Bibliographies

Sources on Narrative, Story, or Rhetoric

Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003
From: "Kathleen R. Wallace" <wallace.150@osu.edu>

Here's what I've compiled thus far for the natural resources graduate student I'm working with. Thanks to all of you who helped out! If anyone has something else to recommend, let me know.

Kathy

Original Message:

Hi all --
I've been invited to work with a graduate student getting a master's degree in Natural Resources. Her project will be based in Mexico and looks at how narratives might be used to foster more involvement by disadvantaged populations in environmental decision-making. Based on my discussions with her and review of the project proposal, I think she needs some general background about rhetorical analysis and the cultural aspects of narrative.  While I'm pulling together the sources I know of, I'd love to hear recommendations from anyone on the list. I'm especially concerned that I turn her toward cultural work that's been done on Mexican narratives (oral and written) or hispanic/latina/o narratives in this country that might have some application for her.
Thanks!   Kathy

Sonja K. Foss. Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice,  esp.  chapter on narrative rhetorical criticism and the introduction

Sylvia Bowerbank, "Telling Stories about Places: Local Knowledge and Narratives Can Improve Decisions about the Environment," Alternatives Journal. 23.1 (1997): 28 - 33.

James Phelan, ed. Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology. esp. Adena
Rosmarin's essay on "The Narrativity of Interpretive History."

Emery M. Roe. "Applied Narrative Analysis: The Tangency of Literary Criticism, Social Science and Policy Analysis." New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation. 23 (Summer 1992): 555-581.

Journal of Narrative Theory

Rappaport, J. "Empowerment Meets Narrative: Listening to Stories and Creating Settings." American Journal of Community Psychology. 23 (5), October 1995, 795-807.

Vanburen, J. "Critical Environmental Hermeneutics." Environmental Ethics.  17 (3), Fall 1995, 259-275.

Chris Anderson. Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois P, 1987.

Alcoff. Linda. "The Problem of Speaking for Others." Cultural Critique.  (Winter 1991-92): 5-32.

Cheney, Jim. "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative." Environmental Ethics. 11 (1989): 117-34.

James Clifford and George E. Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and
Politics of Ethnography.

Haraway, Donna. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective." Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The
Reinvention of Nature. Routledge, 1991. 183-201.

Bowden, M.J. "The Invention of Tradition." Journal of Historical Geography.
18 (1992):3-26.

Leitch, Thomas M. What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation.

Kathleen R. Wallace
Assistant Director
Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing
The Ohio State University
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