This essay examines personal narratives and gender-sensitive fictional representations of the Partition between India and Pakistan to contribute to a counterhistory that takes centrally into account the ways in which nation formation was written on the bodies of women. The juxtaposition of my mother’s stories, the oral histories gathered by feminist historiographers, and critical analyses of Pa...

OBJECTIVE Studying personal narratives can generate understanding of how people experience physical and mental illness. However, few studies have explored narratives of engagement in health positive behaviours, with none focusing on men specifically. Thus, we sought to examine men's experiences of their efforts to engage in and maintain healthy behaviours, focusing on meditation as an example o...

Narrative methodologies are valuable to language and literacy research. Oral narratives told in situations of face-to-face interaction used research scaffolding pedagogic activities. Nevertheless oral often present limiting cases which narrative accounts less easily distinguishable from other genres such as interrogative, expository, descriptive or argumentative accounts. The resulting confusio...

Narratives about parents may help adolescents navigate their own experiences. Yet, research has not examined what adolescents know about their intergenerational past. Sixty-five 14to 16-year-old middle-class, racially diverse adolescents narrated two stories about each parent’s childhood, and 2 positive personal stories. Narratives were coded for structure (length, elaboration), theme (affiliat...