Please help!! Cultural Studies Question?

Question

I need help. I have googled and looked in books but I can't find the information I need anywhere.

What is identity narrative?

Make reference to the categories sender and receiver, subject and object, and helper and opponent.

Any information, documents or web pages greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm not really familiar with much of this...but hopefully this will help a little.  Good luck.

Text below summarized from this link:

http://www.onlineoriginals.com/showitem....

The notion of 'a narrative identity' allows one to think through the question of 'personal identity' in a new way, taking into full account the temporal dimension of a being who, by existing with others in the horizon of a common world, is led to transform himself in the course of a life history, that is, who is what he or she is only in the course of becoming himself or herself. This notion also makes it possible for Ricoeur to distinguish two dimensions within the pseudo-unitarian notion of identity: identity as sameness; and identity as selfhood.  

Text below summarized from this link:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ricoeu...

First, in the case of stories, we come to understand the characters by way of the plot that ties together what happens to them, the aims and projects they adopt, and what they actually do.

We make sense of our own personal identities in much the same way as we do of the identity of characters in stories.

Second, each personage's individual identity always intersects those of other personages in the narrative

Third, every personage that figures in a story that is not a piece of science fiction does so as a full fledged bodily being, a being of a determinate s*x and age as well as the native speaker of a particular language.

Finally, all narratives have ethical dimensions.

Furthermore, narratives show that from the standpoint of ethics there is a kind of primacy of the other-than-self over the self.

Answer 2

http://www.onlineoriginals.com/showitem....

anytime....

Answer 3

Perhaps you mean narrative identity ?-- Paul Ricoeur's ontological philosophical concept  (in French it would be L'identité narrative). Lots and lots of stuff in Google.

Also lots on Sender-Receiver Communication Theory and Schemata Models