TEMPORAL SHIFTS IN PHOTO-ELICITED NARRATIVES IN A POLISH BORDER TOWN.
In the article I am interested in how places in the Polish border town of Zgorzelec represented on photographs are incorporated into the narratives of informants viewing them. In particular I shall focus on a sociotemporal shift present in my interviewees' accounts of photographically represented sp...
| Published in: | Narrative Inquiry Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 393 - 412 |
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John Benjamins Publishing Co.
2003
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