"Storytelling in Daily Life is remarkably coherent and immediately invaluable. This will be a model for approaching narrative performatively: actively, productively, critically, and creatively. It is extremely timely, and most original in what I would call its radical empiricism. The chapter on family storytelling is a brilliant new take on the subject. No other book currently engages the performance of ... Read morenarrative/narrative performance critically with such incisiveness."-Della Pollock, Department of Communication Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Storytelling in Daily Life is stunning, a major contribution to narrative studies. The authors, using a variety of interesting and varied examples, theorize and empirically analyze how storytelling works as an emergent communicative relational practice. Stories represent, produce, and complicate dominant identities and hierarchies (of family, gender, ethnicity, in web/digital communication, narratives of illness experience and sexuality)-our multiple 'selves.' The performance approach to narrative has never been better articulated."-Catherine Kohler Riessman, Research Professor of Sociology, Boston College Show Less