Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Learning to Keep My Distance; 2 Searching for Stories; 3 Witnessing the Collapse; 4 Narrative Fragility; 5 We Are All Telling It Slant; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index
Summary
We Find Ourselves in Other People's Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story isa collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the discipline of composition and writing studies, in order to examine the rhetorical effects of narrative collapse on the stories we tell about ourselves and others. Taken together, the essays theorize the relationships between language and violence, between narrative and dementia, between genre and certainty, and between writing and life
