Digital Post by Ally_EdwardSaid I believe that creative storytelling, such as through movies, poems, digital stories and so on, has the potential to re-enchant our lives, and in doing so, helps us better manage our sadness and suffering. I will use Arthur Frank’s concept of the quest narrative to explore Daniel Tysdal’s lived experience… Read More
Blog post by Katana Rider The creative text by Laura Shepherd, “Forgiving the Future,” published in GUTS Magazine (2016) was a great connection and exemplar for one of Arthur Frank’s narrative he discusses in The Wounded Storyteller. The most intriguing aspect of this creative text is possibly the image that Shepherd used; which I understood… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Daddy’s Little Girl Since this is my last week here, and I have finally finished Scarborough and The Wounded Storyteller, I guess I can say I connected the best with Scarborough. The book made me want to jump in – there was just so much about it that made me never… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Zainab Throughout his book The Wounded Storyteller, sociologist Arthur Frank does many comparisons of the various types of illness narratives. As a result, while I was reading the novel Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, I couldn’t help but identify some of the illness narratives present in this novel. Besides the story line itself (which involves… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student KAKhalfan This week’s blog post will be a continuation of last week’s podcast on the importance of multiple stories for health-related storytelling. In the podcast I discussed the ways that Catherine Hernandez’s Scarborough depicted how multiple stories encapsulate Arthur Frank’s ‘web of stories’ (described in his book The Wounded Storyteller), effectively reducing the isolation many… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Kris In my investigative work as a health humanities student, I have witnessed countless representations of illness that have inspired my thinking. Using Arthur Frank’s teachings (click the “Arthur Frank” tag below or click here, here, or here for other summaries of Frank’s work on this blog) in order to begin… Read More
Post and podcast by HLTD50 student Honourable_Renegade In this podcast, The Honourable Renegade Baron of Kiwi delves into the intriguing topic of Quest Narratives. With reference to Arthur Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller, he introduces the narrative form’s use of the three stages of a quest: departure, initiation, and return. He reflects upon these stages, hoping to explain… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Skylight The voice of the ill person rests in the background of restitution and chaos narratives. However, the voice of the ill-person stands in the foreground of the quest narrative. I am most intrigued by what sociologist Arthur Frank calls “the quest narrative” because it is the only narrative style that… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student T.Kamen Last week in our course HLTD50 we had discussed the restitution narrative. The dictionary meaning is as follows: Restitution (n.) an act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as a : a restoration of something to its rightful owner b : a making good of or giving an… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student hhhipster In our first meeting for HLTD50, near the end of the seminar Professor Charise got us to participate in an activity that involved forming random pairs. Once in a pair, we were tasked with drawing our partner’s face within a given time limit (a couple of minutes), without looking down… Read More