Identity as a narrative of autobiography
Luba Jakubowska
Abstract:
This article is a proposal of identity research through its process and narrative character. As a starting point I present a definition of identity understood as the whole life process of finding identification. Next I present my own model of auto/biography-narrative research inspired by hermeneutic and phenomenological traditions of thinking about experiencing reality. I treat auto/biography-narrative research as a means of exploratory conduct, based on the narrator’s biography data, also considering the researcher’s autobiographical thought. In the final part of the article I focus on showing the narrative structure of identity and autobiography. I emphasise this relation in definitions qualifying autobiography as written life narration and identity as a narration of autobiography.
Key words:
narration, autobiography, identity, quality research, auto/biography-narrative research, hermeneutics, phenomenology
DOI: 10.15503/jecs20102-51-66
