Fiction and Social Research

Stephen P. Banks is a professor of Communication at the University of Idaho Anna Banks is professor of Communication and American Studies at the University of Idaho

What can fiction add to our repertoire as communication teachers and researchers? Anna Banks' and Stephan Banks' Fiction and Social Research: By Ice or Fire is filled with answers...Firmly grounded in the new theories of ethnographic research writing discussed and illustrated in anthropology journals during the last ten years, Banks and Banks have produced a collection of essays that extend the communication scholars' research reporting options. Both beginning and more experienced investigators will find insightful narrative examples tucked away in nearly every chapter....The authors demonstrate practices often minimally reported in communcation journals.

• chapter 1 Prefacechapter 2 Acknowledgmentschapter 3 Series Editor's Prefacechapter 4 1. Stephen P. Banks and Anna Banks, The Struggle Over Facts and Fictionschapter 5 Part 1: Narratives of Representationchapter 6 2. Robert Hopper, Flirtations: Conversational Analysis From Fiction and Lifechapter 7 3. Sandra L. Haarsager, Stories That Tell It Like It Is? Fiction Techniques and Prize-Winning Journalismchapter 8 4. Michelle Miller, (Re)presenting Voices in Dramatically Scripted Researchchapter 9 5. Eugene Valentine and Kristin Bervig Valentine, Dead or Alive, You're Going to Teixido: The Teller and the Talechapter 10 Part 2: Narratives of Understandingchapter 11 6. Robert L. Krizek, Lessons: What the Hell Are We Teaching the Next Generation Anyway?;chapter 12 7. Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger, Portrait of an Anorexic Lifechapter 13 8. Leigh Berger, Silent Movies: Scenes from a Lifechapter 14 9. Sandra Coyle, Dancing with the Chameleonchapter 15 Part 3: Narratives of Suspicionchapter 16 10. Anna Banks, Some People Would Say I Tell Lieschapter 17 11. Shawn Michelle Smith, On the Pleasures of Ruined Pictureschapter 18 12. Eric M. Eisenberg, From Anxiety to Possibility: Poems 1987-1997chapter 19 Part 4: Narratives of Vulnerabilitychapter 20 13. Simon Gottschalk, Postmodern Sensibilities and Ethnographic Possibilitieschapter 21 14. Stephen Linstead, Dishcloth of Minerva: Absence, Presence, and Metatheory in the Everyday Practice of Researchchapter 22 15. Stephen P. Banks, The Tioga Tapeschapter 23 Index