Biography and turning points in Europe and America / edited by Karla B. Hackstaff, Feiwel Kupferberg, and Catherine Négroni.

• Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark / Feiwel Kupferberg -- Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations / Catherine Négroni -- Conjugal separation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Québec / Ana Gherghel and Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques -- Migration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of biography / Thea D. Boldt -- Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood / Gerhard Jost -- Decisive turning points in life trajectories of violence among young men in the barrios of Caracas: the initiation and biographical reconversion to non-violent lifestyles / Verónica Zubillaga -- The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary / Ágnes Sántha -- Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives / Nicki Ward -- Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia / Liana Ipatova -- Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives / Feiwel Kupferberg.

Ämnesord

Biografi som litterär genre  (sao)

Livshändelser  (sao)

Biography as a literary form.  (LCSH)

Life change events.  (LCSH)

Biography as a literary form  (LCSH)

Life change events  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

CT21 (LCC)

808.06692 (DDC)