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Re-imagining the narratable subject

University of East London, UK, m.tamboukou{at}uel.ac.uk

In this article I problematize sequence as a necessary condition for defining and making sense of narratives and argue that it is to the consideration of process that the interest in narrative research should shift. Process as an organizing plane focuses not on what stories are but on what they do and how their meaning is ceaselessly deferred, breaching the narratological conventions of coherence and closure. Drawing on my work with Gwen John's letters, I trace three methodological movements in narrative analytics: a) creating an archive of stories as multiplicities of meanings, b) following the emergence of the narratable subject, and c) making narrative connections in the political project of re-imagining the subject of feminism.

Key Words: feminist imaginary • letters • multiplicities • narratable subject • nomadic narratives • process

Qualitative Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, 283-292 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1468794106093623


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