C. Urbanski

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Biological Activity ◽

Human Breast Cancer ◽

Osteogenic Sarcoma ◽

Human Tumor ◽

Structural Similarity ◽

Cell Tumor ◽

Human Breast ◽

Human Tumor Cell ◽

Type Particle

We have reported the maturation of an intracisternal A-type particle in murine plasma cell tumor cultures and three human tumor cell cultures (rhabdomyosarcoma, lung adenocarcinoma, and osteogenic sarcoma) after IUDR-DMSO activation. In all of these studies the A-type particle seems to develop into a form with an electron dense nucleoid, presumably mature, which is also intracisternal. A similar intracisternal A-type particle has been described in leukemic guinea pigs. Although no biological activity has yet been demonstrated for these particles, on morphologic grounds, and by the manner in which they develop within the cell, they may represent members of the same family of viruses.

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Further Ultrastructural Observations on Metastatic Nodules of Human Breast Cancer

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010010086x ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 224-225

Author(s):

John L. Swedo ◽

R. W. Talley ◽

John H. L. Watson

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Human Breast Cancer ◽

Estrogen Therapy ◽

Specimen Preparation ◽

Human Breast ◽

Autophagic Vacuoles ◽

Previous Communication ◽

Linear Profiles ◽

Metastatic Nodule

Since the report, which described the ultrastructure of a metastatic nodule of human breast cancer after estrogen therapy, additional ultrastructural observations, including some which are correlative with pertinent findings in the literature concerning mycoplasmas, have been recorded concerning the same subject. Specimen preparation was identical to that in.The mitochondria possessed few cristae, and were deteriorated and vacuolated. They often contained particulates and fibrous structures, sometimes arranged in spindle-shaped bundles, Fig. 1. Another apparent aberration was the occurrence, Fig. 2 (arrows) of linear profiles of what seems to be SER, which lie between layers of RER, and are often recognizably continuous with them.It was noted that the structure of the round bodies, interpreted as within autophagic vacuoles in the previous communication, and of vesicular bodies, described morphologically closely resembled those of some mycoplasmas. Specifically, they simulated or reflected the various stages of replication reported for mycoplasmas grown on solid nutrient. Based on this observation, they are referred to here as “mycoplasma-like” structures, in anticipation of confirmatory evidence from investigations now in progress.

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