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By Kristin Langellier

Annotation content material: half I A conversation method of STORYTELLING 1 -- 1 acting Narrative in everyday life 7 -- half II relatives STORYTELLING: a technique OF SMALL crew tradition 33 -- 2 Ordering content material and Making family members tales 39 -- three kin Storytelling: Ordering projects in Small staff Cultures seventy one -- four appearing households: Ordering workforce and private Identities 112-- half III STORYTELLING PRACTICES: 3 CASE stories 157 -- five Storytelling in a web publication: acting Narrative in a electronic Age 159 -- 6 Breast melanoma Storytelling: the bounds of Narrative Closure in Survivor Discourse 189 -- 7 appearing Narrative on degree: identification and company in an Autobiographical functionality 219. summary: Annotation

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The variation in the extent of these prohibitions is demonstrated by the difference between Marie's direct response to Richard ("YOU:: SHUT UPIl) and her indirect challenge to the priest. The priest's response to Marie's statement suggests the operation of the second system of exclusion, that of a division and a rejection. The priest takes her statement as an unreasonable abdication of her" duty" as a wife, mother, and, in institutional terms, a daughter of the Church. His rejection of her folly is clear ("he went up one side of me and down the other").

Our theoretical approach focuses on understanding performing narrative, the phenomenon of storytelling II Copyrighted Material PERFORMING NARRATIVE IN DAILY LIFE 3I in daily life, and participating critically in conversations about what stories, what bodies, and what meanings matter. Family storytelling matters in "We'll See You Next Year/' in part because one of the participants in this body of women, Kristin, has asked to hear family stories. Kristin's participation-and, by extension, the participation of those reading a transcript or hearing a tape recording of the performance long after that evening in Quebec City-is a contextual fact of the situation.

To paraphrase McFeat's (1974) observation, families are what culture uses to produce more culture (p. 39). Family storytelling is survival strategy of small groups in which they articulate who they are to themselves, for themselves and for the next generations, engaging memory and anticipation as embodied and material practices of human communication. To approach family as a communication practice is to ask how its storytelling orders and transmits information and meanings within and through generations.

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