Illness Narratives: Quick Fixes

 


Illness Narratives: 

  1. Creating an evocative and impactful experience for your reader
  2. Amplifying your informant's voice, diminishing your analytical voice
  3. Creating a narrative, not an essay
    1. essays are explanatory, narratives are evocative (they give you an experience rather than information)
    2. essays have your analytical voice, narratives have the voice of the informant surrounded by thick description
  4. Thick Description: replaces analysis
    1. The block where we carried out the interview is a part of the projects built in 1974. It is a high crime area in a poor neighborhood. 
    2. The fire hydrant on the corner was broken and water squirted out on the car parked beside it. Trash litters the streets, sidewalks and lawns of weeds and abandoned syringes. The house on the corner, widows shielded by torn sheets is quiets. Beside it, men lean against a post, speaking quietly and looking about as if for someone they are expecting. The pothole in front of the house allows every vehicle that passes to ring out a banging sound as axle hits the road. But not a single head turns.
  5. Take your questions out!!!! ALL OF THEM. Take the "I" (that are you) out! ALL OF THEM.

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