Being a Widow and Other Life Stories: The Interplay between Lives and Words
Being a Widow and Other Life Stories: The Interplay between Lives and Words
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成为寡妇和其他生活故事：生活与言语之间的相互作用
DOI：
10.1525/ahu.2001.26.1.16
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
0.6
通讯作者：
Sarah Lamb
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作者：
Sarah Lamb
这篇文章着眼于生活故事，不仅仅是关于过去的故事，而是作为自我创造和文化创造的创造性行为。它探讨了印度西孟加拉邦老年妇女讲述的生活故事，重点是一位没有孩子的寡妇讲述的故事。以前的学者们对表现出来的生活（通过讲故事）和（实际）生活和经历的生活做出了重要的区分。这篇文章提出了一个不同的思路：讲述生活故事——就像其他形式的谈话或交流一样——是生活的一部分，因为它当然是生活和经历的，至少在讲述的时候是这样的。
This article looks at life stories, not just as tales about the past but as creative acts of self-making and culture making. It explores life stories told by older women in West Bengal, India, focusing on one told by a childless widow. Previous scholars have made the important distinction between life as represented (through telling a story) and life as (actually) lived and experienced. This article suggests a somewhat different track: telling a life story—like other forms of talk or communication—is part of life as lived because, of course, it is lived and experienced, at least during the moments of telling.