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The Space Between

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Cultural, Autobiographical and Absent Memories of Orphanhood

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This chapter returns to a methodological concern and explores how identity is constructed in the present. The aim of this chapter is to critically explore the space of the interview, what the author refers to as the space between. The author presents the different narrative layers the participants used to construct their selves and identities. These include dramatis personae, interactive manoeuvres, small story as genre and questions of identity in the social context. ‘The space between’ draws attention to the different contexts of remembering carried out during life story work, the autobiographical and collective and explores how these two memory processes feed into each other.

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Edwards, D. (2017). The Space Between. In: Cultural, Autobiographical and Absent Memories of Orphanhood. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64039-6_6

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